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WTB pure lead for casting live loads..
Mark Burroughs
Western Federal Blues
WTB pure lead for casting live loads..
Mark Burroughs
Western Federal Blues
Try your local phone company. I get all of mine free out of their scrap bin. The splices in their lines use to be covered with big lead shields. They use plastic now and whenever wrecking out old lines they do not use the lead. I located the construction yard and went there and asked. Also found a few old timer employees that had been taking lead home thinking they would make sinkers one day. I've gotten thousands of pounds this way.
Pat "PJ" Kelly
#5795v N-SSA
Yes,,,,,,,,we shoot real bullets,,,,,,,,,they jus' won't let us shoot yankees anymore.
& starr's DROOL!
Hence the rust.
Be careful. That stuff will give you cancer in California.
Try a tire shop that replaces tires and balances them. The hard clip on old lead wheel weights are way too hard for Minie balls, because they won't expand as fully (if at all). The soft adhesive "stick on" wheel weights are much softer lead, usually test at like an 8 or 9 on the hardness scale, which is very close to pure lead. I've cast thousands of Minies with stick on wheel weights, they shoot great. Full, firm rifling marks on recovered bullets.
Brett Gibbons
Sergt., 3d Regt., C.S. Engineers, Co. E
I have some .58 mini balls I would sell you real cheap. Bought them for my Enfield but found that the .577s work better for me. I think I have about 15 to twenty of them. I can give you an exact number when I get home from work. Shoot me an email if you are interested.
Doug Davis
26th NC
Found a good supply close by.... Thanks for all the input
Mark Burroughs
Western Federal Blues


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Alternatively, you can use the FTKGUI module to achieve this with programming exclusively in Fortran.
The interfacing between Tcl and Fortran is fairly straightforward, but does require some explanation. One thing that may strike the Fortran programmer as odd, is the fact that the Fortran side can be used as a library of Tcl commands rather than as a program in full control.
You can in fact use the interface in two different ways:
The source code can be found on the SF project page.
If you are interested in the combination of Fortran and Tk to develop graphical user-interfaces, then have a look at the lander example. The cgi example illustrates a method to use Fortran programs in a CGI environment, complete with a simple HTTP server, written in Tcl.
Here is an overview of the documentation:
|Calling Tcl procedures
|With Ftcl you can set and get variables in the Tcl interpreter, run individual commands or complete scripts
|Creating extensions in Fortran
|Just as with C you can create an extension in Fortran that can be called from a Tcl program.
|Aspects of deployment
|There are a few caveats that you should keep in mind - not every wrinkle is ironed out yet.
|Manual page for Ftcl
|The manual page describes the public routines that you can use in your code.
|Design considerations
|Should you be interested, here are some thoughts on the design.
|Article on Ftcl in Fortran Forum
|This article was written for the Fortran Forum several years ago. It describes some of the examples still found in the distribution.
|Article on Ftcl presented at the Tcl conference in 2004
|This article was written for the Tcl conference. It contains work by Clif Flynt on incorporating Tk as well, so that you can build GUIs from within the Fortran code.

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Former Apple CEO John Sculley tells CNBC:
"I think they're going through a very significant change now in terms of product cycles," Sculley explains. "Traditionally Apple introduces products once a year; now it's really introducing products twice a year. The complexity of that from a supply chain is immense, and Apple seems to be doing it well. So, I think that people are underestimating just how well Apple is run, and just how successful the company can be when it gets to that twice-a-year product introduction cycle."
Asymco analyst Horace Dediu follows up with a list of circumstantial evidence supporting the idea.
● All of the major products which Apple sells have been updated in the Fall.
● Launch ramp for iPhone steeper than ever.
● Consumer anticipation.
● Hon Hai production has shifted to locations closer to the sources of labor.
● Capital Expenditures de-coupled from volumes.
● Rumors of 5S products in pre-production.
Dediu notes that if Apple is not switching to a six month cycle "then there seems to be a lot of stress for no benefit." His more detailed analysis can be found at the link below.
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"As a matter of cosmic history, it has always been easier to destroy than to create." - SpockApparently it is far easier to declare a person's death than it is to correct the mistake.
due to an average of 35 data input errors per day by the Social Security Administration (SSA)
Wouldn't the "pertinent facts" be easily established by looking at the incoming documentation saying "Jane Smith, Age 83, SSN XXX-XX-1234 died on 1/1/08" and noticing that "Billy McAnyone, Age 30, XXX-XX-1243" is the one you killed? I mean we're talking about clerical errors within the SSA so their own documentation won't match- how hard is this to (god forbid) detect on their own, none the less validate after the living-dead point out the problem?
That would actually require that someone analyze the results and make a judgment call. The SSA doesn't hire data entry operators that can make those decisions.
The solution is the same as what was used years ago in the punch card era: every input is performed twice. After the first data entry operator entered the data on a set of punch cards, the deck of cards went to a second operator who would duplicate the data entry in "verify" mode. Any discrepancies would sound a buzzer, and the second operator would have to stop and re-enter the data or create a new card with the correction.
Today, it wouldn't be difficult to simply assign the data to two different data entry operators and then compare the results -- flagging any differences for review.
However, that won't solve the problem of incorrect incoming data. Requiring input (and verification) of additional details like name, age, etc. would allow those to be validated against existing records, spitting out exceptions for review.
After all
Why not set up an adminstrative comittee suitably empowered to, and responsible for, maintaining the integrity of the records? How about that? It would solve this little problem in record time!
This is the most effective way to live "off the grid!" No more taxes, etc.
Think of the legal implications.
Its against the law to "mistreat" a dead body. So, no death penalty for someone declared dead. Also, since you're dead, they can't stick you in a jail cell (the state won't to pay to jail a dead person, and other detainees would have a good complaint, cruel and unusual punishment and all that). Heck, they can't even put the cuffs on you without running afoul of the requirement to treat a dead body with all due respect and dignity
Of course, there's the downside. No more sex, since necrophilia is also against the law
Of course, there's the downside. No more sex, since necrophilia is also against the law
I don't think it is illegal for the dead person to have sex in any jurisdiction, just find yourself another dead person to do it with and you are both in the clear.
Actually, your legal existence doen't terminate when you're legally dead. Example - your will is still valid.
Another example: Some states have a long history of dead people voting. For many, its a family tradition. "Take away my right to vote? Over my dead body! My dead grandpa voted ___ and so did my dead father, and so will I!"
I guess the supposedely deceased being present when the request for reinstatement is handed in won't count as a "pertinent fact" until he has been stabbed with a wooden stake and shot with a silver bullet?The original error must be documented, and the deletion must be approved by a supervisor after "pertinent facts supporting reinstatement" are available in the system.
"Uh, hello? I'm here. I'm alive. What more proof do you need?"Social Security says an erroneous death record can be removed only when it is presented with proof that the original record was entered in error.
I think that it is a good thing that it is easier to declare someone dead than undead. Firstly, people die more often than they come back to life so it is a much more common thing to need to do.
Secondly, in this day and age of identity theft, you don't want to make it too convenient for someone to turn up claiming to be a person that everyone thought was dead. We aren't living in a soap opera, you know!
This is a bigger problem than the post alludes to. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) put in to effect a new rule, called the "No-Match Rule" which requires an employer to terminate an employee when receiving a letter from the DHS or the Social Security Administration (SSA), that the new employee in question doesn't exist in the SSA database. There is a period of 90 days in which to contest the no-match rule but if you're not on top of things, your employer has to fire you.
Right now there is a stay on that rule ordered by a district court in California, but it goes to show you some small error can have big consequences. See AFL-CIO v. Chertoff, No. 07-4472 (N.D. Cal filed Aug. 29, 2007. Apparently the DHS is looking into revising the rule.
More here [aclu.org]
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Dundee United went top of the fledgling Clydesdale Bank Premier League table as they eased to a 3-0 victory in their opening fixture, dominating the majority of the match against a below-par Hibernian team.
Johnny Russell's smart finish after only three minutes suggested Hibs were in for a long afternoon but despite commanding most of the play it took the hosts until 16 minutes from time to secure all three points. Jon Daly headed in a second before Michael Gardyne came off the bench to score in injury time.
The home side had a number of penalty shouts turned down and both Russell and Daly were guilty of missing decent chances in the second half before the latter wrapped up the points.
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Pcr product size determination for a fusion gene
Posted 26 August 2012 - 11:18 AM
I am facing a serious problem as I want to amplify a "Fusion oncogene" causing Chronic myeloid leukemia CML. I have got primer sequences from a research paper and it worked. The PCR is positive.
PROBLEM is that I don't know the exact size of my PCR product. Just roughly know that it is about 1.2 kb.
I tried NCBI blast . many hit and trials but ....
my Forward primer belongs to one gene i. e BCR gene on chromosome 22
and REVERSE primer belongs to the other gene i. e ABL on ch 9.
(These two genes combine to cause leukemia...fusion oncogene)
NCBI doesn't recognize both primers together, but blasts them separately to their respective genes.
