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Vol. XXIII —No. 6
BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota January 19, 1944
Wingblade, Johnson, Malmsten
Represent Bethel In East
Bethel Women
Called to
Leaving for the West Coast
Monday, January 31, Helen Heitz-man
and Miriam Johanson will be
entering a field of full-time
Christian service in answer to a
present-day "Macedonian call"
from the defenese area of Bremer-ton,
Washington. There are ap-proximately
a thousand families
living in this newly-build district
who have little or no church con-nections
The urgent call and repeated
invitations were sent to the young
women before Thanksgiving by
Henrietta Carlson, a former Beth-elite;:
who is one of the super-visors
of this work. These two,
and more, are needed to supervise
newly-organized Sunday Schools,
children's- meetings, women's meet-ings,'
wOmeng . gatherings, and -to
bear definite Christianizing in-fluence,
each girl to have her own
little "Church Center."
Both of the girls were exception-ally
active in almost every line
of work and extra curricular act-ivies
at Bethel. Both served as
president of the B. W. A., both
held several positions at different
times in the Missionary Band.
Miriam was an officer in the
Arian Chorus, and Helen won sev-eral
honors in speech contests.
Miriam has been in charge of the
bookstore and coffee shop for two
and a half years, before which
she worked in the school office.
Helen also worked in the coffee
shop and along with school was
chairman of a tri-state missionary
project for three years. Miriam
comes from Hackensack, New Jer-sey,
and Helen from Emery, South
Reported as missing in action is
Bernard Hammerbeck, graduate of
the 1942 class of Bethel Junior
At the time he was quartermas-ter
first class on an invasion barge
in the South Pacific.
Bernard came from Warren,
Oregon. While at Bethel he was
active in athletics, playing on the
basketball team. He was also
sports editor of the Clarion.
Alexis Holds Panel
and Discussion
On Wednesday evening, January
12, the Alexis club" held its first
meeting of the year which was in
the form of a panel with 2 group
discussion a f to r ward s. "What
course of action should the Christ-ian
student pursue today in view
of the present emergency and
post-war reconstruction?" was the
subject to be discussed.
Participants were Laurence Ny-degger,
Stam Widen, Alma Ib-lings,
Sydney Barrett, Grace
Swanson, and Vazul Tanyas with
John Bergeson acting as leader of
the group.
The phases of the question that
were presented were as follows:
The purpose of a good education
today; the need for staying in
school; the question of whether to
obtain a 4D rating or enter the
armed services as a chaplain or
in some other capacity; the need
of churches for pastors, and new
factory c o m m u ni ties without
churches for Christian workers;
and the Christians responsibility
for the children who are growing
up with no Christian education.
After the contribution by the
group, the discussion was thrown
open to the audience as a whole
and it was decided that it was the
duty of the Christian student him-self
to make the decision by ask-ing
the question, "How can I as
an individual be the most useful
to Him and His work ?"
At the conclusion of the meeting
Dr. Karlson served as critic and
stated in regard to the subject
"The trouble with us is that we
are near-sighted rather than far-sighted."
W A Features
"A call to missions," the theme
of the B. W. A. meeting of Jan-uary
13, was presented in- a mis-sionary
playlet entitled, "Two
Masters." It was the story of a
missionary's young daughter, por-trayed
by June Anderson, and her
college days in America. The girl
had begun to lose sight of the fact
that she had been called to China.
Memory of her call was brought
to her in a club meeting, and the
play ended wtih her decision to
return to China. Others taking
part in -the play were as follows:
Phyllis Gustafson, Phyllis Johnson,
Rose Challberg, Ruth Elizabeth
Anderson, Lois Thomas, Helen
(Continued on page 4)
President H. C. Wingblade spent
the latter part of Prayer Week,
January 5 through 9, in Escanaba,
Michigan, holding special prayer
services in the Swedish Baptist
Church there, with Rev. Berger
Swenson, a graduate of Bethel, as
Saturday evening, January 8th
the President was in Gladstone,
Michigan, where the Rev. J. A.
Kallman is pastor.
He states that Pastor Kallman
has had two sons at Bethel and
another one is coming next fall.
"Quite a number of the young
people are looking forward to
coming to Bethel next year," says
Mr. Wingblade.
His itinerary home was by way
of Chicago 'where he contacted
possible speakers for Founders'
Week at Bethel.
"I also spent a couple of hours
in Chicago with Evangeline, whose
little baby girl, Karen, is coming
to Bethel some day," he said
The President left again last
Friday night for the anniversary
celebration of the church in Sioux
City, Iowa, where Theodore Nel-son
is pastor.
Rev. Wyman Malmsten, field
representative for Bethel, left
Wednesday, January 12, for De-troit
and Cleveland churches to re-present
the school as usual. Plans
for an extended trip east had to
be changed, and Mr. Malmsten will
only be gone a few days at this
Also away the past week has
been Dean Emery Johnson, attend-ing
a National Conference of Jun-ior
College Directors, in Cincin-atti,
Ohio, discussing the Junior
College after the war.
Alumnus With
Paratroopers In Italy
During the past week Miss Effie
Nelson received a leter from Chap-lain
Delbert Kuehl, Bethel alum-nus
now serving with the Para-troopers
in Italy. Chaplain Kuehl
has jumped every time his troops
have jumped even though it is not
required of a chaplain to do so.
After one battle Delbert spent
five days and five nights without
any rest at all carrying the wound-ed
throligh mountain passes where
even a mule could not go.
Jan. 19 Missionary Band
Jan. 24-28 Exams
Jan. 27-28 Registration
Jan. 28 ..... ...Fa1.1 semester :ends
Jan. 31 New semester begins
Basketball—River Falls here
Feb. 1 Missionary Band
Feb. 2 Basketball—
Concordia (here)
Interview . . .
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Visitor at Bethel, and Chapel speaker on December 17 was Captain
Gerald Ahlquist, with many fascinating experiences to tell about serving
in the United States Army Air Force. Here are some high lights gleaned
from his conversations about school at that time.
When Captain Ahlquist came back on furlough, December 14, he
had with him two medals. One—a Distinguished Flying Cross, and the
other—a Nazi Victory Medal.
The first, he explained modestly, was just one of those things that
all the boys get after completing one tour. A tour, he said, is made
up of twenty-five missions or flights over enemy territory. Gerry, as
he is known around Bethel, has to his credit twenty-one completed mis-sions.
He started on four others, but because of engine trouble, the
plane he was in had to turn back each time before reaching the target.
