Volksmarching ( from German meaning " peoples ' march ") is a form of non-competitive fitness walking that developed in Europe.

Volksmarching participants enjoy recording distances and event participation in international record books.

Trade associations such as the Independent Electrical Contractors and Associated Builders and Contractors also offer a variety of apprentice training programs.

Many bowling associations will offer a special pin for this achievement.

Trade associations commonly offer their members educational programs, the opportunity to come together at meetings to discuss common problems, and marketing materials designed to be imprinted by each member with its relevant information.

Trade associations also offer elective group purchasing plans.

While offering potentially valuable services to businesses, few trade associations offer much direct help in the major business areas of purchasing, production or marketing.

However Advocates do become members of various local or national bar associations for reasons of recognition and facilities which these associations offer.

These include: an Away Travel Club, who provide travel to every away game as well as hosting fundraising events and sponsoring senior players ; youth group Junior U's ; Cambridge United Supporters Association, a group giving a voice to the fans in communications with the club and the media ; Vice Presidents Club, who offer match day hospitality packages ; and regional associations in St Ives, East Cambridgeshire, Royston, St Neots, Bedfordshire and Saffron Walden.

Much of this was simply borrowed from banks and building societies, but after the late-2000s financial crisis these institutions ceased to offer long-term loans, so developing associations are increasingly turning to corporate bonds to raise funds for expansion.

Both of these associations offer equivalent examinations to test reporters for speed and competency on their method of reporting.

The President and Fellows of Harvard College rejected the offer due to Hanfstaengl's Nazi associations.

HR education also comes by way of professional associations, which offer training and certification.

Several associations very active in the village offer cultural events of high quality in various domains such as promotion of Serres exceptional historical architecture and traditions, contemporary art, and a jazz festival which has become a very famous musical event.

Disease management is of particular importance to health plans, agencies, trusts, associations and employers that offer health insurance.

Their materials offer effects, idioms, and associations complementary to, and contrasting with, fresh flowers and foliage.

The CMP operates through a network of affiliated shooting clubs and state associations that cover every state in the U. S. The clubs and associations offer firearms safety training and marksmanship courses as well as the opportunity for continued practice and competition.

Specific regulatory frameworks and questions related to paramedic practice can only definitively be answered by consulting relevant provincial legislation, although provincial paramedic associations may often offer a simpler overview of this topic when it is restricted to a province-by-province basis.

FIFPro tried to offer the players ' associations or other interest associations the means for mutual consultation and co-operation to achieve their objectives.

Other awards for excellence in architecture are given by national professional associations such as the American Institute of Architects ( AIA ), the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ), the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada ( RAIC ) and the Institute of Architects Bangladesh ( IAB ).

She won several other awards from various film critic associations for the performance.

A number of the provinces ' school boards and library associations also run popular " children's choice " awards where candidate books are read and championed by individual schools and classrooms.

The programme was also expanded to apply to other organisations such as local government or housing associations, through a scheme of “ Chartermark ” awards.

" The voting for both awards is conducted by their respective associations.

Cries and Whispers was nominated and won several other awards on festivals and from critics ' associations.

The film also won several awards from critics ' associations, including the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, National Board of Review awards and National Society of Film Critics awards.

The Telarc association, which resulted in 26 Grammy awards, continued until 2010, one of the longest continuous associations of an orchestra with a record label.

Schools in Galicia, in Spain, in Russia and in Uruguay, libraries, cultural associations, awards, parks, folklore groups, choirs, compositions of her poems, a Galician traditional morning song adorned with the lyrics of one of her poems, a professional sports team, monuments at home and abroad, a theater, restaurants, a label of white wine, lodgings, a money bill formerly in circulation, a postage stamp, a FS98 Iberia Airbus A340, a sea-rescue plane, a school train and many streets have all taken her name.

Serkis's film work in motion capture has been critically acclaimed, especially as Gollum and Caesar, earning him awards from many associations which do not usually recognize motion capture as real acting including an Empire Award, a National Board of Review Award, two Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Skinner is a Fellow of numerous scholarly associations, including the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academia Europaea and the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, and his scholarship has won him many awards, including the Wolfson Prize for History ( 1979 ); the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize of the British Political Studies Association ( 2006 ); the Benjamin Lippincott Award ( 2001 ) and the David Easton Award ( 2007 ) of the American Political Science Association ; the Bielefelder Wissenschaftspreis ( 2008 ); and a Balzan Prize ( 2006 ).

