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Mitchell Mercer, Staff Writer
The Presbyterian College Men's Basketball team finished the regular season with a 1-1 record over the week with a loss to Longwood and a win against Charleston Southern. With this, the Blue Hose finished 9 in the Big South Conference and played in the first round of the Big South Tournament in a rematch against Charleston Southern on Tuesday. The Buccaneers won the rematch 81-64 to end Presbyterian's season. Cory Hightower led the Blue Hose with 16 points and 5 rebounds while Chris Martin led the team with 3 steals. The men's basketball team finished the season with a 10-22 overall record and 7-11 overall season in conference play.
The Women's Basketball team fell to Campbell on Feb. 29, losing 42-56. Trinity Johnson led the Blue Hose with 13 points while Kacie Hall and Jade Compton tied for the team lead for steals with 2. The team rebounded from the loss with a blowout win on March 4 against Winthrop on senior day 88-54. Tionna Carter had 20 points and 9 rebounds while Trinity Johnson had 9 assists for the team. The Women's basketball team finished the season 11-18 and 7-13 in conference play.
The baseball team lost their series to Notre Dame over the weekend 5-13, 4-10, and 0-9 respectively. Following a cancelled game against St John's, the Blue Hose looked to bounce back but fell in embarrassing fashion by allowing 23 runs in a road contest lost to Wofford 5-23.
At the Scotsman Invitational here in Clinton, the softball team played really well, going 4-1 at the invitational with wins twice over Cleveland State, Wagner and Wright State. The Blue Hose outscored their opponents around 4.8 runs per game to 2.2 runs per opponent.
The women's lacrosse team fell to Kennesaw State in a road contest on Feb. 29, scoring 11-22. Sarah Marshall led the team with 3 goals with Abby Edmisten recording 2 assists for the Blue Hose.
The acrobatics team fell to #8 ranked Converse 255.720-264.430.
The men's tennis team won a home contest against North Carolina A&T 6-1 while the women's team fell vice versa to Chattanooga 1-6.
Until next time, this is what you missed this week in PC sports.
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Who's next into the Mets Hall Of Fame?
Last Friday, after Jose Reyes' got a single to left single field, I checked twitter and saw that Johan Santana was being inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall Of Fame (congrats, Johan!).
This made me ponder the list of candidates for the Mets Hall Of Fame:
You have to assume that Santana (along with Beltran, Reyes, etc.) will get into the Mets Hall of Fame soon. https://t.co/VzUOlTZV5C
— Niko Goutakolis (@NikoMetsPlus) May 12, 2018
Now that Mike Piazza and John Franco are in the Hall Of Fame, and the only other candidates from "Generation Piazza" being Al Leiter, and probably Edgardo Alfonzo, it's time to think about candidates from "Generation Wright".
Without any semblance of doubt, Jose Reyes will make the Mets Hall Of Fame. Jose is the Mets all time leader in stolen bases and triples, second all time in runs, hits, doubles, total bases, extra base hits and multi-hit games (only behind David Wright on all of them).
David Wright and Carlos Beltran are two other locks for obvious reasons, with David probably going in a few years before Carlos.
The gray area comes with players like Johan Santana. Of course, there his performance and his leadership, and the fact that he started four Opening Day's for the Mets, but the no-hitter is really the x-factor for Johan. Think about it, if Santana doesn't throw the no-hitter, what is his legacy? It's still a good one, but nothing better than R.A Dickey.
Who Do You Believe will make it into the Mets Hall of Fame next? Let me know on Twitter @NikoMetsPlus.
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Liam Gallagher brands Covid-19 a "f****** c***" after Man City's game postponed
Manchester City have postponed their showdown with Everton due to a Covid-19 outbreak at the club, sparking a furious reaction from lifelong fan Liam Gallagher on social media
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Manchester City have been forced to postpone their clash with Everton due to an outbreak of Covid-19 cases - leaving lifelong supporter Liam Gallagher seething.
Another five City players have contracted coronavirus ahead of their scheduled meeting with the Toffees, just a few days after Kyle Walker and Gabriel Jesus tested positive.
Four members of staff also returned positives at the same time as Walker and Jesus, meaning nine personnel are now undergoing self-isolation periods at the club.
Manchester City have been forced to postpone their clash with Everton at Goodison Park due to an outbreak of Covid-19 cases (Image: EMPICS Sport)
Man City 'think Covid-19 super-spread crisis started at hotel in London for Arsenal match'
City had no choice but to ask the Premier League to postpone their fixture against Everton, a request which was rightly accepted.
But former Oasis star Gallagher, who is a die-hard fan of the club, is furious that the game has been cancelled and has taken to Twitter to blast the "f****** c***" of a virus.
"The footy is off GUTTED you f****** C*** of a virus," he wrote.
Lifelong City supporter Liam Gallagher has been left furious, branding coronavirus a "f****** c***"
"Be gone you f***** s***".
It is unclear whether City will be able to play their next match, which comes away at Chelsea on January 3.
In a statement released on Monday, the Etihad club said: "Manchester City FC can confirm that this evening's Premier League fixture at Everton has been postponed.
"After the latest round of Covid-19 testing, the club returned a number of positive cases, in addition to the four already reported on Christmas Day.
"With the security of the bubble compromised, there posed a risk that the virus could spread further amongst the squad, the staff and potentially beyond.
"Based on strong medical advice the Premier League, in consultation with both clubs, have decided to postpone the fixture.
Five more City players have tested positive just days after Kyle Walker and Gabriel Jesus contracted the virus (Image: PA)
"All positive cases involving players and staff will observe a period of self-isolation in accordance with Premier League and UK Government protocol on quarantine. The first team training ground at City Football Academy will close for an indeterminate period, with the squad and associated bubble undergoing testing before any decision is made for training to resume.
"Everyone at the Club wishes all of our colleagues a speedy recovery ahead of their return to work, training and competition."
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César Chávez
The Seedlings of an Organizer
César Chávez belongs amongst the great nonviolent leaders and organizers of history. From Mahatma Gandhi in India to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the South to Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and every other dedicated community based organizer today, César Chávez both influenced, and was influenced by these leaders and their movements. At a rally celebrating the fifth federally observed Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1990, Chávez spoke to the crowd about his role Dr. King:
During my first fast in 1968, Dr. King reminded me that our struggle was his struggle, too. He sent me a telegram which said, 'Our separate struggles are really one. A struggle for freedom, for dignity, and for humanity.' I was profoundly moved that someone facing such a tremendous struggle himself would take the time to worry about a struggle taking place on the other side of the continent.
Again, in a speech on Good Friday in 1969, Chávez proclaimed:
Today on Good Friday 1969 we remember the life and the sacrifice of Martin Luther King, Jr., who gave himself totally to the non-violent struggle for peace and justice. In his Letter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. King describes better than I could our hopes for the strike and boycott: "Injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
Chávez lived out these words spoken by Dr. King. At an early age, he recognized the tremendous struggles and injustice that his community faced, and without a second thought he knew he had to do something about it. A true community organizer, he drew countless determined, hard-working individuals to his movement, La Causa, it was called, as it became recognized across the nation. Together, Chávez and his comrades championed a powerful movement, shedding light on the plight of farm workers in America, and ultimately bringing due justice to this tireless community.
Césario Estrada Chávez was born on March 31, 1927 in Yuma, Arizona. His parents were Mexican-American, their parents having emigrated to the U.S. from Mexico in 1888. Chávez' parents owned a farm and grocery store in Yuma, but in the late 1930s, during the Depression, the family was unable to pay taxes on their ranch, and was forced to leave the land. At age ten, Chávez and his family moved to San Jose, California looking for work and found jobs as migrant farm workers. Chávez later recalled: "I bitterly missed the ranch. Maybe that is when the rebellion started. Some had been born into the migrant stream. But we had been on the land, and I knew a different way of life. We were poor but we had liberty. The migrant is poor, and he has no freedom." Migrant workers moved from place to place, and only had work if crops were ready for harvest. Living conditions were horrendous. Housing was dirty, cramped and rundown. They were often forced to live in tents, and had no electricity, running water, or bathrooms.
Chávez never went to high school because his family desperately needed him to work in the fields. When he was in school, teachers actually punished him for speaking Spanish, and students made fun of his accent. He encountered signs that read "No Dogs or Mexicans Allowed". As a teenager he was arrested for sitting in the wrong section of a movie theater (he should have been sitting in the section marked for blacks, Mexicans, and Filipinos).
His lack of institutional education affected him later in life. As a fulltime organizer, he was constantly writing and delivering speeches:
After a house meeting I would lie awake going over the whole thing, trying to see why people laughed at one point, or why they were for one thing and against another. Those late evenings I was also learning to read and write. I had left school in the 7th grade after attending [37] different schools, and my reading wasn't the best.
Though school was an incredibly difficult, often painful experience, as he grew older, education became his passion. The walls of his office in La Paz (the United Farm Workers' headquarters) were lined with hundreds of books ranging from philosophy, economics, cooperatives, and unions, to biographies on Gandhi and the Kennedys'. Chávez believed that, "The end of all education should surely be service to others," a belief that he practiced until his untimely death.
