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France and Down Syndrome: The French Government Should Learn from Charles DeGaulle
Eric Metaxas and Roberto Rivera | Author, Breakpoint | Tuesday, May 16, 2017
#Down Syndrome
Late last year on BreakPoint, I told you about an extraordinary bit of censorship by the French government.
What was censored was an ad featuring a smiling, happy child with Down syndrome. The ad, entitled "Dear Future Mom," told potential mothers about the joy and love that these children can and will bring into their lives.
So, why was it banned? Because the French government believes that the ad is "likely to disturb the conscience of women" who had aborted their babies after learning that the child had Down syndrome.
Now I'm going to tell you a story about a Frenchman who saw things very differently: Charles de Gaulle.
You probably weren't expecting to hear that. To most Americans, de Gaulle was, as one writer put it, "an obnoxious, overly ambitious man who, in the grand French manner, strutted sitting down."
He may have been some or all of these things, but there was a side of Charles de Gaulle that few people know about, and that side revolved around his love for his daughter, Anne.
Anne was born on New Year's Day, 1928, the third of Charles and Yvonne de Gaulle's three children. In De Gaulle's words, Anne was "un enfant pas comme les autres," a child not like the other children.
As you've probably guessed, Anne had Down syndrome. Only it wasn't called "Down syndrome" back then. The children were called "mongoloids," and, as a recent story by Samuel Gregg of the Acton Institute in the Catholic World Report told readers, "it was common [back then] for French families to place disabled children permanently in hospitals that were woefully ill-equipped to care for them."
That's not something that de Gaulle and his family did. As de Gaulle put it, "God has given her to us. We must take responsibility for her, wherever she is and whatever she will be." And so the family worked hard to make a place for Anne.
While Yvonne worked on the logistics, Charles worked on the affection. You heard that right: the affection. Anne was the apple of his eye. As the article tells us, "The tall army officer infamous for his air of haughty disdain as leader of Free France during World War II and later as French President didn't hesitate to unbend to play on the floor with Anne."
He sang to her, read her stories, and taught her how to pray. Every night, Anne would "painstakingly . . . repeat each word after her father." In turn, de Gaulle would proudly tell his relatives that "she knows her prayers!"
As Gregg tells readers, de Gaulle was well aware of how the Nazis treated children like Anne, and this, in turn, inspired his refusal to surrender to the Nazis. His "act of resistance" was a way of "safeguarding his defenseless daughter from those who viewed her as sub-human." As he later said, "Without Anne, I could never perhaps have done what I did. She gave me the heart and the inspiration."
The contrast between de Gaulle and his successors in the Elysée Palace is almost too painful to contemplate. He refused to surrender to the Nazis to protect children with Down syndrome. After Anne's death, he and his wife established a foundation, staffed by nuns, to care for people "who are not like the others."
De Gaulle was a complicated man—most great men are—but one of his complications was his Catholic faith that enabled him to love Anne. It was a love that, as Gregg put it, helped restore France's honor, the same honor that was tarnished when, out of fear for hurting people's feelings, it denied the humanity of the people de Gaulle worked tirelessly to save.
To read Samuel Gregg's outstanding article, "A Father's Love: The Story of Charles and Anne," please come to BreakPoint.org, click on this commentary, and we'll link you to it.
BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry that seeks to build and resource a movement of Christians committed to living and defending Christian worldview in all areas of life. Begun by Chuck Colson in 1991 as a daily radio broadcast, BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today's news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print. Today BreakPoint commentaries, co-hosted by Eric Metaxas and John Stonestreet, air daily on more than 1,200 outlets with an estimated weekly listening audience of eight million people. Feel free to contact us at BreakPoint.org where you can read and search answers to common questions.
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12. January 2022 - 11:41
His Beatitude Jovan, Archbishop of Ochrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, served the Holy Liturgy in the stauropegic monastery of Saint John Chrysostom in Nizepolje near Bitola on 7 January 2022, on the feast day of the Nativity of Christ.
His Grace Bishop Jaokim of Polog-Kumanovo celebrated in Ochrid, His Grace Bishop Marko of Bregalnica in Stip, while His Grace Bishop David of Stobi celebrated in Skopje. Christmas Liturgies were celebrated also in other places throghout the Orthodox Archbishopric of Ochrid.
Christ is Born! Cristo ha nacido!
10. January 2022 - 8:24
In the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God in Buenos Aires in Argentina, the Nativity of the Lord, God, and Saviour Jesus Christ- Christmas was celebrated solemnly.
His Grace Bishop Kirilo of Buenos Aires and South America invited His Eminence Metropolitan Jacob of Buenos Aires and Argentina of the Patriarchate of Antioch to the celebration. The hierarchs served the Liturgy with the concelebration of presbyter Stefan Jovanovic and hieromonk David (Janketic). Before the Liturgy, the morning service was served with the traditional burning of the Yule log, so that a large number of present believers could participate in that Serbian traditional holiday act, and then partake in the communion at the Liturgy. On that occasion, the Christmas message of His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch was read. Porphyria. Christ is born! Cristo ha nacido!
Bishop Stefan served the Midnight Christmas Liturgy at Saint Sava Cathedral
7. January 2022 - 14:14
His Grace Bishop Stefan of Remesiana, Vicar of the Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Midnight Holy Hierarchical Liturgy at the Saint Sava Cathedral in the Vracar District, in Belgrade, on 7 January 2022, on the feast day of the Nativity of the Lord.
The clergy and deacons concelebrated to the Bishop together in the prayerful presence of many faithful people. In honor of the Birth of the God-Child Christ, the Singing Society of the Saint Sava Cathedral, led by conductor Katarina Stankovic, sang responses.
Bishop Luka Kovacevic of Western Europe (1950-2021)
His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, officiated the Requiem Office for the Dead in front of the catafalque of Bishop Luka of Western Europe of blessed repose in the Monastery of the Most Holy Mother of God on 27 December 2021.
The Patriarch was concelebrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishop Vasilije of Srem, Nikanor of Banat, Irinej of Backa, Dositej of Britain and Scandinavia, Pahomije of Vranje, Jovan of Sumadija, Ignatije of Branicevo, Atanasije of Milesevo, Teodosije of Raska-Prizren, David of Krusevac, Arsenije of Nis, Isihije of Valjevo, Metodije of Budimlje-Niksic, Jerotej of Toplica, Justin of Hvosno, Damaskin of Mohacs, Sava of Marca and Jovan of Hum.
Metropolitan Joanikije visits Diocese of Dalmatia
28. December 2021 - 8:04
His Eminence Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro and the Littoral arrived to visit the Diocese of Dalmatia, on 25 December 2021.
Brotherhood of the Krka monastery along with His Grace Bishop Nikodim of Dalmatia welcomed Metropolitan Joanikije with joy. On that occasion, doxology was served at the Krka Monastery.
Patriarch Porfirije: Let us enter the house of the Lord, respond to His call, surrender to His will and His providence - then we will be on the safe path
Patriarch Porfirije: No profession or concern is more important than the foundation of our life - Christ
On the Sunday of the Holy Forefathers, December 26, 2021, in the crowded Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Lord in Zagreb, His Holiness Porfirije, the Serbian Patriarch, served the Divine Liturgy. The Zagreb clergy celebrated together with the singing of the choir of the Cathedral, conducted by Olena Ciglenjak. After the end of the Holy Liturgy, the Patriarch congratulated Christmas to all Christians who celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of Christ according to the Gregorian calendar.


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My Favorite Year: In Los Angeles with Eve Babitz in 1971
By Dan Wakefield
MEN DIDN'T CONQUER Eve Babitz, she conquered them — and wrote about it, in seven published books and assorted articles and stories. Not only did Eve repel unwanted advances, sometimes even an unwelcome opinion could evoke her wrath, which could just as well be a kick in the shins as a withering retort. One friend of mine refused to go to any party he feared might include Eve, having been withered by her once too often. The list of her conquests is long, and it includes me, in my year at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard.
My plush year was thanks to the royalties of my first novel, Going All the Way, which hit the Time magazine best-seller list in 1970 and was a double main selection of the Literary Guild, alongside Michael Crichton's Five Patients. As Lili Anolik, author of the loving and perceptive new book on Babitz, Hollywood's Eve, reports, I was "riding high" when I met Eve.
