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And I am not saying their name as I don't want this post to appear in any Google search for them ......as I don't want them to know how deliriously excited I am to just be there .... in the music...... the glorious music..... surrounded by really good musicians. This will give me a reason to practise. I'll have to ditch the bright red nail polish though.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Just Between You And Me....
And I am not saying their name as I don't want this post to appear in any Google search for them ......as I don't want them to know how deliriously excited I am to just be there .... in the music...... the glorious music..... surrounded by really good musicians. This will give me a reason to practise. I'll have to ditch the bright red nail polish though.
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- AnonymousTuesday, March 20, 2012
Well done you.....big cheers of support from us xxReplyDelete
Wow, that's brilliant! So excited for you xReplyDelete
So happy for you - well done! I can imagine the high u r on.ReplyDelete
You have proved it - we can do anything if we really put our mind to it.
Lou ; )
Proud and inspired by your courage.ReplyDelete
I'm going to get out my dusty guitar after work today.
Congratulations! You're boys must be so proud of their mum. Aah the sound of a violin.ReplyDelete
WELL. DONE. YOU!!!!!!ReplyDelete
It's good to do things outside your comfort zone occasionally. Keeps you on your toes.
Big hug well deserved.
Congrats A-M, another one achieved. you only grow if you push yourself out of your boundaries! CathyxReplyDelete
Yay to you! I am standing and applauding for you.ReplyDelete
Great effort.
You will be skipping around the house today feeling so good
Pen x
Well done you! Enjoy.ReplyDelete
TDM xx
Congratulations. Conquering fear is good for the soul. I so enjoy your blog and seeing your lovely boys growing up. I especially like the fact that you didn;t dish the goods through your trying time. We need more closed mouths and respect out there. You are a roll model.ReplyDelete
well done you!ReplyDelete
you're so right. life is out there to be had - you just have to go and take part in it!!
huge congrats.
cheryl xox.
- AnonymousTuesday, March 20, 2012
Well done A-M...Congratulations....bet your boys are as proud as punch of their Mum.ReplyDelete
Well done A-M !!!!!ReplyDelete
Congrats :))))
Well done am! I will be giving this post to my mother to read. She played her whole childhood and won many awards, when she met my father he made some silly comment and having a sensitive heart and being madly in love she gave it up. About 30 or more years later her violins...yes she had many, were returned to her having been in storage all that time. I still remember her picking up one, holding it to her chin...tuning by ear and beginning to play away...it was magical. She hadn't touched it for all those years and it was breathtaking....I keep encouraging her to play with an ensemble etc again but she is shy because she feels her skills aren't what they were...maybe you can inspire her. XxxxReplyDelete
Anything is Possible, I love this mantra. Well done AM, I love your blog and your zest for life! Donna xReplyDelete
That first tentative step back is huge...but you'll be skiping to orchestra rehearsals soon!
Well done and keep having fun.
That's awesome. Go you! So clever.ReplyDelete
That must be an unbelievable feeling to make music together like that.Congrats, Fiona
Bravo!! . Well done AM, your boys must be very proud :)ReplyDelete
V x
What a lovely inspiring post. Yes, well done A-M!ReplyDelete
What an inspiring post. Yes, well done A-M!ReplyDelete
Well done you!!! One we get over the "can I do it" angst that we women put ourselves through time after time it is so worth it!!!ReplyDelete
That is a very cool thing you did.ReplyDelete
If only this blog had a sound track! Congratulations and well done. How lovely to be able to lead by example and show your boys the wonderful world of music.ReplyDelete
Oh that is a truly wonderful story...congratulations to you!ReplyDelete
Well done...first for the courage to try and then for succeeding! There is no limit to what YOU can achieve xxReplyDelete
SO proud of you!! I told you that you were an inspiration ... I don't think I will ever be brave like you, but I will always admire your tenacity! What an awesome example you are to your beautiful boys! I'm incredibly moved by this, and that's just from 'knowing' you through this blog .. how must those closest to you feel?! xxReplyDelete
Woo-Hoo! Good for you:) :) :)ReplyDelete
Well done you! I'm so proud of you and so excited for you too! I'm telling you...this is the year of us...women proving they can do anything they want, no matter what their age!ReplyDelete
Kat :)
Congratulations!!! Such wonderful news xReplyDelete
You're encouraging me to get back into piano - now if I only had the money to buy one (and the space!)
Wow that is such fantastic news A-M - yay!!! So very proud of you. Knock them dead:)ReplyDelete
So exciting for you. Wow. I played in my school orchestra and woodwind ensemble (Flute) but there's no way I'd be good enough these days. the most i do is some christmas carols once a year. Hope you enjoy this venture. well done!ReplyDelete
cheers Fiona
WELL DONE A-M!!!ReplyDelete
You. Inspire. Me. And just as I was looking at my violin tonight and chastising myself for not playing since Christmas. Because of you I will make a concerted effort to pick it up and start practicing regularly again. (proud of you)ReplyDelete
Oh Sweetheart. That is just sensational. I am *so* thrilled for you! Look at the powers you've tapped into within yourself - just fabulous. J xReplyDelete
What a wonderful reminder to keep scaring ourselves silly!ReplyDelete
I love that the conductor remembered you.
You rock!
How exciting! I bet your heart was soaring on wings afterwards! I believe it will be good for your soul to throw yourself into music so regularly again. Well done A-M! Keep us posted. I would love to come see that wonderful group perform and see a certain second violin!ReplyDelete
Brilliant - well done! I'm sure you will LOVE making music again.ReplyDelete
Fantastic A-MReplyDelete
I am so happy for you.
Well done.
You go AM! Congrats. You don't play second fiddle to anyone in spirit, so you'll be just great! Do they need fancy nickel lights for the music stands? Just asking. ;o)ReplyDelete
Oh A.M well done you!!! Thats awsome am so so pleased for you I bet it was like coming home, enjoy every sound you create :))))))ReplyDelete
Awesome news A-M. And you must be looking very youthful for the conductor to have recognised you. I'd take that after 20 years any day! Enjoy your practicing.ReplyDelete
Clare x
How utterly glorious! I am applauding and giving you a standing ovation already. Good on you, girlfriend - you GO!!!ReplyDelete
Well done A-M, that's such wonderful news!! xReplyDelete
Congratulations A-M...I did something similar last year and dusted off my cello (after a decade) and joined the London Doctor's Orchestra. You are right - it does come back...not just managing to get the fingers around the notes, but the fantastic memories of playing in symphony orchestras from my younger days, and the pleasure that it still brings. Enjoy!ReplyDelete
Wooooo hooooooo Yay for you, way to go. Best news of the day. DebReplyDelete
I dusted off my viola after a 10 year hiatus and have been taking lessons ever since. I joined the community orchestra a little while later - I was totally terrified at my first rehearsal but it ended up being a lot of fun. Happy playing!ReplyDelete
You never cease to amaze A-M! Well done you!ReplyDelete
Oh good for you. I love seeing your life unfold and great things happen to you and your boys.ReplyDelete
Congratulations A-M, be very proud of yourself!ReplyDelete
well done you - 45 is the year to be whatever you want to be :) hip hip hooray ! le xoxReplyDelete
Wow, A-M, you're an inspiration!ReplyDelete


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Open houses in Laramie, Saratoga and Steamboat Springs, Colo., will highlight ecological dynamics as local forests respond and move beyond the bark beetle epidemic.
The public is invited to attend any of three informal meetings offered this month by the Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests (MBR) and the University of Wyoming's Ruckelshaus Institute. Forest managers and their UW colleagues will provide insight on the past, present and future of the forests.
Each meeting will begin with presentations by UW researchers and U.S. Forest Service managers, who will explain the bark beetle outbreak and changes in the forest. Presentations will be followed by an informal open house, where the public is encouraged to meet MBR managers to learn more and ask questions about the local management response to the outbreak and opportunities for future forest restoration.
The schedule of meetings is as follows:
Laramie -- Thursday, May 23, 6-8 p.m., Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center auditorium;
Steamboat Springs, Colo. -- Tuesday, May 28, 6-8 p.m., Bud Werner Memorial Library;
Saratoga -- Thursday, May 30, 6-8 p.m., Platte Valley Community Center.
Presenters include Dan Tinker and Brent Ewers, both from the UW Department of Botany. Tinker specializes in fire ecology and Ewers in plant physical ecology. They will discuss how the forests are responding to the bark beetle outbreak.
Additionally, officials from the U.S. Forest Service's Rocky Mountain Region and MBR will discuss management strategies and how the agency fosters forest recovery.
"These meetings are meant to share the story of our recovering forests, allow the public to ask questions and provide an opportunity to meet forest managers in person," says Emilene Ostlind, Ruckelshaus Institute communications coordinator.
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GrimlockPosts: 205Joined: Wed Feb 25, 2009 5:49 pm
Holografic technology how far is it?
Now i have seen some pretty impressive holografic technology amongst others in this Gorillazs concert
Now while i may not be the biggest fan of Yu-Gi-Oh i do like the way they play the game in the anime whit portable holographic projectors that you can carry around your wrist.
So my question is how far along is Holographic technology and when can we might start thinking of such a technology becoming something the average John and Jane Do can afford?
|Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:39 pm
Master_Ghost_KnightPosts: 2752Joined: Sat Feb 21, 2009 11:57 pmLocation: Netherlands Gender: Male
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
I don't think it will be holografic technology that is going to bring us to a 3D media world, however light field manipulating devices (similar to what we already can do with synthetic aperture radar) looks more promissing and I wouldn't be surprised if they become a house hold product within a couple of decades.
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|Sun Apr 01, 2012 11:29 pm
)O( Hytegia )O(Posts: 3135Joined: Fri Nov 13, 2009 11:27 pm Gender: Cake
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
That is all.
