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There is an excellent article on Fr Lev Gillet iin Jacob's Well - one which I believe the Roman Catholics here will appreciate for in some ways Fr Lev stood astride the East and the West.Father Lev Gillet: The Monk in the City, a Pilgrim in many worldsby Fr. Michael Plekon"The whole teaching of the Latin Fathers may be found in the East, just as the whole teaching of the Greek Fathers may be found in the West."http://www.jacwell.org/Spring_2001/father_lev_gillet.htm
There is an excellent article on Fr Lev Gillet iin Jacob's Well - one which I believe the Roman Catholics here will appreciate for in some ways Fr Lev stood astride the East and the West.
All due respect Fr.Do you really think this example of sheep stealing/proselytizing, bashing nuns and western praxis and encouraging rivalry in the other thread about CAF (is it out of spite?) would ever motivate anyone to read your sources and convert to your institution? I must tell you it has the totally opposite effect on me as it should for anyone who detests their own hardness of heart. For shame!Peace out.
As Fr Ambrogio has said, both my posts are simply exact repeats of a thread on conversion on the CAF. It was a very peaceful and popular thread and with many postings. Ask the CAF Mods if they would restore it for viewing.You mention "sheep stealing/proselytizing." In the three instances I mention there was nothing of the sort going on. Fr Lev Gillet was a highly intelligent and urbane man and he made his own decisions. The two Saints also were not proselytized - in the case of Saint Anthony the Roman it was God Himself who did the "proselytizing" by ferrying the Saint on a rock from Italy to Russia. Can't argue with that level of divine intervention! Do you really think it is useful to refer to your other lung as an "institution"?
Dear JA,on the now-exterminated CAF Eastern Christianity forum, Father Ambrose posted just about the same messages that you decry on this forum. They were part of a series of factual stories of people who converted from Catholicism to Orthodoxy AND VICE-VERSA. They were not motivated to bring forth conversion to any "institution" (what a charming choice of words...), but simply to enlighten the readers about the dynamics and motivations of personal conversion stories. It looks like the former moderators had no problems in hosting the stories, which created surprisingly few flames... on a Catholic forum. Why should they "encourage rivalry" when posted in the Convert Issues section of an Orthodox forum... is something that surpasses even my best powers of cogitation.Yours in Christ,hieromonk AmbrogioTurin, ItalyIt looks like the
As far as the word institution, take no offence please. I think Jesus instituted our churches thus making them institutions of religion. I began using the word during my social work training. I never encountered any offense to its use until I encountered Orthodox Christians who seem to despise the word for some reason. (...)
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Dear Padre, I didn't notice it was in the Convert Issues thread. My bad. Yet if no rivalry is really intended then whats the point in posting it in the first place? Its not an issue for anyone is it?Please take no offense at my choice of words. I explained already in my reply to Fr. A.
*I have to lay the guilt on Fr Ambrogio. He suggested in the CAF thread that we could have a thread on converts and I obliged him by starting this one.
A convert monk about whom I know very little - Father David of Dervent monastery near Calarasi.
A convert monk about whom I know very little - Father David of Dervent monastery near Calarasi."At Pentecost 1993 my dearest wish - one that I had cherished for some 15 years or more - was finally granted. On that day, in a monastery of the Holy Mountain (Athos) I was received into the Orthodox Communion. And doubtless it will seem odd to many readers that for a long time, when any of my kind Greek and Romanian friends asked what induced me to secede from the Church of Rome, in which I had been a hieromonk (priest-monk) for some 22 years, I was at a loss to know how to satisfy their quite natural - and for me, flattering - curiosity......"Full article athttp://www.vivid.ro/vivid64/pages/diary64.htmorhttp://tinyurl.com/29hxgm
I plead guilty! And I suppose I know what the punishment will be... a lifetime of confinement at my PC, working hard to compile an endless ecyclopedical dictionary of conversion stories...
Does this mean he had to reject the development of doctrine since the schism?
Does this mean he had to reject the development invention of doctrine since the schism?
I think you got that wrong. This looks better.
Looks better to those wanting rivalry perhaps. I do not.Flames aren't answers. I asked a serious question and expected a serious answer from someone who might know.
It wasn't a serious question; it was a loaded one. By asking whether he had to reject the "development of doctrine" is nothing more than a veiled way of asking "Did he have to reject the fact Rome was right?" Do you really expect us to take such a question seriously?
What may seem loaded to you is serious to me. I implyed nothing. Your assumptions are running away with you.
The question still stands. If anyone can answer that is.
You ought reexamine that conclusion. Your entire question is predicated upon the Latin assumption that doctrine has indeed developed after Rome separated from the Church. By taking that assumption as a given, you are implying that it Rome is right.
Thus, the question does not stand, as it assumes a falsehood as its main line of reasoning.
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*He says that he was received on Mount Athos and that makes it 99.9% certain that he was received by Baptism. This fact speaks volumes about what he rejected, especially as he had been a Roman Catholic priest and monk for 22 years. In other words he was very aware of what he was doing and what he was rejecting and what he was accepting theologically.
Thanks Father.I must say it pangs me to ponder that anyone would suspect my baptism as invalid because of any disagreement they had with my church that is also undeniably apostolic.Is everyone else doomed?Peace.
