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A message from SNAPDFWs facilitator, Lisa Kendzior
Acknowledge your courage
It takes courage to acknowledge that weve been abused and it is not easy to even admit it to ourselves. Just browsing this website is a big step.
Know that you are not alone!
If youve been victimized by clergy, please know that you are not alone. You can get better. You can reach out to others whove been hurt just like you have.
Together, we can heal one another.
An earlier story named another priest in the allegation, but it was later reported that the abusers he reported did not include the Belgian bishop.
Read the AP story on the Forbes Website ...
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In a statement issued by the Vatican on Friday, Roger Vangheluwe, 73, the bishop of Bruges in Belgium since 1984, admitted to sexually abusing a young person in his "close entourage."
In the prepared statement Vangheluwe said that he abused a young man in my close entourage ... when I was still a simple priest and for a while when I began as a bishop.
The disclosure makes Vangheluwe the latest cleric, and the fourth bishop to quit in a spreading abuse scandal.
Read the story in today's NYTimes ...
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Deaf victim's letter instrumental in federal lawsuit targeting top Vatican command for engineering coverupPamela Meyer (pictured) stands with members of SNAP outside the federal courthouse in Milwaukee yesterday where a federal law suit was filed accusing Pope Benedict XVI and senior Vatican officials of failing to defrock Rev. Lawrence Murphy, despite allegations he molested at least 200 deaf children from 1950 to 1975. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
The suit is significant because it is aimed at the highest reaches of the Roman Catholic Church, and involves Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a strong defender of Pope Benedict XVI's handling of the global clergy sexual abuse crisis and a man whose own record on a separate high-profile case has come under scrutiny. A letter from a victim has emerged sent directly to Sodano a year before the Vatican admitted learning of the Murphy case.
The defendants in the lawsuit are Ratzinger, Sodano, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone and the Holy See, identified as the state of the Vatican City. Bertone was Ratzinger's deputy at the time and is now the Vatican's secretary of state.
Read the full AP Story on Google News ...
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Embattled German Bishop Walter Mixa submitted an offer of resignation to the Vatican on Wednesday amid allegations that he physically abused children and misappropriated Church funds. German commentators welcome the move, saying it sparks hopes of greater transparency in the Catholic Church's abuse investigation.
In a letter written to Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday, German Bishop Walter Mixa tendered his resignation over allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct within the Augsburg Diocese.
German press across the entire spectrum of political opinions responded en masse with relief. German publication Der Speigel today published quotes from several German news outlets:
The conservative daily Die Welt writes:
"Right now, Mixa is ill-suited to play the role of pastor and head of a large diocese. He has continued to refuse to give candid explanations, preferring to hide behind vague pleas for forgiveness for everything and nothing."
The center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes (in an updated online version):
"Finally. Finally, Walter Mixa, the bishop on the edge, is stepping down. ...(I)t is unclear how violently he ... struck children in his care and how deeply he dug into the coffers of the local orphanage foundation."
The center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes:
"It doesn't happen every day that bishops speak about other bishops in public. It is even rarer for them to publicly criticize one another. And it is truly remarkable that two bishops have called on a third bishop (Mixa) to temporarily step down from office."
"The whole affair and his behavior is still weighing on the Church and damage the credibility of any of the bishops' statements."
The center-left Berliner Zeitung writes:
"These days, in real life, the word 'Catholic' stands for physically abusive or lustful priests. People are leaving the Church in droves. ... In real life, Mixa has been very, very slow, on the one hand, to understand that his office does not entitle him to beat children, spend donation money on art, kitsch and wine -- and, on the other, to resign."
Read the entire story and all German press quotes in today's Der Speigel ...
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Read the story of the resignations in the Washington Post today ...
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Following protests by SNAP, Cardinal who praised cover-up bows out of 1st Latin Rite mass in DC in half a centuryThe former high-up Vatican official, Dario Castrillon-Hoyos, who officially praised a convicted bishop for protecting a rapist priest -- and claimed he was directed by the former pope to do so -- has canceled plans to celebrate a latin mass in Washington, DC after sharp pressure on the archbishop of Washington from SNAP and other victim advocacy groups to block his participation. SNAP is glad Hoyos bowed out, but criticizes Vatican and Archdiocese of Washington for failing to intervene.