The Nazi Victory Medal he "picked up" in North Africa. A number
of these medals had been made and shipped from Germany for the
"victorious" Afrika Korps. However, Rommel had to retreat rather
unexpectedly. In fact, he didn't even have time to open the cases con-taining
the medals, but left them lying on the desert for American
soldiers to use as souvenirs.
Gerald, age twenty-three, is the son of Missionary Dr. Jonas Ahl-quist
who was killed in Burma, two years ago, and Mrs. Judith Ahl-quist
now living in St. Paul. He is a navigator, and has worked himself
up to the rank of Captain.
Gerald was dr-a fted before the Pearl Harbor holocaust. All the act-ion
he has seen has been in the European and African theatres. He saw
the invasion fleet go to Africa. "It looked like a huge cobweb of ships
from four miles up," he stated.
Gerry's first target, Bizerte, was so badly bombed that hardly a
house was left standing. The bombardier on that flight asked him if
he was going to help fire the guns Qr hide under the nose wheel. Gerry
helped fire the- guns. He said, "You see a pursuit coming at you and
you don't just sit there."
In the air, crew members wear helmets and heavy, sheep-lined
clothing. Some of the fellows prefer electrically heated suits which
weigh less and are more comfortable until a fuse blows out.
Someone asked Gerald what we, at Bethel, could do to help the war
effort. "Write to the fellows in service," he said. "Letters from home,
more than anything else, keep a fellow going. On the day that I re-ceived
my Distinguished Flying Cross I got two letters from home and
they thrilled me much more than the medal."
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor-in-chief Barbara Edson
Associate Editor Carol Rexion
Feature Editor Janet Rye
Sports Editor Robert Bergerud
Reporters Gloria Anderson, Ruth Elaine Anderson,
Dorothy Benson, Irene Benson, Harold Carlson,
Carlton Christenson, Lucille Collin, Joyce Gilbert,
Betty Hoff, Esther Ingebretson, Marian Larsen,
Hazel Nelson, F. Robert Otto, Walfred Peterson,
Norma Seaquist, Kiyoo Shimatsu, Lorna Swan-son,
Evelyn Sundberg.
Circulation Manager Mildred Enberg
Typist Dorothy Dahlman
Business Manager Don Krizan
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
lialain anci dfeley
This is no trivial bouquet of flowery words, but a message that
comes from the hearts of everyone from the smallest "frosh" to the
most venerable senior at Bethel Institute.
We have known you for a long time. If we wanted someone upon
which we could depend for a job, you were always willing. If we wanted
someone to give us advice, we could always go to you. Whatever our
associations might have been, we all feel we are better Christians for
having known you. What greater testimony can we give of our esteem
for you!
It won't be long now until you are with your new work in the
West. We will miss you, but are happy that you have had the privilege
of being called to service by the Lord.
What is awaiting you? A new and wonderful task, not easy, no,
but it wouldn't be worthwhile if it were. We suppose you have been
told many times already that you will have times of discouragement,
but they will be compensated for by the great joy of achievement.
Through all this, may we promise that we will give you our great-est
gift, that of prayer, and may you often pause in your work tol feel
that "invisible bond" stretching across the country, linking us with
you through God.
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
edikviial &mimeo" OUQ, INQUIQING
Returned from a three-weeks'
stay in California with news of
Bethel alumni and observations of
war activity in the West is Ladell
Erickson, of Bethel.
For the most part of the time
she visited at the home of Kay
Johnson (nee Jacobson) who was
enrolled at Bethel last year.
"While I was at "Julotta" on
Christmas morning at the 11th
Street Baptist Church of Los An-geles,"
she said, "the pastor an-nounced
the names of two service-men
who were there. I was sur-prised
to hear they were both
Bethel men, David Carlson from
Portland, Oregon, and Paul Lar-son
of Muskegon, Michigan, spend-ing
Christmas weekend in town."
"In San Diego," said she, "we
had a regular Bethel reunion."
Among those present were Mar-jorie
Porter, who is a long distance
telephone operator. "Shine" Swan-son,
who had come to the marine
station after having finished a
thirty-day stretch of K. P., Cor-raine
Hovinen whose husband,
All our best wishes,
The Students of Bethel.
Robert Hovinen (both from Beth-el)
is at an officers' training
school in Virginia, Dave Carlson
and others. "They talked nothing
but Bethel and wanted to be re-membered
to everyone," Ladell
"As for the war," Ladell re-marked,
"it's right at your front
door out there, with P 38's and
other bombers diving overhead
constantly. Everywhere are huge
defense plants, camouflaged and
painted all over in crazy-quilt de-signs
with immitation trees and
funny little houses on the roofs."
She had much opportunity to
observe and hear about the hor-rors
of the war. One of her friends
told her about the navy hospital
(the world's largest) in San Die-go
in which are 10,000 men who
have been injured in the war.
From a woman whose husband
had seen actual movies of the
battle of Tarawa, not released to
the public, but shown in the army
camp, she heard that the picture
Narrow Is the Way
to Destruction
Jesus said in his Sermon on the
Mount that the way to life was
narrow. But can we not change
his words to read: broad is the
way to life, and wide the gate.
How can that be, you ask?
We speak of vision—the way of
looking at life, with ones' attitude
toward the various aspects of our
life, of our outlook as we face the
daily tasks. A narrow vision lim-its—
but a road vision leads to
fields heretofore unexplored—to
spaces where life becomes more
meaningful and rich.
We here at Bethel must confess
that our vision has been narrow—
on the whole; things have been
confined to the narrow limits of
Bethel—of the Baptist convention
—of our nation. Granted that
there are limits, yet can we not
think in terms of all Christians—
of all nations?
We speak vaguely about the
postwar period—what have we
done to acquaint ourselves with
the overwhelming problems of
that period? How many of us are
aware of the tremendous issues at
stake in the conflict?—Or of re-cent
political, social or economic
trends in our country— or in our
Oh, you say: "All that is beyond
our intellectual scope—and we are
studying for Christian work—why
all this talk about the war?" But
are you not a part of this world
regardless?—Will you not have
your part to play in the world of
tomorow? We are prone to "look
down" upon the other denomina-tions—
How much do we know
about their fundamental doctrines
and beliefs? In hundreds of other
ways we have been small—petty-narrow
in our outlook.
Perhaps it is too idealistic—per-haps
it is but an idle dream—but
can we not look upon our life, our
world, with a broader vision? Can
we not transcend the bonds of our
school, our denomination—or our
nation—and look beyond with a
tolerant, understanding, intelli-gent,
compresensive vision?
Chapel Nuggets
By Evelyn Sundberg
1/3/44—Prof. Olson
"Drawing near to the Mercy
Seat really means drawing near
to God—at the Mercy Seat we will
find complete victory; at the
Mercy Seat all things will be well."
