When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

This was a continuation of a good idea which was first tried out Saturday night when the Eddie Stack group, also local talent, went on first.

Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.

Many scholars see the persistence of Germanic Arianism as a strategy that was followed in order to differentiate the Germanic elite from the local inhabitants and their culture and also to maintain the Germanic elite's separate group identity.

The urban areas of Canberra are organised into a hierarchy of districts, town centres, group centres, local suburbs as well as other industrial areas and villages.

Most suburbs have their own local shops, and are located close to a larger shopping centre serving a group of suburbs.

Community facilities and schools are often also located near local shops or group shopping centres.

In the Heathen movements, a kindred is a local worship group and organizational unit.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

Early sources are not clear but various groups of Christian communities would have had a group of college or presbyter-overseers functioning as leaders of the local churches.

It is difficult to describe the parties and politics of Judah in this period because of the lack of historical source, but there seem to have been three important groups involved: the returnees from the exile who claimed the reconstruction with the support of Cyrus I ; " the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin "; and a third group, " people of the land ," who seem to be local opposition against the returnees building the Temple in Jerusalem.

Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band.

# Communities of culture: range from the local clique, sub-culture, ethnic group, religious, multicultural or pluralistic civilisation, or the global community cultures of today.

* Artin conductor, an ideal or number associated to a representation of a Galois group of a local or global field

The colours had been chosen by the group of boys who had founded Charlton Athletic in 1905 after having to play their first matches in the borrowed kits of their local rivals Woolwich Arsenal, who also played in red and white.

From the CMB data it is seen that our local group of galaxies ( the galactic cluster that includes the Solar System's Milky Way Galaxy ) appears to be moving at 627 ± 22 km / s relative to the reference frame of the CMB ( also called the CMB rest frame, or the frame of reference in which there is no motion through the CMB ) in the direction of galactic longitude l

" By the end of the following year he had taken up the ukelele and tea-chest bass and begun to participate in skiffle sessions with friends, and had started to play the piano ; meanwhile his stage presentation of numbers by both Presley and Chuck Berry — complete with gyrations in tribute to the original artists — to his local Wolf Cub group was described as " mesmerizing ... like someone from another planet.

A group of Quito's leading citizens followed suit, and on August 10, 1809, they seized power in the name of Ferdinand from the local representatives, whom they accused of preparing to recognize Joseph Bonaparte.

The Water Keepers Alliance is a good example of such a group that sticks to local questions.

The show's hosts are a group of local technology aficionados, many with industry experience, who offer light-hearted commentary on current news topics and events while delving deeper into specific areas each week with special guest interviews.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

On 20 January 2009, an umbrella group of approximately fifty labour union and other associations known in the local Antillean Creole as the Liyannaj Kont Pwofitasyon ( LKP ) led by Élie Domota called for a € 200 ($ 260 USD ) monthly pay increase for the island's low income workers.

Unperturbed and hoping to learn more of Rosicrucianism, Gardner joined the group in charge of running the theatre, the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship, and began attending meeting's held in their local ashram.

The Water of Leith has become a local amenity, with a waymarked trail, the Water of Leith Walkway, running from Balerno via Dean Village to Leith.

Birmingham City Council have named the segment of the path along the Cole southwards from Sarehole Mill the John Morris Jones Walkway after a local historian.

Although several professional designs were shortlisted it was local resident, Stephen Speak, who won this competition with a design inspired by the Tree Top Walkway in nearby Kew Gardens.

There is a five-screen panoramic cinema, an " Arctic Walkway " area containing displays of polar exploration equipment, stuffed animals and simulated permafrost, many conventional aquaria displaying local marine life as well as open tanks and display tanks containing rock-shore animals, baby fish and other child-friendly exhibits.

* 1971 – Over 200 of East Pakistan's ( now Bangladesh ) intellectuals are massacred by the Pakistani Army and their local allies.