The National Catholic Reporter yesterday said:
SNAP, the Saint Louis-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said April 20 that it had asked Pope Benedict to forbid Castrillon-Hoyos from celebrating the Mass.
When wrong-doers like Castrillon-Hoyos get rewarded by the Catholic hierarchy, church employees everywhere see that wrongdoing is sanctioned, SNAP stated.
Washington archdiocesan spokeswoman Susan Gibbs told Catholic News Service April 20 she didn't expect Archbishop Wuerl to intercede, because "cardinals have universal faculties and the archdiocese is not a sponsor of this event."
Following the announcement that Castrillon-Hoyos had bowed out, SNAP officials said they were relieved the cardinal wouldn't be the celebrant but expressed disappointment that neither the Vatican nor the Archdiocese of Washington intervened in this matter." -- National Catholic Reporter, April 21, 2010
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Read the report in the National Catholic Reporter ...
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SNAP urges archbishop of Washington to forbid Vatican official who endorsed coverup from leading mass in DC
Dear Archbishop Wuerl:
We urge you to forbid a controversial church official who clearly endorses law-breaking and irresponsible behavior from leading a mass in your archdiocese this weekend.
You know all of the disturbing facts about Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, a former Vatican official who is coming here in just a few days:
Giving him the honor of leading this mass is problematic in two ways. First, it rewards wrong-doing, and that in turn encourages future wrong-doing. Second, it rubs salt into the already-deep and still-fresh wounds of millions of hurting Catholics and thousands of hurting victims.
- He thanked and congratulated a French bishop, in a letter he wrote in 2001, for hiding a sexually abusive priest.
- He allegedly was authorized to send that same letter to bishops across the globe.
- He defended his 2001 letter just days ago at a conference in Spain, arguing that the French bishop couldn't tell police about a predator priest because he learned about the crimes in the confessional. The French bishop himself, however, contradicted this claim, admitting that the priest admitted his crimes in a normal conversation, which is not a privileged communication according to church rules.
- He now claims, without providing any evidence, that he wrote the letter endorsing the French bishop with the approval of the late Pope John Paul II.
- He has expressed no remorse for his letter or his deceptive comments.
- He has made similarly hurtful comments about clergy sex crimes and cover-ups in the recent past.
- It should go without saying that Castrillon-Hoyos' words and deeds are very hurtful to clergy abuse victims, Catholics, and anyone who cares about kids.
Read the entire SNAP letter on the national Website ...
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Vatican official who praised felon bishop for obstructing justice for rapist-priest to lead US high mass honoring pope; SNAP protests
"I congratulate you for not denouncing (a convicted, rapist priest) to the civil administration." -- Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos
According to a SNAP national press release issued earlier this morning, on April 24, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in northwest Washington, Castrillon Hoyes is scheduled lead a Solemn Pontifical Mass at the shrines high altar. The mass is considered an historic event since it will be the first of its kind since the Basilica was founded. The shrine is considered Americas Catholic Church and is the largest church in North America.
Castrillon Hoyos proudly claimed that his praise of the felon bishop Pierre Pican of the Bayeux-Lisieux, convicted of withholding evidence about a convicted priest rapist in his diocese, was approved by previous pope Karol Wojtyla, John Paul II in a letter the cardinal was instructed by JPII to send to all French bishops.
Later today, SNAP will conduct a news conference via teleconference protesting the high mass by Hoyos.
Read the full press release on the SNAP National Website ...;
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European press reports priest who "took the fall" for Ratzinger was pressured; SNAP President respondsIn a letter to a friend, seen by German weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Gerhard Gruber wrote that he was begged in numerous phone calls and after receiving a prepared statement by fax for him to sign. The magazine said Gruber expresses unhappiness in the letter at being given the sole blame in public.
"Last month media reports claimed that in 1980, Pope Benedict, as Archbishop of Munich, had mishandled the case of paedophile priest Fr Peter Hullermann. The priest was moved to Munich for therapy in 1980 after abusing a boy. The psychiatrist dealing with his case warned he was not to be allowed work with children.
