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In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the Justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.”
Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.
The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.
“Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.
Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. “Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.
ProPublica interviewed Martin, his former classmates and former staff at both schools. The exact total Crow paid for Martin’s education over the years remains unclear. If he paid for all four years at the two schools, the price tag could have exceeded $150,000, according to public records of tuition rates at the schools.
Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. Several years earlier, Thomas disclosed a gift of $5,000 for Martin’s education from another friend. It is not clear why he reported that payment but not Crow’s.
The tuition payments add to the picture of how the Republican megadonor has helped fund the lives of Thomas and his family.
“You can’t be having secret financial arrangements,” said Mark W. Bennett, a retired federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton. Bennett said he was friendly with Thomas and declined to comment for the record about the specifics of Thomas’ actions. But he said that when he was on the bench, he wouldn’t let his lawyer friends buy him lunch.
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Thomas did not respond to questions. In response to previous ProPublica reporting on gifts of luxury travel, he said that the Crows “are among our dearest friends” and that he understood he didn’t have to disclose the trips.
ProPublica sent Crow a detailed list of questions and his office responded with a statement that did not dispute the facts presented in this story.
“Harlan Crow has long been passionate about the importance of quality education and giving back to those less fortunate, especially at-risk youth,” the statement said. “It’s disappointing that those with partisan political interests would try to turn helping at-risk youth with tuition assistance into something nefarious or political.” The statement added that Crow and his wife have “supported many young Americans” at a “variety of schools, including his alma mater.” Crow went to Randolph-Macon Academy.
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Crow did not address a question about how much he paid in total for Martin’s tuition. Asked if Thomas had requested the support for either school, Crow’s office responded, “No.”
Last month, ProPublica reported that Thomas accepted luxury travel from Crow virtually every year for decades, including international superyacht cruises and private jet flights around the world. Crow also paid money to Thomas and his relatives in an undisclosed real estate deal, ProPublica found. After he purchased the house where Thomas’ mother lives, Crow poured tens of thousands of dollars into improving the property. And roughly 15 years ago, Crow donated much of the budget of a political group founded by Thomas’ wife, which paid her a $120,000 salary.
“This is way outside the norm. This is way in excess of anything I’ve seen,” said Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, referring to the cascade of gifts over the years.
Painter said that when he was at the White House, an official who’d taken what Thomas had would have been fired: “This amount of undisclosed gifts? You’d want to get them out of the government.”
A federal law passed after Watergate requires Justices and other officials to publicly report most gifts. Ethics law experts told ProPublica they believed Thomas was required by law to disclose the tuition payments because they appear to be a gift to him.
Justices also must report many gifts to their spouses and dependent children. The law’s definition of dependent child is narrow, however, and likely would not apply to Martin since Thomas was his legal guardian, not his parent. The best case for not disclosing Crow’s tuition payments would be to argue the gifts were to Martin, not Thomas, experts said.
But that argument was far-fetched, experts said, because minor children rarely pay their own tuition. Typically, the legal guardian is responsible for the child’s education.
“The most reasonable interpretation of the statute is that this was a gift to Thomas and thus had to be reported. It’s common sense,” said Kathleen Clark, an ethics law expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s all to the financial benefit of Clarence Thomas.”
Martin, now in his 30s, told ProPublica he was not aware that Crow paid his tuition. But he defended Thomas and Crow, saying he believed there was no ulterior motive behind the real estate magnate’s largesse over the decades. “I think his intentions behind everything is just a friend and just a good person,” Martin said.
Crow has long been an influential figure in pro-business conservative politics. He has given millions to efforts to move the law and the judiciary to the right and serves on the boards of think tanks that publish scholarship advancing conservative legal theories.
Crow has denied trying to influence the Justice but has said he extended hospitality to him just as he has to other dear friends. From the start, their relationship has intertwined expensive gifts and conservative politics. In a recent interview with The Dallas Morning News, Crow recounted how he first met Thomas. In 1996, the Justice was scheduled to give a speech in Dallas for an anti-regulation think tank. Crow offered to fly him there on his private jet. “During that flight, we found out we were kind of simpatico,” the billionaire said.
The following year, the Thomases began to discuss taking custody of Martin. His father, Thomas’ nephew, had been imprisoned in connection with a drug case. Thomas has written that Martin’s situation held deep resonance for him because his own father was absent and his grandparents had taken him in “under very similar circumstances.”