Some would insinuate that being drunk at 9 in the morning to be signs of serious issues.
Me? I'd insinuate it as signs of no plans and a refrigerator full of Whiskey and Guinness.
|Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:51 am
LaurensPosts: 2995Joined: Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:24 pmLocation: Norwich UK Gender: Male
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
I'll be interested in holograms when they make one that you can have sex with...
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|Mon Apr 02, 2012 6:29 pm
FrengerPosts: 831Joined: Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:50 pmLocation: Derby, UK Gender: Male
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
Laurens wrote:I'll be interested in holograms when they make one that you can have sex with...
|Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:12 pm
IBSpifyPosts: 463Joined: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:06 am Gender: Pinecone
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
Laurens wrote:I'll be interested in holograms when they make one that you can have sex with...
Again i feel this is a good time to point out my signature.
Contrary to popular belief, full-immersion holographic sex will not destroy society.
Full-immersion holographic sex achievement points will destroy society
|Tue Apr 24, 2012 5:21 pm
DeanPosts: 593Joined: Sun May 22, 2011 1:49 pmLocation: United Kingdom Gender: Pinecone
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
Grimlock wrote:Now i have seen some pretty impressive holografic technology amongst others in this Gorillazs concert
What exactly did you have in mind? Creating holographic images of relatively negligent quality is not especially difficult, and hasn't been for a considerable length of time with modern technology. I mean,lasers and suchlike aren't all that expensive these days. And supposing that at some point in the not-too-distant future (as you allude to); there is some form of large scale use for holograms, then there would no doubt be multiple burgeoning economies in recent times (such as China and India) who would seize the opportunity (so to speak) to lower the cost of the production of those holograms.
But unfortunately, rather like almost any other technological advance that has popular significance among certain people, or "buzzword", gee-whizz novelty in it, the term "holografic" [sic], carries various distinctive assumptions within it, which are in fact nonsense, and more often than not, do not match the reality of the matter. Did you ever note the fact that so-called "normal" or "visible light" holograms , such as the ones that are displayed on modern credit and debit-cards , appear to have luminous (multi)-colour effects? Indeed, necessarily so . . . holograms per se rely upon wave-interference for them to perform their desired functions properly. However, that also necessitates that there is a different diffraction for disparate wavelengths, and hence so called "rainbow effects"â"¢. And also, it's a given in the case of holographic imagery that you are trying to generate a 3-dimensional image (3D), from a 2D surface, as you can see in that video. But 3D constructs obviously have volume . . . and as a consequence, at least with current technology, it's always going to be comparatively low-resolution, when contrasted against 2D images, such as 1080p YouTube videos.
Of course, I understand and fully acknowledge that in a lot of science-fiction worlds , most of which are constructed (written) by people who would very likely not know real science if it bit them in the behind , seem to be fixated with the concept of holographic images and interfaces, as their writers surely are. And while it most definitely is a physical possibility, it is not a mystical panacea. The idea itself is not magic, but rather enciphering. "Memory"-technology to date, is dependent on 2D or very fine layers-access. Theoretically, it may be possible for us to reverse the holographic generational process, with the utilization of photoreceptive chemistry (of the kind used in LED sensors and such), in 3 spatial dimensions, and then (re)produce our addressable surface or platform in 2D . . . and then use whatever holographic techniques are readily available to map out our addressed 2D image in 3D space, and the original could be read out with a fairly simple laser, or other optical array. The magic is simply the ability to utilize an unmapped-3D-space to correspond to a rigidly-mapped 2D space. Admittedly, it sounds very good (and fascinating) , and it's not inconceivable that some brilliant engineer or technician somewhere, some day, will go about figuring how to make it work efficiently , but the engineering and computing challenges in such an enterprise would be truculent indeed! And among many other problems, the recording material itself, will have to have a minimal or rigorously calculated distortion of light, and the recording process in itself would be required to intercept light to record the wave interference, but NOT to such a degree that it would cause interference of the adjacent interference patterns themselves.
Perhaps I'm just ignorant of regular human interactions, but that aside: what do you think you would be able to do with the technology? There are serious physical limitations and restrictions on what is possible (or testable) even theoretically, and even more so practically. But once again, on small-scale resolutions (the equivalent of 200-400p or something similar), it genuinely isn't all that difficult to achieve. There has just been no reason thus far to accept that such technologies could create profits to such a degree that large business and corporate entities could justify creating an assembly-line somewhere, where the pieces are all stacked together in a simple, consumer-friendly package. And indeed, with the ubiquitous surge in high-resolution printers, low-resolution holograms could (very) likely be printed on transparencies, and viewed with a monochromatic light, and possibly a laser or spread-lens. The existence of commercially viable hologram-production would effectively mean there would be a need for higher-resolution printing of the aforementioned interference patterns. But that itself; is not difficult. You CD-burner can do everything required in this process, and contains within it all of the necessary hardware and is close to , if not, actually at , the resolution required! You could burn the specified interference pattern (whatever it may be), onto a disk, hit with a sufficiently powerful laser beam, and then you've formed a holographic image, effectively.
What is it that would justify making it available to almost everyone? I mean, I could very probably (given a considerable number of months, though); create something just like what I've described above, almost from scratch. But you already can purchase "kits", of limited usage, to create holograms with. But it will be at a hideous cost, I would imagine, at least for the time being. I might invest in one at some point, if I can find both time and will power to do so.
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WarKPosts: 1229Joined: Wed Aug 12, 2009 9:59 am Gender: Tree
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
|Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:02 pm
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Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
IBSpify wrote:Laurens wrote:I'll be interested in holograms when they make one that you can have sex with...
I was going to quote it if you hadn't pointed it out already.
And death is forever
And does forever have a life to call its own?
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As much as I know
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CommonEnlightenmentPosts: 649Joined: Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:06 amLocation: Plato Crater Gender: Time Lord
Re: Holografic technology how far is it?
Laurens wrote:I'll be interested in holograms when they make one that you can have sex with...
It would probably be the most logical sex one could ever have......
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Volume XLII—No. 1 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, September 21, 1966
Year's First Academic Convocation
Includes Recognitions, Akenson Talk
For the past five years it has
been a tradition at Bethel College
to devote the first full week of
school to spiritual emphasis. Re-ligious
Emphasis Week is intended
to stabilize a deep spiritual com-mitment
on the part of the faculty
as well as in the lives of the stu-dents.
The guest speaker is Rev. Don-ald
Miller from the Christian and
Missionary Alliance Church in Sy-racuse,
New York. He has enjoyed
a very successful pastorate there
for nine years. Rev. Miller is a
graduate of Taylor University and
Nyack Missionary College. He has
also had an unusual ministry a-mong
the faculty and students of
the University of Syracuse.
Rev. Miller will be speaking dur-ing
Chapel services Tuesday
through Friday, September 20-23.
Today he was honored at an 11:30
a.m. luncheon in the President's
Dining Room.
In the evenings Rev. Miller has
been sharing in the devotional per-iods
of dorms and off-campus resi-dence
homes. He is also available
by appointment for personal coun-seling
during the day. Any student
This year Bethel College h a s
gained more faculty and staff per-sonnel
than in many years. There
are approximately 30 persons who
are either new or have changed
their positions at Bethel.
Dr. Wallace Anderson, who is
the new Assistant Dean of Stu-dents,
attended Nebraska Wesley-an
University and Bethel College
and Seminary. He received his Ed.
D. from Colorado State College.
Before coming to Bethel, he was
counselor and psychologist in the
Littleton, Colo. public school sys-tem.
Dr. Raymond Bartholomew is
an Associate Professor of Eng-lish.
He is a graduate of Cedar-ville
College and received his
M.A. and Ph.D. from Western
Reserve University. Previously
he was chairman of the Division
of Language and Literature at
Robert M. Blomgren, who is an
Instructor in Mathematics, receiv-ed
his B.S. from North Park Col-lege
and his M.S. at the Univer-sity
of Minnesota. He has done
further graduate work at Minne-sota
and at the University of Wash-ington.
Mr. Jack T. Buss is an Instruct-or
in Biology. He graduated from
wishing to see him may make an
appointment with Miss Joyce Jo-hannessen
whose office is located
in Seminary Hall.
First take a group of fledgeling
actors signed up at the Drama
Department Booth during fresh-man
registration. Add some soph-omores
never before on the Bethel
College stage. Then give a few Roy-al
Players of the past their first
stabs at major roles or directing
tasks. Result? An interesting pack-age
of dramas labelled "New Tal-ents"
and scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
production Saturday, Sept. 24, in
the Bethel College Auditorium.
This year's "New Talents" fea-tures
two serious dramas and a
melodrama, all under student di-rection.
The three directors, ex-perienced
workers for the Drama
Department, all are seniors. Roger
Bethel College and is finishing his
master's program at Wayne State
Mr. Tom Correll, Instructor in
Anthropology, taught part-time
at Bethel last year while contin-uing
his education at the Uni-versity
of Minnesota. He receiv-ed
his B.A. and M.A. degrees
from Minnesota and also attend-ed
Northwestern College and
summer Institute of linguistics.
Before coming to Bethel, he and
his wife served as missionaries
to the Eskimos of Central Cana-da.
Mr. Loren Crabtree also taught
part-time last year. This year he
is full-time Instructor in History
and Political Science. He received
his B.A. from Ellendale State
Teachers College and his M.A.
from the University of Minnesota,
where he is a Ph.D. candidate.
Mr. David Johnson is a Bethel
alumnus, and also studied at North-western
College of Watertown and
Bob Jones University. He received
his B.A. from Bethel and is com-pleting
his M.A. at the University
of Minnesota. He is Instructor in
Sociology this year.
Next week's CLARION will con-tinue
the summary of new faculty
and staff members.