Hullermann was reassigned to parish duties in Munich within weeks of arriving there. The priest reoffended and in June 1986 he was convicted of the sexual abuse of other minors and given an 18-month suspended sentence. When this emerged last month, Gruber assumed total responsibility, thus seeming to absolve Pope Benedict."
In a press release issued today, SNAP President Barbara Blaine responded concerning the reports of the letter from Gruber that he was coerced:
"This is a very serious and troubling allegation which directly implicates top Catholic officials in very recent deceit. An independent investigation is needed to get to the bottom of this. If even now high ranking church staffers are lying to protect one another from criticism, that bodes ill for any real internal church reform." -- SNAP National President Barbara Blaine, earlier today.
Read the stories:
In the German publication Der Speigel ...
In the German publication The Local ...
In the Irish publication Irish Times ...
Read SNAP's full response ...
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Church in "worst credibility crisis since the Reformation" says theologian Hans Küng in open letter to all RCC bishopsLegendary catholic theologian Hans Küng, in an open letter to the Roman bishops of the world published Friday, strongly indicts Benedict XVI for making worse just about everything that is wrong with the Roman Catholic Church.
In Küng's open letter to the bishops of the world, he claims that the pope and his administration (the "Roman Curia") is directly responsible for engineering the global cover-up of sexual abuse and child rape perpetrated by priests.
"And now, on top of these many crises comes a scandal crying out to heaven the revelation of the clerical abuse of thousands of children and adolescents, first in the United States, then in Ireland and now in Germany and other countries. And to make matters worse, the handling of these cases has given rise to an unprecedented leadership crisis and a collapse of trust in church leadership." -- Hans Küng
Read the full story in the Irish Times ...
Read "Shot across the papal bow" on the Voice from the Desert Website ...
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German news reports that Ratzinger's German fall guy may be ready to reverse on taking blame for reassigning predator priestIn a report from Malta today, John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter, citing German news outlet Der Speigel, reports that Gerhard Gruber, the cleric who took blame away from then Munich Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger for reassigning a predator priest, may be ready to change his story.
"In statements released both by the Munich archdiocese and by the Vatican, Gruber said that he had been responsible for personnel decisions and that Ratzinger was not informed of the details of the Hullermann case.
"Now, however, Der Spiegel is reporting that Gruber has privately told friends that he felt pressure to act as a scapegoat. According to the account, he was sent a fax with the details of the statement already prepared and felt pressure to sign off on it.
"Der Spiegel does not cite any sources for its account. Asked about it tonight, (Vatican spokesman) Lombardi declined comment because he had not yet seen the article."
Read John Allen's full report in today's NCROnline ...
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Cardinal claims John Paul II approved praising felon bishop for witholding rapist priest information from policeCardinal Dario Hoyos, retired head of the Vatican Congregation for the Clergy - the office in charge of priests and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church -- has claimed that Pope John Paul II approved a letter signed by Hoyos praising a French bishop convicted of shielding a convicted pedophile-rapist priest.
Reporting from Malta today, NCROnline's John Allen writes:
"In Spain, a defiant Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, now 81 and retired, insisted that he had the approval of Pope John Paul II when he sent a letter to a French bishop in 2001 applauding him for not reporting an abuser priest to the police."
Speaking at a press conference in Spain earlier today, Hoyos said:
"After consulting the pope, I wrote a letter to the bishop, congratulating him as a model of a father who does not turn in his children," he added.
"The Holy Father authorised me to send that letter to all bishops in the world and we posted it on the Internet," he added in a reference to Pope Benedict XVI's predecessor, John Paul II who died in 2005.
Read the full story in the NCROnline today ...
Read the press conference report in the Times of India today ...
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Vatican confirms Congregation for Clergy official's letter praising bishop convicted for shielding priest rapist from justiceAn Associated Press and Reuters story published yesterday reports that four days after a bishop was convicted for shielding a priest-rapist, the bishop was praised by a high ranking Vatican official in charge of priests and bishops.