1/51/44—Rev. French
"If we have within us that
which is above us we will not
yield to that which is around us."
1/6/44—Stan ley Paulson
"We will never really live until
we live in Him."
included shots taken ten miles out
at sea from the island and showed
bodies of American soldiers float-ing
thick in the water."
By Ruth Elayne Anderson
QUESTION: Do You Think the
Service Men should be allowed to
Vote—and Why?
PROF. C. E. CARLSON: Certainly
The soldiers are still American
citizen and ought to have the
same rights as any one else.
Violet Carlson: The soldiers re-presenting
our country from our
churches certainly would make
voting a subject of prayer—there-fore
their votes would be worth
the "ballot—but then on the
other hand there are such a num-ber
of unchristian soldiers as
Gladys_ Biller: Yes, definitely,
they are fighting for our country,
why shouldn't they be allowed to
elect a president for that same
Miss Nelson: Yes, the soldiers
should vote. Is there any reason
why they should not vote?
Dave Danielson: Sure, they're
deprived of enough privileges now.
Bill Peterson: Of, course, it's
their country as much as ours.
They're going to live in it.
Lily Johnson: Absolutely! They
are fighting for us; they, above all
should have a right to say who
they want to be in office.
Margaret Swanson: Yes, all ser-vice
men and women should be
allowed to vote—to keep them
from voting is adopting dictator
tactics. What's my red head in
the Pacific fighting for if the coun-try
he reptesents takes away his
American rights?
Marian Schouweiler: Of course.
It's the men in the armed services
who are to .make and live under
our coming governmental set-up—
surely they should be allowed to
help determine policies now!
Organizes Staff
"The Spire work is under way
and we hope to have a satisfactory
publication when we are finished,"
says Dana Larson.
Election and appointments were
made recently and are as follows:
Dana Larson, Editor; Janet Rye,
Assistant Editor; Bill Peterson,
Business Manager; Marion Schou-weiler,
Marion Larson, Kay Shi-matsu,
and Irene Benson, Depart-ment
Editors ; Bob Nelson and
Dolores Clausen, Sales and Adver-tizing;
Paul Theobald and Con-well
Anderson, Photography; Le-roy
Gardner, Hazel Nelson and
Gene Johnson, Art Department;
Walfred Peterson and Gretchen
Clausen, Writers; and Evelyn
Sundberg, Typist.
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Serry Snatches
We've often heard about the ab-sent-
minded professor, but did you
hear about the Sem student who
stood outside the dining hall after
third period one morning last
week waiting for the dinner bell
to ring? He couldn't understand
why he was standing there alone.
Finally it dawned on him that he
had another class before lunch so
instead of feasting physically in
the dining hall he feasted for
another period on Prof. Omark's
Biblical Introduction lectures. . . .
Did you hear Gene Johnson play
the- piano at Prayer Meeting the
other night? Every chord seemed
to have a note that reminded me
of a lemon. After the group had
sung all the stanzas in the song,
Gene continued right on playing
? Guess Who ?
His college graduation picture
caption read—"He could teach
Dale Carnegie a thing or two
about winning friends. For the
mainstay of the Forsenics Depart-ment
is one of the best-liked fel-lows
in school. Responsible and
capable he is relied upon for
many tasks."
Among those tasks were Clarion
staff reporter, Spire Business Man-ager,
Debate, Extemporaneous
Speaking, and Oratory blue ribbon
winner, Male Chorus member,
Student Council member, Basket-ball
Team Manager.
He's serious-minded, known as
the Pastor. He's conservative in
dress and ways and the owner
•of a virtuous blush.
You know him better as the
Male Chorus president, pastor of
Highland Church and the hand-some
second bass of the Male
Answer—Gunnar Hoglund.
Laugh Now
Prize Boners
A litre is a nest of young pup-pies.
Explain the meaning of "erg."
When people are playing foot-ball
and you want them to do their
best you erg them on.
* * * *
The earth makes a resolution
every twenty-four hours.
* * * *
Algebra was the wife of Euclid.
Iron was discovered because
someone smelt it.
* * * *
What would you do in the ctl,se
of a man bleeding from a wound
in the head?
I would qut a tournequet around
his neck.
* * * *
In the United States people are
put to death by elocution.
* * * *
A grass widow is the wife of a
another one. Not until he was
half through did he realize that
no one was singing. . . .
`'Knop" Erickson spends his
moments of relaxation in restful
reading. 'His latest attempt is one
of Plato's works telling about the
reasoning of Socrates. You didn't
know we had a man like that in
our midst, did you? And Knop, at
that. . . .
If you were to come over to
the Sem Dorm at 10:15 P. M. any
night you would see a fine display
of physical specimens. AS they
line up in the hall to begin their
calisthenics you might see a mis-placed
chest here and there but
what can you expect from a bunch
of preachers'
All were there. Richman, poor-man,
beggarman, thief. All from
different walks of life, all with a
different background. All distinct
individuals, and yet they were
there for one reason—the soldier
was coming home.
Fathers sat in the waiting room
eyeing the clock, occasionally ,walk-ing
to and fro. Mothers sat with
a tense look which revealed that
a son was a few minutes away.
Sweethearts and young brides
walked nervously in an aimless di-rection
making an irritating sound
with their high heels. Younger
brothers and sisters waited in an
acme of excitment.
The droll voice announced thru
the loud speaking system, "Bur-lington
from Chicago now arriv-ing
on track four." The persons
arose as one and began threading
their way toward the entrance.
Each moment hightened the sus-pense.
"There he is! There he is!" a
young girl screamed as she ran
to the open arms of a soldier.
"Bob, Bob, here we are."
Chicago Hears
Bethel Men
Guest speakers and singers dur-ing
Prayer Week, from January a-
10, at Dr. G. A. Hagstrom's new
pastorate, the Emerald Avenue
Baptist Church, in Chicago, were
Dale Bjork and Lloyd Nordstrom.
The meetings were very well at-tended
with an average of 100-125
people at the evening prayer ser-vices.
Wednesday evening was a
special prayer night for all of the
service men. Lloyd said, "One of
the things that impressed me most
was the Victory Prayer Band
which meets twice a month. It is
composed of the mothers of ser-vicemen
who gather together and
pray for their sons. When you
hear those mothers pray, you know
that they are praying about some-by
Harold Carlson
Gene and Bob got the idea of
changing their room around. The
idea was all right but—well, if
you saw their room now you'd
wonder. If one of you were to go
and visit them, one of them would
have to step out of the room. As
you squeeze into the room be-tween
the bed and desks you
would notice that the radiator is
missing. Upon questioning them
about it, they would reply, "Oh,
that's behind the dresser."—Why
don't you try again, fellows'
There have been quite a few
dorm fellowships lately. Bill Peter-son
and Clarence "Sibelius Stalin"
received an acute case of indiges-tion
from the canned chicken they
devoured recently. . . .