Help please.
worried alot
Posted 26 August 2012 - 12:33 PM
However, just found this paper:
Vaccination of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia with bcr-abl oncogene breakpoint fusion peptides generates specific immune responses
J. Pinilla-Ibarz, K. Cathcart,T. Korontsvit,S. Soignet,M. Bocchia,J. Caggiano,L. Lai,J. Jimenez,J. Kolitz, andD. A. Scheinberg
Which contains the following paragraph (second one in the paper, immdeiately following the abstract, bolding mine):
"Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a pluripotent stem cell disorder characterized by the presence of the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph1). Ph1 is the result of a translocation of the c-abl oncogene from chromosome 9 to the breakpoint cluster region (bcr), within the bcr gene on chromosome 22, forming a chimeric bcr-abl gene.1-3 The fused genes encode an 8.5-kb chimeric mRNA that is translated to a 210-kd protein.4-6 This p210 bcr-abl protein shows tyrosine kinase activity, is present in the leukemia cells of patients with CML, and is necessary and sufficient for transformation.7 In 95% of patients, the breakpoint in the bcr gene occurs either between bcr exon 2 (b2) and 3 (b3) or between bcr exon 3 (b3) and 4 (b4). Hence, 2 alternative chimeric p210 bcr-abl proteins, comprising either a b3a2 or a b2a2 junction, can result from this fusion gene.8"
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Posted 28 August 2012 - 11:04 AM
the 8.5 kb size is actually encoding the whole cancer causing gene. suppose following is the fusion of BCR-ABL gene 8.5KB
I am amplifying like
for this I am unable to determine the size. I can roughly say that my product on gel appears to be 1.2 kb........??
The point mutations I am looking for belong to 1234 part. For which I got another set of primers. I got it sequenced and its size is 780 bp.
any further help plz.....
Posted 28 August 2012 - 11:41 AM
Better clone it in a plasmid and then sequence from the backbone of the plasmid towards the insert.
Posted 28 August 2012 - 03:18 PM
If you know which exons you are using and the size of the exons (try the BLAT tool at UCSC for getting the exons), can't you just add them up?
suppose following is the fusion of BCR-ABL gene 8.5KB
I am amplifying like
Posted 30 August 2012 - 11:45 AM
Yes it is 780bp with forward and reverse seq. Lac of chemicals and limited budget of my project doesnt allow me the plasmid option
Is it 780 bp with one primer? Or is it 780 with fwd and rev sequencing? The sequencing (as it is in the sequencing companies) is limited to 800-1000 bp. Moreover, don't sequence with the same primers you are doing the PCR, see here an explanation why:
Better clone it in a plasmid and then sequence from the backbone of the plasmid towards the insert.
Posted 30 August 2012 - 11:49 AM
If you know which exons you are using and the size of the exons (try the BLAT tool at UCSC for getting the exons), can't you just add them up?
I know the exons...ok I try the adding up option...lets see if it works
Posted 30 August 2012 - 01:08 PM
I know the exons...ok I try the adding up option...lets see if it works
This is exactly what I wanted to suggest right now
Posted 31 August 2012 - 06:44 AM
There are three main forms of CML transcripts, caused by breakpoint in three sites major, minor and micro.
You are probably working with the major breakpoint, which is most common.
Most common transcript of this breakpoint is designated e1a2, which means ex1 of BCR and ex2 of ABL (these are connected, the breakpoint is in intron, so these are joined complete exons). But there are some alternate transcripts and alternate exons, so the nomenclature is bit confusing.
Use this paper to navigate between different BCR/ABL fusion genes.
Standart RT-PCR fusion transcripts in acute leu.pdf 370.58KB 830 downloads
All papers apart, easy way to find what transcript you have (unless you sequence) is to find BCR transcript on Ensembl, in Exon view, and find in which exon you have your primer.
Do the same for ABL and reverse primer.
Now you know there must be only whole exons between your primers, and you can mostly have fusions only between 1st (major), 13th or 14th (minor), 19th (micro) exon of BCR and 2nd or 3rd of ABL and these combinations.
I think there may be different very rare breakpoints apart from those in BCR but not in ABL.
The paper you got primers from though, should specify what they amplify.
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The Sonic Generations demo released yesterday supposedly contains files that reference all the stages in the final game. A member of the Sonic Retro forums (via Game Informer) posted a chronological list of the levels that will apparently appear in the upcoming game:
- Green Hill Zone
- Chemical Plant Zone
- Sky Sanctuary Zone
- Speed Highway
- City Escape
- Seaside Hill
- Crisis City
- Rooftop Run
- Planet Wisp
According to the leak, plans for DLC are already referenced in the demo, with Casino Night Zone will be a pinball stage exclusive for those that pre-order the game.
While these details are unconfirmed by Sega, their legitimacy is only further strengthened by Sega's demand to pull it off the site. Already, some Sonic fans are outraged at the omission of certain classic stages, with Ice Cap Zone being one of the most requested.
It's possible that the stages omitted for the console version of the game may be found in the 3DS adaptation of Sonic Generations. While the two games share the same name and same premise--the ability to play as "old" and "new" Sonic--the portable title will apparently have entirely different levels, according to a report by Andriasang. With the exception of Green Hill Zone, the two games draw from different sources: the console games from classic console titles, while the 3DS game adapts previous handheld stages. In addition, the 3DS will support two player competitive play over wi-fi. It seems as though real Sonic fans will have to play both versions of the game to get the complete experience.


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Vol. XLV — No. 17
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday February 20, 1970
Marty Mauk and his Spire Staff work layout for the Spring
edition of year book.
Conference investigates
Christ in vocational context
Shupe begins search to fill student posts
Mid-term each year finds several
student-filled positions open for
appointment by the Bethel Student
Senate leaders. Some of these po-sitions
are for one time responsi-bilities,
such as homecoming chair-man,
while other positions carry
on throughout a one year term,
such as an editorship of one of
the campus publications.
Dave Shupe, Student Senate
President, has recently begun the
search for people interested in
filling several positions. In talking
with Mr. Shupe he stressed the
importance of having everyone in-terested
in a particular opportuni-ty
making his interest known
through an application or a note
to him.
One such opportunity is mem-bership
on the Judiciary Board.
This board was established last
school year to deal with any dis-cipline
problems that might arise
on campus.
The committee is composed of
three faculty members and three
students from various classes.
Some students have applied from
the Sophomore Class but accord-ing
to Mr. Shupe he still has no
applicants from the Freshman or
Junior Classes. Mr. Shupe stated
that he would like to see girls as
well as fellows apply for these
positions and, . . . "the only quali-fication
for the job is a serious-ness
of attitude."
The Student Senate recently
voted to send four delegates to
the First Evangelical Student Con-gress
(ESC) to be held April 29—
May 3 at Spring Arbor College,
Spring Arbor, Michigan. This is
another area of appointment. "Who
the appointees will be depends
on who will apply," says Mr.
Shupe. The delegates from Bethel
would serve on a sub-committee
under one of the five major legis-lative
committees — Christian
Witness, Foreign Affairs, Campus
Government, Domestic Concerns,
Educational Direction. (Mr. Shupe
has been asked to chair the Com-mittee
on Domestic Concerns.)
The various sub-committees will
meet and debate the issues perti-nent
to that area. Reports will
be prepared from both the minor-ity
and majority backing of the
meeting and these reports will be
presented to the chair for a con-sensus
and action.
According to the statement of
purpose of the American Associa-tion
of Evangelical Students, the
sponsoring organization, the pur-poses
of such a Congress are to
"1) . . . provide an unfettered for-um
in which a democratically con-stituted
and representative group
of Christain college student bod-ies
can speak with an authentic
national voice; 2) . . . to unite
students with a Christian perspec-tive
in reaffirming our commit-ment
to Christ; and 3) . .. to
demonstrate the applicability of
the gospel of Jesus Christ in
solving human problems."
According to Mr. Shupe, "I am
looking for individuals interested
in making this a worthwhile ex-perience
for the Congress and its
goals, the college and the indi-vidual.
I am hoping for some in-dividuals
who will be interested in
doing some 'homework' ahead of
time for the Congress." There will
be about 200 Bible schools and
Christian colleges from across the
nation in attendance at the Con-gress.
Another position needing a per-son
is Welcome Week Chairman (or
possibly two people to serve as co-chairmen)
for the freshmen that
continued on page 3
Spire innovates
creative format
Bankruptcy has
it near collapse
By Frank Browning
Remember the National Student
Association? That's the one that
used to work for the CIA in a con-piracy
with Gary Powers, Walt Ros-tow,
and Richard J. Daley, Mayor
to snuff out the Idealism of
Young America.
Everybody thought it was cur-tains
when Lyndon finally ordered
the CIA to cut it out, settle ac-counts,
and let the students pay
their own bills. Even then NSA
President Gene Groves dropped
his jaw and confided that the re-velation
would "make the work of
NSA difficult, if not impossible."
NSA has had a hard time. First
student governments at big camp-uses
like Michigan, Chicago, and
Wisconsin cleansed themselves of
membership post haste. Then with
the rise of more militant confron-tation-
style student politics, the
liberal government agencies and
the foundations decided to step
By April 1 last year things had
gotten so bad at the NSA town-house
between Georgetown and
the Washington Ghetto that bank-ruptcy
seemed iminent. "On Ap-ril
1, NSA's bank account was
$7500 overdrawn, we had not paid
payroll tax for the first quarter
of the year (which was $20,000),
our phone bill of $10,000 was 60
days overdue, and our total debt
equaled $318,000," one of last
year's administrative staff recalls.
Add to that a 60 man staff
drawing $11,000 every two week
and the strong likelihood that one
employee was playing checkers
with the ledgers for minor em-bezzlement.
The End of NSA, as simple as
it may seem, has always been a
question fraught with a magnif-icent
complex of unexpected con-sequences.
Critics have long claim-ed
that the main thing that keeps
NSA going is the platform it offers
student politicos for entering grad-ate
schools, the government, and
academic associations like the Am-erican
Council on Education.
Not the least of these charges
comes from Jim Sutton, just re-signed
Executive Vice President.
Not only does he think NSA fails
to do much for students, but he
believes it ought to fold so that
smaller legitimate associations
might grow up in its place. He
adds, "When I started (in Septem-ber)
I wanted NSA to fold, so we
could start new things out in the
Sutton says he was brought to
NSA as a "foundation man", i.e.,
someone to translate program i-deas
into proposals for foundation
funding and to lubricate connect-ions
between foundation and As-sociation
officers. But, he says, he
continued on page 3
Nelson Trout will speak at
Intervarsity Conference Feb-ruary
27, 28.