My first week in Hollywood was blessed by two former neighbors who lived behind me on Ocean Front Walk in Venice when I started writing that novel two years earlier. John and Sandy Gibson were working in publicity for Atlantic Records when I landed at the Marmont, and they fixed me up with Eve. I met her in a bar two blocks from the Chateau and I knew when she smiled that this would be a dream year. She was flagrantly beautiful and proud of it. Her outfit was simple and direct, a very short skirt and a very tight sweater. I called my old friends from our New York days, Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, to tell them my good news, which was Eve. Did they know her? The question was naïve. Everyone knew her.
"She's known," said John, "as 'The Dowager Groupie.'"
She famously dallied with Jim Morrison of The Doors, and perhaps the whole of The Eagles, but never restricted herself to rock 'n' roll. She first gained notoriety by posing nude with a fully clothed Marcel Duchamp as they both played chess for an Esquire photo when she was 20. She was a painter, did brilliant collages for the covers of the L.A. Times Sunday magazine, and created a gorgeous and insightful collage of Henry James for my birthday (he is looking at a woman whose body is made of sky), which I put on the cover of an issue of Ploughshares I edited. She bought a Brownie box camera and took wonderful pictures of parties and rock groups, adding a sepia tone to make them look old; one became a classic album cover for Buffalo Springfield. She created small "boxes" I thought were fabulous — like peeking into other worlds, other lives — but when she saw the boxes of artist Joseph Cornell, she stopped making her own, deciding his were in a league she couldn't reach.
Eve lived just a mile or so from the Marmont — a pleasant walk down Sunset Boulevard to Formosa Avenue. That walk became my nightly routine that dream year, which I affirmed to Lili Anolik when she called to interview me for her piece on Eve in Vanity Fair. I told her it was "my favorite year, but I couldn't have lived through another one."
Eve's knowledge, it goes without saying, wasn't limited to the ways of men and whatever she learned at Hollywood High and a casual year and half at Los Angeles City College. She was a fount of unexpected information, always teaching the men she captured, making no snobbish distinction between high and low art. I would go to her apartment on Formosa Avenue after my days messing with a screenplay of a novella I'd optioned (Dump Gull, by Fanny Howe), and I was likely to be greeted by an unexpected lesson in literature, practical psychology, pop culture, or history (mainly California, mostly the Southern part, primarily Los Angeles).
One evening Eve greeted me with a stack of books, accompanied by instructions: "Read these like they're Proust, with recipes." The books had intriguing titles like How to Cook a Wolf, With Bold Knife and Fork, Consider the Oyster. They were all by M. F. K. Fisher, the greatest writer of all who chose food as a subject for illuminating life.
Eve, like her mother Mae, was a great cook and had wonderful dinner parties with guests sitting on the floor, since there were only two lawn chairs in her apartment. At one of Eve's dinners, her friend Diane brought her boyfriend, Chuck Berry, who spent the whole time photographing everyone with his new video camera. He never said a word, which was evidently not unusual. Diane told Eve that Chuck once drove her from Los Angeles to Mexico City and the only words he said during the trip were: "When were you born?" Diane told him, and he said, "That was the year 'Maybelline' came out." The rest was silence.
One night, I arrived with breathless eagerness after Eve had shut me out for three days. I forget the infraction, but I must have neglected her in some way, probably by flirting with another woman. Having grown accustomed to spending every night with Eve, the exile was awful. Told I could return, I went back in a mad rush, clutching her to me for dear life when she opened the door. I confessed I had suffered and she nodded her approval, explaining that if a lover offended you — the worst offense being paying more attention to another man or woman — you had to treat him or her in a way that would really hurt.
"But when I like someone, I don't want to intentionally hurt them!" I said, with my best Indiana Eagle Scout reasoning.
Eve took her signature stance of emphasis, making her hands into fists and sticking them into her waist, arms akimbo, as she uttered her tried and true behavioral psychology advice:
"Well," she said, "you've got to make the effort!"
Eve introduced me to her favorite soap opera, All My Children — not just making me watch it but giving me a tutorial on Pine Valley, the fictional setting, and its cast of citizens.
"See that man?" she said, pointing to a dark-haired, middle-aged fellow on the screen. "That's Nick Davis. Don't trust him. He's a real cad."
Eve didn't so much "introduce" me to the show, she indoctrinated me into it, to such an extent that, a few years later, I landed an assignment to write a piece about it for Esquire, and after meeting the cast and the creator, Agnes Nixon — ABC's afternoon entertainment queen — I wrote a book about it, All Her Children.
Eve's commentary on whatever TV she was watching was as slyly entertaining as her soap opera tutorials, a tongue-in-cheek appraisal of the media and its poses. One of the most all-pervasive car dealership commercials was from Los Angeles's Cal Worthington, whose ads ended with the hammering refrain "Go see Cal, go see Cal, go see Cal!" As one of these was airing, Eve stopped whatever she was doing, stuck her hands on her hips, and said, as if struck by a sudden insight, "I don't trust that Cal Worthington…"
One early morning I woke to hear rumbling sounds, dishes smashing, a TV falling to the floor. From a deep sleep I tried to make sense of what was going on, first trying to orient myself to what city I was in after an extensive book tour — not Boston, not New York, not Cleveland or Chicago. Eve was beside me so it must be L.A. Oh my God, the rumbling beneath me and the flying objects gave more than enough clues to the fact that this was an earthquake! I jumped up and started grabbing my clothes and wrestling them on when Eve rose up and said, "What are you going to do — run to Boston?" I realized that was the wrong strategy, and got back on the mattress. Eve didn't bother with a bed — a mattress on the floor was quite enough.
That year, John Dunne was working on his book Vegas and asked me to go with him to keep him company (if you aren't into gambling or prostitutes, it's the most boring place in the world). On some minor airline's L.A.–Vegas hop, our small plane encountered big turbulence — the kind that makes you wonder if you'll ever see home again. John was cursing his luck to "end it all on a commuter flight to Vegas." I could only smile and say, "I can die happy — I spent last night with Eve."
Eve always woke before me and was often on the phone, sometimes talking to girlfriends with uncensored intimacy, never bothering to whisper. She evidently assumed that if my eyes were closed I was fast asleep. Not always. I was hearing the kind of "girl talk" I had never been privy to before. It was fascinating and sometimes shocking, once in a way that sat me bolt upright with an angry combination of revelation and resentment. She'd been talking to her pal Diane, who hated my guts, since I'd ridiculed some sappy young hippie guy Diane brought over the night before whom she wanted me to introduce to Kurt Vonnegut, explaining this kid was "a writer too."
As I lay beside Eve, I heard her "defending me" to Diane.
"Well, he's something different," Eve said.
I was not a rock star — that was okay. But then she went on to compare my private parts to those of one of her rock stars, Jim Morrison, describing mine as a "nice" change for the smaller.
I was not asleep anymore.
My most private part ("private" no more!) was now the subject of discussion, and I was coming off second best — it sounded like a distant second best.
I bolted upright, pulling the sheet around me protectively, and shouted at Eve.
"For God's sake!" I said.
"I have to go now," she said to Diane, and mercifully hung up the phone.
I grabbed at my scattered clothes and started tugging them on.
Unlike her practical advice during the earthquake, it was no use now to ridicule the idea of my "running to Boston." In my state of shock and embarrassment, it seemed like the only thing to do. I went back to the Marmont to sulk, abetted by a splash of morning bourbon followed by a splash in the Marmont pool. I banged out a couple of lines of my screenplay, hoping the effort would make me feel "professional." There were messages from Eve, apologizing and asking forgiveness for her indiscretion, saying she had talked it all over with her mother and now she understood why I was upset.
Talked it all over with her mother! Now the whole family was in on it.
"My mother told me, 'Men are very sensitive about that,'" Eve explained that night by way of apology. "You shouldn't worry," she went on, "yours is 'Upper Middle Class.'"
Not in the same class as Morrison's, it was clear.
Completely by accident, I met Jim Morrison a month or so later. Eve and I were at the Liquor Locker, next door to the Marmont, buying a bottle of something to take back to her place, when I saw her go up to a young guy who was scanning the labels of an array of wines. She jabbed a finger into his side and said, "Hi Jim!" as he jumped a foot off the ground.
"Eve," he said, looking like he wanted to flee.
"This is Dan Wakefield," she said, stopping him momentarily in his tracks, and saying to me, "Jim Morrison."
I grabbed his hand (it was not especially large), shook it, and he fled.
I was just as glad. I wouldn't have wanted to be in a song — people said Eve was in "L.A. Woman," and I'm glad The Doors never did a song called "Upper Middle Class."