Hugs, kisses, handshakes, tears
are all mingled, the crowd at the
train door begins to filter away
talking happily.
Tall4ng happily—talking of
home, experiences, weddings. All
sorrow of war forgotten for one
sweet hour. All lonliness gone for
a moment. A moment that words
cannot begin to describe. All are
happy now.
All—all but the others at track
eight. The train is ready. Brides
and sweethearts reach for the last
kiss. Mothers cry and bid fare-well.
Fathers choke back tears,
but it takes a supreme effort.
Soldiers hid heart breaking emo-tion.
Ten days more those that arriv-ed
change roles with the depart-ing.
Ten days more different
soldiers arrive. Ten days more
glad hearts are sad, and sad
and sad hearts are gladened by
new arrivals.
How strange that the voice that
says, "Train arriving," or "Train
leaving," can cause so much emo-tion.
Just one voice. I would not
like to be that voice.
thing real."
Friday afternoon the boys visit-ed
at Fridhem and on Sunday
_afternoon spoke at the Klingberg
Children's Home.
Sunday evening at the young
people's service the boys placed
special emphasis on Bethel. They
said that already there are several
young people from that church
that want to attend Bethel next
Both of the boys were entertain-ed
at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Anderson, and says Lloyd,
"The meals must have been good
because I think I have gained
The boys noticed that the young
people and the older members like
their new pastor very much be-cause
of his extensive visitation
work. Both Dr. and Mrs. Hag-strom
sent their greetings to
The literary talent of "Dodo"
Benson plus the noise of Second
Floor North keeps the dinner hour
at the Dorm a happy time. They
pop up ever so often with a clever
little poem to embarrass their
choice victims and amuse the
* * * *
"Kids, 'fellowship' is so wonder-ful!"
says Jane Larson as she
walks dreamily up the stairs every
night at 10:30.
* * * *
Does it sparkle! ! We wish God's
blessings on you, Miss Platts.
* * * *
Thanks to Phyl Karlson, we
have a paper today. She didn't
attend classes at the U. of Minn.
because of a strike there, so typed
articles for the staff.
The dormitory girls are busy
practicing for a record which will
soon be given over the Bethel
Hour. -
It will consist of singing, testi-fying
and other numbers which
will be used for Christian testi-mony
but, also acquaint others
with "life at Bethel."
Stork Called
by Walfred Peterson
Sid Harris, Manager
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"and Israel did eat manna
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Exod. 16:35 •
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Even Sampson got his
hair cut. Why not you?
1182 Snelling
near Como
—Where Students and
Faculty Meet Around
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Bethel Takes Concordia Rolls Bethel Girls---
at Wesley Temple
In a game packed with thrills
and excitement, the Bethel Var-sity
tools Northwestern Bible
School into camp to the tune of
28-26 on Friday evening January
8. The game was played at the
Wesley Temple gymnasium.
Northwestern went into the lead
quickly with the score of 11-1 at
the end of the first quarter. Sah-lin
sank one at the beginning of
the second quarter, and at the
half the lead had been cut to 3
points. From there on until Wess-man
made the winning bucket the
teams took turns going out in
Johnson took high honors for
Bethel with 7 points. Wessman
had 6 and Hails 5. Walton topped
Northwestern with 6.
A return game might be played
and, it is said, should again bring
forth a thrilling spectacle.
This year the basketball squad
seems to be having trouble with
one of the coach's chief worries—
sprained ankles.
"Bergie" started it off right
near the beginning of the season,
but Christmas Vacation was when
the trouble really started. Capt.
Bob Hails turned his "shin-bone"
so bad in the Eau Claire game
just shortly before Christmas that
he was not able to play any more
that evening. Coming back Jan-uary
1, we saw "Smokey" limping
on both legs. He explained, "I
was down playing a little basket-ball
and I sprained the other one."
Willie Wessman and Gordy
Thompson also had similar trouble
during vacation and both look a
little limpy, but they were able to
play in the Northwestern game
along with "Smokey" and "Ber-gie."
* * * *
Give an example of a collective
noun. Garbage-can.
* * *
A goblet is a male turkey.
Over Bethel
Putting up an offence that was
almost unstopable, the Concordia
Comets topped the Bethel Varsity
Friday night by a 50-27 score Led
by Henricks, scoring 15 points
thru-out the game. The Concord-ians
led by a 25-17 at the half.
In the second half, the Tribe-men
came back fighting, but be-cause
the Concordians controlled
the backboards, it seemed rather
futile. Wessman led the Indians
by scoring 10 points, followed by
Capt. "Smokey" Hails with 6
The Bethelites had nothing but
praise for the home team after the
game, and especially for the ball-handling
of Capt. Nahsen and
Meichsnes, who were the second
and third high scores for the Corn-ets.
The support of the Bethel fans
was much appreciated by the
team, including the cheer-leaders,
and the afternoon "Pep-fest."
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Heitzman, and Margaret Swanson.
Between scenes music was pre-sented
by Ruth Elayne Anderson,
Anne Nelson, Ruth Rask, and Al-ma
Iblings. Arlene Peterson read
Scripture. The program was in
charge of Lily Johnson, leader of
group No. III.
Miriam Johanson and Helen
Heitzman, two Bethel girls who
have answered the call to do mis-sionary
work in Bremerton, Wash-ington,
were the honored members.
A lamp and wool blanket were
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points, Eunice Wood 6, and Betty
Nyman 2.
Following the game, the Macal-aster
girls invited the team for a
plunge in the swimming pool.
Cokes and do-nuts greeted the
team after the swim.
Several fellows came down to
watch the team play, and says
manager, Margaret Swanson, 'We
wish that we could encourage
' more spectator interest in the
girls' games."
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During the past two weeks sev-eral
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Department Chair and Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease); Co-director, Center for Neuroepidemiology and Clinical Neurological Research
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Judith H. Lichtman, PhD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, CT. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, and received her Master of Public Health degree and PhD in Epidemiology at Yale University. Dr. Lichtman has been actively involved in regional and national studies of cardiovascular and stroke outcomes. She has served on several national committees including the AHA Patient Education System Task Force, the AHA Peer Review Evaluation Design Task Force, the AHA Stroke and Epidemiology Councils, and the AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Expert Panel. She has been a member of the Program Committee for the American Heart Association Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, the co-chair for two National American Heart Association Writing Committees, and was recently appointed as a member of the American Stroke Association Advisory Committee, as well as the Quality Improvement Working group for the AHA Get With the Guidelines Program. Dr. Lichtman has been the Principal Investigator for projects funded by the Goddess Foundation, Fannie E. Rippel Foundation, AHA, CDC, NIA, AHRQ, NHLBI, and NINDS. Dr. Lichtman's research focuses on examining the epidemiology of stroke and heart disease using longitudinal databases and prospective observational studies.
