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e CLARION Volume XX XIX—No. 7 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, October 30, 1962
Broadening U.S. Responsibilities r Set as Topic for Hamline Institute
Bethel exhibited "Nine Decades of Progress and Service," a dis-play
designed by Mr. Robert Nelson, at the "Made in St. Paul Show."
Soviet Pianist Opens
City Concert Season
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NCMF Assembly
A 500-voice choir, composed of
members of Twin City church and
college choral groups, will be the
feature of a special Reformation
Day church music festival to be
held in the Hall of States at the
Leamington hotel Wednesday, Oct.
31, at 8 p.m.
The group will be under the
direction of Dr. Charles C. Hirt,
director of choral organizations at
the University of Southern Calif-ornia,
and one of the nation's lead-ing
church music authorities.
There will be free admission
to the public at this closing
event of the three-day session
of the National Church Music
fellowship convention.
Dr. Hirt, who is also minister
of music at the world's largest
Presbyterian church in Hollywood,
California, will address ministers,
musicians and college students at
9 a.m. Wednesday at the hotel.
His subject will be "Music, a Cata-lyst
to Corporate Worship."
The convention opened Monday
evening, Oct. 2, with a trip to
Northfield, Minn., for a dinner and
a choral demonstration by Dr. Olaf
Christiansen and the St. Olaf choir.
Today's sessions included an
organ lecture and recital at
Westminster Presbyterian church
by Dr. Edward Berryman, form-erly
University of Minnesota or-ganist,
at 2 p.m. and a 6:30 p.m.
banquet at the Leamington
hotel's Hall of States, at which
the winner in an international
hymn contest will be announced.
The contest is sponsored jointly
by the NCMF and the Billy Gra-ham
Evangelistic association, and
will he a nnoun ee.d by Don Hustad,
organist of the Billy Graham team.
Mrs. Edith Norberg will direct
youth choirs from Mt. Olivet Lu-theran
church in a choral demon-stration
at 8 p.m.
Several local clergymen from
churches in downtown Minnea-polis
will assist in devotional
periods in connection with each
session of the convention. Col-lege
and church music leaders
from all parts of the country
will also take part.
The National Church Music Fel-lowship
was founded eleven years
ago to promote effective leader-ship,
techniques, and materials in
the musical ministry of the evan-gelical
church and college.
A Bethel college debate team
placed first in the junior division
at the first meeting of the Twin
City Debate league at the Univer-sity
of Minn. Oct. 23.
The resolution in debate was
that non-communist countries
Set for Social
A masquerade party, sponsored
by the social committee, will be
held Friday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m.
in the fieldhouse.
All students who attend must
wear costumes, and judging will
be held for the best disguise.
Silent movies will be enacted in
a one half hour production by the
drama club. A band ensemble will
play during games and refresh-ments.
A pep fest in the fieldhouse
will follow the party. Tickets will
be on sale Wednesday, Oct. 31 in
the coffee shop at 50 cents per
by Jean Dahlquist
The twenty-first annual Institute
of World Affairs will be held on
the campus of Hamline university
Nov. 1-2. In recognizing the en-larging
international resonsibilities
of the United States, the institute
seeks to make known significant
developments in problems abroad
and this country's relationship to
Dr. Gordon Gilmore, vice-presi-dent
for public relations, Trans
World airlines, will open the in-stitute
speaking on the topic
"Problems of International Trans-portation"
on Nov. 1 at 1:30 p.m.
in Bridgman hall.
A member of several aviation
organizations, Dr. Gilmore serv-should
establish an economic com-munity.
Arguing for the negative posi-tion,
Fred Lund and Larry Houk,
freshmen, won first place in the
debate tournament.
Lund received a copy of The
Greek Way by Edith Hamilton and
Houk received Six Modern Ameri-can
Plays edited by Halline.
On the affirmative side of the
question, Sharon Larson and Lindy
Nelson, freshmen, were undefeated
and finished in second place.
Dick Krueger and Doris Shu-bert,
juniors, won in three
rounds of debate, while Dave
Whitney and Pam Hanson, jun-iors,
won two out of three
Twenty-one colleges from the
Twin Cities and surrounding area,
including the University of Min-nesota,
participated in the debate.
ed as chairman of the Interna-tional
Air Transport public re-lations
conference at the Hague
in 1955.
"Germany between East and
West" will be discussed by Dr.
Paul Fried at the 2:45 p.m. ses-sion
in Bridgman hall.
Dr. Fried, professor of history
and director of Vienna summer
school, Hope college, has published
two large studies, Ambassadors
With Textbooks and Summer in
Vienna. His latest trip to central
Europe and Germany was in the
summer of 1962.
The evening session will com-mence
at 8:15 p.m. in Bridgman
hall. "Soviet Russia 1962" (with
colored slides) will be presented
by Dr. Roger Waler, associate
professor of economics at Ham-line
Traveling in the latter part of
the summer of 1962, he studied
in the Soviet Union in preparation
for his teaching responsibilities in
the Louis W. and Maud Hill Rus-sian
area studies program of four
St. Paul colleges.
A convocation at 9:45 a.m. in the
fieldhouse will begin the activities
on Nov. 2. An address, "American
Foreign Policy Today," will be giv-en
by Mr. Carl Rowan, deputy as-sistant
secretary of state for public
Mr. Rowan is a member of the
United States delegation to the
United Nations General Assem-bly
this fall.
The same topic will be pursued
by Mr. Rowan in the discussion ses-sion
following at 10:45 a.m. in the
At 1:30 p.m. in Bridgman hall,
the closing address will feature
Dr. Norman Graebner. Professor of
history at the University of Illin-ois,
Dr. Graebner will speak on
the subject "Essentials for a China
Dr. Graebner's many books in-clude
"Empire on the Pacific"
and "The New Isolationist."
by Marilyne Anderson
Soviet pianist, Vladimir Ash-kenazy,
will open the Schubert
club's concert series at 8:30 p.m.,
Thursday, Nov. 1, in the St. Paul
auditorium theater.
Ashkenazy, the 25-year-old who
tied for first prize in this year's
Tchaikowsky International compe-tition
in Moscow, will offer a var-ied
program with Mozart's Sonata
in D Major, Prokofieff's Sonata No.
6 in A Major and Chopin's Twelve
Ashkenazy is touring the Uni-ted
States under the Cultural
Exchange program between the
U.S. and the U.S.S.R. When Ash-kenazy
first visited America in
1958 at the age of 21, he sold
out Carnegie hall.
Playing the piano since the age
of six, Ashkenazy is a graduate
of the Moscow conservatory. He
won second prize in the Chopin
Piano competition in Warsaw when
he was seventeen and catapulted
Off-campus members of the in-stitute
are asked to enroll upon
their arrival at the registration
desk in the corridor on the first
floor of the administration build-ing.
There is no fee for registra-tion,
and the institute is open to
the general public.
Bethel college exhibited its dis-play
"Nine Decades of Progress
and Service" at the "Made in St.
Paul Show" Oct. 15-24.
The purpose of the show, co-sponsored
by the St. Paul Junior
Chamber of Commerce and the
Emporium, was to illustrate the
fact that St. Paul is an industrial
and educational city.
Bethel's display was designed by
Mr. Robert Nelson and made by
the maintenance department head-ed
by Mr. Elvin Malcolm.
The nine decades of progress and
service were depicted along the
into international prominence
when he won coveted first prize
in the Queen Elizabeth competi-tion
in Brussels, a contest often
called the "Davis Cup" of music.
Ruggiero Ricci, California-born
violinist, will be the featured per-former
of the second concert in
the Schubert series Dec. 13. The
Roger Wagner chorale will sing
on Mar. 14. The 24-voice chorus
was formed 14 years ago in sou-thern
California by its French-born
director. The series will con-clude
with an appearance by
Eileen Farrell, dramatic soprano
on Apr. 8.
The Schubert club has existed
for 80 years, providing local au-diences
opportunity to hear
such performers as baritone
George London, bass Jerome
Hines, violinist Isaac Stern and
pianists Rudolf Serkin and Dame
Myra Hess.
In addition to sponsoring four
or five annual concerts the club
supports from 20 to 30 free con-certs
for patients and residents of
hospitals and homes for the aged.
The club also provides scholarships
for talented youngsters to further
their musical education to the
amount of over $1300 annually.
The cultural committee has made
seasonal tickets available to Bethel
students at a price below that of
the regular student price, the re-maining
amount being subsidized
by the cultural council and the
convocations committee.
Transportation by bus to all
four concerts has been arranged
at the cost of 75 cents to the stu-dent.
sides of the display. In the center
the tenth decade was illustrated
by the architect's layout of the new
campus site.
Twelve college displays, includ-ing
Bethel's, made up a composite
display entitled "Education for a
Better St. Paul."
Approximately 200 St. Paul
manufacturers were alloted free
space to display what each busi-ness
manufactured, how their pro-ducts
are made and used, and ser-vices
and number of people em-ployed
in their industries.
