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The Bethel Clarion I*
Volume XII BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. MAY 10, 1933
Clarion Staff Plans
Large Feature Edition
Supplement to Final Issue Will
Show Pictures of Seniors and of
Representative Organizations
An innovation in school publications
is being planned by the Clarion staff
to take the place of the Bethannual,
which for financial reasons could not
be published this year. A twelve or
sixteen page "rotogravure" supple-ment
will feature individual pictures
of the graduating students, and group
pictures of all under classes and of all
representative organizations, such as
the Student and Religious Councils,
Male Chorus, baseball and basketball
teams, debaters, and publication staff.
According to the reports from the
staff, a very attractive edition is be-ing.
planned. The pictures, although
they will be more in the newspaper
style, will be even larger and clearer,
as a whole, than those that have ap-peared
in the Bethannuals.
In order to cover overhead expenses,
which approach $300, each under-graduate
is contributing thirty-five
cents, while seniors pay fifty cents.
The school administration, which is
enthusiastic over the project. realizing
that it will serve as good advertising
for Bethel, is contributing largely to
help cover the expenses. "This will
create a sensation among school news-papers,"
said Dean Danielson, when
the plans were laid before him.
The supplement will be issued free
to all subscribers and will be sold for
the nominal price of fifteen cents a
cony to all others.
Senior Class Entertainment
Features "The Two Suns"
by English Instructor
A dialogue, "The Two Suns", writ-ten
by Professor H. C. Wingblade, will
be the main feature of the Senior
Class program which will be given on
Friday evening, May 12, in the Acad-emy
auditorium. The colored quartet
from Bethesda Baptist Church will
give special numbers and this is not
The Seniors want to see all of their
friends at this entertainment. The
proceeds will be used in the purchase
of a gift for the school.
The Seniors of the Academy were
the guests of the Junior College Club
at a May party a week ago Monday
night given in the Junior College-
Academy chapel which was attractive-ly
decorated to represent a garden.
After an interesting program fea-turing
Miss Meriam Swanson, con-tralto,
and Prof. H. C. Wingblade,
principal speaker, those present had a
–ay time around the May pole which
created much interest because of its
novelty in Bethel.
Walter Margaret
Watkin Anderson
Walter Watkin and Margaret
Anderson Gain Class Honors
Walter Watkin was pronounced
Valedictorian of the class graduating
from the Seminary this year. Walter
graduated from the Academy in the
spring of 1930. He has been active
in the Glee Club and other organiza-tions
of the school till he accepted the
pastorate at Grove City where his
time is now taken up in the interests
of his church.
The highest place in the Senior
Class of the Bible and Missionary
Training Department was won by
Margaret Anderson. Margaret is
president of her class, and in that
capacity has served this year on the
Seminary and B. & M. T. Student
Council. Walter also, is president of
his class and has filled the position of
Chairman of the Seminary Student
David Guston Elected
New Editor-in-Chief
Appointments to fill positions on
next year's staff of the Clarion were
made last Friday at a joint meeting
of the Seminary-B. and M. T. and the
Academy-Jr. College Student Councils,
as follows: David Guston, Editor-in-
Chief; Jack Anderson, Seminary Edi-tor;
Leonard Turnquist, Jr. College;
Lois Magnuson, Academy; L a u r a
Moss, B. and M. T.; Donald Clover,
Advertising Manager; and V i r g i 1
Olson, Assistant Advertising Manager.
The position as Associate Editor
will be retained by Gertrude Liljegren
and that of Sports Editor by Andy
Business Staff to Change in Mid-Year
Acting upon recommendation from
the present editorial staff, the Councils
decided to have the business staff con-tinue
each year until the middle of the
school term. In this way the entire
staff will not be changed at the same
time, and consequently will not face
the problems of the year without ex-perienced
However, because of the limit to be
placed upon extra-curricular participa-tion
next year, Donald Peterson was
unable to continue his position as Ad-vertising
Manager. The rest of the
business staff with Sam Wessman as
manager, and Ruth Johnson as Circu-lation
Manager with Franklin Nelson,
Assistant, will continue until the end
of the first semester next year.
English Professor Ordained
Central Baptist
Church Offici-ally
Sets Seal
Upon the Pub-lic
Ministry of
H. C. Wing-blade
Prof H. C.
conciseness and
marked his
statements at the
ordination service
held Friday, Apr. Prof. H. C. Wingblade
28, at the Central Baptist Church.
Mr. Wingblade was presented by
the Rev. Eric Anderson, pastor of the
church, after which Dr. Hagstrom,
moderator, called upon the candidate
to relate his call to the ministry.
Converted at the age of nine, he
was baptized at the age of seventeen
at the stroke of midnight in the Swed-
Baptist Church at Topeka, Kan-sas.
From then on he was active in
church work, serving as Young Peo-ple's
president, Sunday-school teacher,
choir director, and usher.
While at college, he was invited to
preach by one of his college profes-sors,
but he refused at the time to do
so. "Yet every time I heard my pastor
preach, I felt deep, in my heart that
that was what I wanted to do."
After Prof. Wingblade came to
Bethel as teacher, Dr. Gordh sent him
out to preach. Ever since then, he
has been busy in the Lord's service
preaching the unsearchable riches of
Before he began his doctrinal state-ment,
Mr. Wingblade paid a beautiful
tribute to his mother, saying, "The
observance of the family altar was a
daily occurrence in our home, and
mother showed us the way of salva-tion."
The council, after hearing the candi-date's
presentation, highly recom-mended
his ordination. Dr. Hagstrom,
at the evening service, delivered the
ordination sermon.
Speaks to Large Group of Young
People at May Day Festivity
"Although financial prospects are
not altogether encouraging for our
school, I really think Bethel's finances
are in better shape than most Chris-tian
institutions of which I know," de-clared
Dr. Hagstrom last Friday after-noon
upon his return from a week's
visit to Chicago, where he attended
the monthly meeting of the Mission-ary
Department of the General Con-ference
of which he is executive secre-tary.
Besides fulfilling several executive
engagements, Dr. Hagstrom spoke in
the Swedish language to a large group
of young people who had met for a
semi-patriotic festivity after the old
Swedish custom, commemorating
"Valborgsmassa" or May Day.
Dr. Hagstrom also released some in-teresting
statistics, not previously
published, concerning the Swedish
Baptist Conference, which made a net
gain in membership of 568 during the
year closing December 31, 1932. The
total membership is now 35,176, the
highest in the history of the Confer-ence.
Total receipts for religious pur-poses
during the year amounted to
$861,190.33, or $24.20 per capita.
Present Crisis of Christian
Education Analyzed
by Dr. Ray York
Messages by Mayor Anderson and
Dr. Ray York and special vocal num-bers.
by Prof. Floyd Jones were the
special features on the Annual Visi-tor's
Day program, last Saturday,
May 6. Large crowds attended the
Mayor Anderson of Minneapolis,
staunch Christian political leader,
gave a brief but inspiring address in
the afternoon. He said in effect, "We
live in strenuous times. No genera-tion
has seen its counterpart." The
Mayor said he opposed the beer bill
because as a member of the bar asso-ciation
and as mayor of a city he had
taken an oath to uphold the constitu-tion
of our country.
The keynote of his speech was—"Men
of convictions that are founded upon
principles is the great need of today."
He stressed the need for people to
take a deeper interest in 'government.
"The church is the only organization
that upholds the fundamentals of the
Christian faith. Are we to gird up
our loins or sit idly by and watch the
destructive forces tear down our gov-ernment
and civilization ?" He was
accorded a hearty ovation as he left
the platform.
Dr. York Speaks at Evening Gathering
A group of tenor solos was given by
Prof. Floyd Jones of the Minnesota
Bible University, at the opening of
the evening program. His character-istic
presentation of the numbers was
gratefully received by the audience.
With bold, swift strokes, Dr. Ray
York sketched the "Present Crisis in
Christian Education" as he sees it.
First he dealt with some of the facts,
calling to the attention of his listeners
that this crisis was not brought on by
the depression; but by the "marvel-ous
mushroom growth of universal
education in our country"; by the corn-ing
of the machine age; and by edu-cation,
the child of the church, being
adopted by the state. We have today
a great state educational system de-void
of religious' instruction, and in
our modern program it is difficult to
find time for that instruction in the
home and in the church. "I am not
sure but that the present public edu-cational
system will wreck our coun-try."
The Christian College has the prob-lem
of the content of its curriculum,
it being unable to compete with State
Universities because of limited funds.
Since the purpose of the Colleeg is
the "development of mental capacity",
Dr. York believed that the Christian
College should offer only a Liberal
Arts course upon which to "grind our
minds to keenness," leaving general-izations
to the Universities. "The
Bethel Junior College is the greatest
step forward that the Swedish Bap-tists
have made since the founding
of the Seminary — but you are still
lacking two years," said Dr. York.
Then he touched upon other problems,
ending with a vision of the Swedish
Baptist denomination and its educa-tional
system ten years hence.