Dark clouds were blown away. Eve made her mother's magical Chinese chicken recipe and took us to a picnic in a park after acid. I lay on the grass and looked up at the trees with leaves that glowed. It doesn't get better than this, I thought.
She guided us to the best (not the most expensive, the best) restaurants — of course we went to the Hollywood classic Musso and Frank for sand dabs, to Ports, the neighborhood restaurant Eve discovered and championed where there was always a table for us (not until reading Anolik's book did I know it became a haven of the biggest stars in the Hollywood firmament); we went to Laguna Beach in order to have dinner at the Victor Hugo, after I had read of its wonders described by M. F. K. Fisher, and of course it was worth the trip; next was San Diego's Hotel del Coronado, with its wooden circling porch, which we appreciated more because Henry James had extolled its beauty in The American Scene.
I had made it a law to never be involved with a woman writer, for the very good reason that she might someday make me a thinly veiled character in one of those fictions of the kind that I liked to write about other people. One evening that seemed otherwise promising, she handed me some pages of writing and asked if I would send it to my agent.
"I thought you were an artist," I said, meaning: You're supposed to stay in your own territory, not come hopping over into mine.
If I refused to send her story — or essay, or whatever it was — to my agent, I knew I would be a cad, like Nick Davis on All My Children.
I didn't read what she gave me, fearing it might be bad — or worse, good. I just did my gentlemanly duty and sent it to my agent, Knox Burger, who had discovered and first published Kurt Vonnegut when he was fiction editor of Collier's. Being a gentleman and friend, Knox read Eve's story and wrote her a two-page letter with instructions on how she might make it publishable. He sent me a carbon of his letter, which I thought seemed generous and kind. That night when I arrived on Formosa Avenue, I asked Eve what she thought of my agent's letter. She took her stance of defiance and said, "I hope that Knox Burger burns in hell!"
Then she gave the story to our friend Joan Didion, who sent it to Grover Lewis, an editor at Rolling Stone. He published it without changing or eliminating a comma, much less a word. I was truly happy for Eve having that piece published, since it was about Hollywood High and had nothing to do with me. I didn't really read it back then, but I have since. "The Sheik" was indeed brilliant, with sentences that Joan Didion — our greatest stylist — herself might not have been unhappy to have written:
When the weather gets like this and sometimes when I smell rain, the past appears in all its confusion and doubt and pleasure, and my high school days surface. They come dancing in like a well-rehearsed chorus line and, unlike most people my age who claim to recall Elvis when they think of high school or think of high school when they hear Elvis, I only see faces, clothes, and hear the laughter of the girls who went to my school, and the feelings — the aches and pirouettes and joys come not from music, books, fear of finals, hatred or love of teachers — but from the people who sat next to me or who I saw in the halls during the years I spent in Hollywood High.
My "favorite year" was foredoomed or blessed to end at the start of the following year. I'd accepted, before leaving Boston, an invitation to teach the spring semester at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, beginning in January of '72. As if in anticipation, my romance with Eve began to fray as our year drew to a close, but our friendship was sturdy enough for me to look forward to seeing her for dinner or lunch whenever I found myself again in her city. It was 1993 when we were having lunch at the Figtree's, one of her recommended restaurants on the boardwalk in Venice, when she dropped the bomb.
"I have a book of stories coming out," she said, "and the title story is about us."
The fresh OJ curdled in my throat.
"Oh my God," I said, in fearful prayer.
"Don't worry," Eve said brightly, "I changed your name to 'Walter!'"
In a gesture of true literary generosity she gave me a manuscript copy of the story to read. I rushed back to my room at the Venice Beach House. I was more than halfway through when an unexpected reaction hit me — "This is what she thinks happened!" I realized what any fool would know: that any partner in a relationship would see their time together in a whole other universe than their intimate mate.
I did complain about one aspect. "You said I broke all your wine glasses!" I told her. "It was only one!"
"Well," she said, "it seemed like all of them."
Back in Boston, I got a call from Eve a few months later to alert me that "our" story would appear before the publication of her book, Black Swans, in an L.A. magazine called Buzz. There was no need to tell me when that issue hit the stands. I got calls that day from three different friends in L.A. who were laughing gleefully as they called me "Walter" and said they had just read "[my] story."
Our friendship, unsurprisingly, survived that, but I was shocked to hear in 1997 that Eve had narrowly survived a real tragedy. She had lit a cigar and dropped the match on a filmy skirt she was wearing. Third-degree burns covered more than half her body, and the pain was long and tortuous. An all-star cast of friends came to a fundraising party at the Marmont to help defray the monstrous costs of Eve's medical treatment (she had no health insurance). Among the notables, Steve Martin (whom Eve had told to wear white suits) and Harrison Ford each pitched in $50,000. And yet, as Anolik tells us, "Whether from shame or pain or plain lack of interest, she stopped going out, turned increasingly inward, increasingly reclusive."
Nevertheless Eve did come to a birthday party for me in Santa Monica in 2002, in her valiant VW bug, wearing a leopard-skin-patterned cat suit that covered her body from neck to hands to ankles. Her face was untouched and as lovely as ever, and her spirit was as buoyant as before, though her talk was not of books or music, but of her newly found passion for the state of Israel. Nothing else that afternoon seemed to hold any interest for her.
All but two of her books are back in print — Eve's Hollywood, Black Swans, Sex and Rage, L.A. Woman, and Slow Days, Fast Company. This unique and entertaining body of work is now crowned by Lili Anolik's Hollywood's Eve. The only disagreement I have with Anolik's book is her opinion that Slow Days, Fast Company is Eve's best. For my own taste, nothing beats some of the essays in her first book, Eve's Hollywood, with "The Sheik" and "Daughters of the Wasteland," which lays waste the comfy East Coast putdowns of Eve's beloved city. Her father, Sol, was a studio musician and leader of a local Bach violin group, so Eve and her sister Mirandi (née Miriam) grew up with great musicians and other artists:
Culturally, L.A. has always been a humid jungle alive with seething L.A. projects that I guess people from other places just can't see. It takes a certain kind of innocence to like L.A., anyway. It requires a certain plain happiness inside to be happy in L.A., to choose it and be happy here. When people are not happy, they fight against L.A. and say it's a "wasteland" and other helpful descriptions. […]
After all, there had to be some adversity in the middle of all that sunshine and money. And people like Stravinsky and Schoenberg and Thomas Mann and those kind of people weren't completely talking to themselves in the bathroom for lack of friends.
Take that, you East Coast chauvinists!
Eve also lays waste the notion that intelligent, talented women who are also born beautiful need to hide their beauty to be taken seriously as artists and writers and musicians.
"In most high schools, you learn social things along with the rest of it," Eve tells us in Eve's Hollywood. "In mine, I learned irrevocably that beauty is power and the usual bastions of power are powerless when confronted by beauty."
But you have to be confident to confront, otherwise beauty is just a mirage. You have to know what (or who) you want and be savvy enough and fearless enough to go after it. You have to believe. Like Eve.
Dan Wakefield wrote the script for the movie based on his novel Going All the Way, starring Ben Affleck, Rachel Weisz, and Rose McGowan. He created the NBC prime time series James at 15. The documentary film New York in the Fifties (available on Netflix) is based on Wakefield's memoir of the same name.
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Items Bates, full back, making drop kick, Navy.
Bates, full back, making drop kick, Navy.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
Brown Brothers (New York, N.Y.)
"The Pageant of America" Collection
v.15 - Annals of American sport
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Football, American collegiate.
Brown Brothers (New York, N.Y.) (Copyright holder)
Date Issued: 1860 - 1920 (Approximate)
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Extent: 13 x 18 cm.
TMS ID: 129336
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection, The New York Public Library. "Bates, full back, making drop kick, Navy." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1860 - 1920. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-68bb-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
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Get your very own close-up look at the finish line! Celebrate the 2017 United Airlines New York City Half Marathon with these video on demand moments.
Elite runners from around the world put their skills to the test, joined by thousands of others from around the region and the U.S. in this race on the streets of New York.
Find Your Finish on Demand: Wheelchair winners and finishers, and Women's and Men's winners.
Watch all the winners of the 2017 NYC Half cross the finish line! Wheelchair finishers at the 7:35 mark and 21:45 mark. Women's winner Molly Huddle at the 48:20 mark. Men's winner Feyisa Lilesa at the 51:58 mark.
Finishers who crossed between 8:37am and 9:30am on March 19th, in the 2017 NYC Half.
