Sentences with phrase «local acts as»

If you want to say you've heard the next big thing, try catching a gig at Mercy Lounge - it's a great place to catch live local acts as well as bigger touring bands.

Not exact matches

The club quickly emerged as the epicenter of the Los Angeles rock»n' roll scene, presenting local acts like The Byrds, The Doors and Buffalo Springfield, and later showcasing some of the earliest headlining U.S. performances by British bands Cream, The Kinks and Led Zeppelin.

The locals saw us doing this and started coming to us with all kinds of electricity issues, work issues, transportation issues — I spent the majority of my first deployment acting essentially as the mayor of a small town.

Bough hopes to see the show act as a catalyst for other cities and celebrities, but for now he's concentrating on getting his entrepreneurs to think bigger and more globally while keeping their small business local.

This act garnered much attention because this sector was previously left to local companies such as MercadoLibre (in which eBay is invested).

For purposes of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, as well as Executive Order 12875, the final rule extending the applicability date does not include any federal mandate that we expect would result in such expenditures by State, local, or tribal governments, or the private sector.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, which released a new state revenue report on Monday, said that «The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.&raqAct (TCJA), enacted in late December 2017, created strong incentives for some high - income taxpayers to act fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.&raqact fast and prepay their state and local income and property taxes to take advantage of the expiring tax breaks, namely the state and local tax (SALT) deduction, which is capped at $ 10,000 per year as of January 1, 2018.»

Yes the banks and local governments can be a problem such as in LA where the California Environmental Quality Act is preventing new home building leading to sky high prices of homes.

Following an initial (very) small grant from an NGO, the bank's operations are funded by a) interest from microcredit loans (up to 3.5 % monthly but also as low as 1 % depending on size of and purpose of loan) b) fees from the corresponding bank (i.e. Banco Palmas acts as local agent for regional bank to widen access to banking services), and c) commission for changing Palmas to Reais16.

«States that have finalised or implemented the act have framed rules to implement the central act as required to meet local dynamics whilst retaining its essence.

The Jefferson County Economic Development (JCED) staff are available to act as trusted facilitators providing technical assistance to help expanding businesses navigate the various state and local programs available to support their projects.

The Federal Reserve Act set staggered terms for the Federal Reserve Board members (selected by local business and financial leaders, not Washington politicians) so that the President could not «pack the bench» as Jackson had done in 1833 by removing Secretary Duane in favor of Taney.

«The process of destructuring takes place irresistibly, just as water dripping steadily on a rock... this happens because gradually but irresistably the media bring everything - all acts of violence and all the opinions of the world - into the family or local circle... Everything... comes to us piece by piece, without any logical connection...»

Volunteer groups should not provide employment to local gringo wannabe elites — or northern missionaries living in the South — who act in the name of the poor but actually erect barriers to true encounters because such encounters would threaten their privileged role as interlocutors.

Local churches need to represent Christ to and for their neighborhoods, living and acting together as one Christian people around the Lord's Table and in mission.

If he knows the great tradition he will also know that it is his duty to represent it, interpreting the mind of the Church rather than acting as the representative of a fleeting majority of living and local church members.

Richard Barnet and John Cavanagh, who judge this inchoate NGO uprising as presently «the only force we see that can break the global gridlock,» finish their important study with a judgment about its high stakes: «The great question of our age is whether people, acting with the spirit, energy, and urgency our collective crisis requires, can develop a democratic global consciousness rooted in authentic local communities.

So these groupings would not just be stops on the path to capitalist globalisation, as is the case of ALENA, the free exchange zone between the United States, Canada and Mexico, but they would act as poles of development responding to the real needs of the local populations.

This would simply misrepresent the diversity of goals held by the various Christian mission agencies; gloss over the historical shifts in the nature of relationships between the East India Company, the British empire and the mission societies; and conceal the multiple ways in which local subjects — the colonized Indians — thought and acted within this context to demonstrate their identity as independent agents.

National denominational offices and interdenominational organizations need the understanding and support of local churches and their leaders as they attempt to act as leaven within the loaf of social communication.

Another local congregation is presently acting as catalyst for a community services workshop to assist churches and public - service groups in planning how to use electronic media, especially the «public access» channel of the newly formed cable system in the area.

However, for people who are dissatisfied with their local church, who have little established connection with a local church, or whose religious consciousness may be awakened by a viewed religious program, the research indicates that paid - time religious programs, by presenting themselves as competent alternatives to the local church, offering a range of services similar to the local church, and not referring respondents or enquirers to a local church, may be acting as a barrier to people's developing their faith most fully within this interpersonal context.

Religious programs act as a functional alternative to the local church, thus decreasing attendance and involvement by reinforcing the social tendency toward the individualizing of religious experience at the expense of its corporate expressions, and placing a burden on the religious broadcasting organizations which they are not equipped to handle.

