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Justin Morneau suffering a concussion when he had just reached his absolute peak, was a more crippling blow then most realized. At the time of the injury he was hitting .345/.437/.618, and was looking like a sure fire MVP. Who's to say that Morneau would have pushed the Twins past the said Yankees, but he didnt play against them in '09 or '10. Mauer battled the knee injury in '10, affecting his performance in the playoffs, and all but wiping out his '11 season as well. His future behind the plate is unclear at best, at this point. Injuries to top pitching prospects Kyle Gibson and Alex Wimmers (I am calling Wimmer's Rick Ankeil impersonation an "injury") also has our pitching depth depleted.
When Terry Ryan stepped down in'07, he handed over the reigns to longtime assistant Bill Smith, and I felt the Twins would continue to chug along as usual. No one knew how in over-his-head Smith was and how big the talent gap he inherited was. Smith didnt help himself by trading our only impact prospect for an alright reliever, getting burned in the Delmon trade, not getting maximum return on the Santana trade, botching the Hardy-Nishioka decision, and being dealt some bad luck in his drafts. What Ryan inherited in his 2nd go 'round is a farm system with almost no major league ready talent and its best prospects at least 3-4 years away.
So where does that put the Twins next window? I was searching for that answer when I opened Baseball America's Prospect Pulse column. While the Twins where hardly represented in the pitchers column, they had more then their fair share of prospects in the position players portion. After reading it, a small shoot of hope started to sprout, and I came to the conclusion that, providing a lot of luck, the Twins could have a great young nucleous all reaching the majors around 2015 and hopefully hitting their peaks about 2017-20. Lets take a look three years out and see what the team might be look like then.
C Mauer age 32 / Hermann age 27 (spilting catching duties assuming Hermann continues to develop as a catcher and Mauer is still able to catch 60-80 games a year)
1B Parmelee age 27 / Mauer
2B Rosario age 24
SS Michael age 24
3B Sano age 23/Valencia age 31 (if Sano stops growing otherwise he could be at 1B instead)
LF Arcia age 25
CF Hicks age 26
RF Benson age 28
DH Parmelee/Sano/Mauer/Hermann
UTIL Dozier age 28
4th OF Revere age 26
SP Appel age 26 (hoping he slides to #2 in this years draft)
SP Gibson age 29
SP Baker age 33 or Other vetern free agent pitcher.
SP Wimmers age 28 (assuming he recovers his form)
SP Hendriks age 27
While the chances of all of these guys developing to even 80% of their ceilings is almost nil, and its likely a couple will wash out completely, it doesn't stop me from seeing the Twins next World Series window as being 2017-2020 when all of these guys will be within the peak ages of 27-31 with the exception of Mauer. So, if your are upset and bitter about the Twins not looking like contenders this year or the next, hopefully this gives a ray of hope and something else to follow.


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A Critical Look at Robert Dowling and
His North Carolina Institute of Technology
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
In 2002, according to its Web site, the North Carolina Institute of Technology was founded in 1993 and provided "an effective scientific method for shutting down the cancer process FOREVER through proper management of the body's cells with cell optimizers developed by the Institute." The estimated cost for 4 to 6 months of "cell optimization" was $5,000 to $10,000. The Institute's goal was said to be to "eradicate cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and all degenerative diseases through prevention or correction" by the year 2010. However, the site focused only on treatment for cancer.
The institute's proprietor Robert H. Dowling, was not identified on the site at that time. However, his book, CANCERCURED.ORG: The Book, provided the following background information:
The author is a graduate of Carson Newman College and Texas Christian University. Presently he is a PhD candidate in Natural Health at Clayton College of Natural Health.
His interest in natural health began during his years in the U. S. Navy. While station in the Middle East, he served, in his spare time, as a volunteer in a missionary hospital on Bahrain Island, off the coast of Saudi Arabia. During his stay in this area, he had the opportunity of traveling to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Iran, and other regional countries, and it was these visits that spurred his interest in the practices of natural healing.
Upon his discharge from the U. S. Navy, he attended college and graduate school. After graduate school, he taught at Columbia College and in various public schools in order to finance his ongoing research and support his family.
In 1979, he and his wife went to Peru on an education assignment. Here, he began the "Peruvian Study," an investigation that provided the basis for his later research and, ultimately, gave birth to the new science of Biological Terrain Management as defined by the North Carolina Institute of Technology. Today he is the Chief Executive Officer of the North Carolina Institute of Technology [1].
The above description gave no indication of scientific training or credentials. The Clayton College of Natural Health is a nonaccredited correspondence school that promotes dubious health methods [2]. In April 2002 and again in January 2008, I searched Medline and found no evidence that Dowling had published anything on cancer in a recognized scientific journal.
