Sentences with phrase «members of all ages in»

For more than 30 years, the P - AT program has been sharing the joy of animals with community members of all ages in a range of care facilities, from convalescent homes and hospitals to juvenile detention centers, mental health centers and homes for medically fragile children.

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Industry professionals between the ages of 23 and 45 are nominated by their cluster - member - business to participate in the one - year professional development program.
In 2012, a study conducted by the Los Angeles Times found that roughly 94 % of the organization's members were white and that a significant majority were men with a median age of 62.
This fall, our team members in and around Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia volunteered with Cradles to Crayons, a national organization that provides children from birth through age 12 with essential items — all free of charge — to help them thrive at home, at school, and at play.
According to Tyson, Kaiser health system members under the age of 65 spend significantly fewer days in the hospital compared with the same population in the broader U.S. healthcare universe.
The Society of Actuaries reported in 2000 that there is an 81 % chance that one or both members of a 65 - year - old couple will live to age 85, and a 58 % chance that one or both will make it to age 90.
Below, five successful founders and members of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC)-- all under the age of 35 — weigh in on the survey's findings and its implications for the entrepreneurial ecosystem as we know it.
Though an increasing number of tech companies have been doing so in the past couple of years, Atlassian added a twist: It includes the percentages of teams with member of each underrepresented groups (gender, age, ethnicity).
Fewer young people are as interested in entrepreneurial success today as members of their parents» generation were when they were the same age.
«We firmly believe that a diversity of perspectives leads to better decisions and helps drive corporate performance,» says Steve Williams, CEO of Suncor, whose 12 - member board includes three women and a First Nations executive, and factors in age, gender, ethnicity and aboriginal status in filling vacancies.
In the run - up to the 19th Party Congress, party watchers speculated that Wang Qishan, the head of the party's corruption investigation division, would be kept on the seven - member Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) even though he was 69, past the conventional retirement age.
These programs have set us apart from more traditional business organizations, and have led to a surge in new Members under the age of 35 — 60 per cent of which have been women.»
Republicans from outside the state, including President Trump, have separately called for a new federal age limit, which has become a focus after 17 students and faculty members in Parkland were fatally shot, allegedly by 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, who is accused of carrying out the attack with a semiautomatic rifle he legally purchased.
«A shameful display of political and civic cowardice» After the assault on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida that killed 17 people, brands including Delta, United, Hertz, Enterprise and Symantec ended discount programs for NRA members, as Ad Age's E.J. Schultz and Adrianne Pasquarelli report.
Members of this cohort offer responses quite similar to those of the adult millennials surveyed, especially those in the 18 - 24 age group.
With the plan expected to add a cost of 1.9 per cent per employee and the likelihood that employees over the age of 50 may never benefit from their own contributions, roundtable members were vocal in their concerns about the plan's impact on both competitiveness and employee support.
Younger members of the generation are entering the workforce for the first time, and the oldest millennials are now in their upper 30s — an age where children and mortgages are common.
Members of YPO are peers who share in common the achievement of success at an early age (before 45); a commitment to learning as a lifelong adventure; and a desire to connect authentically in an environment of trust and confidentiality.
If forced to make prognostications, the two of us would predict a Party Congress that does not break any major taboos (e.g. scrapping tacit age or term limits for Politburo Standing Committee members), but one that also portrays Xi as powerful and thoroughly in command of the Party (e.g. following previous leaders in having his wisdom included in the Party's constitution).
The leaders hide church history from its members, when we find it, we take it to them, and of course are called aposates, there are so many mental systems in place at every level to control the people and there thoughts and actions, at a very young age.
According to a recent Pew survey, about nine in ten adults between the ages of eighteen and twenty - nine say they would be fine with a family member marrying someone of another race.
Case in point: I happen to be a proud member of the rearguard of the Victorian Age, imbued with both reverence for women and old - fashioned romance, sentiments that find expression in kissing the hands of dates and women friends.
The church attendance drop does appear to be genuine, but small, when you compare rates at same age, but the prayer difference seems to be just an age issue: «Although Millennials report praying less often than their elders do today, the GSS shows that Millennials are in sync with Generation X and Baby Boomers when members of those generations were younger.»
The members in North America and the rest of the developed world are aging, while the membership in the developing countries is much younger.