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Defector Throws Cuba a Fast One
Star pitcher from Communist nation leaves family behind for dream of playing in US major leagues
By Daniel Sneider Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
March 8, 1996 | SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ.
COACHES and sportswriters crowd behind the backstop, intent on a tall rookie on the mound. He unleashes a fast ball that leaves San Francisco Giants slugger Matt Williams shaking a stinging hand.
Rookies and batting practice don't usually draw this much attention in spring training, but this was the first look at Osvaldo Fernandez - the star pitcher of Cuba's national baseball team until his defection last summer. He is considered the best of a crop of Cuban baseball players who have defied the Cuban government, leaving families and fame behind for the chance to play major league baseball.
"I came because of the need and the desire to play for a major league team," explains Fernandez, who once was received as a hero by Fidel Castro Ruz, a renowned baseball fanatic.
Fernandez's easy manner and warm laugh belie the tough road he has traveled. His face tightens when talk turns from baseball to his wife and 17-month old daughter, left behind in Cuba. He clearly misses his three brothers, two sisters, parents, and grandparents.
The dream of playing in the fabled major leagues came first, he says. But what drove him to risk defection was the "need" to care for his extended family. Harsh economic conditions in Cuba sharpened his determination.
Now Fernandez has gone from earning about $5 a month playing baseball in Cuba to signing a $3.9 million dollar contract with the Giants, who won a furious bidding war with other major league teams. The Giants hope that Fernandez will be the Hideo Nomo of 1996. The fat contract, granted to a player who has never pitched at any level of organized US baseball, drew plenty of criticism.
But like Nomo, the Japanese pitcher who was last year's sensation, Fernandez arrives as a seasoned "rookie." A star of in his home town of Holquin, the right-hander was selected to Cuba's national squad in 1991. He posted a 22-0 record in international competition, including leading his team to victory in the '92 Olympics.
Baseball has long been hugely popular in Cuba. Back in the '40s and '50s many Cubans came to play in the big leagues here. But Castro's rise to power in 1959 brought an isolation from the US that persists to this day.
Baseball became part of the Cuban-American cold war. The Cuban government blocked all players from going to the North American pros, while it vigorously promoted sports as a symbol of the success of its revolution. Cuba's Communist leadership relished their domination of amateur baseball competitions, particularly when they beat American teams.
But Cuban ballplayers still quietly dreamed of playing in the majors. Cuban state security agents accompanied the team on all its travels, but the real deterrent to defection was having to leave behind families. "It's the toughest obstacle for them to cross when they make that decision," says Joe Cubas, a Cuban-American agent who represents Fernandez and three other Cuban defectors and has been meeting secretly with Cuban players since 1991.
The first crack in the wall surrounding Cuban baseball came in 1991 when pitcher Rene Arocha defected, ending up with the St. Louis Cardinals ball club. Fernandez, who ironically replaced Arocha on the national team, says it was Arocha's success that inspired his own plan to escape.
It was the opportunity to travel abroad that came with joining the national team that truly changed Fernandez's thinking. Like most Cubans, he grew up loyal to the revolution, he says. But that changed "after I was able to leave the country and compare what's out there with what's in Cuba."
Fernandez and baseball agent Cubas met secretly during a trip to Puerto Rico in 1993. The Cuban pitcher asked many questions, but he was not ready yet to act. The final straw came when his close friend and fellow pitcher Ariel Prieto slipped out of Cuba and was drafted by the Oakland Athletics.
But even as he thought about it, Fernandez could only talk indirectly about his plans to his wife. "When things were lacking in the house, I'd joke about leaving," he recalls. "I felt she understood."
Cubas and Fernandez met twice last spring in Argentina and Japan to plan the defection. They carried it out last July in Millington, Tenn. where the Cuban team went for a series of games against the American amateur team.
If Fernandez succeeds here, other Cuban immigrants in cleats may follow him. Cubas estimates there are at least five to six players on the national squad who can play immediately in the majors. Fernandez talks of 20 or 30 who can make it. "It might be a gold mine, it might be a diamond mine all wrapped into one," says Giants personnel director Brian Fabian.
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For the last couple of years I've skipped out on the Reading Challenges, because I've been too busy. But I've decided to participate in the 2018 Reading Challenges because this is the one of the most fun parts of blogging… hanging out with you and the BUTTONS!
I'm planing to read 145 books this year.
As of 7/10/18 I've read 74 of the 145 books I intended to read this year.
Follow a set of clues furnished by the mystery books you read to create a body of evidence to support a book court case. Each book clue should lead you to your next read. The connection can be anything at all from author names to motive for murder to type of mystery (police, procedural, espionage, romantic thriller, etc.) to an item on the cover, but you must be able to make your case to the jury on your detective logic.
~For this year's challenge, you start your chain after signing up. The idea is to let your books lead to one another, not to read several books and then look back for connections.
The Letter You Are Counting. Except For those pesky Q, X AND Z titles then the word that starts with the challenge letter can be anywhere in the title.
I stopped by Under the Boardwalk today and saw that Nise was doing a challenge I'd been looking for. Though she's not formally doing it, I decided to join in.
I'm not going to purposefully read from each state, but use this challenge to track how well rounded I am in choosing my reading material, geographically. 🙂 I'm also ONLY going to record the first book I read from each state instead of recording every book I read for the state in 2018.
My goal is to be caught up with the released books by the end of 2018.
Wishing you success on the Where Are You Reading? Challenge! Hope you catch up on the "In Death" series, on of my favorites.
The Challenge bug bit you again!!!!! lol I know, I probably won't finish a lot of mine, but it's fun to keep track like you said with the 50 states one.
I know! I'm sure it's Bev's fault. I keep seeing her completion posts & am so jealous!! She's so cool!!


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Pentagon head says China has become top US military priority, moving past Russia
Lee Jeong-ho
Even as US and Chinese officials were reducing global economic tensions on Friday by confirming they had reached a "phase one" trade deal, the top US military official said that the Pentagon has put China on the top of its priorities – ahead of Russia – owing to Beijing's "brazen efforts" to undermine the territorial claims of its neighbours.
Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper condemned China for undermining international laws and violating the sovereignty of smaller states.
"Today, the international rules-based order that America and its allies have worked hard to establish is being tested … China first and Russia second are now the department's top priorities," Esper said.
"Both nations are rapidly modernising their armed forces and expanding their capabilities into the space and cyber domains, emboldened by the growing strength of their militaries. Beijing and Moscow are not only violating the sovereignty of smaller states, they are also attempting to undermine international laws and norms that advantage themselves," Esper said.
In 2017, laying out ambitious plans for the People's Liberation Army, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the PLA must modernise by 2035 and become a top-ranked military by 2050.
Beijing has also invoked its "nine-dash line" claim to what it says are its historic rights in the South China Sea, and has built artificial islands, reclaimed land and installed airstrips and military equipment in the waters. It is involved in acrimonious disputes with several Southeast Asian nations, including the Philippines and Vietnam, over the territory.
"China's brazen efforts to coerce smaller states and assert illegitimate maritime claims threaten its neighbours' sovereignty, undermine the stability of regional markets and increase the risk of poverty," Esper said, reinforcing that what the US calls the Indo-Pacific region remains to be the US' priority theatre.
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Esper also said China is not obeying the existing norms in the South China Sea, thus breaking the regional status quo.
The US has been implementing an Indo-Pacific strategy, a combination of military and geoeconomic policies in the hopes of containing China's military expansion in the Pacific and the Indian oceans. Its other objective is to curb Beijing's flagship Belt and Road Initiative by providing alternative development models to economies in the region.
Esper said that China's "behaviour stands in stark contrast to the United States vision, one that respects and provides an opportunity for all nations, large and small.
"Our approach continues to prove itself superior to China's, as evidenced by our growing partnerships across the Indo-Pacific."
Esper's concerns about Beijing's growing influence reflected those raised in the Pentagon's annual report to Congress, released in May, on China's military power and development.
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"Over the coming decades, [Chinese leaders] are focused on realising a powerful and prosperous China that is equipped with a 'world-class' military, securing China's status as a great power with the aim of emerging as the pre-eminent power in the Indo-Pacific region," the report found.
Esper added that the US would contain China – and re-ensure the existing international rules and orders – by further strengthening relations with its traditional allies.
"The United States network of alliances and partnerships provides us an asymmetric strategic edge that our adversaries cannot match … not only because of our superior military capabilities and equipment, but also because of our values."
"We offer something our competitors do not respect for sovereignty and independence of all nations, adherence to international law and norms, and the promotion of individual liberty and human rights."