I must say it pangs me to ponder that anyone would suspect my baptism as invalid because of any disagreement they had with my church that is also undeniably apostolic.Is everyone else doomed?
In answer to your "question": he had to renounce all doctrines developed since circa 33.
Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
We couldn't care less that Rome thinks we're schismatic, and the Protestants think we're pagan.
*In the great compassion of God of which we understand not even a small fraction nobody is doomed except those who doom themselves.Our Saviour tells us that we cannot be saved without faith in Him.He tells us that we cannot be saved unless we have been baptized and received the Spirit.Our Saviour also tells us that we cannot be saved unless we "eat His flesh and drink His blood." This would damn Anglicans and all other Christians and indeed almost all the human race.And yet Saint Paul, inspired by God, tell us in Romans 2 how people will be saved, without Baptism and without Holy Communion.So we have, from the words of Christ Himself:No faith = no salvationNo Baptism = no salvationNo Communion = no salvationand yet Salvation *is* possible without Baptism and Communion according to the inspired Scriptures.The Church has never resolved this paradox. We are able to live with it and trust in the mercy of God who "wills all men to be saved."
Touche. We don't believe in "development" of doctrine in the Roman Catholic sense of the term. The Orthodox will use this terminology on occasion, but what we really mean when we do is further definition of doctrine, and we believe that further defintion should happen only when absolutely necessary. We believe that the revelations that shone forth from the emply tomb and at Pentecost have remained unchanged through the ages. For us, there can be no question of a kind of growth or change of doctrine.
Why do you care? If you really cared what the Orthodox Catholic Church believed, you'd embrace Orthodoxy.We couldn't care less that Rome thinks we're schismatic, and the Protestants think we're pagan.In answer to your "question": he had to renounce all doctrines developed since circa 33.
For the same reason I care if Jack Chick insults me or the Lord Jesus Himself. In your reasoning I should join him? That is utterly ridiculous.
I must say it pangs me to ponder that anyone would suspect my baptism as invalid because of any disagreement they had with my church that is also undeniably apostolic.
I don't think Rome thinks your schismatic at all. Are you?
Lastly in all fairness is that last statement really true? Are you now saying that the first 7 councils are not infallible either?
So should we be following Mosaic law (Judaizers),
think Christ is not also true man (Arianism),
that His natures are somehow divided (Nestorianism),
that Jesus had no true Human nature (Monophysitism),
that Christ did not possess a human will (Monothelism)
You see these are just some of the things defined before the Council of Nicea II in 787.
If the Orthodox hadn't been practicing the development of doctrine with the guidance of the Holy Spirit as Christ promised then Arian or Nestorian would have done it for us.
I agree its ideal to hold fast to the revelation of Christ. By development of doctrine we do exactly that. We are prompted by the Holy Spirit who Christ promised to lead us into all truth are we not? Are we to ignore Him? Hardly. If your Church was such a minimalists as you portrait it to be then why even bother to have a Bishop or a synod? There is no great lack of Pomp in your Church either. IMHO The only reason you balk at development of doctrine at all is because you fear your not lead by the Holy Spirit since the schism.
I don't use this lack of participation to admonish because I genuinely believe the Orthodox Church is also led by the Spirit by virtue of its apostolic lineage. The real tragedy is that Andrew and Peter got separated in the world and have yet to reunite.
Neither do I point fingers at the cause. Whats the point in it that? Both sides own part of that responsibility. Pointing fingers is juvenile and immature. Is that what this forum is to become? A place where true hearts can be revealed?
If one objectively reads, without imposing modern theological understandings, second and third century fathers one will see a great diversity in theological opinions. One sees 'Arianism', 'Sabellianism', 'Monophysitism', etc. This whole theory of a perfect modern theology as of 33 A.D. is nice and all, don't get me wrong, but what academically credible evidence do you have to support such a conclusion?
I don't know. Does Jack Chick's insults pang you?
Insulting the Lord Jesus Himself is a slightly different matter, i.e. blasphemy.
They just commented on what was said before. The heretics just didn't get it.
The word is degeneration, not development, of doctrine.
I have no such fear. Every service we have begins with the invocation of the Spirit to "....come and abide in us...." And since we're not is schism, we're not the ones to worry.
Andrew and Peter are separated? Last I heard Bartholomew and Ignatius were still in communion. I've have to check the diptychs this morning.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Just ask the monk.
The are infallible as they repeat what had already been said.
Your postulating a "perfect modern theology" undermines your question.
Not any more.Agreed yet I can see all sin as insulting the Lord.and they still don't. Who are councils for anyway. To tell the heretics what they should know or the faithful the difference?See above line.Thats odd. Seems you have ended conciliarity as much as we have.Clever but unproductive.I'd love to. He seems to be autonomous and unreachable. Maybe we can meet in heaven. Peace.
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Since I wrote many of the Board approved policies the Board operates under, I have a thorough knowledge of the reasons behind them, specifically the reasoning behind a Board Chair only serving two terms. In addition, according to the Board President Policy, the Board Chair is to "build cohesion among the leadership team" and "plan for Board leadership succession," neither of which it appears Ms. Van Der Ploeg has done. This policy also states the expectation of the Board President is to "set a high standard for Board conduct." Have you done this Ms. Van Der Ploeg? Lastly, one of the qualifications stated for the Board President in this Policy is to be "respected by Board members, the CEO and key stakeholders." Are you respected by the Board members and key stakeholders Ms. Van Der Ploeg?