Priest Rene Bissey was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2000 for raping 11 minors in the 1990's. In 2001, the priest's bishop was convicted for shielding him. Four days later, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then the head of the Vatican office in charge of priests, praised the convicted felon bishop for his acts. Hoyos lauded French bishop Pierre Pican of Bayaeux-Lisieux for risking prison time to defend one of the Vatican's "son-priests."
"I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest." -- Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, 2001.
Hoyos is the Vatican official who conducted the talks that led to the January 2009 decision to readmit four excommunicated bishops of the Society of Saint Pius X to the Church. One of those re-admitted bishops was Richard Williamson, convicted yesterday, April 16, 2010 in Germany for denying the Holocaust.
"We know what will happen next: The Vatican will either ignore this incredibly revealing and disturbing letter, or try to explain it away in some bizarre way. None of the worlds 5,000 bishops will chastise the Cardinal. No Vatican official will either. When pressed about this, church managers will gently try to distance themselves from this irresponsible move and claim that abuse is now handled differently in the church." -- Barbara Dorris, National Outreach Director, Survivor's Network of those Abused by Priests."
Read the Reuters News story ...
Read the AP story in the Taiwan News ...
Read the "Embarrassing letter" story in the Ethiopian Review ...
Read "Bishop sentenced for not exposing paedophile priest" in The Tablet ...
Read the outrageous story and SNAP's full response on the SNAP national Website ...
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Ellie Laks, a lifelong lover of animals, founded the Gentle Barn Foundation a decade ago and has given a permanent home to over 14 species of animals that were rescued from abuse or neglect.
After rehabilitating the animals, the Gentle Barn brings them together with abused and troubled adults and teenagers for therapy.
"Abused people, animals find healing in each other" on the Voice of America Website ...
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Pope speaks up on sex abuse: since church is "under attack from the world ... it is necessary to repent"; SNAP respondsAn AP article in today's Washington Post reports that the pope, in an apparantly impromptu sermon, broke his silence on the worldwide outcry concerning sexual abuse by priests.
"But now under attack from the world, which has been telling us about our sins ... we realize that it's necessary to repent ..." -- Benedict XVI
"Factual disclosures are not 'attacks' and 'penance' protects no one," said Mark Serrano, a spokesman for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the U.S. group.
"When the Pope can't bring himself to utter the words 'pedophile priest' or 'child sex crimes' or 'cover-ups' or 'complicit bishops,' it's hard to have faith that he is able to honestly and effectively deal with this growing crisis," Serrano said in a statement.
Read the story and the SNAP Response in today's Washington Post ...
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All 32 UK Catholic bishops denounce Vatican's Bertone for statement linking paedophilia to homosexualityA statement from Marcus Stock, general secretary to the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said there was no empirical data to conclude that paedophilia had anything to do with homosexuality. His statement bears the authority and approval of all 32 Catholic bishops in England and Wales.
His statement bears the authority and approval of all 32 Catholic bishops in England and Wales.
This strong resistance, together with that of the French Government, to Vatican second-in-command Tarcisio Bertone's attempts to blame the church's systemic pedophilia on homosexuals is oddly resonant with the protests of Gay rights campaigners and victim support groups worldwide who also denounce this latest Vatican insult.
Read "Vatican Climbdown" in today's UK Guardian ...
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AP investigation finds 30 more convicted or credibly accused priest molesters, transfered and still working for the churchLate yesterday, a shocking new Associated Press investigation found that 30 child molesting Catholic clerics are now working in new countries for the church, often near kids, despite having been convicted or having faced credible child sex allegations in a previous country.
"A priest who admitted to abuse in Los Angeles went to the Philippines, where U.S. church officials mailed him checks and advised him not to reveal their source. A priest in Canada was convicted of sexual abuse and then moved to France, where he was convicted of abuse again in 2005. Another priest was moved back and forth between Ireland and England, despite being diagnosed as a pederast, a man who commits sodomy with boys." -- Associated Press
It is not unusual practice in the church for predators such as these to be quietly shipped from more wealthy nations to the Third World, where kids are even more vulnerable.