Thomas had an adult son from a previous marriage, but he and wife, Ginni, didn’t have children of their own. They pitched Martin’s parents on taking the boy in.
“Thomas explained that the boy would have the best of everything — his own room, a private school education, lots of extracurricular activities,” journalists Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher reported in their biography of Thomas.
Thomas gained legal custody of Martin and became his legal guardian around January 1998, according to court records.
Martin, who had been living in Georgia with his mother and siblings, moved to Virginia, where he lived with the Justice from the ages of 6 to 19, he said.
Living with the Thomases came with an unusual perk: lavish travel with Crow and his family. Martin told ProPublica that he and Thomas vacationed with the Crows “at least once a year” throughout his childhood.
That included visits to Camp Topridge, Crow’s private resort in the Adirondacks, and two cruises on Crow’s superyacht, Martin said. On a trip in the Caribbean, Martin recalled riding jet skis off the side of the billionaire’s yacht.
Roughly 20 years ago, Martin, Thomas and the Crows went on a cruise on the yacht in Russia and the Baltics, according to Martin and two other people familiar with the trip. The group toured St. Petersburg in a rented helicopter and visited the Yusupov Palace, the site of Rasputin’s murder, said one of the people. They were joined by Chris DeMuth, then the president of the conservative think tank the American Enterprise Institute. (Thomas’ trips with Crow to the Baltics and the Caribbean have not previously been reported.)
Thomas reconfigured his life to balance the demands of raising a child with serving on the high court. He began going to the Supreme Court before 6 a.m. so he could leave in time to pick Martin up after class and help him with his homework. By 2001, the justice had moved Martin to private school out of frustration with the Fairfax County public school system’s lax schedule, The American Lawyer magazine reported.
For high school, Thomas sent Martin to Randolph-Macon Academy, a military boarding school 75 miles west of Washington, D.C., where he was in the class of 2010. The school, which sits on a 135-acre campus in the Shenandoah Valley, charged between $25,000 to $30,000 a year. Martin played football and basketball, and the Justice sometimes visited for games.
Randolph-Macon was also Crow’s alma mater. Thomas and Crow visited the campus in April 2007 for the dedication of an imposing bronze sculpture of the Air Force Honor Guard, according to the school magazine. Crow donated the piece to Randolph-Macon, where it is a short walk from Crow Hall, a classroom building named after the Dallas billionaire’s family.
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Martin sometimes chafed at the strictures of military school, according to people at Randolph-Macon at the time, and he spent his junior year at Hidden Lake Academy, a therapeutic boarding school in Georgia. Hidden Lake boasted one teacher for every 10 students and activities ranging from horseback riding to canoeing. Those services came at an added cost. At the time, a year of tuition was roughly $73,000, plus fees.
The July 2009 bank statement from Hidden Lake was filed in a bankruptcy case for the school, which later went under. The document shows that Crow Holdings LLC wired $6,200 to the school that month, the exact cost of the month’s tuition. The wire is marked “Mark Martin” in the ledger.
Crow’s office said in its statement that Crow’s funding of students’ tuition has “always been paid solely from personal funds, sometimes held at and paid through the family business.”
Grimwood, the administrator at Hidden Lake, told ProPublica that Crow wired the school money once a month to pay Martin’s tuition fees. Grimwood had multiple roles on the campus, including overseeing an affiliated wilderness program. He said he was speaking about the payments because he felt the public should know about outside financial support for Supreme Court Justices. Martin returned to Randolph-Macon his senior year.
Thomas has long been one of the less wealthy members of the Supreme Court. Still, when Martin was in high school, he and Ginni Thomas had income that put them comfortably in the top echelon of Americans.
In 2006 for example, the Thomases brought in more than $500,000 in income. The following year, they made more than $850,000 from Clarence Thomas’ salary from the Court, Ginni Thomas’ pay from the Heritage Foundation and book payments for the Justice’s memoir.
It appears that at some point in Martin’s childhood, Thomas was paying for private school himself. Martin told ProPublica that Thomas sold his Corvette — “his most prized car” — to pay for a year of tuition, although he didn’t remember when that occurred.
In 2002, a friend of Thomas’ from the RV community who owned a Florida pest control company, Earl Dixon, offered Thomas $5,000 to help defray the costs of Martin’s education. Thomas’ disclosure of that earlier gift, several experts said, could be viewed as evidence that the Justice himself understood he was required to report tuition aid from friends.
