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Remarks of the President at Medal of Freedom Awards Ceremony (8/9/00)
For Immediate Release                   August 9, 2000
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PRESENTATION OF MEDAL OF FREEDOM AWARDS
3:42 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  Good afternoon, welcome to the White
House.  I want to join Hillary in welcoming all those who have been
acknowledged, and all the other family and friends of our honorees today.
And I want to thank her for many things, but especially for the
conversations that we had leading up to this day about people who should be
selected and the reasons there.  Some of them reflect, now that we've been
here eight years and been involved in public life for nearly three decades,
a lot of personal experiences that we have had.  And we had a lot of good
times talking about who should be here today and why.
More than 60 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt said,
"Freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be achieved."  From the founding of
our nation, it has been the duty of each generation to achieve freedom all
over again; to expand it, to deepen its meaning; to widen the circle of
those who are included as full citizens.
Today we honor 15 men and women who have done exactly that.  They
have helped America to achieve freedom.  It is my honor, on behalf of a
proud nation, to award each of them the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our
highest civilian honor.  In the words of our Constitution, they have helped
us to secure the blessings of liberty by acts of bravery, conscience and
creativity.  I am grateful for those who are here, and for those who are
being honored who are not here today.
When Jim Burke was just starting out in business, his boss called
him into the office and told him to shut the door.  He had just made a
mistake and he was convinced he was about to be fired.  Instead, his boss
congratulated him, saying his mistake meant he was making decisions and
taking risks.  Over the years, his willingness to make the tough call in
times of crisis and to put the public interest above all else has placed a
higher premium on candor and corporate citizenship in the business world.
In an age when many look only to the bottom line, he draws his
values from a deeper well.  Jim took a risk when he became chairman of the
Partnership For A Drug-Free America.  Most people think that's a problem
you can talk about, but not much you can do about.  There are clearly few
challenges tougher and few more vital than teaching our young people about
the dangers of drugs, helping more to avoid them, helping more to overcome
addiction once they have become involved.
Like every other challenge in his life, he met it head on.  Among
other things, he's raised billions of dollars in private resources to help
do the job.  He has worked closely with administrations, both Democratic
and Republican; with the Office of National Drug Control and Prevention.
Last year, the teen drug use rate fell substantially, thanks in
no small measure to years and years and years of passionate devotion by Jim
Burke.  Thanks to him, our families are healthier, our communities are
safer, our nation is stronger.
Commander, read the citation.
(The citation is read.)  (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT:  In the fall of 1951, in the mountains of North
Korea, a young Marine made himself a promise:  whatever he faced in battle,
he would strive to act just as his commander would act.  His commander's
name -- John Chafee.
Captain Chafee set the standard for bravery, decency and
integrity not only in war, but later in a long and distinguished career,
first as governor of Rhode Island; later, Secretary of the Navy; then in
1976, by election of the people of Rhode Island, a United States senator,
where he would serve with distinction until his death nine months ago.  All
of us who love public service and believe in America still miss him very
much.
Senator Chafee took on the tough issues, from health care to
child care to, most of all, the environment -- even when it meant that he
had to take on people in his own party.  He proved that politics can be an
honorable profession.  He embodied the decent and vital center that puts
progress in the public interest above partisanship.
Today, we offer this tribute to the man most people called
Senator, but whose riflemen still proudly called Captain.  His wonderful
wife, Ginny, and his whole family are here on his behalf.  We welcome them
THE PRESIDENT:  In March of 1999, as Slobodan Milosevic unleashed
his army and police on the people of Kosovo, General Wesley Clark, NATO's
Supreme Commander, was given the first military mission of its kind --
directing the forces of a 19-nation alliance to end a brutal campaign of
ethnic cleansing.
The stakes were monumental.  Almost a million people had been
driven from their homes solely because of their ethnic and religious
backgrounds.  Success would save lives, strengthen NATO, advance the cause
of freedom, democracy and unity in Europe.  Failure would leave much of the
continent awash in a sea of refugees, and end the 20th century on a note of
helpless indignation in the face of evil.
Wes Clark well understood the perils of the Balkans, for he had
already played a vital role in ending the war in Bosnia and beginning the
long process of building a stable, multiethnic democracy in that country.
He summoned every ounce of his experience and expertise as a strategist, a
soldier and a statesman to wage our campaign in Kosovo.  He prevailed,
miraculously, without the loss of a single combat casualty.
At the apex of a long and distinguished military career that goes
back to his outstanding performance as a cadet at West Point over 30 years
ago, he was assigned a challenge many experts thought was "mission
impossible."  Instead, thanks to General Clark, we now can declare it
"mission accomplished."
THE PRESIDENT:  As a young officer, Bill Crowe seemed to seize
every opportunity for a non-traditional Navy career.  He took a leave to
earn a master's in education.  He passed up an invitation to join the
nuclear submarine program so he could earn a Ph.D. in politics at
Princeton.  A few years later, when Dr. Crowe found himself named Rear
Admiral Crowe, he was quite surprised.  Only later did he learn that
Admiral Zumwalt that year had ordered all naval promotion boards to
consider -- and I quote -- "iconoclasts."
Bill Crowe has always been an innovative and independent thinker.
He was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs with a mandate to promote
greater cooperation among the Armed Forces, along with the power to reshape
their respective roles and missions.  He used that power to build a
military more agile and efficient for the global age.
From that chairmanship to his ambassadorship at the Court of St.
James in our administration, Bill Crowe has been the right leader for
changing times.  Even more, he has, himself, helped to change the times, to
enhance our strength, advance the peace, and quicken the march of freedom.
He is an iconoclast, but an immensely patriotic one.
THE PRESIDENT:  Her namesake is Marian Anderson, one of the
greatest American singers of all time.  The power and range of this
Marian's voice is even greater.  It brought Robert Kennedy to Mississippi,
helped to organize the Poor People's Campaign, inspired Hillary and
thousands of other citizens, young and old, to join her through the years
in the crusade that has become known as the Children's Defense Fund, the
base from which she has changed the future for millions of America's
children, by grassroots actions and successful lobbying in Congress, for
health care, child care, education and so much more.
Marian Wright Edelman has lived a life of giving.  In the
process, she has built a family of distinguished citizen givers.  She is a
tireless advocate, a driving force, a crusader of conscience.  Like her
namesake, Marian's voice is always strong and true, singing that we are all
children of God and, therefore, must protect all our children.
THE PRESIDENT:  The first thing you notice about John Kenneth
Galbraith is neither his wit, nor his intellect -- those are the second and
third things.  First, you notice his height -- (laughter) -- which, like
his passion for public service, is a legacy of his father.  The elder
Galbraith once told him, "We are obliged because of our enormous size to
alter the world to our specifications."  (Laughter.)
That is just what Professor Galbraith has spent a lifetime doing.
From the lecture halls of Harvard to wartime Washington to a diplomatic
post in India, he has altered our world, making it better, nobler, more
It is ironic that John Kenneth Galbraith actually coined the term
"conventional wisdom," since he spent his entire life challenging it.
(Laughter.)  He once said he always suspected President Kennedy sent him to
India just to be free of his political advice and policy ideas.
(Laughter.)  Actually, President Kennedy drew a lot from those ideas, as
have generations of American leaders and thinkers ever since.
Professor Galbraith writes with such eloquence and clarity that
his ideas are accessible to all of us, helping us not just to understand
the economy, but also to remember that it is the providence of more than a
privileged few.
THE PRESIDENT:  Monsignor George Higgins believes in the dignity
of work, and he's not shy about fighting for it.  For more than 60 years
now, he has organized, marched, prayed and bled for the social and economic
justice of working Americans.
He spoke a fundamental truth when he said, work is an important
way in which we exercise our humanity.  In return, society offers us not
only our daily bread, but a sense that we, ourselves, are honored for the
contributions we make.
Today we honor Monsignor Higgins for his work, for defending the
right of working Americans to organize in factories, foundries and fields,
and to better their own lives through collective action.  His faith and his
courage has strengthened not only our nation's labor unions, but our
American union.
THE PRESIDENT:                 You are now about to witness one
of the best things about this ceremony -- for a change, I don't have to
follow Jesse Jackson.  (Laughter.)  But the truth is, America has followed
Reverend Jackson, as he marched with Dr. King, walked the picket lines, ran
for our nation's highest office, instilling hope and inspiring millions,
beginning with his own remarkable family.