Think On These Things
By Esther Sabel
"It is not so often a whole sermon as a single short
sentence in it that wings God's arrow to a heart. It is
seldom a whole conversation that is the means of bringing
about the desired result, but some sudden turn of thought
or word, which comes with the electric touch of God's
power. Sometimes it is less than that; only a look (and
what is more momentary?) has been used by Him for the
pulling down of strongholds. Again, in our own quiet
waiting upon God, as moment after moment glides past
in the silence of His feet, the eye resting upon a page of
His Word, or only looking up to Him through the dark-ness,
have we not found that He can so irradiate one pass-ing
moment with His light that its rays never die away,
but shine on and on through days and years?
"While we have been undervaluing these fractions of
eternity, what has our gracious God been doing in them?
How strangly touching are the words. 'What is man, that
Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him. and that Thou
shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every
moment?' Terribly solemn and awful would be the
thought that He has been trying us every moment, were
it not for the yearning gentleness and love of the Father
revealed in that wonderful expression of wonder, 'What
is man, that Thou shouldest set Thine heart upon him?'
Think of that ceaseless setting of His heart upon us, care-less
and forgetful children as we have been! And then
think of those other words, none the less literally true
because given under a figure: 'I, the Lord, do keep it; I
will water it every moment.' "
—Frances Ridley Havergal.
Page Two THE BETHEL CLARION
May 10, 1933
Mrs. Anna M. Swedberg
Mrs. Anna M. Swedberg this year
completes her fifteenth year as a
member of the faculty of Bethel. She
has proved herself to be a thorough
teacher, anxious that her pupils shall
learn not only the rudiments of the
subject which they are studying, but
that they shall learn to know Him
"whom to know is life eternal", in
order that they may leave Bethel as
men and women who will be an influ-ence
for good in the world.
Mrs. Swedberg received her high
school and college training in Minne-sota.
After earning the degree of
bachelor of science, she taught in
Minnesota schools for a number of
years before her marriage. Following
the death of her husband, Mrs. Swed-berg
again took up teaching. She ac-cepted
a call to Adelphia College in
Seattle where she taught for eight
years. She was also instructor for
one year in the Seattle Pacific College.
Mrs. Swedberg has had the unusual
experience of teaching the rudiments
of English grammar, idioms, and pro-nunciation
to many foreign born stu-dents.
She has taught English not
only to those who came to Bethel
directly from Sweden, but to three
Russian girls, fugitives of the Soviet
government, as well as to Chinese
students at Adelphia College.
For about two years Mrs. Swedberg
was assistant editor of "Banneret",
forerunner of Svenska Standaret. She
is a fluent writer, and artciles from
her pen have appeared from time to
time. One of her addresses on
"Heroines" was published in booklet
form while she was at Adelphia Col-lege.
Mrs. Swedberg has ever shown her
interest in definite Christian service,
teaching Sunday school classes and
speaking at young people's and church
meetings whenever opportunity is
given. She has always been ready to
take part in the services of the many
churches she has had opportunity to
visit during the summer months, and
has conducted a number of Daily
Vacation Bible Schools and Bible In-stitutes
during the vacation.
To be alive in such an age—
To live to it,
To give to it!
What if thy lips have drunk the lees ?
Fling forth thy sorrow to the wind—
And link thy hope with human kind.
The passion of a larger claim
Will put thy puny grief to shame.
Breathe the world thought, do the
world deed,
Think hugely of thy brother's need.
And thy woe, and what thy weal?
Look to the work the times reveal!
Give thanks with all thy flaming
Crave but to have in it a part.
Give thanks and clasp thy heritage—
To be alive in such an age.
—Angela Morgan.
"We know nothing of business to-morrow;
our business is to be good
and happy today."—S. Smith.
"No flattery is so deadly as that
which we offer to ourselves."
"A person's life is just like iron;
if it is used, it becomes bright and
shiny; if it is left idle, it becomes
rusty."—H. Miller.
"Better not to be at all than not to
be noble."—Tennyson.
THE BETHEL CLARION Who's Who
Official School Paper
of Bethel Institute pub-lished
every third week
by the students.
1480 N. Snelling Ave.,
St. Paul, Minn.
Albert Bergfalk Editor-in-Chief
Gertrude Liljegren Associate Editor
Andrew Boylan Sports Editor
Department Editors
Gertrude Liljegren Junior College
Leonore Nyhagen Academy
Marian Berglund . Seminary
Laura Moss Missionary Training
Charlotte Miller Eunice Swanson Edna Lundgren
Lois Magnuson . Olav Norsted
Myrtle Nastlund Marian Berglund
Clarice Wessman Business Manager
Donald Peterson Advertising Manager
Ruth Johnson Circulation Manager
Advertising Solicitors
Vern Wessman Earl Anderson Lloyd Wickstrom
Esther Sabel Faculty Adviser
Bethel has by popular demand of the students
revived a sport that has long been neglected at
Bethel ; namely, baseball.
As the team is composed entirely of new mate-rial,
it was expected to have a rather hard time
playing against the other more experienced teams
in the league, but Coach Ryman has been working
faithfully the last four weeks to get them into
shape for their first game which they played last
Those who had an opportunity of witnessing
the game saw their team go down in defeat
against one of the veteran teams in the league.
but they also saw something else. They saw their
team from the first to the last inning play the
game with true sportsmanship.
After all, this is the real object of contests
between schools, to teach the player to win or lose
in the same gentlemanly manner. And we feel
that we are safe in saying that as long as the
team follows the policy of playing each game with
a fighting spirit and in a sportsmanlike manner,
win or lose, the student body will be solidly behind
The Palms
In our chapel this spring something of interest
is happening which has perhaps not been noticed.
We have all seen the palms that grace the plat-form
and we wish to express our appreciation to
the senior class of '32 for these beautiful plants,
which is their gift to the school.
But there is something else very interesting
which no class has given, the new sprouts on the
tops of the palms, which are gifts from God. It
is interesting to note how nature works in these
plants. First of all small buds appeared low in
the plants. These buds opened into flat growths
which became taller and taller, until they devel-oped
little sprouts or leaves. Then little by little
they have raised their tops toward the heavens ;
until now they are nearly as large as the older
We will all be watching them grow, ever being
reminded that God works in all processes of life.
The Book Corner
By H. C. Wingblade
For the sake of a happy change, I wish to talk
this time about a book the title of which would be
FAITH BY INDUCTION. The fact of it is that the
book has not yet been published, nor indeed may it
ever be as such, but I have heard the author de-scribe
the contents of the manuscript.
It is the story of growing faith. It is an account
of answers to. prayer. It shows forth the rising tide
of continuous trust, in daily recorded form. It re-veals
how one experience with faith and prayer after
the other slowly builds up that faith until it becomes
a Gibraltar of strength almost identical with knowl-edge.
In brief, then, the author records each experience
of answers to prayer through the passing years,
which is after all the exact method that science uses
in building up important conclusions. The result of
all this recording is a long list of blessed experiences
with God. One dark day comes when all seems
black and hopeless. Faith seems sped. God does
not exist. Prayer seems altogether futile. But just
before the heart surrenders utterly to despair, the
author bethinks himself of his book. With tear-stained
eyes he gleans its pages. God has been true,
He has been faithful ninety-nine times. He will
surely be faithful in the hundredth. "I know whom
I have believed."
As I said, the book is not in print yet, nor may
it ever be. Possibly the contents are too private and
too sacred. But the beauty of it all is that you and
I can write such a book ourselves. There is a way
of building up faith by the inductive method.
Much Ado .. -15
Those who have learned to love Dr. Gordh and find his
Bible Course a spiritual feast have been deeply pained by
those thoughtless, selfish individuals who burst into class
several minutes late each morning, and by the persistent
buzz of conversation which gives way only when the roll
has been partly taken. The disturbance is trivial when
compared to the gross disrespect shown our beloved
teacher—a disrespect that sears deep wounds into a tender
heart. That these thoughtless people reveal a sad lack
in appreciation of spiritual values must only add to the
hurt. One finds it hard to believe in the sincerity of those
who hurt others—and in those who are not fascinated
enough by Dr. Gordh's Bible lectures to prevent tardiness
to class, especially when they live in the dormitory in the
same building.
Falling in Love
What an interesting subject and oh, how natural. One
of the most enjoyable phases of school life is the friend-ship
of those who become endeared to us, whether they be
boys or girls,—and very often students become very fond
of one another. This is a perfectly normal procedure and
sometimes very beautiful. These are small matters, but
meaningful, which make us attractive or repulsive to the
outside circles. However, a little bit of care, a little bit
of good taste, some aesthetic sense will make a school
courtship a thing of beauty.
—A Word to the Wise.
May 10, 1933 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
The Swedish classes, under the lead-ership
of Miss Alice Johnson, visited
the new American Institute of Swed-ish
Sciences, Literature, and Arts in
Minneapolis on Tuesday, April 25.