David Howard will address
the Intervarsity Conference on
foreign missions.
We want to bring home to stu-dents
that they can "go with God
as an engineer just as well as they
can as a missionary," said Philip
Keillor head of the Minnesota
Christian Fellowship in explain-ing
next weekends Vocational Con-ference.
Minnesota Christian Fellowship,
a chapter of Intervarsity Christ-ian
Fellowship, is sponsoring a
conference for college and univ-ersity
students from Iowa, Minn-esota,
North and South Dakota,
and Wisconsin next weekend Feb-ruary
27 and 28. The conference
will be held at the Coffman Mem-orial
Union of the Minneapolis
campus of the University of Minn-esota.
The purpose of the conference
is to gain an undertsanding of
Jesus Christ in a vocational con-text;
reaching people through an
individual's vocation, foreign mis-sions
and urban missions. Attend-ants
of the conference will
also investigate human and
environmental opportunities facing
the Christian professional in his
continued on page 3
by Dave Greener
The University of Arkansas,
Wheaton College, Rutgers Univer-sity,
Kansas State, Briar Cliff —
these are some of the schools
whose annuals are giving yearbook
editor Marty Mauk and his staff
ideas for Bethel's '69-'70 Spire.
"To my knowledge, no other col-lege
in the country is putting out
a yearbook (quite) like ours," says
Mauk who has built up an ex-change
library of yearbooks from
over 100 schools. From ten of
these, he has incorporated most
of his ideas for a new approach
to the Spire.
Mauk, a relative newcomer to
yearbook work (last year's rather
limited experience was his only),
feels that students are getting
tired of the same approach. He
hopes to help shift the trend
to "more interesting, creative year-books"
from the traditional "facts
and figures format." What inno-vations
are planned for this year's
This year's Spire will have stu-dent
life as a general theme which
will not be specific (such as: "1970,
the year that .. . "), according to
Mauk. As he has found, "students
think different things are im-portant."
Spire 1970 will trace the school
year in a chronological outlay. This
will be the book's only major
division (unless senior pictures are
considered a division). The Spire
staff plans to tie the year's ac-tivities
together by creative copy.
This will be a break from a tra-ditional
"year's news" format. All
pictures will be candid shots —
some with special effects. Senior
pictures which are being taken
this month by James Treece, assis-tant
professor of sociology, will
not be the ordinary row on row
of portratits but can be whatever
the graduating student desires in
pose, setting, and apparel.
The Spire will come out on
September 15 instead of the origi-nally
planned spring release. Two
of the main reasons for the change,
says Mauk, are so that all of the
year's activities can be put under
one cover and so that more stu-dents
can be involved within the
book's pages.
Meanwhile, Mauk and staff work
toward the yearbook's completion.
According to Mauk, this year's
staff measures up to production
needs, something not entirely typi-cal
for Bethel yearbooks. "One
problem we are having," he says,
"is with pictures. Pictures have to
be good in both quality and quan-tity
and we're not getting the
quantity." Another photo matter
is structural — not all photographs
for student publications are di-rectly
under the editor's super-vision.
The situation has produced
a conflict of interests with Spire
coming out near the bottom.
Mauk encourages students to
submit any pictures they have,
although he cautions that their
quality (such as finish) may not
be good enough for actual publi-cation.
1C3 organizes
Paris roundtrip
summer flight
The Inter-collegiate Coordin-ating
Council, IC3, is organizing
a flight to Europe and back for
European travelers this summer.
The charter flight will leave Min-neapolis
June 14 and fly non-stop
to Paris. The cost of the round
trip fare is $243.
According to Dan Johnson, for-mer
Bethel IC3 representative, the
$243 covers only the round trip
ticket to Paris and back. The cost
of two months of independent tra-vel
is not included. The offer is
limited to staff, faculty and stu-dents
of Twin City private liberal
arts colleges and their immediate
There are 40 seats available on
the flight. For more information
contact Jerry Fair, Bethel's IC3
representative or call 331-2300.
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the CLARION
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
ebapet Jantez
by Pastor Maurice Lawson
The week begins with the sec-ond
of three Monday messages
by Dr. George Cannon of our
Seminary on the theme of the
New Testament church. Students
and faculty of the physical sci-ences
department will present
the Tuesday chapel. On Wednes-day
the campus pastor will speak,
with NEW music. Professor Reu-ben
Omark who works actively
with international students will
speak on "My New Life" on Thurs-day.
President Carl Lundquist will
bring the chapel week to a close
on Friday.
To the editor:
Dave Hagen's letter in the Feb-ruary
6 Clarion sets up a contra-diction
between love and rules
'that needs further exploration.
Christ certainly saw no such op-position;
on the contrary, he sets
obedience as the only door —
and a narrow one! — to dis-cipleship.
"If you obey my word,"
He said, "you are my disciples
. . . you shall know the truth ...
(which) will make you free." He
further insisted, "If you loved me,
you would keep my command-ments."
Paul, with his customary
clear insight, contrasts the "law
of the Spirit of life in Jesus" with
"the law of sin and death."
So the issue is not between
love and rules: both love and non-love
operate by law and demand
obedience. The issue is, Whom do
you obey, which is vastly dif-ferent.
Dave's hang-up, as I read his
letter, is that he doesn't feel that
Bethel should set and enforce any
rules, whereas I see all coop-erative
human enterprise as re-quiring
such specific behavior as
much be defined.
Further, Dave feels that "Chris-
To the editor:
I read with a great deal of inter-est
and disappointment the recent
editorial on minority recruitment
in the Clarion. I was disappointed
because of the carelessness with
which Christians in the name of
Christian concern throw labels at
each other. I just came to Bethel
College this past September and
in so doing I am now guilty of
"incest," loving myself and mine
to the exclusion of all others, per-petuating
the institution of slav-ery,
and being a racist!
"Racism" is a much abused
word. It is now thrown around
as brutally and as broadly as the
word "Communist." Webster's dic-tionary
defines racism as "the as-sumption
that psychocultural tra-its
and capacities are determined
by biological race and that races
differ decisively from one another
which is usually coupled with
belief in the inherent superiority
of a particular race and its right
to dominion over others."
I personally believe that neither
Bethel College nor I are guilty of
being "racist" by definition. We
have not as an institution rejected
minority students who have ap-plied
simply because of their being
black or red. (According to the
editorial, minority students are
non-WASPs. This means that poor
Italian or Slavic protestants are
minority students. Yet the editor-ial
speaks about "seeing" minority
students on campus. Does this e-quation
of minority students with
tians should avoid judging one
another." But behavior must be
judged: what is his letter but an
example of judgment? Paul says
of the Corinthian Christian who
had done incest, "I have already
pronounced judgment in the name
of the Lord Jesus on the man ..."
A bit later, having said, "the saints
will judge the world . . . (and)
. . . angels," he asks, "Are you
incompetent to try trivial cases'?
. . . Can it be that there is no
man among you wise enough to
decide between members of the
It goes against my liking to pub-licize
personal details; but Dave
calls the considered opinion of
students, faculty, and administra-tors
"false righteousness," so it is
appropriate to comment on the
love and the concern which in-formed
the disposition of his
He argues that since "God led
me to give up this habit" his per-iodic
violations of his admissions
promise to abstain should be for-given
and ignored. He neglected
to point out that his last drink-ing
episode occurred a half-week
after he made the decision — and
color witness to a "racist" men-tality?)
Whatever imbalance there
may exist at Bethel College would
appear to be primarily due to fin-ancial
inability to meet the costs,
and that problem exists for blacks,
reds, browns, and whites.
The only issue which concerned
the faculty at its meeting was the
simple question of how we can
finance such a program. With
small independent colleges fight-ing
for their very survival due to
a shortage of funds, this seems to
me to be a legitimate question.
(Remember our Lord's reference
to the foolish man who began to
build a tower without considering
whether he would be able to finish
what he had begun? See Luke 14:
How will we finance this pro-gram
which faculty, administra-tion,
and students all see as de-sirable?
The $190 raised by the
announced it — to quit. This im-pugned
the reliability of his de-cision
as a basis for future ac-tion.
Dave implies that the infrequen-cy
of his drinking was a factor
that was overlooked. Mbre impor-tant,
it seems to me, are the is-sues
of responsibility and repent-ance.
He reminds me of the mur-derer
who pleaded for vindica-tion
because "it was such a small
To make forgiveness and remis-sion
of penalty incidental is con-trary
to God's practice, or, what
is the same, to love. For example,
God made David and Bathsheba's
first child die, although God for-gave.
The decision on penalty is
one of judgment, based on all
criteria: social, personal, etc. The
decision on forgiveness is one of
mercy, based on man's relationship
to Christ. Both, of course, are
consistent with the love of God.
The action of my colleagues and
associates in this matter was one
conceived in concern, built up of
personal testimony, and taken in
the love of Christ. It should not be
Webster Muck
Dean of Students
February 9th concert is a start,
but that sum does not even cover
one tenth of the cost for support-ing
one minority student at Bethel
College. The greatest part of the
income for operation expenses
comes from the tuition of students.
latest reported increase in tuition.
What would be the reaction among
the students of another increase
of one hundred or two hundred
dollars in order to cover the spec-ial
scholarships involved in such
a program?
There are problems in begining
a minority recruitment program.
I have only mentioned the financial
one. Let us, however, seek to work
together as Christians on this pro-gram
without these inaccurate and
unchristian accusations.