As the most formal opening cer-emony
for the 1966-67 school year
at Bethel, the autumn academic
convocation listed for Tuesday
morning, Sept. 27 in the Field-house
will feature recognition of
entering classes in both college and
seminary, honoring of scholarship
winners, and an address by a Beth-el
graduate who has gone on to
leadership in Christian education
and pastoral circles.
Opening the 11:00 a.m. exercises
will be the traditional procession-al
of first-semester scholarship
winners and other student parti-cipants,
together with faculty
members garbed in their academic
The induction of entering col-lege
and seminary classes will
follow, with Clifford Anderson
Inouye cues the cast of the first
drama, "The Passing of the Third
Floor Back," as they prepare for
Saturday, with Annette Ryding
giving artistic leadership to the
melodrama, "Lily, the Felon's
Daughter," and nprr:-1 Berg fiireet-ing
the final play, "Construction."
"The Passing of the Third
Floor Back" centers around the
arrival of a stranger at a board-ing
house where he takes with-out
complaint the room at the
third floor rear which all earlier
roomers have 'nixed.' He then
proceeds to personally encount-er
each of the other residents,
dealing with their individual
Bob Bryant as the stranger is
supported by Bruce Lawson, Leo-nard
Sammons, Ragene Ryberg,
Arlene Nelson, Ruth Machnee, and
Larry Day in six other interesting
In "Lily, the Felon's Daughter,"
the heroine, played by Faith Karls-son,
is continually harassed by the
villian Sinclair, played by Lyn
Hanson, who wrathfully attempts
to convince her of the evils in the
La Von Brauer Mattson, senior
at Bethel, is performing a recital
September 25, at 3:00 p.m. in Sem-inary
Hall Chapel. She is enrolled
in the field of Music Education,
majoring in voice under the in-struction
of Clara J. Seecamp
Klatke. Her accompanist is Mary
Stauffer, alumna of Bethel.
The recital is comprised of five
"Alma Mia" from the opera
"Floridante," along with "Let
the Bright Seraphim," from the
oratorio "Samson." A trumpet
obligato is performed by David
Wedeking, seminary student.
"God, Create in Me a Clean
Heart," by Dietrich Buxtehude, in
which she is joined by a string trio
and Owen Halleen, as student
deans on the two campuses, of-ficiating.
Included in this segment is the
investiture ceremony for first-ytar
students from both Bethel cam-puses
(freshmen in the college and
juniors in the seminary) in which
representatives of these classes and
the senior classes of both schools
will participate.
Scholarship winners to be hon-ored
Tuesday in a later part of
the program fall into four cate-gories:
seminary scholarship hold-ers;
college juniors and seniors
with grade point averages of 3.6
or above who are recipients of aca-demic
scholarships; upper-class-men
with averages above 3.2 who
are winners of honor scholarships;
and freshmen who are attending
life of her true love, Compton,
portrayed by Gordon Peterson.
Others in the cast filled with
"characteristically cornball" parts,
are Betty Eckstrom, Steve Peder-son,
Lana Neander, Greg Maurer,
Jcannc r-rz:-.;31c...;:, and Stagg.
The stark drama "Construc-tion",
which will close the even-ing
program, uses a minimum of
scenery in viewing the crisis of
nine persons in a wilderness
setting, all unaware of why they
are there and what they are to
do with the building materials
found nearby. The sudden en-trance
of a builder, played by
Dave Carlson, who claims to un-derstand
the purpose behind it
all, brings the play to a vividly
symbolic climax.
Jeff Loomis plays Schmidt, the
spokesman for the confused colony
of nine, with Janet Hurt, Roberta
Parks, Jerry Loomis, Randy In-ouye,
Jan Woodard, Lynn Bergfalkj
Debby Coyle, and Dave Stewart in
the remaining roles.
There will be a moderate admis-sion
consisting of Marion Stipe, David
Nydegger and Sharon Jones com-prises
section number two.
The following selections obtain-ed
from contemporary composers
make up section three. "Out of the
Depths" by Alan Hovhaness, Eric
Thiman's "Thou Wilt Keep Him in
Perfect Peace" and "In Thee, 0
Lord, Do I Put My Trust" by Jan
Bender, are the pieces.
"Wie Melodien zieht es" and
"Der Schmied," both by Brahms,
along with "Morgen" written by
Strauss comprise section four.
The fifth and final segment con-sists
of two selections: "Love In
the Dictionary," by Celius Dough-erty,
and Victor Hely-Hutchinson's
score of "Old Mother Hubbard."
Bethel with national and district
C.Y.F. scholarships. The awards
will be recognized in a brief cere-mony
by the academic deans of
the college and seminary, Webster
Muck and Gordon Johnson, respec-tively.
Keynoting the morning session
is the address by Dr. Curtis B.
Akenson, minister of the First
Baptist Church, Minneapolis, on
"Things That Matter Most." Dr.
Akenson is an alumnus of Bethel
Junior College, later having re-ceived
a Ph.D. from the Uni-versity
of Minnesota and a D.D.
from Northern Baptist Theologi-cal
He recently served as president
of Northwestern College, Minnea-polis,
and while there made his
most recent appearance at Bethel,
as peaker at last year's Homecom-ing
Concert Series
Now Is Reality
This year the Bethel Concert
Series brings to Bethel world re-nowned
artists in the field of mu-qipni
Stan Olsen, James Keim, and a
few others interested in the cul-tural
life of Bethel banded to-gether
last spring to schedule the
series of four concerts which are
to be held in the fieldhouse with
an 8:00 p.m. curtain time.
The first performer in the Con-cert
Series is Jerome Hines, one of
the singers most in demand from
the Metropolitan Opera Company.
Mr. Hines, a bass-baritone, will
perform works from operatic, clas-sical,
and religious traditions on
October 10.
Hans Stadlmair will conduct the
Munich Chamber Orchestra on
October 31. After concert tours
throughout Europe, parts of Africa
and Latin America, the Munich
Chamber Orchestra tours North
America for the first time. The
city of Munich supports the Or-chestra,
which performs the works
of old masters from the Baroque
Following a tour of European
music centers, pianist Eva Knar-dahl
will perform in the Bethel
Concert Series on January 26. As
the official pianist for the Minne-apolis
Symphony Orchestra she
centers her career around that or-ganization,
but has performed in
San Francisco, Oakland, and the
New Hampshire Music Festival.
Selections from Bach to blues
bring the Norman Luboff Choir to
Bethel March 10. Norman Luboff,
the conductor, arranges and com-poses
many of the choir's selec-tions.
The Luboff Choir makes al-most
yearly appearances in most
states throughout the nation. Hav-ing
toured Europe, these twenty-five
to thirty voices are planning
a coming tour of the Orient.
Bethel students and faculty are
requested to purchase tickets in
the Coffee Shop Wednesday, Sept-ember
21, 1966. Tickets will be on
sale from 10:30 to 3:30. A season
ticket costs students and faculty
alike only $7.00. Individual tickets
are $2.50.
Chapel Attendance, again pressing facilities to capacity in its
annual first-of-the-year spurt, provides the audience for Religious .
Emphasis Week and Rev. Donald Miller.
Minister For Collegians
Addresses Chapel Hours
Added Instructors In All Areas
Spark New Classroom Year
New Talents' Take To Bethel Stage
For Saturday Drama Performance
Soprano Recitalist Programs
Variety Of Concert Selections
Page 2
the CLARION Wednesday, September 21, 1966 Illinois Senator's Prayer Amendment
Campus Living Demands Discovers Negative Baptist Reaction
Primacy of Participation
Well, we're back in school again. So what? I mean, is it
going to be just another year? You know, the same old thing —
fall out of bed, sit through classes bored to death, check your
p.o., feed your face, gossip in the library or coffee shop, play
the gay blade and not miss "watching" every football game,
basketball game, or track meet — just don't try anything that
might challenge your own initiative or inventiveness.
What am I driving at? Well, basically how can I make this
year different from any other — exciting, challenging, reward-ing?
That is really saying, how can I get the most from my
college experience?
The key word is participation. I would have said "involve-ment,"
but because that has become a Bethel cliche — and
you know about cliches — I didn't.
We have been warned repeatedly that we only get as
much out of our college experience as we apply to it. We have
been warned so much that the warning too has become a
cliche. Nevertheless, it is true.
We have also been reminded that our college experience
must not be regarded as preparation for life, but experienced
and lived as life. These four years are not to be regarded as
an unproductive chunk to time during which we vegetate,
absorbing as much learning as possible, but producing little,
if any, fruit.
The question, then, how can I get the most from my
college experience really is asking how can I make the most
of my life? Again we return to the cliche — involvement.
But, involvement in what? For athletes there is com-petition
in the sports arena — basketball, football, hockey,
baseball, wrestling, track, cross country, the intramural pro-gram.
For musicians there are musical organizations — band,
choir, male chorus, women's choir, orchestra.
The Christian service office is crying for helpers — speak-ers,
singers, pianists, drivers. The campus publications are
in dire need of your assistance. There are numerous campus
clubs to serve the many needs and interests of the college stu-dent.
The Speech Department offers varied activities in for-ensics.
Student government is just recovering from another
attack of "apathy," this one almost fatal, and asks your
assistance on committees and in the governing process by
active representation. Sharing actively in the classroom,
while not as dramatic as some of the other forms of "in-volvement",
is a vital means for stimulating your own think-ing
and whetting the edge of your own originality.
Now don't give me the old excuse, "But I just don't have
time." Bull. What you really mean is, "I don't want to." But
Brother, if you want to make the most of your college exper-ience,
and more important, your life, you haven't time to say
acataa aptd 6ecerea
Tyrone Guthrie Theatre
September 21, 22, 25, 27, 30, "The Doctor's Dilemma", a witty and
urbane exploration of the professional opinions of the medical man,
which, as Bernard Shaw reveals, are all too often the human heart's
substitute for human morals, is being presented. All performances
begin at 8:00 p.m.