This building, erected about thirty
years ago by Swan J. Turnblad, pub-lisher
of the Svenska-Ameriksnska
Posten, at the cost of a million dollars
for his private home, was given to this
society as a center for Swedish cul-ture.
The house contains many interest-ing
features such as beautifully and
intricately carved woodwork, which
took fourteen men two years to com-plete;
"kakelugnar", a sort of enclosed
fireplace, used in Sweden years ago to
heat the rooms; and a stained glass
window which is reproduced from a
painting of "The Sack of Visby."
Wednesday, May 10—
Baseball, Bethel at Concordia-3:30
p. m.
Oratorical Contest, Seminary Chapel
—8:00 p. m.
Wednesday, May 17—
Seminary Banquet.
Friday, May 19—
Baseball, Bethel at New Ulm.
Saturday, May 20—
Academy Junior-Senior Banquet.
Saturday, May 27—
Baseball, New Ulm at Bethel-3:30
p. m.
Athletic Banquet, 6:30 p. m.
Wednesday, May 31—
Alexis "Bible and Missionary Train-ing
Combined-choir Concert—Alliance
Tabernacle (Tentative).
Sunday, June 4—
Baccalaureate Service, Central Bap-tist
Church, 7:30 p. m. Rev. Fritz
Hamlin, Preacher.
Wednesday, June 7—
Academy Alumni Banquet.
Thursday, June 8—
Class Day.
B. and M. T. S. Alumni Fellowship
Supper-6:30 p. m.
Friday, June 9—
Graduation Exercises.
Wise and Otherwise
Prof. Nordstrom: "What is the for-mula
for water?"
Dorothy Sawyer: "HIJKLMNO."
Prof. Nordstrom : "What do you
Dorothy: "Well, you said it was
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Rudolph Skanse: "What is your
favorite book ?"
George Bauer: "It's always been my
bank book, but even that lacks inter-est
for me now."
Housewife (to subscription sales-man):
"No, we don't want no maga-zines.
No, we don't want no nothin'."
Salesman: "How about a cheap
grammer ?"
Spencer Merrill: "I went to a for-tune
teller and he told me I would
suffer poverty until I was fifty years
Lloyd Wick str om : "And then
Spencer: "I'd be used to it."
Clifford Dickau: "Our professor
talks to himself. Does yours ?"
Harry Selin: "Yes, but he doesn't
realize it. He thinks we're listening."
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There are many swollen hands
among the ball players lately. Since
they have cracked all the bats, every
time they swing them, it stings their
Some of the best baseball stars of
the season were seen when Koch and
Bauers collided head-on at the Luther
We hope that St. Paul Luther was
impressed with the flashy new uni-forms
our infield wore.
One of the main supports on the
college team is Karl Koch of the
Academy. He pitches, catches, plays
infield position, and fills any place in
the outfield.
Our three school departments are
all represented on the team, thus mak-ing
it more of an Institute team than
any of our previous teams have been.
We were glad to see Earl Widen
playing so splendidly at short stop
after his illness.
Al Carlson, who hurt his finger in
one of the first practices of the sea-son,
has been hampered in his throw-ing,
which will probably keep him out
of his usual position as catcher.
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St. Paul Luther Routs Bethel
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By Ole Norsted
The St. Paul Luther Baseball squad
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Bethel Baseball Season by defeating
the Bethelites 27-3 at the home dia-mond
last Wednesday, May 31. The
fans witnessed some mighty hitting,
good and commonplace pitching, and
excellent fielding on the part of the
Luther nine. The Bethel fielding was
very poorly done, with about 14 errors.
Determined but unsuccessful rallies
by the home nine in the late innings
saved the game from total loss. With
a score of 25-0 staring them in the
face at the end of the first half of
the sixth inning, the home team push-ed
three runs over the plate on four
hits by Anderson, Bauer, Lindor and
pinch-hitter Widen.
The loose fielding in the early
innings gave Luther many unearned
runs. Luther collected eleven hits off
Holmberg in three innings, Koch
yielded seven hits in four innings.
Linder's two-base hit was the best
clout of the afternoon. Linrooth with
four hits led the Luther attack.
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION May 10, 1933
Editor of Denominational
Paper Speaks at Seminary
J. 0. Backlund, Editor-in-Chief of
the literary publications of the Swed-ish
Baptist Denomination, gave two
lectures on Journalism to students in
the Seminary chapel, Thursday and
Friday, April 20 and 21.
Thursday he outlined briefly the
history of the Conference Press from
the time of the first publication edited
by J. Alexis Edgren down to the pres-ent
enlarged system, with the press
now publishing several English papers
besides the Svenska Standaret. He
continued on Friday by explaining the
details in the mechanism of the press,
the linotype machine and the compos-ing
room. He enumerated the require-ments
of articles submitted for pub-lication
and the reasons for eliminat-ing
certain manuscripts. His helpful
suggestions were beneficial for those
who will eventually be contributors to
the literature of Swedish Baptists in
the future.
The Bethel Glee Club is planning a
week-end trip into Isanti county which
will conclude the activities for the
season. Under present arrangements
the club will sing at the Stanchfield
church on Friday night the 12th and
it is expected that a concert will be
given at North Isanti. Sunday after-noon
they will visit Mora and Sunday
evening Cambridge.
Last Thursday, May 4, the club
sang in the Lake Park Baptist church
at a concert sponsored by the men's
The club this year has had a profit-able
season and all interest and sup-port
shown has been much appreci-ated.
Among the Grads
This year, 1933, marks the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the first com-mencement
of Bethel Academy. Here
is a greeting from the first principal:
"Time is a feathered thing." Twenty-five
years have gone since Bethel
Academy sent forth its first gradu-ates.
They were only two, but the
quality was good. We feel indebted
to them for their loyalty to our cause
in the days of small beginnings. Both
have been, and both are, an honor to
Bethel, and on this anniversary we
send them our greeting and bid them
A member of the first graduating
class of two students, writes the fol-lowing:
Dear Alumnus:
It is twenty-five years or a quarter
of a century since we, Leonard Palm-quist
and myself, left Bethel. I am
sure we must feel like grand-daddies.
Still, since Old Father Time keeps
records that cannot be questioned and
at the same time is no respecter of
persons, it must be so,—a quarter of
a century since we two left.
How easily and naturally memory
glides back to the days of small be-ginnings.
One would neither despise
nor forget them. The happy days at
the Elim Church, with Logan Park as
our playground and an utter lack of
equipment of any sort. Our only ex-perimental
laboratory work was in
the basement chopping wood to feed
the furnace. On the other hand we
were given Latin and Greek in big
However, what we lacked in mate-rial
equipment was made up by a
richness of personality that made our
loss nothing but gain. Who can ever
forget the captivating presence of the
beloved pastor of the church, Rev.
V. E. Hedberg. As a matter of fact,
we were but as children taken in by
all the Twin City churches. Then,
there was the personality of one
whose very presence enriched our
lives. He moved amongst us with a
quiet, unassuming dignity, unaffected
and natural. He had that indefinable
influence of a preeminent personality
that pervades an institution by his
very presence. We left the school
back in 1908 with the feeling that our
years at Bethel, though lacking in
many material things, nevertheless
had fully rewarded us because of our
contact with him. Of course we speak
of Dr. Arvid Gordh.
Who will not recall our Literary
Society and one of our meetings at
Dr. Gordh's home ? One of our de-baters
for the first time is to make
his bow as a public speaker. He gets
up, opens his mouth, says nothing, sits
down, and "poor me" has to substi-tute.
Or when one of the students
wished to indulge in the luxury of a
Finnish steam bath and we gave him
one of snow. Or the other extreme,
when late into the night a young man
was prayed into the Kingdom. Oh,
yes, we played and we worked; we
laughed and we wept. For it all we
have become better men and women.
No regrets and no apologies for those
days of long ago.
Sincerely yours.
Wednesday, June 7, is the day set
for the Bethel Academy Alumni Ban-quet.
As this is our Silver Anniver-sary
celebration it will be an event of
particular interest to every graduate
of Bethel. Watch for further public-ity
regarding place of meeting and
special features.
Congratulations to Esther Antonson
and Evelyn Skocglun, both graduates
of Bethel Academy, who are members
of the Mounds-Midway class to gradu-ate
May 12.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon John-son
of Red Wing, Minnesota, announce
the birth of a daughter, Elizabeth Ann,
born April 21.
Roger Dwight Moberg arrived at
the home of the Rev. Mr. and Mrs.
David N. Moberg of Seattle, Washing-ton
on April 22.
Thora Johnson, who has been con-fined
to the Trudeau Sanitarium for
the past two years, has now returned
to her home where she will continue
her cure. Her address is now 104
Porter Street, Providence, R. I.
Emily Satterberg is spending a few
days in and near the Twin Cities on
her way back to her field in Africa.
