Leni Kaplan, a companion animal veterinarian at the Cornell University Hospital for animals and a lecturer
on Community Practice Service at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine, explains how to look for signs of distress and offers some tips for keeping your pets safe and happy during summer celebrations.
Not exact matches
Developmental lending as
practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications
on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or
community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.
Cascade has spent years focusing
on employees, the
community, and sustainability, so making the grade was largely a matter of documenting existing
practices.
Even though we purchase a limited amount of meat we are working with our suppliers to address concerns about antibiotic use and are looking to collaborate with others across our industry and in the NGO
community to promote best
practices on this issue.
Our ability to compare and contrast compensation
practices as well as focus
on trends across sectors is the top resource for the investment
community and their portfolio companies,» said Jody Thelander, President & CEO, J.Thelander Consulting.
While not obvious
on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea - change in the investment
community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated
practice.
But, it is a different process than many traditional marketing / communications / advertising
practices because you are building relationships and a
community with your best fans and customers, not just flipping the switch
on an ad.
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On behalf of ATA and the entire trucking community, I want to thank the strong field of competitors for participating in these championships and practicing safety every day on our nation's highway
On behalf of ATA and the entire trucking
community, I want to thank the strong field of competitors for participating in these championships and
practicing safety every day
on our nation's highway
on our nation's highways.
Based
on ideals of public consensus and trust, GBX's rigorous listing process will strive to allow the
community to flourish whilst protecting participants with AML / KYC, corporate governance and best
practices.
Upon completion of their «
community service» they could go
on to private
practice.
Our son's family are members of a
community church (Southern Baptist, more or less), where, last Sunday, the pastor preached
on putting faith into
practice, and pointed out that there are about 250 orphans living in our area.
Until there are stronger
practices of friendship and
community and hospitality in the church, I feel an enormous amount of anguish and frustration when I tell young gay Christians that, yes, I do think,
on the authority of Scripture, that God is asking you to live without gay sex.
Assistant Professor of Social Work, Barb Burdge, published an essay in July
on the importance of social workers undermining the alleged «social construct» of gender.In «Bending gender, ending gender: theoretical foundations for social work
practice with the transgender
community,» Burdge asserts that social workers must reject «a dichotomous understanding of gender» in favor of «more accurate and affirming conceptualizations of gender.»
The New Testament itself testifies to the persistence of pagan
practices amongst the early
communities and patterns of socialization by believers that brought them into contact with pagans
on a regular basis (for example, 1 Corinthians 8 and 10).
As for the suggestion by the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation that an interfaith committee advise
on revisions, he referred me to a statement by the burgomaster of Oberammergau dated May 13, 1960, which asserted that all matters pertaining to the play are entirely the business of the
community of Oberammergau, that the Society for Christian - Jewish Co-operation had overstepped its bounds, and that if revisions became necessary Oberammergau would consult only the church, the poets and the experts in theater
practice.
We start with the important
practices, we do rigorous theological and biblical reflections
on those
practices, and we always push toward the goal of improved
practice, improved
community, and improved lives.
Christians have also
practiced their religion in a variety of ways and the expression of their service to the
community has depended
on particular historical, political and geographical situations.
The other, and surely the most significant arena where abstract philosophy must interact with concrete experience, is
community life — where principle and
practice come together
on a personal, human scale.
The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in
practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted
on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the
community.
The rejection of the «clerical paradigm» in favor of a reflection
on Christian
practice broadly based in the whole Christian
community requires a changed concept of pastoral leadership and a new pattern of preparation for it.
We also call
on the Iranian authorities to take steps to ensure that the nation's
practices, legal procedures and provisions come into alignment with its international commitment to ensure freedom of religion or belief for all of its religious
communities.»
Churches,
communities, and organizations that follow similar
practices reveal that they are centered
on both truth and love.
The evangelical
community seeks to leap from piety to
practice with little reflection
on guiding principles and practical goals.
The evangelical
community, to paraphrase social critic Michael Novak, seeks to leap from piety to
practice with little reflection
on guiding principles and practical goals.
At that site, we want to focus
on taking the Free Grace theology we all know and love, and putting it into
practice in our churches, in our
communities, and around the world.
One of the consequences of the focus
on the role of interpretive
communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation
practiced by Jewish and Christian
communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.
In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke
on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious
practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage
on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious
community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.
Being a professional driver in a major city, I try to keep informed
on the outward
practices of the major religious AND
community groups, street festivals, etcetera, because they can directly affect my job (through traffic patterns), so it is quite useful.