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|Yale University (1988)
|University of Rochester (1985)
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FellowAmerican Heart Association/American Stroke Association (2015)
Women with Heart Research Award, Go Red for Women Campaign, American Heart Association New York City (2005)
Hazel Goddess Career Development Award for Stroke Research in WomenGoddess Fund for Stroke Research in Women (2001)
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Makes: 12
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Level 1
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/Gas 4
- Ensure that your ingredients and equipment are at room temperature to reduce the risk of the mixture curdling.
- Place the butter and sugar into your mixer bowl and using the creaming beater cream on medium speed until it becomes thick and creamy.
- Beat the eggs to together, reduce the speed of the mixer and gradually add the eggs. Ensure that each addition of the eggs is properly incorporated before adding the next amount of the eggs. Add a teaspoon of the flour after each amount of egg is added.
- Once the eggs have been incorporated add the flour, cocoa and baking powder and continue to mix together
- Place twelve paper cases into a muffin tray then divide the mixture evenly between them.
- Bake for approximately 12 – 15 minutes until they spring back when lightly pressed.
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Across the United States some six million immigrants from Latin America now send money to their families back home on a regular basis. The number of senders and the sums they dispatched grew even when the U.S. economy slowed, and looking to the future, the growth seems likely to continue and potentially to accelerate. The total remittance flow from the United States to Latin America and the Caribbean could come close to $30 billion this year, making it by far the largest single remittance channel in the world.
The Rise Of The Second Generation
As it continues to grow, the composition of the Hispanic population is undergoing a fundamental change: Births in the United States are outpacing immigration as the key source of growth. Over the next twenty years this will produce an important shift in the makeup of the Hispanic population with second-generation Latinos–the U.S.-born children of immigrants– emerging as the largest component of that population. Given the very substantial differences in earnings, education, fluency in English, and attitudes between foreign-born and native-born Latinos, this shift has profound implications for many realms of public policy, and indeed for anyone seeking to understand the nature of demographic change in the United States.
Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained
The Latino Experience in the Recession and Recovery
2003 Multilingual Survey Of California Voters
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Hispanic Youth Dropping Out of U.S. Schools
Measuring the Challenge
Survey Of Latino Attitudes On The War With Iraq
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Hispanics In The Military
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Hey old dudes, I just want to announce that Martin created a new group dedicated to players over 50.
In the new group, you can share and discuss ideas like:
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Just getting started in Tennis at age 56 and looking for a partner of equal skills. Very athletic all my life baseball, football, alot of basketball, running years ago no longer, tread mill 4 days week, but a novice when it comes to tennis. I would say I have a few months under my belt against a wall. Need to start playing to begin learning the game. How does one locate a partner?
Do yourself a big favor, find a qualified coach. The best coaches generally get the best students ie: the ones who coach the top ranked juniors in your area - but not always. You have to ask around, get opinions. Try out a few coaches and see which one communicates best to you. Tennis is a very highly skilled sport. It is like learning to play a musical instrument. You can spend the rest of your life trying reinvent the wheel, developing bad habits that hurt your progress, or you can find a qualified coach who will get you started in the right direction. Good luck! Enjoy the greatest game every concieved.
I have been working with several coaches, now I would like to start playing tennis. I am fortunate to be working with an x-tennis pro from Europe, we talk tennis almost every day along with instruction. So back to my initial question how does one find entry level partners?
I would recommend asking your coach(s) to match you up with players of your level.
Hi Rich! I am also entry level, working with a great coach. I live in the South Bay. Where are you located? Let's see if we can get together and play. Practice, practice, practice!!! :) Janismarla
Hey, I would love to be a part of this group. I live in the SouthBay and am a beginner but the more I play, the better I'll get. So, what's the next step? Janismarla :)
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To establish procedures and criteria to allow employees in budgeted positions to voluntarily donate their personal accrued leave to another budgeted employee who is experiencing a catastrophic health condition due to illness, injury or accident, or whose immediate family member (spouse, son, daughter, or parent of the employee or same sex domestic partner) is experiencing a catastrophic health condition due to illness, injury or accident. A catastrophic health condition is defined as a severe condition or combination of conditions affecting the mental or physical health of the employee that requires treatment by a licensed healthcare practitioner for a prolonged period of time. A prolonged period of time is a minimum of 120 hours of missed work. B. Eligibility for Use of Donated Hours An employee meeting the requirements of the University's Leave Donation Policy ("Program") as set forth in section E below, may receive donated leave for the following reasons: 1. The employee, or his/her eligible family member, must be experiencing a catastrophic or severe medical condition to be eligible to receive donated leave hours. Further, the employee, prior to being eligible to receive donated hours under this program, must first provide the Vice President of Human Resources (hereinafter reference to the "Vice President of Human Resources" will also include "or his/her designee") with a statement from his/her licensed healthcare provider, acceptable to the University, stating the health condition necessitating the leave from work, the anticipated dates of treatment (if applicable) and the employee's anticipated date of return to work; or 2. In the event the requested leave is for cosmetic or reconstructive surgery, the employee must provide a health care provider's certification stating the need for cosmetic or reconstructive procedures is related to an accident, injury or illness covered under paragraph 1 above, and the cosmetic or reconstructive procedure must be covered by the employee's health insurance. 3. Employees are eligible to use donated leave hours for either continuous absence from work or intermittent absence from work for reasons meeting the criteria set forth in paragraphs 1 and 2 above. 4. This program is not a substitute for long-term disability or other long-term care coverage. Accordingly, limits have been placed on the number of hours an employee may be absent from work under this program (see section D below). C. Criteria for Receiving Donated Leave Hours 1. The employee must have been employed in a full or part-time budgeted position for a minimum of seven months from the date of initial hire and have satisfactorily completed any probationary period, if applicable (support employees who transfer to another support position after successfully completing probation are not required to complete a probationary period in a new position to be eligible to participate in this program); 2. Employees in full-time positions may receive up to 80 hours (less adjustments discussed in Section D below) of donated leave hours per pay period while part-time employees are eligible to receive donated leave hours in proportion to their customary work schedule (less leave earned over that pay period); 3. The employee requesting leave must complete the applicable "Application for Donated Leave Hours" prior to his/her application for leave hours being considered by the Committee; 4. In the "Application for Donated Leave Hours" form, the employee must execute a release providing the Vice President of Human Resources the right to contact the employee's health care provider to seek clarification of the employee's need to be on leave from his/her job duties including the time the employee needs to be off work as employees are only eligible to receive donated