Eugene O'Neill's haunting, often startling, revelation of the many
facets of the human character, as seen from within the confines of a
tramp steamer as it journeys around the world, "S.S. Glencairn" plays
September 24, 29.
"As You Like It," William Shakespeare's comedy in which Rosalind,
Orlando and others use disguise, intrigue and wit to woo and win
their partners plays September 24 and 28.
September 23 the Guthrie presents "The Skin of Our Teeth," in
which the Antrobus family survives centuries of calamity by the skin
of their teeth in a "comic strip" tribute to the average man by Thor-ton
Theatre in the Round
September 23, 24, and 30 Theatre in the Round presents "Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" where Edward Albee presents in the action
of one evening four characters whose world of "fun and games" makes
for an evening of emotional and intellectual fireworks.
Veterans Administration
The nation's 1,200 university and college newspapers, magazines
and other publications have been asked to join the Veterans Adminis-tration
in a saturation campaign to acquaint every veteran-student
with all details of the payment procedures of the new G.I. Bill's educa-tion
The VA cautions that the veteran going to school should be pre-pared
to pay his expenses for at least two months.
The law requires that monthly certificates of attendance signed
by veterans be sent to the VA attesting the veteran has attended
classes. Necessarily these certificates can be sent only after a month's
schooling is completed. On the 20th of the following month, VA mails
the payment checks. Proper and prompt sending of these certificates
will eliminate delays.
Allowances are:
Monthly Payments Available to Veterans:
Type of Program No One Two or More
Dependents Dependent Dependents
Full-Time $100 $125 $150
Three-Quarter Time 75 95 75
Half-Time 50 65 75
Less than Half-Time Rate of established charges for tuition and
fee. not to exceed $50 of more than one-
WASHINGTON (BPA) — Sen. Birch Bayh (D.,
Ind.) inserted in the Congressional Record the reso-lutions
of three national Baptist conventions in op-position
to the proposed Dirksen prayer amendment.
These were among testimonies the Indiana Sen-ator
put in the Record giving the arguments on both
sides of the issue. The arguments were given during
a week and a half of hearings on the proposed amend-ment
by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Con,
stitutional Amendments, of which Bayh is chairman.
The Baptist viewpoints were presented to the
Judiciary Subcommittee in testimony given by C.
Emanuel Carlson, executive director of the Baptist
Joint Committee on Public Affairs, Washington,
Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R., Ill.) previously an-nounced
that he would force the issue to the floor of
the Senate on August 30 without waiting for action
by the Judiciary Subcommittee. Since printed copies
of the record of the hearings were not available for
the Senators to study, Bayh put selected testimonies
in the Congressional Record, a daily record of Senate
and House activities.
In announcing this procedure, Bayh said that he
agreed with the Illinois Senator that Congress should
do something to clarify the misinformation that the
public has about the Supreme Court decisions on
prayer and Bible reading in public schools.
Bayh said that he was not convinced that a con-stitutional
amendment is the proper way of clari-
Senate President Kei
States Senate's Worth
ly student centered (that's where
the Social Committee comes in).
But we need a voice. We need
some place to say as a group "We
want a hockey team," — or a space
program, or free books or what-ever
it happens to be. That's where
Senate comes in. It is both your
mouthpiece and the government of
the student body.
As a result our control is over
a lot of seemingly piddly little
trivial items. We don't decide
about continued association with
the Conference, tuition costs, or
expulsion of teachers or stu-dents.
But then again this is a
corporation, not a democracy.
If we disagree with major policy
we can 1) voice our disagree-ment
while we abide by it, or
2) leave. I see no honest alter-natives.
So here we are left with plan-ning
activities for social life and
publishing weekly newspapers. If
there's any emphasis which I hope
to push personally it is that of
being a mouthpiece for the stu-dent
and lobbying in his interest.
To summarize there are a few
new things on the horizon — a
campus radio station, a concert
series, possibly a coffee house.
There may be a new emphasis on
voicing opinion. But there's noth-ing
earth-shaking to revolutionize
all our lives. It's enough just to
do what we've already been given.
Explains Education Bill
quarter time; not to exceed $25, if one-quarter
time or less.
While on Active Duty Rate of established charges for tuition and
fees, or $100 per month for a full-time
course, whichever is less. No allowance for
Cooperative Training $80 $100 $12?
Correspondence Cost only of established charges for lessons
completed and serviced by school.
Full-time training courses are 14 semester hours, or the equivalent.
Three-quarter time equals 10 to 13 hours, inclusive.
Half-time is 7 to 9 semester hours, inclusive.
A cooperative program is a full-time program consisting of class-room
and alternate training in a business or industrial establishment,
with the training supplemental to the educational institutional portion.
When the course is of less than a regular semester, such as summer
school, the 14-hour standard is used or the equivalent in class plus
laboratory, fieldwork, research or other types of prescribed activity.
Correspondence course allowances will be computed on what non-veterans
pay for the same courses. These allowances will be paid
Outside work is not the interest of the VA. Money or wages from
such outside activities are entirely the veteran-sudent's business.
by Jim Keim
What does student government
at Bethel do? This was a crucial
question last year in a "Senate is
or ought to be dead" dispute. The
answer to our question is rather
broad and might start with a groc-ery
list of the old stand-bys like
publications, social programs, and
But the pointed question came
"Why not just establish a Social
Committee in charge of such like?
Is that all we do is plan banquets
and parties." The obvious answer
is that if that was all we did we
should let the Social Committee
take over. Why not?
The opponents of the Senate-is-
dead proposal said "that may
have been all we ARE doing
but it's not all we CAN do!"
Their argument (plus a lot of
Senate dies-hards) carried the
day and here we are stuck with
the same old "representative
body" plan. What's it for if it
isn't planning banquets or mix-ers?
Here's my answer. Bethel Col-lege
is a corporation (not a dem-ocracy)
owned by the Baptist Gen-eral
Conference, administered by
our administration under policy
set by the Board of Education. We
have received authority over that
little bit of activity which is strict-
Eying the issue. He hopes that some resolution or
statement from Congress can be made to explain
exactly what it was the Court did and did not do.
"Some of the interpretations which have been
placed on the Supreme Court decisions on this sub-ject
are ridiculous, to say the least," Bayh declared.
He said that the Court did not rule out the singing
of the last verse of the Star Spangled Banner, certain
verses of America, the reference to God in the Pledge
of Allegiance, and "In God We Trust" on coins and
"All these claims have no substance at all when
one carefully examines the Supreme Court deci-sions,"
he said. "The Court merely held that a
State governmental agency cannot prescribe a pray-er
to be said in a public school classroom," he
Dirksen's proposed amendment would give power
to certain public authorities to "provide for" and
"permit" the recitation of voluntary prayers in
schools and other public buildings.
Among the inserts in the Congressional Record the
first two days were included the testimony by Paul
A. Fruend, teacher of constitutional law at Harvard
University. He recited a long list of "compelling
objections" to the proposed Dirksen amendment.
Along with this was the testimony of Leonidas C.
Contos, for the Archdiocese of North and South
America. He was in favor of the Dirksen amend-ment.
Another testimony was that of
Robert McNeill for the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the U. S. (commonly
called Southern). He proposed al-ternate
suggestions for clarifying
in the public mind the impact of
the Supreme Court decisions. If
these failed, then he favored a
constitutional amendment.
Carlson appeared on behalf of
the Baptist Joint Committee on
Public Affairs and presented reso-lutions
by the American Baptist
Convention, the Southern Baptist
Convention, and the North Ameri-can
Baptist General Conference.
All of these affirmed the adequacy
of the First Amendment as it now
stands to protect the religious
freedom of the people. Although
opposed to a constitutional prayer
amendment, Carlson was favorable
to some type of resolution or state-ment
by Congress, stating the is-sues
decided by the Supreme
Cultural affairs at Bethel do
not all center in the T.V. rooms
on "Batman" nights, and in or-der
to insure that this remains
so, Student Senate is combing
the campus for a chairman or
chairwoman to take over at the
helm of the Cultural Committee.
Carol Pederson, who has been
appointed to the post, crossed
the border into Minneapolis to
attend art school this year, and
has therefore resigned. All inter-ested
candidates for the posi-tion
are urged to voice their in-terest
to Jim Keim, PO 460,
right away.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminal y, St. Paul 1. Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Editor-in-chief John Halvorsen
Assistant Editor Jonathan P. Larson
News Editor Jeff Loomis
Feature Editor Nancy Johnson
Photography John Hopkins
Business Manager John Tegenfeldt
Advisor Wallace Nelson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
Freshman Registration again provides a nightmare of lines, desks, forms, bills and a maze of official
red tape for the "Greenies." The story below checks their opinion.
Freshman Inductees Verbalize Ideas
In Recent 'New Impressions' Survey
Jon Larson, Royal Mountaineer, rapelles from the grand traverse
of Bethel's educational summit, commonly called Lecture Hall 106.
by Bob Bryant
The Freshman class has descend-ed
on Bethel after the annual Wel-come
Retreat. Now, all registered
and in class, they are absorbed in
the full swing of academic and
social life.
Last week, the Clarion asked
some freshmen exactly what they
thought of Bethel, dorm life, be-ing
away from home, wearing
beanies, roommates, and (of all
things) registration.
When asked what they thought
of Bethel, most felt it was
"great," dorm life was an all-around
hit, and being away from
home received unanimous favor.
The three controversial topics
were subject to varied reactions.
They thought beanies were "ri-diculous,"
roommates "not bad,"
and registration "a mess."
Some of the better individual
BETHEL: "I really like it." "I
like the friendly attitude of the
kids." "It's what I expected—every-one
is so nice." "I like it real
well." "It's pretty good." "Fabu-lous."