I agree with the excellent recommendations articulated clearly by Nancy Almond in her letter to the community published last month and cannot understand why Ms. Van Der Ploeg does not have the decency to resign from the Board. It is disappointing to see other Board members support her, and not abide by the wishes of many in your community to lead by example and make the quality of patient care the most important matter at the Medical Center, and not the protection of their tenure on the Board of Directors. Mediation will not help this Board if they are determined to bypass procedures and act outside their legal authority. Like the old saying goes, "a light bulb has to want to change" and this Board does not appear to want to change!
The physicians in Estes Park are the most qualified and competent group of practitioners I worked with in my 40 years in healthcare leadership positions. Your new Medical Center CEO, Mr. Larry Lemming, is a truly competent and personable professional and is an excellent person to lead EPMC into the future.
I am willing to assist in your efforts so please feel free to contact me if you believe I can help the community get the Board of Directors you deserve for your Medical Center. The current Board, and certainly Ms. Van Der Ploeg, should do what is right for the community, not strive to retain the power they abuse. Thank you very much.
Robert Austin
Former EPMC CEO
In support of hospital board
We, the undersigned, are voting members in the EPMC hospital district and/or residents. We are in full support of our hospital and the Board of Directors, specifically Diana Van Der Ploeg, Chuck Levine and Ryan White. For the last four years this Board has been a highly functioning and successful Board, so what has suddenly changed?
• We feel that a couple of the newer board members have demonstrated a profound disregard for the fiduciary and confidential responsibilities of their position, particularly in light of the importance of the medical center to the community, hospital work force and patients.
• We feel that the group opposed to the members mentioned above, the ones asking for a recall, have been misled in information given to them. We feel confident in the integrity of the three board members listed above. We know them to be honest, caring people with nothing but the hospital's best interests at heart. Accusations made against them are unfounded, especially with regard to their motivations in supporting the CEO in the firing of a former employee.
We consider that the proposed recall will further deepen the divisions in the community. The board members are pursuing mediation so that this issue can be resolved.
Let our hospital get on with its business of caring for its patients. Let our new CEO get acquainted with the best side of Estes Park. And certainly, let our Board members do what we elected them to do.
Suzanne and Alan Miller, Maryann Karinch, Marcia Taylor, Susie Manhoff, Marilyn Bradley, Lee Kennicke, Nancy Hills, Cathy Schneider, Bruce W and Sarah J Davies, Teresa Thaxton, Gail and Richard Merriman, Anne Morris, Judith A Hemberger, Dr. Dianna Hulbert, Kim Miller, Robert Cunningham, John and Jan Gelhausen, Kathy Levine, Marilyn Saunders, Joie Willuweit, Roland Cabanilla, Sandra Cole, Michelle and George Hurni, Judy Harrington, Ann Schonlau, Betsy Bayer, Edith De Lay, Paul LeBlanc, Rev LaRoy and Mary Seaver, Graham and Sunniva Russell, Phil and Deborah K Edwards, Merilyn and Fred Johnston, Walt and Nancy Kaesler, Dewain and Katharine Lockwood, Dr. S. Coleman, John Krueger, Virginia Deal, Rev. Dr. Carolyn Wills and Rev. Kenneth Wills
In support of Karen Nicholson
I have lived in Estes Park for more than 42 years and seen so many changes.
In those years I have not written many letters to the Editor, but feel this to be important.
I have been a patient at EPMC for having one of my daughters, knee surgeries and emergencies. I have had the best care from staff, nurses and doctors.
I met Karen Nicholson and have known her a long time professionally and personally. Karen and her family have been a part of this community much longer than our family and are a part of the roots of Estes Park.
Karen has a heart and foresight to make EPMC and community stronger.
As she connects the town together with her sense of unity, openness, kindness and professional. I remember her many times mediating between people to make peace and seeing the good in people. Never once did I hear her say anything negative about another person.
Again, how often do we have the gift of someone so qualified, yet personally care so much about her hometown... I will always vote for her.
Dawn Normali
Estes Park
Hurt by comments at meeting
In any community the character of those in leadership positions is vital to the livelihood of organizations and stakeholders.
The leadership of Visit Estes Park has been suspect for quite some time now, but recent events are more obviously exposing what many already know. During the public comment portion of the Feb. 21 Visit Estes Park board meeting, I was subject to a direct and personal attack orchestrated by Visit Estes Park CEO Elizabeth Fogarty and board chair Steve Kruger. Public comment, a time intended for the public to comment about the organization, was comprised entirely of personal attacks directed explicitly at me.
The event nearly followed a script, with the board chair initiating the attacks by directing the order of public comment, something never before done in a board meeting. Several individuals read pre-written statements, statements often so confused and twisted that it was clear they didn't understand the situation nor invest in seeking the truth.