leave if it is necessary for the employee to be absent from work. In the event it is necessary for the employee to be on leave prior to all required paperwork being received by the Vice President for the employee's receipt of donated leave hours under this program, if the health care provider's certification warrants and the Committee approves the request for donated leave, the employee may receive donated leave retroactive to his/her first unpaid day of leave from work; 5. The employee must be in good standing and be discipline free for a period of 12 months, or from the date of his/her employment beginning at the University, if employed less than 12 months, prior to the employee's request for donated leave hours; 6. The employee may not be subject to a non-reappointment of his/her employment; and 7. The employee must have exhausted his/her compensatory time, annual, sick, and personal holiday, sick leave pool benefits (if applicable) or any other benefits where pay may immediately be received prior to being eligible to receive donated leave. This exhaustion requirement does not include periods where an employee is not yet entitled to long-term disability coverage or periods of time where an employee's application is pending for other types of leave benefits due to medical disability. D. Limitations on an Employee's Ability to Receive Donated Leave 1. This program does not provide donated leave hours for elective leaves not meeting the requirements of section B of this program. This includes cosmetic or reconstructive treatment that does not meet the criteria of section B paragraph 2 above; 2. Employees may only receive donated leave for covered conditions under section B paragraph 1 for a period exceeding 12 weeks (480 hours) for the employee's personal illness. For example, caring for one's immediate family member, or other leaves not specifically related to the employee's personal illness cannot exceed 480 hours absence from work. Additionally, for an employee to receive donated leave that would result in excess of 480 hours absence from work for their personal illness, will require the employee to provide documentation to the Vice President of Human Resources indicating the additional leave is needed for an extraordinary reason. In such extraordinary or catastrophic requests for donated leave, generally the Vice President of Human Resources will communicate with the employee's health care provider and share with him/her a copy of the employee's job description to have the healthcare provider certify that continued absence, either on a part-time or full-time basis is required. Based on these types of communications taking up to two weeks or more, employees who anticipate requiring more than 480 hours leave from work should provide the Vice President of Human Resources a certification from his/her health care provider stating the reason for the need for additional time off from work so that leave donation benefits are not interrupted while the Vice President awaits follow up communication from the employee's health care provider; 3. Employees who have been employed in a budgeted position for more than 12 months prior to their request for donated leave hours may not receive donated leave that would allow them to be absent from work in excess of 1,040 hours in a consecutive twelve (12) month period; 4. The lifetime maximum number of donated leave hours an employee may receive under this program in donated leave that would allow the employee to be absent from work is 2,080 hours; 5. An employee on leave while receiving donated hours under this program accrues annual and sick leave benefits as a result of being paid while receiving donated hours. As a result, employees on leave receiving donated hours will have the amount of leave hours earned deducted from any donated leave so that an employee does not exceed the maximum hours of absence from work as set forth in numbers 1 through 3 above; 6. If an employee has habitually used all sick leave and has received all leave required by University regulations and/or law, the Vice President of Human Resources, after consultation with the employee's supervisor and other appropriate University representatives, may opt not to forward an application for donated leave hours to the Program Committee; 7. Once an employee meets the criteria to receive disability benefits under an available University benefit, private insurance policy, or government program, he/she is not eligible to receive donated hours since this program is not a substitute for or supplement to such disability coverage; 8. If an employee is out of work because of a University job-related injury covered by Workers' Compensation benefits, he/she is only entitled to receive donated sick hours in an amount that would provide the employee his regular earnings while off of work; 9. Leave used under this policy will be applied toward the employee's FMLA entitlement for leave pursuant to the University's FMLA program; and 10. Misrepresentation of the need for leave or abuse of donated leave benefits may result in the disapproval of donated leave to the employee resulting in the employee not only having to repay all or part of the sick leave credits received under the program but also subjecting the employee to disciplinary action. Abuse of donated leave includes, but is not be limited to: misrepresentation of an illness, accident, or injury or, the circumstances surrounding it and/or submission of a medical certification which is from other than a licensed health care practitioner, or which misrepresents the nature of a employee's illness and/or duration, all for the purpose of receiving sick leave benefits to which the employee is not entitled to receive under this policy. E. Requirements for Donating Leave Hours1. To donate accrued leave hours, the employee must have been employed in a budgeted (leave earning) full or part-time position for a minimum of 12 months and have a minimum leave balance (annual and sick leave combined) of 64 hours (after any donated leave); 2. Employees who would like to donate leave hours to another employee must complete a "Leave Donation" form. The form will specify the name of the recipient and the number of hours the employee wishes to donate. Only the amount of leave needed by the donor will be used. If the recipient designated by the donor of leave does not use all leave credits donated, the remaining leave is not used and remains with the donor unless they specify that another employee can use those hours. 3. Hours donated from one employee to the leave recipient will be calculated at the value of the donating employee's current hourly rate. The value of the hours, not the hours themselves, will transfer to the leave recipient thereby providing the employee a number of sick leave hours based on the earnings of the donating employee. For example, if Employee A earning $15.00 per hour donates 10 sick leave hours to Employee B, who earns $10.00 per hour, Employee A has donated $150.00 ($15.00 X 10) in sick leave earnings to Employee B providing Employee B the equivalent 0f 15 hours of leave ($150.00 /$10.00 = 15); and 4. After the Committee subsequently approves the employee's request for receipt of donated leave hours, the Vice President may place a notice in the Osprey Update for Faculty and Staff advising the University community that there is an anonymous employee in need of leave hours and requesting donations be submitted to the Office of Human Resources. F. Program Administration1. Leave donated or provided under this program will be administered by the University's Sick Leave Pool Committee ("Committee"). For further information regarding the six-person Sick Leave Committee, its selection criteria, voting rights, etc, please see the UNF's Sick Leave Policy found at http://www.unf.edu/hr/pay_leave/Sick_Leave_Pool.aspx
2. The Committee is chaired by the Vice President of Human Resources. The Committee Chair will be responsible for all record keeping, coordinating meetings and collecting information regarding employees seeking to donate leave or receive leave under this program. Meetings may be conducted in-person, via conference call and if time is a necessity, by e-mail. G. Appeal of DecisionWithin five (5) calendar days after the Committee issues a decision denying a request for donation or receipt of sick leave hours, an employee may appeal such decision in writing to the President or designee. The decision of the President or designee shall be final. H. Reservation of Rights The University President reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this procedure at any time he/she deems it to be appropriate. Further, the University President may, at any time repeal this policy for the purpose of discontinuing the Leave Donation Program. Adopted by the University of North Florida Board of Trustees as part of the University's Personnel Program on February 1, 2006; Revised on November 5, 2007.