Lund, Houk Win First Place
In Collegiate Debate Contest
Vladimir Ashkenazy, winner of this year's Tchaikowsky Inter
national competition, is on tour under the Cultural Exchange program
between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and will perform Thursday at the
Schubert concert series.
Bethel Depicted in St. Paul Show
Via Nelson - Designed Display
Page 2 the CLARION Tuesday, October 30, 1962
Lack of Christian Writers
Indicts Religious Groups
Christian literature is currently becoming a legitimate
area of concern in evangelical circles, as it has been throughout
the church for some time. The apparent lack of substantial
Christian writers is appalling and stands as an indictment
against a Christian community called to publish its message . Part of the problem lies with the matter of definition.
F'or the majority, Christian literature has come to mean only
Sunday school and devotional materials or tracts. Few people
equate it with the impact of a successful novel relating and
revealing Christianity working in raw life or of the work of a
Christian poet whose creativity produces that which is artis-tically
sound and provocatively stimulating.
Where are such writers in our church? in our confer-ence?
in our school? Needless to say, there are few to be
As a result, Christianity is being represented by the
popular "church" novel read only by the faithful few and
properly ignored and ridiculed by those outside the church.
Such novels have a long history of over-concern with
missionary exploits (while larger and local problems have been
ignored) and a preoccupation with over-drawn stories of sweet
Sunday school teachers whose prayers and kindly advice ac-complish
everything from averting suicide to snaring the per-fect
Thus we see this literary mission, and it can be pro-perly
termed that, unfulfilled in two specific areas —
realism and quality.
Sharing this characteristic of a negative correlation with
reality is the area of youth materials. All too often such works
present over-idealized descriptions of Christian life, while ad-vocating
and demanding compliance to extremely restrictive
social norms, both of which illustrate almost complete ignor-ance
of the type and extent of problems which youth are
facing and dealing with today.
Also, in its concern to reach people for Christ, the church
has all too often substituted quantity for quality. The most
common abuse can be found in that standard Christian cliche,
the tract rack. More often than not, these become merely the
depository for the products of religious extremists whose over-simplified
or legalistic views are allowed to speak for the
whole of Christianity. Those tracts which are attractively and
thoughtfully prepared are few and far between, but extremely
Unfortunately, our own conference is as bogged down
in their consideration of this area as are certain other
groups, which a glance at the most recent STANDARD
will more than affirm.
In an issue supposedly devoted to "Conquest for Christ
through Publications," one finds merely a superficial survey
of any implications of the topic, concluded by a proper en-dorsement
of conference publications. One writer began, "The
host of American Christians with their wealth and learning is
separated from the far-too-removed heroes of the Bible by
the fine line of inspiration. Sometimes Christian literature
makes the difference." But then he stopped, and no one else
went any further.
This problem cannot continue to be ignored. We must
be concerned with the source and kinds of Christian literature
produced today, for despite optimistic predictions to the con-trary,
"saved lives and transformed homes" are not the result
of second-rate material.
Just as it is imperative
that we espy our
enemies, Man will
someday deem it
necessary to be seen
by them.
We kill Por -food; They
will murder Por sport.
We are independent;
they will be entirely
Today it is `S&P-Reliance';
`Collective Security.' ...Tomorrow,
Today, 'Mass
'Self-Preservation'; Suicide'
...Today we choose a home
solely as a practical shelter
Car ourselves; Tomorrow's
Man will erect a dwelling
solely as an impractical
Pagade to impress others.
y es!...Man is today,
so to speak, crude.
As Man progresses, he
Any new will become recined..
theories, completely reverse
iMol-Pgang? himse/P! For instance...
Devotional Literature Preserves
Freshness of Spiritual Search
Dear Editor:
This letter is intended to clarify
a point that some of my brothers
in the seminary have been puz-zled
about since hearing my senior
sermon. In response to a certain
illustration, several have asked if
I am a pacifist.
The purpose of the illustration
was to give an example of the
type of question that we face in
our world. Some Christians tend
to dissociate the answer of the
question from the limited God of
their understanding. The illustra-tion
A young conference man sees
evil in his world. It consists of a
mighty nation viciously tramp-ling
other people with no appar-ent
regard whatsoever for con-science.
He believes, as a decent
human being, that evil must be
So he willingly and energetically
takes his place in the armed forces
where he trains to kill other men.
Yet his concept of God is of one
whose rule is "Thou shalt not
The young man is unable to re-concile
what he believes to be the
right answer with what he believes
about God. Unconsciously, there-fore,
he blanks God out of his
mind when he comes to the point
of pulling the trigger to kill an
enemy combatant. When thinking
of God in relation to this act,
great qualms of conscience are ex-perienced.
If God really believes that
God is one who commands
us not to kill in opposing
evil, then he must live up to this
concept and refuse to kill at
by Carole Lundquist
We would never expect a physi-cian
to practice his art without
having spent many years in exami-nation
of the nature of healing.
Nor would we honor a professor
of statistics who himself had not
studied beyond elementary algebra,
In the same way, for a Christian
to be effective he must be well in-formed
of the significance of
Jesus' teachings in relation to him-self
and his contemporaries.
An essential element of our
Christian development is a vigor-ous
life of private devotion. This
implies an intense study of the
scriptures as they pertain to our
thoughts and actions as well as A
meaningful dialogue with God
through meditation and prayer.
All too often, however, we fail
to maintain private devotions
with regularity and for a var-iety
of reasons. We easily fall
victim to the anesthetic nature of
routine in Bible reading and
prayer (especially at 11:30 p.m.).
Yet when we attempt to break
the routine we find our thoughts
rambling and unable to focus in
any certain direction. We are in-capable
of giving expression to
many of our deepest thoughts and
It is at this point that outside
devotional literature becomes es-pecially
helpful for us. Used dis-criminately,
it can preserve the
vital freshness of our exploration
into spiritual matters. It provides
a wealth of variety, channels our
thoughts into specific areas of
study, and exposes us to the vivid
expressiveness of some of history's
greatest thinkers.
Although we may have been
disappointed by our first expo-sure
to supplementary devotional
whatever the cost to himself or
change his concept of God.
The main point of the illustra-tion
is this: live up to your con-cept
of God, and if your concept
limits God too much, change it,
and live by your new understand-ing.
Do not use the escape mech-anism
of not relating your ideas
to God to the complex questions
of this life.
May I add a word to the college
men who will all eventually have
to face the question of training in
the military to kill. Here are some
reasons you might consider in
favor of such training.
1. A man is responsible for
the care of his loved ones, par-ticularly
those dependent upon
him for physical needs. Part of
this care involves protecting
them from those who seek to
material—cliche-ridden commen-taries,
consistently shallow
"thoughts for each day," didac-tic
doctrinal treatises of ques-tionable
quality and value —
there yet exist many great de-votional
classics to be investi-gated
by all thoughtful Chris-tians.
Books by Thomas a Kempis and
St. Thomas Aquinas, written cen-turies
ago, as well as more recent
works by Laubach and others are
among these valuable devotional
Two books which are easily
available in our library and book-store
are A Diary of Readings and
A Diary of Private Prayer by John
Baillie. Baillie, a prominent figure
on the Edinburgh educational
scene, is a man of deep spiritual
sensitivity and awareness.
"A Diary of Readings" con-tains
365 separate articles, each
confined to a single page. These
readings represent 183 different
authors ranging from the early
men of the church, such as St.
Augustine, through Luther,
Tennyson, James, Kierkegaard,
Lewis and many others. With
such diversity, this book affords
many hours of contemplation on
the lofty as well as the practical
things of God.
Of particular worth is the com-panion
volume, A Diary of Private
Prayer. Prayers for both mornings
and evenings of a month are print-ed
here with additional space for
one's personal ideas to be jotted
In these prayers, one finds
a deep sense of the awesomeness
of approaching a Holy God. Yet
this is mingled with a strong em-phasis
on the needs of individuals
misuse and kill them.
2. As a young man, you are the
most able in the community to
defend that community. You are
young and strong and most able
to successfully protect the rest.
3. The thousands of men your
own age in the armed forces des-perately
need Christians who will
bear witness to Jesus Christ among
them. Chaplains cannot hope to do
the whole job, just as pastors can-not
do it all in civilian life.
4. Training to kill does not
violate the second greatest com-mandment
and the Sermon on
the Mount. You do not have to
hate a man to kill him. I can
conceive of two Christians in
opposing battle locations, each
pulling the trigger which kills
the other and meeting the next
instant in the presence of Jesus
and societies in the eyes of Him
who is the Source of all life.
Although these prayers are not
intended to replace one's individual
worship, they are very valuable
aids to a more expressive and
thoughtful communion with God.
by Nancy Applequist
Through smoking ruin, shattered glass,
Upright he walks, yet low;
Fearful, lest he chance to pass
Some place where living sparks still
Through fields of ash his feet have lead,
Through scorched soil and dried—
No longer tilled for daily bread
For all those here have died.