Robert H. Stein
Assistant Professor of New
Page 2 the CLARION Friday February 20, 1970
Hibernation of students
during Founders Week?
innovation could end it
It has been said that Bethel reached its student capacity about
two years ago. In conversation recently, Bob Crandall, Bethel's recruiter
said, "I have a hard time showing touring students any classrooms —
they're all almost always occupied." Classrooms in the college building
are occupied 85 per cent of their useable time. In other words, for Beth-el's
amount of space, it has quite enough people.
Founders Week in a nice time of year. It's that time when
Conference pastors and graduates of the college and seminary des-cend
upon this small block to receive spiritual uplift, to fellowship
with old friends and to make on the spot observation of the life that
their Johnny and Aunt Esther's Susan live.
At this time of year, the lines in the coffee shop and cafeteria that
were once a bloody nuisance, become impossible. Dorm residents skip
lunch and off campus people find the time to fix lunch in their apart-ments
for the first time all year.
The parking situation which Bethel's neighbors deplore, is so bad
that before Christmas, a part of the campus lawn, much to Eric's dismay,
was cleared of snow to be used as an extra parking lot. A student
driving to school for second hour classes may end up walking two
blocks from the closest parking space, even though he lives only five
blocks from campus. But during Founders Week, many have found that
the best policy is to find some safe, out of the way place to hide their
car and then just to forget that they ever had one for a week.
As for classes, students and professors alike have for years thrown
up their hands in dismay. In spite of all efforts and promises that this
year Founders Week will not disrupt the academic schedule, anthro-pology
and physics classes alike end up hearing about the unusual
ethnocentrisms of some obscure African tribe and how they must be
changed before they are acceptable to Christ; Mother wants to go shop-ping
Wednesday afternoon; Thursday Dad wants a tour of the new
campus, or what there is of it; Friday the family must take you out to
lunch before leaving for home; and your little sister decides that college
lectures or chemistry labs aren't for her and your guilt feelings arise
as she wanders around feeling lost and dejected.
Between all this, the college choir, trumpet trio, and trombone quar-tet
must prepare a performance and a number of students are asked
to sit in on the sessions and say "Yes, sir" and "That's right, sir" when
pointed to — to insure that the student's point of view is represented
on various topics.
To top it all off, class schedules and Founders Week session sche-dules
don't even coincide. So there are people roaming the halls and
poking into the wrong rooms at all times and if for one of the reasons
mentioned above a student must attend one of the special sessions,
chances are he misses two classes, not one.
But evenings are worst of all. Your favorite professor decides to
defy the whole mess and schedules an exam for Friday morning; your
pastor from back home insists you must hear the speaker tonight,
Father wants to be escorted to the coffee shop to meet some of your
friends; sister Jane decides that dorms are more exciting than hotels,
and an unthinkable number of other minor irregularities mount — all
during one of the busiest times of the semester.
Founders Week is ridiculous. One of its main purposes is to let the
founders see the college in operation, the students in their natural
setting. Yet when the week arrives, operations come to a stand still
and hybernation is the private ambition of a good many students.
Our beloved Student Association President cornered me last week
and said, "Founders Week needs student-founder interaction. Instead of
increasing tension between students and the constituency, Founders
Week should decrease it, right?" "Right?" I queried, but after receiving
his stern and steady stare for half a minute, returned, "Right!" and
folded away my private dreams of hybernation as I accepted the respon-sibility
for a workshop to stimulate student-founder interaction.
As we began planning, I realized what an opportunity Founders
Week could be. Instead of student-founder isolation and alienation,
the week, or part of it, could be turned into a seminar for interaction.
Most student-constituency and parent-young person tensions are due
to inadequate communication and lack of understanding. Founders
Week could be structured to reduce this friction. One day in the week
could be set aside for small group interaction on areas of discord.
Although many on both sides may cringe at this idea, it is surprising
what can be accomplished when two people meet with open minds and
a determination to try to understand.
But the best tension reliever would be holding Founders Week
during interim. With a fourth of the students not registered and another
fourth on tours, the campus could very comfortably accomodate those
extra persons. Class schedules being less structured would allow students
to attend sessions and I dare say that Founders might find "Seeing,
Knowing and Believing" or "Rhetoric of Black Revolt" more interesting
than Survey of Sociology, Renaissance Literature, or Chemistry 252 —
they might even be more able to contribute.
Founders would be able to see Bethel at its best — its educative
innovation and its students at a time when they are more relaxed and
available. It might even start students and constituency pulling together
rather than apart.
Bethel Forum
Expelled student called inconsistent
Professor dismayed by name-calling
Sededem eafttea &end
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
Friday February 20, 1970 the CLARION Page 3
The Sno-Daze Banquet at the Camelot was the scene of much festivity last weekend.
NSA caught in business maze; will it survive?
Freshman Penny Watkins receives her title as Sno-Daze
Queen 1970.
Intervarsity conference examines
environment, human opportunitie
Vocational Conference
David Howard
Nelson Trout
February 27, 28
Sponsored By
J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor
C. Bruce Anderson, Asst. Pastor
BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M.
Association President
sees main requirement:
`seriousness of attitude'
continued from page 1
will need welcoming and orientat-ing
in September of 1970. "It's
handy if this chairman lives in or
near the Twin Cities because most
of the work will be done over the
summer months," said Shupe. This
position has usually been filled by
an upperclassman but, "It's open
to anyone from any class — with
special favor being shown to the
individual(s) showing some incli-nation
toward creativity, original-ity
and hospitality."
The 1970 fall homecoming festiv-ities
have their beginning now
with the mid-term appointment of
a chairman for the planning. This
job could also be filled with two
people willing to serve as co-chairmen.
The chairman helps in
the selection of the theme and in
the appointment of the necessary
committee heads. Mr. Shupe again
stresses that no previous experi-ence
is necessary, only someone
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field during the coming decade,
the 70's.
The conference will include as
speakers David Howard head of
Intervarsity's Foreign Mission Fel-lowship
(which has a chapter at
Bethel). Howard is presently on a
three year leave of absence from
the Latin American Mission where
he has served for 15 years as As-sistant
General Director. Howard
was among the speakers at the
last Urbana Conference.
Nelson Trout, a staff member
in the Evangelism Department of
the American Lutheran Church
will also be present at the con-ference
to speak. He hopes, with
the help of eight bus tours to in-who
is willing to work hard to
make the weekend enjoyable for
as many as possible.
Two positions where experience
is helpful are the editorships of
the Spire and the Clarion. It
is not necessary that interested in-dividuals
have past experience in
the post of editor but as Pat Faxon,
present editor of the Clarion
stated, "Some writing experience
is essential." The Clarion posi-tions
are set up to that an ap-pointee
would begin serving his
term in September of 1970 as co-editor
to assist the new person in
becoming more acquainted with
the responsibilities of the posi-tion.
The full term would then
run from January 1971 to January
"These key positions need fil-ling
now," states Mr. Shupe. "The
new president will have several
other appointments to make after
his spring election but these are
the jobs that must begin now."
ner city churches and community
centers to impress again upon the
students attending the conference
the urban and racial problems of
today. Along with the tours on
Saturday will be a panel discussion
entitled "Salt" followed by sem-inars
with 40 professional people
from different occupational areas.
The final session of the confer-ence
which is open to the general
public at no charge, will be Sat-urday
evening at 7:30 with Nelson
Trout speaking on the Mission for
The Church at Home. The cost of
the conference which includes Sat-urday
noon and evening meal is
$6. Housing for Friday and Satur-day
nights can be arranged if
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never got around to doing that be-cause
he had to spend all his time
figuring out and clearing up the
Association's sloppy business oper-ations.
It is from that maze of business
ties that the less obvious reasons
emerge for keeping NSA alive.
which creditors would never col-lect
should the organization die.
There are the political hopes of
people like Al Lowenstein and the
Robert Kennedy Fellowship direc-tors
who look to NSA as the hope
for a Potent Acceptable Youth
movement. And, now, most impor-tant,
there are a number of busi-nessmen
who have long been NSA
friends who stand to grow wealthy
if it can only pull through the
current trials.
On February 1, those business-men,
the originators of the NSA
Life Insurance Program, will reg-ister
a new corporation with the
Securities Exchange Commission
with hopes that stock will be a-vailable
for trading in July. The
new corporation, called National
Academic Services Corp. (don't
confuse NAS with NSA) came to
life as a private company about
a year ago, but it closed its first
deal late on the night of April 1,
1969, with a $50,000 check to the
National Student Association. Had
that check not come then, the or-ganization
would very likely have
died the next day.
National Academic Services
Corp. is in effect the new answer
to the CIA and the Ford Founda-tion,
or as President Charlie Pal-mer
(former president of the
'Berkeley student government and
promoter of Peoples Park) puts it,
the way by which NSA can main-tain
financial solvency without be-coming
beholden to its donor.
At its most general level NSA
receives a fixed minimum annual
income—the one thing it has al-
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ways lacked—in return for giving
NAS nearly all its old service con-tracts
and providing NAS a recog-nized
student base to operate on.
Ties between NSA and NAS,
however, are the sort which com-pelled
one of NSA's journalistic
friends to warn me very early
that "the whole thing's so confus-ing
you'll probably end up getting
Originally negotiations were to
have been completed by late No-vember
1968 for initial invest-ments
in the new corporation, but
by the April 1 meeting with NSA
officers there was still nothing
firm. Clark and his potential in-vestors
asked for more time; Po-well
claimed to have other bidders
for NSA Services (although one of
his closest staff members main-tains
there were no other offers).