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It´s one thing to snorkel around the beautiful bays of Los Cabos, it's a whole other kettle of fish to have a knowledgeable guide by your side. Let our local guides take you to all the best kept secret spots at our two favorite bays and make the most of this great experience.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Following a tremendous fall sports season, highlighted by five Big Ten Championships, Penn State is No. 8 in the 2012-13 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup final fall standings.
In the final fall Directors' Cup standings, Penn State has finished in the Top 10 in each of the last six years and 16 times in the 20 years of the Directors' Cup program.
Penn State, Maryland and North Carolina were the only Division I institutions to have two fall teams advance to their respective 2012 NCAA semifinals, with the Nittany Lions' women's soccer and women's volleyball doing so.
The Nittany Lions have 323.5 points, reaching the NCAA Championship match in women's soccer, and finishing tied for third in women's volleyball, tied for fifth in field hockey, 14th in women's cross-country and 32nd in men's cross-country.
Stanford, which has won 18 consecutive Directors' Cup titles, led the final fall standings with 398 points. The Cardinal are followed by Michigan (373), Florida State (358.5), Notre Dame (353), North Carolina (342), Oregon (334), UCLA (331), Penn State (323.5), Florida (275.5) and Texas (274).
Penn State won five Big Ten Championships this past fall in field hockey (regular season and tournament), men's soccer, women's soccer and women's volleyball. The Nittany Lions registered an impressive 89-20-5 cumulative overall record and a 43-5-3 Big Ten mark in field hockey, football, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball this past fall. The women's cross country team also made history as it captured its first NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional crown.
The Nittany Lions boasted the Big Ten Coach of the Year – Char Morett (field hockey), Russ Rose (women's volleyball), Erica Walsh (women's soccer) and Bob Warming (men's soccer) -- for each of their championship-winning teams. In addition, head football coach Bill O'Brien earned conference Coach of the Year accolades from the media and coaches, and director and head coach of track and field/cross-country Beth Alford-Sullivan was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year.
The Nittany Lions placed No. 12 in the 2011-12 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup to earn their 14th Top 15 finish. Penn State is one of only nine programs nationwide to have finished in the Top 25 in all 20 years, joining Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio State, Southern California, Stanford, Texas and UCLA.
Penn State has won 22 NCAA Championships since 1993-94, its first full year in the Big Ten Conference, more than double every other Big Ten institution. Iowa is second with 10. Penn State has won 76 Big Ten Championships all-time.
The Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings were developed as a joint effort between the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution's finish in as many as 20 sports -- 10 women's and 10 men's.
Penn State Athletics is on Facebook at (www.facebook.com/pennstatenittanylions) and Twitter at (http://www.gopsusports.com/ot/twitter.html).


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(CNN) -- When mothers-to-be and their doctors schedule repeat elective Caesarean sections before the 39th week of pregnancy, the baby is up to twice as likely to experience serious respiratory problems and other complications, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Shannon Eubanks and her husband admire their new baby, Kathleen.
Researchers tracked more than 24,000 women who had repeat C-sections performed at 37 weeks or later at 19 medical centers in the United States between 1999 and 2002. Of those, 13,258 women had elective C-sections, meaning there was no medical reason connected to the mother or baby that required this type of delivery. Instead, the procedure was scheduled as a matter of convenience for the mother or the doctor.
Shannon Eubanks wanted to be one of those moms who scheduled an elective repeat C-section. She was eager to deliver her second child before the end of year. "I'm an accountant, and it killed me that I didn't get the tax break for 2008," she said.
Her first child, Charlie, now 2, was a very large baby (10 pounds) and breach, so he had to be delivered by C-section. She expected her second child to be large, too, but there was no medical need to deliver her surgically.
However, Eubanks says she doesn't normally have family in town, so having the baby around the time of a holiday visit would have given her some additional help after the birth.
According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a nonprofit advocate for women's health care, a normal pregnancy can last from 37 to 42 weeks, but the average length is 40 weeks.
However, the group recommends waiting until the 39th week of gestation for an elective C-section because the baby's lungs should be fully developed by then. Babies born by C-section are at greater risk for respiratory problems, compared with those born vaginally, even at full term. Still, many babies are scheduled to be delivered as early as 37 weeks.
John Thorp, Eubanks' doctor, persuaded her to wait until her baby was 39 weeks old before having the C-section. Thorp isn't just Eubanks' obstetrician and gynecologist, he's also a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina and one of the co-authors of this new study.
"It would have been far easier for me to do this last week than this week, too," Thorp said. But he told his patient that she needed to wait, and that by waiting, her baby's lungs would have more time to develop.
This new study finds that having a baby by C-section two weeks, or even three or four days, before the 39th week increases the risk of complications for the baby. It also found that having the baby after 40 weeks also increased the risks for bad outcomes.
"This [study] allows us to know how many elective scheduled C-sections are performed before 39 weeks, " says Dr. Catherine Y. Spong, another study author and chief of the Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch of the National Institutes of Health. "This study is telling us that over one-third of women are having elective repeat Caesareans -- that's not an insubstantial number."
Doctors not involved with the study say this study is important because it gives them concrete data for their patients who are pushing for an earlier delivery date.
Thorp has this advice, based on his research: "When doctors and moms sit down to make this plan, they need to plan the timing of these deliveries no earlier than and no later than the 39th week."
Eubanks' baby girl, Kathleen Conley Eubanks, was born at 8:12 a.m. Tuesday, a healthy 9 pounds and half an ounce.
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Swimming Pool Blog
Rob Cox, April 9, 2012
How to select an automatic pool cleaner
Pool cleaners can make the life of a pool owner much easier. If your pool was built with a pool cleaner in mind, selection of a new or replacement pool cleaner is much simpler. But what if you never had a pool cleaner?
How does one wade through over 60 different pool cleaners - to find the pool cleaner that will do the best job for your pool type, shape and size?
Let's start simply - by first making a distinction between inground and above ground pool cleaners. This will narrow down your choices to two large categories. From there - it's a matter of weighing the benefits of each pool cleaner type: Suction, Robotic and Pressure type pool cleaners.
Aboveground pools:
Pool cleaners for aboveground pools have distinct differences from their inground cousins:
1. Exclusively made for vinyl lined pool surfaces.
2. Made for flat-bottom pools, without a deep end.
3. Operate with slower flow rates, from smaller pool filter pumps.
For aboveground pool cleaners, the available choices for pool cleaners includes suction cleaners, robotic cleaners and pressure cleaners.