I was told when to give my comments and proceeded to share my well intentioned concerns about the organization. Immediately following my statements, several terrified staff who had gathered delivered a pre-written statement that made little sense considering the background of the situation, the statement sounded like it came directly from Fogarty. It was devoid of any emotion, support for Fogarty, or affirmations about their work environment. Public comment ended with Kruger, inappropriately interjecting a pre-written statement attacking me when board comments were clearly over. His behavior was disrespectful to me, the rest of the board, and his position.
There is no doubt that this was a carefully planned attack against me by Fogarty to try to bury the information I have uncovered about her and her treatment of people. Fogarty and Kruger did hurt me and I was sad about what happened, but that won't distract me from my desire to improve Visit Estes Park and future attacks will carry little significance.
It should be known that I have combined every criticism about Visit Estes Park with constructive feedback. I've attempted to engage with VEP with good intentions, but have been met with either silence or resistance. All of my previous comments and criticisms are part of the public record and I will share them openly with anyone who asks. I didn't deserve to be treated the way I was, my mission has been to protect people from the exact behavior Fogarty initiated towards me.
Michelle Hiland
Estes Park
Appreciative for act of kindness
We have persons in our Estes Park community willing to do acts of kindness to others whom they don't know! Thank you to the man unknown to me who helped me in the Safeway parking lot Friday, Feb. 17. As I drove into the lot, the clips attaching a front shield to the bumper of our silver Prius gave way, and that shield was about to be lost.
As I parked, a stranger who had observed this happening was right there to assist. He secured the shield back below the bumper using a thin chain that he just happened to have in his car. He was shorter than average and spoke broken English, but he demonstrated that kindness and helpfulness does not require command of the majority language!
Mary F. Seaver
Estes Park
Praise for Rashid article
I was thrilled to read the recent article by Scott Rashid on Great Horned Owls ("Great Horned Owls will begin nesting soon in Estes Valley;" Feb. 15). It was extremely informative, and while I was saddened to read about what went wrong between owls and people during previous seasons, at least we all now know what not to do.
Birds and other wildlife are one of our region's greatest treasures. I'd love to see weekly articles by Rashid. He's an excellent writer and one of the top avian experts in the state. Please bring us more articles like this.
Lisa Hutchins
Estes Park
In response immigration articles
My grandfather Albert Joseph Bialek came to the United States from Poland (Galicia) in 1910. Per the Ellis Island website he boarded the ship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse in Bremen, Germany (formerly Prussia). He had just completed his service in the Austrian Army.
Poland at that time was divided into three spheres of influence by Austria, Prussia and Russia. Upon being discharged he returned to his father's farm. Officers from the Austrian Army made an attempt to reenlist him but tradition dictated that he could remain at home so long as he was sorely needed on the farm.
Immediately after the officers departed Albert's father gave him his brother's travel documents and instructed him to immigrate to the United States. His father knew that war was coming and he didn't want to lose his son to it. It took me longer to locate my grandfather on the passenger list because I had forgotten he was traveling under the name Jan and not Albert. Given the fact that Albert entered the United States under the name Jan Bialek and later burned his immigration papers it is evident he was by definition an "illegal immigrant." He went on to become a very hard-working brick mason and law-abiding citizen raising 12 children with the help of his Polish wife Mary (nee Mazan) and the rest (as they say) is history.
Just as Cleveland, Ohio is a city of neighborhoods so is the United States a country of immigrants. In fact all the major cities of America (at one time) served as incubators for immigrants to not only become accustomed to the ways of this country but also to intermingle with each other (often prohibited in their native homeland).
It's a shame that the inner cities were handed over to the absentee landlords following World War II. Just imagine how much stronger and united our country might have been had this unofficial tradition continued. Gentrification is not the answer. Preventing immigration is not the solution. Intense vetting is acceptable during these challenging times but to unfairly deny one person access to the United States makes us all orphans again. As a popular song goes: "let me in immigration man."
Editor's Note: This letter was submitted by an online reader.
Joe Bialek
Cleveland, Ohio


text: Many say there is a going to be a false flag event at the Olympics in London. Given the so called "planning" fiasco, and the military "security", anything could happen. This video link on You Tube has to do with a possible dirty bomb (nuclear or biological): To see the video click here


text: I've been going to the con every year since the tigatron/arcee year (01?) and every year I picked up a couple extras of all the exclsuives, and i'm considering letting some of them go...I did a little ebay checking and the few auctions i could find were just retardedly high "bin" auctions...i'm curious to the average going rate for some of the exclusives that I might be willing to get rid of, all are misb in c8-c9 shape. any ideas on what I could expect from these? tigatron misb (x9 ravage repaint) arcee (tm2 ba repaint) with sound chip sideburn repaints of lame girlbots sideswipe (rid prowl repaint) cyclonis (rid jetstorm repaint) catscan (night slash cheetor repaint) shattered glass megatron +gotee hotrod (sealed in bag with a minicon) richochet (shitty cybertron repaint guy 2008) a red/orange energon arcee repaint (flame war I think?) a blue/white energon arcee repaint (chromia?) ramjet (cybertron screamer legend repaint) in baggie (was a hasbro giveaway) also a couple of the skywarp/magnus target exclsuives misb too. I did see an active auction for cyclonis for about 60$ the rest seem pretty unavailable.