At the age of 19 he joined the U.S. Navy to serve during WWII, and faced more discrimination. He called these years the worst two years of his life. When he returned, he went back to California and married Helen Fabela, who became his rock, in 1948.
He was profoundly influenced by his mother, Juana, a gentle woman with a deep religious faith, who did not believe in violence. During her eulogy in 1991, Chávez remembered:
It was the Depression years of the late 1930s and early '40s. But as poor as we were and with what little we had, Mama would send my brother Richard and me out to a railroad yards and other places for "hobos" we could invite to our tent to share a meal. In those days the highways were littered with families whose cars or pickup trucks had broken down–with no place to go and no way to get there. When we were on the road, no matter how badly off we were, our mother would never let us pass a family in trouble.
Our mother taught us not to be afraid to fight – to stand up for our rights. But she also taught us not to be violent. We didn't even know enough at the time to call it nonviolence. But from an early age, through her dichos and little lessons, she would always talk to us about not fighting, not responding in kind.
His father, Librado, also had a tremendous influence on young Chávez as he joined many unions and participated in countless strikes. Sadly, the strikes weren't successful: improving working conditions for the laborers would cost money, and business owners were not willing to pay. Instead, they would hire foreign workers to replace striking migrants, hire men to physically assault the strikers, or have the strikers arrested. The media portrayed the striking migrants as violent anti-Americans (despite the fact that they were all citizens). Chávez was outraged by these inhumane conditions his father faced. Thus, both Chávez' parents and his childhood experiences prepared him to be a great organizer:
There are vivid memories from my childhood – what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm-workers. The truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something.
Creating a Union: The United Farm Workers of America
Chávez' first official introduction to structured community organizing was with Fred Ross and his Community Service Organization (CSO). Ross was Chávez' earliest teacher in movement making. Chávez described his first encounter with Ross: "Fred found a cold reception from the people packed into our living room. Then he started talking – and changed my life... At home that night I told Helen [my wife] how what had happened at the meeting was pure magic – and I was going to learn it. Come what may, I wouldn't stop until I learned how to organize." "All the time I was observing the things Fred did, secretly," Chávez recalled, "because I wanted to learn how to organize, to see how it was done. I was impressed with his patience and understanding of people. I thought this was a tool, one of the greatest things he had."
The CSO taught its members how to organize to change conditions within their communities – an invaluable lesson for Chávez. But, eventually, he became disillusioned by the way the organization functioned:
When I became general director [of CSO] I began to press for a program to organize farm-workers into a union, an idea most of the leadership opposed. So I started a revolt with the CSO. I refused to sit at the head table at meetings, refused to wear a suit and tie, and finally I even refused to shave and cut my hair... At every meeting I got up and gave my standard speech: We shouldn't be meeting in fancy motels. We were getting away from the people. Farm-workers had to be organized. Nothing happened, so in March 1962 I resigned and came to Delano to begin organizing the Valley on my own.
Thus, in 1962, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, an incredible community organizer and educator from Stockton, California, created the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) founded upon their desire to serve the needs of farm workers and migrant laborers, and stay in close contact with their constituency. It should be noted that, while Chávez was indeed an irreplaceable leader, Huerta's organizing skills were invaluable for the new organization's growth and success. They worked very closely together for years, challenging one another to do their utmost to fight for the rights of every single individual in their community.
"We started out by telling workers, 'We are trying to organize a union. We don't have money, but if you work together it can be done,'" Chávez explained, "Ninety-five percent of the workers we talked to were very kind. They smiled at us. Five percent asked us questions, and maybe one percent had the spirit and really wanted to do something." In addition their initial struggle to gain grassroots support, Chávez and Huerta faced endless fundamental challenges in the beginning:
We didn't have any money for gas and food. Many days we left the house with no money at all. Sometimes we had enough gas to get there but not enough to come back. We were determined to go to the workers. In fact at the very beginning of the organizing drive, we looked for the worst homes in the barrios.... And we went in and asked for a hand out. Inevitably, they gave us food. Then they made a collection and gave us money for gas. They opened their homes and gave us their hearts. And today they are the nucleus of the union's leadership. We forced ourselves to do this. We kept telling ourselves, 'If these workers don't get organized, if we fail, it's our fault not theirs.'
Their determination resulted in the bedrock establishment of the first union in America dedicated to serving farm workers, which would ultimately be named the United Farm Workers of America. However, their organization did not become an official union right away. Once the NFWA was underway, Chávez convinced his brother, Richard, to sell his house. "Once he got an idea in his head he wouldn't drop it," Richard said. They sold his house for $3,700 and started a credit union, creating a fiscal foundation for their dream union.
The movement really caught on in 1964, and by 1965, the NFWA voted to support the largely Filipino-American Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee's strike against Delano, California area grape growers, thus beginning their five-year strike. The movement thrived on inclusively – everyone was welcome. "All of us a looking for a place under the sun," Chávez once stated, "a union built by farm workers for farm workers." The next year, Chávez' dream came true: the two groups officially merged to form a union: the United Farm Workers of America (UFW). However, though the union now existed, it took years before growers recognized it, and years before fair treatment for farm workers would become a reality.
"Huelga!"
September 8, 1965 marked the official beginning of the Delano grape strike, la huelga (meaning "strike"). Pete Velasco, a Filipino organizer and dear companion to Chávez, reported that picketing started at 4 a.m. that morning, and most of the people in the picket line were women.
The Plan of Delano was published in the UFW's newspaper, El Malcriado, on March 17, 1966. It laid out the plan for the liberation of the farm workers associated with the Delano Grape Strike in California. It's fourth clause stated:
We are suffering. We have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the law of the land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice. We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live.
In a speech two years into the strike, Chávez elaborated on this theme, the strength and humanity of the farm worker:
The farm worker has learned that his sub-human existence is not inevitable. He has awakened to the realization that something better is possible for himself and his family. Laws are not going to stop strikes and boycotts so long as his honest, law-abiding efforts to improve his condition are met with massive, hostile grower resistance... The best insurance against strikes and boycotts lies not in repressive legislation, but in strong unions that will satisfy the farm worker's hunger for decency and dignity and self-respect.
Despite the farm workers vocal, but peaceful, demonstrations, and Chávez ceaseless, rational negotiations, growers responded violently to the strike. They threatened strikers with shotguns and burned their picket signs. But Chávez insisted that the strikers remain nonviolent.
By 1967 growers were no more sympathetic to the farm workers' cause. So, Chávez called for a national boycott on grapes. It worked. Californians stopped buying grapes, supporters picketed supermarkets, and eventually major cities refused to accept shipments of grapes because nobody would buy them. "The boycott is one of the most powerful weapons that poor people and people who struggle for justice have in this world," Chávez explained, "It's so powerful because it's really nothing more than the extension of love from one human being to the other."
Compassion for the farm workers in California began to spread, and the boycott began to gain international recognition. On April 16, 1969, four years into the strike, Chávez spoke before the Subcommittee of Labor of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare:
"Our cause, our strike against table grapes and our international boycott are all founded upon our deep conviction that the form of collective self-help which is unionization holds far more hope for the farm workers than any other approach, whether public or private. This conviction is what brings spirit, high hope and optimism to everything we do."
During a speech in Austin Texas, which he gave in both English and Spanish (Chávez was constantly working with a bilingual community:
"…el idioma ingles es para los negocios…. Y el idioma esapañol es el idioma de los ángeles y también se usa para enamorar". "English is the language of business; Spanish is the language for angels and people in love" ), Chávez again spelled out the reason why farm workers were deserving of equal rights and far treatment. Their basic needs as human beings, and the notion of civil kindness and compassion, were reasons that seemed to elude growers. Just as it was during Chávez' father's time, growers were still far more concerned with reaping profit than creating livable working conditions for their employees. In his speech, Chávez stated:
It's outright disgraceful that this employer, one employer, is able… to hold people back from having their rightful place in society by having a union. It's high time that not only in Texas but California – everywhere across the land – that workers should not be made to suffer… for the right that was given to them, not by employer, not by any legislation – by inherent right. They were born with the right to be able to join unions or union of their choice."
