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I3.Y.P.U. National Committee
Formation of a national youth group for the General Conference is on the
agenda of the annual Conference meeting in June. Busy these days on campus
is a committee of students who are working on tentative organizational plans.
These students are representatives from the district Conference youth groups.
Left to right standing: Ray Larson, Vic Pearson, Bill Lindroth, Ted Hamlin,
Perry Hedberg; seated: B-Etta Mayer, John Leggett, Betty Lindberg.
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Student Missionary Rally Planned
Easter Concert ,A,Lo glallEO@Z
Planned By i;;;;.
Religious Council
An Easter concert to be held in Bate& Vicial Selma/ Pape4
the college chapel, Wednesday
evening, March 24 ,is being arrang-ed
by the Religious Council.
The undertaking of the concert
is based upon the interest and ap-proval
shown by the student body
towards the Easter candlelight
service given last year. Details
of this year's concert are, as yet,
not available. It is planned that
only campus talent will be used
in the concert.
The Religious Council is also
going ahead with preparations for
the spring Deeper Life Week to be
held April 26-30 with Rev. Carl
Lundquist as speaker. Lois Nord-berg
is in charge of a committee
working on the details for this
week. Programs, similar to those
given each student last year, will
be again prepared to aid in pro-viding
a more personal meaning to
each service.
Coke Machine Placed
In Men's Dormitory
Color and refreshments have
been added to the recreation room
of the men's dorm. On Monday,
March 8, a coke machine was in-stalled.
This machine was obtained
through the efforts of the dorm
council with the approval of the
policy committee. The administrat-ion
and upkeep of the machine will
be the duty of the dorm council.
with Dave Carlson in charge of
keeping the machine filled with
The dispensing unit of the
machine will hold eighty-three
bottles for immediate use. There
is a space where seventy-two bot-tles
will be cooled before being
placed in the dispensing unit. Cases
have been placed on each floor of
the dorm to receive the empty
Any income that may come in
from the machine will be used
for the benefit of the dorm mem-bers
in providing socials or other
items of interest.
Male Chorus Sings
at Bethlehem Chapel
In preparation for their forthcom-ing
spring tour, the Male Chorus,
again under the leadership of Nels
Stjernstrom, gave a concert in
the Bethlehem chapel on Tuesday
night, March 9.
The chorus 'sang many numbers,
and the featured soloists,- Bert
Anderson at the piano and Boo
Mantzke, vocalist, along with the
quartet from Bethel, presented a
varied and interesting program.
The trip to the East will be taken
just after Easter, and the concerts
given then will consist of the same
personnel. The tour will include
churches in Chicago and the New
England states as well as a few on
the route to the East.
A three day rally of the Student
Missionary Conference will be held
in the Trinity Lutheran Church,
Minneapolis, from April 9 through
11. All the sessions are open to
the students of the participating
schools and their friends.
Bethel is represented on the ex-ecutive
beard by Roy Nelson, pres-ident
of the Missionary Band, Gold-ie
Erickson, Maynard Johnson, and
Elving Anderson.
Also taking part in the con-ference
are nurses from Swedish,
Deaconness, Bethsaida, and Mounds
Midway Hospitals and students
from St. Olof, Augsburg, and Gus-tavus-
Adolphus Colleges, and the
St. Paul Bible Institute.
The theme for this semi-annual
rally is "Turning to God," Acts 26:
After an absence of two quarters,
Mrs. Raier, (Ma), Olson returned to
take charge of the Bethel dining
hall, March 1st. She had been
unable to fill her position because
of a leg injury early last fall,
but now she claims a full recovery
and is happy to be back in her
capacity on the campus. She has
been the manager of the dining
hall for the past eleven years, and
when asked if she enjoys being
back with her Bethel "family"
again, she replied, "Oh, yes!"
16-18. The program is as follows:
April 9-5:30 Registration
7:00 Movie on Tibet, President
Stirahm, S.P.B.I.
S : 00 "Appointed of God", Rev. P.
April 10-9:30 Chapel prayer meet-ing
10:30 Business Session
11:00 "Holy Spirit in Missions",
Rev. J. Lindell
2:00 Seminar
5:30 Banquet "Opening the Eyes"
Dr. R. Reusch
8:00 "Power of Darkness", Rev.
April 11-2:30 "Kingdom of Light",
Rev. Ernstdahle
Tickets for the Saturday night
banquet are available from Roy
Nelson, Carol Bergston, and Carl
Lachler. Price is $1.00 each.
Ma was pleased with the manage-ment
of the kitchen when she re-turned
and said that is was very
easy to step. in and take over. She
was pleased also with the new ad-ditions
to the equipment this year,
the, new meat grinder, meat cutter,
and pastry oven.
Besides being a connoisseur of
the kitchen, "Ma" is welcomed back
by the Bethel "family" for her
friendly greetings and cheerful
Freshmen Sponsor
Basket Social
Friday Evening
Girls! The way to a man's heart
is through his stomach! Here's
your chance — The All-School
Basket Social—presented by the
Freshman Class, Friday night, at
7:30 P.M. in the College gym.
Master-of-ceremonies will be Ken-ny
Carlson along with the cap-able
auctioneer, Bill G. Wright.
Other special entertainmentt will
also be on hand to add to the mer-riment
of the evening.
Girls, your job is to bring a
basket of sandwiches, cake, cook-ies,
fruit, and anything else that
will appeal to the appetites of the
young men. If you wish, several
may get together and make one big
Fellows, your part is to bid for
these baskets. Bidding will start at
50 cents. The highest bidder will
have the priviledge of eating the
contents of the basket in the com-pany
of the fair young maiden who
prepared it.
Come dressed in plaid shirts and
peans or any other "second best"
clothes, and be prepared to spend
an evening of fun in Bethel's own
U. Prof. and Wife
Give Sacred Concert
On Monday, March 8, a sacred
concert was rendered by Professor
and Mrs. Roy Schuessler of the
Minnesota University music faculty
to approximately two hundred Bet-hel
students and faculty in the
college chapel. Accompanied by Dr.
Paul Oberg, Chairman of the De-partment
of Music at the Univer-sity,
they sang several classical
solos and duets.
Professor Schuessler's selections
included Handel's "Thanks Be Tu
God", "Oh Dear Little Jesus" by
B a c h, Beethoven's well-known
"Creation Hymn", and a group of
four hymns taken from Dvorak's
volume of Biblical Songs.
Mrs. Schuessler sang Shubert's
"The Almighty" and a group of
three Negro spirituals, after which
Professor Schuessler joined Mrs.
Schuessler in two duets, Handel's
"0 Lovely Peace" and "They Have
Taken Away my Lord" by Mendel-ssohn.
By special request Professor
Schuessler sang,"The Holy City"
and Mrs. Schuessler sang "The
Lord's Prayer" for the closing num-bers
of the program.
Vol. XXVII—No. 14
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. March 18, 1948
"Ma" Returns to Active Duty
Page 2 THE CLARION
Editor-in-Chief Perry Hedberg
Assistant Editor & News Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Managing Editor Rudolph Forsman
Feature Editor David Carlson
Sports Editor David Osterberg
Art Editor Ted Hamlin
Business Manager Robert Hamlett
Circulation Manager Margaret Helgren
Reporters: R. Anderson, E. Avey, Adelle Bavin,
C. Fernlund, V. Hanson, L. Leaf, J. Leggett, W.
Lindroth, A. Olsson, P. Pope, M. Regier, J. Sone-son.
Feature Writers: C, Appelquist, H. Bondeson, A.
Carlson, H. Christenson, S. Delin, M. Engstrom,
B. Madsen, Z. McFarlin, D. Olson.
Typists: Jeanne Swanson, Chief; E. Carlson, M.
Carlson, C. Hedberg, A. Johnson, M. Keller, E.
Schultz, Muriel Thompson
Photographers H. Parley, B. Skalman
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except vacations.
Subscription price $1.60 per year
Council Actions
The Student council has been busy this last
quarter with committees and plans the result
of which we are beginning to now ,-realize.
Visual Education Program—a new idea on the
campus last year—has finally materialized into
a workable project. Weekly films, selected by
a student-faculty committee, will be a great
boon to student morale.
Students so often become thoroughly absorb-ed
in their own little cycle, of school life that
their interests and attitudes register shallow-ness
and marrowness. A weekly review of
world events will surely stimulate some think-ing
by acquainting us more keenly with ex-isting
Perhaps it was not a widely publicized fact
but arrangements were underway to have
Henry Wallace give an address on our campus
Friday, February 27, while on a three-day cam-paign
tour of Minnesota. The Council disap-proved
of this action and the matter was drop-ped.
