Sentences with phrase «other urban activities»

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Some other examples of ongoing programs might include scholarship programs, urban renewal projects, performing arts programs, social and educational programs, children's activities, community organizations, and construction projects.

Additional services include arbitrage rebate calculations, economic analysis, negotiations of private activity financing, structuring Urban Enterprise Zone loans and other special services of this type.

Some of these policy strategies have been enumerated recently, all of which focus on reducing caloric intake or increasing physical activity, and include taxes on calorically dense, nutritionally sparse foods (eg, sugar - sweetened beverages); subsidies for healthier foods, especially in economically disadvantaged groups; agricultural policy changes; and urban planning aimed at encouraging walking and other modes of physical activity.

Past research has shown that alcohol outlets such as liquor or corner stores may promote nuisance activities like robberies, drug use, or other crimes in urban communities, rendering them unsafe for residents to walk by or visit.

Dallas St. Mansfield, TX About Blog Crossfit Mansfield members take training beyond the gym by participating in Mud Runs, Urban Challenges, Triathlons, Mountain Biking and other activities.

Other sites, like Lifecrowd, Grubwithus, and Urban Girl Squad partner with restaurants, retailers, experts and more for a slew of unique, curated activities.

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From observing conditions there and in other cities, we believe that bargaining and related union activity have not only hampered urban public schools with such things as cumbersome contracts, but have introduced practices into the education system that are counterproductive, fomenting a demoralizing pattern of acrimony between teachers and administrators that is fundamentally at odds with effective education.

In urban schools students come and go all day.No 45 minutes is like the time that preceded it or the time that will follow.Urban schools report 125 classroom interruptions per week.Announcements, students going, students coming, messengers, safety aides, and intrusions by other school staff account for just some of these interruptions.It is not unusual for students to stay on task only 5 or 10 minutes in every hour.Textbook companies and curriculum reformers are constantly thwarted by this reality.They sell their materials to schools with the assurance that all the students will learn X amount in Y time.They are continually dismayed to observe that an hour of school time is not an hour of learning time.Many insightful observers of life in urban schools have pointed out that it is incredibly naive to believe that learning of subject matter is the main activity occurring in these schools.If one observes the activities and events which actually transpire — minute by minute, hour by hour, day in and day out — it is not possible to reasonably conclude that learning is the primary activity of youth attending urban schools.What does the process of changing what one does every 45 minutes and even the place where one does it portend for fulfilling a job in the world of work?If one is constantly being reinforced in the behaviors of coming, going, and being interrupted, what kind of work is one being prepared for?

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.&rurban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.&rUrban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

Other free activities and giveaways include goodie bags for the first 500 families; obedience, agility, rally, herding, nose works and treibball («urban herding,» where dogs round up and roll large balls into soccer goals at the direction of their owners) demonstrations; and games and face painting for kids.

With urban beaches within walking distance hotels, and several other beaches within a short drive, the scope of activity becomes endless.

-- U10 Art Space, artist - run space, co-founder and full time member, program selection & other activities (since 2012 to today)-- ARTmART, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, selection of Serbian artists (2010 and 2015)-- Amsterdam Biennale, Belgrade Pavilion, Mediamatic Amsterdam (2009)- Urban Jealousy, 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Belgrade station (Magacin MKM, CZKD, Dom Omladine, Elektrika Pancevo and other locations, 2009)- Monthly group exhibitions and happenings, student curatorial project hosted by Biljana Tomic, Magacin MKM, Belgrade, Serbia (2007 - 2010)

They include: Portrait Photography, a genre that has largely replaced painted portraits; Pictorialism (fl.1885 - 1915) a type of camera art in which the photographer manipulates a regular photo in order to create an «artistic» image; Fashion Photography (1880 - present) a type of photography devoted to the promotion of clothing, shoes, perfume and other branded goods; Documentary Photography (1860 - present), a type of sharp - focus camerawork that captures a moment of reality, so as to present a message about what is happening in the world; and Street Photography (1900 - present), the art of capturing chance interactions of human activity in urban areas.

The cacophony of forms, including other citations of urban infrastructure, not only signals the hidden activity, but also presents flux and process as phases to contemplate.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, an Interdepartmental Committee on Urban Agriculture was created to coordinate the activities of the various Municipal departments active in this field including the Departments of Town planning, Health, Finance, and others.

The RUAF research and development projects, as well as its training and advisory activities, are undertaken in response to the support needs expressed by our local partners (local and regional authorities, NGOs, universities, urban producer groups, private enterprises and other stakeholders).

Urban agriculture may provide some advantages over other jobs and income earning opportunities for women in lower income groups, like the low capital needed to start farming, the possibility to combine this activity with attending children, less travelling (and related costs in money and time) to the city centre or better off neighbourhoods for an (often informal e.g. housekeeping) job.

Urban agriculture may provide some advantages over other jobs and income earning opportunities for women in lower income groups, like the low capital needed to start farming, the possibility to combine this activity with attending children, less

Other human activity, including using water for irrigation and in urban settings, put an ever - greater strain on the water and result in drier summers.

Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as of Memorial Day weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.

Dallas St. Mansfield, TX About Blog Crossfit Mansfield members take training beyond the gym by participating in Mud Runs, Urban Challenges, Triathlons, Mountain Biking and other activities.

Jeff Speck, an urban planner and author of «Walkable City,» said Lancaster has a lot of things going for it, including numerous downtown anchors, great restaurants, a thriving arts scene, history and other cultural activities.

He and his family enjoy living in the city and taking advantage of all the parks, restaurants, and other activities an urban setting has to offer.