She has a long list of speaking en-gagements
to fill before leaving this
country, among them a request from
the American Baptist Foreign Mission
Society to speak at the meeting of
the Northern Baptist Convention at
Washington, D. C. We join in wish-ing
Miss Satterberg Godspeed.
BANQUET, Wednesday, JUNE 7!
A vocal recital will be given the
latter part of May by the students of
Prof. Hultgren.
A class in music appreciation is
conducted by Theodore Tupa, every
Thursday afternoon a+. 3:30 in Room
208 in the Seminary building. Mr.
Tupa has lectured on the life of some
of the earlier masters and on their
contribution to the music of the world.
A part of each lecture also has been
devoted to a description of the sym-phony,
illustrated with records on a
Campus Notes
Although the Academy Sophomore
class has not done much this year in
the realm of activities, they have not
entirely died out. Their interests
have been aroused in what we call a
Sophomore pow-wow. The time and
place have not been decided upon as
yet, but the class is so enthusiastic
about it that it won't be long.
Have they a system ? "I'll say,"
asserts the Sophomore reporter. A
committee of investigation made up
of Lloyd Wickstrom, Robert Rossacker
and Virgil Chamberlain have charge
of finding a good place for the event.
The executive committee has charge
of the refreshments, etc. A good time
is in store for every one.
On April 29 the Sophomore class
met to elect class officers for next
term. By a unanimous vote it was
decided that those now holding office
be re-elected since their term of office
has been so short. The officers are
as follows: Allan Johnson, president;
Carl Holmberg, vice president; Eunice
Swanson, secretary; and Ivan Sund-berg,
The Senior Class of the Academy
wishes to take this opportunity to
thank the members of the Junior Col-lege
Club for the entertainment given
Monday evening.
The Academy Senior Class is going
to have a picnic. The time, place,
and date are not known, but cheer up,
Seniors, you are going to get one.
Dr. Harry Noble Wilson, in his in-spiring
message to the students of all
departments last Wednesday, stressed
the beauty and the perfection of the
life of Christ, saying, "As I empha-size
the humanity of Jesus Christ, I
am not forgetting his divinity."
Another recent and interesting
speaker was Mrs. R. P. Lewis of the
Temple Baptist Church, St. Paul, who
addressed the Academy-Junior College
chapel, Saturday morning. Her mes-sage,
though brief, reached the heart
of each student as she exhorted them
to hold fast to their old-fashioned
faith and religion.
It will no doubt be of interest to
the. students to know that Dave
Guston designed the attractive decora-tions
for the May party given in honor
of the Academy seniors. The beauti-ful
scene in the front was a product
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Exciting, enticing: housing that fits in
COMMENTARY 2 new projects give meaning to planners' term: infill
"Infill housing" is one of those phrases that planning geeks love, shorthand for any residential development that doesn't include cul de sacs on land where crops were farmed last year.
But all it takes to grasp the inadequacy of the term is to visit two recent additions to the San Francisco landscape. One is an eight-story stack of 14 condominiums slid into a narrow lot across from the Giants' ballpark. The other fills two blocks along a streetcar line in a sleepy commercial district, with a grocery store as well as 173 apartments.
They have absolutely nothing in common - except the understanding that infill works best when it's in synch with neighborhood needs, not some formula imposed from above.
The more ambitious of the pair is dubbed Avalon Ocean Avenue: Two long structures of four and five stories stand along a streetcar line on Ocean at Brighton Avenue. It's next to the main campus of City College of San Francisco, at the edge of a retail strip that has struggled for years.
This is a part of the city that few outsiders visit, even though it is well-served by Muni and a short walk from the Balboa Park BART Station. The potential for additional density in 2002 caught the eye of city planners who identified an auto parts store there as the ideal spot for something that would "add to the creation of a cohesive streetwall" and "contribute substantially to the revitalization of this area."
In other words, it would need to fit in but also provide a jolt. And that's what we now have, courtesy of an energetic design by Oakland's Pyatok Architects for AvalonBay Communities, a large national developer.
Capitalizing on scale
There's no effort to hide what exists, two stocky blocks shaped to fit within a 55-foot height limit. Instead, the architects take advantage of the scale by treating each structure as a long cube with moving rectangular parts.
The eastern building, for instance, starts with white stucco as the skin for the basic box. But a two-story portion clad in blue cement board juts out 4 feet, while a three-story section close by wears brick-red tile and is recessed 4 feet from the white frame. Vertical bays are slit by deep windows. The base is a generous 20 feet to make room for Whole Foods, and has a skin of wooden slats to catch the eye.
Jaunty Beep's Burgers
The colorful collage serves as a transition from the bulk of City College to such offhand wonders as the jaunty neon Beep's Burgers sign across the way. "It's about movement along the street, not a single design," said Pyatok's Marcial Chao. "We wanted to introduce a sense of rhythm without repeating things over and over."
A much different task faced the firm Gould Evans, architects of the condo building at 750 Second St. developed by Manchester Capital.
The 50-foot-wide site is at the edge of the South End Historic District, an area defined by early 20th century industrial structures, some of brick and some of concrete. The south-facing property line is shared with the one-story building that houses Momo's restaurant, which means wide-open views of AT&T Park and the bay, but also an exposed structural wall.
The architects accepted that their building would be part of a larger tapestry where the main threads already exist. Gould Evans responded with a sophisticated extension of the underlying patterns. The structural wall that faces the ballpark wears a rain-screen of red ceramic tiles, while its counterpart to the north is covered by aluminum panels that update the three-story concrete structure next door. Facing the street, the masonry weaves past large metal windows divided by small panes of glass, modern details with a blue-collar spin.
The case could be made that these projects are exercises in urbanism more than architecture, but such a distinction would be unfair.
Smarts trumps style
Here's why: when new buildings are added to a settled city, smarts often count for more than style. Avalon Ocean Avenue is intended as a catalyst, where enticing large-scale design moves signal the addition of residents and retail to an area that can benefit from each. At 750 Second, the transformation has already occurred; this is one more piece in the puzzle, with a level of quality that ups the ante for what comes next.
For all the planning virtues of infill housing, the real-life result is mixed. Look around the Bay Area and you see too many "transit villages" that are business deals wrapped in period dress. The trick is to grow our communities in a way that makes them more enticing. Each of these projects pulls off that deceptively difficult feat.
John King is The San Francisco Chronicle's urban design critic. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @johnkingsfchron

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Columbia's Biblioburro: Now a Docmentary by PBS!!
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Our library was fortunate to pre-screen BiblioBurro: The Donkey Library this past Tuesday. We had a small audience comprised of 6 adults and 4 children. We were all impressed by the dedication of Soriano, not only in his delivering of books to the children of Colombia, but also in his efforts to teach the children that they are the future of their country and can make changes to its history.
As librarian and observer of the film and audience, I experienced many thoughts while watching. In a post discussion, our children talked about the sorrow expressed by the Colombian children in the death of their loved ones. They also loved the gifts given to Soriano on his travels. We wonder when one will bring our children's librarian a chicken.
Excellent film with much to talk about. Definitely worth the watch.
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My oldest daughter begins kindergarten at our town's public elementary school next week, so last spring I attended the school's "Parent Information Night." More than anything else in the past five years, attending a kindergarten information night made me feel like a grown up, like a MOM, …old. It's one thing to have children and be responsible for their upbringing; it's another thing to sit on plastic chairs in a stuffy music room and realize that you're about to become part of an entirely new community: a school community, with its teachers and administrators and volunteer commitments and dates-to-remember.
I may feel the community aspect of school more acutely because we live in a small town with one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school. There's low turnover among town residents. So, although some students from neighboring towns will be added to the mix in middle and high school, my daughter will likely spend the next 13 years of her life with most of her kindergarten classmates.
In a town where it's still not uncommon for people to marry their high school sweethearts, you can bet I was curious to check out the other parents at information night.
Let me back up a minute and tell you about where I grew up: McLean, Virginia. Located in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., McLean is a town of 48,000 people in which the median household income was $156,943 as of the 2010 census. I attended a private elementary school and public middle and high schools in McLean, and in each place I was surrounded by the children of diplomats, politicians, and entrepreneurs. As you might imagine, a "Parent Information Night" in McLean involved lots of competitive alpha parents in professional attire.
At the moment, the plan is for our four children to attend the public schools in Middlebury, Vermont. (For those asking, "Why public school?" the answer is: FOUR children + one assistant professor's salary = public school. For those asking, "Why not home school?" the answer is: FOUR children + I'm lazy). Middlebury is a town of 6,588 people (not counting the 2,000 students at Middlebury College) with a median household income of $49,081.
So when I walked into the music room for that first "Parent Information Night," the crowd was different from what you'd see at a school in McLean, Virginia. For starters, there were a lot more tattoos on display. Attire included work clothes still dusty from a day on the farm or construction site. Most surprising to me, since this is a small town, was how few of the other parents I knew, aside from a handful whom I'd met through my husband's job at the college or my daughters' preschool.