Despite endless, often violent resistance, Chávez and the strikers were absolutely relentless. Finally, in July of 1970, after five years of strikes, boycotts, marches, and lobbying, most of the grape growers had agreed to sign contracts with their pickers. This was the first major victory for the UFW. Their second major victory came in 1975 when Jerry Brown, who was Governor of California at the time, passed the Agricultural Labor Relations Act. It was the first law of its kind in the United States, granting farm workers in California the right to collectively organize and bargain for better wages and working conditions. These huge successes were not stopping points though: Chávez continued to work to advance farm workers' rights. He organized strikes, boycotts, and other protests to win fair pay, job security, health insurance, retirement benefits, and decent working conditions. By 1972 the UFW had more than 30,000 members, a stark contrast to the 368 attendees at the very first meeting in 1962.
Fasting and Nonviolence
Strikes and boycotts were not the only tactics Chávez used to draw attention to the cause of migrant farm workers. By 1968, farm workers everywhere were angry and worried that they could not secure their rights and win their cause without violence. Chávez knew that violence would compromise the integrity of their movement, and would ultimately sacrifice their own self-respect. He did not want to see his people fall prey to the inhuman tactics by which they were being harmed and manipulated. He sought a way to disprove their beliefs, and demonstrate that they could build a great union and "secure the spirit of all people" through a rededication and recommitment to the struggle for justice through nonviolence. So, in 1968 Chávez went on a water only, 25-day fast. He repeated the fast in 1972 for 24 days, and again in 1988, for 36 days.
Chávez explained his belief in the power of fasting:
A fast is first and foremost personal. It is a fast for the purification of my own body, mind, and soul. The fast is also a heartfelt prayer for purification and strengthening for all those who work beside me in the farm worker movement. The fast is also an act of penance for those in positions of moral authority and for all men and women activists who know what is right and just, who know that they could and should do more. The fast is finally a declaration of non-cooperation with supermarkets who promote and sell and profit from California table grapes. During the past few years I have been studying the plague of pesticides on our land and our food… The evil is far greater than even I had thought it to be, it threatens to choke out the life of our people and also the life system that supports us all. The solution to this deadly crisis will not be found in the arrogance of the powerful, but in solidarity with the weak and helpless. I pray to God that this fast will be a preparation for a multitude of simple deeds for justice. Carried out by men and women whose hearts are focused on the suffering of the poor and who yearn, with us, for a better world. Together, all things are possible.
Through fasting, Chávez hoped to make very clear the purpose of the UFW. Their aims and actions were not a retaliation, a lashing out at growers and the other individuals who perpetuated the injustice of farm workers, rather they were a sincere demand to redirect public attention towards the plight of these workers. They were a call for justice through cooperation, not punitive measures.
In a letter to E.L. Barr Jr., the president of the California Grape and Tree Fruit League in 1969, Chávez further clarified the nonviolent aim of the movement:
We advocate militant nonviolence as our means for social revolution and to achieve justice for our people.... Participation and self-determination remain the best experience of freedom; and free men instinctively prefer democratic change and even protect the rights guaranteed to seek it. Only the enslaved in despair have need of violent overthrow…. we do not hate you [Mr. Barr] or rejoice to see your industry destroyed; we hate the agribusiness system that seeks to keep us enslaved and we shall overcome and change it not by retaliation or bloodshed but by determined non-violent struggle carried on by those masses of farm workers who intend to be free and human."
In his speech marking the end of his first fast on March 10, 1968, Chávez made a bold statement:
"When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belongs to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are…. I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle for justice. To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!"
When Chávez completed his final fast, his 36-day Fast for Life, on August 21, 1988, both men and women responded to this call to justice: The Reverend Jesse Jackson took up where Chávez left off, fasting on water for three days before passing the fast on to other celebrities and leaders. The fast was passed to actor Martin Sheen; President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Reverend J. Lowery; actors Edward Olmos and Emilio Estevez; Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert Kennedy; legislator Peter Chacon; actress Julie Carmen; actor Danny Glover; singer Carly Simon; and actress Whoopi Goldberg – all standing in solidarity with Chávez and the UFW.
Upon the conclusion of his twenty-four-day fast for justice on June 4, 1972, Chávez made a statement that beautifully summed up the purpose of his life: "We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that choice will know hardship and sacrifice. But if you give yourself totally to the nonviolent struggle you will never go hungry and never be alone. And in giving of yourself you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love."
Chávez was an advocate for farm workers' rights until his death on April 23, 1993 at age 66. Though he died young, Chávez passed away peacefully in his sleep. He was laid to rest in La Paz, meaning "the peace", the UFW's headquarters in the California foothills. More than 50,000 people attended his funeral in Delano, California, the birth site of the United Farm Workers. In 1994, Chávez was posthumously awarded with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton. In the citation accompanying America's highest civilian honor, Clinton lauded Chávez for having "faced formidable, often violent opposition with dignity and nonviolence."
"He was almost like god," UFW Al Rojas said, "We would do anything. Here was a man who instilled a lot of courage."
Pete Velasco, who helped Chávez and Huerta build the UFW, stated:
"He had taken us by the hand and shown us how to walk in the jungle and not be afraid. He had taught us to maintain dignity by acting like a first class citizen. 'Because you are a first class citizen,' he said."
After his death, his family and friends started the César E. Chávez Foundation. Its mission is to educate people about Chávez and his values, and inspire them to carry on his work.
When President Clinton awarded Chávez with the Medal of Freedom, it was Helen Chávez, César's wife, who accepted it on his behalf. Then, Chávez's successor, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez, thanked the president on behalf of the United Farm Workers and said, "Every day in California and in other states where farm workers are organizing, César Chávez lives in their hearts. César lives wherever Americans' he inspired work nonviolently for social change."
Clarence B. Jones and Joel Engel, What Would Martin Say? (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008) 106.
César Chávez, The Words of César Chávez, Eds. Richard J. Jensen and John C. Hammerback (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002), 34.
Chávez, Words, xviii.
"Celebrating the Life and Contributions of Cesar Chavez", Teachers' Curriculum Institute, http://info.teachtci.com/resources/ha/CesarChavez.pdf, 19 May 2012.
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Chávez, Words, 170.
Chávez, "Tale".
Chávez, Words, 67.
"The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers' Struggle". Dir. Ray Telles and Rick Tejada-Flores. The Cinema Guild. 1996.
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Born in Montclair, NJ, Love earned her MFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts and her B.F.A. from Montclair State University where she was awarded the Excellence in Choreography Award and the Outstanding Senior Award. She received The New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant, and the Harkness Choreographers Space Grant at SUNY Purchase. In 1997, Love was invited to The Bates Dance Festival in Maine as an Emerging Choreographer and later returned to teach for the Young Dancers Program. She was selected as a choreographer for the Choreographer/Dancer residency at the Yard on Martha's Vineyard, recognized in Who's Who Among American Teacher's 2004 and 2005 and was honored as one of the "50 Women You Should Know in Montclair, NJ". Most recently she was recognized as a "Women of Distinction" by The YWCA of Essex and West Hudson.
Presently, Love is the director of the Dance Department at Hillside High School, director of the After School Dance Program for the Hillside Public Schools District and an adjunct professor at Montclair State University. She is a former faculty member in the Junior Division at The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Love is a certified Pilates Mat Instructor and a certified Yoga instructor.
In 1996 Love created the Wofabe African Dance and Drum Festival. Wofabe is New Jersey's only African dance and drum festival. The festival consists of African dance and drum classes, panel discussions, free children classes, and an evening dance concert. The festival has been presented at Newark Arts High School, Science Park High School and for the past three years the Historic Newark Symphony Hall.
She traveled to Australia as a representative for the dance department of Montclair State University where she both performed and taught classes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. She has performed with Urban Bush Women, Gellman's Newark Dance Theatre, and The VonHoward Project. Love has studied West African dance for the past 16 years and was awarded two consecutive Folk Artist Apprenticeships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts to study Guinean Dance with Master Teacher M' Bemba Bangoura. Love has traveled to Guinea, West Africa, Mexico and Bermuda under the tutelage of Bangoura. Love has traveled to Morocco, Senegal and the Gambia, West Africa under the direction of Baba Chuck Davis.
Love is a former Visiting Artist in Residence at Kent State University in Ohio. Her choreography has been commissioned and presented at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DTW Freshtracks, Aaron Davis Hall, The Yard, Symphony Space, Danspace, Joyce Soho, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, Bates Dance Festival, Duke University, Northern Illinois University, Montclair State University, NYU, and Newark Arts High School.