“At first, Thomas was worried about the propriety of the donation,” Thomas biographers Merida and Fletcher recounted. “He agreed to accept it if the contribution was deposited directly into a special trust for Mark.” In his annual filing, Thomas reported the money as an “education gift to Mark Martin.”
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Small College Basketball Tidbits
As we approach Christmas, I simply wanted to jot down some interesting observations and notes from the first several weeks of the season.  In no particular order, here goes:
-  Langston is a remarkable story.  Last year, the Lions went 1-27. After the season, Coach Chris Wright was hired as the new Head Coach, after leading Talladega to the NAIA National Championship game.  Langston overhauled the roster, and is now 13-0 on the season.  Just incredible!
-  After Emporia State knocked off #1 ranked Northwest Missouri State, the Hornets have now defeated NW MO State in three consecutive games.  Last year - in a season when NW MO State won their record-setting 3rd consecutive NCAA Division II National Championship, Emporia State swept the Bearcats in two regular season games.  Congratulations to Coach Craig Doty, who has won two NJCAA National Championships and an NAIA National Championship in his young career.
-  Last season, Young Harris was 6-21.  Thus far this season, the Mountain Lions are 10-0 thus far.  Congratulations to Coach Jeremy Currier and the Young Harris team.
-  The University of St. Joseph is an incredible story in NCAA Division III basketball.  In only their fourth year as a basketball program - started by Coach Jim Calhoun - the Blue Jays are now the #1 ranked team in NCAA Division III basketball.  Now led by Coach Glen Miller, St. Joseph is now 9-0.  Coach Glen Miller has the unique distinction of leading two different NCAA Division III teams to the #1 ranking in Division III basketball (he also lead Connecticut College to the top spot during the 1988-89 season.  Coach Miller has also been the Head Coach at two different Ivy League schools: Penn & Brown.
-  Randolph-Macon, who won the 2022 NCAA Division III National Championship, has now won a remarkable 53 straight home games.  Incredible!
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AM1054: Stars Form as Galaxies Collide Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI; Processing: J. English (U. Manitoba); Science: M. Rodruck (Penn State U. & Randolph-Macon C.) et al.; Text: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba).
Explanation: When galaxies collide, how many stars are born? For AM1054-325, featured here in a recently released image by the Hubble Space Telescope, the answer is millions. Instead of stars being destroyed as galaxy AM1054-325 and a nearby galaxy circle each other, their gravity and motion has ignited stellar creation. Star formation occurs rapidly in the gaseous debris stretching from AM1054-325’s yellowish body due to the other galaxy’s gravitational pull. Hydrogen gas surrounding newborn stars glows pink. Bright infant stars shine blue and cluster together in compact nurseries of thousands to millions of stars. AM1054-325 possesses over 100 of these intense-blue, dot-like star clusters, some appearing like a string of pearls. Analyzing ultraviolet light helped determine that most of these stars are less than 10 million years old: stellar babies. Many of these nurseries may grow up to be globular star clusters, while the bundle of young stars at the bottom tip may even detach and form a small galaxy.
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In 2008, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas decided to send his teenage grandnephew to Hidden Lake Academy, a private boarding school in the foothills of northern Georgia. The boy, Mark Martin, was far from home. For the previous decade, he had lived with the justice and his wife in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Thomas had taken legal custody of Martin when he was 6 years old and had recently told an interviewer he was “raising him as a son.”
Tuition at the boarding school ran more than $6,000 a month. But Thomas did not cover the bill. A bank statement for the school from July 2009, buried in unrelated court filings, shows the source of Martin’s tuition payment for that month: the company of billionaire real estate magnate Harlan Crow.
The payments extended beyond that month, according to Christopher Grimwood, a former administrator at the school. Crow paid Martin’s tuition the entire time he was a student there, which was about a year, Grimwood told ProPublica.
“Harlan picked up the tab,” said Grimwood, who got to know Crow and the Thomases and had access to school financial information through his work as an administrator.
Before and after his time at Hidden Lake, Martin attended a second boarding school, Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. “Harlan said he was paying for the tuition at Randolph-Macon Academy as well,” Grimwood said, recalling a conversation he had with Crow during a visit to the billionaire’s Adirondacks estate.