However, they did appoint a committee to
promote student interest in current political
and economic issues through means of special
Literary societies are primarily for next
year, the senior college. Yet, we feel that
definite organizational plans must be complet-ed
by the end of the quarter in order that
such groups may get off to a good start next
year. • These societies should provide intra-mural
competition of social, forensic, and ath-letic
caliber that is a dire need on the campus.
Senior College Hope
There was a time when Christian people
thought of Christian service only three lines....
the pastor, the missionary, or the evangelist.
With the new age of specialization, however,
this attitude has changed and conservative
Christian people are beginning to realize the
numerous avenues of Christian service and the
great possibilities of branching out into these
different fields of activity.
Among these various opportunities open to
young people today are music, radio broad-casting,
aviation, motion pictures, education
and probably others. Of course, these young
people must be trained for these activities,
and for that purpose, many schools have ac-celerated
these programs in their curriculum.
Bethel is very defficient in providing courses
in these fields, and it is hoped that next year
and in future years the School Board will see
the need for some of these, courses here.
We realize that some of these activities
would be impractical here at Bethel, but cer-tainly
an expansign of the music department
and speech department would be entirely pos-sible
and is a necessity if our young people
are to be well-trained.
Something new was added to campus life
the other night when dinner was served in
the light of candles with appropriate musiC.
This will be a permanent feature as long as
the students desire it with slight deviations
to make it interesting. Any suggestions you
might have will be appreciated.
The visual education program came in with
a real bang with the showing of "Operations
Crossroads" plus a feature picture on Antrac-tic
exploration. The real highlight, however,
came later; and was enjoyed by only a few.
A group of would-be-sailors plus one broken
down air force man were trying to solve
the world's atomic problem. Much hot air
escaped, and the final conclusion after a long
and serious conference was that the first liar
doesn't have a chance.
In the not too distant future the plans for
the proposed literary societies will be laid
before the student body in an open forum. The
purpose of this forum will be to acquaint the
students with the plans already made and
the proposed program. After an explanation
of the existing plan, the meeting will be open
to comments in an attempt to secure a pro-gram
that is as well-rounded and beneficial
as possible. So if you have any good ideas,
hold them for the occasion and help Bethel
establish a successful program.
Easter is just around the corner. To some
this sacred day marks the end of winter and
the beginning of spring. To others this day
furnishes a good excuse to buy a new ward-robe.
Still others feel that it is the time to
sacrifice something (for what, they really
don't know). Some feel that it is the day to
pay their annual visit to some church. How
are you going to celebrate this day?
Harold Christenson
&dolt awl Backlit
Dear Buddy,
I see by THE paper (the CLARION, of
course) that an unengaged young man has
his name on the prospect list for Hagstrom
Hall. Well, believe it or not, I've heard that
certain enterprising and optimistic fellows,
upon arriving at Bethel, place their names
on this list, in the event that they should
meet the 0. and 0. (One and only to you)
And here I was told that only women came
to Bethel to ensnare a mate!
Now that Founders' Week is over (that's
Professor Bergman's definition of exam week),
do you know how some professors grade the
finals? Well, I understand that they stand at
the top of a stairway and throw all the papers
down the stairs.. The ones that reach the
bottom step get the "A's".
I had a dream last night about the man who
writes all those nasty things about you, Buddy.
After ten years away from Bethel he was
here for "Homecoming" and was mentioning
to Dean Carlson that since he had made his
million, he was willing to do something for
his old school. "What studies did you excel
in?" asked the Dean. "Well, to tell you the
truth," confessed this—shall we say—person,
"I slept through most of my classes." "That's
fine", piped up Mr. Malmsten, who had just
appeared around the corner, "you can endow
a dormitory!" Engstrom Asylum it was known
Here's an ode I would like to dedicate to
Bill Lindroth:
In grade school he was Willie,
In high school he was Will,
But when he went to Bethel
To Dad 'twas Bill , Bill, Bill.
Democratic Dilemma
In the realm of, domestic politics we are wit-nessing
today a very important crisis within
the Democratic Party. From 1932 to 1945 it
was, in reality, the smoothly functioning
"Roosevelt Party." Of that once well-oiled
machine it now sometimes looks as if there
is left only "one nut and several bolts."
The "nut," of course, is Harry Truman.
(Purely a metaphor, no aspersions.) This in-nocent
victim of the idiosyncrasies of the
American political system rides on a donkey
that moves in at least three different directions
simultaneously. The three major "bolts" are:
First, the Wallace defection; Second, the
Southern desertion; and Third, the liberal
anti-communist offshoot as crystallized in the
Americans for Democratic Action. On the basis
of this intraparty dissension it is beginning
to appear as if Mr. Truman might not even
attempt to capture the presidential nomination
in June. Maybe a somewhat graceful retire-ment
would be preferable to the uncertainties
of the campaign and subsequent reputation.
The worth of Mr. Truman and his policies is a
complex and uncertain subject, but this much
is positive—his desire for another term meets
strong opposition from many factions. The
practical politics that sent him to Washing-ton
from Kansas City in 1934 may soon return
him to the haberdashery business.
If the Democratic Party maintains its organ-ization—
which is most probable—and does not
nominate Mr. Truman—which is possible—
what other presidential possibilities are there?
Obviously the international prestige of General
Marshall could be tremendously influential in
maintaining the party. His decidely unnatural
reluctance to become a permanent historical
figure might be overcome. And then we have
the Secretary's now-famous protege, General
Eisenhower. Maybe Ike would rather be on
his old chief's side, if success were conceivably
within grasp. A third prominent possibility is
popular, progressive Associate Justice William
0. Douglas of the Supreme Court. Also ment-ioned
are Jimmy Byrnes, Secretaries Harriman,
Forrestal, Krug, and have you noticed Jim
Farley climbing back onto the band wagon?
Who can predict? These are interesting days.
—C. A. Applequist
Yes, several girls are leaving this quarter,
getting ready for Big Days in June. We will
also miss Sally Tierney—from the chow line.
She's got a new job. Pretty soon she'll be
stamping "o. k." on checks instead of on the
butter pats.
Speaking of jobs, do you know how Carl
Applequist makes his living now—besides
selling old textbooks, that is? Hush Money—
to keep things out of the Clarion.
Some of those girls on second floor who de-light
in dropping perfume on the male heads
awaiting their dates are going to sell that
• stuff at half price. It's so old it smells, but
it's worth every scent.
Bill Wright (the married one) is quite con-cerned
about a certain girl (her initials begin
with Doris "Swisher" Richert) who went out
with one fellow and came home twenty minutes
later with another. All I can say is—Lucky gal!
Someone suggested that I write a column on
etiquette. But with a 79 grade on the Social
Usage Test we took in Freshman Conference,
I don't see how I can. (I think it was among
the lowest ten, but let's keep it quiet). Some
others must have gotten low marks, too,
because they made us take the test over again.
This time I put down answers just the op-posite
of my previous ones. Here's keeping
my fingers crossed.
Bye for now,
Question: What is your opinion re-garding
Visual Education at Bethel?
Marilyn Bergum:
It's a good way to absorb know-ledge
in a short time in an interest-ing
Sophomores Tame Unknowns Add Two
Freshman 51-46 Games to Win Streak Standings
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Campus Opinion Indians Win Season's Finale 13-50
Allen Peterson:
I think it is fine. it will provide
opportunities for students who
have little time for outside reading
to be informed of current events
in the shortest possible time so as
not to interfere with studies.
Miss Violet Bergquist:
It's a good idea from an educat-ional
point of view in addition to
the relaxation it can offer. Students
should be informed about world
activities and this can be done by
means of news reels, etc.
Ralph Larson:
I wouldn't want the young people
in my church to know that Bethel
is making concessions to the movie
industry. I would prefer that pic-tures
be shown of work which is
being carried on by missionaries
and Christian workers (for in-stance,
The Polermo Bros. in Italy,
George Riser:
I believe it will serve a very
worthy purpose. T h e eye- gate
method can impress a thing better
on our minds than a lecture or
discussion. I, for one, am glad that
our school is awake to the newest
methods of education. We mu
not let a narrow spirit of intoler-ance
interfere with this great idea
with all its wonderful possibilities.
Beth Babcock:
I think showing educational mov-ies
at Bethel is a progressive step
because one remembers more easily
and clearly what is seen, but we
should be very careful in the choice
of films on religious subjects.
Walter Johnson:
My first reaction was good, but
on thinking it over I realized how
easily it could lead to a newsreel
theatre and then to a regular movie
Prof. Edwin Omark:
I think visual education has great
possibilities at Bethel. I am not
acquainted with all the aspects of
the program, but I am in favor
of what has been planned so far.
Leona Larm:
Visual education at Bethel offers
us the opportunity of seeing how
the "other half" of the world lives.