Till at that place does swift arrive
Where all the honored dead have lain;
What sacrilege to be alive!
Upon his brow, the Mark of Cain.
Knowledge comes but far too late;
What use to tear his hair?
Fruit of the seed from Mother Hate—
"My punishment I cannot bear."
He rests at last on barren lands—
At peace—who needs bread now?
Not he—no atom-splitter in his hands,
The Mark no longer on his brow.
In time, another Presence comes
The silent agony to see:
"All strange and terrible Universe,
I wash my hands of thee."
Russian Pianist
To Give Concert
The first concert of the St. Paul
Schubert club will be on Thursday,
Nov. 1 in the St. Paul auditorium.
The club will begin its season with
a concert by one of Russia's most
celebrated pianists, Vladimir Ash-kenazy.
Buses to the auditorium
will leave from Hagstrom resi-dence
at 7:45 p.m.
During the period of Oct. 24 -
Nov. 4, the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts will sponsor a "United Na-tions
Commemorative Exhibition."
On view will be works from mem-ber
nations of the United Nations.
Carla Alberghetti will star in
the popular musical "Carnival" on
Oct. 29 thru Nov. 1 at the Min-neapolis
Orpheum theater, 910
Hennepin Ave.
expressing warm love as bro-thers
in God's family.
To kill for the sake of what you
believe is right is not the same
as killing out of hate. Likewise
this need not violate Christ's in-struction
to turn the other cheek.
The Lord's man is one who is
killing not for his own interests
but those of the ones for whom
he is fighting.
5. Temporal life is not the most
important value in this universe.
God's kingdom and His righteous.
ness comes first. Death, violent,
natural, premature, or otherwise
may be the best for the glory of
God, righteousness sake, and the
sake of the person involved.
Let us not think that God owes
anyone long life and a peaceful
death. Let us not sacrifice right-eousness
for physical life.
Ted Peterson
the CLARION
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No. 7
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Seminarian Clarifies Position on Military Service
Christian drama, both in course work and on the stage, is Mr.
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Drama devotees and interested
students will have an opportunity
this Jan. to view two plays pre-sented
by the college dramatics
club, as part of Bethel's new ap-proach
to Christian drama.
Under the leadership of Mr. Dale
Rott, speech instructor and drama-tics
club mentor, the Royal Players
KTCA Explains
Educational TV's
Practical Value
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the jour-nalism
class of Bethel college
visited KTCA television station.
KTCA is an educational station,
privately owned by a non-profit
Its staff of approximate-ly
thirty members produces pro-grams
used in conjunction with
courses in Twin City area schools
and adult educational programs in
the evenings.
Many of the programs typify
actual classrooms and have actual
instructors teaching them. The
television allows for considerably
more visual presentation than the
ordinary classroom would have
KTCA has several programs in
language that are used particu-larly
in the parochial schools al-though
some public schools use
them. There are also courses in
science, vocational interest and
language arts.
Although there is some attempt
to evaluate the acceptance of
KTCA's programs being carried
on, no final evaluation has yet
been made. Indications from mail
and demand for course materials,
however, seem to reveal a gener-ally
good acceptance.
will present "Conquest in Burma"
concomitantly with "The Church
Militant" on the nights of Jan.
"Through a minimum use of
props, lighting, and other equip-ment,
we hope to demonstrate
that drama may be used effec-tively
but inexpensively to the
glory of God," stated Mr. Rott.
"If the actors can convincingly
bring their characters to life for
an audience, large auditoriums
and elaborate equipment become
"Conquest in Burma," a mission-ary
play centered around the life
of Adoniram Judson, will seek to
give audiences perceptive insight
into the personality of Judson him-self.
"Through skillful character de-velopment,
Judson will become
real to audiences and actors alike,
thus benefiting both groups. 'The
Church Militant,' a satire on secu-larization
in the church, will then
be given as an effective contrast,"
continued Mr. Rott.
If these efforts are successful,
the drama club hopes to go on
tours perhaps every other week-end.
Using drama as a means
to a spiritual end, it will chal-lenge
youth groups and churches
through graphic illustration of
Christian problems.
"Today's minister uses illustra-tions,
as Christ employed parables,
to explain an abstract idea in con-crete
terms; drama goes one step
further in illustration, by giving
audiences live-action experience."
Subject to approval of the edu-cational
policy committee, Mr. Rott
hopes to add a course in drama
for the church to Bethel's curri-culum
next year. This would be
basically a dramatic methods
course, outlining the history of
by Minda Pearson
Dr. A. W. Tozer, a recent convo-cation
speaker, is pastor of a
church in Toronto, and edits "The
Alliance Witness," the official or-gan
of the Christian and Mission-ary
Alliance. Sent to 110 countries,
this magazine contains news of
missionaries, and articles on deeper
As an outstanding writer and
editor, Dr. Tozer has strong ideas
about Christian literature. He calls
Christian fiction "an evil," for it
is "cheap and badly written." Fic-tion
which is not truth can not be
drama in the church, religious ele-ments
in conemporary drama and
utilization of drama in the modern
Areas covered would include
creative drama in the Sunday
school, high school and adult
groups, social drama, the value of
skits and pageants. From these
classes, Mr. Rott would like to
take touring groups to a wide
variety of church and youth audi-ences.
"The value of presenting people
with a live-action experience is
recognized throughout the church,"
states Mr. Rott. "Christian movies
and filmstrips designed with this
end in mind have been effective
in reaching many.
"Unlike the one-way communi-cation
of preaching, drama re-ciprocates
communication be-tween
audiences and actors,
lends itself to discussion and
makes a vivid impression on the
"Christian drama is but one
means of presenting a spiritual
challenge; used with perception
and taste, it can have unique ef-fectiveness
in the Lord's work."
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And he added that most pub-lishers
will not publish the
books, but a few Christian pub-lishing
houses are making money
off the "stuff that makes brain-less
sops out of our young peo-ple."
Let the world have the
fiction, and also the movies and
So-called popular religion is not
compatible with Tozer's idea. "We
must not sell out our Christian
principles." The Bible contains
God's message and how it should
be given out. He therefore does
not recommend Catharine Marshall
or Eugenia Price.
He criticizes many of the relig-ious
publications for being "on
the defensive. They are not under-standable;
they mistake muddiness
for depth. Their style is jargon
and pseudo-scholarly." Dr. Tozer
feels they are trying to carry on
a contemporary dialogue with lib-erals.
He is reminded of the Athen-ians
in Acts 17 who spent "their
time in nothing else, but either to
tell or to hear some new thing."
For an aspiring writer Dr.
Tozer recommends saturation in
the great writers. "Train your
ear by the great writers—Addi-son,
Emerson, Hawthorne, Mil-ton,
Wordsworth, R. L. Steven-son,
Shakespeare. There are no
great evangelical writers today,
except C. S. Lewis on the level
of some of the great writers.
There is no need for writers to
condense the great classic works
in modern English.
Tozer allows students of theology
to read the contemporary theolog-ians.
"Even though some are basi-cally
wrong, there is some right
in what they say."
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will "do more to make a soul great
in godliness, prayer life and un-derstanding
of man," to spend
time with the Bible, great Chris-tian
poetry found in a good hym-nal,
a good book on Christian life
Dr. Tozer's
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full of theology such as Imitation
of Christ, and as a prayer book,
the Psalms.
Listening to Dr. Tozer speak
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aware he has been with God. He
admires the mystic writers of
the Middle Ages very much. His
basic message is a church recog-nizing
the glory and holiness of
God with man taking his place
Two of his many books, The
Pursuit of God, studying the attri-butes
of God, and The Knowledge
of the Holy (published by Harper
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and Brothers) are considered
Dr. Samuel M. Swemer in the
introduction to The Pursuit of God
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scholar, an omnivorous
reader with a remarkable library
of theological and devotional
books, and one who seemed to
burn the midnight oil in pursuit
of God.
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long meditation and much prayer
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the depth of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge of
God.' "
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by Bob Beckstrom
There is no doubt that Bethel's football team is having a fine
season, and nobody will deny that co-captain Jim Nelson is having as
fine a season as one could have. In Saturday's game against Northwestern
Nelson rushed for 171 yards bringing his game aver-age
up to 103 yards for this season. He also scored
Bethel's two touchdowns on four and five-yard runs,
while stopping Northwestern runners with seven
Nelson has had fine seasons in all three of his
years at Bethel so far. Last year he led Royal scorers
and ranked fifteenth in the nation in rushing with a
game average of 94.5 yards. In four games this year
he has gone over the 100-yard mark, accounting for
most of Bethel's rushing. Playing a great game against
Nelson Northland at homecoming and playing even better
against Northwestern, he seems to be improving as the season pro-gresses.