ProPublica interviewed Martin, his former classmates and former staff at both schools. The exact total Crow paid for Martin’s education over the years remains unclear. If he paid for all four years at the two schools, the price tag could have exceeded $150,000, according to public records of tuition rates at the schools.
Thomas did not report the tuition payments from Crow on his annual financial disclosures. Several years earlier, Thomas disclosed a gift of $5,000 for Martin’s education from another friend. It is not clear why he reported that payment but not Crow’s.
The tuition payments add to the picture of how the Republican megadonor has helped fund the lives of Thomas and his family.
“You can’t be having secret financial arrangements,” said Mark W. Bennett, a retired federal judge appointed by President Bill Clinton. Bennett said he was friendly with Thomas and declined to comment for the record about the specifics of Thomas’ actions. But he said that when he was on the bench, he wouldn’t let his lawyer friends buy him lunch.
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“This is way outside the norm. This is way in excess of anything I’ve seen,” said Richard Painter, former chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, referring to the cascade of gifts over the years.
Painter said that when he was at the White House, an official who’d taken what Thomas had would have been fired: “This amount of undisclosed gifts? You’d want to get them out of the government.”
A federal law passed after Watergate requires justices and other officials to publicly report most gifts. Ethics law experts told ProPublica they believed Thomas was required by law to disclose the tuition payments because they appear to be a gift to him.
Justices also must report many gifts to their spouses and dependent children. The law’s definition of dependent child is narrow, however, and likely would not apply to Martin since Thomas was his legal guardian, not his parent. The best case for not disclosing Crow’s tuition payments would be to argue the gifts were to Martin, not Thomas, experts said.
But that argument was far-fetched, experts said, because minor children rarely pay their own tuition. Typically, the legal guardian is responsible for the child’s education.
“The most reasonable interpretation of the statute is that this was a gift to Thomas and thus had to be reported. It’s common sense,” said Kathleen Clark, an ethics law expert at Washington University in St. Louis. “It’s all to the financial benefit of Clarence Thomas.”
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Hubble detects celestial 'string of pearls' star clusters in galaxy collisions
When spectacular cosmic events such as galaxy collisions occur, it sets off a reaction to form new stars, and possibly new planets that otherwise would not have formed. The gravitational pull that forces the collisions between these galaxies creates tidal tails—the long thin region of stars and interstellar gas.
The Hubble Space Telescope's vision is so sharp that it can see clusters of newborn stars strung along these tidal tails. They form when knots of gas gravitationally collapse to create about 1 million newborn stars per cluster.
Specifically, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has homed in on 12 interacting galaxies that have long, tadpole-like tidal tails of gas, dust and a plethora of stars. Hubble's exquisite sharpness and sensitivity to ultraviolet light have uncovered 425 clusters of newborn stars along these tails, looking like strings of holiday lights.
Each cluster contains as many as 1 million blue, newborn stars.
Clusters in tidal tails have been known about for decades. When galaxies interact, gravitational tidal forces pull out long streamers of gas and dust. Two popular examples are the Antennae and Mice galaxies with their long, narrow, finger-like projections.
In a study recently published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society astronomers used the near-infrared capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study tidal tail clusters and determine their ages and masses, along with properties of the merging galaxies.
Michael Rodruck of Randolph-Macon College is the lead author of this study with co-authors including Arizona State University scientists Sanchayeeta Borthakur and Karen Knierman of the School of Earth and Space Exploration.
A team of astronomers used a combination of new observations and archival data to get ages and masses of tidal tail star clusters. They found that these clusters are very young—only 10 million years old. And they seem to be forming at the same rate along tails stretching for thousands of light-years.
"These observations tell us how stars form and what regulates those processes. This knowledge is critical in understanding how stars in our own galaxy were formed," said Associate Professor Sanchayeeta Borthakur, who is an observational astronomer specializing in extragalactic astronomy at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration.
The tails look like they are taking a galaxy's spiral arm and stretching it out into space. The exterior part of the arm gets pulled like taffy from the gravitational tug-of-war between a pair of interacting galaxies.
Before the mergers, the galaxies were rich in dusty clouds of molecular hydrogen that simply may have remained inert. But the clouds got jostled and bumped into each other during the encounters. This compressed the hydrogen to the point where it precipitated a firestorm of star birth.