"Really neat." "It's a great
place." "I'm entirely satisfied."
"It's better than I expected."
DORM LIFE: "It's great." "It's
a riot." "I felt at home right
away." "It's OK—so far." "It's
OK — different." "So far — so
good." "Real fun." "I like it."
"It doesn't bother me any — yet."
"Not bad yet." "It's a riot, too."
"It's a change." "Great!" "OK." "I
like it!"
WEARING BEANIES: "Not too
stupid." "It gives me an inferiority
complex." "Not bad." "I don't no-tice
it." "It's a necessary evil."
"At least I didn't have to kiss any-one's
feet." "Utterly ridiculous."
"Rather stupid." "It's fun."
"He's a good guy."
"Tremendous." "SO SO." "One's
a mess, the other's real neat." "I
think I can get along.' "No com-plaints."
"Not bad." "Noisy only
at night." "Don't see too much
of 'em." "They're fine."
"Lousy." "Never again."
"It stinks." "Yuck." "Not as bad
as I expected." "A long and boring
task." "Inefficient." "Horrid."
One week of school, and they al-ready
have the whole place sized
up. Well, this is it. The class of
'70 is here—to stay (at least for
one semester)!
by Vickie Beyer
"Bethel is great. The teachers
and students—even the upperclass-men—
are so friendly."
That statement depicts one of
the first impressions the class of
1970 has received of Bethel from
their first days on campus.
Sally Robertson, Worthington,
Minnesota, says that even though
everyone's friendly, she doesn't
know about dorm life. She's not
sure she can live through a year
of it.
Marian Kling, Crystal Lake, Illin-ois,
has "no regrets" however a-bout
Bethel. She likes the inde-pendence
a college life has to of-fer.
Keith Anderson of Minneapolis,
Minnesota, likes Bethel's atmos-phere,
but not when it comes to
initiations. He found it very un-spirited
on the part of the upper-classmen.
Not many of them joined
in the jovialities of asking for num-bers
or bowing of the freshmen.
Randy Floyd, Hayes Center,
Nebraska, has solved the prob-by
Leonard Sammons
The Bethel Student Senate con-vened
on Monday, Septpember 19,
at 7:10 p.m. in room 212, with ten
senators, six other officers, Dr.
Dalton, and Mr. Halleen present.
Brief discussion was given to dress-up
Campus coordinator Jim Ham-mar
said that dress-up dinners
are being planned for the Friday
night of weekends in which major
events are scheduled, such as this
Friday for New Talents. It was
also mentioned that there are va-cancies
for cultural and academic
committee coordinators.
In addition, Kathy Harvie sug-gested
the Senate request com-mittee
coordinators to attend
Senate meetings. Jim Hammar
thought this would be unneces-sary
and that they were busy
enough. Jim Keim said they
lem of homesickness. He's room-ing
with his brother. Randy,
from a small town, likes city life
but prefers Minneapolis to St.
"Academically it's a big jump
from high school," are the words
Kay Gardner, Muskegon, Michigan,
had for classes after her first day.
"The Lord led me into the min-istry,
and Bethel fulfills my needs
for the study I'll need," is the rea-son
Jack Forbes, Owatonna, Min-nesota,
gave for coming to Bethel.
Of the food Jack says, "It's worth
waiting for."
Robie Reed, Anchorage, Alaska,
finds the Christian Atmosphere the
most enjoyable part of Bethel.
"Making God the center of school
life is the most important aspect
of daily activity."
would report in two weeks with
their plans for two months.
Most of the time was spent
discussing the concert series,
which is a new venture for Bethel
this year. It was mentioned that
women students are requested to
buy their own tickets. Ron Stone
then asked if any provisions are
being made for the potential prob-lem
of a fellow being in a different
section than his date.
Dr. Dalton suggested general ad-mission
but Mr. Halleen thought
this might be unfair to non-Bethel
people who would either have to
start coming very early or else
obtain less desirable seating.
The Senate finally approved,
by a 5 to 4 vote, a motion by
Roger Johnson that three of the
six sections will be student sec-tions
and the tickets will be
equivalant. It was also mention-
Wednesday, September 21, 1966
by Jonathan P. Larson
To the Eastern mountain climb-er,
the Black Hills of South Dakota
stand only as a landmark for trav-el
on to the Tetons of Wyoming.
The Tetons are as rugged as the
Alps are majestic. They are the
lodestone f o r climbing fanatics
within North America.
Every summer a motley crew
tumble out of cars, trucks, motor-cycles,
and airplanes to challenge
the slopes. Jackson Hole, footstool
of the Tetons, is their summer
home. Laden with assault packs,
ropes, slings, pitons, ice axes, and
a legion of other equipment they
disappear into the mountains.
I arrived in Jackson Hole long
after the mainstream had come.
Climber's camp was thinning
out, but the mountains and sum-mer
were still there. With two
friends — a student from John
Hopkins and a medical student
from Cincinnati — plans were
laid for our climb.
We purchased our Teton gold
line (4,000 lb. test), provisions for
ourselves—chocolate, cheese, hard
candy, condensed milk,—and set
out up the Grand Teton on August
We left our car at Lupine mea-dows
and followed a narrow gorge
up to a number of alpine meadows
in the vicinity of 9,000 feet. From
there Ganet Canyon, a flood of
scree (loose rock), stretches up to
the lower saddle. We labored up
the slope for several hours paus-ing
only to catch our breath in
the thin air at 10,000 feet.
An unexpected gust of wind
blew our only sleeping bag down
the gorge about 2,000 feet. With
ed that single tickets will be in
a separate and least desirable
section than season tickets.
The Senate also approved a mo-tion
by Kathy Harvie that the Sen-ate
recommend that the coffee
shop be opened Saturday nights
from 9:30 to 10:30 or 11:00. This
would, of course have to be ap-proved
by Mr. Walters. With no
more new business, the Senate ad-journed
at about 8:15 p.m.
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the sleeping bag went our hopes
for a night on the summit. Un-willing
to turn back, we sprinted
up to the lower saddle in search
of a cave.
Huddled together in the cave
we spent a sleepless night. The
unexpected snow and wind were
our only company. We anxiously
waited for the first rays of the
sun to pierce the darkness. Warm-ed
by the sun, our wind breakers,
and parkas we set out for our
ultimate goal — the assault on the
Vergloss (rocks covered with a
thin sheet of ice) had set in and
the climbing was both difficult
and risky. At 12,000 we roped up
and began the belay system. The
lead man would execute a pitch
and then control the safety line
-while the following member made
the move.
We climbed the western route
(the Owen) hampered by t h e
fresh snow and ice. Leaving the
conventional route we did sev-eral
difficult variations along the
way — chimneys, face outs, lay
backs, and so on.
At 1:30 that afternoon we step-ped
up to the summit and signed
our names in the register that
contained the names of Robert
MacNamara and a host of distin-guished
climbers who had reached
the summit and inscribed their
names in the book.
We ate some snow to quench our
thirst and turning our backs on
the summit turned to the south
side to make our descent. It was
intoxicating. We dangled and then
lowered ourselves over a 150 foot
cliff. Mountain goat style we wend-ed
our way to lower altitude. Even-ing
set in, and in the darkness we
found ourselves in the pungent
pine forests of the lower reaches.
Having felt the sting of thin
air in our nostrils, the whip of
snow, the thirst that lingers
after a mouthful of snow, the
thrill of walking a vertical moun-tainside
with ropes, with hands
an aching pulp from the cutting
ice and rock, rope burns that re-fused
to be silent, we determin-ed
to return if that was at all
A few scant moments at 13,700
feet insistently beckons any climb-er
who has had a taste of The
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U. S. and Danish colors are paraded onto center stage by the
famed 011erup Academy Gymnastic Team currently touring America.
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Larry Peterson cradles a Dave Anderson pass, slipping from the
clutches of his would-be Sioux Falls tackler as Dave Norman prepares
to lend blocking assistance. Bethel lost the game 10-0.
Page 4 the CLARION Wednesday, September 21, 1966
Royal Gridmen Suffer Second Loss
In Closely-Matched Saturday Game
Next Tuesday in the fieldhouse
beginning at 8 p.m., gymnastics
will take the spotlight, with an
all-male gymnastic team from Den-mark's
011erup Physical Education
School putting on an exhibition
of this exciting and artful sport.
The team is on an extensive tour
of the United States and chose to
perform here at Bethel for one of
their in-school exhibitions.
If their schedule permits, the
gymnasts will also be holding a
participation clinic with our tumb-
This year the Bethel cross-coun-try
team is coached by Eugene
Glader and has scheduled ten
meets. As of this moment the
team has four sure members, three
freshmen and one sophomore who
ran in a few of last year's meets.
Steve Roe is the second-year man,
while Steve Johnson, Ron Stoesz,
and Ken Borchert round out the
Coach Glader hopes to add a
new element to cross country this
year. This is to get men who par-ticipate
in other sports such as
tennis, basketball, and track out
for cross country on a volutary
basis. Instead of running each day
as the regular members of the
team do, these volunteers will be
required to run three times a week
and will also test themselves in
the meets. In this way they will
be getting pre-season training for
their major sport plus an added
Sioux Falls defeated Bethel Sat-urday
in Midway Stadium 10-0 as
Larry Skogerboe, playing his first
game as a quarterback for Sioux
Falls, scored for Sioux Falls on a
one yard sweep and set up a field
goal with a long run.
It was a hard-fought battle, with
both teams getting their share of
breaks; however Sioux Falls was
able to capitalize on their share.