From the streets of Watts to the hollows of Appalachia, as my
Special Envoy to Africa, and the leader of Rainbow PUSH, he has walked the
walk of freedom.  When I think of Rainbow PUSH, I think of two things --
rainbow means we've all got a place at the table; push is what Jesse does
when he thinks I'm not doing right.  (Laughter.)
He has used his legendary prowess at persuading people to do
things they are otherwise disinclined to do to free innocents imprisoned
around the world, including American servicemen from the Middle East to the
Balkans.  With his Wall Street Project, he is forging the next frontier of
freedom -- economic freedom -- reminding us that when we limit
opportunities for some Americans, we limit possibilities for all Americans.
His work for years has been an inspiration to the New Markets
Initiative that I have undertaken, along with the Republican and Democratic
leaders of the House and Senate, and when it becomes law it will be in no
small measure the result of the powerful example that he has set year after
Dr. King said, human progress never rolls on the wheels of
inevitability, it comes through the tireless efforts of those willing to be
coworkers with God.  The cause of justice has no greater coworker than
Jesse Jackson.  It's hard to imagine how we could have come as far as we
have without the creative power, the keen intellect, the loving heart, and
the relentless passion of Jesse Louis Jackson.  And God isn't done with him
THE PRESIDENT:  As a Catholic schoolgirl, Millie Jeffrey dodged
the stones of neighborhood bigots and watched the Klansmen march through
town with a burning cross.  As a union organizer in Mississippi, she stood
bravely as company men snapped bullwhips at her feet.  Clearly, they didn't
know whom they were up against.
She may be small in stature and humble in manner, but she is very
strong.  She worked for Walter Reuther and counseled the Kennedys,
influencing all with her courage and her unflagging commitment to social
justice.  To meet the need for more women in public office, she started the
National Women's Political Caucus, and sparked the effort to nominate
Geraldine Ferraro 16 years ago.
For countless women around the world, she remains an inspiration.
Her impact will be felt for generations, and her example never forgotten.
THE PRESIDENT:  Nearly 20 years ago, very few researchers even
knew what AIDS was.  Even fewer had the courage to speak out about it.  Dr.
Mathilde Krim was one of the first to grasp its terrible implications.  But
she was not content simply to raise the alarm.  She marshalled others to
establish the American Foundation for AIDS Research, raising awareness,
raising millions for research, and raising the hopes of countless people
bravely confronting this deadly disease.
Despite some promising scientific breakthroughs, we know the
fight against AIDS is nowhere near won.  As she reminds us, we must not
grow complacent.  She said recently, we're about halfway on a long road.
Thanks to her vision, her ability to inspire, her enduring compassion for
those in need, we now travel that road united and determined to prevail.
THE PRESIDENT:  His roots lie deep in the South Dakota soil.  In
small-town farms and the faith of his father, a Methodist pastor.  After
more than a half-century in public life, George McGovern still draws on
those teachings and traditions, and he's still imparts them to the rest of
us by the power of his example, the courage of his convictions, and his
proud legacy of public service.
Long before he became a congressman or senator or a U.S.
ambassador, he became a hero.  His brave exploits in the skies above Europe
earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross, and more important to him, the
gratitude of the men he brought safely to ground.  Returning home, he
taught history, and then set out to make a little history himself -- first,
winning a seat in Congress, then a few years later creating the Food For
Peace program, one of the great achievements of the Kennedy era.
By the time he ran for President in 1972, Senator McGovern was
not only a hero in war, but a stalwart voice for peace in Vietnam.  Hillary
and I and several others in this room, including the National Security
Advisor, Mr. Berger, and Eli Segal, who started AmeriCorps and our
welfare-to-work partnership, were honored to embrace his conviction that we
could move our country forward.
For decades, his conviction never wavered.  Nor has his early
commitment to bringing food to the hungary.  Today he serves as our
Ambassador to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, and he has
pledged to feed half a billion of the world's ill-fed.
Senator McGovern and Senator Dole have come together to persuade
me, along with Congressman McGovern and Senator McGovern's Senator, Tom
Daschle, that the United States should lead the world to get one nutritious
meal to every child in every poor country in the world.  And I just
announced a couple of days ago our first $300 million contribution to that
goal.  (Applause.)
This initiative could not only feed hungry children, but lead to
the enrollment of millions of children not now in school, especially girls
in poor countries.  So, George McGovern's work continues.
THE PRESIDENT:  On the wall of his Senate office are two framed
magazine covers.  One says, "Moynihan:  The Conscience of a
Neo-conservative."  The other says:  "Moynihan:  Neo-liberal."  (Laughter.)
I think he suspects that a great deal of his success in life has come as a
result of keeping the rest of us slightly confused.  (Laughter.)  But
whatever label is assigned to him, not a day goes by when Daniel Patrick
Moynihan is not brilliantly, dynamically, uniquely himself.
He is Hell's Kitchen and the London School of Economics; a sailor
in uniform and a professor in tweeds; a subtle, sophisticated wit, and a
tough, blunt critic of social injustice; a man of ideas, and a man of
action.  By this dazzling collection of qualities, Pat Moynihan has served
and survived four successive presidencies, the only American ever to have
done so.  Most of the people who work for me are glad to have survived one.
(Laughter.)
He represented American interests in India.  He has stood up for
our ideals powerfully in the United Nations.  New York sent him to the
Senate in America's bicentennial year, and in the quarter-century since, he
has championed diversity and waged without relent the War on Poverty he
helped to launch.
I was interested to learn, as Hillary said, that Senator Moynihan
actually helped to create the Medal he is about to receive.  President
Kennedy charged him with that task.  And as the President decreed, the
standard of achievement was set very high, indeed.  I know that every
American will agree that in the four decades since, Senator Moynihan has
exceeded the standards set by every conceivable measure.
THE PRESIDENT:  Cruz Reynoso is the son of Mexican immigrants who
spent summers working with his family in the fields of the San Joaquin
Valley.  As a child, he loved reading so much, his elementary school
classmates called him, El Profe    -- the Professor.
Later, some told him to put aside his dreams of college, saying
bluntly, they will never let you in.  But with faith in himself and the
values of our country, Cruz Reynoso went on to college and to law school,
but never forgot his roots.  He worked for the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission and led the pioneering California Rural Legal Assistance
Program.  In 1976, he was appointed Associate Justice of the California
Court of Appeals, and rose to become the first Latino to serve on the
state's highest court.
Today he continues to labor in the fields of justice, serving as
vice chair of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, opening new doors for
Latino lawyers, and teaching a new generation of students the world of law.
Not long ago, the person his classmates once called El Profe was voted by
his own students Professor of the Year.
THE PRESIDENT:  In the New Testament Book of Romans it is
written:  "And how shall they hear without a preacher?"  The Lord may have
had that passage in mind the day Gardner Taylor was born.  Or once again,
years later, when a terrible car accident convinced him to abandon law
school and enter the ministry.  His eloquence has inspired generations,
helping us to see the hard challenges of life in the revealing light of
Scripture.
As founder of the Progressive National Baptist Convention,
Reverend Taylor helped to galvanize black churches all across America in
the struggle for human rights.  As a pastor in Brooklyn, he has worked to
repair the breach, whether racial, political, or economic.  He speaks not
just from the Scriptures, but from his soul.  The gift God gave him he, in
turn, has shared with us.
For at least 20 years now, if anyone made a list of the five or
six greatest preachers in America, Gardner Taylor would always be at the
top.  For those of us who heard him preach, and those of us whom he has
counseled in his private wisdom, we know we have been in the presence of
not only a man of God, but a great American citizen.
THE PRESIDENT:  "When millions were murdered, why was I allowed
to live?"  For more than half a century, Simon Wiesenthal has asked himself
this question, again and again.  To those who know his story, one of
miraculous survival and of relentless pursuit of justice, the answer is
apparent.  From the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust, only a few
voices survived, to bear witness, to hold the guilty accountable, to honor
the memory of those who were killed.  Only if we heed these brave voices
can we build a bullwark of humanity against the hatred and indifference
that is still all too prevalent in this world of ours.
I'm struck by another question Mr. Wiesenthal once posed:  How
does one explain to a young person what freedom means when he has been born
to freedom?  Answering this question is our common moral responsibility and
our enduring challenge.
Mr. Wiesenthal is 91 years old now, and he had a little fall last
week, and regrettably, couldn't be here with us today.  He's all the way
over in Europe, in Vienna.  But he is listening to us by telephone.  Rabbi
Marvin Hier will receive the award on his behalf.  We thank him for a
lifetime of service and example and reminder, and for the astonishing work
of the Wiesenthal Center.  And after the citation has been read, I want you
to have a little extra umphf in your applause so he'll be able to hear it
all the way over in Europe.