Were it not for certain contract-ual
technicalities in the insur-ance
program, Sutton believes NAS
might never have gotten into such
thick trouble. The more he learned
of the insurance set-up, the more
suspicious he became until he fin-ally
hired a private insurance in-vestigator
to check the whole thing
"Finally I got to the bank (Boat-man's
National in St. Louis) where
the insurance trust is held, and
when I showed up and asked to see
the records, the shock waves went
all the way back to New York.
They claimed I was impertinent,"
Sutton says.
Sutton had known NSA's general
conditions before he became vice
president at its August Congress,
where he issued (at his own ex-pense,
he claims) a caustic critique
of existing operations. He argued,
"Existing NSA services, being
largely exploitive, ought to be
phased out in behalf if similar
services which are locally managed
and controlled."
By autumn, however, the Associ-ation
was able to secure a $200,000
loan to meet operating expenses
from one of NSA' investors—Com-mercial
Cradit Corp. Stipulated in
the loan agreement was a require-ment
that it be used only for back
bills and operating expenses— not
for payment of the $50,000 in re-parations
demanded by Black stu-dents
at the El Paso Congress.
Should NSA fail on the loan, NSA
was to be held responsible for re-payments..
Even as late at Dec. 29, the As-sociation
was still far from secure.
A letter from a NSA lawyer stated
that $170,000 in bills then remain-ed
to be paid although available
organizational resources came to
only $90,000.
If NSA survives, it will almost
certainly be because too much has
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Founders and students alike fill Bethel's Founders await morning refreshments back-
Fieldhouse for the morning worship service. stage.
Founders Week sparks action in student groups
by Cindy Rostollan
"I care about the people in our
poverty areas, and it's a good way
to gain experience in my major,
Social Work. When I go out and
become a Social Worker, I'll know
the situation of the people I'm
dealing with," replied Sharon
Finch, a junior from Simi, Cali-fornia,
when asked about her tak-ing
part in the Crisis Colony Pro-gram
at Augsburg College in St.
Sharon, and David Ellwood, a
sophomore from Minneapolis, are
joining 22 other students from
colleges all over the cities, in
this new approach to education.
living in the situation they are
studying about. The Crisis Colony
is geared to induce action learning
by revelation or encounter. For
those in the group, it will be a
community formed around the out-side
of the community.
Beginning March 16, Dave and
Sharon will join the other mem-bers
of their group for classes at
Augsburg College. Working under
a 10 credit program, they will
have an hour of lectures every
morning, (with varied speakers),
and an hour of discussions. The
afternoons and evenings will be
spent working on different pro-jects
in varied areas. (Sharon has
applied to work in the American
Indian Half-Way House and Dave
will be working with the local
WMCA or Boy's Club.)
All the members of the Crisis
Clinic have different assignments,
but there will be some activities
they will work on together. Among
their projects, they will develop
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been invested now to stop. Without
the Association and it more than
500 member schools, National A-cademic
Services Corp. would lose
the key to its marketing strategy .
And besides the loan Commercial
Credit made to NSA, its subsidiary,
American Health and Life, loaned
NSA $700,000. It holds warrants
for 200,000 shares of NSA stock
as collateral.
Overall the investments were not
bad deals for Clark and King or for
the grand - daddy conglomerate
Control Data. The only major com-petitor
is National Student Mar-keting
Service, a firm which has
been fantastically successful in
recent years. Says last year's NSA
President Bob Powell (who is now
an NSA board director) "Right
now the college market for goods
and services—about $40-60 million
a year—is enormous and largely
"If TWA wants to sell youth
cards to students or Time Maga-zine
wants to sell subscriptions,
there are not too many places for
them to go. Many people have
been exploiting students. We hope
to do business a little bit differ-ently.
What you need is a differ-ent
image, a different approach,
a different sensitivity. And that's
something which NAS can pro-vide."
Powell says the experiment with
NAS is "a new kind of idea in the
fiesld of student economic inde-pendence."
He envisions NAS pro-viding
management and financial
help as well as purchasing oppor-tunities
in an effort to get stu-dent-
run cooperatives off the
ground and competing with well
established local companies. Local
representative Charles Kao has
their own church program on Sun-days.
As Dave says, "In our group
there's a wide range of religions,
I even know of one guy who is
studying to be a priest, so, our
Sunday service will have a little
bit of everything. It's not exactly
a compromise, but it will be some-thing
for everyone."
Last weekend, both Sharon and
Dave attended a retreat to meet
with the kids they are to spend
the next two and a half months
with. Once there, they met with
kids who had previously served in
the Crisis Clinic, and these kids
shared experiences with them, and
answered many questions the new
members had.
As part of the project, Sharon
and Dave will be required to live
in a duplex that belongs to the
Clinic. "Lately they've been do-ing
a bit of improving on the du-plex,"
says Dave. "The City Coun-cil
has been quite hostile to our
organization, and have been try-ing
to break things up, but last
year we won the right to go on.
Now, we're making all the im-provements
needed to meet with
their specifications." "If this group
goes ok, then the Crisis Colony
will become a permanent yearly
course, instead of a semester
course," adds Sharon.
Dave, an anthropology major, is
really looking forward to the Clin-ic.
"For one thing it will be a
break from the average year. I
have been living in the Dale-Selby
area all semester, and working in
the Ober Boy's Club, sponsored by
Union Gospel Mission, so now I'll
get some credit for what I'm do-ing."
had preliminary talks with Dennis
Webster, manager of the Univer-sity
Store, for handling the store's
record line.
Al Handell, whose first goal, old
NSA friends say, is to be a mil-lionaire
before he's 45, looks into
the future and sees the campus
filled with commerce:
"There'll be a big domestic ser-vices
card eventually for check
cashing, credit, and discounts One
would entitle you to a whole range
of things—youth fare, travel a-broad,
records . . . It's like taking
money away from corporations and
giving it to students. Concert pro-motions
and entertainment, speak-ers
bureaus. A student's shopping
place: a book of unusual offers,
send in all 21 post cards and get
a free year's supply of shaving
cream . . . We'll set up dealers
all over the country. It'll be almost
like a Master Charge Card or a
student ID card."
Before he became the second
NSA vice president to resign last
semester, Jim Sutton envisioned
the NSA campus filled with com-merce
"For about the last three weeks
at NSA I couldn't function; I just
couldn't do anything. The point
was that I was working for a cor-poration
in the process of going
"The problem," he said earlier,
"is that you can't figure out who's
running who. In the long run
there's never going to be an ef-fective
student association until
students are willing to pay for it.
If you take money from the CIA,
then the CIA controls you; if you
take it from commercial firms,
then they control you."
(Copyright 1970 by Fr a n k
Founders Week visitors seem to
have iniated an unusual amount
of activity among students and
student groups this past week.
The Bethel Peace Club whose
membership and action seemed to
have dwindled into nonexistonce
since Deeper Life week and es-pecially
since its president has
left the ranks of the Bethel com-munity
suddenly leaped to new life
with more than adequate number
of enthusiastic participants. Mem-bers
leafletted the Monday night
Founders Week Banquet and set
up a table in the coffee shop with
literature from the American Fri-ends
Service. According to Marj-orie
Rusche, former president of
the organizetion the presence of
their table in the coffee shop has
evoked widely varied responses
from Founders Week Visitors. The
purpose of the display is to "give
the Conference pastors, especially,
an opportunity to inform them-selves
on the alternative of con-scientous
objection to war so that
thay may be better able to counsel
with the young men of their
Members of the newly formed
organization for the promotion of
recruitment of minority students
share have been continuing thelr
relatively high level of activity.
Students have leafletted chapel
worship services and been running
a campaign for the sale of 'share'
buttons with the profit from the
sales going towards the scholar-ship
fund for minority students.
The organization's main thrust of
activity has been that of mingling
Bethel Women
win, lose at end
Thursday evening of the Sno
Daze weekend saw a larger, pre-dominantly
male crowd watching
the girls'basketball team play Riv-er
Falls. And they saw a good
game even though Bethel last 41-
River Falls came prepared to
play either its "A" or "B" team
but the "B" team saw very little
action. The River Falls team took
an early lead but Bethel whittled
it down so that at the half they
were only down by two. In the last
half Bethel was still very much in
the game but River Falls piled up
their lead to assure themselves
of victory. Linda Schmid received
the scoring honors with 12 points.
Bethel played for Augsburg's
Parents' Days on Saturday and
as the parents watched their
girls get trounced 57-39. In an
excellent passing and team-work
game, three girls scored in double
figures: Sharon Johnson — 22,
Linda Schmid — 16, and Marlene
Johnson — 10.
Bethel women meet the Univer-sity
of Minnesota on Thursday,
February 19 and play St. Cloud
State at home on Monday.
and engaging founders and stu-dents
in interaction on the subject
of minority groups and recruit-ment.
They have received less an-tagonistic
reactions toward their
activity, than indifference.
The button sales for the group
have gone extremely well.
Dave Shupe, Student Associa-tion
President, viewed Founders
Week as an opportunity for inter-action
between students and found-ers
and members of the conference
in an effort to promote under-standing
between the two groups.
He organized student workshops
for the founders on the church,
Bethel, and foreign missions. The
workshops had some measure of
success but has deviated somewhat
from its planned format. According
to Shupe, Tuesday's session on the
church was well attended and in-teraction
beneficial. The workshop
on Bethel, however, was somewhat
less of a success.
Inspite of misgivings on the
part of the students that this year's
Founders Week could never match
the caliber of last, there seems
to be quite a little enthusiasm on
campus — or at least activity.
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Students prepare for
'learning by encounter'
Problem: Who's running who?
students must be willing to pay
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by Steve Duininck
I recently found out a few truths from thinking to much and
someone put them into words. So I have copied this article found in
"Stranger Than True" and printed for you to read.