Duane Gibson considers Nelson "the hardest-driving fullback
I've ever seen in college ball." The transfer-student from Wake
Forest feels that Nelson makes up for any lack of weight with drive.
Vince Bloom, who played a year at St. Cloud said, "Nelson's great-est
attribute is his second, third and even fourth effort. He can
be hit at the line of scrimmage and still get four or five yards. He
is as fine a runner as I've seen in small college ball and could be
playing for most any small college. For his size, he is real powerful."
Besides his rushing, Nelson is valuable to the team in several other
ways. On defense he informs the opposing runners of his presence with
crushing tackles, continually ranking among the leaders in tackles.
Against Lakeland he influenced both directly and indirectly Bethel's
Remembering him from previous years, Lakeland was ready to stop
Nelson. They did not, however, have a defense to stop ten other players.
The fact that opponents must defense Nelson's runs off tackle and up
the middle makes Bethel's end runs and aerial attack more potent.
Commenting on this year's team, Nelson points out a strong
offensive line as the key to Bethel's fine running game. "Charlie
Rogers did a tremendous job in the Northland game, and Lowell
Gause has been helping us all along." He also added, "We have
a team without any real spectacular players. Many of the fellas
have little experience, but they want to learn, and they are learn-ing.
What we lack in experience we make up for with enthusiasm."
Indicative of the team's inspired ball playing, according to Nelson,
has been the play of men like Dick Putnam and Dave Norman. "Norman
may not weigh a whole lot compared to these 215 lb. fullbacks we face,
but he has done a great job at his end spot. Putnam can go through
the other team's line and give their backfield a lot of trouble." Bethel
has a lot to be proud of in their fullback, a man who gained more yards
by himself than Northwestern did altogether.
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Bethel Humbles Northwestern;
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by Bob Beckstrom
Bethel's football team ran their
record to five and one with a
13-7 victory over Northwestern
College of Watertown, Wis. Satur-day.
The game was Northwestern's
second homecoming defeat in
twenty-six years.
Dominating the first half with
their potent running attack, the
Royals left the field at half-time
with a 6-0 lead over the home
team. Northwestern, however, an-swered
with a touchdown and con-version
in the third quarter to go
out in front with a one-point mar-gin.
Northwestern's tally came on
a 72-yard drive from their own
28 yard line. This 17-play drive
was the longest an opponent has
controlled the ball against
Bethel in four games. North-western's
nine-yard scoring play
was also the first time an op-ponent
has scored from scrim-mage
against Bethel in nine
halves of play.
Jim Nelson accounted for the
bulk of Bethel's offensive attack.
Scoring both touchdowns and rush-ing
for 171 net yards, he was just
Dave Peterman's undefeated
Knights concluded a victorious sea-son
(4-0) with a forfeit over the
winless Dukes. As intramural
champs, the Knights will play
Northwestern college at Como park
on Saturday. Game time is 10 a.m.
According to Gene Glader, the
Knights will probably face an all-star
squad. This is the second year
of intercollegiate intramurals be-tween
Northwestern and Bethel.
The rivalry is growing into an an-nual
event. Last year Lyle Ander-son's
Jesters battled to a 12-0 vic-tory
over Northwestern under the
In other games scheduled last
Saturday, the Seminary clinched
fifth place by edging the Pea-sants
27-24. The Jesters and the
Counts remained tied for second
and third places with both teams
winning. The Jesters defeated
the Squires 27-21, and the
Counts squeaked past the Bar-ons
with a forfeit.
Badminton and ping pong tour-naments
are scheduled for this
week. Intramural team sports will
too much for the Northwestern
defense to handle. His 6.8-yard per
carry is the best rushing average
he has had in the current cam-paign.
Successfully marching to a first
quarter score on their first offen-sive
drive, Bethel displayed the
power that has carried them to
five victories. Subsequent scoring
bids were thwarted, however, un-til
the fourth quarter by North-western's
hard-hitting defense.
Driving down to Northwest-ern's
32-yard line on one thrust,
Bethel appeared to be set for
another score. On another occas-ion
Bethel marched to the op-ponent's
twelve before being
suppressed by a fifteen-yard pen-alty.
Holding Northwestern to only
four completed passes for 30
yards, Bethel's defense again frus-trated
the opposing aerial artist.
Three of Northwestern's completed
passes were screen passes behind
the line of scrimmage. Bethel's
resume again with basketball, be-ginning
Wednesday evening, Nov.
7. The Seminary, last year's win-ners,
will be bidding for another
championship. All games will be
played on Wednesday nights.
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three interceptions.
Northwestern's coach, who is
one of the outstanding coaches in
the Midwest, will have to wait an-other
week to try for the 120th
victory of his career. Bethel beat
Northwestern at their finest, and
evened their season record to 3-3.
Bethel NW
Yds. rushing 281 139
Yds. passing 58 30
Total offense 339 169
Rushing plays 46 39
Ave. yds. 6.1 3.6
Total plays 54 49
Ave. yds. 6.3 3.4
First downs 11 13
Passing 8 10
Completes 5 4
Had intercepted 1 3
Fumbles 4 5
Recovered by
opponents 2 2
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Bethel's gridders will be putting
their four-game winning streak on
the line against Wahpeton of
North Dakota in their last home
game of the season. The Royals
are undefeated in Midway stadium.
Wahpeton enters the game with
a six and one record, losing only
to Mayville. Last week they beat
Valley City by the same score
Bethel did: 13-7. They have been
scoring big in all their games.
Halleen reports Wahpeton as a
one-man team, in the person of
quarterback - halfback - fullback -
kicker - receiver - tackler Bill
Sturdevant. To stop Wahpeton, the
Royals must stop him, a difficult
Bethel's cross country team cli-maxed
their 1962 season with a loss
to St. Olaf Saturday. The race, run
on the Como park course at 11
a.m., was won by Jim Mathiason of
St. Olaf in 19:13.
Finishing first for Bethel in the
number three position was Bill
Carlson, equalling his best time
of the season. Mitchell Clark fin-ished
behind Carlson, while Paul
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Carlson's time was 20:37,
Clark's 20:55, Sloan's 21:36, Sor-ley's
22:20 and Dinsmore's 22:27.
The score for the 31/2 mile race
was Bethel 34, St. Olaf 23.
Saturday's meet was the Royals'
third dual meet loss. Winona State
and River Falls won the other two.
In triangular meets Bethel has
placed first, second and third.
The Royals' first five finishers
in the Winona State meet were
Bill Carlson, Mitchell Clark, Paul
Wedeking, Dave Sorley and Paul
Sloan. Winona won the meet 1540.
The race was run on Winona's 3.7
mile course.
Knights Finish Undefeated,
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3 calls foul on T-Mobile price promise
Says offers more minutes, but for less money
UK operator 3 has called in the Advertising Standards Authority to rule on T-Mobile's claim that no one gives more minutes for thirty quid - on the grounds that 3 offers more minutes for a lower price.
T-Mobile's claim is that no other operator bundles more minutes for £30, which is true, even though 3 charges three quid less for 400 more minutes on its Mix & Match tariff. The comparison only works with T-Mobile's the 18-month Combi deal, which offers 700 minutes, but it's pretty clear that 3 is offering more minutes - even if that is at the cost of less text messages.
In the complaint letter sent by the operator and seen by El Reg, 3 claims to have called up T-Mobile anonmyously and was advised that the deal was not compared with "3's Mix & Match" - the operator's only contract offing. The disputed advertisement states: "We've already searched the other four networks." So it's hard to see how 3 could have been excluded - perhaps they meant Voda, Orange, O2 and UK01?
These price-guarantee campaigns are really about discouraging punters from look elsewhere, and mobile tariffs are deliberately made confusing to prevent a price war. Simplistic pricing is too easily compared, so it is possible that this is a genuine mistake on the part of T-Mobile.
The ASA is still examining the complaint, and has promised to get back to us soon. Perhaps it's checking whether there's a get-out clause anywhere. After all, T-Mobile is technically accurate in saying that no one gives more minutes for £30. ®


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Car show is June 14 in Goessel
The Mennonite Heritage & Agricultural Museum will have its seventh annual antique and classic car and truck show from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 14 in the museum parking lot in Goessel.
Vehicles manufactured between 1900 and 1980 in any condition are welcome. There is a $10 exhibitor's entry fee, which include the option of a self-guided tour of the museum. There is no admission fee for visitors.
Six awards will be given: people's choice, best of show, and second and third place in both car and truck divisions.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Oil futures finished nearly unchanged Wednesday after a U.S. government report showed that crude supplies rose a bit less than expected, and distillate stockpiles fell for a second week.
Crude-oil futures for delivery in March CLH23, -50.40% settled at $96.62 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 2 cents. Prices were trading much lower, around $95.70, before Wednesday morning's supply data.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that crude supplies rose 2.6 million barrels for the week ended Feb. 1. Analysts polled by Platts expected a 3 million-barrel climb.