THE PRESIDENT:  You know, today's honorees come from an
astonishing array of backgrounds.  Their experiences and their service are
remarkably different.  Yet they share in common a devotion to freedom and,
its expansion, to being good citizens, to serving their fellow human
beings.  Everyone in our country has been enriched by the service of
everyone on this stage.
President Johnson said when he first presented this award that no
words could add to the distinction of the men and women being honored
today; rather, their names add distinction to this award.  Even more, I
believe, that is true today.  They have added distinction, richness, depth,
and freedom to American life.
For that, the rest of us are proud, ennobled, and grateful.
Hillary and I again want to thank you all for coming.  We ask you
to join us now in the State Dining Room for a reception.  But first I ask
you to express your support and gratitude once more for this remarkable
group of citizens.  (Applause.)
END          4:30 P.M. EDT


This week's portion includes Moses' last speech to the nation before the final poem that is Chapter 32 and the blessings in Chapter 33. Chapter 30 is often referred to as the "Return" chapter, including, as it does, references to both a physical and spiritual return to God and the Land of Israel. But a close examination of the verses in this chapter reveals a confusing sequence of events.
The first verse of Chapter 30 sets the stage – the blessings and curses have already come to pass. The Nation of Israel has already settled in the Land and enjoyed its blessings, but has also sinned and been exiled, and the land has been decimated, as predicted in Chapter 28. At this point, there will be a return to God, a repentance that is initiated by the people themselves. In the first verse, God promises that "you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you." The actual Hebrew phrase for "call them to mind" is literally, "return to your heart." Using the same word "return" that will figure so prominently in this chapter, the stage is set for an introspection, a reminder of the blessings and the curses and the covenant set forth in chapter 28. The second verse is clearer: "And return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul." The initial awakening will bring in its wake repentance, a return to God.
This verse, in fact, raises a number of questions: If the entire process begins with a spiritual return, as noted in the first two verses of the chapter, what does this return signify? And if the initial return is initiated by the people themselves, why does God have to get involved and help the return along with the circumcision of the heart mentioned in verse six?
A number of classical commentaries interpreted this set of verses as indicating that the first initiative towards repentance must come from man himself, but once a man begins the process, God will assist him in continuing the process. Nachmanides, a 15th century Spanish Jewish commentator, took this idea further. He noted that these verses had not yet come to pass, that they refer to a Messianic age. He believed that the initial spiritual return would bring about the physical return that the Messiah would herald and, at that point, the human inclination towards good and obedience to God's commandments would become natural. The circumcision of the heart refers to a supernatural event that will return man to the state of Adam in the Garden of Eden before the first sin. Nachmanides quoted Jeremiah 31:32* [Jeremiah 31:33] and Ezekiel 36:26-27, both of which refer to a change of heart that will bring the nation closer to God and to His commandments.
anti-Semitism, to provide a safe haven for the Jewish people. Indeed, most of the early Zionist pioneers were atheists!
Rabbi Abraham Isaac HaKohen Kook was probably the most influential of the early Zionist rabbis. He believed that while the declared motivation of the Zionist pioneers was secular, it actually derived from a deep spiritual core, a seeking of the soul itself for a return to God and to His Land. He believed that the strong desire of these pioneers to rebuild an independent nation in the Land of Israel and the reconnection of so many of them with the Bible was actually a spiritual event, despite their protests to the contrary.
Perhaps therefore, these verses can be seen as referring to the process that is currently happening in Israel. The original return is a subtle one. It is a beginning, but not a complete return. It is a return to God, but not necessarily a conscious return, for there is no change of heart. But God picks up on this initiative in order to return us physically to our land. But the final return to God takes place once we are in the Land – only then will there be a circumcision of the heart and a total return to His ways.
Of course, there were always Religious Zionists who felt the stirring to return to the Land as part and parcel of a spiritual return to God, Jews who had always obeyed the commandments and prayed fervently for a return to Zion and Jerusalem. And perhaps it is the presence of these religious Jews in the land, alongside the secular, that is enabling the final spiritual return to take place. And that return is happening, daily, as more and more secular Jews seek out their traditions and their roots, as more Bible study is taking place in Israel than ever before. It is unclear how long the process will take, how long it will be before verse six is fulfilled. But we pray daily and fervently for God to bring His promises to total fulfillment, as quickly as possible.
*Jeremiah 31:33 is Jeremiah 31:32 in the Jewish Bible.


The Paralympic Preparation Program, which is managed by the Paralympic Committee of Portugal (PPC), is the set of actions to develop for the preparation of Portugal's participation in the Paralympic Games, set against public financial support given by the Portuguese Institute of Sport and youth, IP (IPDJ) and the National Institute for Rehabilitation, IP (INR). This support is formalized through tripartite program contract signature granted by the three above mentioned entities.
From this Paralympic cycle (2013 - 2016), the Paralympic Preparation Program (PPP) will understand the "Paralympic Project 2016" and the project "Organization Mission to the Paralympic Games" (OMJP). PPP also becomes part of a plan that encompasses multiple Paralympic cycles, short, medium and long term, and that begins with the Paralympic Preparation Program 2016, further comprising editions of the 2020 and 2024 Paralympic Games.
The Paralympic Preparation Program also includes, as of now, in addition to "Project Rio 2016 Paralympic" and "Organization Mission to the Paralimpic Games," the "Project Paralympic Hopes" and the "Project Complementary Support".
The "Project Supplementary Support" is intended to complement support for the preparation of athletes in ways that involve greater financial outlay in terms of equipping and respective logistics.
The "Paralympic Hopes Project" aims to support the integration of new players in the PPP, with the aim of attracting young paralympic sport promises that show potential to come to integrate delegations to the Paralympic Games.
· Benefit the allocation of monthly scholarships (and coaches), with values of three different levels defined in terms of sporting results level.
- The PPC, in close coordination with the federations define a results completion rate at the Paralympic Games Rio 2016.
Notwithstanding the ongoing assessments to athletes, teams and modalities, with reference to their specific goals outlined in the respective specifications, after periods of international qualification, an evaluation of the integration of qualified and selected practitioners will be held in order to adjust, if necessary, its level of integration in Project 2016.
This information is supplemented by reading the Sports Development Agreement program No. CP / 284 / DDF / 2013 - Paralympic Games Rio 2016 and the Memorandum of Understanding between the IPDJ, INR and CPP.


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Pride Center adds new support group
Photo Credit, Pride Center Facebook
Laura Mendez
Filed under Campus, Featured, Matadors, News
CSUN's pride center welcomes students to support transgender, non-binary and gender questioning students through T-Time.
"T-Time" sessions started spring 2014 in order to motivate individuals who identify, or question their identity as an LGBTQ person.
The hour and a half long discussion allow students to talk about issues and obstacles that they may face everyday.
As an effort to create a safe space, the sessions are conducted by student facilitators who similarly identify.
Tyler Neroes, a student facilitator, said that the group can help struggling students.
"I knew a few people that were struggling prior to the group," Neroes said. "They didn't know about the group at the time."
Austin Sawyer, a mechanical engineer major who joined the group during the Fall 2016 semester, said it feels like a comfortable space.
"It's a nice place to go if you're not accepted anywhere else," he said.
When compared to heterosexual students, LGBT students are at risk of suicide, depression, and violence, according to the 2013 GLSEN School Climate Survey.
According to the survey, "74.1 percent of LGBT students were verbally harassed (e.g., called names or threatened) in the past year because of their sexual orientation and 55.2 percent because of their gender expression."
T-Time mainly aims to help the transgender, non-binary and gender questioning community feel welcomed by providing a safe space for them to go to.
Joseph Cayanan, Pride Center Supervisor, said the group was created to address the needs of transgender students on campus.
"Even before when we were by the VRC, trans students didn't have anywhere to go to talk about their specific community," Cayanan said. "There was so much of need that it needed its own group."
Trans allies are welcome only if they are accompanying a trans student for support.
"If someone is not a trans ally it changes the feeling of the group," Cayanan said.
Cayanan explained that for someone to become a trans ally, one must become knowledgeable about the community and provide emotional support.
"If someone is either questioning their gender or is trans then they can go to that group to further discover themselves," Cayanan said. "They get support from each other. Just by being in the same group together, they slowly build a community."
For more information, visit the Pride Center at the USU or call (818) 677-4355.