Not having had the privilege to
travel, I consider this a treat. We
shouldn't consider moving pictures
as merely the instrument of Satan
and thus say "hands off". Although
our forefathers thought musical in-struments
were satanic, our Lord
has used them to His honor and
NAMES of the ALL-STAR TEAM
for the SOUTHERN MINNESOTA
J. C. BASKETBALL LEAGUE will
appear in THE CLARION NEXT
Last week the Sophmores proved
their superiority on the basketball
court by defeating the Freshmen
51 to 46 in the FROSHMORE game.
Cheered on by a small but en-thusiastic
crowd the two teams
battled furiously for the game de-spite
the generous amount of
"corn" introduced for the custo-mers'
The Sophmore team, looking
much like the late edition of the
varsity, was sparked by Peterson
and Sandberg with 15 and 14 points
respectively. Ed Eklof was the big
gun for the "Freshies" and the
high scorer of the evening with 18
points on eight buckets and two
free tosses.
Atmosphere was lent to the gathe
by the "Freshie" band, consisting
of a bass drum and a lot of assort-ed
noises, and the appearance of
the Sophs in newly-tailored "Union-suits."
Bethel Squaws
Win Again 21-12
Tuesday night, March 9, the
Bethel Squaws defeated a much
smaller Neighborhood House team
with the final score 21-13. The
Squaws height gave them the ad-vantage
so that they held a ten
point lead throughout most of the
Zella Mae McFarlin was the high
scorer for the Squaws with seven
points, and Gaston was high scorer
for the Neighborhood House with
twelve points.
Sports Sketch
Doris Richert is our sports per-sonality
for this week. She is a
freshman in the seminary this year
after having completed two years
in the college. In the future Doris
plans to enter some sort of full-time
Christian service. Doris' home
town now is Ortonville, Minnesota,
though she attended high school
in Whitetail, Montana.
Before coming to Bethel, Doris
had no experience playing basket-ball.
Her height and ability, how-ever,
have made her the captain
and outstanding forward and all-around
player on the Girls' team.
She has consistently been the high
scorer and one of tilt mail; y eas-ons
for the girls' record of three
Watch for Doris in the future
when the Squaws are p 1 a yin g.
She'll most likely be the one who
makes the most points.
Won .Lost
#6 Unknowns 5 0
#8 Undertakers 4 1
#3 Whiz-Kids 3 2
#2 Cold-shots 3 2
#4 Grubbers 2 3
#5 Angels 2 3
#7 Goldbricks 1 4
#1 Rebels 0 5
The fourth and fifth games of Oat
second round in the Intra-mural
League were played on March 8th
and 9th. The unbeatable Unknowns
made it four straight wins in this
round by trouncing the Angels 25-
to 24. Bob Hails led the victors
with 12 points. In the second game
Bud Eklof led the Whiz-Kids with
14 points as they topped the Grub-bers
27-23. In the third game the
Coldshots eked out a 25-24 win
over the Rebels in a close encoun-ter.
The last game of the day
provided the surprise upset with
the Goldbricks rising up from their
cellar depths to win vr the pre-viously
unbeaten Undertakers 34-
In the fifth set of games the
Whiz-Kids and Rebels played a
fast and furious game with Howie
Peterson and Ev Johnson taking
scoring honors. Peterson, of the
Rebels poured in 18 points to out-point
Ev Johnson, who had 17
points, but the Whiz-Kids came
out the winner 32-30. In the second
their winning form in routing the
Angels 40 to 19, and thus retained
their hold on second place. In the
third game Nels Nelson and Bob
Sandin led the Unknowns to their
12th victory of the year as they
defeated the Goldbricks 37-23. Sam-my
Nelson scored 12 points for the
losers. The last game of the day
was won by the Coldshots from
the Grubbers on a forfeit.
T. C. Church League
Announces Standings
Final Standings
Won .Lost
Central 6 1
Bethany 5 2
Bethel 5 2
Bethlehem 4 2
Payne Avenue 3 4
Bethlehem Chapel 2 3
Elim 1 5
Minnehaha 0 7
The Twin City Baptist Church
League came to a close recently
with the Central Baptist of St.
Paul taking top honors with six
wins and one loss. The Bethany
Baptist of St. Paul and the Bethel
and Bethlehem Baptist Churches of
Minneapolis also won play-off
berths for the championship.
In the first round play-off Bethle-hem
defeated Bethany and Bethel
turned back Central. The champ-ionship
results were not available
for this issue, but the title will
be won this year by a Minneapolis
Waldorf Becomes
11th Conf. Victim
The Bethel Indians closed a suc-cessful
basketball season on Fri-day
night, March 5th, by trounc-ing
Waldorf Junior College, 73 to
50. This was the Indians' 11th con-ference
victory in 15 games played,
and it assured them of a second
place berth if not a share in the
conference title.
It was Bethel all the way with
Greenman scoring 17 points, Sand-berg
15 points, and Porcella and
Eklof, 10 points each. Coach Ed-wards
shifted Kenny Greenman to
center position in the starting line-up,
and Kenny came through with
10 points before moved back to
Halvorsen, Waldorf's scoring ace
was really tied up throughout the
game as evidenced by his total of
five points in comparison with the
27 points he scored against Con-cordia
the following night. Bethel
led at the half 33 to 24.
The preliminary game was an-other
high-scoring affair with the
"B" team edging out the South
Town Crusaders 52 to 49.
Peterson f 3 2 1 8
Johnson f 0 0 3 0
Sandberg f 5 5 1 15
Nelson f 3 1 3 7
Porcella c 3 4 1 10
Eklof c 4 2 1 10
Greenman g 7 3 2 17
Rentz g 1 1 2 3
Dischinger g 0 0 1 0
Lindstrom g 1 0 0 2
Bergeson g 0 1 2 1
Totals 27 19 17 73
Halverson f 2 1 0 5
Florence f 1 1 2 3
Jensen, R. f 2 3 1 7
Graham f 3 0 4 6
Leonardi c 0 4 4 4
Trustem c 1 0 0 2
Narveson g 2 1 5 5
Gulbrandsen g 2 0 0 4
Jensen g 4 0 3 8
Helgeson g 2 0 3 4
Huso g 1 0 2 2
Totals 20 10 24 50
"B" Game
Waage f 1 1 2 3
Peterson f 1 0 0 2
Johnson, R., f 9 1 2 19
Johnson, B., c 3 5 5 11
Olsen g 2 3 4 7
Dickenson g 1 1 3 3
Skoog g 1 1 1 3
Sims g 2 0 1 4
— — — —
Totals 20 12 18 52
Christenson f 4 5 3 13
Johnson f 1 0 5 2
Shaff c 8 4 4 20
Schaults g 6 0 4 20
Hansen g 0 2 3 2
Englund g 0 0 1 0
Dobbler g 0 0 0 0
Totals 19 11 20 49
Ping Pong Tourney
To Start March 22nd
The entry dates for Bethel's An-nual
Ping, Pong Tournament have
been announced as March 15-21.
The tournament play begins on
March 23rd, and it will include
men's singles and doubles, women's
singles and doubles, and mixed
doubles. Original pairings, semi-finals,
and finals will be posted
on the College and Seminary bul-letin
boards. The entry fee of 25c
is payable to either Bob Daley or
Louis Schultz.
Westlund's Food
Market, Inc.
Quick Freeze Service
and Frosted Foods
Meats at Fair Prices
597 Snelling Avenue North Ne. 8621
Johnson & Barnes
Fairway Foods
Fruits and Vegetables LANDIS SERVICE STATION
NEstor 4182
W. J. Borchert Midway 4287
10% discount—Bethel students
and faculty
Mid-Town Cleaners
1558 Como Ave. at Snelling
Elgin — Hamilton — Gruen
Beautiful selection of
Diamond Rings
955 Payne Ave.,
St. Paul — Minnesota
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If this article sounds a little
extra green this week it's because
of St. Patricks day. Just co-operat-ing.
Green also represents Fresh-men,
which reminds me that the
Sophs won the Freshmore game.
Yipi! Guess the Freshmen thought
they had caught the Sophs un-awares,
but the Sophs came
through to win regardless of their
attire. It was a wild and woolly
Chapel Quotes: Dr. Pearson was
telling us his interesting life story,
which included a little conversation
he had with his wife. He had been
apologizing for being so poor when
his wife enlightened him with these
words. "We're not poor, it's just
that we don't have much money."
We students feel much richer now.
Newsbits: Congratulations to
Chris and Evie on the candlelight
meal arrangement we had last
Wednesday evening. You have my
vote for a continuation of some
more on-the-ball affairs like that.