The US Congress has recently passed bills to safeguard the human rights of people in Hong Kong and Xinjiang, despite Beijing's heavy protests.
Esper said he had visited the Indo-Pacific twice since becoming defence secretary in July. "Throughout my discussions with my counterparts. I'm reminded just how much nations in that region desire American presence and leadership.
"They look to us to deter aggression, to ensure a free and open access to the vocal comments and uphold long-standing international rules and norms," Esper said.
"We have entered a new era of great-power competition."
Trade war breakthrough: US and China reach phase-one deal
While Esper spoke, Washington and Beijing confirmed on Friday they had reached a "phase-one" deal in their 17-month trade war. Wang Shouwen, China's vice-minister of commerce, called the deal a breakthrough, with an agreement that would halt further tariff increases by the US and lower some others already in place.
Despite the news on the trade front, though, John Sitilides, geopolitical strategist at Trilogy Advisors in Washington, said that the US-China rivalry was here to stay.
"Parallel to this provisional deal, the US and China will remain engaged in a global power competition in which their geopolitical rivalry in Asia and worldwide will ensure that the mutual political, economic and technological mistrust of the past several years will only intensify in the decade ahead," Sitilides said.
China says it won't sit back if US deploys intermediate range missiles in Asia
Sean King, a senior vice-president at the political consulting firm Park Strategies, noted that Friday's "minimalist" trade deal announcement did not result in Esper seeing a need to "ease up" his narrative.
King, however, also said that Washington must treat its allies better if it wishes to realise its objectives of containing China.
"The US shouldn't be haranguing allies South Korea and Japan over defence costs," he said. "Rather, we should be drawing in our friends and allies even closer at times like these – not pushing them away."
More from South China Morning Post:
Chinese, US generals vow to manage military differences, like South China Sea
Nato set to keep close eye on China's growing military might
US to boost military alliance with Philippines as South China Sea tensions grow
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Enric Auquer
1 Enric Auquer – Biography
2 What is the Net Worth of Enric Auquer? Salary, Earnings
3 Enric Auquer- Birth, Age, Ethnicity, Siblings, Parents
4 Quick Facts
5 Enric Auquer- Relationship, Married Life, Boyfriend, Girlfriend
6 Enric Auquer- Professional Career
7 Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Hair color
8 Social Media Details
Enric Auquer – Biography
Enric Auquer is a well-known and attractive Spanish actor who is well-known for his exceptional acting abilities and acting career. He received international acclaim for his part in the upcoming film Sky Rojo, for which he earned honors such as Best New Actor, Best Main Actor in a TV Series, Best Supporting Actor in a Film, Best Male Actor, Best Comedy Actor, and many others.
What is the Net Worth of Enric Auquer? Salary, Earnings
Enric is a dedicated actor that works hard and is passionate about his career. He has a net worth of $2 million as a result of his various roles in television shows and films. Enric's net worth could skyrocket with the premiere of his new Netflix series, as he has already piqued the interest of many fans ahead of time.
Enric Auquer- Birth, Age, Ethnicity, Siblings, Parents
Auquer, Enric Sarda, also known as Enric Auquer, was born in Rupia, Spain, on January 1, 1988. Enric has kept his family a closely guarded secret. He has never shared his parents' names or revealed any information about his siblings. Enric was taken to a theatrical school in Barcelona by his mother as a hyperactive child. Enric, on the other hand, has never revealed the name of the high school or university from where he graduated or attended.
Real Name Enric Auquer Sardà
Birth Date 1988
Birth Place Rupia, Spain
Profession Actor & Film Director
Sun sign Not Available
Height in feet inches – 6' 1" – in Centimetres – 185 cm
Weight in Kilograms – 77 kg – in Pounds – 169 lbs
Chest Size 40 Inches
Waist Size 30 Inches
Shoe Size 9 (U.S.)
Enric Auquer- Relationship, Married Life, Boyfriend, Girlfriend
Enric has kept his personal life a closely guarded secret. Enric is completely devoted to his performing career. He has never mentioned his dating life in any of his interviews, and he hasn't mentioned it on any of his social networking sites. As a result, we can presume Enric is single and has never been in a relationship.
Enric Auquer- Professional Career
Enric is a Spanish actor who debuted in 2009 with the film Mediterranean Food, in which he portrayed the role of Alex, a teen. In Kubala, Moreno y Manchon, he even performed the character of Oriol. After that, he played Chino in the film Los Inocentes, which was released in 2013. Later the same year, he appeared in the films Barcelona, nit d'hivern, and Cuentame Como Paso, playing the roles of Tecnic and Jordi, respectively. In 2016, he appeared in Ebre, Desde bressol a la batalla as Fermi Quintana and Bernat in the television series Cities.
He portrayed Javi in the film Framed and Eloi in the television series Com si fos air, both of which aired till 2019. In 2019, he starred as Josep in the film La filla d' alga, as well as kike in the film Eye for an Eye, and as Gari in the television series Perfect Life. Later in 2020, he appeared in the television series La linea invisible as Jose Antonio Etxebarrieta. He will play Christian in the new Netflix series Sky Rojo in 2021, which will premiere on March 19, 2021.
Body Measurements: Height, Weight, Hair color
Enric Auquer stands 6 ft 1 inch tall and weighs 77 kg. Furthermore, he has Brown hair and Black eyes.
Social Media Details
Enric Auquer does not have an official presence on social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok.
Before his acting debut, Enric enrolled in a theatre school in Barcelona, which his mother pushed him to do.
Enric's drama school assisted him in overcoming his ADHD, and he stated that acting had a significant healing effect on him.
Enric has received numerous honors, including the Gaudi Award, the Goya Award, the Ondas Award, and many others.
He also appeared on television in the series Vida Perfecta, in which he played a young man with an intellectual impairment.
At the VIII Premios Feroz, he was named Best Main Actor in a TV Series.
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The National Saddlebred Museum at the Kentucky Horse Park honored Elaine and her horses with a special exhibit in the new Versatility Wing of the Museum! All of Elaine's horses were Saddlebreds, which explains their flash, flair and excitement. The Museum staff report that the display and Elaine's video "Dreams to Reality" are their most popular exhibit. It entertained thousands of visitors to the World Equestrian Games in 2010 and it will become a permanent part of the Museum's displays.
These pictures are of Elaine visiting her exhibit in April and September 2010. She also had the great pleasure of meeting Singsation and Darryl Leifheit. They are also honored in the Versatility Wing of the Museum. Singsation has won honors in halter, five gaited pleasure, fine harness and now as a combined driving horse! He won the big national combined driving competitions this year. Elaine had the opportunity to meet him in person and go for a little ride.


Overview The collection contains the records of the Burroughs Corporation, and its predecessors the American Arithmometer Company and Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Materials include corporate records, photographs, films and video tapes, scrapbooks, papers of employees and records of companies acquired by Burroughs.
Burroughs Corporation records. Early office machine product and technical literature.
Overview Collection contains manuals and brochures and technical publications for Burroughs' early office machines, including the adding machine, bookkeeping machine, various calculators, etc.
Found in: Charles Babbage Institute Archives / Burroughs Corporation records. Early office machine product and technical literature.
Burroughs Corporation records. Product literature.
Overview Collection contains manuals for a number of different Burroughs computer systems, including the B6700, the B7000/B6000/B5000 families, and large systems in general. They concentrate on the programming languages (ALGOL and COBOL), but also contain primers on CANDE, WFL, and the DMSII system.
Found in: Charles Babbage Institute Archives / Burroughs Corporation records. Product literature.
Overview Collection contains fragments of a document detailing the contractual interaction between IBM and the British Tabulating Machine Company (BTM) in the first half of the 20th century, a verbatim proceedings of a foreign accounting machines meeting at IBM in 1954 and two histories of the British Tabulating Machine Company.


Howard Unger's "We Who have Lost"
Wyndham Lewis's "The Ideal Giant"
Here is a link to a hypertext site that doesn't hurt my eyes. http://wasteland.windingway.org/poem I find it very useful and as said it doesn't hurt your eyes and gives you direct sources as hypertext sites hould. I've been referencing this site a lot for my paper, and for it's direct links to the works.
I'm sure people have already found this though but if not here it is!
Here is what I have so far of my map though I think it's pretty much done. Also I claimed that the capital of Hell, Pandemonium and the Island of The Tempest are London/England since I couldn't get over the fact they didn't have their own place and it made sense to me. After all, both end up violent places and liot talks of violence and crim in The Wasteland.