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FC: Cooler Than Cool: Life and Times of Maliha
1: My old class at the business college
2: My favourite Unite guy :D
3: Me with the dancing team that I was helping in the compettion "Hips open 2008"... we lost :(
4: Left:Me with singer Christian Broens Right: Me with guitar player Kaare
5: Me having fun with the camera | New years eve 2007 | Party pictures!
6: New years eve 2007
8: Me with Nicolai - he is a famouse children singer here in Denmark and I'm BIG fan and even more now that I was lucky to meet him on Copenhagen main train station :D
9: Me performing a hiphop dance | Me and friends with Bryan Rice and his guitarplayer Theis
10: This is me with my group at Hips Open 2007. Hips is my dancing school. | I came in as number 4 in the A row, which is ok... I was sick that day and we where only 4 who was competting about the A row.. soo.. I'm just glad to know that I'm able to dance in the A row :D Next november will be better :D
11: Here have we received our diploms and we came in - very proud of our selve - at a 2. place in the Champion row at Hips Open 2007 :D I'm SO proud :D


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Individual Author Record
General Information
Name: John D`EmilioPen Name: None Genre: Audience: Adult; Born: 1948 in Bronx, New York
-- John D`Emilio on WorldCat -- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=john++d%60emilio
Illinois ConnectionD'Emilio is a professor of history and of women's and gender studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Biographical and Professional InformationD'Emilio is one of the leading and best-known scholars in the area of GLBT studies. Many scholars consider him to be one of the founders of GLBT studies. In addition to being a scholar, he is a social activist who has dedicated a considerable amount of time to various activities helping both GLBT and mainstream social causes. D'Emilio is a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago where his teaching centers on US history and gender studies.
Published Works
- Creating Change: Sexuality, Public Policy and Civil Rights, St. Martin's Press, 2000
- Intimate Matters, A History of Sexuality in America, Harper, 1988 - written with Estelle Freedman
- Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, Free Press, 2003
- Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University, Rutledge, 1992
- Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, University of Chicago Press, 1983 - 2nd edition, with a new preface and afterward, 1998
- The Civil Rights' Struggle: Leaders in Profile , Facts on File, 1979
- The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics and Culture, Duke University Press, 2002
Titles At Your Library
Civil Rights Struggle: Leaders in Profile
ISBN: 0871964600 TBS The Book Service Ltd. 1980 Book by D'Emilio, John
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: Second Edition
ISBN: 0226142671 University of Chicago Press. 1998
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970. John D'Emilio's new preface and afterword examine the conditions that shaped the book and the growth of gay and lesbian historical literature.
"How many students of American political culture know that during the McCarthy era more people lost their jobs for being alleged homosexuals than for being Communists? . . . These facts are part of the heretofore obscure history of homosexuality in America—a history that John D'Emilio thoroughly documents in this important book."—George DeStefano, Nation
"John D'Emilio provides homosexual political struggles with something that every movement requires—a sympathetic history rendered in a dispassionate voice."—New York Times Book Review
"A milestone in the history of the American gay movement."—Rudy Kikel, Boston Globe
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
ISBN: 0226142647 University Of Chicago Press. 1998
The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has dramatically influenced politics and culture throughout our history.
"The book John D'Emilio co-wrote with Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters, was cited by Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy when, writing for a majority of court on July 26, he and his colleagues struck down a Texas law criminalizing sodomy. The decision was widely hailed as a victory for gay rights—and it derived in part, according to Kennedy's written comments, from the information he gleaned from D'Emilio's book, which traces the history of American perspectives on sexual relationships from the nation's founding through the present day. The justice mentioned Intimate Matters specifically in the court's decision."—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"Fascinating. . . . [D'Emilio and Freedman] marshall their material to chart a gradual but decisive shift in the way Americans have understood sex and its meaning in their lives." —Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book Review
"With comprehensiveness and care . . . D'Emilio and Freedman have surveyed the sexual patterns for an entire nation across four centuries." —Martin Bauml Duberman, Nation
"Intimate Matters is comprehensive, meticulous and intelligent." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"This book is remarkable. . . . [Intimate Matters] is bound to become the definitive survey of American sexual history for years to come." —Roy Porter, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture
ISBN: 0822329468 Duke Univ Pr (Tx). 2003
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
ISBN: 0226142698 University of Chicago Press. 2004
One of the most important figures of the American civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. the methods of Gandhi, spearheaded the 1963 March on Washington, and helped bring the struggle of African Americans to the forefront of a nation's consciousness. But despite his incontrovertibly integral role in the movement, the openly gay Rustin is not the household name that many of his activist contemporaries are. In exploring history's Lost Prophet, acclaimed historian John D'Emilio explains why Rustin's influence was minimized by his peers and why his brilliant strategies were not followed, or were followed by those he never meant to help.


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Sometimes closure arrives years later. Long after you stopped searching for it. You're just sitting there, laughing this laugh that is unapologetically yours. As it trails off, the corners of your mouth hugs your face and it hits you, "I'm happy". It's just like that. With no fanfare or epiphany. Suddenly you are grateful for goodbyes that carried you to this moment; to the space you are now holding.