Tags: LGBT, pride center
Laura Mendez, Author
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All Tight at the Top for $50,000 Mars Eventing Showcase Finale
By Samantha Clark
Less than a point separated the top-four finishers. Samantha Clark Photos.
As predicted both jumping phases proved influential at the $50,000 Mars Eventing Showcase. Five combinations withdrew overnight, leaving 33 horses coming forward to show jump over a big track designed by Andy Christiansen. Of those, only 11 jumped clear within the time allowed which saw some significant re-shuffling on the leaderboard.
Dressage leader Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous had a big enough cushion that their single fence down wasn't enough to topple them any placings. Little said that Phoebe and Michael Manders and Jacqueline Mars' 15-year-old Oldenburg mare (Carry Gold x Richardia) got her tongue over the bit between the first and second fences, but "it was just a testament to her heart and bravery that she kept going because a few years ago she would have been incredibly distracted and wouldn't have been able to pull that off."
Boyd Martin and Selena O'Hanlon saw their podium places plummet to 12th and 14th places respectively after pulling two rails each on Long Island T and Foxwood High. Instead, they were filled by Buck Davidson on Carlevo and Phillip Dutton and Z capitalizing on their clear rounds. Liz Halliday-Sharp added nothing to her dressage on either horse and went forward to the cross-country phase with Deniro Z in fourth place and Cooley Quicksilver in seventh.
Marilyn Little and RF Scandalous. Samantha Clark Photo.
Waylon Roberts conjured a clear round out of Lancaster to find himself in fifth place after the show jumping and Sharon White and Cooley On Show rounded out the top six after also leaving all the poles in their cups.
Cross-country started just a couple of hours after the show jumping had finished and took place mainly in the Grand Prix field where the show jumping had been. A substantial and enthusiastic crowd had assembled to enjoy the action and the perfect weather, and commentator John Kyle kept everyone engaged until the very last second, maintaining the excitement with his relevant background on the competitors and mad math skills juggling what exactly was at stake during every round. Although ultimately the top eight would remain unchanged that certainly didn't mean there weren't plenty of thrills around Capt. Mark Phillips' course.
By the time Little went as the final rider there had been 10 clear rounds inside the time, two falls, one retirement, and a technical elimination. Little and "Kitty" used up a few of their nine lives, surviving a hairy moment at the second of the Buckeye Nutrition skinny brushes on the top of the hill, and then another at the Horseboxes USA corner at 15. Despite having to take the time to regain her seat and her composure, and in the second instance to pick out her way to the alternative, Little and Kitty still came home with the slimmest of margins in hand to keep the lead, winning from wire-to-wire by just 0.4 penalties. So slim in fact that due to a timing confusion Davidson was actually announced the winner, but then graciously conceded once the mistake had been discovered.
Buck Davidson and Carlevo. Samantha Clark Photo.
Although Davidson had to be content with second place he can take some solace from how well Carlevo (Eurocommerce Caresino x Ramatuelle) went in all three phases, especially as he'd been second-guessing the next steps in their career together. "I learned a lot with him last year at Blenheim so I've taken a different route with him this year and hopefully he'll be good," said Davidson of Carlevo LLC's 13-year-old Holsteiner gelding. "He's certainly good at this stuff, the show jumping is getting better. The owner and I had sat down and talked about maybe selling him, but we figured he would be good for these kind of things. He's a nice horse to have in the barn, he's a really sweet horse, he's good in all three phases and he was very good this weekend."
Z, the 12-year-old Zangersheide gelding (Asca x Bellabouche) owned by Thomas Tierney, Simon Roosevelt, Suzanne Lacy, Anne Jones, and Caroline Moran, is Dutton's most experienced horse, and after this weekend Dutton confirmed he'd probably be his choice out of his barn to take to Tokyo. They cruised around the course coming home one second under time, and Dutton also finished Fernhill Singapore in the top 10. "It was a conscious decision to come to this showcase with these two boys and then to take them to the Aiken Grand Prix, especially Z being a hotter horse. I wanted to get them in some atmosphere, and I believe that the cross-country will be not dissimilar to this in Tokyo – a shorter course, a lot of jumping efforts, and a lot of turning. These will be their first two runs and then I'll probably just do one more event if everything goes to plan, and then hopefully Z will go to Badminton."
Liz Halliday-Sharp finished on her dressage score on both Deniro Z and Cooley Quicksilver, the only two horse rider to do so, and consequently, she also finished with two in the top 10, filling the number four and seven spots. Waylon Roberts did the Canadians proud with a fifth-place finish on Lancaster, and Daniela Moguel represented Mexico in the top-10 by finishing on her dressage score for 8th place.
Phillip Dutton and Z. Samantha Clark Photo.
The Buckeye Triple Brushes at 9 and 10 on the top of the hill were the most influential, causing both rider falls - Sara Kozumplik Murphy fell from Rubens D'ysieux and Clayton Fredericks from FE Money Made. Ariel Grald and Leamore Master Plan had two stops at the second element and subsequently retired on course.
RF Scandalous is being aimed for the Land Rover Kentucky Three-Day Event later this spring, but Little acknowledged they'll have to perhaps re-think their game plan, "This afternoon did not go to plan," Little said. "She hasn't had a normal preparation for this event, so lesson learned. Not our best weekend – some very great moments and certainly some things that showed that she has matured immensely as a competitor and certainly some things to work on. Yes, we have to go back to the drawing board and figure out what went wrong, but we also have to stick with the things we do well which is the plan that I know works for her as we come to the big day which is Kentucky."
Samantha Clark Photo.
Little credited her longstanding partnership with Kitty as one of the keys to their success, "I have had a relationship with her for a very long time so we trade on that quite heavily, and we've obviously got a great support team around us which helps a lot."
The grooms of the top three horses, Ellie Hill, Kathleen Murray, and Emma Ford were all honored and awarded cash prizes during the prize-giving ceremony, courtesy of Caroline Moran for Goshen Hill. All the riders were virtually unanimous in their praise for the venue, the format, and the organization and of course the sponsors.
"I think the cross-country was fast enough without going crazy," Davidson said. "It's certainly a unique event, it feels a bit more like a cross-country school than it does a big competition but I think that for most of the horses here that have the experience they understood the job. Mark [Phillips] is certainly a genius at putting these things on, he has a way of making you think it's not going to work, but it works! Full credit to him and to everybody here that puts on a great show - the footing was perfect, and it was a fun week."
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Appraising the Peace Prize
What could Henry Kissinger and Mother Teresa possibly have in common?
by Ravindra Svarupa Dasa
When the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the 1979 Peace Prize to Mother Teresa, the sixty-nine-year-old nun who has devoted her life to helping the poor of Calcutta, it seemed as though the learned men in Stockholm must have received some sudden enlightenment; so great is the contrast between her and previous recipients, like Henry Kissinger. How much more fitting to give the award to this frail and humble woman, who descends into the streets of what Kipling called "the City of Dreadful Night" to bathe the wounds of lepers and console the dying, than to those powerful adepts of realpolitik who bomb for peace. Considered beside her predecessors, she is an inspired choice.
Yet a word must be said on behalf of the politicians. Granting the dedication, self-sacrifice, and compassion of Mother Teresa (not to minimize her excellent qualities), we may still question the practicality of her work. After all, for every maimed or diseased person she helps, the world's social machinery pitilessly grinds out ten thousand more, and an army of Mother Teresas could not stem the tide. As the human detritus piles up, nations grow bellicose over increasingly scarce resources: oil, land, minerals, grains—a dwindling supply that can never hope to fill the bottomless maw of demand. Surely any solution requires social and political action on a global scale.
Can people like Mother Teresa really do anything to rectify those relentless social injustices Pope John Paul II so eloquently spoke of before the U.N. General Assembly? There cannot be a peaceful world until there is a just world. As long as the rich live at the expense of the poor, violence will be endemic to human relations. The slums, barrios, ghettos, and refugee camps of the world's disinherited teem with wars and revolutions to come. Certainly the Marxists, who find in these places such eager ears, at least recognize the need for radical change. Seen in this context, Mother Teresa's efforts appear as effective as fighting a forest fire with a water bucket: a brave and beautiful gesture, quixotic and doomed.
Ah, but the politicians! What Strangelovian peace do the Dr. Kissingers prepare for us? What hope can we place in peace-makers who abhor "terrorism" while holding each other's entire citizenry hostage with nuclear missiles? Is peace a balance of terror? Do doves have talons?