For those who are working with Biblical references for the Waste Land wiki, here are a couple of helpful study resources!
Biblos is a fantastic site because it hosts a variety of different tools--an atlas for maps, greek and hebrew roots for word studies, commentaries, and a broad range of translations, among other things. Definitely a key tool for anyone studying the Bible for any reason.
Bible Gateway is a very good site for straight text study--it has different versions, cross-references, all sorts of fun stuff. Less fun tools than Biblos, better for reading through the actual text.
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I created a rectangular shape to encircle the block around his house, where he spends the majority of his life. Then, I traced the roads to show an estimation of what path he took to reach the bazaar. Finding the train tracks was the most difficult part. I followed Northumberland Road because it was a different color than the rest, had arrows indicating what direction it goes, and went from the train station all the way to the bazaar. I also made the embedded map larger and in the terrain format to make it look less busy. The points on the Araby map already look crowded as it is.


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Community colleges try new 'pathway' to…
Community colleges try new 'pathway' to student success
California's community colleges are looking: to improve on historically low rates of student graduation and transfers to 4-year colleges and universities. (File photo by MINDY SCHAUER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER/SCNG)
By EdSource | | edsource.org
PUBLISHED: August 15, 2018 at 5:43 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2018 at 5:43 p.m.
California's community colleges are embarking on the most far-reaching reform they have ever adopted, in a bid to tackle their biggest challenge: to improve on historically low rates of student graduation and transfers to 4-year colleges and universities.
Lawmakers allocated $150 million over the last year to put in place the approach, known as "Guided Pathways." It is a centerpiece of the "Vision for Success," California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley's blueprint to dramatically boost the system's performance in preparing students for work or further education.
But the very ambition and expansiveness of the reform effort could make it difficult to realize across the 115-college system. Pathways asks colleges to change virtually every aspect of how they educate students, from the way they advise students to their strategies for remediation and even how they schedule classes.
Colleges were not required to enact guided pathways but a year after legislation enacting them was signed into law all 114 colleges have agreed to implement the Guided Pathways approach. But just 1 college in 5 has made progress in implementing the student-success model, according to the chancellor's office. Three-fourths are in the "early adoption" phase — that is, they have not yet "fully or consistently" adopted the model.
Most, if not all, of the institutions in the more advanced group had a head start, having decided on their own to pursue pathways before the legislation was passed.
Still, with fewer than half of community college students in California earning a degree or certificate or transferring to a four-year institution within six years, aggressive action is needed to make real progress, supporters say. "We don't have time to tinker around the edges," said Laura L. Hope, executive vice chancellor for educational services and support.
Across the country, educators are coming to a similar conclusion: that guided pathways are the real deal. Over the past five years, more than 250 community colleges nationwide have signed on to guided pathways and the American Association of Community Colleges and philanthropic groups including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Teagle Foundation have supported such work.
Even among the earliest adopters, it is premature to see big shifts in graduation rates. But some early indicators, which typically correlate with upticks in completion, are promising. At Sinclair Community College, in Ohio, the percentage of students who completed at least nine credit hours in their major as freshmen increased from 30 percent to 50 percent over five years. At another Ohio institution, Lorain County Community College, the number of credits students took to earn a degree declined by 7 percent as they took fewer courses that didn't count toward their major.
The problem, as proponents of pathways see it, is that community college students, many of whom are the first in their families to go to college, have too little guidance and get academically off-track almost from the moment they set foot on campus. Colleges, in pathways parlance, are like cafeterias, with a seemingly endless menu of course choices, and students fill up on empty credits without moving any closer to earning a degree.
Under guided pathways, students are put on a route toward a career from the get-go, taking a structured course of study that is mapped out for them. Rather than slotting poor-performing students into remedial courses, where they can languish for semesters mastering material they should have learned in high school, they immediately enroll in college-level math and English, with built-in supports to help them keep up. Student progress is carefully monitored — are they taking a sufficient number of credits per semester and do those credits count toward their chosen major? — to ensure they stick to the path.
If some of these ideas sound familiar, that's because they are. Colleges are measuring student performance early and often and are working with employers to graduate students who are ready for work. Separate legislation passed last year largely does away with remedial education in California's community colleges.
What distinguishes guided pathways from previous efforts is that it stitches together all these reforms and applies them across the institution. Rather than implement a single change at a time or pilot efforts with a small group of students, pathways asks colleges to commit to a wholesale, institutional overhaul.
"It's not just one chapter," said Mandy Davies, vice president of student services at Sierra College, in Rocklin, which began working on guided pathways in 2015. "It's rewriting the entire book."
Books, though, begin with writers tapping out those first, tentative sentences and guided pathways implementation typically starts with colleges taking a look at the degrees and programs they offer and rethinking how to organize and present them in a way that makes clear how they can lead to work in certain fields. Traditional academic divisions like the "humanities" or "social sciences" might be relatively meaningless to a first-time student, but tagging a group of majors as leading to "helping careers" could let a student know the kind of jobs associated with such study.
There's no one-size-fits-all approach to delineating these degree clusters, and ideally groupings will vary according to regional economic need. Institutions in Silicon Valley, for instance, might highlight how certain degrees prepare students for technology-related fields, while Mt. San Antonio College, in Walnut, has a cluster called Plants and Animals to emphasize the majors' applicability to local agricultural work. In some cases, areas of study may cross clusters. At MiraCosta College, in Oceanside, communications is grouped both with business and technology and arts, a recognition that the degree could lead to jobs in both fields, said Sunita Cooke, the college president.
Once colleges have done the work of organizing their majors, they typically begin to map out the sequence of courses students must take for each degree. Too often, community college students enroll in courses with little relevance to their course of study. In California, the average student racks up nearly 30 more credits than the 60 needed for graduation or transfer, the equivalent of earning a degree and a half.
Students simply may not know what courses to take and in what order, said Kathy Booth, associate director of the California Pathways Project, a demonstration project of 20 colleges across the state. When Booth works with colleges, she often hands faculty members the course catalog: Figure out what courses to take to earn a degree, she challenges them. Generally, they can't. "The information we give students," she said, "is just incomprehensible."
At some colleges, the mapping work may amount to listing all the courses that could count toward a particular degree. At other institutions, the model is more prescriptive. Students at Georgia State University are given semester-by-semester course schedules, with little room to deviate. (While guided pathways are more common at the community-college level, some four-year institutions have embraced similar reform.)
Course maps have drawn criticism from faculty who worry that they commit students to too narrow an academic and career path without giving them a chance to figure out where their interests truly lie.
Keith Law, who teaches philosophy at Merced College, worries that instructors will be pressured to promote unprepared students in order to reach completion goals. On average, Law said, two-thirds of students in a critical-thinking course he teaches are unable to complete a basic reading comprehension exercise he assigns each term, despite having passed college English; many, he said, are functionally illiterate.
Guided pathways will do little to address poor academic preparation, Law said. "Ultimately, this has more to do with herding students through the system as fast and inexpensively as possible."
Kay McClenney, who helps lead the national community college association's work on guided pathways, said students simply cannot afford to spin their wheels without earning a degree. "Who has the luxury of 90 credits?" McClenney said. "Not some poor kid."
She dismisses the idea that pathways inflexibly lock students into a course of study. Part of the point of constant assessment, she said, is to review whether students are on the right track. Programs of study should be structured but versatile enough to allow students to shift to related majors. "They're pathways," McClenney said, "not prisons."
Still, such change doesn't come easily. Colleges almost always lack enough advisers to do the intensive work guided pathways requires and they may not have the expertise in specific programs and careers to counsel students effectively. Colleges that have implemented the model have often had to completely reorganize their staff to embed advisers in academic clusters.
There are other hiccups that can slow these efforts. Sierra College, for example, found that it needed to adopt centralized course scheduling because with its ad hoc approach, it had no way of guaranteeing that students got the courses they needed to stay on track academically, Davies said.
That only 20 percent of California colleges have gotten out of the starting gate is par for the course, said Davis Jenkins, a senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University, which originated the pathways model. Guided pathways typically takes multiple years to implement, with the first year spent in planning and self assessment.
That said, Jenkins is somewhat skeptical about whether pathways can be implemented across California's sprawling community college system. Guided pathways have never been previously attempted at such scale, and the reform generally works best when it has broad support among faculty, administrators and staff, rather than being instituted legislatively.