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"Holy" See forgives "satanic" Beatles, "degenerate" homosexual Oscar Wilde, and "dangerous" heretic Galileo; maintains icey silence on Harry PotterIn the midst of global outrage at the true depth and breadth of the horrendous sexual abuse of children by priests, subsequent diabolical coverup by pope and bishops, and the violent verbal abuse of society and "the press" by the deeply corrupt Roman Catholic hierarchy under Joseph Ratzinger -- aka Benedict XVI -- comes a ludicrous moment, darkly comic in the face of the profoundly tragic. Jim Watkins of The Huffington Post says that this farcical timing "could well be the worst attempt ever to change the subject!"
The official Vatican news outlet, L'Osservatore Romano, has added the Beatles to the Holy See's long "forgiveness" list of notorious 'evil secularists," once condemned by the morally aloof Roman church. The absolution was given to honor the 40th anniversary of the break-up of the Fab Four.
"This Beatles-is-beautiful revelation in the face of ongoing allegations of sexual abuse by priests worldwide is sadly illustrative of the Vaticans handling of the matter. Irrelevant. Disconnected. And once again, decades too late." -- Commentary, ChronicleHerald.ca
Similarly, Wilde, who was once sent to prison for acts of "gross indecency" with Lord Alfred Douglas and later converted to Catholicism, and who was regarded by the Roman Church in the century since his death as a "dangerous degenerate and dissolute nonconformist" -- was just last year given Roman Catholic absolution as well. L'Osservatore published the holy office's turn-around saying that Wilde was "one of the personalities of the 19th century who most lucidly analyzed the modern world in its disturbing as well as its positive aspects."
But despite the ludicrous "forgiveness" of these notorious sinners, there is still this kind of memorial to commemorate:
"You want to talk anniversaries? Heres one for the Catholic Church: 20 years ago, the Mount Cashel Orphanage in St. Johns, N.L., was closed for good. That was 1990. The allegations of sexual and physical abuse by Christian Brothers and staff dated back to the 1950s. The official coverups started in earnest in the mid-1970s." -- Chronicle Herald
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French Foreign Ministry spokesman Bernard Valero Wednesday said the remarks linking the abuse to homosexuality was "unacceptable." He said France is committed to the struggle against discrimination and prejudice linked to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Gay rights groups also condemned the remarks by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.
Read the whole story on the Voice of America Website ...
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"The passage of this legislation could potentially have a devastating financial effect on the Catholic dioceses of Connecticut, including parish assets and those of other Catholic service organizations," said the letter to pastors from Archbishop Henry J. Mansell of Hartford, Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport and Bishop Michael R. Cote of Norwich.
The bill that would eliminate the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits in cases of sexual abuse.
Catholic News Service today reports that the bishops' letter was distributed in churches April 10 and 11. In it the bishops said H.B. 5473, which "also targets the Catholic Church across the state ... has potentially disastrous fallout for all of us" The measure could be voted on in the General Assembly within two weeks.
Read the story on the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Website ...
Read the CNS article in today's National Catholic Reporter ...
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Atlantic columnist calls Ratzinger letter protecting pedophile priest instead of victims "The Third Strike"
"But it's clear that the age of the priest is of far more importance to Ratzinger than the age of the minors he raped. All the sympathy and concern is with the rapist, not the raped. This is a document about protecting the powerful even when they rape the powerless." -- The Atlantic, 10 April 2010
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Regular Meetings
Meetings are normally out of garb (pre C17th clothing) and the objective is to provide a comfortable learning environment for anyone who wants to come along.
Anyone can attend meetings, however if you are under the age of 18, we request that you are accompanied by your parent or guardian. If this is not sustainable over a period of time, there is are forms available for your parents to sign. Please contact the Seneschal for further information.
St Florian Fighter Practice
- Monday night
- Location: Brisbane Bridge Centre, 104 Frederick Street, Annerley.
- Time: 7.00 PM to 9:30 PM.
- Cost: $5, plus $5 for Non Members for insurance levy
- This is where we train various forms of Combat.
