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 Pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Germany the word pride (Stolz) is often associated with the former Nazi regime, so this word is a taboo in some circles; as well, to have pride in one's country in Germany is not as natural as in other countries.
In Christianity, pride (or vanity or arrogance) is the essentially competitive and excessive belief in one's own abilities that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God, or the worth which God sees in others.
Hubris, or excessive pride, was usually the defining trait that lead to the tragic hero's tragic downfall according to Aristotle.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pride   (298 words)

  
 Gay pride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The gay pride or simply pride campaign of the gay rights movement has three main premises: that people should be proud of what they are, that sexual diversity is a gift, and that sexual orientation and gender identity are inherent and cannot be intentionally altered.
Within the gay community, some reject the notion of gay pride, perceiving therein an undue emphasis on sexual orientation and a lack of discretion and modesty to the detriment of either public morals or the cause of gay rights; they propose to soften strident activism in order to better integrate into the mainstream.
Symbols of gay pride include the rainbow flag and also of the pink and black triangles reclaimed from their past use.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gay_pride   (633 words)

  
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PRIDE’s work programs are designed to provide vocational training, to improve prison security, to reduce the cost of state government, and to promote the rehabilitation of the state inmates.
PRIDE Enterprises is supported by a strong partnership with the Florida Department of Corrections.
www.pride-enterprises.org   (161 words)

  
 Pride and Prejudice -- Jane Austen
Darcy's avowal to the Gardiners of mistaken Pride.
The origin of the phrase "Pride and Prejudice" is the fifth volume of Fanny Burney's 1782 novel
Elizabeth on Darcy's Pride and caprice as the cause of his interference.
www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/pridprej.html   (1583 words)

  
 Seven Deadly Sins - Pride
Pride and vanity refuse the truth about who we are and substitute illusions for reality.
Pride is about us, and we would love to retain our illusions by pointing to others, saying: "But they are very proud.
When we hear sermons about pride, or read this text, we may be tempted to think of all the people we know who really need to read it.
www.whitestonejournal.com /seven/pride.html   (749 words)

  
 Child Welfare League of America: Consultation and Training: Trieschman Center for Consultation & Training: PRIDE
The PRIDE program is designed to strengthen the quality of family foster care and adoption services by providing a standardized, consistent, structured framework for the competency-based recruitment, preparation, and selection of foster and adoptive parents, and for foster parent in-service training and ongoing professional development.
PRIDE Core, an in-service training program for new and experienced foster parents, addresses the competencies required of all foster parents, regardless of the child's condition or conduct.
PRIDE Preservice is a program for recruiting, preparing, assessing, and selecting prospective foster and adoptive parents.
www.cwla.org /programs/trieschman/pride.htm   (1534 words)

  
 Pride Houston
Pride Houston announced the Grand Marshals for the 2006 Pride Parade at a special event at Guava Lamp on Thursday, March 2.
Pride Houston is looking for individuals interested in performing throughout the nighttime Pride Parade in June.
Pride Houston is an energetic group of committed volunteers who meet year-round to develop, organize, coordinate and promote the Pride Parade and Festival and other annual events for our community.
www.pridehouston.org   (1151 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pride
The same judgment is to be rendered when pride has given rise to such temper of soul that in the pursuit of its object one is ready of anything, even mortal sin.
A less atrocious kind of pride is that which imples one to make much of oneself unduly and without sufficient warrant, without however any disposition to cast off the dominion of the Creator.
Vainglory, ambition, and presumption are commonly enumerated as the offspring vices of pride, because they are well adapted to serve its inordinate aims.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/12405a.htm   (449 words)

  
 FCS (Family & Children's Service): PRIDE
Teen PRIDE groups, for teens ages 13 to 18 years old, are held at the Lake Street Branch on Tuesdays from 5:00-7:00 and at Project Off streets, 41 N 12th Street (612-252-1200), on Mondays from 5:00–7:00 p.m.
PRIDE (from PRostitution to Independence, Dignity and Equality) is a nationally recognized and highly successful program to help women and teens get out, and stay out, of prostitution.
PRIDE recognizes that prostitution is neither a profession nor a victimless crime.
www.fcsmn.org /pride   (524 words)