"I really am writing this to the whole world so that who ever
reads it may not benefit at all but instead to let the world know I
have made the water of thoughts move. I feel it to be an obituary for
a local small town newspaper and at the same time document pronounc-ing
my freedom. I am now free from everything that builds up and
falls down and starts over and over again. I have tried to figure out
everything and put it in a category, but my efforts have fallen short,
far short of their mark. Everytime I get close to the end it ends the
beginning and like a blind man crawling on a park lawn I continue to
wander aimlessly. I know I should be looking for answers because a
man, bigger than all those who are looking, but yet identical, is whipping
me down and doing it in such a machine-like fashion I believe with all
my heart he has no emotions. As he whips me down my nostrils repulse
the fresh smell of grass that has become so distasteful and hated by
all the bugs on the ground. It's as if the longer I'm here the more sure
I become that I will never find any answers, but it would be heresy
to stand up and walk away, besides the machine would whip me back
into submission if I tried.
Now and then I will run across a penny or a piece of candy that
has fallen from someone who has stood up for a while and got a taste
of clean, clear air, but he too in time falls back to the ground despair-ingly.
He then tells the rest of us creatures that there is a better place
higher as we all yell in unison "Yea, I know", just to let him know we
all are individuals. It gives us some stories to build on and something to
use our useless mouths for while we continue to crawl over the turf.
When is it going to end? When I die, only when I die will I have
the power to rise off the ground and fly above my body watching it
melt like sugar in the rain in the hard ground from where it came.
How joyous a day it will be when I finally rise to "Power" (Heaven in
the insect world) and I am able to discover all answers for all questions
and sit like a fat little misquito full of rich red nourishment on the arm
of a constant supply.
Color bands dominate
Walker's works at Kohn
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Bob Bryant directs O'Neill's "Long Day's Jou rney into Night" as his senior thesis project.
Conference pastors and Bethel graduates descended upon the college campus Monday for
Founders Week 1970.
Treece 'shoots for beauty' in coffee shop exhibition
James Treece, assistant professor of Sociology shown here
in his office, had his work displayed in the Coffee Shop this past
by Chris Nelson and
Janet Appelquist
One of the Twin Cities' finest
smaller show rooms, the Suzanne
Kohn Art Gallery, has moved from
its former location near Macsales-ter
College to more spacious quar-ters
in the Riverside Towers Apart-ments
in Minneapolis last fall.
Bethel's own Robert Clark Nelson
of the Art Department is the de-sign
consultant for the gallery. Al-though
showings are open only to
artists whose professional status
is already recognized, exhibits are
not limited to any particular media
(such as painting); sculpture, draw-ings,
plexiglass constructions, and
posters are also included.
The gallery opened at its new
location in December with works
from several well-known artists.
is exemplified by the recent show-ing
of posters by the nationally
famous Sister Cortia (now called
Corita Kent).
The present exhibit at the gal-lery
is a collection of paintings
by George Walker, an art teacher
at the University of Iowa. Two
types of paintings predominate.
One consists of large bands of
color on un-primed (un-treated)
canvas to create the illusion of
rainbows. The colors are usually
similar in hue, making it diffi-cult
at times to discern the differ-ence
between bands. The paintings
are mostly large, with the color
bands running horizontally or ver-tically.
The other type of painting con-sists
of thinner lines varying in
strainghtness. The artist achieves
this effect by cutting down var-ious
types of paint rollers. The
colors are so vibrant that they ap-pear
to "jump out" from the can-vas.
The paintings give a strong
feeling of movement, as though
the lines were traveling in dif-ferent
directions. Coming into the
gallery on a dreary winter day and
see these paintings is conpar-able
to getting a sneak preview of
by Marjorie Rusche
"Photography is a way of ex-pressing
myself," states Mr. James
Treece, professor of sociology at
Bethel. "I try to portray to my
viewers the same emotion I had
when I saw the real thing."
The photographs currently on
exhibition in the coffee shop were
taken by Treece, a long-time pho-tography
buff. The pictures deal
basically with people and scenery,
which are Treece's favorive photo-graphic
subject matter.
"I always shoot for beauty,"
Treece expressed. "Documentary
and candid photography are just
not my bag. It's hard to avoid be-ing
contemporary, but I am more
of a romanticist in my photogra-phy.
I would rather shoot some-thing
living and well than some-thing
that's hurt."
This philosophy is an interesting
contrast to Treece's professional
discipline, sociology, which, as
Treece puts it, "Studies the irregu-lar,
unfortunate and negative as-pects
of life. I was a photographer
long before I was a sociologist."
Treece has had opportunities to
become a professional photogra-pher,
but refuses to do so. "I
wouldn't like the long hours in the
darkroom, or the mass production
of photographs that you must turn
out to be a successful profession-al."
However, he is not an "ama-teur"
photographer. Last fall his
photos were exhibited at Depth
Field, a combination studio-store
located on the University of Min-nesota's
West Bank.
Friday February 20, 1970
Treece's flair for photography
started growing in the '50's when
a friend gave him a small box
brownie camera. His skills and
equipment have grown considera-bly.
He presently owns $3,000
worth of photographic equipment,
which includes two movie-cameras,
two 35 millimeter cameras, two
twin-reflex cameras, one press-speed
grapling (sp.), one view
camera on a tripod, and his own
The first drama production by
Bethel's drama club is Eugene
O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into
Night" which will be presented
February 27 and 28 in the theatre
of Northwestern Lutheran Theo-logical
Seminary in St. Paul. Senior
Robert Bryant will direct the pro-duction.
The play, often called O'Neill's
best, presents a day in the life of
the Tyrone family. The father,
James Tyrone, is played by sopho-more
Ken Fischer. Kaye Kulbitski,
a junior, portrays his wife, Mary.
Their two sons, Jamie and Edmund
are played by freshmen Sam Grif-fith
and Phil Deming.
The action shown in the play
is a condensation of the actual
events which enveloped O'Neill
during the last six months of 1912
and led, eventually to his dis-darkroom
and studio in his base-ment.
"I met my wife through photo-graphy,"
Treece remininicsed. "On
our first date we went out to take
pictures of oil-wells. On our fourth
date she bought me a present of a
stainless steel developing tank. We
actually courted in the dark-room,
and learned more about each other
as well as photography as our re-lationship
tinguished career as father of the
Modern American theatre and the
greatest playwright of this cen-tury.
The play, noted for its length
has been condensed for this pre-sentation.
O'Neill wrote the play
in 1940, sending it to his publisher
with specific instructions that it
not be presented until twenty-five
years after his death. Following
the suicide of his oldest son, Eu-gene,
Jr. in 1950, he told his wife
that it could be presented follow-ing
his own death, which occurred
in 1953.
Since its first presentation in
Stockholm, then New York, in 1956,
the play has received wide critical
acclaim. Called his greatest, it has
awakened an O'Neill revival in
American theatre and firmly es-tablished
him as one of the most
sensitive playwrights.
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Luther Sem sees Drama Club's
opening production of O'Neill's
`Long Day's Journey into Night'
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The Column
by Tim Weko
This was originally going to be a letter to the editor, but I decided
to kill two birds with one stone.
To the Students: "Well, we do have a basketball game tonight, and
and I suppose some of our students will be going, but I hope that as
many students as possible will feel led to come to the meeting tonight
instead," etc., etc. That's not word for word, but it's close enough to
get the picture across. President Carl Lundquist said that in chapel
Tuesday morning, and I'm not sure why, but it really made me mad.
Long ago I stopped thinking that college presidents were infallible,
god-like persons whose every word was a golden drop of wisdom, and
Tuesday morning President Lundquist went just a bit too far (like I'm
probably doing right now).
Excuse me, sir, but since when do you have the corner on the
spirituality market? Since when, exactly does it mean that I will some-how
be less spiritual and a less dynamic Christian if I don't happen to
hear Horace Fenton, or whomever, at a Founders Week evening session?
How can you be so sure that the Lord can be better served by sitting in
a meeting with 2000 other Christians rather than by mingling with or
playing basketball against students (presumably non-Christians) from
other schools?
Suddenly during Founders Week the Bethel Fieldhouse has become
the place to go for spiritual action, which in a way is true, but at the
same time is not true. I heard a rumor that God is everywhere and that
no matter where I am or what I'm doing (within reason) He can use
me or other Christians to fulfill His plan. It seems as if some people
think that Founders Week is a time to stop everything, go to every
meeting and gas up on the spiritualism that so permeates the air on
Well, believe it or not life goes on: life, with all its little obligations
and responsibilities, and we often can't step out of that life for a week.
Sir, your opinion and your words swing a lot of weight, since you
are the college president, and when you say one thing is more spiritual
than another, well, I think that is stepping out of line. No one should
judge for another what ways are God's ways. I hear God can use us all
if we let Him and if we don't hide from the world.
Bob Olsen nearly pins his man in last Saturday's wrestling
Matmen seek vengeance in
season's finale at Pillsbury
4rom the free-thy
Royals lead, lose, travel, reminisce
Bethel's number 52, senior Andy Feldman makes a jump shot.
Larson who shared scoring honors
another shot.
last weekend, attempts
The Royal grapplers went down
in defeat, 33-3, Saturday against
the Southwest State Mustangs.
This Saturday they travel to Pills-bury
for the final meet of the
The Royals were shut out of the
win column in all of the individual
matches until Bob Olsen decision-ed
his man for Bethel's only score.
Southwest was a strong team with
a very sucessful record behind
them when they came to Bethel.
The Royals did, however, put
up a fight in several of the weight
classes. At 118 pounds Bob Downey
nearly won but finally was de-cisioned.
Lee Granlund, wrestling
in the 126 pound class, was leading
his opponent by three points with
less than a minute to go when he
made a tactical error and his op-ponent
reversed him and went on
to win.