Yet his writings are filled with attacks
on theological liberalism, and he shares with Marshall the postliberal insistence that Christian speech is supposed to reflect the
practices of Christian
communities.
JW has been praised for putting into
practice the emphasis
on community and
on the kind of post-Christendom, mission - oriented faith that McLaren, Newbigin and others have written about.
I have argued that theology and theological education must be conceived as a transformative discursive praxis that critically reflects
on the concrete historical — political configurations and theological
practices of Christian
communities which have engendered and still engender the exclusion and dehumanization of «the others» of free born, educated and propertied men in Western society.
We must keep in mind that when pacifists of the messianic
community give advice to just warriors, it is, from their point of view, like giving advice to prostitutes
on how to
practice their profession more justly.
According to Matthew, that experience will occur in the
practice of the ethics of the Sermon
on the Mount; according to Luke - Acts, it will take place in our participation in and our response to a
community of hungry people.
Christianity is most redemptive as a force in the world when Christian churches focus their energies
on building formative Christian
communities that are rooted in the idioms and
practices of biblical faith.
This standardization was the product of many factors, including: (1) professional politics within the mental health
community, (2) increased gov involvement in mental health research and policymaking, (3) mounting pressure
on psysts from health insurers to demonstrate the effectiveness of their
practices,,,, Alan Stone, president of the APA in 1976, concluded that social psy and social activism, «carrying psyc
on a mission to change the world, had brought the profession to the edge of extinction» (Wilson, 1993, p. 402)
Eduard Schweizer attributes the exception to the author of the Gospel, but says that it is «comprehensible
on the basis of the
practice of his
community.»
I have taught a course
on Catholic Social Teaching twice now, but the ideas my students and I discussed have taken
on new life in the midst of a
community that is embodying these ideas in its very
practice.
Christian faith holds that our abiding within a
community founded
on hope in God's promise, and actively shaping history through the
practice of justice and liberation, is the most «realistic» posture we can take in the world.
On the other hand, I see a much more dynamic relationship between the inherited worldviews of these
communities and the traditions presently
practiced by them.
On that day, many years ago, I was confronted with a truth that operated practically among rural Christians from a Dalit background: the church's effort to estrange Christians from their Dalit religio - cultural roots and their Dalit Hindu neighbors had not been successful when it came to
community practice.
On the one hand, mission points to the outward moment of theology: it reflects from its locatedness in the midst of minority
communities practicing their particularities and living out their pluralities in the world in a liberated way.
The Indian Christians were socially and culturally very much integrated into the wider Hindu
community; and they kept
on many of the Hindu social customs and
practices.
Speaking from the event
on Premier's «News Hour», Dr Anne - Marie Wilson from Christian charity»28 Too Many», which campaigns against FGM urged Christian leaders here to do more to end the
practice, she said: «we know that
communities that come from overseas to be part the population of Britain will carry
on cutting or taking their daughters back home to the motherland to be cut.
Yes, we can study Scripture
on our own, but whatever we think we learn must be measured against what others have learned and taught as well, and must be lived out and
practiced in a
community.
We have already noted earlier that when compared with the commonly accepted religious
practices of the day, the Christian
community of faith took
on an everyday, almost secular appearance, not unlike such a contemporary movement as the Rotarians.
As has been defined by Arvind P. Nirmal, religion, for me, is a «symbol - system» that not only reflects the world - view of the adherent
community in talks and rituals but also has a profound influence
on the very value - system of the
community.9 And since the data consists mostly of observations by others I would pick up cultic
practices like festivals and related rituals.
One of her pet themes, to which she returns time and again, is that the modern Christian focus
on orthodoxy is mistaken and anti-historical, because historically it has been ritual and
practice that have been at the heart of the Christian
community, not doctrine.
Translated into Institutional
practice, Luther was suggesting that when a bishop consecrated a priest, he was simply acting
on behalf of the
community to license a man to use power he already had through his baptism.
On the one hand, in response to God's activity in the world, the church is brought to repentance for its failures in being «for» the world, and it commits itself to be a
community «in which the
practices of faith, hope, and love are habitual....
The local tax collectors, who obtained the concession by bidding for it, and had to exact for the chief tax collector as much as possible in indirect taxes — e.g., tolls
on imported goods — were indeed Jews, but because of their dishonorable
practices, and no doubt also because of their subservience to an alien government, they were so hated and despised that they were not counted as members of the Jewish
community, and all intercourse with them was avoided.