Though I understand why we get stuck sometimes. Hearts are stubborn. They sink their hooks into bad habits that look like people and dreams. But look at how much we give of ourselves. Our most precious gifts handed over to another who may, or may not value them as much as we do. Have you ever heard someone fall asleep? Or watched someone break down? There's so few people in this world that you can share breakfast at midnight with, or that can completely forgive you. The people that get you to believe it's actually all worth it, and don't flinch when you look them in the eyes, never waver, and make a bed more comfortable. So when you find them, you, in a way, find yourself. And when you lose them, you, in a way, lose yourself. But know this: you will always be too much for anyone not enough. Somewhere out there is someone who'll bring pieces of you home. And you'll realize that losing everything is the only way to figure out what's worth finding.
Because love isn't easy and problem free. Everyone has a difficult past and scars in their heart. Just like how love is as beautiful as the sunrise, it is also as painful as the sunset.


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Southside coach Jeff Williams feels his team learned a lot during the Rebels' brutal nonconference stretch.
Southside coach Jeff Williams feels his team learned a lot during the Rebels' brutal nonconference stretch.
Southside (2-1) travels to Little Rock's War Memorial Stadium to face Little Rock Parkview (1-2) in the 7A/6A-Central opener tonight. It will kick off a long stretch of road games, including three of the next four in Little Rock.
It's just the fifth time the schools have met. The Rebels won 45-6 last year.
"We respect all of our opponents," Williams said. "We focus on the Southside Rebels; that is what we can control. We want to take care of the ball, tackle and block. We focus on getting better every play."
The Rebels have yet to put a complete four quarters together, although the team's tough nonconference stretch against teams that are a combined 6-3 had a little to do with that.
Southside is averaging 24 points in the first half of its first three games, but has scored just one second-half TD in the past two games.
Quarterback Isaac Jackson (6-foot-3, 210 pounds) has accounted for 754 yards of total offense. He has thrown for 542 yards and five scores. He is averaging 7.1 yards per rushing attempt and can be dangerous when he gets into open space.
The Rebels' two feature backs, Quincy Whitfield (5-10, 190) and D'erek Fernandez (5-10, 170) have combined for six rushing touchdowns and both are averaging 5.8 yards per carry.
Parkview tailback Cameron Parker (5-7, 160) ran for 192 yards and two touchdowns in the Patriots' 20-6 win against winless Mountain Home last week. Senior quarterback Lawrence Berry (5-10, 170) runs the Patriots' offense.
"Parkview presents a team with a lot speed," Williams said. "Coach (William) Hardiman has done a great job at Parkview, they are well-coached. We must do a great job on defense of recognizing formation and tackle well in space. Offensively, we must win the battle up front and take care of the ball, and execute in all areas."
Southside racked up 418 yards of total offense last week against Har-Ber, but fizzled four times inside the Wildcats' 25. The Rebels also committed six second-half penalties, including two on third down and two on fourth down that led to Har-Ber scoring drives.
"It is very important playing great on first down, then also playing smart situational football on third down," Williams said. "Our defense has stepped up in critical situations and come up with some three-and-outs, which has given our offense a chance to score."
Parkview defensive lineman Kenyon Jackson (5-10, 220) is the son of former Patriot and Razorbacks radio color analyst Keith Jackson.
Defensively, Southside linebackers Collin Moore (5-10, 180) leads the team with 45 tackles. Linebacker Ian Jackson (6-o, 210) has 35 stops. Two more linebackers, Seth Acosta (5-7, 150) and Kaleb Chaires (5-11, 180) have three tackles for loss.


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Here you sit waiting again. There has always been a good deal of waiting, but isn't that the life of an adventurer. At least this time you aren't alone, a small group of you sit in a waiting room. In talking with the others you find your story is similar, each of you were approached yesterday by a small man wearing a robe of swirling colors. None of you recall exactly the color of the robes, just that they were of many different colors that seemed to move. He told you that the kingdom was in need of someone with your abilities. Others in the group found this odd as they had only just came to this world in the last few days, how did he know what abilities they had at all?
Your companions in the room, you've seen their type before. A few burly well armored individuals [all of their weapons were detained when they entered the castle], a couple of folks in cloaks [one or two looking especially shifty], and a few with the outward trappings of the devout. Having been around the block a few times you can tell that the others carry the items and wear the armor of no beginners. These are seasoned professionals.
A guard enters the chamber interrupting the conversation. He informs you that the king will now see you. Very kind of him, he only made you want two hours. Ah well thus is the way with royalty no matter where you go.
You are all led into a large room with a 'U' shaped table; a throne sits in the center top of the 'U'. You are instructed to take a seat at the table. There is another entrance to the side; at each door are posted four guards and a pair of clerics by the looks of them. Sitting on the throne is King Brunston Gelzar surrounded by military and mystic advisors.
One of the clerics steps before the group and says "we want to cast a geas on all of you that will prohibit you from repeating or revealing what you are about to hear. If you will not willingly submit to this you are asked to leave. Attempting to resist will only cause you pain, and some embarrassment." Amid some grumbling a few in the group rise from their seat and leave the room. After a few moments of awkward silence two clerics begin chanting, the spell leaves you with a slight tingling feeling down the back of you neck. You notice one in the group start to convulse, thrash in his seat, finally pass out and fall to the floor. Two guards bustle him out of the room. At the conclusion of the chant the casters look around satisfied, then turn and give the king a nod.