  
 PriDE: PRImitive Database Environment - Welcome
PriDE can really claim to be a lightweight persistence manager, coming as a single library of less than 100k, without requiring XML and appropriate parser frameworks or other helper libraries beside the JDK.
PriDE gains its simplicity from a few important design decisions assuming an application architecture based on approved and widly recommended design patterns.
PriDE provides both crucial developer convenience as supposed by an O/R mapper, and an absolutely slim framework implementation which can actually be understood and maintained by its users if necessary.
pride.sourceforge.net   (535 words)

  
 The Sin of Pride
Pride is ruled by the celestial sign of the Sun.
What it is: Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God.
Medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas said of Pride "inordinate self-love is the cause of every sin (1,77)...
deadlysins.com /sins/pride.html   (183 words)

  
 Pride Toronto :: Welcome
Pride Week in Toronto is one of the largest Pride’s in the world, and one of the three largest Prides in North America.
Pride Week is the fun and fabulous arts and culture festival that happens each year in Toronto.
Pride Toronto has been in existence, in various forms, since the late 1970s and annually since 1981.
www.pridetoronto.com   (344 words)

  
 UIC Pride Online
Pride is the University of Illinois at Chicago's student GLBT organization.
If Pride sounds cool and you'd be interested in learning more or being active, please start by coming to one of our meetings and joining the pride-l listserv.
Our first session is going to be a very general QandA session that we're opening up to the UIC community to be answered by a panel of four Pride members and one very knowledgable OGLBTC employee.
www2.uic.edu /stud_orgs/pride   (324 words)

  
 Protected with Pride Home Page
The goal of PRIDE is to improve water quality in James City County by teaching residents about the importance of watershed protection while providing residents and neighborhoods with specific watershed restoration and protection tools.
PRIDE is the educational component of the County's water quality program.
PRIDE is proud to present helpful information to track the quality of neighborhood BMPs (Best Management Practices).
www.protectedwithpride.org   (279 words)

  
 Pride Northwest, Inc. - Portland, OR
Planning is underway for the 2006 Pride Parade and Festival, to be held on June 17th and 18th, and we want your input.
The Pride festival will be held on Saturday and Sunday, June 17th-18th, 2006 at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland, OR.
Board and committee members are needed now to help plan Pride 2006.
www.pridenw.org   (308 words)

  
 Pride Community Gay.com UK
Pride organisers are calling for more help to fight international discrimination.
Manchester Pride saw soldiers marching for the first time this year, as well as National Front protests and the usual celebrations.
Thaw out at Brighton's Winter Pride - and help preserve the main event in the summer.
uk.gay.com /channel/community/pride   (143 words)

  
 PRIDE — the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender student group at Rice University
PRIDE — the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender student group at Rice University
www.ruf.rice.edu /~pride   (12 words)

  
 Program for Research Integrity Development & Education (PRIDE)
PRIDE is responsible for all policy development and guidance, and all training and education in human research protection throughout the VA.
PRIDE's Vision is to make VA human research the safest in the world.
The Program for Research Integrity Development & Education (PRIDE) is a new VA office whose mission is to protect participants in VA human research.
www1.va.gov /resdev/programs/pride/default.cfm   (244 words)

  
 PRIDE - Home page
PRIDE allows data to be uploaded privately, either in advance of publication or to allow data to be shared by a collaboration.
PRIDE encourages and welcomes direct user submissions of protein and peptide identification data to be published in peer-reviewed publications.
To assist you in the preparation of a valid XML file using the PRIDE 2.0 XML schema you may wish to look at the graphical XML Spy PRIDE schema documentation in which the schema is described in detail.
www.ebi.ac.uk /pride   (1753 words)

  
 Welcome to PRIDE
PRIDE champions the right to love, benefits of civil marriage, and lesbian and gay families, with an aggressive statewide education campaign.
PRIDE is working to amend this Act to include "sexual orientation" under its umbrella of protection.
PRIDE is working to amend this Act to include "sexual orientation" in its coverage.
www.gaymontana.com /pride   (500 words)

  
 www.pridefoundation.org
Pride Foundation connects, inspires and strengthens the Pacific Northwest Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in pursuit of equality.
Pride Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of our Spring 5-State grant cycle.
In celebration of National Coming Out Day, the Pride Foundation will be hosting a 5k fun run/walk at Seward Park, Sunday, October 9th at 10AM.
www.pridefoundation.org   (281 words)