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Spartan Daily, July 15, 2022, San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications 2022 San Jose State University
Spartan Daily, July 15, 2022, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
Coloniality And Paradoxes Of Migrancy: Experiences Of Nicaraguan Migrants In Costa Rica, Darcey Rydl 2022 University of New Mexico
Coloniality And Paradoxes Of Migrancy: Experiences Of Nicaraguan Migrants In Costa Rica, Darcey Rydl
Communication ETDs
Vernacular (personal) discourses surrounding Nicaraguan immigration to Costa Rica were investigated through the lens of coloniality – a theoretical and conceptual process of understanding how the Eurocentered matrix of power and knowledge produces the subjectivity of peoples through exploitation (Mignolo & Walsh, 2019). Compared to national discourses, this study asked how vernacular discourses may challenge colonial social structures of power as well as support those same structures of power. To elicit these discourses, oral histories were conducted with nine Nicaraguans who have fled their country because of political violence. Oral histories allow for a complete account of the past by …
News Flash: Content Framing Of Higher Education During The Covid-19 Campus Closures, Sara Nelson 2022 DePaul University
News Flash: Content Framing Of Higher Education During The Covid-19 Campus Closures, Sara Nelson
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in a cascade of crises, impacting every industry and individual. This study sought to analyze the prevailing narratives of higher education news coverage during the initial crisis event of COVID-19, when colleges and universities around the world closed their doors and sent students home. Historically, higher education has not been well positioned by the media in times of crisis. A tarnished reputation can lead to direct and immediate loses in enrollment, funding, rankings, selectivity of students and the financial health of an institution. The framing of media narratives plays a direct role in how …
Lindenwood Magazine, Spring 2022, Lindenwood University 2022 Lindenwood University
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Annual Report, 2021-2022, University Of Mississippi. School Of Journalism And New Media
The "End" Of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require A Deeper Value, Carol Pauli 2022 Texas A&M University School of Law
The "End" Of Neutrality: Tumultuous Times Require A Deeper Value, Carol Pauli
This essay has observed that, when times are tumultuous, third parties who intend to be neutral may need some mooring beyond the norms that are shifting. It argues that neutrality is an unsatisfying value in such times and suggests that neutrals look to the deeper values of their field. It proposes human dignity as a good place to begin, and it invites others to explore whether an initial commitment to the inherent worth of every person would make a helpful difference in practice.
Muslim Fashion Influencers Shaping Modesty In The Twenty-First Century On Social Media, Awa Sanno 2022 CUNY Bernard M Baruch College
Muslim Fashion Influencers Shaping Modesty In The Twenty-First Century On Social Media, Awa Sanno
Student Theses and Dissertations
The depiction of Muslim women in Western media has been a long-running joke, as they are framed to be oppressed by the burdens of their religion and the hijab. However, Muslim women have used the power of social media to counter that narrative through their large followings as fashion influencers, digital creators, food bloggers, makeup artists, lifestyle bloggers, musicians, and so much more. Specifically, Muslim fashion influencers are changing and redefining the notion of modesty throughout their posted content on social media. Many people in Muslim communities see this redefinition of modesty as a conflict with the "proper" ways of …
Journalists Vs. Authoritarians: The State Of Press Freedoms In Hungary, Turkey, And Egypt, Allison Lecce 2022 Fordham University
Journalists Vs. Authoritarians: The State Of Press Freedoms In Hungary, Turkey, And Egypt, Allison Lecce
Senior Theses
The 21st century has been partly defined by the regression of liberal democracies paired with the rise of modern authoritarian regimes. This phenomenon is marked by a decrease in civil liberties and an erosion of democratic institutions and practices. A free and independent press is often one of the first institutions targeted by rising authoritarian leaders, due to its nature as a government watchdog. This thesis analyzes the state of press freedoms in different authoritarian and illiberal regimes. It aims to answer the question: what is the correlation between the type of government and the way the government treats the …
Mahalaya: Building Community In The Filipinx Diaspora Through Solidarity Journalism, Casey Ticsay 2022 University of San Francisco
Mahalaya: Building Community In The Filipinx Diaspora Through Solidarity Journalism, Casey Ticsay
Unethical approaches to storytelling in professional journalism continue to shape public discourse around the diverse experiences of Asians and Asian Americans. This paper analyzes the origins and impact of ethnic news media, specifically the rise of Filipino and Filipino American press in the United States, and the ways journalists of color continue to challenge traditional practices of professional journalism that perpetuate anti-Blackness and maintain white supremacy. Filipino and Filipino American newspapers in the early twentieth century provide historical insight into the issues, debates, and conversations transpiring at the time and highlight the community's ongoing response to the misrepresentations of their …
Reporting On Athletes And Mental Health: An Evolution In Language And Lexicon From 1970 To 2019, Vivian Ferris 2022 Duquesne University
Reporting On Athletes And Mental Health: An Evolution In Language And Lexicon From 1970 To 2019, Vivian Ferris
In the spring and summer of 2021, several athletes made headlines for seemingly prioritizing mental health over the status quo of sports society. For example, in May 2021, during the French Open, professional U.S. tennis player Naomi Osaka announced she would not appear at press conferences, despite threats of fines, citing on social media it was for her mental health. The controversy surrounding Osaka and others led to further questions. Looking through the lens of agenda setting and framing theories, the purpose of this study is to better understand the frequency, variety, and evolution of language in journalistic coverage of …
Spartan Daily, May 12, 2022, San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications 2022 San Jose State University
Spartan Daily, May 12, 2022, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
50 Years Later: How Title Ix Has Influenced The World Of Sports And The Effect It Has Had On Female Athletes, Catherine Jeffers 2022 University of Mississippi
50 Years Later: How Title Ix Has Influenced The World Of Sports And The Effect It Has Had On Female Athletes, Catherine Jeffers
This thesis aims to research the opportunities given to women within sports, and perceptions around their identities in the sporting industry. This thesis highlights the history of Title IX and its' impact on gender in sports. This thesis also discusses the lack of women's sports represented in media and the limited number of women in positions of power in sports. Since sports were introduced into modern culture, women have been advocating and fighting for their right to participate in sporting events and forcing even more complex conversations around equal compensation for their play.
The Cowl - V. 86 N. 19 - May 5, 2022, 2022 Providence College
The Cowl - V. 86 N. 19 - May 5, 2022
The Cowl
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 86 No. 19 - May 5, 2022. 32 pages.
Our Stories, Katelyn S. Lopez 2022 CUNY New York City College of Technology
Our Stories, Katelyn S. Lopez
This semester, we participated in the "Our Stories" qualitative research project that involves learning more about students' first year, and first-semester experiences at City Tech during pandemic times. As we organized and read students' posts, we journaled and practiced reflexivity, a qualitative research process that helps us examine how we are interpreting the data that we are engaging with. T Reflexivity is a process in qualitative research involving frequent examination of one's position in the project. These positions include one's assumptions, feelings, and so forth. An essential question for qualitative researchers, according to Leavy (2011), is "Has the researcher engaged …
Spartan Daily, May 5, 2022, San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications 2022 San Jose State University
Spartan Daily, May 5, 2022, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications
The Prospector, May 3, 2022, UTEP Student Publications 2022 University of Texas at El Paso
The Prospector, May 3, 2022, Utep Student Publications
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FERC Office of Enforcement Staff Sought $567M in Civil Penalties in FY2016
By David Bradley
Staff of FERC's Office of Enforcement (OE) sought to recover more than $567 million in civil penalties and $45 million in disgorgement through litigation work in Fiscal Year 2016. The most significant shift in the nature of the Division of Investigations (DOI) work during the year was the amount of time spent litigating in federal District Court, OE officials said Thursday.
"OE's priorities have not changed over the past few years," OE's Todd Hettenbach told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. "We have focused, and will continue to focus, on four distinct areas: fraud and market manipulation; serious violations of the reliability standards; anticompetitive conduct; and conduct that threatens transparency in regulated markets.
OE's general approach toward its work addressing those four priorities also has largely stayed the same. Among other things, DOI opened 17 new investigations in fiscal year (FY) 2016. Of those 17 new investigations, 12 involve potential market manipulation. It closed 11 investigations, with about half closed because staff concluded that the evidence was insufficient to support a finding of a violation and the other half closed through settlement. The settlements addressed market manipulation, violations of Commission-approved reliability standards, and tariff violations."
In its 2016 Report on Enforcement, released Thursday, OE said staff in FY2016 negotiated settlements for almost $12.25 million in civil penalties and disgorgement of nearly $5.7 million in unjust profits. "These settlements also included provisions requiring the subjects to enhance their compliance programs and periodically report back to Enforcement regarding the results of those compliance enhancements," according to the report. Since 2007, the total payable, non-pending civil penalties assessed by FERC amounts to approximately $641 million, and total disgorgements amount to slightly over $401 million.
At the same time, audits and accounting staff reviewed the conduct of regulated entities through 14 audits of oil pipeline, public utility and natural gas companies, resulting in 214 recommendations for corrective action and directing refunds and recoveries totaling $5.3 million. And analytics and surveillance staff worked on more than 40 investigations and reviewed numerous instances of potential misconduct, with some reviews resulting in referrals to Investigations.
Simultaneous with the release of the report, OE released a pair of white papers providing insights into OE staff's views and emerging trends related to market manipulation. A white paper on Effective Energy Trading Compliance Practices provides guidance to entities regarding best practices within their own organizations to help prevent and detect market manipulation and other violations, OE said. A second white paper, on Anti-Market Manipulation Enforcement Efforts Ten Years After EPACT 2005 (the Energy Policy Act of 2005), summarizes recent FERC and federal court case law regarding development of the FERC's anti-manipulation doctrine and identifies factors staff considers when deciding whether to pursue or close allegations of manipulation.
"The annual report, as well as the white papers, are intended to de-mystify the enforcement process and the law, and to provide transparency as well as guidance to industry, and so I would in particular encourage industry to examine and study the compliance white paper, which…contains examples of best practices, but also practices to avoid," said FERC Chairman Norman Bay.
OE doesn't intend to change its priorities in FY2017, according to the report.
"Conduct involving fraud and market manipulation poses a significant threat to the markets the Commission oversees. Such intentional misconduct undermines the Commission's goal of ensuring provision of efficient energy services at a reasonable cost, because the losses imposed by fraud and manipulation are ultimately passed on to consumers. Similarly, anticompetitive conduct and conduct that threatens market transparency undermine confidence in the energy markets and harm consumers and competitors. Such conduct might also involve the violation of rules designed to limit market power or to ensure the efficient operation of regulated markets. Enforcement focuses on preventing and remedying misconduct involving the greatest harm to the public, where there may be significant gain to the violator or loss to the victims."
It was the 10th annual Report on Enforcement.
Related topics: Enforcement Manipulation Market