The fate of these strung-out star clusters is uncertain. They may stay gravitationally intact and evolve into globular star clusters—like those that orbit outside the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Or they may disperse to form a halo of stars around their host galaxy, or get cast off to become wandering intergalactic stars.
"It's so exciting to present the culmination of over two decades of work on star clusters in tidal tails using data from different eras of Hubble together with that from other telescopes," Assistant Teaching Professor Karen Knierman said. "I started working on this project as an undergraduate at Penn State in 1999, and some of that same data and results are used here. We got additional data from a Hubble program I was (principal investigator) for when I came to ASU in 2007."
This string-of-pearls star formation may have been more common in the early universe when galaxies collided with each other more frequently. These nearby galaxies observed by Hubble are a proxy for what happened long ago, and therefore allow us to look into the distant past.
"It's a surprise to see lots of the young objects in the tails. It tells us a lot about cluster formation efficiency," Rodruck said. "With tidal tails, you will build up new generations of stars that otherwise might not have existed."
IMAGE....Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. A consequence of this is that newborn clusters of stars form along a stretched-out tidal tail for thousands of light-years, resembling a string of pearls. They form when knots of gas gravitationally collapse to create about 1 million newborn stars per cluster. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jayanne English (University of Manitoba)
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“Disfrutar con el trabajo es hallar la fuente de la juventud”
Pearl Buck
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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck, fue una escritora y novelista estadounidense nacida en Hillsboro Virginia Occidental en junio de 1892. Fue la primer mujer en Estados Unidos en ganar el Premio Nobel de Literatura.
Como hija de misioneros presbiterianos en China, pasó la mayor parte de su vida antes de 1934 en Zhenjiang. Fue la cuarta de 7 hermanos.
Pearl se crió en un entorno bilingüe, con su madre aprendió en inglés y el dialecto local chino con sus compañeros juegos, con su nana y con el cocinero de la familia.
Posteriormente estudió el chino clásico con un erudito chino llamado Mr. Kung, quien la introdujo en los clásicos de la literatura china, las teorías de Confucio y la historia del país asiático.
En 1911, salió de China para asistir al Randolph-Macon Woman’s College en Lynchburg Virginia, años después contaría en su autobiografía; 
“Crecí entre dos mundos diferentes, uno corresponde al mundo de la visión estrecha y limpia de los norteamericanos; mientras que el otro corresponde a una visión de un mundo amplio, feliz, alegre y menos limpio de los chinos. Los dos mundos no se comunican”.
Estudio psicología en la Universidad de Virginia y en 1914 regresó a China para cuidar a su madre enferma, dando clases de inglés en diferentes escuelas.
Se casó en 1917 con un economista agrícola y vivieron en China en una ciudad situada junto al río Yangtsé en donde vivieron casi tres años.
Para finales de 1919 el matrimonio se mudó a Nankín, en donde ambos trabajaron como profesores en la Universidad y en donde Pearl escribiría la mayoría de sus obras.
Pearl tradujo por primera vez la obra “A la orilla del agua”, un clásico de la literatura china y en 1920, Pearl dió a luz a su primera hija quien nacería con una grave enfermedad mental.
Tras tener que superar las muertes de su padre y madre, y tras haberle detectado una enfermedad uterina que le provocaría una esterilidad permanente, los esposos decidieron trasladarse a los Estados Unidos en 1925 para regresar a China un año después.
En 1927, tras el “incidente de Nankín” en donde las tropas comunistas de Chiang Kai-Shek asesinaron a algunos ciudadanos occidentales, los Buck se trasladaron a Shangái para tomar camino a Japón con rumbo a los Estados Unidos, es a partir de allí en donde Pearl iniciaría su brillante carrera como novelista.
Su primera novela se publico en 1930 “Viento del este, viento del oeste” gracias a la ayuda del editor llamado John Day quien terminaría siendo su esposo 5 años mas tarde.
En el año de 1931, Pearl publica “La buena tierra” la cual se convertiría en la novela más vendida en ese año y el siguiente. Mas tarde al año siguiente seria la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer y asumió el cargo de presidenta de la Asociación de Autores de Estados Unidos.
En 1938, Pearl S. Buck ganó el premio Nobel de Literatura.
Pearl fue durante toda su vida una incansable activista por los derechos humanos. 
Tras la sangrienta masacre de civiles en la ciudad de Nankín, Pearl condenó los excesos del ejercito japonés, y recabó fondos para ayudar médicamente a la población China. 