Crude supplies will likely continue to build in the coming weeks, said Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors, and "with inventories well above their five-year averages on the supply side, we feel crude could remain under pressure over the short to medium term."
Motor gasoline supplies climbed by 1.7 million barrels, while distillate stocks fell 1 million barrels, the EIA report said. Analysts expected a 1.75 million-barrel climb in gasoline stocks, and forecast a fall of 750,000 barrels in distillate supplies.
Distillate stockpiles had fallen by 2.3 million barrels for the week ended Jan. 25 and they remain "near the lower limit of the average range for this time of year," according to the EIA.
The fall in distillate supplies come as refinery utilization dropped last week to 84.2% from 85% the prior week.
Against that backdrop, heating oil for March delivery US:HOH3 settled at $3.19 a gallon, down half a cent, or 0.2%. March gasoline US:RBH3 was up less than half a cent, or 0.1%, at $3.04 a gallon.
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Oil prices had fallen sharply early Wednesday with the market concerned about the fact that U.S. stockpiles stand near a 30-year high for the time of year, said Matthew Parry, senior oil-market analyst at the International Energy Agency. That's what was "spooking the market," he said.
The front-month March oil contract had finished 47 cents higher on Tuesday, helped by positive economic data out of the U.S. and Europe.
But a report by the American Petroleum Institute after the regular market close Tuesday showed U.S. crude stockpiles increased 3.6 million barrels last week — higher than expected.
Overall, Tariq Zahir, managing member at Tyche Capital Advisors, attributed recent weakness in oil to several factors.
Those include strength in the U.S. dollar, reports of coming talks with Iran over the nuclear situation and the announcement that the Seaway pipeline will not be running at full capacity until the fourth quarter this year, he said.
On Wednesday, the ICE dollar index DXY, -0.08% which measures the greenback against a basket of six major global currencies, rose to 79.728 from 79.504 late Tuesday. A stronger greenback tends to weigh on prices for dollar-denominated commodities.
The dollar especially pushed higher against the euro EURUSD, +0.1071% and there was some speculation euro weakness was caused by a poll that showed former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has narrowed the lead of front-runner Pier Luigi Bersani. See: Worries that Berlusconi is gaining in Italy put markets on edge.
Meanwhile, the Seaway pipeline had been seen as key to drawing down the glut of oil supplies in storage in Cushing, Okla., the delivery hub for Nymex oil. See Enterprise says Seaway bottleneck to end in fourth quarter
On Iran, hopes are not being set high, but the potential talks are welcome news, said Zahir.
The U.S. took a number of actions Wednesday to tighten sanctions on Iran's access to its oil revenues, according to a news release from the U.S. Treasury Department. The actions include restricting Iran's ability to use oil revenue held in foreign financial institutions and preventing repatriation of those funds to Iran. Developments linked to Iran had been a key reason for strength in Brent crude-oil prices.
Recent weakness in West Texas Intermediate crude has caused the spread between prices for WTI and Brent to widen further, said Zahir. "We feel there are a lot of institutional money that was playing the Brent-WTI to narrow and that took a blow when that [Iran talks] announcement came out." Read about what the Brent/WTI oil price spread tells us.
London-traded March Brent crude UK:LCOH3 settled up 21 cents, or 0.2%, at $116.73 a barrel on ICE Futures.
Elsewhere in the energy complex, the March contract for natural gas US:NGH13 climbed 2 cents, or 0.6%, to end at $3.42 per million British thermal units following a gain of 2.5% on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — News that the Food and Drug Administration will phase out artificial trans fats from foodstuffs nationwide is another win for a public health strategy pioneered by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The fats were everywhere when Bloomberg got them banned from restaurant food in his city in 2006. Back then, if you bought a doughnut or a bucket of fried chicken, chances are it was loaded with the artery-clogging stuff.
But that began to change in the months after city health officials decreed that trans fats were too dangerous for public consumption. Fast food giants swapped cooking oils. Bakeries found alternative types of shortening. Even Crisco got a new formula.
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Migration & Tourism: Formation of New Social Classes
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- Generalizing Disciplinary Approaches
- Tourism and Migration: Effects of Globalization and Transnationalism
- Current Issues in Migration
- Current Issue in Tourism
- Differences and Similarities in Approaches to Migration and Tourism
Chapter 4. "Unwanted Visitors": The Case of Russian Tourists and Workers in England
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Obama Derangement Syndrome rages on in Wash. Times with calls for impeachment
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The "summer of rage" heats up in The Washington Times' editorial pages today, with two op-ed contributors -- who both suffer acutely from Obama Derangement Syndrome -- calling for President Obama's impeachment.
First up is former GOP Rep. Tom Tancredo, who has previously said that Obama was elected due to the lack of a "civics literacy test" requirement for voting. In his Washington Times op-ed -- titled, "The case for impeachment" -- Tancredo calls Obama "a more serious threat to America than al Qaeda" who "consciously and brazenly disregards his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution."
The crux of Tancredo's "case for impeachment" would be laughable if it wasn't so dishonest. Tancredo argues that Obama's "most egregious and brazen betrayal of our Constitution was his statement to Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, that the administration will not enforce security on our southern border because that would remove Republicans' desire to negotiate a 'comprehensive' immigration bill."
Why is this so dishonest? Because not only has the White House flatly denied Kyl's accusation, but Kyl himself reportedly walked back that accusation, saying that his comments were "taken a bit out of context" and referred to "the president's base" and not the administration.
Tancredo's "case for impeachment" is further undermined by the fact that the Obama administration -- as Media Matters has documented -- has taken numerous steps to boost border security and immigration enforcement. Indeed, the Los Angeles Times reported in June that the Obama administration "has outdone its predecessor on border enforcement spending and on deportations."
That brings us to chronic ODS sufferer Jeffrey Kuhner, whose unhinged attacks on Obama have found a welcome home in The Washington Times. In his latest anti-Obama screed, Kuhner declares: "Obama has betrayed the American people. Impeachment is the only answer. This usurper must fall."
Kuhner's case for impeachment is predictably based on a litany of falsehoods. He falsely claims that the health care reform bill included the infamous "Cornhusker Kickback" -- which, in reality, was removed from the bill. He falsely suggests that the health care bill contains federal funding for abortion, which he insists will result in "a cultural civil war." Kuhner falsely claims that the compensation fund agreed to by BP and the Obama administration for those affected by the oil spill was an example a private company's assets being "raided to serve a political agenda." He then completely baselessly asserts that "much of" the money will be distributed "to Democratic constituents."
And Kuhner's just getting started.
Kuhner falsely claims that Obama "refuses to protect our borders," which he calls "treasonous." He pushes the phony New Black Panthers scandal, claiming that "[t]he Justice Department's behavior is illegal. It poses a direct threat to the integrity of our democracy and the sanctity of our electoral process."
He then cites the Joe Sestak and Andrew Romanoff nonscandals to claim that "[c]orruption in the administration is rampant." It doesn't matter to Kuhner that numerous experts have said that no laws were violated in either case. He even throws in an obligatory attack on White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, asserting that Emaunel (whom Kuhner calls "an amoral, ruthless operator") contacted Sestak and Romanoff, even though Emanuel doesn't appear to have talked to either of them.
Exhausted yet?
It's plainly clear that Tancredo's and Kuhner's cases for impeachment aren't based on facts; these are obvious cases of Obama Derangement Syndrome, and The Washington Times seems determined to provide a platform to fuel the rage.
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Jeb Bush's Steep Challenge for 2016 – WSJ/NBC News Poll
Former governor of the largest swing state. Scion of a famous political family. Darling of the Republican donor class.
Should he decide to enter the 2016 presidential fray, Jeb Bush will bring a pedigree few Republicans can match. But does he excite? Does mention of his name stir the souls of Republican voters? Is there a rank-and-file clamor for him to jump in?
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Posted by: Mike White on March 10, 2009 at 2:59 pm
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent, 1974)
If you aren't aware of it, let me let you in on a little secret… Walter Matthau kicks ass. Known more for the Neil Simon comedies he did with Jack Lemmon, Matthau should best be remembered for a trio of films he made in the early '70s — Charley Varrick, The Laughing Policeman, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.
Matthau stars as Lt. Zachary Garber, a transit worker who gets stuck between a quartet of criminals who took a subway train hostage and the bureaucracy of City Hall. With his hangdog expression, Matthau perfectly plays Garber as someone trying to do the right thing despite everyone around him. Also along for the ride are a cadre of character actors including Kenneth McMillan, Jerry Stiller, Hector Elizondo, Martin Balsam, and Robert Shaw as the criminal mastermind behind the heist. This is the film that gave Quentin Tarantino the idea to use colors instead of names for the robbers in Reservoir Dogs.
Remade once already as a TV movie with Edward James Olmos in the Garber role, a new remake is due out in June. Trust me, the original is the way to go with this one. Stick It In Your Queue.