While colleges were not required to adopt guided pathways, they had strong incentive to do so. Eligibility for funds for other state programs, such as the free tuition California Promise grant, will be tied to guided pathways participation. (This is separate from the dedicated pot for pathways reform.)
The approach has elicited some grumbling from faculty members. "Not really voluntary when you tie money to the program," said Paulette Bell, a member of the Academic Senate at Santa Rosa College. "Very disingenuous."
Bell noted this isn't the first time the community college system has embraced efforts to improve student success, yet in the past completion and transfer rates did not budge. Are guided pathways, she asked, "another scheme, the next big thing in education with a name that sounds wonderful?"
But pathways advocates say that its all-encompassing approach offers promise that earlier efforts did not and could not.
Pathways, said Rob Johnstone, director of the California pathways demonstration project, "are big-C change."
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Timely Treasures: Omega Launches New Ladies' Models in its De Ville Trésor Collection
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Back in 2014, Omega added to its dressy DeVille family with the introduction of the De Ville Trésor, an updated version of a thin, classically elegant gents' watch originally released in 1949. This year, just in time for the holiday shopping season, Omega introduces three new Trésor models for ladies, making their debut at an all-new pop-up Omega boutique on New York's Fifth Avenue.
The Omega De Ville Trésor for ladies is available in nine references and two case sizes.
Like the historical Trésor watch, which was outfitted with the ultra-thin, high-precision Omega 30 mm caliber, the nine new watches in the ladies' Trésor collection are defined by their thinness — just 9.75 mm thick for the 39-mm models, an even slimmer 8.85 mm for the pieces with 36-mm cases. In comparison with the contemporary men's Trésor, with its 10.6-mm thickness, the ladies' models achieve an even more elegant, understated, and yes, more feminine profile.
Like the original Trésor, the models are notable for their elegantly simple dials and thin cases.
The "treasure" referred to in the original model's French name was the 30-mm movement inside the slim case. In these modern feminine versions, it could refer to the case's 39 diamonds — 38 of them in paved in curves along each side and another single one set in the crown. The crown also offers another attractive touch, framing the crown-set diamond: a flower created by five interlocking Omega logos (in other words, the actual Greek letter Omega) and applied in red liquid ceramic. The idea of crafting a flower out of Omega logos seems in retrospect so perfect that I'm surprised no one's though of it until now.
The cases are adorned with 39 diamonds, 38 set into the curving sides and one set into the crown.
The red liquid enamel flower motif on the crown is composed of five intertwined Omega logos.
The dial differs from that of its male counterpart, which had applied indices as hour markers, with its use of thin, stylized Roman numerals — transferred on the lacquered black and white dials, embossed on the lacquered opaline silver ones — that vary oh-so-subtly in size so as to achieve a balanced look with the Omega logo at 12 o'clock. The other major difference in the ladies' Tresor is that it uses a Swiss quartz movement, the Omega Caliber 4061, rather than the mechanical, co-axial movement used in the men's watch — a decision surely made to achieve both the watches' exceptional thinness and their relatively reasonable price point (prices range from $4,500 to $8,600).
The mirrored caseback can serve as a useful accessory.
The caseback features a mirrored center overlaid with the special decorative pattern that Omega created for its "Time for Her" ad campaign, which includes the marketing for the new Trésor watches. The cases are in either stainless steel or 18k Sedna gold, a proprietary alloy also used for the men's Trésor. Developed in-house by the Swatch Group, Omega's parent company, Sedna gold blends 75 percent gold with precise portions of copper and palladium for an uncommonly long-lasting reddish hue. Dial colors, some of which are shown here, include black, taupe brown, white, blue, opaline silver, and mother-of-pearl, and strap options include black or blue fabric and gray leather.
The ladies' Omega De Ville Trésor collection will be featured at Omega's "Time for Her" pop-up boutique at 711 Fifth Avenue in New York City — a space that Gotham's watch shoppers may remember as the previous Breguet boutique — which is right next door to the main Omega boutique and lavishly redone to showcase Omega's ladies' collections exclusively, including a historical exhibit of vintage Omega ladies' watches from its century-plus of making timepieces for women. The pop-up boutique will be open from now through March 2018.
The Omega Time for Her pop-up boutique (exterior above) is devoted to the brand's ladies' watches, and includes a historical exhibit (below).
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King George's Hall and Darwen Library Theatre have been awarded £364,000 as part of the Government's £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today.
The venues form part of the 1,385 cultural and creative organisations across the country receiving urgently needed support. £257 million of investment has been announced today as part of the very first round of the Culture Recovery Fund grants programme being administered by Arts Council England. Further rounds of funding in the cultural and heritage sector are due to be announced over the coming weeks.
This will mean that the survival of the venues is secured through to March 2021 and will also mean that Darwen can begin socially distanced performances in the coming weeks. The aim is to be able to pay artists fairly, whilst we are unable to fill the theatres to capacity and also means the start of an exciting archive project for people to get involved with until a full programme of events can begin again.
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said:
"This funding is a vital boost for the theatres, music venues, museums and cultural organisations that form the soul of our nation. It will protect these special places, save jobs and help the culture sector's recovery.
"These places and projects are cultural beacons the length and breadth of the country. This unprecedented investment in the arts is proof this government is here for culture, with further support to come in the days and weeks ahead so that the culture sector can bounce back strongly."
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Happy Solstice! Hermione Harvestman – SOLIS : A Sonic Solstice Ritual for Winter Witches & Third Speaker in the Locus Tempus (1979)
Warm Synths For A Long, Cold, Dark Night
When you think of midwinter rites and rituals, you likely think of yule logs, ancient hymns, spiced eggnog, holly, ivy, fairy lights. Towards the end of December, the breeze seems to take on an ancient air, wrinkling time with Cedar and Sandlewood from Bethlehem mix and mingle with the cold ozone of frigid air, car exhaust, and cigarette smoke.
Yule most certainly does NOT conjure images of patchbays, sequencers, or modern minimalism.
Witchcraft (and occultism in general) has an unfortunate tendency to remain rooted and locked in the past. It makes sense that occultism would retain its purist instinct, during the Dark Ages of the Burning Times, when the slightest whiff of camphor or Sulfur would be enough to get you lit up like a matchstick. With the rise of all humanity's collective knowledge, with the endless archive of the Internet emulating the mythical Akashic Records, that need is less-necessary – perhaps even counter-intuitive, some might say.
Solis is a recording of a performance from the shadowy Hermione Harvestman, a classically trained pianist and church organist, as well as an early progenitor of DIY/outsider/cassette culture. Initially intimidated by the bookish, unwelcoming world of "folk/early music", Harvestman experienced an epiphane after discovering the Clavivox, an early synthesizer created and championed by Soothing Sounds For Baby/Looney Tunes maestro Raymond Scott.
Speaking of her revelation, Harvestman said about the Clavivox:
'This was my epiphany – it one stroke it solved all my problems with regard to Western Tonality. Increasingly, I was drawn to monophonic music and modality, but I was ill prepared to join the elite who called themselves Folk Musicians or Early Musicians; bourgeois sub-sects striving for an authenticity so enamoured of a certain mind-set which I'd never been able to relate to. Neither was I too enamoured of Atonal Experimentalism. The music I heard in my heard was far richer than that, somehow – at least it was to me. I dreamed of hurdy-gurdies – of drones and monophonic keyboards playing parallel 3rds, 4ths and 5ths. In reality, hurdy-gurdies sounded ghastly (with significant exception). On hearing the Clavivox I heard the music that dreamed of astrological continuities between ancient music and future possibilities; it touched the essence of what music was at its most primal – that of both the planets of the Pyramids; that of the stars and Stonehenge.'
Circuit boards and soldering irons, patch cords and pulsing oscillators, being used to recreate the sounds of hurdie-gurdies, as well as The Pyramids and the Music Of The Spheres? Not only is this one of the purest instances of Fourth World music we've come across, but also a concept of what Harvestman calls "electronic folk".
Solis is comprised of three lengthy drones, "Preludium", "Secondus", and "Locus Tempus". The pieces were commissioned for a performance on the Winter Solstice 1979 for the Dunholme Coven. Dunhome Coven's priestess, Portia Cook, approached Harvestman about commissioning some original works for a Solstice ritual, after hearing some of Harvestman's ritualistic work. Harvestman explained that's not entirely how her music worked, relying heavily on mood and improvisation, as well as the spirit of the locale itself (the "Locus Tempus" referenced in Track Three.) Realizing her work was tailor-made for ritualistic performance, she agreed to soundtrack the Coven's fireclad rites at an undisclosed forest clearing on the coldest night of the year.