En 1949 fundó la Welcome House, la primera agencia de adopción para niños asiáticos y de otras razas y años después la fundación Pearl S. Buck de atencion a niños asiáticos-estadounidenses.
Pearl nunca mas regresaría a China, mucho después de terminar la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Pearl solicitó a diversos dirigentes del partido comunista chino le permitieran visitar el país cosa que le negaron y en 1972 con la visita del presidente Richard Nixon al país, solicitó ser aceptada como acompañante, siendo negada su visa.
Pearl murió en marzo de 1973 a consecuencia de un cáncer de pulmón, a la edad de 81 años.
Fuentes: Wikipedia, historia.nationalgeographic.com.es
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From Randolph-Macon Woman's College's 1917 yearbook.
Spotty: my modest collection of vintage leopards.
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AM1054: Galaksiler Çarpıştıkça Yıldızlar Oluşuyor
Günün Astronomi Görseli 20 Şubat 2024 Görsel: NASA, ESA, STScI; Görüntü İşleme: J. English (U. Manitoba); Bilim: M. Rodruck (Penn State U. & Randolph-Macon C.) et al.; Metin: Jayanne English (U. Manitoba). Galaksiler çarpıştığında kaç yıldız doğar? Hubble Uzay Teleskobu tarafından yakın zamanda yayınlanan bu görüntüde yer alan AM1054-325 için cevap milyonlarca. AM1054-325 galaksisi ve yakındaki…
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"It's the birthday of novelist Pearl S. Buck, born in Hillsboro, West Virginia (1892). Her parents were Christian missionaries in China who returned to America for Pearl's birth. But when she was three months old, they headed back to China. Buck's father, Absalom, was a fundamentalist Presbyterian preacher — and a distant father. In many of the villages where he traveled, he was the first white person the villagers had ever seen, and they were put off by him. They were unimpressed by his fire-and-brimstone sermons, and he estimated that he converted about 10 people over the course of 10 years. Still, he kept trying.
Pearl's mother, Caroline, resented being so far from her home in West Virginia. She tried her best to keep the mud walls and floors of their hut clean, and she planted American flowers everywhere. Finally, when Pearl was four, she told her husband that they were moving to a city or she was going home. So they moved to the city of Zhenjiang, but all they could afford there were three crowded rooms in an apartment in one of the poorest sections of the city, a district full of prostitutes and drug addicts.
Absalom and Caroline receive a small stipend for their work as missionaries, but Absalom squandered much of the family's budget on his pet project: translating the New Testament into Chinese. He spent 30 years working on it. Buck wrote: "He printed edition after edition, revising each to make it more perfect, and all her life [my mother] went poorer because of the New Testament. It robbed her of the tiny margin between bitter poverty and small comfort."
Chinese was Buck's first language, and her nurse told her bedtime stories about dragons and tree spirits. As a young girl in the village, she wandered through the countryside. In the city, she and her brother explored the streets and markets, watching puppet shows and sampling food. She was embarrassed by her blue eyes and blond hair, but she didn't let it hold her back. She enthusiastically joined in local celebrations, big funerals and parties.
When Buck was a teenager, her parents sent her to an English-language school for foreign girls like her. She did not fit in and was lonely, but fascinated by Shanghai. As a pupil, she was required to teach a knitting class at the Door of Hope, a shelter for girls and women who had been forced into prostitution and sex slavery. Usually, the white students from Miss Jewell's did not speak Chinese, but since Buck did, the women there told her all their stories of rape, abuse, and violence.
After a year there, Buck went to Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia. She arrived as a total misfit. A woman named Emma Edmunds, a rural girl who became one of Buck's best friends at college, said about that first day: "I saw this one girl and she looked even more countrified than me. Her dress was made of Chinese grass linen and nobody else had anything like that. It had a high neck and long sleeves, and her hair was in a braid turned under at the back." But she cut her hair and bought some American clothes, and she managed to fit in well enough.
After college, Buck went back to China, where she met an American agricultural economist and missionary named John Lossing Buck. They were married, and in 1921 she gave birth to a daughter, Carol. But things began to fall apart. Her mother died not long after Carol was born, and her father moved in with the young couple. Her father and husband disliked each other, and increasingly, she didn't like either of them very much. Her daughter, Carol, had a rare developmental disability. On top of everything, the political situation in China was so tense that at one point the Bucks had to hide in the basement of a peasant family's home to escape Nationalist soldiers, and they ended up fleeing to Japan as refugees.