Mention should be made of the
new striking feature, 'Butch and
Buddy'. The Clarion is growing. It
certainly is a priviledge to read
the lively articles written by our
own 'Crazy Hazey' and 'Ex-Davey
Wanted: A good rowboat with
oars that would be able to make
the trip from the boys dorm to the
college to the seminary to the
girls dorm and back to the boys
dorm during the spring thaw.
Just happened to be in the lounge
of the girls dorm one evening when
two girls came out to meet a couple
of fellows. They almost fell over
when they saw the fellows in their
new look. Overalls.
Did you know we have royallty at
school since Bob Bronko is the
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Otters Featured
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The fifth convocation of the
year was held in the College
Chapel on Tuesday night. Emil E.
Liers, who has made many pets out
of otters, presented a motion pic-ture
about his hobby. The film
was entitled: "My Pals and Play-mates."
The program was one of
the series of similar sent over by
the Department of Concerts and
Lectures of the University of Minn-esota.
Miss'y Meet Sponsored
By Married Couples
At the Missionary Band meeting
of March 12, Vernon Anderson led
the married couples of Bethel in
reiterating again for students and
faculty alike the claim missions
have on the lives of Christians.
Music played its important part
in presenting the challenge in the
form of a ladies trio and duet, a
male quartette and solo, and an
instrumental trio.
Testimonies were given by Zack
Kleinsasser and Art Westerhoff.
Coach Paul Edwards, using John
4:24-32 as his text, emphasized the
"Urgency of Christian Missions."
BWA Thursday Night
The regular monthy meeting of
the B.W.A. is being held on Thurs-day
night at eight o'clock. The
program is in charge of the faculty
wives. Approaching spring and St.
Patrick's day provide the theme for
the gathering. Refreshments are to
be served afterwards.
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Subsistence allowance increases
for veterans enrolled in full-time
courses in schools, colleges, and
universities in the Minnesota reg-ion
will be included in subsistence
checks to be mailed the early part
of May, Harry R. Pool, Regional
Manager of the Veterans Adminis-tration
at Minneapolis announced
last Wednesday.
He explained that although the
new law provides increases effec-tive
April 1st, checks are not due
until after the veteran has been
in school a month.
Increases from $65 to $75 for vet-erans
with no dependents, from $90
to $105 for veterans with one dep-endent,
and from $90 to $120 for
veterans with two or more depen-dents,
will apply only to full-time
school, college, or university stud-ents,
and not to part-time students,
nor on-the-job or on-the-farm train-ees.
VA will automatically increase
subsistence payments to single vet-erans
without dependents in full-time
training from $65 to $75.
Those veterans who are now on re-cord
at VA with one dependent and
who have been receiving $90 subsis-tence
will receive an automatic in-crease
to $105. No application is
Full-time veteran students entitl-ed
to the new $120 rate for more
than one dependent will be requir-ed
to submit additional dependency
evidence before the higher pay-ments
can be made. If the proof of
dependency evidence is furnished
VA prior to July 1, 1948, the $120
rate for more than one dependent
Will be made retroactive to the
effective April 1st date.
"Timely" Advice Given
Seminarians 1st Day
Pointed advice on the good use
of time was passed on by Dean K.
J. Karlson to Seminary students
as they assembled in chapel last
week to begin a new term.
"I myself like to be social," he
told them, "but I notice that some of
you are peculiarly equipped in that
Warning that the call of the wild
would come .within a few weeks
and Como Park would beooLue pop
ular, the Dean advised against
postponing any thing that could be
done today. Serious thought should
be given to the best use of time.
War II Medical Records
Provide Research Data
Medical records of more than
100,000 ill and disabled World War
II veterans will be used to aid re-searchers
in their efforts to dis-cover
the causes and cures of little
know diseases and unusual injur-ies,
Dr. Paul B. Magnuson, chief
medical director of Veterans Ad-.
ministration said recently.
Object of the program is to
analyze the medical records of such
veterans, and through study of the
history of their ailments and of the
medical treatment given, thus at-tempt
to arrive at sound medical
conclusions and recommendations
for the care of others who might
incur these same disabilities.
The research extends beyond the
time veterans are in the hospitals
to determine cause of relapses and
other after-effects suffered in many
cases after medical treatment has
been given.
VA, individually, or in collaborat-ion
with the Research Council and
the Departments of the Arm y,
Navy, and Air Force, will deter-mine
the specific studies to be con-ducted.
Contents of all medical records
used will be carefully guarded. Be-fore
being designated to participate
in these clinical studies, physicians
and other VA employees will be
required to sign statements pledg-ing
they will safeguard the confi-dential
contents of the records re-viewed.
While advantages accruing to
science and practice will be shared
by the medical profession as a
whole, VA will be the primary be-neficiary
of the program.
VA has 35 general research lab-oratories
in operation in hospitals,
affiliated with Class "A" medica
schools. It is hoped ultimately to
have such laboratories in all 54 VA
hospitals which operate in con-junction
with medical schools and
in some of the other non-affiliated
VA hospitals.
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Kasich ACA flip burns conservatives
Conservative groups wanted to stop the march of Obamacare expansion at ground zero: the states.
But one of their best hopes just caved.
Story Continued Below
John Kasich, the fiercely conservative governor of Ohio, announced Monday that he's going to expand Medicaid dramatically using federal money — a 180-degree turn from what conservative groups swore their allies in governors' mansions would do when the Supreme Court gave them an out last year.
( Also on POLITICO: ACA sticker shock could fuel foes)
That leaves Kasich, who built his political identity arguing for smaller government, at odds with the same movement conservatives who propelled him to victory in Ohio and have eyed him for a presidential run in 2016.
"I think it's definitely going to weaken him with the conservative base," said Chris Littleton, the Ohio director for American Majority Action. "It's not a good idea to expand your No. 1 budget item in the middle of this kind of instability. The conservative grass roots and average voters are not going to support this in any way, shape or form."
Tea party groups gave the decision a big thumbs down, a rare moment when they've been at odds with Kasich.
( Also on POLITICO: Secret donors back Obamacare push)
"Medicaid is a broken, costly system that needs meaningful reform; expanding the system to include another 365,000 individuals is exactly the wrong policy for Ohio families," said Nicole Kaeding, state policy manager for Americans for Prosperity. "Instead of trapping families in a system that doesn't work, Gov. Kasich should devote his efforts and activities to forcing Columbus and Washington to pass badly needed reforms."
Kasich's not alone. He's joining four other Republican governors in accepting the expansion, though they're still outnumbered by the nine GOP governors who are refusing to do it — including Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rick Perry of Texas — and others who are leaning against it.
And now that Kasich has taken the plunge, some of Obamacare's supporters hope others will follow. Topher Spiro of the liberal Center for American Progress says Kasich's decision should be "influential" with other GOP governors.
But Ohio tea party activists are frustrated to see another Republican governor — especially one with Kasich's reputation — embracing what they see as just another government solution to a problem.
"How can that be good for Ohio to have more people dependent on government?" asked Ted Stevenot, president of the Ohio Liberty Coalition. "How can it be good for us politically, economically? I just don't see it."
Kasich says the decision will free up money to spend on mental health and other services — since the feds will pay for most of the expansion costs — and will keep everyone else's health insurance premiums down because there won't be so many uninsured people going to emergency rooms for their medical care.

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Vesta - HST - 194° Longitude
Vesta, 4 Vesta
The semi-major axis of Vesta's orbit about the Sun is 2.36 astronomical units (AU) or roughly 219 million miles (353 million kilometers).
Vesta has a mean diameter of approximately 330 miles (530 kilometers). The object has a 354-mile (570-km) diameter at the equator and a slightly smaller diameter of 288-miles (464-km) pole-to-pole.
This image was created from HST data from proposal 12050: J.-Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), L. McFadden (NASA/GSFC), P. Thomas (Cornell University), C. Russell (University of California, Los Angeles), M. Mutchler (STScI), and M. Rayman, C. Raymond, and S. Weinstein-Weiss (JPL/Caltech).
F373N (373 nm) and F469N (469 nm)
NASA, ESA, J.-Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), and L. McFadden (NASA/GSFC)
This image is a composite of separate exposures made by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Each filter was used to sample a narrow wavelength range. The composite colors result from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are:
Yellow/gold: F469N (469 nm)
Cyan: F373N (373 nm)


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Veteran Panthers center John Madden took friendly fire in the first period of last night's Game 7 matchup with New Jersey last night, leaving bits of himself on the ice and suffering the sort of injury that generally knocks most other athletes out of competition. Most other athletes, of course, aren't competing in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Madden returned to the game and, if not for the superb overtime goalkeeping of Martin Brodeur, might have carried Florida to the second round. It was not to be, and instead it was someone else's fairytale—that of Devils rookie Adam Henrique, who snuck a shot past Jose Theodore in the second overtime period—that came true. But if you were still wondering why the Stanley Cup Playoffs are the best postseason of any sport, John Madden might have your answer.