Professional baseball leagues, amateur-baseball organizations, sportswriting associations, and other groups confer awards on various baseball teams, players, managers, coaches, executives, broadcasters, writers, and other baseball-related people for excellence in achievement, sportsmanship, and community involvement.

Waterworld Themed Waterpark in Ayia Napa has received international recognition for marketing and innovation from a spectrum of the Waterpark associations around the world winning over 25 awards to date.

When representatives of the Union of Descendants of Noble Families, one of two rival nobility associations ( the other, older one being the Russian Nobility Association ) were discovered to be distributing chivalric titles and awards of the Order of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, without her approval, she published a relatively strongly worded disclaimer.

The critics associations were slightly more generous, with the National Board of Review, and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association both giving it the Best Foreign Language Film awards in 1977.

Dr. Rappuoli is a member of numerous international associations, including the European Molecular Biology Organization and the American Society for Microbiology, and is recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize.

Many sports leagues, sportswriting associations, and other organizations confer " Coach of the Year " awards.

These short, `` streamlined '' meetings usually are sponsored by local banks, Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, or other civic organizations.

This includes corporations, partnerships and other associations which usually carry on some form of economic or charitable activity.

The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of associations known as groups and clusters, which, in turn usually form larger superclusters.

In lieu of corporations and states, libertarian socialists seek to organize society into voluntary associations ( usually collectives, communes, municipalities, cooperatives, commons, or syndicates ) that use direct democracy or consensus for their decision-making process.

In determining skill levels, certifications from manufacturers or locksmith associations are usually more valid criteria than certificates of completion.

These associations are dedicated to find abandoned Galgoes in the countryside and provide them adoptive homes, usually in the cities.

Initially homes were considered worthy of saving because of their associations with important individuals, usually of the elite classes, like former presidents, authors, or businessmen.

The name today is usually shortened to ‘ Asti ’ in order to avoid associations with the many wines of dubious quality which are labelled as Spumante.

While a grazing species such as an elephant may travel many kilometers in a single day, grazing on many plants in the process, parasites form very close associations with their hosts, usually having only one or at most a few in their lifetime.

Because of the U. S. cultural's historically negative associations with socialism, the term is used primarily and usually pejoratively in United States political discussions concerning health care.

Some oral laws provide all these elements ( for instance, some codes of conduct in use among criminal associations like mafia do have a well known law, a judge, a condemnation ), while others usually miss some of them.

As token wife, she was usually depicted with the same associations as Hapy, having on her head either the blue lotus for Upper Egypt, or the papyrus plant for Lower Egypt.

Private schools usually have teachers who are not unionized, or who belong to associations not affiliated with the main body of Quebec public sector teachers ' unions.

Most local traders associations define common shopping hours for the region, usually:

These areas are usually owned by local authorities, or by allotment associations.

In modern societies, occupation is usually thought of as the main determinant of status, but other memberships or affiliations ( such as ethnic group, religion, gender, voluntary associations, fandom, hobby ) can have an influence.

This usage carries no associations with magic, and is usually translated into English as " wonderworker ".

* Companies, a form of business association that carries on an industrial enterprise, are usually corporations, although some companies may take forms other than a corporation, such as associations, partnership, unions, joint stock companies, trusts, and funds.

In a mass meeting, or " in a regular or properly called meeting " of an organization whose bylaws do not prescribe a quorum and whose membership is loosely determined, such as many religious congregations or alumni associations, " there is no minimum number of members who must be present for the valid transaction of business, or — as it is usually expressed — the quorum consists of those who attend the meeting.

A feature of housing associations is that, although the larger housing associations usually have paid staff, a committee or board of management made up of volunteers has overall responsibility for the work of the organisation.

Homeowner associations can compel homeowners to pay a share of common expenses, usually per-unit or based on square footage.

Clubs are usually attached to regional chess associations, which are in turn members of their national federation which will be associated with FIDE, the world governing body of chess.

Nevertheless, membership of such associations was usually short term, so their nature was constantly changing.