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Q: Surface Integral - Intersection of cone and circle I am now looking at the following exercise:
Calculate:
$\int \int_S (2z^2 - x^2 - y^2) dS $ where $S $ is $ z=\sqrt{x^2+y^2} $ intersected with $x^2 + y^2 =2x$  (i.e. $ (x-1)^2 + y^2 =1 $ ) .
Now, as far as definitions:
$\int \int_S (2z^2 - x^2 - y^2) dS  = \int \int_D f(x(u,v),y(u,v),z(u,v)) ||\phi_u \times \phi_v || dudv $  where $\phi:D \to \mathbb{R}^3 $ is the parameterization of $S$ .
But, how can I parameterize $S$ ? It is the intersection of the cone and the cylinder, but how can I do it?
Thanks in advance

A: Let's write
$$
S_1 = \{ (x,y,z) \mid z = \sqrt{x^2 + y^2} \}
\quad\text{and}\quad
S_2 = \{ (x,y,z) \mid (x-1)^2 + y^2 = 1\}.
$$
These are surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$, so their intersection $S$ is likely to be a curve and not a surface. Sketching shows that $S$ is an ellipse.
Since $S_2$ is a cylinder is's easy to parametrise it; global coordinates for it are $(\theta,z)$, where $x = 1 + \cos \theta$ and $y = \sin \theta$, where $0 \leq \theta \leq 2\pi$. Plugging this into the equation for $S_1$, we find that the intersection $S$ is parametrised by
$$
\theta \mapsto (1 + \cos\theta, \sin\theta, \sqrt{2 + 2\cos\theta}),
\quad 0 \leq \theta \leq 2\pi,
$$
but the only thing we're really interested in is that $z^2 = 2 + 2\cos \theta$ on $S$. This gives that the function $f$, restricted to $S$, is
$$
f(\theta) = 2 (2 + 2\cos\theta) - (1 + \cos\theta)^2 - \sin\theta^2
= 2 + 2\cos\theta.
$$
Then your integral is
$$
\int_S f \, d\lambda = \int_0^{2\pi} (2 + 2\cos \theta) d\theta = 4\pi.
$$