Results for Intramural A League
Team Won Lost
1. Faculty 2 0
2. First Floor 2 0
3. Second New 2 0
4. Off Campus 2 0
5. Third New 1 1
Greg Ekbom lost to a 125 pound-er
who had pinned him twice be-fore,
and Doug Warring was on
his way to a win but he reinjured
his shoulder and lost.
So with the score 28-0, Olsen
came onto the mats to a roar from
the stands. Although the crowd
was chanting for a pin on numer-ous
occasions, Bob did not pin
him. Rock Hendricksen was pinned
in the heavyweight division and
that finished the scoring, the final
score being 33-3.
Saturday will find the wrestlers
at Pillsbury for a 7:30 p.m. meet
against a team that has already
beaten the Royals this season iri
an earlier meeting between the
two teams back on December 2.
Since this is the last team meet
of the year the Royals will be
going all out to finish with a win.
6. Second Old 1 1
7. Pit 0 2
8. Third Old 0 2
9. New Dorm 0 2
10. Falcon 0 2
Next Games: Wednesday, Feb.
25. The games originally sche-duled
for Feb. 11 will be played
Thursday, Feb 26.
by Rich Zaderaka
Last weekend, Bethel encount-ered
a pair of home court losses.
On Friday night the Royals fell to
the Chargers on Briar Cliff 59-44.
The following evening they were
bested in overtime by the Mankato
State Indians 57-53.
In each contest Bethel jumped
out to 6-0 leads, but were unable
to hold on.
Briar Cliff overcame the deficit
shortly after Doug Fargo had pick-ed
up his third foul, midway
through the first period. The Char-gers
went on top by 22-19 and the
Royals got no closer than three
the rest of the ball game.
Fargo started the second half
but fouled out with eight minutes
elapsed. His loss hurt Bethel's re-bound
strength and the Royals
scored only ten points in the re-maining
twelve minutes.
Dan Larson's 14 points headed
the Royal offense. Andy Feldman
was close behind with 12. Ed Wilt-gen
led Briar Cliff with 17.
Mankato State wiped out the six
point deficit, and took the lead at
8-7. The first half shaped up as
a scoring duel between Bethel's
Feldman and Larson, and Man-kato's
Mike Conelly and Doug El-lens.
Conelly and Larson pitched in
eight first half points. Feldman
had eleven and Ellens had nine.
The halftime margin was 23-21 for
The Royals regained the advan-tage
in the second period on bas-kets
by Feldman and Larson. The
contest was tied three times, be-fore
Bethel pulled out in front
by 35-30.
But the Indians were not to be
denied, and tied the game on a
field goal by Doug Ellens, with
4:21 remaining. The tally at the
end of regulation time was 48-48.
In the overtime period Bethel
was unable to connect on any
field goal attempts. They were
outscored 9-5 to make the final
count 57-53.
The Royals duo of Larson and
Feldman shared scoring honors
with 18 points. Jim Dellich and
Gordy Nordmark aided the offense
with six each. Conelly and Ellens
led Mankato with 16.
Bethel was defeated by Hamline,
Tuesday night, 55-54, in a wild
Battle at Norton Fieldhouse. The
score was tied at half 22 each.
In the second period the Royals
led by as much as 13 before the
Piper comeback. Bethel scored
only four points in the last six
Yesterday afternoon, they host-ed
the Concordia Comets. That
game was played after the dead-line
for this week's issue of the
Tomorrow night the Royals trav-el
to Ashland, Wisconsin to chal-lenge
the Lumberjacks of North-land
College. Bethel defeated the
Jacks earlier this month, 70-51.
Andy Feldman with 19 points and
Dan Larson with 16 paced that
On Tuesday the Royals will play
their final game of the season.
western College of Orange City,
They are entertaining the North-
Iowa. That game will mark the end
of the college basketball careers
of Royal seniors Tim Weko and
Andy Feldman.
Andy summed up his feeling by
saying, "I won't be looking for-ward
to Tuesday night. Other years
you don't mind the last game be-cause
the season is long." He talk-ed
about the closeness of the play-ers
on this year's team, and then
added wistfully, "I wish there were
another 24 games to play."
Tim Weko expressed the same
basic sentiment. I'm gonna miss
the playing," he said. "Just when
you start to really learn how to
play, you're a senior, and it's over.
In a way," he continued, "we've
been successful. But record-wise,
which is what everyone looks at,
we really haven't been."
Win or lose, Tuesday's game will
be a rough one because when its
over, two Royals will hang up their
jerseys for the final time.
Andy Feldman led the Royals
with 18, and Larson followed with
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2010 Football
Anderson 28, Bluffton 23
Turnovers slow Beavers in 28-23 loss at Anderson
October 16, 2010
By: Josh Bruner, sports information assistant
ANDERSON, Indiana - The Bluffton University football traveled to Anderson University to face the Ravens in an HCAC matchup on Saturday, October 16, 2010. Bluffton once again started with a strong first quarter, as they took an early lead of 14-7 after 15 minutes of play. The win bumped the Ravens up to 2-4 overall with a 2-2 record in the HCAC. The loss dropped the Beavers below the .500 mark as they fell to 3-4 overall with a 2-3 record in the HCAC.


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Since January 1st Maranello tells the story of Ferrari's present through the lens of its past and also with a clear eye to its future, and has now been flanked by the MEF (Museo Enzo Ferrari) in Modena. The latter is built around the house in which Enzo Ferrari was born in that city in 1898. The MEF tells the story of Enzo Ferrari as a young boy discovering the irresistible allure of the world of motor racing, his career as a driver in 1920s, as the driving force behind the Scuderia Ferrari in the 1930s, and then as Ferrari the Constructor from 1947 onwards.
The two museums complement each other brilliantly. Maranello gives visitors an insight into the Ferrari of today: the world's most powerful constructor, and the cars on show are a mix of our most iconic models and our contemporary ones.
In Modena, however, the cars exhibited range from pre-war Alfas to the first Ferrari ever built and the most significant models in Enzo Ferrari's career. From next June, the Founder's home will also host an exhibition of Ferrari engines as Enzo Ferrari, in fact, always felt that the engine was the most important component of any car. Both museums are open every day with the exception of Christmas Day and New Year's Day, and also have their own websites, of course.
Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is the first theme park dedicated to the Maranello marque and offers visitors an amazing experience for all the senses. Aimed at people of all ages, it presents a tribute to the Legend and its unique characteristics of passion, excellence, style and performance.
Situated on the Yas island, FWAD has a surface area of 200,000 square meters, all under cover, which makes it the biggest indoor park in the world. There are over 20 attractions for visitors to enjoy, from the must futuristic such as Formula Rossa, the worlds fastest rollercoaster, which can accelerate its cars from 0 to 240 km/h in the same time as a Formula 1 car, to the four dimensional Speed of Magic, or the chance to enjoy a virtual trip through Italy, as well as offering a taste of Maranello cuisine, even though it is thousand of kilometres away. Located in a part of the world that is developing rapidly, at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, Ferrari World Abu Dhabi has joined the ranks of the top tourist destinations in the world.
Further to the opening of the first Ferrari Store in Maranello in 2002, and the consequent area inside the Museo Ferrari, the retail network has been increasing through a series of new openings in Italy and abroad which consist of more than 40 stores among which St Petersburg and Sochi (Europe), Dubai and Abu Dhabi (UAE), Singapore and Macau (Asia) and New York and Miami (USA).
Ferrari's brand development and protection activities involve the management of Ferrari licensing contracts, retail activities pursued through a chain of Ferrari stores, and the development of a line of products sold exclusively in the aforementioned and through www.store.ferrari.com.
Some important Ferrari licensees are: Oakley (sunglasses), Bburago (play-set), Carrera (electric racing slot car), Puma (clothing and sport accessories), Cobra (golf equipment), Microsoft, Sony Polyphony and Electronic Arts (videogames), Hublot (high-end watches), Movado (Scuderia Ferrari Watches), Tod's (leather goods), Perfume Holding (perfumes), Motorola (mobile phones), Colnago (bicycles), Cartorama (back-to-school) and RCS (publishing), TeamTex (car seats and strollers), Lego (Lego toys), Thrustamaster (game controllers).


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October 6, 2011
Fifteen youngsters to be chosen based on application; deadline Oct. 25
HIAWATHA — On Nov. 5, the Brown County chapter of Quail Forever is sponsoring the Sixth Annual Stan Boos Youth Hunt, a quail and pheasant hunt for youngsters age 11 through 16. Those interested should obtain an application in the Hiawatha Middle or High School office. The number of participants is limited to 15. A shotgun will be given away to one lucky youth hunter.
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New Breast Prosthesis Program at Oncology Center
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
One out of eight women will hear their doctor say those terrifying words—"You have breast cancer."
Many of these women agree that the time between diagnosis and treatment is the most difficult.
While learning to cope with a flood of emotions related to their diagnosis, these women are also faced with making multiple decisions regarding the treatment of their disease.
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Debbie Beeson, the Center's breast cancer patient navigator (and also a breast cancer survivor), is the coordinator of the program, and along with oncology social worker Tina Jackson has recently become a certified mastectomy fitter.
"We have equipped a room for fitting that is private, cozy and helps make our patients feel as comfortable as possible in this situation," said Beeson. "Often our patients come in covered up and unconfident. It's incredible to see them leave with a huge smile on their face and an obvious change in the way they feel about themselves. It's an amazing transformation."
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Tuesday, 4 May 2010
A call to action?
Makes me think about why I write the blog, well kinda, I enjoy writing, to me it's a form of expression that is sometimes easier than talking.