King Gelzar steeples his fingers in front of him, then gazes toward the ceiling. He turns to one of the wizards at his side and says "you are sure?" To which the very wizened old woman responds "Yes my lord, we are positive. Two of my best have perished confirming our findings. There is no question of if, but only when. I have served you, your father, your grandfather, and your great grandfather King Gelzar, my council to you is good."
The king rises, clears his throat and begins what looks like a difficult admission. "I apologize for questioning you Madam Spanzolt, your council has always been true." He turns from the wizard and looks at the lot of you. "We need your help. Yes… We'll start with that. We need your help and that is why you are here. These learned mages have spent these last few months gathering proof of our peril. All of you were brought here because of the great powers and abilities you possess. Hopefully you have enough in you to complete the tasks I have for you. In short I need you to help save our kingdom, maybe even our world."
He pauses here amid the stunned looks of many around the table. King Brunston Gelzar had long ago earned the moniker "Brunston the Blunt" for his straight shooting approach to answering questions. He is king not only by birth but by merit at war. He has never felt the need to mince the facts to make anyone else feel good about them. Many of his subjects love this about him; they have always known where they stand. So this admission by the king would not be interpreted, by anyone in this kingdom, as fluff or hyperbole.
King Gelzar paused a moment to let the information sink in, looking at the wizard another time and receiving another nod. "My most senior and powerful wizards," he makes a sweeping motion with his hand to indicate the wizards behind him, "have determined that our world is quickly approaching the sun. They have determined that we have five years before our world can no longer support humanoid life."
He waits for a moment to let this last comment linger. "In short we need to find a new home, a new world. The peasants know nothing of this; they think that the warmer temperatures are the work of some foul god. The druids…. Well the druids think that we humans are the cause of the warmer temperature and are only just recently coming to read the signs in nature that our days on this planet are nearly at an end. My wizards have been scrying and researching new planets and worlds that we might 'colonize', but we do not have the time to recon them all while also constructing enough gates to transport our people and possibly those of other kingdoms, materials goods, tools, weapons, food and supplies from this world to the next. This is why I need you. I, or should I say, we need you to travel to other worlds and determine if they have the potential to not only support our kingdoms population, but if we have sufficient armies to establish a secure homeland in short order. My commanders have more details about the information we need to collect, but I ask you now: "
"Will you help save our world?"
Thus will begin your epic adventures…


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Watch the quickest ways to transform your bathroom from drab to fab. These easy changes are impactful to the eye, but not on the wallet, proving that a decorating a bathroom can be done well for less.
Take a small bathroom from drab to fab with these easy ideas. If you can't replace your tub, just replace the shower head for a better showering experience. Brighten your bathroom with a new light fixture. Dated fixtures can tire a bathroom but are easy and affordable to update. Hang a shelving unit above the toilet for extra storage. For extra style, line the back with pretty paper. Less square footage means you don't need to buy as much flooring. At $3 per square foot, the new flooring in this 5 x 6 ft bath cost $62. Even replacing a plain shower curtain for a colorful model will do wonders to revive a tired bathroom.


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Developments in Clarksville (TN) Access Settlement
Three and a half years ago, three advocates with the nonprofit group "Wheel Me On" filed a class action lawsuit against the town, claiming that its failure to provide accessible facilities and services violated their rights under Title II of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.
The suit was settled in January 2004 in favor of the plaintiffs, Julia Hollenbeck, Steve Traylor and Margaret Auld. However, a final agreement, known as a "consent decree", still has not been hammered out between the city and the advocacy organization.
Earlier this week, the advocates met with city officials to review the latest proposal.
While most of the elements of the proposal were agreeable to both sides, two issues remained unresolved, Wheel Me On's CEO Julia Hollenbeck told Inclusion Daily Express by telephone.
The first has to do with sidewalks, curb ramps and crosswalks on two of the busiest roads through Clarksville: U.S. Highway 79, known within the city as Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, and U.S. Highway 41.
Hollenbeck said that city officials had refused to include these routes because they are maintained by the state of Tennessee. The plaintiffs said that was not good enough, and demanded that the city put language in the agreement stating that they either will make those routes safe and accessible, or have the state do it.
The second provision that had yet to be negotiated had to do with there being continuous sidewalk coverage across the city's streets.


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Gig Review: Rod Picott at Twickfolk, Twickenham
'Folk music is to be endured not enjoyed!' Rod Picott quoted the late Bill Morrissey's words with a wry smile during the last night of his current UK tour at the Cabbage Patch. But enjoyment clearly won out as two of the finest of today's Nashville singer-songwriters performed a wide-ranging mix of their own material and occasional covers to a warm and receptive audience.
Support act Jon Byrd performed six self-penned songs from his two solo album releases to date, and concluded with a soulful rendition of the Dan Penn classic 'Dark End of the Street'. His lived-in voice and intricate guitar picking are reminiscent in places of the likes of Jim Stafford and Joe South. Although a Nashville resident these days, Byrd's roots are in Alabama. His music is enriched by this part of his heritage and he performs his songs with humour, skill and sincerity.