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Although the grave marker reads "In loving memory of Mrs. Farrington", we learn little about her because she is described only in terms of her relationships to others, particularly to the men in her life. On the marker we learn of her father, Hugh Lane, her grandsons, the Grays, all of whom are interred elsewhere, and, by virtue of her surname, her husband Mr. Farrington. Hugh Lane and the Grays all have found their places in the history books; however, here on the stone marking her final resting place, Mrs. Farrington is not even afforded the courtesy of her first name. Although it is by no means uncommon to see such a grave, on which a woman is defined in terms of those powerful men to whom she was connected, it gives us pause to wonder, exactly who was Mrs. Farrington?
The stone reads:
In loving memory of Mrs. Farrington
Daughter of Dr. Hugh Lane of Limerick
died at Charleville House Rathmines
Nov. the 1st 1862
"Her end was peace"
And of her grandsons
John Wilson Gray A.B. T.C.D Barrister at Law
eldest son of Sir John Gray M. P.
Died November 1872
Interred in Abury Park Cemetery London
And of George Walter Gray who died Aug. 1879
at Vartry Lodge Balleybrack
And of Dr. William Darcan Gray L.R.C.S
Who died January 1886 at Sydney N.S.
Interred at Poorwood Cemetery Sydney
And of
Lady Gray
Who died 27th April 1887
At Charleville House Rathmines
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
There once was a girl named Viviana...
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Published at Wednesday, 10 October 2018. Kitchen Interior. By Max Rodier.
Kitchen interior design is one of the most popular areas of interior design. It is also one of the most expensive rooms to re-design. Many people attempt to do it themselves when it comes to remodeling their kitchen. However, if you choose to hire an interior designer then be prepared to spend a lot more money.
Planning the kitchen is very important, this is because a wrong placement of kitchen furniture and it could mean walking 5 steps for every little utensil, you really don't want that. My advice is to make a brainstorm, put all your appliances that you use and group the ones that are most often used together. After you have grouped them, then you should decide where the group is going to go. Now you should design the kitchen interior. I have learnt from my experiences that it is much, much easier to group the appliances and then remodel the kitchen interior accordingly, as this saves time and any unnecessary mistakes. Also remember to try and give as much spare space to every group. This can be quite difficult for small kitchen but is very important.
Many new homeowners I've talked to think of home improvement to be a daunting task. True, it can be for those who attempt to completely renovate their entire home at once. They are often faced with a number of different problems all at once dealing with having to move furniture and other items out of the way so the renovation can take place. For smart homeowner, a kitchen redesign is easier since they choose to only do a little bit at a time. Completing each project, such as adding soapstone stoves or a soapstone counter, one project at a time avoids many of the everyday hassles and interruptions of daily life.
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Midwest agricultural economists agree that fertilizer prices are likely to hold steady before the start of the 2013 cropping season. They also forecast a slight chance for nitrogen (N) prices to dip a bit. Still, outside market forces could alter those projections, particularly if similar events were to occur in 2013 as happened in 2008.
"Right now, we're looking at pretty stable fertilizer prices," says Gary Schnitkey, Extension farm management economist, University of Illinois. "If the current steadiness in the market holds, farmers in Illinois should expect to pay somewhere around $825/ton for anhydrous ammonia, $600/ton for potash (potassium) and $625/ton for DAP (diammonium phosphate)."
Most major farm fertilizer prices have been trending lower during the past year, points out Chad Hart, Iowa State University agricultural economist. "N, P (phosphorous) and K (potassium) are all down in price this year," Hart says. "Anhydrous ammonia is only a little bit cheaper, but DAP and MAP (monoammonium phosphate) are sizably below what they were at this time in 2012, and potash is 10% lower."
Yet, compared to the extreme price shifts that occurred from 2007 to 2009, the current fertilizer market fluctuations are relatively stable, says Bruce Erickson, agronomist, Purdue University. Nor do the usual market fundamentals point to any dramatic price changes ahead, he adds.
Keys to price swings
"The two key things that could significantly alter future fertilizer prices would be a change in demand or a change in manufacturing and transportation costs," Erickson says. "With the current high commodity prices for corn and soybeans, the demand for fertilizer is likely to remain high worldwide, and that should support fertilizer prices here as well. In addition, gas, diesel and overall transportation costs continue to remain high, so prices are unlikely to drop much for P and K fertilizers, which are heavily mining and transportation-energy dependent."
Nitrogen would be the one fertilizer product that could dip a bit in price, due to its direct tie to natural gas prices, which have dropped dramatically in the last two years, Erickson says. "N-fertilizer prices could become softer in the future, if fertilizer companies can continue to reduce their overall input costs and pass on these cost savings to customers," he says.
Economic meltdown worries
Despite current fertilizer market stability, any unforeseen deterioration in global economic conditions might cause dramatic price shifts again, Hart notes. "If global economies suddenly take a tumble, our crop prices would react immediately, just like in 2008," he says. "We could see the same thing that happened then, with a sudden, sharp decrease in commodity prices."
A fertilizer price drop would likely follow a big commodity price drop, but less quickly, he adds. "Even if the economy in Europe melts down like it did in 2008, it likely won't affect fertilizer prices until next fall," Hart says. "A lot of fertilizer decisions have already been made for the 2013 crop, with a lot of the material already booked and prepaid."


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Admiral of the Fleet Sir David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty 1871-1936
The youngest British admiral since Horatio Nelson , David Beatty was a charismatic and courageous leader who fought in most major engagements during the First World War. Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet from 1916-1919 and First Sea Lord for an unprecedented period between 1919-1927, Beatty was one of the most influential figures in the Royal Navy in the early decades of the twentieth century.
He joined the Navy at Gosport aged 13 in January 1884 and was assigned to HMS Alexandra, Mediterranean Fleet flagship. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1892, Beatty served in the corvette Ruby and battleships Camperdown and Trafalgar. Up to this point, there was nothing that marked out Beatty from his contemporaries.
This all changed during General Kitchener's invasion of the Sudan in late 1890s. Supporting Kitchener's army was a flotilla of gunboats under Commander Cecil Colville, whom Beatty met on the Alexandra. Colville was wounded and Beatty, as the senior Lieutenant, took command. For his actions in a series of engagements culminating in the Battle of Omdurman, Beatty was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSO. One evening, in an outrageous piece of good fortune, Beatty greeted a junior officer of the 21st Lancers on the banks of the Nile to get an update on the situation. During the conversation Beatty threw a bottle of champagne from the gunboat to the shore where it was picked up by the grateful officer. The officer was none other than Winston Churchill who as First Lord of the Admiralty would play a pivotal role in Beatty's career.
Over the next few years Beatty's rise was meteoric. He was promoted to Commander aged 27 in 1898, serving only half the usual term as a Lieutenant. As Executive Officer of the battleship Barfleur on the China Station, Beatty was wounded in the capture of Tientsin in June 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Ordered home he was made Captain at only 29.
In 1901 Beatty married American millionaire heiress Ethel Tree. His wealth allowed him an independence from the navy that most of his fellow officers lacked. As a member of high society, Beatty and his wife had houses in London, Leicestershire, Scotland and on a few occasions even dined with the King.
Further appointments included Naval Advisor to the Army Council and Captain of the battleship Queen until he was promoted to Rear Admiral on 1 January 1910. At 39, the same age as Nelson and Admiral Rodney , he was the youngest Admiral since the eighteenth century.
The next episode almost ended his career. Offered the post of second-in-command of the Atlantic Fleet, Beatty refused. Possibly over confident after previous success, he argued the command had no prospects and asked for one in the Home Fleet. Unsurprisingly the Admiralty was extremely unimpressed and placed him on half pay without a command, where he remained for nearly two years. But Beatty's luck held. Winston Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911 and finding him unemployed, appointed Beatty to the important post of Naval Secretary.
Another major promotion followed in 1913 when he was given command of the prestigious Battle Cruiser Squadron over the heads of several senior officers. The most dashing element of the Home Fleet, it was in entirely keeping with Beatty's personality, epitomised by his stance with his cap worn at a jaunty angle. In this post Beatty made his reputation as a daring commander, often in controversial circumstances.
A confused engagement in the Heligoland Bight on 28 August 1914 was swiftly resolved when Beatty arrived with his battlecruisers sinking three German cruisers and a destroyer. At Dogger Bank in January 1915, Beatty was furious when confused signalling allowed the most of the German battlecruisers to escape, only the elderly Blucher being sunk. At the Battle of Jutland in 1916 two of his battlecruisers, Queen Mary and Indefatigable, exploded causing Beatty to famously remark 'There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.' He was dogged by controversy over Jutland after the war when he attempted to get the official record changed to place the actions of the Battle Cruiser Fleet in a more favourable light.