So in the obvious inconsistency of the Nobel Prize awards we confront a familiar dilemma: it seems that a person can be either virtuous or powerful, but not both. How could the power of a Kissinger and the purity of a Mother Teresa ever unite in the same person? If one is to be effective in changing things on a large scale, can he also be moral, humane, compassionate? Conventional wisdom holds that there is something about the demands of political leadership, the exercise of temporal power, which inevitably excludes saintliness or holiness. As it is said, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Yet this idea was not always considered self-evident. In fact, the highly respected Bhagavad-gita refers to the ideal leader of a state as a rajarsi (a Sanskrit term that combines the word raja, meaning "king," and rsi, meaning "saint"). The compound signifies that sanctity is a sine qua non for political leadership.
Moreover, far from holding up the saintly king as an unrealizable ideal, the Bhagavad-gita provides a practical way to unite power with purity. The means is bhakti, or devotional service to God. Bhakti as a discipline trains people in sanctity. A saint is understood to be one who fully recognizes the authority of God and who thus acts exclusively as His servant. A bhakta (a practitioner of bhakti) learns to understand existentially, practically, that everything belongs to God.
Recognizing the supreme position of God means accepting that He is the enjoyer and controller of everything and everyone. The Vedic analysis of the human condition traces back the lust for pleasure, power, and profit (a lust which has virtually created the present social order) to our forgetfulness of God's position as master, and our own as His servants. Contemporary human civilization is in a condition of radical deformity, for the natural servants are artificially aspiring to become the masters; the enjoyed and the controlled are perversely trying to enjoy and control.
A bhakta, a devotee of God, must quit this obscene masquerade. To do so, he (or she) must give up those self-deceptive activities upon which the charade rests. Principally, these activities are eating flesh, taking intoxicants, indulging illicitly in sex, and gambling. Rejecting these corruptions, the bhakta systematically remembers God by hearing His glories and repeating them, and by worshiping the Lord in other ways. Eventually, remembrance of the Lord becomes spontaneous. We are all naturally loving servants of God, but that loving devotion has become covered by the twin illusions of envy of God and the desire to take His place. We have thus invested our original love in inauthentic surrogates, but it can be restored by devotional service.
The Vedas especially recommend the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra as the most appropriate way for us to remember God. Since God is present in His names, chanting Hare Krsna puts us directly into contact with Him. This close proximity cleanses away our desire to be God and to usurp His position. God, the supremely pure one, purifies whoever comes in touch with Him, just as fire heats everything put into it. Bhakti puts the practitioner into the refining fire of God consciousness and keeps him there. Thus, through bhakti, one accepts God as the Supreme Lord and Master, not just theoretically or officially, but in actual practice.
From this we can see that when a bhakta, a purified devotee of God, has political power, he does not foolishly think the power is his. He understands that he must exercise it only on God's behalf, and he rightly sees all resources at his disposal as meant for serving God. Just as a loyal and faithful servant may manage an estate on behalf of his employer, so a devotee may assume great political responsibility without falsely assuming proprietorship. Only such a person can exercise power without becoming corrupted by it, for he always remains acutely aware that he himself is nothing but an instrument of God, a servant acting under His orders.
But what are the "orders" such a saintly leader would follow? What would he do? As a loving servant of God, who is all-merciful, a rajarsi would naturally work for the welfare of everyone by trying to establish peace—freedom from war and social violence, from hunger, pain, disease, and so on. His program, however, would not be some scheme hatched in a planning commission or think tank. Instead, as a devotee, he would follow the program for peace explicitly laid out by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gita (5.29): "The sages, knowing Me [Lord Krsna] as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods, and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material existence." Thus the main program of the saintly leader is universally to inculcate the knowledge that God is the proprietor of everything, the friend of everyone, and the enjoyer of all. The rajarsi understands that all the miseries of material life follow from our fundamental spiritual amnesia.
Forgetting God, we plan our material careers in violation of our real spiritual nature. Deluded, we identify with matter, with our transient bodies and bodily relations. False to ourselves, we erect institutions for the direct and indirect exploitation of others, competing for property and status against those similarly deluded. Since no one's position is secure, we are always anxious and fearful, and even if we seem to prevail for some time, we are inevitably cut down by old age, disease, and ever-waiting death. Sometimes we are the oppressed, sometimes the oppressors, but either way we are stretched on the rack of this rough world until we break and break again. Yet it is all a needless nightmare, an evil spell that vanishes at once when we recall our authentic identity and our relationship with God.
Anyone who desires to relieve people's suffering must enlighten them about this relationship and help them reestablish it. Not only will a person thus enlightened be able to tolerate the most oppressive conditions, but also, nothing short of this spiritual reformation can alleviate the oppressions of war and social and political exploitation. Communism, though claiming to be a radical solution, fails to reach the root of the universal spiritual disease: the willful ignorance of the supremacy of God, the perverse desire of the tiny servant to become the all-powerful master. A "classless society" is unattainable and unnecessary; but if all social classes would learn to serve God, then no one would be misused.
Mother Teresa embodies that necessary spirit of sacrifice and dedication to others, but even the superior service she renders is ultimately superficial. She ministers to the ravaged flesh of men, but the ultimate source of suffering is that single festering wound on the human spirit which is forgetfulness of God. We do not fully acknowledge Him until we accept His final order to us: "Abandon all varieties of dharma [religious duties, social and political schemes, material welfare work, obligations to family and to the state, and so on J and just surrender to Me." Only by accepting this injunction, and thus by concretely accepting God's position, can we possibly have peace, and on that basis there is no difficulty for a leader to be both powerful and pure.
The world desperately needs these genuine peacemakers. His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness as an attempt to produce such pure leaders for the future.
Since the Nobel Prize Committee has taken such a big step from Henry Kissinger to Mother Teresa, perhaps it is not too much to hope that they will continue on the path of enlightenment, come to recognize the only authentic formula for world peace, and encourage humanity to apply it. Indeed, the committee itself would then qualify for the prize.


Poverty puts households at much greater risk for food insecurity.
Increased costs in housing/rent and other living expenses often means that families cut their food expenses.
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CRIME OF THE WEEK: $50K damage caused in break-in
Pickup backs through front of store in Jan. 12 break and enter in Puslinch
EloraFergusToday Staff Jan 23, 2023 7:30 PM
Image from Jan. 12 break-in where power trimmers, generators were stolen.Photo submitted
CRIME STOPPERS OF GUELPH WELLINGTON
At approximately 12:05 a.m. on Thursday, January 12, a break and enter occurred at Aberfoyle Powersports located in the Township of Puslinch.
Two pickup trucks attended the store and one backed through the front entrance to gain entry.
Stolen were trimmers, a power blower, and generators.
Value of stolen items is about $5,000 but the damages caused to the building are valued higher, nearly $50,000.
There were three suspects involved, all males.
The first was wearing a red camo jacket and blue pants. The second was wearing dark clothing, green gloves, and a hoodie. The third was wearing a dark grey jacket, a dark winter toque and dark face mask.
One of the pickup trucks is described as a GMC, silver in colour, and was last seen heading southbound on Hwy 6, also known as Brock Road South.
The other pickup truck was found a short time later, abandoned and on fire.
Do you have information about this crime? Submit your tip by phone at 1-800-222-8477 or online.


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Roman numerals are hard for most Americans… mostly because we don't use them very often. So here's one way to help get your kids used to Roman numerals, and hopefully teach them a few: Refer to your tables using Roman numerals! If you were really excited about it, you could have each student learn their number in Roman numerals and have them write it as part of their heading on papers. In case you forgot Roman numerals yourself, here's a nice chart to help you keep Roman numerals straight.
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Q: Do Redis images currently work with Docker on Windows? I am running Docker with Linux containers. When I try to do a Redis pull I get "docker: no matching manifest for windows/amd64 in the manifest list entries." I have seen many tutorials showing redis running on docker windows. Has something changed with later versions of redis which means that it no longer works with docker on Windows?

A: start dockerd.exe with the --experimental flag and your problem will be solved.
easy find on google:
https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/1100
https://blog.docker.com/2017/09/preview-linux-containers-on-windows/

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Shootout At Gun Store In Kansas City
Sources claim that police are investigating after a store owner was killed and three men were shot during a robbery attempt at a Shawnee self-defense shop Friday afternoon.
The shooting happened about 2:10 p.m. Friday at She's a Pistol, located at 5725 Nieman Road, when four men tried to rob the store.
Police said the male store owner was shot. Jon Bieker was taken to the hospital in critical condition where he later died. Two would-be robbers suffered critical injuries in an apparent shootout with the owners. Major Dan Tennis with the Shawnee Police Department said two other men ran from the store.