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Mostly agree, but I'd say:
TAKING OF PELHAM = Matthau great, film okay
CHARLEY VARRICK = Matthau great, film great
LAUGHING POLICEMAN – Matthau okay, film good (Dern is the reason to watch on this one)
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John Sinard is a board-certified anatomic pathologist. He received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins. His residency training was at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He is the Vice Chair of Pathology and Director of Anatomic Pathology and is active on the autopsy and surgical pathology services, with a specialty interest in ophthalmic pathology. He founded the Pathology Informatics Program, and has been developing software for over 30 years. His academic interests are centered on translational informatics: delivering modern data management tools to practicing physicians and researchers.
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|Johns Hopkins University (1990)
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|Harvard University (1982)
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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – The UC Santa Barbara softball team captured its first Big West Conference series sweep of the season after posting a 3-1 victory in game three against UC Riverside on Sunday afternoon at the Highlander's Amy S. Harrison Field.
With the victory, UCSB improves to 21-25 on the season and 6-3 in league games. The Highlanders drop to 18-23 and 1-8 in Big West games.
The Gauchos were once again led by pitcher Shelby Wisdom, who tallied her fifth win of the week to improve to 16-12 on the season. The freshman tossed a complete game and allowed just one earned run on three hits. She struck out seven in the victory.
At the plate, six different Gauchos accounted for the team's half dozen hits. Senior Lainey DePompa hit a home run and Kathryn Pilpil also went for extra bases after hitting a double.
UCSB got out to an early lead in the first inning. With one out, Brooke Putich drew a walk and Keilani Jennings followed with a single hit down the left field line. Allison Taylor was able to bring Putich home from second base when she sent a base hit down the left field line, putting the Gauchos up, 1-0.
Wisdom retired the first eight batters before the Highlanders got their first base runner of the game in the bottom of the third off of a Gaucho error. The pitcher quickly got out of the inning with a ground out to preserve the UCSB advantage.
In the top of the fourth with one out, DePompa hit a solo home run over the left field fence, stretching the Gauchos' lead to 2-0.
UC Riverside battled back in the bottom of the same inning. Ariel Shore led off with a base hit to right center field and was bunted over to second base by Brittany Keeney. A double to left center field by Dionne Anderson put two runners in scoring position with just one out. Yessenia Duenas' bunt single was able to score Shore and cut the UCSB lead to one run.
In the fifth with one out, DeJanee Moore and Jessica Soria hit consecutive singles up the middle of the field. Putich was able to reach on a fielder's choice to load the bases. After a pitching change, the Gauchos benefited from a wild pitch as Moore scored to push the advantage to 3-1.
Wisdom retired the final nine batters in order to wrap up the win for UCSB.
The Gauchos will return home next weekend to host first-place Pacific in a three-game conference series, which will begin with a noon doubleheader on Saturday, April 21 at Campus Diamond. To purchase tickets, visit the Ticket Office in the Intercollegiate Athletics Building on campus, call (805) 893-UCSB or buy online here.


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Barely a week seems to go by without a headline story on the latest laptop data breach--millions of veterans' files here, thousands of medical records there, and credit card numbers everywhere. But laptops aren't the only targets: The proliferation of portable USB hard disks and flash drives with huge capacity makes the loss or theft of critical data likelier than ever.
A Computer Security Institute survey of 494 security practitioners in large organizations found that though about half of respondents had had a laptop or mobile device stolen, only two-thirds used encryption to safeguard the data on their portable devices.
If security experts at large companies haven't bothered with encryption, it stands to reason that most smaller companies have not either. Why? Simply because it has been a pain for IT staff and employees. Users forget passwords (potentially locking a drive forever), and software-based encryption can sap PC performance.
New hardware and software products, however, promise to simplify portable-drive encryption, making the task fast and transparent.
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Many new portable drives come with encryption, but it is also available as an add-on from Cryptainer PE ($30 and up), Migo Portable Vault ($15), or TrueCrypt (free). You just type in a password to access files encrypted with strong algorithms such as 256-bit AES or 448-bit Blowfish. These are simple and inexpensive options (as long as you don't lose your password). Since they are software-based, however, they slow things down, and can be breached by an infected host PC that captures the password. You could also lock your data with Windows' built-in encryption capabilities, namely EFS in Windows XP and BitLocker in Vista Ultimate (for instructions, read "The Simple Way to Keep Your Private Files Private").
For better and faster protection, consider a drive with built-in hardware encryption, such as the new Apricorn Aegis Vault (80GB to 250GB, $139 to $269), a USB hard drive with real-time 128-bit AES support, or the SanDisk Cruzer Professional (1GB to 4GB, $55 to $145), a flash drive with 256-bit AES. Both allow you to create unencrypted drive areas for public access, and since they require no software, you can take them on the road easily. SanDisk also makes an Enterprise version of the Cruzer (1GB to 4GB, $75 to $185), which allows central management of passwords.
No matter how strong the encryption, security is only as strong as your password. Biometric devices are more stringent, allowing access only to authorized users. Apricorn's Aegis Bio portable drive (80GB to 250GB, $169 to $299) provides both a fingerprint reader and 128-bit AES hardware encryption, and La Cie's SAFE Mobile Hard Drive with Encryption (160GB, $220) combines fingerprint access with 128-bit DES. Both devices allow up to five users.


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Elora Robinson went to Australia for a vacation, but came back with a broader global prospective.
"When I came here in 1985, McDonalds was only in Sydney and Melbourne," the Marion resident in her 70s said. "Now it's in every small town with 5,000 people or more — and, as a result, their society is changing. It's becoming a lot more like Americans; people are overweight and eat fast food."
Robinson was gone for six weeks and was able to see various tourist attractions, including the Blue Mountains and Phillips Island. During the entire time, she stayed in a condominium, which allowed her to cook her own food. Almost every day she said she went down to the local markets to find fresh local produce — a feat that was feasible due to all the ATMs now present in the country.
"It's the best way to travel," she said. "All you have to do is slide your card and you get Australian currency. Cooking saved us a lot of money. But, we did spend quite a bit on coffee. We stopped and had little cappuccinos whenever we could. They drink a lot of tea and coffee over there."
She said there was one major downside: the American dollar wasn't worth very much – and it cost her more to during her stay.
"It was well worth it," she said. "I'm retired and there wasn't anything really keeping me from going, so I just decided to enjoy myself while I was there."
Robinson said one of the many things she enjoyed doing was using the pokies – an Australian word for slot machines.
"I was only there for about 15 minutes when I won $100," she said. "I was lucky. It was like Vegas. They had slot machines, entertainment and they served drinks."
Her gambling streak continued when she went to her first-ever harness race – something she said she wouldn't get to experience in Kansas. She said she would never forget her first visit to the betting counter.
"I wanted to bet on a show," she said. "I knew I probably wouldn't get the first-place winner right and I was doubtful that I would pick the second-place winner. The woman at the counter explained that they don't have shows in Australia and that place meant that they could come in either second or third place – so I bet on place a lot."
Robinson said that Australia has become a lot more "Americanized" in the past 25 years and it wasn't hard to become acclimated to the culture, especially with her brother as a tour guide.
"Jim went over to Australia for some 'r and r' during Vietnam, he met Leslie and stayed there with his family," she said. "He was able to show us around. We spent a lot of time on the beaches. I went swimming a lot and Jim likes to fish, so it worked out for everyone."
Now, after being home almost a month, Robinson is grateful for the memories she made on the trip — and the foresight she had to bring a journal, camera and iPad along with her on the journey.
"I'll cherish them for the rest of my life," she said. "I took over 200 pictures and videos."
Robinson doesn't know when or if she will go back to Australia, it all depends on her health.
"It's not an easy trip," she said. "We traveled for a total of 18 hours. I'm getting old, so I had to keep getting up on the plane so that my blood didn't clot. I don't know if I'll be able to do it in another five years; I'll be in my 80s by then and that'll make it even harder."
While Robinson said she loved visiting her brother and his family, she would not want to live there.
"I loved Australia; it's a great country, but I couldn't live there. My family is here. I wouldn't want to be without them."


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I am 25 and have had Type I Diabetes for 23 years. I started the insulin pump 3 years ago. Since then, I have had a major uprising in my complications. I have suffered 2 vitreous hemorhages in my eye and have had acute renal failure. What`s odd is that my blood glucose levels NEVER break 150, and i am in reasonably good shape. My Diabetes Doctors, Nephrologists, and GPs are unable to tell me why this is occurring. Can complications worsen with tighter diabetes control? Can some people get complications regardless of good blood sugar control?