On succeeding Admiral Jellicoe as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet at the end of 1916, Beatty issued a new set of battle instructions emphasising use of initiative and pursuit of the enemy. He played a major role in maintaining the morale of the fleet during a long period of inactivity. Beatty's finest hour came at the surrender of the High Seas Fleet on 21 November 1918, when he signalled 'The German Flag will be hauled down at sunset today Thursday, and will not be hoisted again without permission.' On 3 April 1919 he became the youngest officer to hold the rank of Admiral of the Fleet at the age of 48.
As First Sea Lord, Beatty opposed the cuts in naval strength. He used his high profile and popularity to press the navy's case in government with some success. Convinced the Navy was the first line of Imperial defence, he stressed the need for a strong battlefleet and advocated the construction of a base at Singapore to meet the Japanese threat. He struggled unsuccessfully to regain control of the Fleet Air Arm. On his death in 1936 Beatty was buried in St Paul's cathedral close to Nelson's crypt.
Further reading:
- A. Gordon, Rules of the Game (London, 1996).
- T.A. Heathcote, The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734-1995: A Biographical Dictionary (Barnsley, Yorkshire, 2002).
- B. M. Ranft, "Admiral David Earl Beatty (1919-1927)" in M.H. Murfett (Ed.) The First Sea Lords: Fisher to Mountbatten (Westport, Connecticut, 1995). S. Roskill, Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty, The Last Naval Hero: An Intimate Biography (New York, 1981).


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Purple Heart For WWII Vet
It isn't often Sioux Falls makes national news, but it happened Wednesday.
88-year-old Charles Bledsoe finally has his purple heart and bronze star after serving in World War II. Because of an oversight, Charles never received his medals.
It all finally came to a head when he tried to join the Sioux Falls chapter of the Military Order of Purple Heart and was turned down. That's when the wheels were set in motion to make things right.
According to the Associated Press:
Bledsoe joined the Army immediately after graduating high school and served in Company F of the 273rd Infantry Regiment. He was involved in three major battles – D-Day, the Battle of the Hedgerows and the Battle of the Bulge.
U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson presented Charles Bledsoe with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star Wednesday during a ceremony at the Veterans Administration hospital in Sioux Falls.
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For the fourth and final part of our interview with Jason Lytle, DiS gets all Smash Hits on his ass and probes him about what his favourite things might be. AND WHY NOT?
DiS: What's your favourite place in the world?
JL: My favourite geographical spot on the planet? [thinks for a long time] Definitely Montana at this point. The longer I live there, the more it reveals. It's very slow in what it reveals, but it's getting deeper and deeper and more incredible. Say, like, the converse of that would be being super excited and moving to a city – "alright, there's a good burrito place down there and a good Thai food place down there and a public library with free Wi-Fi and blah-blah-blah". Montana's very elusive. It doesn't beckon the world to come there and benefit from what it has to offer. You have to slow down and sit there and just let it happen. Which requires being there for a long enough time to allow yourself to get to that level.
DiS: The opposite of that strikes me as being – and it's a place that I quite like, but – Las Vegas. Do you like it there?
JL: I do love Las Vegas. Last time I was there I had a pretty incredible time. I was hanging out with Jim [Putnam] from Radar Bros. We went to a wedding, and we happened to be driving back the same way and afterwards he called me and left a message, saying it was great to hang out with me. [silly high-pitched voice] "Hey Jason, it was nice hanging out with you in Las Vegas, and by the way, after you left I threw up all over myself in the gutter… I had a great time, it was good to see you, 'kay, bye…" [laughs] But Las Vegas is awesome. Beyond the throw-up story. I love it. It's so fucking completely, utterly ridiculous. And the rooms are getting cheaper. The economy is so bad that you can stay in these five-star hotels for, like, ninety-nine dollars. It's great.
DiS: Did you go to Montana before you moved there?
JL: I'd only driven through. But I had a good friend of mine, whom I trusted, who said "you're gonna like this place". And I was always on tour somewhere. "You gotta come visit!" – "I want to, but I'm kind of busy right now!". And I finally had the opportunity to go check it out. I knew that I was gonna be leaving Modesto.
DiS: Where else did you consider? LA?
JL: Oddly enough, I was thinking about moving to LA. Only because I have a lot of friends there. But eventually I came to the realization that that's what I'd been doing. I'd been living some place that I'm not thrilled with – in the name of work – and at some point your life has gone by, and I wanna be at some place that makes me happy every day. And there was a time to do that, and that was it. That's what made me change my mind. It was like one big road trip, and part of it was LA. And I was actually looking at places to live and neighbourhoods and stuff, and I ended up on this big sweeping road trip through the states. But I knew I wanted to keep it kind of close to the west coast, 'cause my family still lives there. But Montana's a weird one. I've always loved the Alps, and to me it's like staying in America, but moving to the Swiss Alps. And the culture's just a bit different enough there. People are a lot nicer and politer than what I'd gotten used to in Modesto.
DiS: Did you get to elevate yourself in Montana?
JL: Literally! It's a valley that I live in, but it's about five thousand feet above sea level. I spend a good percentage of the week between six and seven thousand feet above sea level, up in the mountains, biking or skiing.
DiS: Skiing? No snowboarding?
JL: No, oddly enough. I don't snowboard. 'Cause that was the obvious thing to do!
DiS: Where else have you been, where you have thought to yourself "just let me stay here"?
JL: I was in Italy on one of the first tours. And I was so sad and depressed and wasted. And they have these shows super late at night, and we went and had dinner. It was one of the smaller village shows, so the people who owned the venue also owned a restaurant, and they cooked us all this wonderful food. And they gave us way too much wine. And I hadn't had a shower in, I don't know… two or three weeks. And I really needed one and just needed to rest. My nerves were rattled, and we were going on at midnight, and I was already drunk. It had been a long tour. And then one of the people connected with the venue drove me to her house and showed me where the towels were and how to turn on the bathtub. And I had my first bath in three weeks. I had been around dirty guys, drunk every night, and I was just exhausted. And next thing you know, I'm in this girl's bathtub in a little village in Italy, surrounded by body wash and hair products and candles, smelling good things… I'll probably remember that bath until my deathbed. [laughs] "I don't wanna leave this place!" And there was nothing weird or sexual – if anything, I wanted her to go away! "Just let me sit around your bath vibes!".
DiS: What's your favourite restaurant?
JL: That would be the Shalimar in the Tenderloin district in San Francisco. It's this really sketchy Indian takeaway that has a few seats, and every time the microwave goes on, the lights dim, and there are these 98-year-old Indian men squatting, cutting vegetables on the floor in the back. And the food is insanely hot and spicy, and it's 'bring your own beer'. But it's kind of a limited menu, and it's just so chaotic and so cheap.
DiS: What's your favourite joke?
JL: Um… I'm definitely one of those people that don't retain jokes very well. But! I do have two favourite sayings. And I got to use one of them on the beginning of the record. The whole two shits thing. [in a Southern States accent] "You know what, I could give two shits what you think about that!'" That's one of them. The other one is "Yeah, go fuck a duck!" [laughs] So, somehow I'm able to justify using "two shits", but at some point I'm going to have to come with a song where I'm able to incorporate the "go fuck a duck" thing. [laughs]
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DiS: 'Birds Encouraged Him', version 2?
JL: Yeah! [laughs] Rusty's joke with 'Birds Encouraged Him' was – 'cause it's all serious and pretty – right before I kick into the solo, I go "as birds encouraged him on life to hold", and then I go [whistles bird noises], as if the bird is talking to the guy, and Rusty's supposed to sing, and he just starts dying laughing, and then the song just self-destructs. [laughs] You know! That's how birds talk!
DiS: Not too long ago, my friend interviewed Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, who told him a joke that I can remember. A guy goes to the doctor, feeling really bad. Then the doctor says to him, "you really have to stop masturbating", and the guy goes "why?" – "because I'm examining you!".
JL: [laughs] That's actually really not that good! Is that the best he could do? I heard a couple over the last few days that were a lot better than that one!
DiS: Well, let's hear 'em!
JL: I don't retain them! I laugh! For, like, eight seconds, and then they're gone!
DiS: What's your favourite song anyone ever did?
JL: [thinks for a long time] You realize how hard this is, right?
DiS: No, I thought you'd have it ready. I thought you were gonna say 'Livin' Thing' by ELO.