In 1929, Buck took nine-year-old Carol to an institution in New Jersey, where she hoped she would receive better care than Buck could provide — she called it "the hardest thing I ever did." She didn't have enough money to pay for the expensive tuition, so she borrowed money from a member of the Mission Board. Her marriage fell apart, and she was even more desperate for money, so she started writing. Her first novel was called East Wind, West Wind (1930), and she hoped it would cover the school fees, but it didn't sell well. The following year she published The Good Earth (1931), chronicling the dramatic life of a Chinese peasant farmer named Wang Lung from his wedding day through his old age. The Good Earth was a huge best-seller, and Buck won the Pulitzer Prize and, a few years later, the Nobel Prize in literature.
In her Nobel acceptance speech, she said: " My earliest knowledge of story, of how to tell and write stories, came to me in China. [...] Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free."
Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®"
Thanks to the 26 Jun 2012 edition of The Writer's Almanac.
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College Football By State - Virginia
FBS: James Madison Dukes - Harrisonburg, Virginia - They first played in 1972. They are in the Sun Belt Conference.
Liberty Flames - Lynchburg, Virginia - They first played in 1973. They are joining Conference USA.
Old Dominion Monarchs - Norfolk, Virginia - They first played in 2009. They are in the Sun Belt.
Virginia Cavaliers - Charlottesville, Virginia - They first played in 1888. They are in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).
Virginia Tech Hokies - Blacksburg, Virginia - They first played in 1892. They are in the ACC.
FCS: Hampton Pirates - Hampton, Virginia - Their program was established in 1902. They are in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA).
Norfolk State Spartans - Norfolk, Virginia - Their program was established in 1938. They are in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC).
Richmond Spiders - Richmond, Virginia - Their program was established in 1881. They are in the CAA.
VMI Keydets - Lexington, Virginia - Their program was established in 1873. They are in the Southern Conference.
William & Mary Tribe - Williamsburg, Virginia - Their program was established in 1893. They are in the CAA.
D2: Emory And Henry College Wasps - Emory, Virginia - They are in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC).
Virginia State Trojans - Ettrick, Virginia - They are in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA).
Virginia Union Panthers - Richmond, Virginia - They are in the CIAA.
University of Virginia - Wise Cavaliers - Wise, Virginia - They are in the SAC.
D3: Averett Cougars - Danville, Virginia - They first played in 2000. They are in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC).
Bridgewater Eagles - Bridgewater, Virginia - They first played in 1899. They are in the ODAC.
Christopher Newport Captains - Newport News, Virginia - They first played in 2001. They are in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC).
Ferrum Panthers - Ferrum, Virginia - They are in the ODAC.
Hampden-Sydney Tigers - Hampden Sydney, Virginia - They first played in 1892. They are in the ODAC.
Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets - Ashland, Virginia - They first played in 1881. They are in the ODAC.
Shenandoah Hornets - Winchester, Virginia - They first played in 2000. They are in the ODAC.
Southern Virginia Knights - Buena Vista, Virginia - They first played in 2003. They are in the USA South.
Washington And Lee Generals - Lexington, Virginia - They first played in 1890. They are in the ODAC.
NAIA: Bluefield University Rams - Bluefield, Virginia. They are in the Appalachian Athletic Conference.
Awards: My favorite mascot – The Captains of Christopher Newport. From the lovely town name of Newport News. The "Endo-Skeletons Are Overrated" Award – Richmond Spiders, Emory and Henry Wasps, Randolph-Macon Yellow Jackets, and the Shenandoah Hornets.
I always figured there were numerous W.A.S.P.’s in Virginia.
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The Finalists for the 2022 Bevo Francis Award have been announced.....and here is the video announcement.... Congratulations to all nine finalists!
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Thoma$ must go!
Justice Thomas and his wife made immeasurable personal and financial sacrifices and poured every ounce of their lives and hearts into giving their great nephew a chance to succeed. In the summer of 2006, the Thomases were struggling to find a school where they could send their great nephew. In discussing these challenges with their dear friends, Harlan and Kathy Crow, Harlan recommended that the Thomases consider one more option: sending their great nephew to Randolph Macon Academy. Harlan had attended Randolph Macon, and he thought the school would be a good fit.
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