Over time, variations have emerged, brought about by natural phonetic changes that occur over time, adaptions for local written forms with special characters or diacritics ( which are sometimes represented with the other hand ), and avoidance of handshapes that are considered obscene in some cultures.

Over 80 % of these were iron and stony-iron meteorites, which are easily distinguished from local rocks.

The use of antibiotics and hormones in cattle and birds, artificial food additives like artificial colors / flavors, artificial sweeteners like high-fructose corn syrup and aspartame, artificial preservatives, etc., prompted " propaganda " films like Super Size Me ( 2004 ), King Corn ( 2007 ), Food, Inc. ( 2008 ), Forks Over Knives ( 2011 ), and others to promote food awareness, organic farming and eating local organic food, reducing and eliminating pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and synthetic fertilizers, and adopting a vegan and / or raw food diet.

Over this time, it has worked together with numerous local and international organizations on projects that promote the protection, conservation and preservation of the Petra site.

Over time, monetary transactions have replaced barter and local production, and consequently modified local human carrying capacity.

Over time, a visible dent at the injection site, due to the local destruction of fat tissue, known as lipoatrophy, may develop.

Over 130 languages were once spoken across the islands ; however many have now mixed to form local pidgin dialects of Ternatean and Ambonese, the lingua franca of northern and southern Maluku respectively.

Over a two-week shooting schedule, Buchanan staged principal photography for Mars Needs Women in his hometown, Dallas, with the Southland Life Insurance Building visible as the Martians drive among the humans ; other prominent local landmarks including the Southern Methodist University were also featured.

Over the next three years, Bering himself was criticised on an increasingly regular basis ( his salary had already been halved in 1537 when the originally planned four years ran out ); the delays also caused friction between Bering, Chirikov ( who felt unduly constrained ) and Spangberg ( who felt Bering was too weak in his dealings with the local peoples ).

Over 10, 000 people voted in a contest held by local newspapers to select the name.

On 14 September 2011, Liberal Premier Barry O ' Farrell announced that he had recommended to the Queen that Bashir's term be extended for another two years to 2014, which had been accepted: " Over the past 10 years the Governor's caring nature, her genuine interest in local communities and her extraordinary work rate have endeared her to people everywhere ... Because of her diverse background, career and interests, Professor Bashir has given a historic and important post a contemporary relevance and resonance.

Over the years, St. Mary ’ s baseball has won local, regional and national fame.

Over time, the name became Bethan Hall Green, which, because of local pronunciation as Beth ' n'all Green, had by the 19th century changed to Bethnal Green.

Over the next few years customs agreements between the two states enabled GNR trains between Strabane and Derry to pass through the Free State without inspection unless they were scheduled to serve local stations on the west bank of the Foyle, and for goods on all railways to be carried between different parts of the Free State to pass through Northern Ireland under customs bond.

Over the years Holt grew as a local place of trade and commerce.

Over the decades, he hosted numerous celebrities at his Islamorada house and took them on local fishing trips.

Over 9, 000 households own a golf cart, more than any other city in the world, and use them as an extra vehicle for local transportation.

Over 50 companies make up the local industrial community.

Over the years, irregularities developed in the gridiron subdivision pattern because of the lack of local controls, conflicts with French claims, and changing land uses, particularly along the waterfront area.

Over the same period, though, SEMCOG, the local statistics agency of Metro Detroit Council of Governments, has estimated the city to have grown to 99, 001, or an increase of 1. 2 % since 2000.

In addition to the annual Railroad Festival, in September of every other year, Amory is host to " Entertainment for Education ", also known as " Stars Over Mississippi ", in which a number of celebrities and entertainers host a benefit concert to raise funds for local scholarships.

Over 63 % of area residents are affiliated with a local religious body according to the 2000 Religion Report.

Over twenty years old, the market is known as a gathering place for the sale of fresh, local produce, coffee, artisan breads, eggs, homecrafted gift items, art, children's activities and also for weekly concerts.