What is the particular relevance of Pope Benedict XVI's first «Apostolic exhortation», Sacramentum Caritatis --(issued on March 13 as the concluding act of the Synod of Bishops held in Rome in October of 2005)-- to the political career of Ruth Kelly, since May 2006 Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government?

Thinking about this, if nothing else, is a nice reminder about how the act of consuming food is so much more than just nourishing ourselves... and one more reason to consider seasonal / local grains and produce as healthy — for ourselves, for the environment, and for others.

As the old adage goes, «think global but act local.»

The untouched and unique Australian environment also acts as a differentiator amongst foreign markets where local pollution and environmental degradation are clearly evident.

And Temecula Wine Country acts as the foundation of a tourism industry that pours more than $ 700 million into the local economy.

Working with her daughter, who acts as sommelier, she works with little - known, wild ingredients supplied by local, indigenous producers — transforming them into haute cuisine with her famously imaginative, creative style.

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He sat on the Board of Directors for the South Carolina Aquarium from 2010 - 2015, and acts as past chair of the Local Development Corporation — a privately funded micro-lending agency that provides gap loans to small local busineLocal Development Corporation — a privately funded micro-lending agency that provides gap loans to small local businelocal businesses.

His first local recruiting victory, in 2013 — 14, came in the form of 6» 4» guard Milton Doyle — from Chicago's Marshall High — who helped the Ramblers make the transition from the Horizon League to the Missouri Valley Conference and acted as a pied piper for other players before finishing his career in 2017 and heading to the Long Island Nets of the NBA's G League.

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With the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004, PL 105 - 268, the U.S. Congress established a requirement for all local agencies (including public and nonpublic, as well as Residential Child Care Institutions) with a federally - funded National School Lunch Program (NSLP).

Section 601 of the Healthy Students Act of 2010 states that as required by federal law, each local educational agency is required to collaborate with parents, students, food service providers, and community organizations to develop, adopt, and update a comprehensive local wellness policy.

Additional Accountability Requirements: Code 20 -26-9 (also known as Act 111, 2006) requires each school board to establish a coordinated school health advisory council and adopt a local wellness policy that takes the advisory council's recommendations into consideration.

Currently, Lindsey works as the State Agency Director of Child Nutrition Programs and Food Distribution for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) in Washington, DC, overseeing school breakfast and lunch, CACFP, summer meals and other various local level laws, including the DC Healthy Schools Act and Healthy Tots Act.

In her spare time Gretchen is growing her passion for writing by accepting freelance assignments while acting as a modern day Girl Friday for a local small business.

Any school that participates in a program authorized under the National School Lunch Act or the Child Nutrition Act must develop a local wellness policy as specified in the Section 204 of the Public Law 108 — 265, the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act of 2004.

The idea that it is okay because at least it gets people angry and ready to act is more than a little scary, as it conjures up images of the townsfolk storming the local school with their pitchforks and flaming torches; meanwhile, the villain is in Washington DC taking 6 cents from food stamps to fund 64 cents worth of new requirements for the schools.

In addition, the Executive Director's Office acts as a liaison to other agencies and units of local government as well as representing the Park District on state and national matters pertaining to parks and recreation.

In Crystal Lake, the city, Park District and local schools have created a program that allows some middle - school students to act as helpers at neighborhood elementary schools.

In the past, the committee had considered alternate ways to act as a park district liaison between the board and local homeowners associations and other community groups.

The bipartisan Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 mandated that the USDA set guidelines for what needed to be included in local school wellness policies in areas such as setting goals for nutrition education and physical activity, informing parents about content of the policy and implementation, and periodically assessing progress and sharing updates as appropriate.

There are no equivalent statutory arrangements for pupils or students from other countries in the UK or elsewhere, and local authorities and institutions are able to negotiate the recovery of costs as they consider appropriate, taking account of other relevant legislation (eg the Equalities Act).

Hospital education is defined as «education provided at a community special school or foundation special school established in a hospital, or under any arrangements made by the local authority under section 19 of the 1996 Act [ie the Education Act 1996](exceptional provision of education), where the child is being provided with such education by reason of a decision made by a medical practitioner».

The USDA's Farm to School Grant Program — originally funded as part of the Healthy Huger - Free Kids Act of 2010 — provides resources on a competitive basis to schools, nonprofits, farmers and government entities to assist in implementing farm to school programs that improve access to local foods in eligible schools.

The Act passed most of the powers of the GLC to the boroughs (and the remainder were taken back by the government), although the Inner London Education Authority survived as an independent body until 1988 (the Outer London Boroughs became the Local Education Authorities for their areas).

A number of other senior lawyers have also expressed doubt whether the Localism Act does, as Mr Pickles claims, make the inclusion of prayers in local authority meetings lawful.

They warned that the creation of landlords acting as border guards would prevent tenants «from reporting and seeking local authority assistance with bad landlords or unsafe properties».