«I found myself convinced of the position the church has held with almost totally unanimity throughout the ages, that although many people find themselves, through no fault of their own, to have sexual desires for members of their own sex, this is not something to be affirmed and celebrated, but is a sign that we're broken, in need of redemption and recreation,» Hill told students.
«At this point there are over 200 members from all around the world ranging in age from teenagers to adults of all ages.
And a family member's health failed this year so we had a lot of time in hospitals and of course my children now range in age from toddlers to tweens.
Around Agatha's moral axis revolve, frequently in erratic orbit, the members of Staggerford's closely knit Catholic community: French Lopat, the Vietnam vet who scratches out a living as a fake Indian for the tourist trade; Lillian, Agatha's best friend, who gets her news from supermarket tabloids; Imogene, Lillian's daughter, a liar and backstabber; Sister Judith, a New Age nun who imagines the Creation as God laying a giant egg.
Church is and always has to been seen as a family, as in mine I have several family members that I don't see and have not seen in sometime (business of life and location) and I get to talk to them once in a dogs age, but that does not mean I don't miss them or still appreciate them?
Do you REALLY wan na argue that in 67, at the age of 12, I was a member of the counterculture?
I've even been labeled «dangerous» by suffocatingly ignorant «Christian» members of my family, for gaining a degree in Psychology as a middle aged woman.
«The driver of the van - a man aged 48 - was found detained by members of public at the scene and then arrested by police in connection with the incident.
He won't progress so that his members aren't living in the dark ages, but dam * ed if he isn't going to rewrite Christianity and start a new religion of his own!
In 1934, at the age of 28, Bonhoeffer became a member of the governing council of the ecumenical World Alliance for the Promotion of International Friendship Through the Churches.
This fall, one of our members, eager to share what she has learned, began a group for the widowed in midlife (ages 45 - 59) using our model.
To be sure, «religious preference» is not the same as church membership or attendance, but it does depict a reality that is connected to church historian Kenneth Scott Latourette's finding that in 1961 the proportion of church members to the general population in the U.S. was the highest ever in the nation's history (Christianity in a Revolutionary Age, Vol.
I propose the following as a proper image of evangelizing: a minister seated along with a group that is more than one other person but small enough to engage in discussion — and with the members of the group being quite varied as to age, sex, color, and other characteristics.
The most rapidly aging nation in the world, and the one with the highest life expectancy, Japan by the year 2,000, according to government statistics, will have a population with 21 per cent of its members 65 or older — and the nation generally considers old age to begin at 55, when mandatory retirement usually occurs.
In all ages of the church there have been ascetic and monastic movements whose members have voluntarily taken vows of abstinence, celibacy, chastity, poverty and anonymity.
In the U.S., people over 60 view more television than do members of any other age group, including children; older people, various researchers have shown, list television viewing as their favorite leisuretime activity.
A study of the age distribution revealed that a higher percentage of the members was in the over-sixty category than had been generally recognized.
4), what is the significance of this fact for female members in our age with the apparent gift of preaching?
There is a singularly impressive testimony to this sense of continuity in the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where the writer claims not only Moses and the patriarchs, but such splendid savages of a primitive age as Gideon, Samson and Barak, as fellow - members of the «heavenly Jerusalem», (Hebrews xii 22 - 23.)
The Good Neighbor team at North Church in Spokane, comprised of people of different ages and stages of life, came alongside recent refugees to Spokane, including an 11 - member Muslim family from Somalia.
But this was pure show — a not - too - vigorous effort where the superannuated outreach group (average age: seventy - five) was composed of six former ambassadors to the Vatican, one of whom, remarkably, is also an advisory council member of the leftist Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good.
Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.
The report calls on the Member States to provide «adolescent - friendly sexual and reproductive health services which are in accordance with age, maturity and evolving capacities, which do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation / identity, and which are accessible without the consent of parents or guardians.»
Catholic monks and Dark Age theologians also did their share of hallu - cinating: «TUBUAS - A member of the group of angels who were removed from the ranks of officially recognized celestial hierarchy in 745 by a council in Rome under Pope Zachary.
Its worship may be more varied today than it was in earlier decades, and its leadership may now be more representative of its members as a whole, but the fundamental patterns of congregational culture that most of us encountered as children will probably cloak our aging and burial.
If the members of the Southern Baptist Convention truly believe that only those who place personal faith in Jesus Christ will be saved and that no concessions to this belief should be made on the basis of its troubling moral implications, then for consistency's sake, they must also vote to condemn the teaching of the age of accountability.
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