I wasn't alone in feeling this way, as I discovered from subsequent conversations with other parents who'd been there. Like me, their comments ranged from surprise at not recognizing more people, to "Rough crowd!"
In short, this was my first real taste of the divisions that exist even within small towns. I'd heard from a friend who grew up in one of Middlebury's non-college families that in school he'd felt a separation between himself and his classmates whose parents worked for the college. But since my own family has relationships with plenty of non-college families, I was surprised to find that this division exists in my own life: There are apparently many parents in town with children the same age as mine whom I've never met.
And since I believe in honesty, I will tell you that my first instinct upon entering that music room was to judge. It was tempting to compare this experience with my own upbringing, to wonder what our family could possibly have in common with these other families.
But thankfully, my second thought was: Everyone in this room chose to SHOW UP. This was not a mandatory event; every parent there had showed up for their kid, proclaiming that they were ready to join the school community. Regardless of body art or occupations, most of us can agree that we love our kids and want what's best for them. It's like I'm always telling my own children: it doesn't matter how other people look on the outside, on the inside we all have beating hearts that crave love and acceptance.
Wouldn't it be great if we ALL behaved the way we tell our children to behave?
Two days later, a friend lent me a book called The Beloved Community – a collection of essays about Vermont written by Zephine Humphrey and published in 1930. One passage from this book reminded me of what I'd felt in that school music room:
We are a little community, held in the bowl of a Vermont valley and scattered over the surrounding hills. Our environment is very beautiful, and, when we are at our thoughtful best, we acknowledge our innermost purpose to be a human development worthy of our home's loveliness.
I am excited for our family to be part of this school community, and to meet those parents whom I didn't recognize at the information night. We do indeed live in a beautiful place, and I hope that our human landscape can match the physical one that surrounds us. The woman sitting next to me at the kindergarten event, her arms covered in tattoos, embodied this kind of beauty; when I, huge at eight months pregnant, dropped a handout, she immediately bent down to retrieve it. Handing it to me, she smiled warmly and said, "I remember what it's like!"
Let's all go and do likewise.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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Children's Summer Camps visits The Archives and Rare Book Room at The Library at The Gardens
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Author Notes: This recipe takes the traditional lemon curd process and reverses it, not only saving time, but producing something better, smoother, and lighter in the end. Meet your new tart filling, scone spread, and trifle layer -- and the best lemon pudding you'll ever taste. Adapted very slightly from Tartine by Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson (Chronicle, 2006) —Genius Recipes
Makes: about 2 1/2 cups
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
cup plus 2 tablespoons lemon juice (Meyer or regular)
large eggs
large egg yolk
cup sugar
pinch salt
cup unsalted butter
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- Pour water to a depth of about 2 inches into a saucepan, place over medium heat, and bring to a simmer.
- Combine the lemon juice, whole eggs, yolk, sugar, and salt in a stainless steel bowl that will rest securely in the rim of a saucepan over, not touching, the water. (Never let the egg yolks and sugar sit together for more than a moment without stirring; the sugar will cook the yolks and turn them granular.) Place the bowl over the saucepan and continue to whisk until the mixture becomes very thick and registers 180° F on a thermometer. This will take 10 to 12 minutes. If you don't have or trust your thermometer, don't worry. It should thicken to the point that your whisk leaves a trail through the curd.
- Remove the bowl from over the water and let cool to 140° F, stirring from time to time to release the heat.
- Meanwhile, cut butter into 1-tablespoon (15-ml) pieces. When the cream is ready, leave it in the bowl if using an immersion blender, or pour it into a countertop blender. With the blender running, add the butter 1 tablespoon at a time, blending after each addition until incorporated before adding the next piece. The cream will be pale yellow and opaque and quite thick.
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The Challenges of Realizing the Promise of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for People with Mental Health & Substance Use Conditions
While the ACA holds incredible promise for people with mental health and substance use conditions, but this promise will not be realized if eligible individuals do not enroll or if the federal government and the states do not hold plans accountable for providing necessary and appropriate "essential health benefits" as defined in the Act.
SAMHSA identified a number of barriers to individuals with mental health and substance use conditions enrolling in Medicaid or plans in the Marketplace:
- Unfamiliarity with health insurance and its value
- Lack of awareness that they are eligible
- Cost concerns (premiums, co-pays and deductibles)
- Distrust of government programs
- Lack of decision-making skills
- Churn (individual moving on and off Medicaid)
- Uncovered services; exclusion for preexisting conditions
- Individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) new to health care system
- Complicated enrollment process
Additionally, we know that health plans have not always provided services as required under the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. Advocacy is required to ensure this happens.
MHA Roles to Help Realize the Promise of the ACA
There are a variety roles that Mental Health America affiliates (MHAs) can play to both facilitate enrollment of individuals into insurance, either through Medicaid or the Marketplaces, and to ensure that promised consumer protections are realized:
- Some MHAs have become Navigators, organizations selected by the federal government to assist consumers to access insurance through the Marketplace. The competitive application process to become Navigators is completed for now.
- MHAs can identify the Navigators in their states and develop relationships with them. MHAs can help Navigators understand how best to assist persons with MI and SA disorders and attune them to the issues that are likely to be of greatest concern to this population (e.g., the importance of identifying the plan formularies to ensure that individuals can maintain their current medications if they wish to do so).
- MHAs can apply to become Certified Application Counselors (CACs). CACs will have a role similar to Navigators but are not paid through a federal contract. MHAs that have been in positions of assisting people to access health care benefits will be especially well positioned to serve in this role. CACs require specific training to assist people to access plans in the Marketplace.
- MHAs can provide outreach to persons with MI and SA disorders through their programs and partnerships. MHAs can educate themselves to understand how best to direct consumers to those that can assist them and have information materials in their offices and on their websites.
- MHAs can advocate to ensure that the essential health benefits contain a broad array of MH/SA services to support recovery. They can advocate to ensure that consumers are receiving MH/SA services at parity with other medical services
Mental Health America (MHA) is a powerful voice for change that is made up of thousands of individuals nationwide who take an active role in protecting America's mental health through legislative advocacy. Our health care reform webpage can link you to a variety of resources.
- Health care reform presentations from our 2013 annual meeting.
- Our health care reform toolkit.
- Summary of our issue forums on health care reform.
- Links to webinars, including:
- Affordable Care Act 101: The Basics and Mental Health Components of the Health Reform Law
- Medicaid Expansion Basics: A Coalition for Whole Health Webinar
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Health Plans: Aiding Enrollment in State and Federal Insurance Programs
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- Coalition for Whole Health (CWH), partner of MHA webinar: State-based Advocacy for Essential Health Benefit Design for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders
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Hi chaps,
I pressed on with the scenic work over the long weekend, doing a small amount at a time and trying to preserve as much as I could from the original arrangement. The layout probably doesn't appear all that different, but I promise it did when the bushes were off the board!
I finally managed to expand the static grass right to the depths of the layout now, so all of the ground work is quite consistent, with the smaller lengths of grass being used in the undergrowth and longer lengths in the yard.
Looking closer here you can see just by removing one bush from the left side has allowed more space here, and moving the log that was here means a decent camera could probably take a good shot of the yard...I need to re-locate my tri-pod before doing this!
The yard has gained weeds, from the couple of bushes that broke apart when being moved – all the replaced bushes are further in the board, meaning the protective case doesn't rub against them now when I put the layout back! Rather than chuck anything away, I felt everything would benefit from recycling. I think I'll develop this little area a bit more over time, it doesn't quite look 'natural' at the moment.
And finally Eddie, the loco and the shed all received their final Matte varnishes this weekend in the sun! Thanks to this they now appear a little more solid than before and 'complete'.
Next step is to re-paint the board surrounding the layout – I've sanded it down and tidied the edges ready for work!
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Tajuan Porter was averaging double figures in points for the Reno Bighorns through 24 games this season. He got bumped for a D-League legend named Sundiata Gaines who has NBA experience.
As a result, Tajuan Porter has been acquired by the Sioux Falls Skyforce from the available player pool. The 5-7, 155-pound guard averaged 11.2 points and 2.4 assists in 24 games with the Reno Bighorns this season. He averaged 7.9 points and 3.4 assists in 35 games with the Bighorns (20) and Rio Grande Valley Vipers (15) last season. The University of Oregon product is expected to be in uniform for Saturday night's road game against the Fort Wayne Mad Ants.
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The Titans' decision to sign free agent running back Shonn Greene to back up Chris Johnson is being felt as a slap in the face by Javon Ringer, who backed up Johnson for the last four years and is now a free agent.
Ringer says he has nothing against Greene personally, but he does have something against the Titans' public statements that Johnson needed someone to share the load at running back. Because Ringer thinks he should be that "someone," and he doesn't understand why the Titans never gave him much of a chance to show what he could do with the ball in his hands.