St Florian Arts and Sciences meeting
- What's on at A&S
- When: Weekends
- Location: Rotating locations
- Cost: $5 plus $5 for Non Members as of 01/09/2012 for insurance levy
- For information please contact Lenore the Arts and Sciences officer
St Florian de la Riviere Baronial Business Meeting
The objective of this meeting is to make business decisions for the Barony.
Officers and project officers are required to report to the Seneschal three days prior
Agenda Items are to be sent to the Seneschal prior to the meeting to be advertised on lis
The Baronial Meetings are held on the Balcony at fighter practice starting at 7.30pm on:
- Monday 14th of October
- Monday 11th November
- Monday 9th December
It is not compulsory for you to attend the business meeting. Everyone is encouraged to attend to keep up with the administrative changes for the Barony.
Dramatis Personae: Theatre group
The theatre group regularly has rehearsals when working on a project. For further information please contact Steffan Glaube.
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Three women's suffragists knew their place—front and center
Say It Loud
by Stephanie Piper
The new statue on Market Square is front and center, and that seems fitting. The three ladies immortalized in bronze knew that it was only by keeping their cause before the public, only by proclaiming it loudly and often in places like this very square, that change would be won.
The new monument is a tribute to the Tennessee pioneers of women's suffrage: Lizzie Crozier French, Elizabeth Avery Meriwether and Anne Dallas Dudley. Yankee though I am, I feel a certain connection to them. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, matriarchs of the American suffrage movement, lived and died in my native New York. Tennessee, the state I've called home for 23 years, cast the decisive vote to ratify the 19th Amendment. There's a symmetry there that appeals to me. I have often felt like a stranger in Knoxville, a place where local roots run deep. Yet here are three women who reached across the regional divide to finish the work my fellow New Yorkers had begun.
Suffragettes might well have scoffed at the idea of a regional divide when it came to a woman's right to vote. Justice was justice, whether it was in Seneca Falls, N.Y., or Knoxville, Tenn. Even then, sisterhood was powerful.
Still, I find myself wondering if the wave-making business was harder here. When French addressed the Tennessee State Bar Association in 1912, she summed up the situation in a terse rhymed couplet: "All the laws concerning women I've studied down through time/ and the laws of Tennessee are at the bottom of the line."
French noted the state's deplorable literacy rate, and drew the connection between those figures and the law prohibiting women from serving on school boards. She pointed out that women were not even entitled to their own wages unless they could prove they were the sole support of a dependent child. She countered the notion that "reverence and respect" were all the recognition women required with the argument that "no one respects those with no power."
The backward laws were the most obvious obstacles, but there were others no less daunting. The traditional view of women as gentle, docile, weaker vessels was surely magnified in the South, where ladies never raised their voices or called attention to themselves in public. I can only imagine the social censure French, Meriwether and Dallas endured in polite society: Oh, we can't invite them. They have such disturbing opinions.
A few missed dinner parties wouldn't have bothered these estimable women, but the popular stereotype of the suffragette as a scheming, childless harridan must have rankled. Dudley led parades with her young children, and French declared eloquently that "woman has no greater claim to the rights of the ballot than that she is the producer, not a destroyer of life." It must have required a rare brand of courage to pin on the badge, pick up the placard and face the angry jeers of people who shouted that real women didn't need to vote.
The statue shows the women in motion. They lean forward slightly, their eyes set on the road ahead. It was a long road from Seneca Falls in 1848 to Nashville in 1920, and it was a weary one. Anthony and Stanton did not live to see the victory won, but they left the work in good hands.
"If you are with me, stand up proud," French once trumpeted. "And if you're going to say it, say it loud." Here on this shady Tennessee square, front and center, her challenge still echoes.


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Preliminary investigation by Master Trooper Doug Parker revealed, that at approximately 4:17 p.m., yesterday, Thursday, October 11th, a 2012 Ford (DOC) van , driven by Michael Ritchey, 32 of Rockville, Indiana, was south on State Road 39 when he failed to yield the right of way at the intersection of State Road 14.
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LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM -- (Marketwire) -- 11/11/12 -- There are millions of credit card holders in Britain, but the risk of fraud can be significant. Asda Money looks at ways you can protect your credit card.