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Is Hunting A 'White Sport?'
Ridgeway, MO.
Is hunting a "whites only" sport?
Almost, because federal surveys show that less than 5 percent of all participants are black.
According to the Kansas City Star, a man named Eric Morris founded a hunting club – called the Black Wolf Hunting Club – in order to attract more African-Americans to hunting.
"There's a huge perception that blacks don't hunt," said Morris, who led a group of hunters at the Harding Gamebirds hunting preserve in northern Missouri. "I know that's what the surveys say. But look at this."
He motioned to the black family he was leading on a hunting trip. "This is proof that blacks can have a great time hunting. We just have to give them the opportunity."
Through the Black Wolf Hunting Club, Morris and others attempt to provide that opportunity. They organize trips to preserves, where participants pay to hunt pen-raised birds, and introduce blacks young and not-so-young to hunting.
For many, it's a unique experience. They weren't brought up with hunting, as they were with fishing, Morris said.
Not feeling comfortable in rural settings, a lack of access, prejudice, the lack of role models — those are all excuses Morris has heard from fellow blacks as to why they don't hunt.
Morris, who now lives in Platte City, didn't face those barriers. He grew up in Alabama and taught himself to hunt.
Now he helps others discover the excitement of the sport.
"I had a life-long desire to go hunting," said Sommari Muwwakkil, on a hunting trip with Morris. "I was brought up in Kansas City, and I didn't know where to get started.
"Some landowners don't trust African-Americans, and they aren't going to give you access. And some of the public areas get hit so hard that it's tough for a beginner to get out.
"So I really felt lost."
But that changed, he said, when he met Morris.
After Morris gave a talk to a youth group, Muwwakkil approached him and asked him questions about getting started in hunting. Morris invited Muwwakkil to participate in a hunt, and he jumped at the chance.
Workers at Harding Gamebirds stocked pheasants and chukars in the thick strips of cover, then guide Jim Sparks released his chocolate Lab, Sarge, and his two English setters, Pete and Sid. It wasn't long before the bird dogs picked up the scent and were on point.
Hunters flushed the birds and took turns shooting, keeping safety in mind. Shots rang out, birds fell and happy hunters watched as the dogs retrieved the game.
One of Muwwakkil's daughters, Eshante, was among the successful.
"At first, I didn't know how I would like this," she said. "I was scared of shooting at first. I though the kick from a shotgun would hurt.
"But we started by shooting at clays (targets).Then when I went hunting, I loved it."
She paused and laughed. "I think the boys are jealous that they don't get to go," she said. "They call me a hunting beast."
Thomas, a major in the Army who is stationed at Fort Leavenworth, also is happy that Morris recruited him.
"I had deer hunted back home in South Carolina, but I had never been bird hunting," he said. "It takes some getting used to.
"…but once you get used to it, it's a lot of fun."
That's the kind of reaction Morris seeks. He has a passion for introducing blacks to hunting, even if he has to do it one person at a time.
"Seeing these kids come out here and have a great time, that's special," he said. "If we could get more blacks to come out and at least give hunting a chance, I think we could change the way people see things.
"I think there is untapped potential there."
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/outdoors/article4741914.html#storylink=cpy
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Kansas Secretary Of State: Immigration Reform Today, Ethnic Cleansing Tomorrow?
"Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a leader in an anti-immigrant movement, agreed with a caller during his Sunday radio program that it's possible that a Hispanic majority in the U.S. could conduct an 'ethnic cleansing.'
Kobach made his remarks in response to a right-wing caller who asked, "What happens, if you know your history, when one culture or one race or one religion overwhelms another culture or race?"
Kobach understood: the caller was worried about ethnic cleansing.
"What protects us in America from any kind of ethnic cleansing is the rule of law, of course," Kobach said. "And the rule of law used to be unassailable, used to be taken for granted in America. And now, of course, we have a President who disregards the law when it suits his interests…"
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/barbara-shelly/article4038339.html#storylink=cpy
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/barbara-shelly/article4038339.html
Posted on November 21, 2014 by reasonablyliberalPosted in abuse, caller, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Hispanic, immigrants, Kansas, Kobach, Kris, Mexico, murder, radio, Secretary of State, show, talk, TYT Network, u.s. news, u.s. politicsTagged abuse, caller, ethnic cleansing, genocide, Hispanic, immigrants, Kansas, Kobach, Kris, Mexico, murder, radio, Secretary of State, show, talk, TYT Network, u.s. news, u.s. politics. 1 Comment
Kansas Tea Party Attempts Extortion on State GOP
U.S. Senate candidate Milton Wolf posted a collection of gruesome X-ray images of gunshot fatalities and medical injuries to his Facebook page and participated in online commentary with macabre jokes and descriptions of carnage.
Wolf, a Johnson County radiologist anchoring a campaign for the Republican nomination with calls for federal heath care reform, said in an interview the medical images were legally uploaded to public social media sites and other online venues for educational purposes. They also served, he said, to demonstrate evil lurking in the world.
However, Wolf – who is running as a Tea Party candidate – and others viewing these Facebook postings relentlessly poked fun at the dead or wounded. The gunshot victim, Wolf joked online, wasn't going to complain about the awkward positioning of his head for an X-ray. In a separate Facebook comment, Wolf wrote that an X-ray of a man decapitated by gunfire resembled a wounded alien in a "Terminator" film and that the image offered evidence people "find beauty in different things."
Wolf declined in an interview with The Topeka Capital-Journal to clearly answer questions about whether he continued to place images of deceased people on the Internet. He asked to keep copies of the Facebook posts shown to him, but when denied, he walked away.
Majority Report / Sam Seder video.
Posted on October 7, 2014 October 7, 2014 by reasonablyliberalPosted in election, Kansas, Majority Report, republican, Sam Seder, Senate, tea party, u.s. news, u.s. politicsTagged election, Kansas, Majority Report, republican, Sam Seder, Senate, tea party, u.s. news, u.s. politics. Leave a comment


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The administrative tool used to deposit materials, the "Metadata Hopper", was developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with input from the Chicago Collections portal committee, and was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation. The Metadata Hopper enables contributing members to create maps for each metadata standard that they use, so that as materials are deposited, the system is able to integrate them. The Metadata Hopper also allows users to 'tag' materials with a shared vocabulary, so that people using Explore Chicago Collections have a single, consistent vocabulary for browsing these materials. The system provides some automatic tagging of materials as they are deposited, so that tagging does not need to be done entirely by hand.
The Metadata Hopper then generates Dublin Core files associated with each original metadata record. This ensures that all of the original metadata (including all of the original subject terminology) is indexed and searchable, while the associated Dublin Core file provides the enhanced metadata for the site, including Chicago topics and neighborhoods.
The Metadata Hopper was also built using the Django framework, and was designed to be used independently of the specific Explore Chicago Collections context. The code for Metadata Hopper along with all of its associated documentation can be found in the Metadata Hopper Bitbucket repository.
The system will provide full access to finding aids in their entirety, rather than simply accepting brief descriptions of collections. This enables researchers to find even obscure connections between related collections from different institutions.
The system uses a 'deposit' rather than a 'harvest' approach to contributing content; member institutions must not be required to maintain any additional local infrastructure in order to participate.
The system will not require any institution to change its local metadata practices or to maintain a second copy of materials that Explore Chicago Collections can accept.
The system will accept both the direct deposit of image media files or the deposit of metadata files that point to an image media file.
The system must be able to expand to support new types of media and metadata.


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Yaax Che Botanical Gardens
Stemming from Legend
Mayan mythology has great ties to Mother Nature. The botanical gardens of "Yaax Che", take their name from an old Mayan legend about the Cieba tree. This is possibly the same legend that served as the inspiration for the Tree of Souls in James Cameron's Award-winning movie Avatar. This garden was established in 1982 and is one of the largest Botanical Gardens in Mexico. If you are looking to increase your knowledge about local plants or the Maya, this is the place.
Mayan Botanical Gardens near Puerto Morelos
The legend has it that the giant Ceiba tree called "Yaax Che" grows right from the center of the world, with its roots reaching into the underworld and its branches holding up the sky. The Maya believe that the Ceiba tree provides a pathway for souls to reach the heavens by joining the three cosmic levels of the Mayan Universe. Jardin Botanico Yaax Che is a magical place to visit, explore and experience with its unique combination of Maya plants with typical Maya architecture.
Why visit the Yaax Che Botanical gardens?