"I am happy for Shonn because I know him from playing in the Big Ten, and he's a good guy. He's a good running back," Ringer told Jim Wyatt of the Tennessean. "But when they got him I said, 'Dang, they had some guys who never got a chance to play, so why are they adding someone like that?' All this talk about them needing another running back to help C.J., it kind of made me upset. I'm like, 'Man, they had some good running backs behind C.J., and they just never really got a chance.' And because we were not able to play, it made it look like C.J. didn't have any help. C.J. had some help, but they never used it. It's frustrating."
In four seasons in Tennessee, Ringer totaled 120 carries for 486 yards and three touchdowns. He wonders why the Titans' coaching staff didn't play him more.
"I feel like I am a good running back. I just wasn't able to give it a real good shot in Tennessee, but I do feel like the opportunities I got I was able to produce," Ringer said. "I was backing up one of the NFL's best running backs. Now I just want a shot, a fair opportunity, and hopefully I can get that somewhere else. . . . So many teams have their No. 1 running back, but you always see the other running back come in and get a chance. But in Tennessee I never really had a chance to play, and that's the truth."
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Got back from the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City. As usual, quite a hectic week, more so this time since this was the first meeting in which I was Program Chair for CINF. With the exception of a few glitches, I think it went well – especially our first talk given via Skype! Met up with lots of people, old friends and new, and got lots of input for future programming – very interesting stuff coming up in the next few meetings.
I must recommend the Hotel Monaco – a boutique hotel, slightly expensive but very good value (excellent rooms, free wireless access, complimentary wine tasting). Also across the road was Seigfrieds Deli, which served very good German cuisine. We also had a Blue Obelisk meeting at Martine – which served great tapas (and their dipping olive oil was the best I've ever had).
After the meeting, I met up with my wife in Las Vegas (not a place I'd like to visit again) and then headed to Death Valley for two days. Such a short time is not enough to do justice to the place. The landscape is both breathtaking and humbling. Luckily it wasn't scorching yet, but we worked up a good sweat on some hikes. It still amazes me that life will find a way to survive in extreme conditions – I had always thought of Death Valley as desolate, but in fact, it teems with life. I suppose I'll have to visit the Gobi or Atacama to experience real desolation.


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BARCELONA coach Gerardo Martino is critical of the record-breaking transfer fee Real Madrid are reportedly poised to spend on Gareth Bale.
Madrid look set to smash the £80million they paid to Manchester United for Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009 to bring Bale to the Bernabeu, with reports suggesting the transfer could cost around £93million.
Martino, who took charge of Primera Division champions Barcelona this summer, believes those figures for the 24-year-old Wales international show a "lack of respect" bearing in mind the global financial situation.
"He's a very good player, but the numbers seem to me almost a lack of respect for the world in general," said the Argentinian when asked his thoughts on the subject at today's pre-match press conference ahead of Barca's trip to Malaga tomorrow.


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Artifacts, such as stone tools, pottery, and other objects, indicate that people lived in the southwestern United States as early as 10,500 years ago. At that time, small bands of people who lived from the land on available game and plant foods occupied the area. For several thousand years the population grew and agriculture developed in what is now Arizona. Cultural groups eventually formed, such as the Hohokam ("ho-ho-kam"), Mogollon ("muggy-YOHN") and those such as the Hopi to the north who constructed Pueblos (called puebloan communities). These groups interacted with each other and moved, when necessary, in search of food, firewood and other resources. In the mid 1100s, interaction between the Hohokam, who lived in the Tonto Basin area, and groups native to northern Arizona banded together to create a culture later called Salado, named for the nearby Rio Salado, or Salt River. Occupation of the area by the Salado people is thought to have ended around A.D. 1450. Most researchers believe that eventually some residents of Tonto Basin roamed north to join the puebloan tribes, others moved south to join what is now the Tohono O'Odham nation, and still others returned to hunting animals and gathering plants. Apaches moved into the area in the 1500s and are still nearby today.
Once Europeans arrived, Spain ruled the region from the 16th century until Mexico proclaimed its independence in 1821, after which Mexico governed the area until the mid 19th century. Land aquired by the United States from Mexico at the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848 included Arizona. In combination with the territory added by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, this land vastly expanded the boundaries of the nation. Reports of fertile soil and abundant natural resources in the West quickly reached the eastern United States, which had been hit hard by the economic depressions of 1818 and 1839. The promise of affordable land and new opportunities opened floodgates to the West. Waves of new settlers poured in, displacing and driving away the American Indians who had lived there for centuries. Calling it "manifest destiny," some of the country's leaders and many of its people believed they had an obligation to expand the nation's boundaries all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Explorers, adventurers, ranchers, miners and settlers in search of natural resources or new homes penetrated the far and remote reaches of the newly opened Southwest lands. Some of these early visitors stumbled upon a few of the hundreds of ancient ruins protected for centuries by their isolation and inaccessibility. Some of these multilevel, stone apartment-style and platform-mound dwellings were once home to the American Indians of the Salado culture.
Word of discoveries spread quickly, inciting both national and international fascination with the culture and art of America's first settlers. Exhibitors, museums and private collectors alike created a demand for authentic American Indian objects. Museums sought artifacts to study and share with the public through exhibitions. Although sites were often systematically investigated, excavators were not held to stringent scientific or professional standards. Some treasure hunters, unhampered by laws or regulations, plundered ancient sites causing extensive damage and destruction. Without regulatory laws, irreplaceable American Indian artifacts became part of permanent collections in museums and private homes, both domestic and foreign.
During the late 19th century, anthropology and archeology gained a foothold in the curriculum of universities and with influential thinkers of the time. (Anthropology is the study of the origins and social relationships of human beings, and archeology is the study of past human life and culture by the recovery and examination of remaining artifacts.) Alarmed at the deteriorating state of the nation's ancient irreplaceable cultural resources, preservationists and conservationists called for legislation to protect them. One of the first sites protected by that legislation, known as the Antiquities Act of 1906, was Tonto National Monument, which was established as a national monument on December 19, 1907 by President Theodore Roosevelt.


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When JJ is kidnapped, the BAU delves into her time at the State Department to find clues to her disappearance and uncover a secret mission that now puts her life in danger. To help with their search for JJ, the team calls upon Prentiss to help in the crisis, on the 200th episode of CRIMINAL MINDS, Wednesday, Feb. 5 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Pictured: Jeanne Tripplehorn as Alex Blake, Joe Mantegna as David Rossi. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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A couple friends and I had such a fun time hosting our good friend Christen's baby shower. Although no one was expecting baby Micah until September, he made his grand appearance early at 31 weeks. Knowing what a whirlwind of emotions having a preemie can bring, I convinced Christen to go ahead and have the shower. All moms need a break in the early days, especially when baby is still in NICU. Being surrounded with friends and going gaga over tiny newborn clothes brings a sense of normalcy during a pretty stressful time. Our theme was vintage camping. Christen and Merrick went on a pretty epic road trip this summer, a "last hurrah" before the baby came. We had camping themed cupcakes and food, pretty china, vintage style postcards made from Merrick's road trip photos, a craft station with paper mache letters and vintage maps from the states they visited, and a little camp scene complete with a gift tent and stuffed campfire! Thanks to Jenny and Kristen for co-hosting, and congrats to the new parents. Baby Micah is doing well and is getting bigger and stronger every day!
This party is amazing! The theme, colors, and details are perfect! I am sure it is just what the mommy needed.
So, so cute! I love the letter map station and the tent! You guys did a fabulous job! 🙂
I had two awesome co-hosts! We're a triple threat. Lol 🙂
What a gorgeous party! Did you do all this yourself?! So many great ideas. You're so talented.


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Who was Richard Mant?
This one day guided walk offers a scenic and historical view of early coastal settlement in the Wairarapa.
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Richard Mant was a station-hand on the former Ica estate through which One Day Walk passes. He was also poet for the Wairarapa Star. The old time newspapers employed a poet in lieu of a cartoonist, to poke fun at the issues of the day. For a newspaper, a good poet was gold.
Newspaper editors received many a ditty from aspiring poets hoping to earn some extra coin. Often the editor would identify the work as copied. Wairarapa Star editor and future MP, Alexander Hogg, received some well written verse from a Richard Mant, but was suspicious because Mant was a station-hand. On a hunch, Hogg published the poems. The next offering from Mant was the 'Bachelors' Ball'. Hogg knew this was original because it described a hugely popular bachelors' ball planned for Tinui, only to be thwarted by the well-to-do. Mant became the Wairarapa Star's poet.
Mant had received a collegiate education, but had fallen off the rails. In the words of Hogg: 'His love of liquor and good company was not simply a weakness, it was a passion'. Years later, Mant walked into a moving train near Woodville, and was severely injured. When recuperating he gave up the booze and lost all ability to compose. At the same time, most of Mant's compositions were lost when fire destroyed the Wairarapa Star's premises, but the 'Bachelors' Ball' lives on.
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Some find the new standards an intrusion. Others, a useful tool.