The big break for the Braves came
early in the second quarter when
they recovered a Bethel fumble on
a punt return at Bethel's 25 yard
For a moment it appeared as
though the Royal's defense
would hold as a first down pass
was incomplete in the end zone
and as freshman Fred Swedberg
broke through to nail Skogerboe
for a loss of two on second.
by Jerry Loomis
In preparation for the 1966 sea-son,
the Bethel College football
team scheduled an intensive series
of training sessions at a football
camp in Wood Lake, Wisconsin.
The camp was held for one week
under the leadership of head
coach, Dave Cox.
He was assisted by Coach Duane
Gibson, who worked with the ends,
and Coach Stu Luckman, who
worked with the linemen. Gibson
is doing graduate work at the Uni-versity
of Illinois at Chicago, while
Coach Luckman is one of Bethel's
art teachers.
In addition to Cox, coaches
for the regular season are Mike
Rynkiewich and Lowell Gauss
with the line, and Maury Shields
with the backfield.
Both Mike and Lowell are form-er
graduates of Bethel, the former
in 1966 and the latter in 1965.
Rynkiewich is presently taking
graduate work in anthropology at
the University of Minnesota in ad-dition
to his coaching.
Of the forty-one squad members,
there are eighteen returning let-termen,
two transfer students, sev-eral
sophomores who didn't play
But on third and long yardage
a sideline pass brought Sioux Falls
to within two yards of a first
down, and a fourth down run net-ted
the first down at the 14. A
pass brought the ball down to the
five, and two plays later Skogerboe
carried it in from the one.
The first 15 minutes of play
were completely dominated by
Bethel who missed several op-portunities
to score. After running
the opening kickoff out to the 30,
Sioux Falls fumbled on the first
play from scrimmage, the Royals
recovering on the 38.
A penalty and a completed
pass for a loss pushed them back
to the 45, where a 12 yard pass
from Dave Anderson, making his
debut at quarterback, to Larry
Peterson was not enough to keep
the braves from gaining posses-sion
on downs at their own 29.
during their freshman year, and
sixteen newcomers.
End John Carmean and line-backer
Jim Brand are co-cap-tains
this year and seek to in-spire
their fellow players with
their fine play and excellent
leadership. Veteran John Benson
is doing an excellent job at the
guard slot.
Don Swenson and Dave Ander-son
are the two transfer students
who made the squad. Dave is
sharing the quarterbacking duties
with Bill Englund, one of the re,
turning lettermen.
Of the new sophomores this
year, Ron Pederson, and Gary Wil,
son are each doing a "bang-up"
job at their positions. Finally a
number of the sixteen freshmen
are playing on specialty teams.
Fred Swedberg and Ken Irons
are on the starting defensive
unit, while freshman fullback
Lee Pearson has shown great
desire as he continues to give
that last-ditch effort for more
yards in grinding his way
through the middle of the line
for good, steady yardage.
Despite two opening losses to
Hamline and Sioux Falls, Coach
The defense held, however, and
Bethel's offense took over on their
25 yard line after a long Sioux
Falls punt. Utilizing the fine run-ning
of freshman fullback Lee
Pearson and a 12 yard scamper by
Anderson, the Royals moved into
opposing territory before the at-tack
bogged down, forcing a punt.
The punt was downed on the
Braves' three yard line where the
defense held and forced a short
punt. Taking over on the 33, Bethel
got a first down on the 22 before
Sioux Falls gained posession on
downs as the first quarter ended.
It was only four plays into the
second quarter that the fateful
fumble occured, paving the way
to Sioux Falls' touchdown with
Bob Nix adding the extra point.
Bethel took the subsequent kick-off
out to their 25 and drove to the
Sioux Falls 15 yard line where
they again were stopped short of
paydirt. A key break for the Roy-als
in the drive was a roughing-the-
kicker penalty which gave
them a first down on their 44.
Pearson picked up two more
first downs and Anderson hit Se-lander
for a first down on the
19 before the drive was stopped.
The Royals held Sioux Falls and
staged one more brief threat be-fore
halftime which fell short
when Bill Englund's long pass was
intercepted deep in the Braves'
The second half was much like
the first as the Royals continued
to eat up large chunks of yard-age
in the middle of the field
but could not get the ball across
the goal line.
Sioux Falls scored their field
goal on a fourth down play inside
Bethel's 10 after Skogerboe broke
loose for a 46 yard run to the
10 yard line to set it up.
Game statistics showed Bethel
outgaining Sioux Falls in total
yards 184 to 153, and also holding
an edge in first downs, 12 to 5.
The Royals are now 0-2 for the
season as they lost to Hamline the
previous week, 41 to 0. They have
yet to get on the scoreboard.
Cox definitely feels that with a
little more experience, determina-tion,
and support, the team has a
great potential for victory.
With six games remaining, the
season is far from over. Bethel
gridiron fans, don't give up yet!
Get out and support our team!
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element of competition which will
add depth to and increase the cross
country squad's chances for vic-tory.
Tennis standouts Craig An-derson
and Tom Halst and track-man
Ron Stone have already shown
an interest in this new arrange-men.
Finally, the coach invites other
men to give cross country a try
who might think they really have
to be outstanding to be on the
team and for this reason have re-frained
from coming out. "It may
be that you have failed to realize
your full potential, and by dedicat-ing
yourself to hard work could
become a real asset to Bethel's
cross country team," he comment-ed
when interviewed.
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SPOILER ALERT: If you aren't caught up with "Doctor Who," stop reading.
"Doctor Who" fan Chris Hardwick has called Rory Williams "The Kenny of 'Doctor Who.'" It's an apt description, because like that "South Park" character, Rory keeps getting killed on the British sci-fi hit.
"I personal hope that Rory just stops dying," Arthur Darvill said Thursday, emphasizing each of the last three words. Darvill plays the hapless Rory in the series, which airs at 9 p.m. Saturdays on BBC America.
Over the course of his two seasons on the show, Darvill's character, who with his wife, Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), travels through time and space with the Doctor (Matt Smith), Rory has died at least three times, been turned into a Roman Centurion, spent 2,000 years guarding his wife while she was locked away in a freaky box called the Pandorica, fathered an "Alex Kingston-shaped child" (that would be River Song) who many times appears on the show older than he and Amy are. He's also saved the day a couple times.
That's quite a list of accomplishments for a character who initially didn't even want to step into the time machine that's "bigger on the inside" called the TARDIS. Early on, Rory was the more cautious of the three travelers.
"It's funny the way Rory deals with things," Darvill said during a call with TV writers. "He's quite nervous and doesn't really want to put himself in danger but as soon as it's anything to do with Amy being in danger he'll just throw himself in straightaway."
Having to man up so many times has changed Rory tremendously, Darvill said, as did dying so many times. He's now "more assertive and slightly heroic."
"It's proved to him that even though all these incredible things have happened and all these horrible things have happened, his relationship with Amy is still the strongest thing in the world," Darvill told me. "It's very real and very good and he's still completely, wildly in love with her."
The bumbling hero shows his love for Amy again in this Saturday's episode. You can watch the promo below for more information, but Darvill just gave us a tease.
"It's called 'The Girl Who Waited,' so she's waiting for something and Rory has to go and find her and save her," he said. "But something's gone drastically wrong, which really tests them and pushes their emotions to the limits, really."


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for the Belt Loop and Pin for Cub Scouts, see Cub Scout Communicating
for the Merit Badge for Boy Scouts, see Communications
The Webelos Communicator Activity Badge is one of 20 different Activity Badges that can be earned in the Webelos Scout Program. The requirements are typically worked on during den meetings or den activities while the skills are practiced at home, with the help of the Webelos Scout's family. The requirements are either completed with the den or at home with the den leader's approval. Projects are brought to meetings to share with the den and for Webelos Den Leader or Activity Badge Counselor approval.
Do seven of these:
- Play the Body Language Game with your den.
- Prepare and give a three-minute talk to your den on a subject of your choice.
- Invent a sign language or a picture writing language and use it to tell someone a story.
- Identify and discuss with your den as many different methods of communication as you can (at least six different methods).
- Invent your own den secret code and send one of your den members a secret message.
- With your den or your family, visit a library and talk to a librarian. Learn how books are catalogued to make them easy to find. Sign up for a library card, if you don't already have one.
- Visit the newsroom of a newspaper or a radio or television station and find out how they receive information.
- Write an article about a den activity for your pack newsletter or Web site, your local newspaper, or your school newsletter, newspaper, or Web site.
- Invite a person with a visual, speaking, or hearing impairment to visit your den. Ask bout the special ways he or she communicates. Discover how well you can communicate with him or her.
- With your parent or guardian or your Webelos den leader, invite a person who speaks another language (such as Spanish, French, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) as well as English to visit your den. Ask questions about the other language (its background, where it is spoken, etc.), discuss words in that language that den members are already familiar with, or ask about ways to learn another language.
- Use a personal computer to write a letter to a friend or relative. Create your letter, check it for grammar and spelling, and save it to a disk. Print it.
- Under the supervision of a parent or other trusted adult, search the Internet and connect to five Web sites that interest you.
- Under the supervision of a parent or other trusted adult, exchange e-mail with a friend or relative.
- While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Academics belt loop for Computers.
- While you are a Webelos Scout, earn the Academics belt loop for Communicating.
- Find out about jobs in communications. Tell your den what you learn.
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Help with these requirements
|A FREE workbook for Communicator is available here! with the maps, charts, links, diagrams, and checklists you need! Or click here to print just the Communicator requirements.
|meritbadge.org has PDF and DOC versions of Scouts BSA merit badge workbooks, Webelos workbooks, Cub Scout workbooks, and Nova Award workbooks.
Related awards
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Poster Session
Predicting Seizures in Intracranial EEG Data Using Diffusion Maps
Presenting Author: Dominique Duncan
Collaborating Authors: Ronen Talmon, Ronald R. Coifman, Hitten P. Zaveri
Often medication or surgery are not viable options for patients with epilepsy, thus it is important to find a reliable tool to predict seizures. This way the patient may be warned at least a few minutes prior to the seizure and take the necessary precautions. Finding an accurate predictor of seizures has become a major focus of research during the last few decades.