JL: If anything, I would say Waterfall by ELO. It still knocks me out every time I hear it, and I still love the fact that it's not one of their big hits. Like, 'Waterfall! You know, Waterfall!' – 'um, huh?'. (laughs)
DiS: What's your favourite song that you yourself ever did?
JL: My favourite doesn't exist. But if I got the opportunity to properly re-record 'Levitz', then that probably would be my favourite.
DiS: What's your favourite word?
JL: Uh… 'Sleep'. It's got a good ring to it. It means strength. There's nothing better than what it symbolizes. You can be as tired and exhausted, and you could have the worst things happen to you, but if you get eight hours of solid sleep, you're like… Superman.
DiS: What's your favourite movie?
JL: Gold Rush, Charlie Chaplin. It has everything a movie needs. It's more mind-blowing than any movie with modern special effects and capabilities. It just so happens that it's also a silent film. It's like this pure product of Charlie Chaplin's imagination.
DiS: What's your favourite drink?
JL: Um… Depends on what time of day it is. How about that? Can it depend on what time of day it is?
DiS: No. If you ever only got have one alcoholic drink ever again.
JL: Oh, it has to be alcoholic?
DiS: Yeah, 'cause water would be boring.
JL: I'll take a… I'll take an Absolut and tonic with two wedges of lime in it. Please.
DiS: What's your favourite experience with a female fan?
JL: [laughs] Oh, man… Breaking up with her. Ending our eight-year relationship, how about that? [laughs]
DiS: What's your favourite invention? The guitar?
JL: Absolutely not. [thinks] Ketchup! 'Cause it goes good with everything. And it tastes great!
DiS: Vinyl, cd, or cassette, and in what order?
JL: Cassette, cd, vinyl.
DiS: Cassette is your favourite?
JL: Yeah. I just wish technology accommodated it better. I've been listening to cassettes lately, and a well-recorded cassette on a good cassette player actually sounds pretty incredible.
DiS: You're not a vinyl fetishist?
JL: No, no, absolutely not. They don't really make it the right way anymore. They make it off of digital masters.
DiS: Who's your favourite actor?
JL: Charlie Chaplin.
DiS: Who's your favourite actress?
JL: [thinks for a long time] I don't know her name. Who's the girl in the Spiderman movie?
DiS: Kirsten Dunst.
JL: Yeah. I like Kirsten Dunst. She's really pretty. I have a leaning towards Scandinavian girls… She looks a bit Scandinavian, doesn't she?
DiS: I would say.
JL: I don't like the Angelina Jolie types, the exaggerated ones. I like the more kind of understated thing. Kristen Dunst.
DiS: Kirsten!
JL: [in a Swedish accent] Kirsten Dunsten!
DiS: Last question and you're off the hook. What's your favourite favourite?
JL: My favourite favourite? [sighs and laughs] Do you know how tempted I am to say ketchup again? [laughs, then thinks for a long time] Alright, here's my favourite favourite. This is like a big serious answer. I had a really sketchy, fractured family growing up. But my dad… I don't know, he just wanted me to stay out of jail. He didn't really care if I went to school, he didn't care what I did for a living. He had an upbringing that he wasn't terribly pleased with. He was always stressed, and he had a really bad temper, and wasn't the nicest guy in the world. But… as soon as things started working out, and once he started seeing I was making something out of this band… he became like a superfan. And he's my favourite. He's my favourite favourite.


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A Window...With Views
An iPhone app displays UI elements and content on the device's screen, and the user responds by tapping the screen or making gestures across it. A singleton window object and multiple views are the visible components that manage the iPhone's UI and any content display. The window object encompasses the entire screen and lacks a border and a title bar with controls. The window and views are implemented by instances of the
UIWindow and various
UIView classes, respectively.
UIWindow class is actually a subclass of
UIView. However, the window instance serves as the root container for all of the other views, and it is always the size of the screen. It serves as a backdrop on which you add any number of views and subviews. The
UIApplication object sends events to the window object, which in turn delivers them to the appropriate view objects.
An iPhone app typically generates an instance of the window object immediately, using information stored in a NextStep Interface Builder (nib) file. Nib files describe the window's dimensions and other information necessary to make an instance of the window. I'll have more to say about nib files later.
Alternatively, you can generate the window instance from code that you write in the delegate. Once the window is set up, you then add the views that make up the app's content and controls as subviews to this window. The
UIView class has methods that allow you to add, remove, or change the order of how views are presented in the window. After you add the app's views, often you are done with the window and deal only with events delivered to the views.
You can see some of how this setup is accomplished in Listing Two. The generation of the window is done for you automatically if you use a nib file, as is the case here. All that you need to do is provide a pointer, termed window in the listing, which references the window instance. Apple's XCode development tools automatically generate the window nib file, MainWindow.xib, along with a
UIApplicationDelegate header file and method file for you.
Views, like the window instance, can be generated either from a nib file or programmatically. The choice of which option to use depends upon how dynamic you intend the view's UI elements to be. For example, a help display with information presented in a static layout is best handled with a nib file. If you have controls that change in response to the user's interaction, you may want to use code to generate a portion of the views and then manage their position and appearance. Likewise, a view with the spaceship needs to move about the screen, so it should be generated by code, and not by a nib.
Besides the
UIWindow class,
UIView has a number of child classes that provide useful capabilities (Figure 1). A control group of views implements visual elements such as buttons, sliders, progress indicators, switches, and text labels. Another group serves as containers for dynamic content such as pages or tables. A navigation group provides tab bars and navigation bars that facilitate moving swiftly from one screen of content to another. Other subclasses support scrolling of content, and a toolbar for grouping items.
Views also display content, which might be text, vector graphics, rendered HTML material, or images. For games, you can use cross-platform OpenGL ES APIs to draw and render 3D content, but the OpenGL drawing region must be presented within a view. My program's goals were modest: I only wanted to paint pixels on the screen and move some of them about. The basic
UIView class would be suitable for this purpose.
The origin of a view's coordinate system starts at the upper left corner and the axes extend to the right and downwards; see Figure 2.
Interestingly, for OS X, the situation is reversed: the origin is at the lower left corner and the axes extend to the right and upwards. In fact, the vector graphics APIs, Quartz, still use this orientation in the iPhone, but UIKit automatically corrects the orientation for you before rendering the graphics calls. Coordinates are specified in floating-point numbers for device-resolution independence. A frame describes the view's rectangular area, and its midpoint is defined by an instance of point (a structure with x and y values) termed center. The center point information is handy to have when you move or rotate a view particularly when the view might contain a spaceship image.
Views can be nested in one another, to form complex visual elements, as Figure 2 shows. In addition, views have characteristics known as properties, and the center point is one. Another useful property is alpha, which manages the view's alpha channel. This property can be modified to apply transparency effects to the view's contents. There is also a visibility property, hidden, that can be used to hide or reveal views.
Rotating an image is handled through the view's transform property. This property contains a transformation matrix that can be applied to the view. For me, a transformation that did a simple rotation would be sufficient. However, more complex transformations can be applied to a view's contents, and UIKit provides a number of predefined matrices that can be used to generate special effects with the view's content, or when switching to another view.
At this point, I understood the UIKit framework adequately to know what classes I needed to build the basic core of an iPhone app. This core (an instance of
UIApplicationDelegate) would start by making the required window object, to which I would add a view for a background, and another view that contained the spaceship image. A transformation matrix would rotate the spaceship view. I was a bit fuzzy on the details as how to control the spaceship, but I figured that another view could display a virtual joystick or control pad. That view would then react to touches on it. So far, so good.


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The Rev. Timothy Cargal, Ph.D., serves as Assistant Stated Clerk for Preparation for Ministry in Mid Council Ministries of the Office of the General Assembly.
"... the Land that I Will Show You" is the blog of the Office of Preparation for Ministry of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). This blog is designed to serve as a resource for those discerning and preparing for a call to the ministry of Word and Sacrament as ordained teaching elders of the church. It will also provide a place for reflecting on and dialoging about the changing context of pastoral ministry in the early 21st century.
For quick announcements about changes or developments in the preparation process, dates related to exams or other key events, discussion boards, surveys, etc., you can follow us on Facebook at "Preparing for Presbyterian Ministry."
The first round of quarterly exams will be offered July 25 and 26. This expanded opportunity for candidates obviously brings with it an expanded need for ordination exam readers. Notifications were sent to all CPM moderators and presbytery stated clerks this morning with information from the Presbyteries' Cooperative Committee on Examinations for Candidates (PCC) about how the presbyteries will be asked to provide readers under the new schedule. Since interest about how this will work extends beyond just committee/commission moderators and stated clerks, I want to share some details of the plan.