The textbooks are pushed aside as the sixth-graders deliberate over how to build the biggest fence for their imaginary bunnies.
Compared with the math classes from generations past, this pre-algebra room at Sarasota Middle School is radically different.
The rows of desks are gone. The students — Alan, Ashley Anna and Jamison, all 11 — sit on rolling chairs at a small table so they can gather around a touch-screen computer.
Their teacher, a seasoned veteran, doesn't stand up and deliver a lecture. Instead, students work in small groups, writing a spreadsheet on the computer and graphing on their calculators.
Alan Sherman stumbles over a multiplication problem.
"Sorry," he tells his classmates. "People mess up."
Undaunted, Alan later announces that he knows the solution for finding the biggest area for those invisible little bunnies.
"I have a theory," he says.
And he's right.
In this middle school classroom — and others across the region — this new way of learning has become a politically charged, hot topic in Florida. It has pitted prominent Republicans against each other and teachers against parents — becoming a sort of emblem for those inclined to be suspicious of anything coming from the federal government.
It's Common Core.
"It's a little tragic we're getting caught up in that," said Melanie Taylor, assistant principal at Sarasota Middle. "Instead of what Common Core actually is. ... That's what we should be focusing on."
Leading the charge for Common Core — a new standard that dictates what children should know in each grade — is former Gov. Jeb Bush, a possible presidential candidate and an influential leader on education issues on the national stage.
But a chorus of conservative Tea Party criticism prompted Gov. Rick Scott's recent announcement that Florida will pull out of a special nationwide test that aligns with Common Core. Instead, the state will move forward in designing its own test model in 2014-15 to replace the FCAT.
Critics say Common Core standards amount to a federal takeover of education, which has historically been under local and state control.
Supporters, in turn, consider that a misconception.
Past the political rhetoric, for some local students, these new math and English standards are all they've known at school. Manatee and Sarasota counties moved toward Common Core after the Florida Department of Education adopted it in July 2010.
By the next school year, teachers in grades K-12 will be following the new standards in both districts. School officials say it will help students become more prepared for college and careers.
"This is all about good teaching. If somebody pulled the plug on Common Core, I'd say, 'Let's continue down the road anyway,' " said Sue Meckler, who oversees curriculum at Sarasota County schools. "This is good teaching for our kids."
The change comes as students — such as those in the sixth-grade math class — focus on real-life problems, problem-solving together and striving to be independent thinkers. They need to point to evidence to show how they reached a conclusion, or compare different styles of writing to think more critically.
"Before, a lot of it is, you're the class. ... Your job is to take notes and get that information and then spit back" to the teacher, Meckler said.
"Common Core is saying, 'No, students are the facilitators of the leaning process. Students have to think and learn how to think through and come up with those answers.' "
Seemingly seamless
A few years ago, first-grade teacher Terri Warth taught her students how to read during language-arts class.
She dedicated another part of the day to writing. And yet another part to spelling.
These were lessons with intricate connections. Yet Warth broke them up and taught them each separately. That didn't make sense, Warth said. All that has changed under Common Core.
Now, Warth dedicates a 120-minute block to English Language Arts — a time when she weaves in lessons as students express their opinions, write them down, read stories and share with each other.
"It's intertwined," said Warth, who has spent 20 of her 21 years teaching at Lakeview Elementary School. "It's seamless."
The lessons are more challenging than the ones Warth was teaching before Common Core. The education buzzword: "rigorous."
The stories are harder, with more words to understand. Warth also asks pupils to take more things into account: How is the poem on friendship that they just read similar to the non-fiction piece they finished earlier in the week?
Comparing and contrasting are what Warth calls "higher-level thinking skills."
Later, she might ask the same students about their own friends to get them to reflect and apply the readings to their own lives.
"What do you like to share with your friends?" Warth asks a small group of a half-dozen students one morning.
A half-dozen hands shoot up into the air.
One girl chimes in with "jewelry." Another says art supplies.
Yet another gets even more creative.
"We like to play with my bed because it's a bunk," the 6-year-old girl says. "It's a jungle gym. We can jump and put our feet on the thing and say, 'We're No. 1!' "
A file cabinet evolves
Throughout the Manatee and Sarasota districts, officials are training teachers to adapt to this new style of teaching.
Grades K-2 use only Common Core, while the other grades combine the old and new standards to transition into them fully next school year.
Change is hard for some, Meckler said; the district spent the summer offering professional development to help teachers adjust.
"I believe that the role of the teacher is not to have the file cabinet you've had for 20 years and you open that file and this is what I'm going to do year after year after year," Meckler said. "Teaching has to be an evolution. You have to change. You have to stay current and up to date with things. We are learners all the time as teachers.
"For some teachers, that's going to be a hard pill to swallow."
Down the hallway at Lakeview, another veteran teacher is in the middle of the same two-hour block — this time with 16 kindergarteners.
Kristen Anderson teaches about nouns in a new reading series that aligns with Common Core. These are concepts she did not previously teach in kindergarten.
"I like that. It's rigorous, the expectation. The bar has been raised," said Anderson, a 32-year educator. "But the kids are doing it."
The students don't just read storybooks anymore, either. They read more nonfiction. The classic children's book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" is paired with a nonfiction book on the senses.
In high school Jack London's survival tale "To Build A Fire," might coincide with a book on Mount Everest's conditions, Meckler said.
The purpose, Meckler said, is to introduce students to more complicated reading and nonfiction earlier. The idea: It's OK to go back and reread.
Meckler's message to teachers: Baby steps.
"Just open your mind to possibility," Meckler said. "We're not saying throw out everything you've been doing. Think about the things that you may not spend as much time on."
Take stereotypical book reports.
In the past, children would read books and write reports, and then the entire class would present projects.
"For the next two days, you spend the entire day listening to one book report after another after another," Meckler said. "What learning is taking place there? Is that the best use of time?"
Under Common Core, a teacher could craft an alternative lesson.
Why not have students write a letter to a friend about a book they liked? Then a classmate could write back, and the students could meet in small groups and talk about it.
"And in 60 minutes, you've accomplished so much more," Meckler said.


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A search function allows to generate a subset out of a big number of items based on a user defined pattern. It can usually be applied to various sources and has several options for fine-tuning.
Supplemental to search the filter function reduces the number of items. This operation works on the current list only and does not generate a new output. Filtering should always be instantaneous and must not interrupt the workflow.
Similar to filtering the operation might be used to highlight information. This preselection is a common feature in text processing and used to locate a particular piece of information without concealing the surrounding.
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| Jane has Dolphin open in her Documents folder. Let's say Jane has ~100 miscellaneous files there that have built up over the years. Jane also has under Documents several more structured folders with oodles of files as well for different projects over the years, travel expense reports and receipts. Jane thinks that the file she's looking for is one of those ~100 miscellaneous files because that where she typically put documents that aren't project or travel expense related. She thinks the filename starts with "sta" but isn't sure. So she opens the filter function on Dolphin and types "sta". What she expects is that out of ~100 files Dolphin shows in the Documents folder, some subset will be displayed with filenames starting with or containing "sta". She just wants to reduce the set of data that was already *visible* in Dolphin. She chose filter instead of search because she doesn't care about the 200 or so files in the Documents/Littlesburg Train Station project folder and its subfolders with "sta" in their filename.
She's essentially just restricting her search to what is currently *visible* and not trying to recursively search the contents of the currently displayed Documents folder. She's still conceptually searching. But how she's searching, even in the current folder, is quite different.


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I have posted a copy of the letter I sent to Nevada Elected officials about getting 3 CPS workers investigated for what I believe is violating my Civil Rights, neglecting to follow Nevada State laws and manipulating the system and the families involved. CPS Complaint Letter Sent to Nevada Officials
I sent this letter to the following officials. (I also sent a copy to the CPS caseworker, the facility involved, the facilities corporate office and their accreditation)
District 20 Assembly - R
Cresent Hardy
P.O. Box 601
Mesquite, NV 89024-0601
District 23 Assembly – R
Melissa Woodbury
9500 West Flamingo Road, Suite 203
Las Vegas, Nevada 89147-5721
District 20 Senate – R
Joseph Hardy
P.O. Box 60306
Boulder City, Nevada 89006-0306
Governor – R
Brian Sandoval
State Capitol,
Nevada 89701
Representative District 3 – R
Joe Heck
8485 West Sunset Road, Suite 300
Las Vegas, Nevada 89113
Senator Nevada – R
Dean Heller
361-A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Harry Reid
600 East William St, #304
Carson City, NV 89701


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Itchingham Lofte has recovered from the radiation poisoning brought on by element 126. The rocks in question, which contain enough radioactive power to solve the energy crisis or create powerful nuclear weapons, are safely hidden. With an MI5 team protecting Itch, and the information he keeps secret, it isn't long until enemies old and new come calling, looking for the world-changing new element. Continue reading
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The Winter Wolf for Oxfordshire Mind
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There is always plenty of discussion about the issues that surround our mental health; ways of dealing with it, help available, attitudes of others etc. The biggest topics of conversation however always seem to focus on intolerance and care.