The goal of this study is to predict a seizure from intracranial EEG (icEEG) data. A novel approach is proposed that capitalizes on the diffusion map framework, which was recently presented and is considered to be one of the current leading manifold learning methods. Diffusion mapping provides dimensionality reduction of the data as well as pattern recognition that may be used to distinguish different states of the patient, for example, resting and preseizure. Based on diffusion maps, a new nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) algorithm is developed to construct coordinates that generate efficient geometric representations of the complex underlying data structures.
The algorithm is tested on icEEG data recorded from several electrodes from patients being evaluated for possible epilepsy surgery at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. Artifacts are removed from the data prior to the analysis. Preliminary results show that the proposed approach provides a distinction between resting and preseizure states.
Technology for Sensing the Brain and Controlling Seizures
Presenting Author: Hitten P. Zaveri
Collaborating Authors: Ronnie Dhaher, Tore Eid, Lawrence J. Hirsch, Dennis D. Spencer
This presentation describes innovative technologies which are being brought to bear on the direct sensing of the brain in epilepsy and intervention to control seizures. This research is being conducted through two related projects being pursued in collaboration with ITN Energy Systems (Littleton, CO) and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. These projects address the battery free wireless transmission of intracranial EEGs (icEEGs), and the fault-tolerant monitoring of brain activity. In the first project we have designed, fabricated and tested a prototype 64 channel brain implantable device for the wireless transmission of icEEGs. The device allows digital icEEG acquisition and transmission through a standard infra-red (IR) data link and has the potential to perform electrical stimulation. The device can be powered by an embedded battery, wired external power or battery free power through a radio frequency (RF) power link. Bench-top, ex-vivo and in-vivo rat evaluations of the 64-channel wireless icEEG device demonstrate proof-of-principle for an implantable solution to sense, condition, amplify, digitize and wirelessly transmit multi-channel icEEGs. The second project stems from an argument for the inclusion of fault-tolerance in brain implantable devices to extend their dependability. We focus on multielectrode arrays (MEAs) and propose two redundancy based solutions. The first solution uses rows or columns of spare modules to replace faulty modules within a MEA. The second solution uses space redundancy with local reconfiguration. Different fault-tolerant solutions with varying degrees of redundancy and the equivalent graph models for these solutions are described. A maximum matching algorithm is described to match faulty primary to functioning spare modules for MEA reconfiguration. The results of our analysis demonstrate that a considerable improvement in MEA dependability can be achieved with a well-designed increase in redundancy.
Testing Multi-Modal Attention and Awareness with Intracranial EEG
Presenting Author: Paul Guillod
Collaborating Authors: Nicole Tsai, William Chen, Leisel Martin, Mark Youngblood, Ryan Aronberg, William Walker, Andrew Engell, Jason Gerrard, Dennis D. Spencer, Gregory McCarthy, Hal Blumenfeld
Modern neuroimaging allows researchers to probe the mechanisms that give rise to consciousness. This has yielded great insight into how the brain manages and attends to incoming sensory data. Studies have already shown signatures of conscious perception through synchronized, long-range, high frequency oscillations; however, the precise timing and neural correlates behind perception remain elusive.
Our study investigates mechanisms of conscious perception by presenting faint, simultaneous auditory (beeps) and visual (circular gratings) stimuli and measuring the neural response. Stimuli intensities are first calibrated such that subjects report perceiving stimuli half the time. They then run through ~1200 trials that ask them to focus on one of the stimuli (circle or beep) each trial. The stimuli are briefly shown simultaneously and subjects subsequently report which side and whether they perceived one of the two stimuli. They are most often asked about the cued stimulus.
By presenting stimuli at the threshold of perception, we can group events by subjective awareness during analysis. Directing subject's focus on visual or auditory stimuli allows us to dissociate attention from awareness related effects. Furthermore, the incorporation of two sensory modalities can demonstrate how localized and generalized neural correlates of perception are by sense.
So far we have run the task on over 30 subjects and 1 intracranial EEG patient with plans to add scalp EEG combined with fMRI. Recent task performance results can be seen in figure 1 below.
Many patients with epilepsy are unable to perceive and respond to sensory input during seizures. A greater knowledge of the neural circuitry involved in perception will allow us to eventually diagnose and gear therapies in such a way to avoid disruption of those vital circuits.
Limbic Seizures Decrease Subcortical Arousal in Brainstem Cholinergic and Thalamic Neurons
Presenting Author: Joshua E. Motelow
Collaborating Authors: Geoffrey Liu, Hyun Seung Lee, Victoria Chu, Abhijeet Gummadavelli, Asht M. Mishra, Robert N. Sachdev, Basavaraju Sanganahalli, Moran Furman, Dario Englot, Fahmeed Hyder, Hal Blumenfeld
The mechanism of impaired consciousness during partial limbic seizures is not understood. Cortical intracranial EEG recordings in epilepsy patients demonstrate high-frequency, poly-spike seizure activity in the temporal lobe but simultaneous low frequency oscillations across the neocortex. These low-frequency ictal neocortical oscillations are similar to those seen in sleep or deep anesthesia, which provides a clue to the mechanism underlying loss of consciousness. We have developed a rodent model of complex partial limbic seizures in which an electrically induced hippocampal seizure causes the frontal cortex to convert from high-frequency to low-frequency slow oscillations. Blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) fMRI data during these seizures show increased signal in hippocampus, septal nuclei and hypothalamus associated with widespread BOLD signal decreases in cortex, thalamus, and brainstem. During seizures, multiunit electrophysiology recordings show increased neuronal activity in hypothalamus, decreased activity in brainstem cholinergic nuclei and spindle-like activity in thalamic relay nuclei. Because the brainstem cholinergic nuclei are heterogeneous, juxtacellular recordings were conducted from single labeled cholinergic and non-cholinergic neurons. Cholinergic neurons decrease their firing dramatically during seizures (during which the cortex converts to slow oscillations) while non-cholinergic neurons show mixed behavior. At the same time, we have recorded decreased levels of choline (as a proxy for acetylcholine) in the cortex and thalamus. These data suggest a mechanism for the transition from consciousness to loss of consciousness: (1) hippocampal seizures propagate to limbic structures including the septal nuclei and hypothalamus, (2) descending inhibition from the septal nuclei and hypothalamus depress subcortical arousal systems, and (3) suppression of ascending arousal systems such as the brainstem cholinergic nuclei lead to cortical rhythms normally present during non-REM sleep.
Sudden Unexpected Death in the Multicenter Study of Epilepsy Surgery Outcomes
Presenting Author: Cel Ezeani
Collaborating Authors: Friedman D, Detyniecki K, Hamid H, Spencer DD, Hirsch LJ, Devinsky O
Background: Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) is death occurring in people with epilepsy in the absence of a known structural cause. Although the frequency of SUDEP varies depending on severity of epilepsy and other factors, the risk is known to be more than 20 times higher than that in the general population. In a seven-center, prospective study of resective epilepsy surgery, we examined the frequency of SUDEP over a five-year follow-up period.
Methods: Patients aged 12 years and above were enrolled at time of referral for epilepsy surgery, and underwent standardized evaluation, treatment, and follow-up procedures. SUDEP cases were classified as definite, probable, or possible. 386 postsurgical and 127 non-surgical patients who had follow-up data were analyzed. In 1648.75 total person-years of follow-up, we examined the effects of seizure freedom, history of generalized convulsions, and resective surgery with respect to predicting an outcome of SUDEP.
Results: Among the 386 post-surgical patients, there were 19 deaths (5%; 12 per 1000 PYs); 5 of these deaths were attributed to definite (1), probable (1) or possible (3) SUDEP (1%; 3 per 1000 PYs). 1 out of the 182 seizure free patients died from SUDEP (0.6%; 1.3 per 1000 PYs), compared to 4 of 204 non-seizure free patients (2%; 4.5 per 1000 PYs). 4 of 97 patients who had persistent generalized tonic-clonic (GTC) seizures after surgery died from SUDEP (4%; 10 per 1000 PYs). On the other hand, only 1 death was due to SUDEP out of 289 patients who did not have persistent GTC seizures (Fisher's Exact Test, p=0.015). We also found that 2 of 6 deaths in the non-surgical group were due to SUDEP (1 probable and 1 possible) although when compared with the post-surgical group, this finding was not significant (See table).
Conclusion: In our cohort of patients, persistent GTCs after epilepsy surgery appear to have an effect on incidence of SUDEP. Although there was a lower rate of SUDEP in the seizure free group compared to the non-seizure free group, this did not reach significance.