I empathize with your situation – it is very important for you to get clear and understandable answers to make good judgements in this situation. I am going to give you a bottom line answer first and then explain: The bottom line is that you should continue to strive for the best blood sugar and blood pressure and probably lipid (blood fats) control that you can and try to eliminate any other modifiable risk factors that you have (like stopping smoking if you smoke tobacco and assuring that you are taking a small dose of aspirin every day if you and your health care providers have considered the risks associated with that and determined that the risks outweigh the benefits), even though it is very frustrating to have complications proceed when you are doing your best. Whether your blood sugars are higher than 150 depends very heavily on the timing of when you do your blood tests. It is valuable to test results both prior to meals and at the peaks after meals which are generally thought to be 2-3 hours after meals. However, it is impossible to get a complete picture with finger prick testing alone. A diabetes specialist center may be able to assist you in conducting a continuous glucose monitoring study which measures blood sugar every few minutes for a 72 hour period – you will be amazed to see how high and how low your sugars sometimes go that you were never aware of before!
The longer part of the answer is that there are a number of factors which determine complications of diabetes and blood sugar control is only one of them although it is one of the most important that you can do something about. In most people, the level of blood sugar control seems to be the single most important determinant. In contrast, there are some groups in whom no matter how bad their blood sugar control is, they seem to get less complications than you would predict from blood sugars and others in whom no matter how good their blood blood sugars are, they seem to get more than the blood sugars would predict. Their are several research groups focussed on trying to understand why this is; in part it may reflect the effects of inherited genes and in part possibly some environmental influence. That is why I included blood pressure control and lipid control as well: there is good evidence that blood pressure makes a difference in kidney, heart and probably eye complications and that blood fats are important in limiting heart complications. However, it may also be that in the next few years, we will see more evidence for lipid control being important for both eye and kidney complications – these questions are being tested in important international clinical trials supported by the US National Institutes of Health. It is therefore important that you express to your Congressional representatives and the President how you feel about the support for diabetes research.
So, as you well know, one of the difficult things is that you never really get a vacation from diabetes. And it is human to be able to try harder for a while, and then have to back off for a while. But it remains the best policy to do the best you can with your diabetes control as much of the time as possible – in the long-range, it will pay off.
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Continuous Improvement
Our commitment to patient safety and error reduction is reflected by comprehensive, multi-level approaches to continuous quality improvement that engage healthcare consumers, physicians and staff throughout the MUHC. We do this by:
- Adopting evidence-based management and leadership practices
- Maximizing the capability of our workforce through staff development
- Designing work processes and workspace to reduce error & waste
- Creating and sustaining a culture of safety
- Engaging healthcare consumers in the planning, delivery and evaluation of care delivery
Quality improvement is occurring at all levels of the MUHC. The following is an example of going work:
Patients and Staff Partnering to Transform Care at the Bedside
In 2010, the MUHC partnered with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in Boston, to launch an innovative program, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB). Our aims are threefold:
- to understand care "thru eyes of patients"
- to deeply engage patients and staff in co-creating and testing new work processes to improve the quality of care and work environment
- to increase registered nurse time spent in direct care
The TCAB program engages the hearts and minds of frontline staff in leading process improvement efforts, but at the MUHC we have chosen to directly engage patients in this redesign work, along with staff. Using an "action learning" approach with structured modules, patient representatives meet for a full day once a week with inter-professional teams on inpatient units, learning rapid cycle improvement processes.
New ideas are tested on a small scale, evaluating the outcomes with pre and post measurements, one patient, one room, or one shift at a time, and then teams evaluate which changes to adopt, adapt or abandon based on the outcomes.
Results to-date:
- 8% increase in registered nurse time in direct care
- 20% improvement in patient ratings of "responsiveness"
- Whiteboards introduced at each bedside provide two-way communication between patients, family members and staff regarding the plan of care, names of care providers, reminders and estimated date of discharge.
- Introduction of a Quiet Zone for medication administration resulted in a 50 % reduction in interruptions and 60% reduction in transcription errors.
- Equipment re-location significantly reduced hunting and gathering time and eliminated test cancellations related to lack of transport wheelchairs.
- Patient and staff redesigned a chemotherapy treatment room, reducing the time to start chemotherapy by 57 %.
- Implementation of a joint inter-professional admission process in mental health reduced the admission time from 4.3 to 1 hour, eliminating duplication, improving team communication and cross- discipline learning.
- Significant reduction in RN turnover and overtime on TCAB units
- High rates of staff satisfaction & union support
- Building capacity of frontline staff and patients to improve outcomes by developing their leadership, process mapping, work re-organization and LEAN competencies
- Making a difference with our PAINFREE Initiative
Support for this ongoing initiative has come from: the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and multiple foundations.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Friday's Yale-Columbia game figured to be a defensive battle. The Bulldogs entered the night second in the Ivy League in scoring defense, while the Lions were third. The game lived up to its billing as both teams shot under 40 percent, and in the end it was Columbia that was just a bit stingier. The Lions held Yale to three points over the final 7:33 en route to a 53-42 victory before a crowd of 1,216 at Levien Gym.
Jason Miller scored 16 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to pace the Lions (6-11, 1-2 Ivy). Patrick Foley added 12 points and Noruwa Agho had 10 points.
Garrett Fiddler scored eight points and grabbed five rebounds to pace the Bulldogs, who suffered their first Ivy loss of the season. Travis Pinick had seven points, five rebounds and two steals. Chris Andrews scored five points. Yale's top two scorers - Ross Morin and Alex Zampier - were held to four points apiece.
Pinick's jumper gave the Bulldogs a 39-35 lead with 7:33 left. The Lions, though, answered with a 12-0 run, capped by two Foley free throws with 53 seconds remaining. Columbia scored its last eight points from the foul line.
The loss snapped Yale's five-game winning streak.
The Bulldogs (7-10, 2-1 Ivy) played a solid first half. They led 9-4 after Porter Braswell's layup with 14:18 left and then closed the half with a 10-2 run, capped by a Zampier layup, to take a 27-18 lead the intermission.
The Lions pecked away at the lead early in the second half and finally tied the score at 35-35 on Niko Scott's three-pointer with 9:45 left. Columbia took its first lead of the game, 41-39, on Foley layup wth 3:00 remaining.
Yale made only six of 26 shots from the field in the second half and committed 20 turnovers in the game.
The Bulldogs are back in action on Saturday when they travel to defending Ivy League champion Cornell. Tip off is slated for 7 p.m.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Derrick Williams scored a career-best 26 points and grabbed 10 boards and Kendall Anthony scored nine of Richmond's final 10 points as the Spiders defeated Wake Forest 62-60 Saturday in a nonconference matchup.
Williams, who recorded a double-double in Richmond's overtime win against William & Mary, made 6 of 8 shots from the field and hit 13 of 15 free throws for the Spiders (6-2), who beat Wake Forest for the third straight time.
Anthony chipped in with 11 points for Richmond. His lone 3-pointer broke open a 54-54 tie with 1:09 left to play.
Madison Jones hit a layup to draw Wake Forest (3-4) within 57-56 with 16 seconds, left but Anthony hit four free throws down the stretch and Cedrick Lindsay added another to seal the win.
Devin Thomas led Wake Forest with 11 points and Tyler Cavanaugh added 10.
Williams, who entered the game as the Richmond's second-leading scorer at 13 points per game, has topped his average in each of the Spiders' last three contests. The 6-foot-6 forward missed his first shot of the game, but made his next three. His lone 3-pointer put Richmond ahead 7-6 and his three-point play at the end of the first half gave the Spiders a 32-27 advantage at intermission.
Wake Forest rallied to take its first lead of the second half, 49-48, behind Codi Miller-McIntyre's jumper at the 6:41 mark. But Williams answered with a layup and Richmond held the Demon Deacons to just two field goals the rest of the way.
Anthony, who is averaging 15 points off the bench for the Spiders, has hit 17 of 19 free throws taken in the final 5 minutes and in overtime of games this season. The sophomore has hit 32 of 36 free throws in all.
C.J. Harris entered the matchup as Wake Forest's leading scorer at 13.5 points per game but was held to just six points on 1 of 5 shooting.
Wake Forest leads the all-time series 38-12. But Richmond has won three straight against the Demon Deacons and improved to 46-8 in its last 54 home games dating back to last season.


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Iman Opens Up For First Time Since David Bowie's Death
It has been a year of mourning for Iman, first losing her husband David Bowie in January and then coming to terms with the passing of her mother just three months later.
But the supermodel put on a brave face to make her first public appearance at the Tom Ford show at New York Fashion Week last night.
Speaking to Good Morning America, Iman admitted that 2016 has been a hard year.
"It's just been a tough year, but I'm holding up," Iman said.
Iman also revealed she still keeps David close to her heart - both figuratively and literally.
She has a beautiful custom made necklace that reads 'David' that she wears always.
"I'm wearing this until my death. [Fashion designer] Hedi Slimane made it for me," she said, showing off the piece of jewellry.
"It just says 'David'."
Iman also documented the night on Instagram, stating it was the first event she has attended since last year.