A: Your surface is the graph of $z = f(x,y) = \sqrt{x^2+y^2}$.  A standard parametrization is
$$(x,y,z)=\phi(x,y)=(x,y,f(x,y))=\left(x,y,\sqrt{x^2+y^2}\right)$$
The domain $D$ in your problem is the disk $x^2 + y^2 \le 2x$
or $-\sqrt{2x-x^2}\le y \le \sqrt{2x-x^2}$, $-1\le y \le1$.
If you convert to polar coordinates, $D$ can be described by $r \le 2 \cos\theta$, $-{\pi\over2}\le \theta \le {\pi\over2}$.

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Some sellers like to set an asking price based on a home appraisal, but this may not be your best option when approaching your sale like a professional. When you examine recent sales in your area, you'll be able to tell whether the market is on a upswing or downswing, and this information will help you create an effective pricing strategy. If you simply go with the number provided by an appraisal, you may miss out on a lot of extra cash or possibly repel potential buyers.
The interior of your home is set up just the way you like it, but your specific style may not be ideal for attracting home buyers in your local market. By staging your home yourself or with the help of a professional designer, you'll make buyers feel like they can move in right away with little work needing to be done. Remember, you want to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible when staging your home, so a well staged interior may not be to your personal taste. You may want to look at magazines and online photos for inspiration.
While many home improvements can increase the value of your property, others can actually repel buyers who may otherwise be serious about purchasing your home. Professionals know that improvements need to be made to the essentials first. Invest in repairs to your heating and cooling, plumbing, electricity, and structural components before even thinking about spending money on aesthetics. Improvements to your bathroom or kitchen may seem like a wise investment, but sellers rarely get a good return on these types of projects.
Improving the exterior of your home is just as important in the home selling process as repairing the interior essentials. When buyers tour your neighborhood looking for homes, they're likely to dismiss properties that don't have great curb appeal. Even if a potential buyer decides to walk past an unattractive exterior, there's no interior that will make them forget their first impression. Relatively inexpensive improvements like plant life and pain can go a very long way.
Why get a home inspection when you know any potential buyer is going to hire an inspector of their own? If there are serious structural or safety issues with your home, you'll want to discover and fix these issues before a buyer finds out about them. At this point, you've already put a lot of hard work into the other steps of the home selling process, so you don't want everything to be ruined by a simple issue you could have resolved easily by hiring a home inspector. A good inspection can also help you get a more accurate idea of what your home might sell for in the local market.
Once you're confident that you home is an excellent condition to sell, you'll be attracting great buyers who are willing to pay a fair price. At this point, you can let your home speak for yourself. Your confident silence will let buyers know that you're a professional seller who knows exactly what they're doing. Ideally, two or more buyers will end up in a bidding war that results in the final price of your home going well above asking price.


How many times have you heard someone say, "I'll never be able to wear that dress again" while being a bridesmaid in a wedding? But those days are over. Nowadays, bridesmaids dresses are not what they used to be. There is literally thousands of cool, fun, fresh, modern styles to choose from. The hard part is picking one. But what happens after the wedding?
Let's face it. We all know that weddings do not come cheap. No matter how small of detail. I know many brides out there were like me. Trying to find everything that was perfect, but very much affordable and in my budget. It would have been great to be a billionaire while wedding planning. But the reality was, I wasn't. So I had to be smart.
I wanted my bridesmaids to look great. I wanted them to feel great. I didn't want them to be put into some dress they hated and would never wear again. Why spend so much money on a dress that they didn't love as well? They were the ones having to look at that dress for the rest of the time they owned it.
I let my girls choose their own dresses. I know not every bride does that, but a lot also do. So what happens to that dress? Shouldn't it be able to be a dress that can be worn again, and not just for a wedding? Of course it should be. My bridesmaids dresses were black. I chose black for my wedding because it was a very classic color that complimented any other color and I wouldn't have to look back on my wedding and see photos of the dresses and think to myself, "what was I thinking of choosing those colors?"
If I were a bridesmaid right now and I was given the option to choose my own dress, I would probably go with something like the Alfred Sung D596 dress from Weddington Way.
This dress screams classic to me. And not only that, it also seems to be flattering to a lot of different body types. Plus, I always am thinking, "what could I do with this dress afterwards? How could I wear this dress out and it not look like it belongs in a wedding?"
This dress would be fun to spruce up into a fun weekend outfit. Black and red are pretty popular this time of year. Taking the basic bridesmaid dress and accessorizing it with a red belt around the waist. Let's not forget the jacket. A fun pattern to give it some character.
Pull back that hair in a loose ponytail that says stylish, yet flirty and fun. Strike up a bit of sass with a sleek headband. Grab a bracelet and your favorite pair of sunglasses. Let's not forget the shoes. Comfortable shoes are key to going out. Flats are perfect because they can say comfort while making the dress more casual and less formal.
A fun hat and purse will really make the dress less "wedding" like. Finally, snap on a fun case onto your phone and grab that sassy umbrella and you are on your way from "bridesmaid" to "watch out weekend, here I come!"
There are so many ways to make a formal affair dress into something you can wear again. The possibilities are endless. What combinations would you go with to change a bridesmaids dress into something you could rock the town in?