Definite SUDEP
Definite or Probable
Definite, Probable or possible SUDEP
Surgery, not seizure free
Surgery, seizure free
P value
1/204 = 0.49%
2/204 = 0.98%
4/204 = 2%
1/182 = 0.6%
Surgery, still has GTCs
Surgery, no GTCs
P value
1/97 = 1%
2/97 = 2%
4/97 = 4%
1/289 = 0.4%
No surgery
P value
1/386 = 0.3%
5/386 = 1%
Pre-op GTCs, then surgery
Pre-op GTCs, no surgery
P value
4/282 = 1.4%
1/92 = 1.1%
Ictal and Interictal Attention Performance in Childhood Absence Epilepsy Patients
Presenting Author: Robert Kim
Collaborating Authors: J. Rodríguez-Fernández, J. Guo, S. Jhun, W. Xiao, H. Mistry, N. Michiro, RT. Constable, H. Blumenfeld
Childhood absence seizures are characterized by brief impaired consciousness and generalized 3-4 Hz spike-wave discharges on the electroencephalogram. Prior studies have shown impaired attention performance during absence seizures.Here we investigate relationships between variably impaired ictal attention and: (1) task difficulty; (2) seizure duration; (3) behavioral time course during the ictal period; and (4) interictal attention deficits. We tested patients with a diagnosis of childhood absence epilepsy. Each subject underwent either a Repetitive Tapping Task (RTT), or a more difficult Continuous Performance Task (CPT). Out of a total of 90 children, 34 had absence seizures during testing (235 seizures during RTT and 291 during CPT). Mean seizure duration was 5.09±0.17 s (mean±SD). Mean ictal omission rate was 73% for CPT and 51% for RTT, compared to the mean interictal omission rate for CPT 18.66±1.8 and RTT 22.68±0.6. Interestingly, we observed a higher omission rate in seizures longer than 10 seconds (CPT omission rate 89.97±1.9 and RTT omission rate 79.15±2.4) than in less than 5 seconds seizures (CPT omission rate 51.8±4.5 vs RTT omission rate 33.33±3.4). Clear outliers exist in CPT and RTT where short seizures have severely impaired performance and longer seizures have relatively spared performance. For both CPT and RTT, omissions were least severe toward the end of the seizure (last 1s of the seizure): CPT and RTT omission rates were 49.72±5 and 26.4±4.3 respectively. For RTT, performance was also relatively spared on average during the first ~1s of the seizure (performance 55.39±4.9). Also we observed an increased variability in reaction times for both CPT and RTT, and increased duration and variability in inter-response intervals for RTT during the ictal period. These data suggest that task difficulty and task timing have important effects on attention performance during absence seizures. Ictal attention impairment may be related to interictal deficits, suggesting chronic dysfunction in attention networks. This investigation will help us to understand the neural mechanisms of attention deficits observed in CAE patients.
IV Ketamine for the Treatment of Refractory Status Epilepticus: A Retrospective Multicenter Study
Presenting Author: Nicolas Gaspard
Collaborating Authors: B. Foreman, L.M. Judd, J.N. Brenton, B.M. McCoy, A. Al-Otaibi, R. Kilbride, I Sanchez Fernandez, S. Samuel, A. Zakaria, G.P. Kalamangalam, T. Loddenkemper, C.D. Hahn, H.P. Goodkin, J. Claassen, L.J. Hirsch, S.M. LaRoche
Rationale: The treatment of refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is notoriously difficult. Evidence from animal models suggests that inhibition of glutamate antagonists might be more efficient in the late stage of status epilepticus than GABA agonists.Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist occasionally used in this indication. The rationale of this study is to review the use of ketamine in RSE, including doses, efficacy and adverse events.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective multicenter study involving 6 academic centers. Medical records and EEG reports were reviewed. We included children and adults. Continuous EEG was used in all but one case.
Results: We identified 22 patients (11 female) and 23 episodes of RSE treated with ketamine. Mean age was 28+/- 4 years (range: 7 months-74 years). The most common etiologies of RSE were CNS infection (5), inflammatory disease (4), malformation of cortical development (4) and genetic disorder (3). Status epilepticus was primary generalized in 6 cases and secondary generalization occurred in 12 cases. Five cases had purely electrographic status epilepticus while the remaining patients had associated clinical manifestations, including generalized (4), partial (3) and subtle (7) motor activity. In most cases, ketamine was introduced at least 1 week after the onset of SE. An initial loading dose was commonly used (usually 1.5-2.5 mg/kg), followed by continuous infusion (usual initial rate of 0 .1-0.5 mg/kg/h). The maximal infusion rate was most frequently 1-2mg/kg/h, although in 4 patients it was superior to 5mg/kg/h. The duration of the treatment with ketamine ranged from 2 to 24 days. Three patients developed cardiorespiratory depression and two required mechanical ventilation. All 3 were concomitantly treated with benzodiazepines and/or barbiturates. Vasopressors were increased in 8 patients but only one developed significant hypotension. No patient demonstrated signs of raised intracranial pressure. Three patients developed severe acidosis that was attributed to shock and acute kidney injury in 2 cases. The third patient developed a syndrome similar to the Propofol Infusion Syndrome (PRIS), while on high dose of ketamine (7.5mg/kg/h) and midazolam. Status epilepticus was permanently controlled in 10 cases. All 10 were alive at discharge from the hospital but significantly impaired. Ketamine was the last drug to be used in 3 of them. The others received at least one other additional drug after ketamine, most commonly benzodiazepine (7), phenytoin/fosphenytoin (6) and topiramate (4). Length of stay in the ICU ranged from 13 to 244 days.
Conclusion: Assessing the efficacy of ketamine in RSE is difficult as it is used in the late stage of refractory SE and with a wide range of doses. This study indicates that it is associated with a low incidence of serious adverse events, although we describe for the first time its association with a syndrome similar to PRIS. Further study is needed before recommendation can be made to extend its usage and this multicenter effort will be pursued.
Relationship between Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life Outcomes Post Epilepsy Surgery: A Prospective Multicenter Study
Presenting Author: Hamada Hamid
Rationale: People with seizures have a lower quality of life (QOL) compared to people without. Depression and anxiety scores strongly correlate with QOL scores in cross-sectional studies. However, the role of depression and anxiety symptoms on QOL outcomes after epilepsy surgery has not been explored prospectively.
Methods: The design, measures, and subject recruitment of the Epilepsy Surgery Multicenter Study has been detailed elsewhere. Briefly, 7 tertiary epilepsy centers enrolled 396 patients and completed a comprehensive diagnostic workup that included a comprehensive medical history and physical exam; neuropsychological, neuroimaging and neurophysiology testing; and a psychiatric as well as quality of life evaluation. Subjects were evaluated prior to surgery, then at 3, 6, 12, 48, and 60 months after surgery. Standardized, assessments included The Quality of Life in Epilepsy Inventory-89 (HRQOL) and Beck Depression (BDI) and Anxiety (BAI) Inventories. Seizure outcome was classified into one of four categories: "excellent" for subjects seizure free (and no auras) for all five years, "good" for two consecutive years but not all five, "fair" if subjects were seizure free for one year but never two consecutive years, and "poor" if subjects never had a one year period of seizure freedom.
Statistical Analysis: The mixed-model repeated-measures analysis was used to analyze overall HRQOL score and four dimension subscores (cognitive distress, physical health, mental health, epilepsy-targeted) association with depression, anxiety, seizure outcome, seizure history, with overall HRQOL score and the four dimension subscores, respectively, over time. The model included gender, race, education, duration of seizure history, laterality of seizure focus, resection location, BDI and BAI scores, and time as fixed effect as well as random intercept and slope.
Results: All four subscores of QOL improved over time (p<0.0001). Excellent and good seizure control groups both have significant positive impact on the overall QOL compared to the fair and poor seizure control group; interestingly, there is no difference in change in overall QOL over time between the fair and poor groups. The time and seizure control interaction was marginal significant (p=0.0606). Subjects who had left sided resections shown significant lower rate of improvement in overall QOL score compared to those with right sided resection. The BDI and BAI score are both highly and negatively associated with overall QOL; increases in BDI and BAI score are associated with decreased overall QOL score. This association appeared to be driven by the cognitive subscore and the association was not significant in the other subscores. Duration of seizure history, gender, race, education and temporal versus extratemporal resection did not show significant association with overall QOL.
Conclusion: Depression and anxiety are strongly and independently associated with worse QOL post epilepsy surgery. Management of mood and anxiety is a critical component to post-surgical care.
Distinct Contribution of Different Interneuron Subtypes to Network Stability in Vivo
Presenting Author: Mitra Miri
Collaborating Authors: M. Miri, J.A. Cardin
GABAergic inhibition is critical for regulation of excitation and is thought to maintain neural network stability through a precise balancing process. Loss or dysfunction of inhibitory interneurons is thought to lead to abnormal activity patterns and ultimately to seizure initiation. Two major interneuron classes are the Parvalbumin-expressing (PV), fast-spiking cells and Somatostatin-expressing (SOM), low-threshold spiking cells. Due to differing physiology, biophysical properties, and synaptic targeting, they may contribute differently to ongoing computations in the surrounding local network. Previous studies have examined preferential interneuron vulnerability leading to or resulting from seizures, but there the roles of specific sources of inhibition in seizure generation remain unclear. Using combined optical and electrophysiological tools, we can investigate network dynamics during the development of seizures by monitoring the activity of individual interneurons and synchronization between multiple hippocampal cell types.
Here we used two transgenic mouse lines: PV-Cre and SOM-Cre. Using AAV-DIO ChR2-mCherry, we selectively targeted optogenetic tools to PV or SOM interneurons in CA1. During experiments, we used stereotrode arrays to extracellularly record the activity of many simultaneous cells in hippocampal CA1 in animals lightly anesthetized with ketamine/xylazine. We identified targeted ChR2-expressing PV and SOM interneurons in the recorded population by stimulating with brief pulses of blue light at 473nm. Light pulses were continued throughout the experiment to track identified neurons without altering the pattern of spontaneous activity. Using a pharmacological model of seizure induction (PTZ), we performed measurements of neural activity during three periods: 1) baseline 2) early preictal and 3) late preictal. We first assessed the recruitment of local excitatory neurons by ictal activity. We further assessed the temporal pattern of identified interneuron activity during each period and the relationship between interneuron and excitatory neuron activity.
To examine the relationship between local network activity and interneuron spiking, we calculated the spike-triggered LFP average for each cell during each period. We find that PV+ cells have a lower spike probability in response to blue light pulses that progressively decreases from baseline to late preictal stages. Additionally, we find that average local synaptic activity increases surrounding spike times of identified RS cells during both early and late preictal periods, as compared to baseline. These preliminary results demonstrate that these combined approaches provide a powerful set of tools for dissecting network activity during seizure initiation.