Rubbing shoulders with the fashion elite, Iman also managed to snap a pic with her close friend and fellow model of the 90s Cindy Crawford.
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Contingency Staffing Trends for 2011 and Beyond
As contingent staffing led the employment crash of 2008-2009, it is roaring back in the 2010s. As they revamp their businesses, employers in several industries will continue to hedge their labor bets by ramping up with contract and temporary labor.
"The general sense is that this particular recovery has much more uncertainty than previous ones, though all metrics now point to improvement," says Jai Shekhawat, CEO of Fieldglass, a Chicago provider of software for contingent workforce management. This perception of continuing business risk resulted in a staffing trend that saw an increase in staffing activity for staffing firms that survived waves of consolidation.
The Impact of Contingent and Temporary Staffing Trends on Staffing Companies
There's no denying that it's been a stomach-churning ride for all stakeholders. From 2007 through mid-2009, the temporary workforce dove by 33.7 percent while the total private workforce dropped by just 5.8 percent, according to an analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data in The Atlantic.
Then in 2010, employment in temporary help services rose by about 300,000 to 2.21 million, according to the BLS. "By 2012, contingent employment will have returned to 2008 levels," says Dana Shaw, senior vice president for strategy and solutions at Staffing Industry Analysts in Mountain View, Calif.
Some see the trend as part of tomorrow's unconventional workforce and workforce composition transformation.
Riding Out the Storm with Continent Labor
Many companies used contingent labor as a sustaining force as part of their recession staffing solution. Since September 2008, when the financial downturn became a crisis, 88 percent of employers have either maintained or increased the size of their non-employee workforce, according to a December 2010 survey by staffing firm Yoh.
"Five years ago, organizations may not have had the appetite to prove the value of contract workers," says Amy Lewis, practice leader for talent strategy at Human Capital Institute, a trade group in Washington, D.C. "Now organizations are saying they want to be able to measure the output of a contractor versus a full-time employee. They're now better able to make a business case for using contract talent, if it's properly structured."
Where is contingent staffing coming back with the most vigor? In diverse industries across several US regions:
Professional Services Pulls in Contingent Workers
Given positive experiences with contingent professionals on large projects such as Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance, "clients are now accepting the idea of bringing in more professional-level workers on a project basis," says Brett Good, a senior district president with staffing firm Robert Half International in Orange County, Calif.
Professional contract employment, based in part on the longstanding practices of the IT industry, is spreading to other sectors. "Business services, financial services, IT and retail are all absolutely growing," says Shaw.
The creative destruction of the financial collapse has engendered volumes of project work well-suited to the contract white-collar set. "Industries that are going through fundamental change are big users of professional contingent labor," says Shekhawat. Banks and insurance companies, rejiggering to comply with a slew of recent regulation, are once again heavy users of non-FTE professionals. Contingent hiring is particularly strong in financial services work tied to lower interest rates, such as mortgage refinancing and loan modification, according to Good.
Professional contingent hiring and staffing opportunities are increasing fastest in the Northeast and in the Southeast, where growth is returning, says Rebecca Callahan, president of staffing firm SourceRight Solutions.
Science and Technology Rises with Contingent Technical Professionals
As major corporations sitting on cash begin to reinvest in their futures, they're marshalling more creative technical professionals on a long-term project basis.
"The main areas are science, technology, engineering and math," says Lewis. "Typically these people have had a full career as a permanent employee, and they bring an incredible body of knowledge to their contract work." Defense contractors and construction firms are among the organizations boosting their use of contingent technical professionals.
Natural Resources Boom Hiring Contingent Labor
As energy prices rise with the tide of US and Asian economies, natural resources companies are using contingent labor to ride the wave while mitigating the risk of hiring too much too soon. "The industries that are doing the most contingent hiring are the industries that are doing well, like natural resources, oil and gas," says Shekhawat. Many of these operations are in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Other industries are ramping up contingent labor on the production side. "I see plenty of programs for light industrial," says Callahan.
What's the new frontier of contingent staffing in the 2010s? The world's the limit in global recruitment. "The contingent workforce has gone global," says Shekhawat. "Now we deploy our solution for one client in a dozen or even 30 or 40 countries."


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I'm a complete newbie to Desktop Dungeons, so forgive me if the answer to this is obvious.
I have just reached the point where I could choose between the Den, the Cave, and Hobbler's Hold.
I chose to try Hobbler's Hold, and the sidebar said that the boss was Lord Gobb, a Goblin, and underneath it said (goblin bone).
This was the monster trophy, yes? Like the goat horns from the previous dungeons?
Well, I managed to kill Lord Gobb, which was satisfying, given his protracted speech about how he would lie in the blood of my wet corpse or something along those lines, but when he died, there was nothing but an exit. There was no goblin bone to take back to the kingdom and wave about in smug fashion. My celebration was somewhat lacking.
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Another public health challenge the National Climate Assessment will explore is the likelihood that diseases native to other geographical areas will migrate to the United States as climate changes alter ecosystems.
Cary Institute educators are challenging middle school and high school students to creatively bring long-term river data to life in the Hudson Data Jam, a new competition that melds science and creativity.
People living in northern and central parts of the U.S. are more likely to contract Lyme disease and other tick-borne ailments when white-footed mice are abundant. Mice are effective at transferring disease-causing pathogens to feeding ticks.
When researchers at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies began a recent study, they wanted to know the answer to a simple question: What effect do ticks have on the health of mice?
It's March. But the hard crust of snow on the ground is hanging around -- it's been too cold for it to go. A few days before spring, and the world still looks mostly frozen.
I always have a hard time choosing my favorite tree, but today I think it must be the sycamore. When I see the winter sunlight shining on their lovely white trunks and arms, all flecked with tan and brown and olive, it's hard to think of a more beautiful tree.
What do people living in Boston, Baltimore, Miami, Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Los Angeles have in common? From coast to coast, prairie to desert – residential lawns reign.
AudioSpeakers: Richard Ostfeld and George Luber
Topics covered include the controversy over whether climate change will increase the burden of infectious disease with a focus on malaria and other mosquito-transmitted diseases.
For more than 30 years, the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook has collected information about local weather conditions. Equipment used to monitor acid rain was installed in 1983 and has provided continuous insight into rain and snow data.
It's no secret that Americans love salt. But our uses for it extend well beyond the kitchen: It turns out we dump so much of the stuff on our roads that a lot of it ends up in our freshwater rivers and streams. Thanks again polar vortex.
What if we could vaccinate the white-footed mice that account for the majority of the transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi (the cause of Lyme disease) and significantly reduce the level of tick infection?
The hallmarks of a warming climate, heavier rains, more severe droughts, rising sea levels and longer growing seasons, are spreading a variety of pathogens throughout the world.
An online repository of maps has been launched to make information on freshwater biodiversity available on a common platform for use by scientists, policymakers, conservationists and NGOs.
On Friday, February 21 at 7 p.m. join the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies for a free screening of Emptying the Skies, a documentary film about the widespread poaching of migratory songbirds in the Mediterranean and the heroism of a team of Italian bird-lovers trying to put an end to the practice.
This extremely icy and snowy winter has brought renewed attention to the question: What's the best (and most environmentally kind) way to melt it all? Salt, chemicals ... or pickle brine?
A 2012 study co-authored by Cary Disease Ecologist Rick Ostfeld examined the probability of tick mortality in winter conditions in Millbrook and Syracuse.
We often blame white-tailed deer and the deer ticks they carry for spreading Lyme disease in the United States, especially from Minnesota to New England to Northern Virginia.
PodcastNPR station interviews investigative journalist Alan Weisman.
On December 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule that allows soap and hygiene product manufacturers one year to prove "antibacterial" additives are safe and effective.
Brazil is a hot spot for dengue fever, a mosquito-transmitted virus that lacks a vaccine or treatment. The nation's 573 dengue deaths in 2013 through Nov. 20 is nearly double the 2012 toll.
Warming temperatures and increased extreme weather events such as drought, rainstorms and flooding, contribute to the nation's changing disease map, experts say. USA Today reports on this trend and how it has impacted the spread of various diseases including tick-borne illnesses.
Last month, non-essential parts of the Federal government shut down. Support for scientific research, already curtailed by the budget sequestration earlier this year, came to an unfortunate stall.
Triclosan – a synthetic antibacterial – is driving the development of resistant bacteria in streams and rivers, with urban sites most impacted. So reports a recent study by the Cary Institute's Emma Rosi-Marshall.
Initially, Rick Ostfeld's work at the Cary Institute focused on how small mammals shape forests. Early on, he noticed a unique relationship among mice, black-legged ticks, and the bacterium that causes Lyme disease.
Invasive pests and pathogens threaten the health of Northeastern forests. Cary Institute ecologist Gary Lovett has spent his career investigating the impact that species like the hemlock woolly adelgid and beech bark disease have on Catskill Mountain ecosystems.
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