  
 The Schooner Pride - Publication Detail
The PRIDE is an 84 foot three masted gaff topsail schooner and a Class "C" Tall Ship.
There is nothing so beautiful and quietly elegant than...Schooner Pride.
According to the August, 1996 issue of Southern Living, "All who love Charleston and want to see the South Carolina gem from a different perspective should board the PRIDE for this two-hour cruise."
www.schoonerpride.com   (132 words)

  
 Pride
With such pride you live a life of indifference, avoidance, and denial of the warning signs that what you believe yourself to be is not what you really are.
Pride makes you impatient, distrusting, and not accepting of those who do not ascribe to your philosophy, spiritual beliefs, psychological principles, and sociological mandates.
Step 2: Once you have determined that your pride in your accomplishments, achievements, and successes has gone out of control, that it is a mask for your low self-esteem, your lack of self-confidence and insecurity, then you are ready to take an inventory of yourself in your journal.
www.coping.org /growth/pride.htm   (3095 words)

  
 The Atlanta Pride Committee, Inc
The Atlanta Pride Committee Logo, and all other logos produced by the Atlanta Pride Committee, Inc., and any all other content contained on this website are protected under the respective intellectual property laws of the United States, and the State of Georgia, including copyright and trademark laws.
She persevered, including becoming part of a lawsuit helmed by the ACLU; that fight continues as the PRIDE group meets off campus.
Kerry Pacer is a 17-year-old senior at White County High School in Cleveland, GA, where, in January 2005 she decided to start a GSA (Gay-Straight Alliance), PRIDE – Peers Rising in Diversity Education.
new.atlantapride.org /index.php   (674 words)

  
 Boston Pride : Home
Boston Pride is a proud sponsor of Latino Pride Week May 13th - 21st.
And finally the Boston Pride Committee honors all the people of the community as marshals of Pride.
The Theme for the 2006 Boston Pride celebrations is "Pride not Prejudice, Diversity not Division.
www.bostonpride.org   (619 words)

  
 Pride (2004) (TV)
'Pride' is a small, innocuous movie that tells a story much like animated 'The Lion King', but using real lions and computer animation of animal faces to make it appear that they really are talking.
Plot Summary: The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river...
We see lots of shots of lion cubs romping and running through the grass, and exquisite close-ups of mature lions eating or reposing, and many times staring just a few inches away from the lens of the camera.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0363908   (449 words)

  
 Survey Student Behavior & Perceptions
With the guidance of Dr. Jack Pollard of the University of Washington, Pride Surveys introduced a shortened version of the CTC Youth Survey last fall.
Now, Pride Surveys offers the original, 12-page Communities That Care Youth Survey and report – exact replicas of the products formerly provided by The Channing Bete Company.
© 2006 Pride Surveys 160 Vanderbilt Court Bowling Green, KY 42103
www.pridesurveys.com   (196 words)

  
 Pride Products
With over 23 years experience, Pride Products is one of the leading distributors of quality general merchandise in the United States.
Prides extremely reasonable prices and fast delivery make Pride the number one choice in the industry.
Pride's full color catalog and seasonal flyers keep our customers fully updated every month.
www.prideproducts.com   (127 words)

  
 Welcome To Pride Marketing & Procurement, Inc.
PRIDE Marketing is a premier group of over 125 distributors of restaurant equipment, foodservice equipment and kitchen supplies.
Copyright © 2006 Pride Marketing and Procurement, Inc. All rights reserved.
These successful restaurant equipment distributors are located throughout the United States and Canada.
www.pridemarketing.com   (67 words)

  
 Pride
Organizers claim the LGBT Pride Parade in Brazil was the biggest one ever -- and with 2,000,000 people celebrating, that's probably true.
The mayor has threatened to ban Russia's first planned Gay Pride parade, scheduled for May 27 -- spurring protests across Europe and anti-gay harassment in the city.
The definitive calendar for all of your Pride 2005 planning needs, from London, Ontario to London, England -- and all points in between!
www.planetout.com /specials/pride   (88 words)

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