Our general attitude to mental health as a topic and to those that suffer from one form of mental illness has changed drastically over the last few years. I hope so. I hope it isn't just because I am more aware having had my own challenges. although I suspect it's a bit of both. I remember a few years back being fearful upon starting a new job of what the reaction might be if the investigation into my medical history specifically highlighted a diagnosis of depression and anxiety. Thankfully I avoided (refused) completing the medical history form. But I shouldn't have had to though. Thankfully legislation is now in place to protect people and to do what it can to eliminate prejudice or at least the fears of prejudice in the work place, the latter probably being more common than the former, I suspect. However we still have a long way to go to, certainly evidenced by the poor judgement used by ASDA and Tesco stores in the last week and their "Halloween Costume", the labeling of which went way beyond poor taste.
The other area of focus is the care available for people who are in need of help. The range of mental health illnesses is vast and very complex, or at least it sounds it to me. 1 in 4 people experience mental and emotional health problems such as anxiety, bereavement, depression, life crisis, loneliness, recovery from breakdowns, panic attacks, stress and schizophrenia at some point in their lives. To put some kind of scale to it, for the UK, that works out to roughly equal to twice the population of London!! It's not just those that are sufferers themselves that are impacted, but family, friends and carers many of whom go unnoticed and few are actually given the support and help they too need.
I'm not sure if it's just my perception given how close I am to this but the press love to heap sensationalised criticism of the care either available or given to patients . Sadly the criticism tends to concentrate on extreme cases the result of which adds more pressure on the system and perpetuates the negative attitudes that the uniformed and ignorant public has.
I could go on for ages on this issue and turn this into a major rant. But I won't.
For the last few years my wife studied Psychology at Reading University, obtained a First Class degree and now works as a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner for Oxfordshire Mind. I am very proud of her not only what she achieve academically but also now for the work she does and the help she gives every day. So when I was offered the chance (challenged more like) to take part in The Winter Wolf Run I not only jumped at the chance to get muddy and wet but also saw it as an opportunity to raise some money for Mind UK to help them help us all.
So this was a rather long winded plug for my run and a request for you to dig deep and sponsor me on 2nd November. I have a modest target of £1000 to reach (for no other reason that it's a good sum and an attainable target or at least I hope it is). Thank you so much to all those that donated so far and got me 29% of the way to target in just three days last week, your help and generosity is inspiring. However it still leaves me 71% to go.
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- Letters: Crass stigmatising of mental illness (theguardian.com)


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- Materials that could endanger Tubbataha reef have been removed from the USS Guardian
- Salvage ships with heavy cranes are expected to arrive this week
- The minesweeper ran aground on the reef on January 17
The tanks of a U.S. Navy warship stuck on a Philippine reef have been pumped full of seawater to keep the vessel stable while salvage ships make their way to the site of the grounding, officials said Monday.
Navy-led salvage teams have also removed most of the materials from the minesweeper USS Guardian that could pose environmental problems for Tubbataha Reef, a Philippine national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Those materials include paint, solvents and lubricants, according to a statement from the U.S. Embassy in Manila.
"We continue to place extra scrutiny on removing everything we can to mitigate possible damage to the marine environment," U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Tom Carney, the on-scene commander of the salvage operation, said in a statement.
All of the 15,000 gallons of diesel fuel aboard the 224-foot-long, 1,312-ton ship were removed Friday, the Navy said.
"An equivalent amount of seawater was pumped on her fuel tanks," Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo told the official Philippine News Agency.
Dry food stores and the personal effects of the Guardian's crew of 79 have also been removed, the Navy statement said.
The seawater pumped aboard the Guardian should keep it stable until salvage ships with heavy cranes arrive this week to begin the process of lifting the minesweeper off the reef, Balilo said.
Salvage experts have also begun to reinforce the wood-and-fiberglass hull of the minesweeper with Kevlar lines to mitigate stresses from waves hitting the vessel, the U.S. Embassy said.
The $61 million vessel was on its way from Subic Bay, Philippines, to its next port call in Indonesia when it struck the reef, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) east-southeast of Palawan Island in the Sulu Sea, on January 17.
Initial efforts to free the Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship at high tide were unsuccessful. Its crew was evacuated to other vessels, and the ship was battered by waves that pushed it farther onto the reef.
An investigation is under way to determine the cause of the grounding. A Navy spokesman, Lt. Cmdr. James Stockman, said last week that the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which prepares the digital navigation charts used by the Navy, has reported the location of the reef was misplaced on a chart by nine miles.
The Tubbataha Reef is home to a vast array of sea, air and land creatures, as well as sizable lagoons and two coral islands. About 500 species of fish and 350 species of coral can be found there, as can whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles and breeding seabirds, according to UNESCO.
Philippine officials said this week that the Philippines would seek compensation for damage to the reef. About 1,000 square meters (about 10,760 square feet) of the reef have been damaged.


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Set in World War I, Dick Dastardly, his dog Muttley, and the rest of the Vulture Squadron are bent on capturing Yankee Doodle Pigeon to prevent him from delivering his messages to the enemies. Aboard their many crazy aircraft, Dastardly and Muttley devise nefarious plans to stop the pigeon. Their motivation is the possibility of earning a medal or maybe even a 30 day furlough. The only problem is, that crafty pigeon always seems to be one step ahead.
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Silke Maurer
Appointed as new BSH Chief Operating Officer
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Here you find further information concerning revenue, employees as well as research and development.
42 production sites in Europe, the USA, Latin America and Asia, and a strong network of nearly 80 sales, production, and service companies in around 50 countries are a strong foundation for BSH's consumer-oriented business model.
At the end of 2017, BSH employs more than 61,800 people worldwide (including apprentices). A plus of around 3,500 employees.
BSH remains the leading home appliance manufacturer in Europe in 2017.
Between 2015 and 2017, BSH has been able to reduce the energy consumption by 25 million kWh.
With revenue of EUR 13.8 billion, BSH succeeds in surpassing the excellent growth figures of the previous year. BSH is therefore on track to achieve its revenue target of EUR 20 billion by 2025.
At 4.5 percent of revenue, spending on research and development is at a record high in 2017.
(As of March 13, 2018)


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New For 2014
There are two new paint colors, sunset metallic and oxford white.
Vehicle Summary
A follow up to the Fairlane concept that was shown at the 2005 Detroit auto show, the Ford Flex made its first public appearance in 2007 and went on sale a year later as a 2009 model. Inspired by "woodie" station wagons but with a much more modern touch, the crossover showed that not all six- or seven-passenger vehicles had to be boring, amorphous blobs. A refresh, which debuted for the 2013 model year, brought a new front end with a more modern grille and larger Flex lettering, engine tweaks, and mechanical changes that improved handling and braking. Although it's a practical and appealing vehicle, the Ford Flex has failed to resonate with customers. The three-row Explorer (with which the Flex shares its platform) sells many times more units per year, and the Flex also lags far behind almost all of its rival crossovers.
The Ford Flex is a style-conscious alternative to a minivan. It still seats up to seven and the rear seat, unlike in some three-row crossovers, is usable and easily accessed. Other positives include optional all-wheel drive, a respectable driving experience, and an available twin-turbo engine. The standard 287-hp, 3.5-liter V-6 engine is perfectly adequate and returns smooth performance through its six-speed automatic transmission whether equipped with front- or all-wheel drive. The optional twin-turbo EcoBoost V-6 packs a 365-hp punch that necessitates all-wheel drive; while it's fun to drive, this engine costs buyers both in terms of sticker price and at the gas pump. Speaking of fun to drive, the Ford Flex handles much better than many three-row crossovers and minivans. Its electric power steering is well calibrated, and the 2013 update brought larger brakes that are reassuringly strong.
The Flex's retro, rectilinear styling is polarizing, although we're strongly in favor of the brash design. The crossover's recent face-lift, which reduced the amount of chrome adorning the Flex's nose, makes it look even better. Unfortunately the 2013 refresh did little to update the cabin, which remains swathed in plain plastics and boring, square shapes. It's not nearly as modern as the interior of other contemporary Ford products, although options like MyFord Touch, a blind-spot warning monitor, and a self-parking function are available. Interior room and packaging are impressive, however, with easy-to-fold seats and a power-fold option for the third row. Other entries on the long options list include an appearance package with 20-inch wheels, a black-painted roof, and a leather-wrapped steering wheel; a Vista Roof with four individual skylights; a refrigerator for the second row that can chill seven 12-ounce soda cans or two 20-ounce bottles; and heated and cooled front seats.
You'll like:
- More stylish than a minivan
- Plentiful interior room
- Good driving dynamics
You won't like:
- Gets expensive with options
- Dated interior
- Retro styling
Key Competitors
- Chevrolet Traverse
- Mazda CX-9
- Ford Explorer
- Honda Odyssey