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Mr. Topden is a retired Indian Foreign Services Officer and a former diplomat. He has been Consul General in Frankfurt, Ambassador to Vientiane (Laos), High Commissioner in Windhoek (Namibia), Ambassador in Athens (Greece) among other postings across the world. As the Indian Ambassador in Laos and he helped the government there to set up the Indo -Lao Entrepreneurship Centre, which was a great success. As an Ambassador in other places and diplomat, he has assisted many Indian companies to set up business in the countries where he was posted and also help companies from those countries to set up business in India and to invest.
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Assistant Director General, Dept. of Telecom, Govt. of India.
An engineer with more than 10 years of experience of administration, policy formulation, and implementation with the Govt. of India Mr. Rajeev Gautam is an IES of 2010 batch. He has extensive experience of design, enforcement and analysis of key projects of Govt. of India, in the Dept. of Telecom as well as Power Grid. He also holds a PGP from IIM-Bangalore.
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Catholic Authors on the Holy Roman Empire
Austria, Catholic Writing, Chesterton, christendom, History, Holy Roman Empire, House of Hapsburg, Politics
A Quotable Collection
Part I: G.K. Chesterton
The double eagle is the ancient emblem of the double empire of Rome and of Byzantium; the one head looking to the west and the other to the east, as if it spread its wings from the sunrise to the sunset.it had been the badge of Austria as the representative of the Holy Roman Empire.- The New Jerusalem
Very few authors have written on as many subjects as the great Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), a journalist converted to the faith as well as a poet and fiction writer, and he had very much to say on the subject of the Holy Roman Empire.
The new wild doctrines in the old wild lands had sucked Central Europe into a cyclic war of creeds. In this the house which stood for the legend of the Holy Roman Empire, Austria… fought for the old religion against a league of other Germans fighting for the new.
On the whole we shall be right if we see the first throes of the modern international problems in what is called the Thirty Years' War; whether we call it the revolt of half-heathens against the Holy Roman Empire, or whether we call it the coming of new sciences, new philosophies, and new ethics from the north.- A Short History of England
they will often tell you (in their praises of the coming age) that we are moving on towards a United States of Europe. But they carefully omit to tell you that we are moving away from a United States of Europe, that such a thing existed literally in Roman and essentially in mediaeval times. They never admit that the international hatreds (which they call barbaric) are really very recent, the mere breakdown of the ideal of the Holy Roman Empire.
Read any thirty or forty pages of pamphlets advocating peace in Europe and see how many of them praise the old Popes or Emperors for keeping the peace in Europe…
Now it can be easily shown that the thing we call aristocracy in Europe is not in its origin and spirit an aristocracy at all…It is simply the remains of a military organization, framed partly to sustain the sinking Roman Empire, partly to break and avenge the awful onslaught of Islam. The word Duke simply means Colonel, just as the word Emperor simply means Commander-in-Chief. The whole story is told in the single title of Counts of the Holy Roman Empire, which merely means officers in the European army against the contemporary Yellow Peril.- What's Wrong With the World
The fact is, of course, that a narrow nationality has grown steadily and strongly for the last six hundred years; and European nations are much more divided now than they were in the time of the Holy Roman Empire, to say nothing of the Pagan Roman Empire.- As I Was Saying
We have had nearly four hundred years of divided Christianity and have grown used to it; and it is the Reunion of Christendom that we think of as the extraordinary event. But they still thought the Disunion of Christendom an extraordinary event. Neither side had ever really expected it to remain in a state of Disunion. All their traditions for a thousand years were of some sort of union coming out of controversy, ever since a united religion had spread all over a united Roman Empire. From a Protestant standpoint, the natural thing was for Protestantism to conquer Europe as Christianity had conquered Europe. In that case the success of the counter-Reformation would be only the last leap of a dying flame like the last stand of Julian the Apostate. From a Catholic standpoint the natural thing was for Catholicism to reconquer Europe, as it had more than once reconquered Europe; in that case the Protestant would be like the Albigensians: a passing element ultimately reabsorbed. But neither of these natural things happened. Prussia and the other Protestant principalities fought against Austria as the heir of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years War. They fought each other to a standstill. It was utterly and obviously hopeless to make Austria Protestant or Prussia Roman Catholic. And from the moment when that fact was realized the nature of the whole world was changed. The rock had been cloven and would not close up again, and in the crack or chasm a new sort of strange and prickly weed began to grow. The open wound festered.- Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century
I have already shown that the real Outline of History for the last few centuries largely consisted of Prussia dragging down the Holy Roman Empire, and transferring the Imperial Crown, the Kaiserdom or Kingship of the Germanies, from the old Catholic Princes who claimed to have it from Charlemagne, to a Protestant prince who had been but lately a Prussian squire. In short, the whole modern business has been the building up of a new Protestant Empire in the north, on the ruin of the old Catholic Empire in the south. –The Heresy of Race
Of course, there was always Germany, in the sense that there were always Germans. But in so far as those Germans had a country, a culture, a common centre of their civilisation, it was never, through all the ages, what we now call Germany. It was what we now call Austria. In so far as they were ruled by a Kaiser, the Emperor of Austria was the one and only Kaiser. In so far as there was a German Empire, the Austrian Empire was the one and only German Empire. They were more loosely federated than the solid nations like France; they could be regarded as small separate kingdoms and dukedoms; but in so far as they were ever one thing, this was the one and only thing. If they belonged to any Empire, it could only conceivably be the Holy Roman Empire, and the great imperial throne upon the Danube.- The End of the Armistice
Two full-length essays by Chesterton, Austria and Austria and the Nazis, will be published separately on the site.
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City council debates funding for violence prevention programs
Ryan Phillips on January 18, 2012
Violence prevention programs funded by Measure Y are working, according to a report presented at the Oakland City Council meeting on Tuesday night. But not well enough, councilmembers and speakers from the public responded.
"We can not ignore that we have had an increase in violent crime," said councilmember Desley Brooks (District 6), "and so we can not continue to do the same thing the same way and expect that it's going to be a different result. And there lies the problem—we continue to do what we've always done."
The council approved a three-year funding cycle for Measure Y—the anti-violence, voter-approved initiative that provides $19 million annually for violence prevention programs, and police and fire services—that will extend through 2015, the final year of the initiative. The report estimated the annual revenue for those years will be about $22 million, which would then provide about $4 million to fire services, more than $11 million for police and about $6 million for violence prevention programs centered around youth.
Tuesday's discussion centered around authorizing funding for the violence prevention program aspect of Measure Y, though the opportunity to talk about the initiative allowed those present to criticize all aspects of it. Councilmembers criticized Mayor Jean Quan for not better explaining her "100 Block" initiative, which Quan has said will concentrate police efforts on the 100 blocks in Oakland where 90 percent of the violent crime occurs. Supporters of Occupy Oakland railed against the Oakland Police Department for alleged brutality. And dozens of public speakers asked the council to spare from cuts the position of a re-entry specialist who would help the formerly incarcerated transition back into society.
The council approved a resolution to fund Measure Y that struck any reference to the mayor's initiative. Councilmembers Ignacio De La Fuente and Brooks were especially critical of the plan, which they said hadn't been properly vetted by the council. Quan, who usually attends city council meetings though she is not required to do so, was not present at the meeting Tuesday night.
"I don't know what the 100 blocks are, I don't know what the plan is," Brooks said. "The last time I saw the mayor on the news talking about the 100 blocks, she said it was a concept. I have no clue what this is."
Councilmembers criticized the Measure Y report, which was presented by Sara Bedford of the city's department of human services for not including more statistics on just how the initiative is helping to reduce violent crime in Oakland. While the report noted that violent crime across the board has decreased since the last three-year funding cycle, gun violence is on the rise. Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan (At-large) called gun violence "our crisis" and noted that there is no city-wide strategy to combat the problem, or public safety in general, and advocated more of an effort to get illegal guns off the street.
"How does this Measure Y money fit in to a bigger strategy is missing, and that's specifically the fault of people working on Measure Y," Kaplan said. "The question is really 'Where is the big picture strategy?'"
Supporters of Occupy Oakland also used the opportunity to talk about dealing with the OPD, which they characterized as violent. Two people were arrested at an Occupy-supported rally against police brutality on Saturday night in the latest clash between protesters and police. "Giving more money to the police department to decrease crime or decrease violence is not working," said Oakland resident Jessica Hollie, an Occupy supporter. "They are in effect the ones increasing crime and increasing violence and inciting riots. That's exactly what's happening now."
In other business Tuesday night, the council approved spending $1.3 million in city funds on fixing up the abandoned 16th Street train station project. After the redevelopment agency was disbanded, the city had until February 1 to decide if it wanted to spend the money in order to receive a matching grant of $1.3 million.
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Chris Wilvert on January 18, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Its funny how the council says there is no strategy, yet they cannot implement any new strategies when they are presented with them!. Whatever happened to the loitering ordinance? Could have been a huge tool to help CSEC, not to mention other benefits. AND, this has gone to the Public Safety Council that Rebecca Kaplan is on, so she is really part of the problem if we don't have a good public safety strategy. Tired of hearing people state the obvious and then not be able to make a decision for action when the time comes.
I am so tired of hearing these people state the obvious and then not be able to make a decision for change when presented the opportunity. What ever happened with the loitering ordinance??? I believe it was voted down, then went to the Public Safety Committee and was never taken back up. Rebecca Kaplan and others on the Public Safety Committee are responsible for that, and really are sacrificing public safety, just because they don't want to sit through another long meeting and debate on this issue. Not right.
Leonard Raphael on January 18, 2012 at 7:15 pm
For pure entertainment, read some of the Measure Y "independent" evaluations.
http://measurey.org/index.php?page=oversight-and-evaluation
I particularly like the tabulations of self-serving questionnaires of program participants who were asked how effective the program has been for them.
It makes some of the worst examples of school testing look like hard science.
-len raphael, temescal
Mike Ferro on January 19, 2012 at 2:29 pm
Len Raphael is more than right on. Measure Y specifically requires that evaluations be made of the rate of reduction of crime and violence in Oakland. The existing evaluation does no such thing. Voters passed Measure Y because they wanted violence to go down significantly. Violence has not diminished in any observable way and has remained at the long-term average of 105 murders a year. No one in City Hall wants to own up to this.
Nate on January 25, 2012 at 10:33 am
Where are the 2010 and 2011 evaluations? The latest one linked on that page was from 2009.
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Now you don't have to choose between finishing your meal with cheese or chocolate. The mini chocolate cheeseboard features a milk chocolate board, white chocolate 'Brie' and 'Emmental' slices, a hunk of 'Stilton', a bunch of white chocolate grapes and a chocolate mouse. Handmade in Somerset with Belgium chocolate, the novelty set is a fun gift for a friend or family member or an indulgent treat for you.
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POLL: Is Michael Gspurning this season's MLS Goalkeeper of the Year?
There was enough to talk about after Sounders FC's 0-0 tie Wednesday against Real Salt Lake.
But one comment that might've slipped under the radar was when coach Sigi Schmid was asked about goalkeeper Michael Gspurning following his third shutout in a row (fueled by a couple tremendous saves in the closing seconds).
"It was superb," Schmid said of Gspurning's performance. "I think there's a consensus in this league that … (Sporting Kansas City's Jimmy Nielsen) is the Goalkeeper of the Year. I think if you look around, Michael Gspurning's goals-against average is better than Nielsen's. I don't know where he is when you look at the amount of shutouts he has to games played, but he's probably at a higher percentage. I don't know where save percentage is, but for me, Michael's been everything we had hoped for and everything we expected of him. For me right now, he's the Goalkeeper of the Year in this league.
— The Sounders are 11-3-5 when Gspurning starts (the best record in MLS) and went 3-4-6 when he was out with a hip injury, including a franchise-worst nine-game winless streak. Sure, missing 13 games — 38 percent of the year — should come into consideration for postseason awards, but the record disparity could be an argument in the big Austrian's favor.
— He has gone 330 minutes since allowing a goal, which is already the 10th-longest streak in MLS this year. A shutout Sunday would give him the season's longest streak.
— He has had a 335-minute shutout streak earlier this season.
— His 0.70 goals-against average is tops in MLS and on pace for the third-best season in MLS history (Kevin Hartman, 0.62, and Nick Rimando, 0.67, in 2010). Nielsen is second at 0.81.
— His 77.1 save percentage is second best this season to D.C. United's Bill Hamid 78.4. Nielsen is fifth at 74.5.
— He has eight shutouts, which still ranks fourth in MLS despite missing 13 games. His eight shutouts in 18 full games (it's really 8.5 in 18.5 games) is the best rate in the league. Nielsen has a league-leading 14 shutouts in 32 games.
Is Michael Gspurning this year's MLS Goalkeeper of the Year?