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Summer is nearly here, and during those hot-weather months, kids across the mid-Atlantic will explore their local rivers or the Chesapeake Bay for the first time. They'll find lush riparian zones, herons stalking shallow-water prey, crayfish hiding in cool creeks, and silky marsh mud squishing between their toes.
During the year, kids spend a lot of time indoors — in classrooms and in front of the television or computer. With school out and long days to fill, summer is the time for youth to touch, see, feel, and hear the watershed that surrounds them. If kids find adventure along shorelines, they'll begin to care about preserving natural areas and keeping our waters clean and clear. These experiences will help color their decisions green and help them learn how their actions make a difference.
Such summertime play is serious business: If kids do not make a personal connection to this natural treasure now, when will they?
Some will make these discoveries just outside their door or neighborhood; others will gain an introduction through one of the hundreds of Chesapeake-area camps that get kids outdoors in an organized fashion — with canoeing, hiking, fishing, wildlife-spotting, and more.
The environmental educators that work around the bay and on the rivers will be teaching youth to seine, identify birds, and plant underwater grasses. As they splash, fish, and paddle, kids will find reasons why it's important to them personally to help protect our waters.
I know, because I was once one of those kids — my first real outing on the bay was a two-week program with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that got me interested in all things environmental. For two weeks, I camped, canoed, and hiked along the Patuxent River and the main part of the bay, all the while learning about oysters, mucking through marshes, catching crabs, and exploring tidelines. I was 14, and I was hooked.
We toured a sewage treatment plant and volunteered on a farm, among other unique Chesapeake-related experiences. I loved the sun glittering off the water, the sandy shores, the quiet of dusk, and the sounds of songbirds in the morning. When I got home, I stuck \"Use less water\" stickers above my shower faucet and wore my Save the Bay T-shirt. I chided my parents for using fertilizer on the lawn. My school presentations focused on why oyster populations are diminishing and how excess nutrients contribute to algae blooms.
Years later, as a summer camp counselor, I shared the wonders of the bay with groups of middle schoolers. We camped out, canoed, learned to fly fish, donned waders to seine, planted native shoreline grasses, and watched a storm roll in over the bay.
Informal, unstructured watershed exploration is just as valuable. Letting kids discover creeks and riverbanks and woods on their own will teach them curiosity and how the outside world works.
Such experiences are available across the bay watershed. Rivers and streams throughout central Pennsylvania and central New York, as well those that run from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia offer plenty of ecology to investigate.
This season, do your part to get kids away from the virtual worlds of web surfing, television, and video gaming and take them out into the watershed's hundreds of parks and preserves. Enroll them in nature programs where they can hear a great horned owl, marvel at the Milky Way, or uncover macro-invertebrates such as stoneflies or crayfish that are sensitive to water quality. If you get a chance to help out at one of the programs, all the better — you'll feel like a camper yourself. Or, find your own way to support local camps and summer programs that are teaching kids to care.
If we encourage youngsters to get off the couch and explore a local creek or woods, they'll grow up with a wider worldview. They'll be more aware of our rich, complex natural world that?s both beautiful and intrinsically valuable — and they'll be more likely to keep local streams and the bay mind.


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Though there has been fierce disagreement over how to attack the nation's gun violence, there's at least one proposal on which everyone agrees.
More than 9 in 10 Americans — including 85 percent of NRA member households — support stricter background checks on potential gun buyers, according to a new CBS/New York Times poll released on Thursday.
The poll found that across party lines, there is wide support for blanket "stricter background checks" — 89 percent of Republicans and 93 percent of Democrats support it.
The NRA also signaled a change on the issue Thursday, with President David Keene telling CBS that the association was "generally supportive" of more intensive background checks.
As part of his proposals to reduce gun violence on Wednesday, President Barack Obama unveiled steps to close loopholes that the White House said exempt nearly 40 percent of prospective buyers from purchasing guns. He outlined four executive actions signed Wednesday:
- Addressing unnecessary legal barriers in health laws that prevent some states from making information available about those prohibited from having guns.
- Improving incentives for states to share information with the system.
- Ensuring federal agencies share relevant information with the system.
- Directing the Attorney General to work with other agencies to review our laws to make sure they are effective at identifying the dangerous or untrustworthy individuals that should not have access to guns.
The poll also found that people think placing armed security officials in schools would help — overall, 74 percent of Americans thought that it would help reduce mass shootings "at least some."
That's a plan the NRA loosely advanced in a controversial press conference last month. As part of his plan, Obama advocated providing resources to allow schools to hire 1,000 "school resource officers."


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When I bought my black iPhone 5, I was ecstatic. I loved the matte black and gloss black finishes, and figured that there was no way that I'd ever put a case on such a beautiful device. I'm an adult, I can be careful, right?
Yeah, not so much. While I never had dropping issues with my iPhone 4S, I seem to be quite the klutz with my 5, and now it has little silver chips to remind me of my past mistakes. My wife's, meanwhile, looks brand new. Must be that fancy plastic case she has.
So what about you? Do you use a case on your iPhone? Let us know in the poll to the right!
It seems like when people want to start complaining about iOS, skeuomorphism — the concept of making digital interfaces that look and act like their real-life counterparts — always seems to come up. Sure, the Podcasts app was pretty rugged for a bit, and no one likes Game Center, but is it all that bad?
Well let's ask you. What do you think? Does skeuomorphism work for you or do you hate it? Let us know in the poll to the right!
WWDC is right around the corner, and when it happens, we'll find out all the good stuff on the latest versions of OS X and iOS. With Scott Forstall's departure and Jony Ive taking over revamping the OS, it seems like there are a lot of changes on the horizon.
But what are they? We've compiled a few of the ones we've seen across the web, and put them in this handy poll. Do you think that iOS 7 is going to be more of the same, or will it come with a lot of changes? Let us know in the poll to the right!
The new iPhone should be out this fall, and per usual, there's a lot of talk about this next iPhone coming in more colors than just black and white. The iPod touch already has several color options, why not the iPhone, right?
Let's pretend that you're the person in charge of the decision. What do you think? Should the next iPhone come in more colors than black and white, or is it just fine as is? Let us know in the poll to the right!
People talk all the time about the release of a "low-end" iPhone. What denotes low-end? Sometimes it's a lower amount of memory, other times it's a non-Retina display. But whatever they say today, the concept is that Apple needs to release some kind of free iPhone at the same time that they release whatever the next model happens to be. So, in theory, there would be an iPhone 5S (or 6, or whatever), and this hypothetical low-end iPhone.
What do you think? Do you want a low-end iPhone or do you care? Let us know in the poll to the right!
With the release of the iPhone on T-Mobile, now every U.S. carrier has access to the device. This means that everyone has a choice of carriers, and T-Mobile is pushing hard to make it so that you pick them. Now the iPhone — the 4, 4S and 5 — is available on our favorite pink carrier, and we want to know if you've switched over yourself.
Did you preorder or buy a T-Mobile iPhone? Are you planning to? Let us know in the poll to the right!
Here in the U.S., T-Mobile has been the last carrier without the iPhone — at least officially. Unofficially, people have been buying iPhones and jailbreaking them to use on T-Mobile for years, because the AT&T model could be used with a T-Mobile SIM card.
But now, T-Mobile is carrying the iPhone, and they're doing it without a contract. That's right, you pay $99 for the iPhone initially, then $20/month for two years for a total of $580. The overall numbers aren't quite a slam dunk, but it's still pretty nice for people who want to get away from contracts.
If you live in the U.S., would you switch to T-Mobile for the iPhone? Let us know in the poll to the right!
A friend of mine bought a new car recently, and it came equipped with a Bluetooth connection that let him pair his iPhone with the stock stereo. It was super cool — much better than the dock connector input I have in my older car. And now Chevrolet is integrating Siri into some of its cars, taking it one step further.
Do you use your iPhone in the car? If so, is it just as-is, or do you connect it to the vehicle in some way? Let us know in the poll to the right!
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My wife and I have been talking about her making a career change, and that necessitates her going back to school. Back when I went to school, the smartphone wasn't even invented, much less a tool for getting anything done. Today, AppStorm reviews apps all the time that are designed for helping out with homework and assignments, and that means that she could use her iPhone for school. Sounds great, right?
But what about you? If you go to school, do you use your iPhone for keeping track of your homework or anything else? Let us know in the poll to the right!
Spring Training is just winding down around my part of the U.S., but that just means that we're that much closer to opening day. It used to be that I had to subscribe to specific TV channels to watch my favorite team play, but now I can just prop my iPhone or iPad up next to my desk and watch while I work. Turns out I use my iPhone to follow pretty much all the sports I watch, whether it's just to catch up on the score or delve deeper into the system.
What about you? Do you use your iPhone to follow sports? Let us know in the poll to the right!


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