Regulars in one village pub grumble about immigrants (of whom, locally, there are almost none).
In one village, this initiative helped a group of farmers who were surviving by collecting firewood and producing charcoal.
The greatest damage occurred in the countryside outside Ya'an, with older houses in one village completely collapsing, Xinhua quoted Jin Zelin, an official with the provincial armed police, as saying.
And on some occasions the supposedly secret bidding looks rigged: in one village west of Paris, five of the six bids for a contract to supply water were within 0.1% of each other.
There has not even been much progress in fairly simple cases where a family has taken over more than one property in a village (in one instance, simply to house a pet dog).
In one Loliondo village, Maasai gathered from all over the district to discuss the issue.
No one else in the village could resist the pleasure of getting at least one more look at her.
Villagers say the pub dates back to 1779 and was the only one in the village.
But still no-one in the village would talk to us about what lay behind the violence.
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Locals say the pub, which dates back to 1779 and was the only one in the village, was a "key part" of the community.
No one in the village has seen a single extra peso out of the tourism boom in the area, nor do they expect to, they say.
But even crossing out the mistaken postcode failed to deter the card from coming to their house in Aylmerton, which had the same name as one in a nearby village.
Despite this, it has already set aside money from sales to fund water projects, including one in a village of 10, 000 people in the Tamil Nadu region of India, where Belu has created four sources of water for the town, sanitation blocks for children and hygiene education.
While pleased with the U.S. moves, the opposition appeared deeply disappointed, especially as it lost some ground in the latest clashes with Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen capturing at least one village in a strategic area near the Lebanese border.
Amelia Cerezero, who lives in a one-storey cement shack in the village, looks after her five-year old grandniece.
There was only one gun in the village, and for many years it had been kept in the home of the blacksmith.
But the residents of Caleta Chungungo, a mountain village in one of the driest regions of northern Chile, have found a way of doing it.
There is also the added bonus of celebrating the success in one of the famous drinking establishments in the village - like the Tenne or the Londoner.
Well, exactly 58 letters, if the name happens to be Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, the longest place name in the United Kingdom and one of the longest village names in the world.
"Thirty men went from Catwick to the Great War and thirty came back, though one left an arm behind, " he wrote of one village in a volume on the East Riding of Yorkshire.
If just one person in that village, whether a company employee, contractor, consultant, or customer representative, fails to adequately protect the information, its value and its potential for becoming intellectual property is lost.
The study showed conclusively that beyond putting Budrus on the map, the film successfully shifted the media narrative about events in the village from one about chaotic riots to one about a strategic nonviolent campaign.
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Marshall McLuhan would remind us, what occurs in one corner of the global village will invariably affect other corners since the global village is now wired and connected.
Their growing empire of boutiques now includes an outpost in Manhattan's West Village and two more in Japan: one in Tokyo's Daikanyama district, the other, which opened just last week, in Kobe.
However a Spanish sparrow, spotted in the coastal Hampshire village of Calshot, is one of only eight seen in the British Isles since records began.
One example is the Harlem Village Academy, which opened in September 2003 with one class of fifth graders and has been growing one grade per year since.
In one generation, Dubai has graduated from a village that people just fly over, to an instant city in the desert, to a destination for migrant workers and expatriates, to a world financial center and demographic microcosm of the planet.
We found many roads in to the village but no one knew where the bridge was.
In one operation to round up al-Qaeda members sheltering in a village, Yemeni forces were driven back by heavy gunfire.
It was late afternoon when we arrived at an address in Greenwich Village, and no one was there except the staff, all women.
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