With 150-acres of lush jungle and mangrove trees, this is the largest botanical garden both on the coast of Quintana Roo and within Mexico. In addition to the vast selection of plants, Yaax Che Botanical Gardens is home to over 220 rare animal species. This combination makes your trip to Yaax Che an educational visit that shares both Mayan 'treasures' and adventures. When the botanical gardens opened its doors to the public three decades ago, Jardín Botánico "Yaax Che" was dedicated to Dr. Alfredo Barrera Marín – a scientist who devoted most of his life to the study and preservation of Mayan traditions and the Yucatan's natural environment.
What is there to do and discover at Jardín Botánico "Yaax Che"?
Besides hiking the groomed jungle trails and taking pictures of numerous exotic trees, plants and flowers (whose names can be read in English, Spanish and Latin), stay on the lookout for colorful birds, sunning iguanas and playful spider monkeys. Walk a 130-foot suspension bridge, and if you feel up to the challenge, climb a scenic lookout tower. If you make the climb, your reward is the vast panoramic view expanding from the mangrove forest to the sparkling sea and out over the jungle!
Why Yaax Che makes this adventure a bit more memorable
As in most natural parks in Riviera Maya and Quintana Roo, Yaax Che botanical gardens holds the traces of the ancient Mayan civilization. Although small, the "El Altar" Mayan ruins date back to 1400 D.C. To give you a better feel of what local life was like before tourism came to the coast, the Jardín Botánico hosts a traditional Maya home and a re-created chiclero camp. What is a chiclero camp? It's the temporary camps set up throughout the Yucatan where the sap of the zapote or "chicle" tree was boiled down and cast into blocks for transport out of the jungle. It's where the first chewing gum production took its origins from. The gum derived from the chicle tree served as a base for the then popular "Chiclets" chewing gum brand.
When to visit the Botanical Garden of Dr. Alfredo Barrera Marín?
The park is open daily, Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 5 pm (last entry is at 4 pm), so you can easily incorporate a visit to Yaax Che into your vacation 'agenda'! Remember to wear comfortable shoes, bring sunscreen, water and insect repellent. You're out in the jungle after all! The Botanical Gardens are located near Puerto Morelos just south of Cancun.
Hi, we're Shirley & Eddie Bell, the owners of Villa Mateo. We live in Lubbock Texas and come down to Puerto Morelos as often as we can.
Having grown up and raised our family on the plains of Texas we've learned to love the warm breezes and wonderful sounds of the ocean we enjoy from our Mexican home.


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Theater, Drama Shubert Theatre , Midtown West Open run
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Aaron Sorkin takes a shot at Harper Lee's classic novel.
Theater review by Adam Feldman
The defense never rests in Aaron Sorkin's cagey adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. That the play exists at all is an act of boldness: Turning Harper Lee's 1960 novel into a play in 2018 is no easy task. The hero of the story, as every schoolchild knows, is Atticus Finch (Jeff Daniels), a lawyer in rural Alabama in the early 1930s, who bravely defends a disabled black man, Tom Robinson (Gbenga Akinnagbe), against a false accusation of rape. Slow to anger and reluctant to judge—"You never really understand a person," he says, "until you climb into his skin and walk around in it"—Atticus is a paragon of that most fabled of American values: decency.
But while To Kill a Mockingbird has a special place in the literature of American civil rights, the book is also now a minefield. As seen through the eyes of his preteen tomboy daughter, Scout (Celia Keenan-Bolger), Atticus is very much a white-daddy savior, albeit one who can't perform miracles, in a narrative that has little room for the perspectives of black people beyond the respect and gratitude they show him. At its center is a story about a young woman—Tom's accuser, Mayella (Erin Wilhelmi)—whose allegations of sexual assault must not be believed. Even more problematic, to some modern ears, is the scope of Atticus's magnanimity. It is not just the black skins that he urges his children to walk around in; it is also the skins of the white farmers who try to lynch Tom Robinson before his trial. Atticus's humanism can sound, at times, like an evasion of moral distinction.
That isn't quite fair to the Atticus of Lee's book, who dismisses any white man who cheats a black man as "trash." But it's a question about which Sorkin's play seems acutely alert and, well, defensive. Having survived a legal challenge from Lee's estate, which believed that it departed too much from the novel, the play has its guard up. (In a departure from normal procedure, the production did not provide critics with a copy of the script.) The play does not think that there are fine people on both sides, and it wants to plant a flag on the right one.
"They're still good people," Sorkin's Atticus says of the racists in his town. "They're still our friends and neighbors." But the storytelling doesn't back him up. Sorkin has made the villains—especially the odious Bob Ewell (Frederick Weller), the accuser's abusive father—more villainous than ever; factors that might mitigate our revulsion toward the meaner characters, such as illness or extreme poverty, are downplayed. Meanwhile, Atticus's attitudes are challenged in explicit terms by his truculent young son, Jem (Will Pullen), and by his staunch African-American maid, Calpurnia (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), whose role has been beefed up substantially from the novel. When Atticus says, "I believe in being respectful," Calpurnia is ready with a rejoinder: "No matter who you're disrespecting by doin' it."
The play's ambivalent approach to Atticus is satisfying but also sometimes glib: It's as though after Anne Frank said, "In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart," someone chimed in to add, "Well, except the Nazis." And despite Sorkin's best efforts—as is often the case with sensitive material—every righteous decision engenders new potential critiques. The story's white male protagonist may be in need of an education, but his white male perspective is more central than ever: Scout now shares the narration with Jem and their friend Dill (Gideon Glick), and the major adult women in the story, other than Calpurnia, have been written out. Even Calpurnia, in a way, is less of a character than she was before, and more of a device; you don't get a strong sense, as you did in the book, of a black woman negotiating her delicate position in the South of the 1930s. (The play's worst scene finds Atticus explaining to her, anachronistically, what "passive-aggressive" means.)
Yet the effort is commendable, and the execution is exemplary. Directed by Bartlett Sher, the elegant production is stately but not stodgy; Miriam Buether's simple set has just enough detail to suggest the outlines of a memory. (Jennifer Tipton's lighting and Ann Roth's costumes help flesh it out.) Daniels is a first-rate Atticus: thoughtful, patient, gently authoritative and appropriately troubled by the unchanging world around him. Three excellent adult actors—Keenan-Bolger, Pullen and Glick—play the child characters-cum-narrators without preciousness, and Wilhelmi is heart-wrenching as the broken Mayella. The large, adept cast also includes Dakin Matthews as a sympathetic judge, Stark Sands as a canny prosecutor, Danny Wolohan as a frightening recluse and Neal Huff as a man who finds limited cover behind his reputation as a drunk.
If Sorkin's adaptation lacks the subtlety and plainspokenness of Lee's novel, it has moments of old-fashioned power—the playwright knows how to set up a court scene—and others of surprising tenderness, as when Atticus briefly takes the fatherless Dill under his wing. ("You have no business being kind, but there you are," he tells the boy.) As befits material that has been a high-school mainstay for decades, this To Kill a Mockingbird has many teachable moments, perhaps a few too many. But it does—and I mean this as a compliment—a very decent job.
Shubert Theatre (Broadway). By Aaron Sorkin. Directed by Bartlett Sher. With Jeff Daniels, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Will Pullen, Gideon Glick, LaTanya Richardson Jackson. Running time: 2hrs 35mins. One intermission.
[Note: Ed Harris takes over the role of Atticus Finch beginning November 5, 2019.]
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By: Adam Feldman
Posted: Thursday December 13 2018
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Glad I saw it, and Sorkin has not lost his touch, but the play lost a lot of nuance and authenticity compared to either the novel or the film. From Sorkin's Vulture article, I suspect that his subtext was to take Atticus Finch off his pedestal. After _Go Set a Watchman_ and #MeToo, that's not inherently preposterous, but it is awfully divisive. Sorkin lost sight of Solzhenitsyn's insight: "If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart." The play aims to make Manhattanites feel even more superior than we already do; the novel and film changed minds.
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I live in Colorado so I get high. If in public I seem to cling to my husband & eat an eatable.
when i get a Anxiety attack there is nothing I can do. I tell myself it will be okay. I have tried it so many times now, and I try to tell myself there is nothing to be afraid of, it dos not help. I always, home or in public, think I will die. There are lots of NoUseWebsite like this one. Nothing helps I have ups and i have downs, but I am never free, I dont have the resources to establish a way of life that would improve my mind, and as long as I don't have this I won't be able to gather the resources to establish a way of life that would improve my mind.
Thank you for your ideas. I am just finding relief with similar issues and you added a few I didn't think of.