Suction cleaners attach to the skimmer - just plug the cleaner hose into the skimmer, below the skimmer basket, and the cleaner will vacuum the pool floor, bringing the debris into the pump basket. For larger debris loads, an in-line strainer can be installed between the hose and the skimmer, to overcome the problem of a small pump basket being quickly filled, and needing nearly constant emptying. Suction cleaners can also work with a skim-vac plate, made by Hayward, which allows the cleaner to deposit the debris into the larger, easier to clean skimmer basket.
NOTE: If you have a very small intex type pool, with a small pump/filter combo - sometimes without a pump basket, a suction type cleaner will not be the best choice for you. For an aboveground suction pool cleaner to work, it needs enough power available from a separate pump, one with a pump basket, and at least 3/4 - 1hp in size.
Suction cleaners for aboveground pools are quite affordable, as are most products made for aboveground pools. They are typically $100-$150. Not too technically advanced, but if you have a larger pool, and are tired of manually vacuuming, these cleaners will get the job done - faster and easier than you can do yourself.
Robotic cleaners for aboveground pools are your other option. The advantages to a robotic cleaner over a suction-type pool cleaner are:
1. Self Contained, on-board debris bag.
2. Independent of your pump and filter system.
3. Filters the water as it vacuums the pool.
4. Will operate on smaller, Intex type pools.
Aboveground pool robots have come down a lot in price in recent years. Formerly only available for inground pools, at a cost of $1000 or more, manufacturers have answered the call, and produced robotic pool cleaners that you can buy, for under $300. Robotic pool cleaners require no installation or special plumbing, just a grounded outlet to plug-in the transformer box.
Pressure cleaners for aboveground pools are the third option. These cleaner types operate on the pressure of the water returning to the pool; they hook up to one of your pool wall returns. Unlike most inground pressure type pool cleaners, there is no additional booster pump required. They operate on the pressure created by your pool filter pump.
Pressure cleaners for aboveground pools have the dual benefit of not robbing you of skimming action while operating, plus they catch debris in their own bag, preventing the need to empty a small pump basket or bringing dirt into the pool filter, and requiring extra backwashing.
Inground Pool Cleaners
The first question I would ask someone looking for a new inground pool cleaner is: 'Do you have a dedicated cleaner line?' This is a plumbing line, usually positioned at the mid-point of one of the long walls, where a cleaner can be connected. It can be either a suction line (coming into the pump), or a pressure line (on the return side of the pump).
In some cases, when a pool is built, the pool owner may opt to have the dedicated cleaner line installed, in case they decide later to purchase a pool cleaner. The pipe is sometimes left as a 'stub-pipe', sticking out of the ground, or sometimes it is connected to either the suction or return plumbing.
If a dedicated cleaner line is connected on the return side (after the filter), I would recommend installing a booster pump and a timeclock - and a pressure side pool cleaner like the Polaris 380 or the Letro Legend. These pool cleaners fit the bill for a true 'automatic pool cleaner' that will turn itself on and shut itself off. This is a big benefit, preventing you from remembering to do this. And if a pool cleaner operates for the entire time that the filter pump is running, it will quickly wear and tear, requiring more frequent tune-ups.
If a dedicated cleaner line is connected into the suction side (coming into the pump), this allows you to connect a suction side cleaner like a Kreepy Krauly or Hayward Navigator, without sacrificing much of the skimming action. Otherwise, a suction cleaner, connected to the skimmer, will reduce the amount of skimming action.
No dedicated cleaner line? No problem, you can connect a suction side cleaner into your wall skimmer. These cleaners include a device that will allow you to maintain a small amount of skimming action while the cleaner is connected, if your pool pump has enough 'oomph' - or if you have two skimmers, and a large enough pump, you may be able to skim the pool while cleaning the pool. Otherwise - hook up the cleaner to clean the bottom, then unhook it after a few hours, to allow the skimmer to keep the surface of the pool clean.
A dedicated suction line can be converted to a dedicated pressure line, if desired. Just cut the pipe off near the ground level, and reroute it to the return side, by use of a Tee fitting or a 3-way valve.
If no dedicated cleaner line exists - and there is only one skimmer in your inground pool - I would recommend looking at the many choices for inground robotic pool cleaners. We have 7 brands competing for this business, with many choices to consider. The more expensive models have more power, remote controlled operation and on-board lighting.
Prices have come down in this pool cleaner category in recent years, and you can pick up a nice robotic pool cleaner for as little as $700, from Aquabot. Robotic pool cleaners are a good choice for pools without dedicated cleaner lines, or older pools with crushed-pipe returns, or those with smaller, inefficient pool filters.
Pool cleaners are fun to buy and fun to watch, your dog may spend hours barking at this underwater animal. Check out our full line of pool cleaners at low prices. We have over 60 different pool cleaners to choose from! If that confuses you, don't worry, send us an email or give a call - we'll help you sort through the options!


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At 11 minutes after noon, Ted Cruz made history.
The Houston lawyer and former Texas solicitor general was sworn in as the state's newest U.S. senator by Vice President Joe Biden, becoming the first Texas senator of Latino descent in the state's history.
Cruz, accompanied by Texas' new senior senator, John Cornyn, walked to the front of the Senate chamber and joined Indiana's Joe Donnelly, California's Dianne Feinstein and Nebraska's Deb Fischer among the third group of senators to take the oath of office.
Cruz, a conservative Republican, replaces fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison of Dallas. He becomes the first U.S. senator from Houston since then-Sen. Lloyd Bentsen became President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary in 1993.
Across the Capitol, eight freshman lawmakers from the Lone Star State were sworn into office at 2:10 p.m. EST. Among them were five Democrats and three Republicans: Joaquin Castro of San Antonio, Pete Gallego of Alpine, Steve Stockman of Friendswood, Randy Weber of Pearland, Roger Williams of Weatherford, Filemon Vela of Brownsville, Beto O'Rourke of El Paso and Marc Veasey of Fort Worth.
"You are likely feeling awestruck right about now," House Speaker John Boehner told the new members. "History runs through here. And now you are among a select few to share in this privilege.
Texas gained four new House seats as a result of population gains in the 2010 census. Two of the freshman House members ousted incumbents and two filled open seats.
The Class of 2013 marks a generational shift for Texas. Cruz, Castro, O'Rourke and Veasey all are 42 years old or younger.
The congressional delegation also is the most ethnically diverse in Texas history. Five of the nine new Texas lawmakers are minorities: four Latinos and one African American.


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