"Preludium" (meaning both "a prelude", in music and poetry, and "the Sunday before Christmas") relies heavily on the Clavivox's monophonic sequencing, with single notes twining and twirling like a Sadie Hawkin's Day Dance. Harvestman's synths are what Ursa Major might sound like, if it were to break loose and go fishing in the Milky Way. Ancient maps and ley lines come to mind, also, with the complex inter-connectedness of the single-note melodies, rising above complex ecosystems of bubbling, burbling bass notes.
"Secundus" (which means "second", as well as being a title, sort of like "Junior". Secundus is also a planet destroyed by nuclear annihilation in Frank Herbert's Dune series, and another planet in Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, a home for sentient arachnids.) Hyper-intelligent space spiders, nuclear threat, and ancient Latin? Amazingly, Hermione Harvestman's swarming, storming, atonal synths manage to tick all of these boxes, simultaneously, in mood if not in deed. "Secundus" is also much more moody and meandering than "Preludium", making it a perfect middle section for an occult rite or ritual. It's the sound of time standing still, of existing in an eternal Platonic state, outside of entropy or external influence.
"Locus Tempus" finishes things off on a drone-y, contemplative note, at an impressive 27 minutes. It"s much less busy and frenetic than the first two tracks, mainly consisting of a single sustained mid-frequency organ, lazily curling above floating, delayed bass sequences, with just a slight hint of hand-operated filtersweeps.
Solis is the most recent installment in the composer's extensive back catalog, which have been slowly dribbling out from her personal archives after her passing in 2009, curated by Third Ear Band member Sedayne. While these sounds seem a little fresh and au curant to have come from the late '70s, giving a slight shiff of fakelore, there's just no telling, making this a solid, indispensably confusing addition to the hauntological pantheon.
Personally, we don't need definitive answers to enjoy this amazing, contemplative release. One of the wonders of Hauntology is its ability to point back to the past, to keep us wandering in wonder, to keep us digging, wondering what else is out there.
Happy Solstice, to all you witches and warlocks! It's been a long, hard, dark year – we're ready for some brighter, warmer days ahead!
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AstraZeneca's diabetes drug Onglyza may increase death rate – FDA
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(Reuters) – AstraZeneca Plc's diabetes drug Onglyza may be associated with an increased rate of death, according to a preliminary review of data by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA's report, posted on the agency's website on Friday, comes ahead of an April 14 meeting of an FDA advisory panel to discuss the safety of Onglyza and a similar drug from Takeda Pharmaceutical Co called Nesina. Onglyza won U.S. approval in 2009 and Nesina in 2013.
A trial of more than 16,000 patients known as SAVOR previously showed patients taking Onglyza, also known as saxagliptin, had an increased risk of hospitalization due to heart failure.
The agency's analysis found the heart failure risk to be valid, and also identified a possible increased risk of death from all causes.
The overall trial results did not reveal a higher death risk, but a more detailed analysis examining only patients who took the drug suggests "a significantly increased risk of all-cause mortality," the review found.
The FDA said the causes of death were often "multifactorial" and some patients may have had several serious medical conditions prior to death.
Still, the FDA said it "is not reassured" by the increased risk, "and we do not necessarily view this pattern of variable causes as evidence the mortality signal is due to chance."
A similar large study of Takeda's Nesina (alogliptin) from the same class of drugs, called DPP-4 inhibitors, did not raise similar concerns, FDA documents found.
In that study, called EXAMINE, the time to first occurrence of cardiac death, heart attack or non-fatal stroke seen in those taking Nesina was nearly identical to those taking a placebo, and there was no statistically significant difference in the rate of hospitalization for heart failure observed with Nesina.
Wall Street and the medical community are awaiting heart safety results from a large trial of Merck's $4 billion a year Januvia, the market leading DPP-4 inhibitor, to help determine if increased risk is related to the drug class or limited to individual drugs. Those results are expected in June.
Leerink analyst Seamus Fernandez said the FDA's concerns over all-cause mortality were unexpected and could lead to a cut of up to 50 percent in his $1.8 billion Onglyza peak annual sales estimate, if Januvia does not show similar problems.
In December 2008, the FDA issued guidance requiring drug companies to conduct studies to show that new diabetes drugs do not increase cardiovascular risk. The guidance was developed amid growing concern about the safety of many diabetes drugs.
AstraZeneca said the SAVOR study met the objective of showing that patients taking Onglyza were not at greater risk as measured by a composite benchmark comprising cardiovascular death, non-fatal heart attack and non-fatal ischemic stroke.
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Home Comics	The Fantastic Four Return to Marvel Comics this Summer!
Well, it took long enough but finally, the Fantastic Four will properly return to Marvel Comics this summer! Marvel announced that the first family of comics will star in a brand new monthly ongoing series written by Dan Slott and drawn by Sara Pichelli. This will be the first book for the team since April 2015, and the first time they will be seen together since the Marvel event Secret Wars. In the books, Reed and Sue Richards went off to the cosmos with their children as Johnny and Ben stayed here and got into numerous adventures on their own.
Many, like longtime Fantastic Four writer Jonathan Hickman, speculated benching the Four was because of the film rights dispute between Disney and Fox. Now that Disney bought Fox, looks like all is well. Hooray, because while Marvel has been putting out some stellar books, the absence of the whole Fantastic Four team was always at the back of my head, and it bugged the hell out of me.
We always knew the Fantastic Four would come back. We were waiting for the right time and the right creative team to bring them back.
I started my adventures in the Marvel Universe with a freaked-out Reed Richards, the Watcher and the Silver Surfer. I've wanted this for so long.
For all the flack Slott may get, he has proven to be a fantastic writer before. For example, there is the aforementioned award-winning Silver Surfer run and his hilarious meta She-Hulk book, and I'll admit I came around to Superior Spider-Man. Plus, he has written a Spider-Man/Human Torch book, so he's already got FF experience.
I can't wait to draw a lot of the characters, but there's one in particular I can't reveal yet. You will know why they're my favorite when you read the book!
Pichelli is also a great fit as she is a dynamic artist. She draws people, props, and perspective incredibly well. Pichelli draws some really good action, and man I am getting excited about this book the more I hear about it!
This is part of Marvel's summer rebranding, which sees Slott also taking over Iron Man. Slott has said he wants to write up to at least 55 issues of the book so he can write the official 700th issue of the book.
August can't come soon enough!
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Vim has been so graceful that I like to have any text editing work done in her, especially coding and blogging.
As a Firefox user, I previously use scribefire to write to my wordpress blog, actually I was working with HTML, I don't like WYSIWYG editing, which always creates dirty codes. However, scribefire is not good enought to me, many of my blogs includes codes, they needed to be surround by <pre> element to be syntax high-lighted, scribefire doesn't always works that well with code symbols, sometimes got translated into codes that hardly understand, I have to login into my blog to correct those lines.
What's more importantly, scribefire isn't good enough as an editor.
Then I found vimpress, and sadly found it was totaly broken, which haven't updated since 2007-07-13. Vimpress's official page is also broken. I googled for it, found that vimpress was noticed by many other blogger, they improved it, and hosting working versions of vimpress in their own repository.
The version by pigeond, he posted a blog about his improvement, this's first working version I got.
Then the other post by Erik, he had vimpress in another git repository, and discussed about his using about vimpress, what's worth another mention here is, vimpress is communicating to your wordpress blog through the XML-RPC protocol, unless your blog uses HTTPS(then use https url in vimpress), or you password would be transfered in plain text.
When I found vimpress is written in Python, I feel eager to improve it. Firstly it didn't support for wp-slug, which is called as 'postname' in wordpress, this is supposed to be a url friendly pattern, won't hurt if people write posts in English, wordpress simply translate spaces in Title into hyphen. But in other language like Chinese, such transfer would be ugly, I often use an English postname for every post.
And then the image upload. Scribefire allow me to upload images to blog and insert the img element to the edit. I added this feature to vimpress.
I added more friendly notifications for exceptions proccess, and many functions rewritten.
Now vimpress is mature enough to fulfill my blogging works. I firstly write my blog in Markdown, save as a temp file, then open a new buffer, type :BlogNew, then :r !markdown my_tmp.mkd , my post will translate into pretty HTML. Then fillin those title meta data, then :BlogSave publish, done. Pretty, Simple.
I still think I should have markdown ingranted to support with Markdown.


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