Hopeless: This is a great list. I too suffer great anxiety along with bi polar 1 rapid cycling. Anxiety is with me every day and is usually very high. I have a bag I have with me no matter where I go. I have my phone with headset, mine has music, mindfulness meditations and games that make you think so your distracted from the anxiety. My adult colouring is in there, my crocheting, a book and little cards with places to go and do. Like my favourite path to hike along the water, go feed the duck. And also que cards with all the numbers for my support system in case I run into trouble. I've even gone to parks and swing in swings and climbers and I'm 52. I will be damned if this illness is going to take me down. I was a very severe case with my illness and I've been digging myself out of the whole two years now. Look into therapy I know I'm taking DBT therapy and it's been amazing and DBT is is also very good. There's lots of resources you just have to keep calling places and push them. Your the only advocate for yourself, stand up and be proud. The work is exhausting but ecstatic to be doing it. Excercise is my go too. Find something you like, I do Aquafit and run 5k, I could never have done that when I was younger. mindfullness is a big part of the therapy session. I know my to do list for the summer is a little off the wall according to him. So to make a sandcastle, 2 specific lakes to swim in, paddle boarding, hike in the woods and have a picnic. Zip lining and I hate the scare but gonna master my fears. I'm flying in a very small plane to go to a camp and fish, canoe. Also walk the water with no shoes and see the sunset. So many small things to enjoy and do help with anxiety. Mine anyway. Do the park thing and be surprised at how many friends you make that are so little. They always hate to see go. I hope my story helped gives you some inspiration. I'm spiralling quite bad between manic/depressive episodes and have made poor choices and got hurt quite bad. I'm managing it 10 minutes at a time and do what I need to so I don't suffer anymore than I have to. I find distracting my mind is the best and have fun with it. Just telling you all this so you can see there is hope and I'm not stable at all. Chin up and know you can do it.
All of these suggest are great, but what do you do when you have a panic attack in public.
I have found the only thing that helps me is to stop, close my eyes, place my hand on my breast bone, taking deep slow breaths and counting them at the same time.
Counting and slowing my breaths both distracts and soothes me.
It takes practice and you have to get over the fear others might be watching you, but it works for me.
I find a scriptures in the Bible that gives me thoughts of HOPE, TRUST, LOVING KINDNESS and PROTECTION...etc. This what I do to OVERRIDE the painful emotional memories and physical sufferings. I then write the verses to include the names of my Late Mother, other Believers, and myself. I then visualize seeing, speaking, and trusting in Jesus Christ NAME to bring it to pass for us. The POWER of His finish works on the Cross intentionally buildups my Faith in HIS WORDS. My confidence for what I am HOPING FOR FROM GOD TO HEAL, RESTORE, MAKE RIGHT, SALVATION AND BLESS.


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MDS users start up your happy dance! The new update for your program will give you the ability to CUSTOMIZE your toolbar! Want that "Save" button back up there? You got it! How about the "Align" button? Yep, you can put that one up there too, or not! Whatever you want! Just point your cursor on the toolbar area, right click, select "Customize Toolbar" from the popup menu, then start customizing!
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In Russia, FedEx Is Cast Away
Posted by Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®
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The 2000 film "Cast Away" is set largely on a tropical island in the South Pacific, but the opening sequence takes place in the snowy environs of a Moscow FedEx facility.
In a memorable scene, Tom Hanks' character sorts packages on an icy street near Red Square to demonstrate to the Moscow staff the paramount importance of getting packages to their Russian recipients on time. It makes for entertaining cinema, but it was not meant to be a particularly important part of the story. The scene dramatized something that could have actually happened in 1995, when the film's story began.
Almost 20 years later, Russia has cast FedEx away, making the scene a relic of the past.
Back in the 1990s, when Russia was emerging from communism and was a much freer society than it is today, American products like salsa and volleyballs could get shipped to Russian consumers and would "absolutely, positively" be there pretty soon, if not overnight. After all, Russia is a very large country. Russians eager for cheaper or higher quality goods were willing to wait a little longer for their packages to reach them.
But no more. The New York Times reported that FedEx, along with other courier services including UPS and DHL, announced that it would no longer deliver shipments of goods to individuals in Russia due to the country's new, overly burdensome requirements for international packages. Under Russia's recently unveiled customs rules, couriers must prove a package contains nothing more valuable than the duty-free limit of 150 euros, or about $200. The couriers have said the halt to service might be temporary, but for now, they will deliver packages only to companies, leaving Russian individuals who want anything from them other than documents out of luck.
In the announcement of their decision, the companies noted, "The service we provide to our clients is speed, quality and reliability in full compliance with local legislation." The announcement continued: "The new rules make it impossible." Ivan Shatskikh, the country manager for UPS Russia, said in an emailed statement that the change resulted in "a significant delay in the delivery of packages to private individuals in Russia."
That the new rules have pushed out international couriers is not an oversight. It seems obvious that the policies were, in fact, designed to make the bureaucratic burden on them as heavy as possible. On the surface, the new regulations are about making sure Russian customs duties do not slip through the cracks. Under the surface, the rules are about protecting Russian businesses from more efficient and customer-oriented foreign competition. At the very bottom, in all likelihood, the rules are a result of the Russian system of graft, in which some official must receive a payoff or benefit in order for any business to actually get done at all. Foreign sellers are a threat to that system. Threats to that system are threats to President Vladimir Putin's power, and threats to his power are not tolerated.
Do svidaniya, Wilson.
Russia is not alone on its international shopping crackdown. Argentina's restrictions are similarly protectionist, if not similarly graft-inspired. The country recently limited its residents to two customs-free purchases annually, both of which must be worth less than $25. Any other, or more valuable, purchases must be collected at a customs office where the recipient will owe a hefty duty of 50 percent on the item. eBay has asked Argentine buyers to allow extra time for their shipments and has instituted policies to protect sellers from negative feedback due to slow package arrival times. A Buenos Aires resident who spoke to the BBC pointed out that, in addition to the slow arrival time and the duty, "Each time you go to customs, you need to spend three or four hours." On top of the 50 percent duty, the inconvenience of spending half a day at customs is likely to mean that international e-commerce in Argentina will slow to a crawl.
The whole affair shows, in microcosm, why free trade is good for everyone. Russian consumers have lost the chance to get better products delivered cheaply to their doors. The Association of Online Vendors estimated that Russian cross-border trade more than doubled in 2013; that trend will definitely slow in 2014, and may even reverse, if the new rules remain in place. American businesses ranging from FedEx to Wilson Sporting Goods to salsa maker Pace Foods have all effectively lost access to a market of 143 million people, more and more of whom are connected to the Internet. The only people likely to be pleased by the arrangement are the Russian officials who can continue to pocket a growing take from the domestic businesses that will become Russian consumers' only real options.
But that's progress - or what passes for it in Russia these days.
Larry M. Elkin is the founder and president of Palisades Hudson, and is based out of Palisades Hudson's Fort Lauderdale, Florida headquarters. He wrote several of the chapters in the firm's book, Looking Ahead: Life, Family, Wealth and Business After 55. His contributions include Chapter 1, "Looking Ahead When Youth Is Behind Us" and Chapter 4, "The Family Business."
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Kyle Grillot - kgrillot@shawmedia.com Agnes Rapacz received a kidney transplant in 2002. Since then, she participates in the Transplant Games as a swimmer. In July, she will participate in the Transplant games of America in Houston, and later this summer in the European Transplant games.
Kyle Grillot - kgrillot@shawmedia.com Agnes Rapacz of Lake in the Hills prepares for her swimming practice Monday in Algonquin. In 2002, she received a kidney transplant. After her transplant she began participating in the Transplant Games as a swimmer. In July, she will participate in the Transplant games of America in Houston, and later this summer in the European Transplant games.
Kyle Grillot - kgrillot@shawmedia.com Rapacz has won 10 medals in her time as a swimmer. In July, she will participate in the Transplant games of America in Houston, and later this summer in the European Transplant games.
Kyle Grillot - kgrillot@shawmedia.com Agnes Rapacz of Lake in the Hills during swimming practice Monday in Algonquin. In 2002, she received a kidney transplant. After her transplant she began participating in the Transplant Games as a swimmer. In July, she will participate in the Transplant games of America in Houston, and later this summer in the European Transplant games.
Agnes Rapacz received a kidney transplant in 2002. Since then, she participates in the Transplant Games as a swimmer. In July, she will participate in the Transplant games of America in Houston, and later this summer in the European Transplant games.