Both performers paid tribute to their families and in particular their fathers. Byrd's musical formative years were based on his father's love of Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams and his own exposure to the Beatles via the Ed Sullivan shows in 1964. Picott's parental positioning brought him Sousa and Ray Charles while an elder brother treated him to Neil Young and the powerful punk poetry of Patti Smith and The Clash.
The Cabbage Patch audience were treated to 20 songs from Picott's ever-growing canon of songs taken from his world of work and acutely observed and poetically drawn interpersonal relationships. Picott's latest album, Welding Burns, contains two revealing tributes to his father, a welder and ex-Marine, and he began his set with the powerful title track that bears the chorus: Some things you're born to, some things you've gotta learn. Broken homes, wrecked cars, scars and welding burns.
While concentrating on material from the new album, Picott also dipped into his back catalogue, providing the audience with stellar versions of "Angels and Acrobats", "Circus Girl", "On and On" and "You're Gettin' To Me", a Fred Eaglesmith co-write with shades of Johnny Cash in both its lyrical content and performance style. Picott also played a sensitive version of what is perhaps his best known composition to date. Co-written with his long-standing friend and fellow musician, Slaid Cleaves, "Broke Down" won the Austin Music Awards song of the year in 2001.
Picott is well known for his wry storytelling between songs. He described how he and Cleaves met on his first day at school when they both stood out like sore thumbs compared with the local tough farm kids. Picott was wearing a purple trouser suit that his mother had dressed him in. Cleaves was loaded down with textbooks several years ahead of his grade. "We were clearly the school geeks and before long we were also best friends."
Picott confided to his audience that he had woken with a sore throat a day or two earlier. He quipped that with his regular rough-edged vocals, his performances were scarcely any different than usual. This was certainly true in that Picott didn't falter once.
Picott's second tribute to his dad on Welding Burns is the touching "My Father's Tattoo". He prefaced this with a revealing description of his father both as a 16-year-old lying his way into the US Marines and as a septuagenarian feeding chickadees in the raw cold of a February in Maine, shirtless and cursing softly at the little birds picking seed from his outstretched hand.
As a fitting encore, he invited Byrd back to join him on a rousing audience-fuelled version of the old Hank Williams classic "Mind Your Own Business". The loud applause that greeted the two alt-country songsmiths was enough to ensure that, in terms of their musical fortunes, their businesses could only benefit from being trumpeted as widely and loudly as possible.
Simon Beards
Great performer...caught him in Denmark in September. "Wry storytelling" is perfect for his act/style. Awesome.


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Operational Due Diligence started with the need to support our equity firm partners during the recent difficult sellers market. There is need to understand the current capabilities of the potential acquisition and the improvement that can be driven over a specific time period. The Operational Due Diligence allowed the equity partners to justify the investment and be much more aggressive when looking at current and future values.
Our Operational Due Diligence package included multiple days on-site spending time evaluating the financial current condition along with developing a clear financial target condition. This is based on as much information that can be uncovered through balanced approach of spending time directly on the shop floor to understand efficiencies, spending time with the leadership team to understand the strategies, and analyzing the current financials. Each area is necessary to bring together a cohesive story and tactical plan to drive more value within the company.
Every due diligence package has a detailed breakdown of the key areas of opportunities and the relevant financial impact they provide to the overall strategy. Each due diligence package will be uniquely created based on the request of the purchaser and the make up of the company being evaluated.
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This is where we uncover the important information needed to properly evaluate from an operational perspective. We will spend time in each needed area of the company to find what is holding the company back from achieving success in terms of performance, cost, lead time, quality, and customer service. Each are will have a tie back to the financial performance of the company.
With each due diligence package, we provide a plan to help you achieve the results that we have mapped out. Every investment doesn't have a clear plan of leadership and execution, so we provide you with an option of using us if you desire. There will be a clear ROI based on the predicted time necessary to achieve the overall results for the organization. This is provided as another data point for your investment decision.
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|What previous research tells us about Black-Latino relations
|Black-Latino relations in congressional testimony and the legal arena
|Salience and congruence in policy positions: Black-Latino advocacy groups and congressional scorecards
|Black-Latino relations in the U.S. House of Representatives
|The role of group interests and ideology in cross-group support
|Further explorations of Black-Latino relations and policies in natural politics
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I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.


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Dear Santa
1. A small bottle of Fresh Drop Smell Stop can get rid of nasty smells after a visit to the smallest room in the house, apparently. My passion for late night curries would cease to be a problem, if I had a bottle of this in my possession. In fact, 5 bottles would be ideal, in case the other members of my family have forgotten to add it to their list.
2. A Black Cat Tea Towel Holder sounds like a great idea. At last, a handy place to keep my tea towel! If only my own 3 cats would keep still for a minute, it wouldn't be necessary for me to add this to my list, of course.


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YPM catalog no. 8.2A
Brass, glass, copper, steel.
Made by Stackpole and Brother.
Length 9.5 inches (24 centimeters)
Width 7.9 inches (20 centimeters)
Height 14.5 inches (37 centimeters)
Among the holdings in Yale Peabody Museum's Division of Historical Scientific Instruments are instruments used in the teaching of engineering courses.
In 1852 W.A. Norton was elected the first professor of civil engineering at Yale University. In a letter to the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, Professor Norton proposed that the engineering course encompass the study of the following:
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