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The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

American families, on average, buy the same 150 products over and over again, which make up 85 percent of their household needs, according to research out of Harvard Business School.

Hyde Park Venture Partners led the round, which included participation by Hyde Park Angels; Harvard Business School Angels; Bluestein & Associates, a Chicago - based family office; and Otter Consulting, a Boca Raton - based family office...

There was no shortage of creativity in our fundraising efforts, which included partnerships with Denver restaurants and shops, such as Chick Fil A and Alex and Ani, a wine party for friends and family with tickets and raffles, spirit week at Denver schools, as well as email and letter writing campaigns directly to prospective donors.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.

There are more than 20 elementary and middle schools in the city, which serve almost 20,000 school - aged children and their families.

EDMONTON - Today, Rachel Notley announced that an NDP government will reinvest in Alberta's cities and growing communities through Family and Community Support Services (FCSS), which supports after school programs for kids, child development programs, and counseling for individuals and families.

The iShares MSCI USA Small - Cap ESG Optimized ETF (ESML) is part of iShares» larger ESG ETF family, which, in the wake of the school massacre in Parkland, Florida, has altered its methodology to entirely exclude makers of civilian firearms or any retailer that earns more than $ 20 million or 5 % of their total revenue from the sale of civilian firearms.

«Children should be learning about money management and debt from their school or family, not from irresponsible payday loan ads which make these high cost high risk loans seem like a normal way of managing money.

I'm doing something positive instead of giving something up, which is a little «old school»... It's my parish's turn to house a group of homeless families for a week through the Interfaith Hospitality Network so my family will cook the evening meal next Tuesday.

Perhaps we would do well to learn from Augustine to think of the family as a school of virtue, or from I John of the family as a sphere in which we learn the meaning of commitment to a few and begin to learn the steps of the greater dance of love.

The overarching interpretive rubric within which to understand the spheres of human life — and, for us here, in particular the family — is Augustine's statement, in Book I of The City of God, that the servants of God «have no reason to regret even this life of time, for in it they are schooled for eternity.»

The family is a school of virtue in which God sets before us, day after day, one person or a few persons whom we are to love.

All this has attracted the attention of one Barry Sheerman, chairman of the parliamentary cross-party committee on children, schools and families, who now wants to haul offending bishops (the good news is that there are at least two) in front of his committee for an inquisitorial going - over (which by the time you read this may have taken place).

«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»

Rather than be disowned (which would have happened if he'd pursued horticulture, which he loved) he opted for dental school and a career that would keep the family happy while providing an income that would allow early retirement to finally do what he really wanted to do — open his own plant nursery.

Mr Balls dismissed suggestions the amendment to the Children, Schools and Families Bill, which was first revealed by the BBC News Website, represented an «opt out» for faith sSchools and Families Bill, which was first revealed by the BBC News Website, represented an «opt out» for faith schoolsschools.

And, citing the book of Sirach (3:3 - 7, 14 - 17), he added: «The word of God presents the family as the first school of wisdom, a school which trains its members in the practice of those virtues which make for authentic happiness and lasting fulfilment.»

He writes with feeling to a parent of the school, «I often think what poor creatures we priests are, who, like gentlemen of England, sit at home at ease, while you, married men, have all the merit of anxiety and toil which the care of a family involves.

Consider the family which must decide about the placing of children in a State school.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

This was the manner in which educated, Greek - speaking Christians from the very beginning had been schooled, whether they were from pagan families or from Jewish families that had become assimilated into Greek culture.

April 1999), which shows that home schooling families are at least as involved in civic activities and the building of «social capital» as those who send their kids out for education, and she ends with this thought: «I don't think we need worry much about their socialization in the narrow sense, either.

Every additional year of school that a girl completes increases her future earnings, which is good for her family, her community and her country.

The foregoing principles of parent - child relationships — concern by the parents for the needs of the child and the obligation of the child to obey the parents, within the context of intelligent and benevolent authority — are the foundation for the right kind of education not only in homes but also in schools, which are established to aid and complete the family in its educative task.

But critics have accused faith schools of simply selecting the brightest children from the more middle - class, affluent families, which may be skewing their results.

Poor parents who have been enabled to choose any school for their children are delighted with the results, according to PAVE's annual report which is available free from Family Service America, 11700 West Lake Park Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53224.

New churches, schools and Catholic institutions were constantly being opened, and the Catholic community was a vibrant one, the small nucleus of «Old Catholics» having been augmented by Anglican converts and Irish emigrants — from which groups came Francis Bourne's own family.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

The vigil, which was attended by President Barack Obama, was a high - profile part of the healing process for the families of the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14.

To this one person replied: Suppose that your family, your school, all the groups to which you belonged and whose members you respected, practiced and justified discrimination so that you never had a chance to raise with yourself a question about it, were you then not a Christian?

Even though we know that their domestic family is the first place where they should learn the faith, in truth many only really begin to learn it, if at all, in the Catholic School which is increasingly having to b e in loco parentisi n a unique way and which links the child to the widerChurch family through the parish.

I am referring to Catholic schools which do not regard the Church's social and moral teaching as pillars of education, and those which include a significant number of children from families which are nominally Catholic, non-Catholic, broken, lacking in child supervision or neglectful.

We may have underestimated the continuing influence of those traditional institutions which have managed to survive without the benefit of the mass media for many years and which continue to transfer cultural values — the family, home, community, school, church, fraternal organizations, and others.

Although there has been some push back on the new sex ed curriculum for public schools, which would see teaching about family diversity that includes LBGT families, anti-homophobia instruction including that being gay is normal, and — at long last!

In secondary schools immeasurable damage has been caused to the Church, families and students by the manner in which our Faith is «debated», wastage rates of over ninety per cent of pupils leaving school are quoted.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

In some cases this means continuing the author's lead in A Sort of Life, which, for instance, presents the horrors of boarding school (on the other side of the «green baize door» from his family quarters) as a season in hell, replete with demonic adversaries among the student body.

My family and friends didn't have the church / school classroom in which they were hired to teach children «bugged» by pastors and administrators, but I did.

Which happened when I sat in an Atlanta public school room tutoring three illiterate sixth graders or when I heard stories of refugees who'd suffered loss of home, family separation and violence or when I stood at the U.S. - Mexico border in Tijuana and looked at the endless crosses adorning the wall with the names of those missing or lost after they headed north to the United States.

Culture has many complicated meanings, but I use it here simply to describe a system of beliefs (about God or reality or ultimate meaning), of values (about what is true, good and beautiful), of customs (about how to behave and relate to others), and of the institutions which express the culture (government, church, law courts, family, school and so on)-- all of which bind the society together and give it meaning.

I can testify from my experience as a pastor that flunking in the School of Communion has grave consequences, not only for an individual or for one's family, but for all the other communities of which the family is the basic cell.

There is also hope, and considerable evidence, that we may have underestimated the continuing influence of those traditional institutions which have managed to survive without the benefit of the mass media for many years and which continue to transfer cultural values — the family, home, community, school, church, fraternal organizations, and others.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, inschool followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, inSchool, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

We must share it with the world, which includes our schools, jobs, families, neighborhoods and the nations.

Yet school and Sunday school, neighborhood and family and parish are the institutions which even today, against all odds, do much to shape the individual in society.

The spirit of authentic unity flourishes in a shared love, which is necessarily a particular love: this family, this town, this school, this nation, and, as Soloviev dramatizes, this savior.

Most students at our denominational schools have come from families in which, with greater or lesser intensity, the Christian tradition has been represented.