It's not that good(my writing I mean) but people take the time out of their busy lives to read it and that in itself is appreciated.
So Pete's blog(if you didn't click on the link) was about the general lack of inspiration in beer blogging at the moment and he has a point, apart from a couple of people there does seem to be a malaise on the beer blogging scene at the moment.
So what IS interesting? what does make people prick their ears up and listen?
Certainly not the crap I was spewing out with beer of the day just to keep my mind ticking over. Safe to say his slap in the chops worked, why be lazy when you can at least try and be interesting.
Pete was very correct in saying that some blogs have become an extended form of ticking and I could certainly point out a few, not going to though, glass houses and all that!
So what if I drank this beer or that beer and enjoyed it or didn't? who the fuck cares??
I would think that the brewer would care, if I was a brewer I would personally enjoy people writing good stuff about my beer, even bad stuff that was praising their beer would/should give a brewer a sense of achievement.
As manager of The Rake I have worked my arse off in the last 20 months to turn around a reputation of knowledge without care and every time I read something good about The Rake I feel a sense of achievement.
So is it really so bad that people are 'ticking' beers on their blogs? I've recently become aware that whenever I used Ratebeer by rating a beer I was critiquing someone's work, isn't that what beer blogging is? Our opinions of other peoples work? Anyway I went from using Ratebeer as a form of ticking to using it as a tool for finding out about beers for work. Why would I do this? mainly I suppose because I didn't think that I was qualified to make such criticism about something I knew very little about, I still don't and I won't 'score' beer in that way until I am arrogant enough to believe my own hype.
So, in summation then, I will continue to write about beer that I enjoy and beer that I don't but I will never again 'rate' a beer as better than another, I mean what's the point, it's all subjective anyway.
9 comments:
- Pete Brown said...
Nice thoughtful post.
At the end of the day you have to ask what blogs are for - the point is that everyone is empowered to write and publish their thoughts. If other people don't want to to read them, they don't have to.
Blogging can be a form of therapy, or just something for self-satisfaction - there's my blog what I wrote.
No one has the right to say what you should and shouldn't write about on your personal blog. But my comments pertain to anyone who wants their stuff to be read more widely. If that's why you blog, that's when you have to try and be more interesting and varied, simply because there are so many people doing it now!
- 5 May 2010 at 08:09
- Rabidbarfly said...
Cheers for stopping by Pete, I think if you join a rankings system then there has to be an element of self satisfaction to it and certainly for me there is that as well as a theraputic venting process sometimes.
When I joined wilkio it was out of morbid curiosity, I wanted to know how popular it was in the blogosphere now, just having the ranking place on my blog reminds me that I should try and keep it more interesting but posts such as yours which inspired this one are also good to give you a verbal kick up the arse, thanks!
- 5 May 2010 at 08:25
- Jeff Rosenmeier said...
Don't worry about the stats, man. Want to increase traffic? Mention the C word. ;)
- 5 May 2010 at 09:13
- Rabidbarfly said...
@Jeff, Cascade? Chinook? Centennia?
- 5 May 2010 at 10:30
- Sid Boggle said...
You don't even have to mention it - just add it to the labels... B-)
Seriously, nice work, lad.
- 5 May 2010 at 11:13
- DemonBrewer said...
@ Jeff, forget the C word, surely on a beer blog, given that the Taliban of the Ale world stalk the blogs for new ticking and moaning opportunities, surely (as you well know...) it's the K~# word which REALLY gets em going ;-)
- 5 May 2010 at 11:58
- Cooking Lager said...
I love your blog. Keep doing it, fella.
- 5 May 2010 at 13:27
- Jeff Rosenmeier said...
@Glyn - my current favourite is Columbus, oh yeah!
I was of course refering to Pete opening a can of whoopass on CAMRA once again! When I write my book they get a chapter for sure.
Keep the blog going man, screw the stats, they are obviously bullshit anyway.
- 5 May 2010 at 15:50
- Rabidbarfly said...
Cookie - comments like that get you free beers when you're in London! Cheers geez!
- 5 May 2010 at 15:50


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Rihanna for Josephine Baker biopic?
Rihanna is being courted to play Josephine Baker.
The 'Diamonds' hitmaker is producers' first choice to play the iconic American-born French dancer in a new biopic about her life, based on her autobiography 'Josephine'.
Noosa Films is set to produce the project after winning rights to the book from French publishers, Editions Robert Laffont, and producer W. Lance Reynolds hopes to cast the Bajan singer-and-actress in the lead role.
He said in a statement: ''Rihanna is one of the most talented performers of this millennium and with her unique acting and performing abilities I have no doubt she will bring Josephine back to life on the big screen.''
Born in America in 1905, Baker became a French citizen in 1937 after moving to Paris, where she was renowned as a world class dancer and stage performer.
The cabaret star was the first African-American female to feature in a major movie, starring in 1934's 'Zouzou', and was given the Croix de guerre, a prestigious French military honour, for her efforts in aiding the French Resistance during World War II.
Married four times and mother to 12 adopted children, Baker's personal life was as notable as her glitzy 50 year career.
The revue performer has previously been portrayed on screen by Sonia Rolland in Woody Allen's 2011 comedy 'Midnight in Paris' and Karine Plantadit in Salma Hayek's Oscar-nominated 'Frida'.
Meanwhile, Motown star Diana Ross has long lobbied to bring Baker's life in a biopic but to no avail.
Rihanna recently made her movie debut with a role in 'Battleship' in 2012.


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NAM Model Forecasts
Current NAM SL Pressure/Precipitation Forecast
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Here's a city-by-city breakdown of the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite, which showed a 0.1% fall in November, not seasonally adjusted.
Prices declined in 10 of the 20 metropolitan areas in November on seasonal weakness, but they were up 5.5% from the prior year for the strongest annual growth since 2006. Despite a positive long-term trend, prices remained about 30% below a 2006 peak. Full story: November home prices tick down, Case-Shiller says
Atlanta: Prices rose 0.1% in November, and were up 7.6% from the same period last year.
Boston: Prices decreased 0.9% in November, but posted an annual gain of 2.3%.
Charlotte: Monthly prices decreased 0.3%, and increased 5.1% over the past 12 months.
Chicago: Prices decreased 1.3% in November, the weakest monthly result among the 20 cities. Prices in Chicago rose 0.8% over the past year.
Cleveland: Prices decreased 0.8% in November, but were up 1.8% from a year earlier.
Dallas: Prices fell 0.1% in November, and were up 5.7% from a year earlier.
Denver: Prices rose 0.4% in November, and have gained 7.8% in the past 12 months.
Detroit: Prices decreased 0.3% in November, and were up 11.9% from a year earlier.
Las Vegas: Prices rose 0.4% in November, and were up 10% from the year-earlier month.
Los Angeles: Prices rose 0.4% in November and were up 7.7% from a year earlier.
Miami: Prices increased 0.8% in November, and were up 9.9% from a year earlier.
Minneapolis: Prices rose 1% in November, and were up 11.1% from the prior year.
New York: Prices fell 1.1% in November, and were down 1.2% from the prior year, making New York the only city with negative annual growth.
Phoenix: Prices rose 1.4% in November, and were up 22.8% from the prior year, the largest annual increase among the 20 cities.
Portland: Prices moved 0.2% lower in November, and were up 6.7% from a year prior.
San Diego: Prices rose 0.9% in November, and were up 8% from November 2011.
San Francisco: Prices rose 1.4% in November and were up 12.7% from a year before.
Seattle: Monthly prices increased 0.5% and rose 7.4% over the past 12 months.
Tampa: Prices declined 0.2% in November, and were up 6.8% from a year prior.
Washington: Prices fell 0.6% in November, and were up 4.4% from a year earlier.


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Dorothy M. Schmiesing, 89
Dorothy M. Schmiesing, 89, of 641 Linden Ave., Celina, passed away at 5:50 p.m. Sunday , June 30, 2013, at the Van Wert Inpatient Hospice Center, in Van Wert.
She was born on Dec. 17, 1923, in Cranberry Prairie, to the late Clarence and Helen (Reiss) Stachler.
On May 18, 1946, she married Elmer Schmiesing, who preceded her in death on March 30, 2011. She is survived by two children, Sam (Sue) Schmiesing, Coldwater, Shirley (Ronald) Fisher, St. Marys; five grandchildren, Jeff (Kristy) Schmiesing, Columbus, Sheri (Brian) Knapke, Columbus, Whitney (Jason) Fine, Columbus, Kelli (Kris) Parrish, Columbus, Brad Fisher, (fiancé Alisha Warthman), St. Marys; four great-grandchildren, Samantha and Charlie Schmiesing, Addison and Austin Knapke; sister Barbara (James) Leistenschneier, St. Henry; brother Richard Stachler, St. Henry; and her sister-in-law Rita Stachler, St. Henry.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Richard Stachler and her brother-in-law, James Leistenschneider.
Dorothy was a 1942 graduate of St. Henry High School, and was a homemaker. She worked on the family farm, and enjoyed playing cards with friends. Other pastimes were working in the flower gardens in the summer time, and making cookies during the Christmas Holiday with her grandchildren. She also treasured keeping a daily diary for 70 years. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Celina. She was also a member of Ladies Alter Sodality, Ladies Auxiliary-Knights of St. Johns. She was very active in Mercer County Senior Citizens, of Celina.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Celina, the Rev. Kenneth G. Alt C.PP.S., officiating.
Burial will follow in St. Marys Cemetery in Celina.
Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Wednesday at Lehman-Hogenkamp- Dzendzel Funeral Home in Celina.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Community Health Professionals Impatient Hospice Center 1155 Westwood Dr., Van Wert, Ohio, 45891.
Condolences may be left at LHDFuneralHome.com.