Figures show that online banking fraud increased by a massive 14% between 2008 and 2009 as criminals are becoming more tech savvy(i). Cardholders are often duped with email scams, computer viruses and malware which attacks unprotected computer systems.
Credit card holders have some level of protection however, under the Consumer Credit Act 1974. Under section 75 of the act, cardholders now have legal protection of a credit card that is used to purchase something between GBP 100 and GBP 30,000(ii).
This also gives you protection should you not be happy with your purchase or the credit card company or the company your bought goods and services from goes bankrupt.
Even overseas web purchases are protected as this law applies to everything you buy on credit cards. Whether you purchase an item in the UK, overseas on holiday or on a foreign website you are protected.
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-- Never give your Personal Identification Number (PIN) to anyone. -- You must also keep your PIN number safe and never write it down. -- Dispose of sensitive information such as receipts and banks statements by shredding them. -- Don't let others use your credit card. -- Keep your cards safe and don't leave them anywhere that can easily be spotted. -- Never hand over your bank details and hide your PIN when paying for items in a shop or at a cash machine. -- Always log out after shopping online and save the confirmation email as proof of purchase. -- Only use secure and trusted websites. -- Install anti-virus software and firewalls on your computer.
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Is there a way to expand the list of birthdays on Facebook? I use to notice people's birthdays because their names and birthday were listed. Facebook has moved the list up the page, condensed it, and only shows today's birthdays. Is there any way to at least show upcoming birthdays and the persons' birth date?
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Wednesday, November 14, 2001Johnson City, Tenn. - East Tennessee State's baseball team has signed six recruits to national letters of intent to attend ETSU and play baseball for the Bucs next season head coach Tony Skole announced today. Signing with the Bucs are Beau Alford (Johnson City, Tenn.), Justin Benard (Erwin, Tenn.), Shane Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.), Steven Calicutt (Spartanburg, S.C.), Boodle Clark (Bristol, Tenn.) and Jeremy Hall (Gray, Tenn.). Alford, a left-handed pitcher/outfielder, and Byrne, a right-handed pitcher/infielder both attend Science Hill High School. Alford threw a perfect game last season and struck out 98 in 72.1 innings, winning nine games. Byrne owns a career record of 9-0 with a 0.86 ERA on the mound. A switch hitter, he batted .350 last season. "We are very excited to have players from Bernie Young's fine program at Science Hill," said Skole. "Beau has been one of the top pitchers in the state for two years now. He is a tremendous competitor and simply knows how to win. Shane has developed into one of the finer high school athletes in Tennessee. He is extremely talented and can do many things well. His potential is unlimited." Benard is a catcher at Unicoi High School where he hit .415 last season with 12 home runs and 42 RBI. He was a first team All-Wautauga Conference selection and was a Johnson City Press Super 22 selection. "We definitely believe Justin is one of the top high school hitters in the area and the state of Tennessee," said Skole. We look for him to rapidly develop into an offensive force in the Southern Conference." Calicutt, a left-handed pitcher/outfielder is a three-sport standout at Dorman High School in Spartanburg and has been rated as the top left-handed pitcher in South Carolina. Last season he went 9-0 with a 2.27 ERA. He also hit .375 and helped Dorman to the state championship game. "We are extremely pleased to have landed a player of Steven's ability," said Skole. "He is a tremendous overall athlete and will definitely have an immediate impact on our success." Clark, a right-handed pitcher/shortstop, is a two-time all-state player at Tennessee High School. Last year he went 9-2 on the mound with 99 strikeouts in 67 innings while also hitting .381 with six home runs and 25 RBI. He has been ranked by Baseball America as one of the top-10 prospects in Tennessee and has a fastball that has been clocked at 91 mph. "Boodle has an opportunity to be a very special player at ETSU," said Skole. "He is a tremendous competitor and blessed with a tremendous amount of ability. He will definitely be one of the most exciting players to watch in our program and could be one of the top players in the Southern Conference." Hall is a right-handed pitcher at Daniel Boone High School. He