Essays On The Blurring Of Art And Life By Allan Kaprow What if I had only a vague idea about "art" but didn't know the conventions that told me when I was in its presence or was making it? What if I were digging a hole—would that be art? What if I didn't know about audiences and publicity? What if I were to just go shopping? Would that not be art? What if I didn't realize that art happened at certain times and in certain places? What if I were to lay awake imagining things in bed at 4 a.m.? Would that be the wrong place and the wrong time for art? What if I weren't aware that art was considered more marvelous than life? What if I didn't know an artist was meant to "create" art? What if I were to think art was paying attention? What if I were to forget to think about art constantly? Could I still make, do, engage in art? Would I be doing something else? Would that be okay?


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Q: How to parse multidimensional JSON array in Qt? Suppose i have a JSON file of x-y coordinates like this:
{
"coordinates": [[  [1,2], [3,4], [5,6]  ]]
}

Then how i would parse it in Qt5 with its built in JSON parsing support?
Just i want to know how i would be able to access those values inside such an array of coordinates?
Let me share my effort in this respect and see upto what level i have been successful in parsing JSON data.
#include <QFile>
#include <QByteArray>
#include <QJsonDocument>
#include <QJsonObject>
#include <QJsonArray>
#include <QDebug>

//    sample.json:
//    {
//        "agentsArray": [{
//            "name": "X",
//            "coordinates": [[  [2,2] ]]
//        }, {
//            "name": "Y",
//            "coordinates": [[  [6,6] ]]
//        }]
//    }

    QFile jsonFile("main.json");
    jsonFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text);
    QByteArray jsonFileData = jsonFile.readAll();
    jsonFile.close();

    QJsonDocument jsonDocument = QJsonDocument::fromJson(jsonFileData);
    QJsonObject jsonObject = jsonDocument.object();

    QJsonValue agentsArrayValue = jsonObject.value("agentsArray");
    QJsonArray agentsArray = agentsArrayValue.toArray();

    foreach (const QJsonValue & v, agentsArray)
    {
        qDebug() << v.toObject().value("name").toString();

        /* As i want to get the coordinates value but
         * i dont know what to do with this?
         */
        // qDebug() << v.toObject().value("coordinates").toArray(); // ?

        qDebug() << "--------------------";
    }

Output is:
"X"
--------------------
"Y"
--------------------

A: This is how i managed to parse the JSON multidimensional array in Qt5, hope it may help you too;
#include <QFile>
#include <QByteArray>
#include <QJsonDocument>
#include <QJsonObject>
#include <QJsonArray>
#include <QDebug>

//    sample.json:
//    {
//        "agentsArray": [{
//            "name": "X",
//            "coordinates": [[  [2,3] ]]
//        }, {
//            "name": "Y",
//            "coordinates": [[  [6,7] ]]
//        }]
//    }

    QFile jsonFile("main.json");
    jsonFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text);
    QByteArray jsonFileData = jsonFile.readAll();
    jsonFile.close();

    QJsonDocument jsonDocument = QJsonDocument::fromJson(jsonFileData);
    QJsonObject jsonObject = jsonDocument.object();

    QJsonValue agentsArrayValue = jsonObject.value("agentsArray");
    QJsonArray agentsArray = agentsArrayValue.toArray();

    foreach (const QJsonValue & v, agentsArray)
    {
        qDebug() << v.toObject().value("name").toString();

        qDebug() <<"Lat: " << v.toObject().value("coordinates").toArray().at(0).toArray().at(0).toArray().at(0).toInt();
        qDebug() <<"Lon: " << v.toObject().value("coordinates").toArray().at(0).toArray().at(0).toArray().at(1).toInt();

        qDebug() << "--------------------";
    }

Output is:
"X"
Lat:  2
Lon:  3
--------------------
"Y"
Lat:  6
Lon:  7
--------------------


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Allbritton combines D.C. news operations
By BroadCasting & Cable Staff
Allbritton Communications Co. will combine its Washington, D.C., properties
-- WJLA-TV and cable NewsChannel 8 -- into a single organization in Rosslyn,
Va., headed by WJLA-TV general manager Chris Pike.
The facility will be in the former headquarters of Gannett Co. Inc., owner of
rival station WUSA(TV).
NewsChannel 8 GM John Hillis will move to the company's corporate side.
Pike said the two operations will maintain separate identities and separate
news directors, and there will probably be a net gain in
Allbritton, AFTRA get help
ABC combines investigative operations
Allbritton, AFTRA reach agreement
Playing catch-up in D.C.
CC taps Levin for D.C.
Pike to Head Allbritton Sales
Allbritton's News Future: TBD...
Company rebrands NewsChannel 8 as part of launch of regional news site