has been clocked as high as 92 mph with his fastball and was 5-3 with 80 strikeouts in 49.1 innings last season. He was rated as the number one prospect at the prestigious TEAM ONE Midwest Showcase and is currently ranked as the No. 8 prospect in Tennessee and No. 148 in the nation by Baseball America. He has also been a Johnson City Press Super 22 selection the past two seasons. "Jeremy is the most highly touted and decorated recruit to ever sign at ETSU," said Skole. "He has been very highly recognized over the summer and fall as one of the top prospects in the U.S. He possesses all the intangibles to have an outstanding career at ETSU. "We are extremely excited about this early recruiting class. Two years ago when we arrived on campus and put together our recruiting play, we targeted this senior class when they were sophomores. It has been a goal since out arrival to get the best players in the Tri-Cities to stay close to home and come to ETSU. These young men are a great representation of that goal. We believe this group of young men are the most highly decorated and celebrated baseball recruiting class in ETSU history. All of them are ranked very high in numerous publications as being the top prospects in the respective state and the entire U.S. We are very fortunate and proud that these young men chose ETSU over some other very fine baseball programs. This group is obviously talented, but more importantly they are great kids and come from great families. We are looking forward to the impact they will have on our program." This recruiting class is a great testament to the hard work of my assistant coaches, Nathan Goulet and David Shelton. We take a great amount of pride in our recruiting and those tow individuals, along with our players, deserve all the credit for attracting such high-quality players to our campus. We sincerely believe it is an honor and a privilege to be a baseball player at ETSU, and we hop we can continue to attract those special, high-quality individuals."


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I honestly don't see where Tony Sparano goes from here. Seriously.
I feel bad for the guy, but he put up some pretty terrible numbers in his past two seasons as OC/HC. He certainly doesn't deserve a HC or coordinator position in the NFL. Perhaps he goes back to being a line coach or goes back to College. Problem is, his OL's have been suspect as well.
Fact is, the debacle in NY wasn't entirely on him. It was an impossible situation. The offense wasn't that great to begin with, then injuries set in.
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ETSU Claims Crown at Winthrop Tournament After Two Saturday Victories
Sunday, September 02, 2001ROCK HILL, SC-East Tennessee State University rode the shoulders of MVP setter Carey Cavanaugh to the championship of the Microtel Inn & Suites Winthrop Invitational that concluded Saturday. The Buccaneers defeated Georgia Southern and the host Winthrop Eagles to finish with a 3-0 record. Georgia Southern took second place with a 2-1 record while Winthrop finished 1-2 and Georgia State was fourth at 0-3. With Cavanaugh at the controls, ETSU opened the day with a 3-2 win over Georgia Southern in a battle of Southern Conference foes. The Bucs won the match in typical fashion as they took game one 30-20 before dropping the second and third games 30-27 and 30-22 to find themselves in a big hole. ETSU tied the match with a 30-27 hard-fought win in game four and then won the deciding game 15-12. The Bucs produced a balanced attack on offense and defense as six players reached double digit kills and six had double figures in digs. Karen Freeburg, who joined Cavanaugh on the All-Tournament Team, led ETSU with 16 kills and 20 digs. Cavanaugh finished the match with 59 assists. GSU's Susan Bindshedler led all hitters in the match with a .500 attack percentage with 18 kills while Martina Veiglova led five Lady Eagles in double figure digs with 18. ETSU claimed the tournament crown with a 3-1 win over Winthrop. The Bucs won game one 36-34, dropped game two to the host Eagles 30-27, but then swept the final two games 30-19 and 30-17. Cavanaugh again had 59 assists to go along with 10 kills from her setter position. Freeburg led the offense again with 23 kills and a .391 attack percentage. Winthrop's Erin Lehman led the Eagles with 15 kills while Anna Vagstad finished with 17 digs.
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- Foden et al. A guide to the management of acute rhinosinusitis in primary care:management strategy based on best evidence and recent European guidelines. British Journal Of General Practice. 2013.
- Rosenfeld et al. Clinical practice guideline: adult sinusitis. Otolaryngology. 2007.
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