Further Claims
In 2002, according to the Institute's Web site:
If you have cancer, the technology found on this website can save your life. Cancer is a metabolic disorder and can now be treated biologically very effectively to provide you with a high quality of life and, in most cases, to extend your life indefinitely. The cell optimization protocols are biologically correct, non-toxic to normal cells, applied in an analytical and scientific manner, and have an effective rate of 90 percent or better (as compared to less than 10% overall with traditional treatments) depending upon the type of cancer, age of the person, and other factors. This technology has had proven effectiveness with early and terminal stage individuals—some only days from death. Our program is, generally, a non-pharmaceutical approach using the latest high tech biologicals, many formulated by our Institute, which are designed to stop the cancer process. While we do not discourage traditional treatments, we believe a non-toxic approach is a better choice, yet some of our success cases have participated in both traditional technology and Biological Terrain Management. Since our Wellness Centre is not a treatment center, we do not offer traditional treatments.
The program was claimed to treat cancer "even before it becomes symptomatic and before it can be identified positively through traditional techniques." Although the site did not describe the treatment in detail, it did offer a "new metabolic procedure" that selectively shuts down "cancer cells' ability to do mitosis through the destruction of ATP synthesis and through sufficiently blocking the excretion of lactic acid of these abnormal cells to kill them in their own acids." It further claimed that "Cancer cells have extreme difficulty controlling their pH" and that Biological Terrain Management can "take advantage of this weakness without hurting normal cells." There is no plausible reason to believe that any of these statements are true. Scientific research has shown that the underlying cause of cancer is genetic, not metabolic, and that the metabolic pathways of cancer cells do not differ significantly from that of normal cells.
The site's "Technical Information" page contained a lengthy discussion of metabolic reactions related to the body's production of energy. The page claimed that NCIT's "Biological Terrain Management" used "ATP-availability depressors" to reduce cellular energy supplies and used "lactate export blockers" to cause a toxic buildup of lactate in the cells. Stating that tumor cells get much of their energy from oxidation of fats and amino acids rather than glucose, it included "fatty acid blockers" and "amino acid blockers" to prevent the use of these fuels for energy. In addition, there was a "defined nutritional regimen," which appeared to be simply a diet high in carbohydrate.
Assuming that Dowling's products contained substances that could do what he says, the key question is whether they can be selective enough to kill cancer cells without causing unacceptable damage to normal ones. Thomas J. Wheeler, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Louisville School of Medicine, believes that the answer is no. Various body tissues differ greatly in their energy metabolism, and it seems likely that some tissues would be more sensitive than cancer cells to the metabolic inhibitors used in this therapy. In fact, uncouplers of oxidative phosphorylation (a class of chemicals included in the "ATP-availability depressors") have caused blindness when used in weight-loss products. While Dowling claims that his treatment regimens have produced positive results without "discernable toxic side effects," neither his Web site nor his book documented this. Dr. Wheeler sent an e-mail to email@example.com asking what specific compounds are in the products and what evidence shows that they inhibit human cancers while sparing normal tissues. He received no answer.
Another page listed five treatment "objectives":
- Restore normal cell order of degenerative normal cells through enhancing cellular respiration.[Cellular respiration refers to the mechanism by which cells use oxygen to produce energy. To demonstrate this, Mr. Dowling would have to show that he can measure oxygen use or energy production and perhaps identify the mechanism by which the energy is produced. It seems unlikely that he has the ability to do this.]
- Retard or shut down the blood supply to the tumor. [Although some substances have been found to do this, the technique is not applicable to most tumors. Without published evidence, there is no reason to believe that the substances Dowling sell to patients can benefit them.]
- Enhance oxygen delivery to reduce the number of hypoxic cells. [As noted above, the idea that cancer cells grow better in the absence of oxygen is a myth. In fact, cancer research throughout the world involves tissue-culture techniques in which cancer cells are grown (optimally) in the presence of air—which is 20% oxygen.]
- Localize gene therapy to the desired area through the use of tissue-specific receptors and tissue-specific enhancers. [Achieving something like this would require extensive scientific training, access to extensive laboratory equipment, and the ability to conduct large clinical trials to judge the results. There is no credible reason to believe Mr. Dowling has any of these.]
- Reduce cancer cell voltage driving primitive cells more primitive for better recognition by NK cells. [Voltage is a measure of electrical potential difference. Cells normally have a voltage across the cell membrane, more positive outside of the cell, so that if an appropriate passageway is opened, electric current will flow. Before legitimately talking about raising or lowering voltage, someone must have a way to measure it, alter it, and demonstrate an effect on cell's growth. To date, there is no published scientific evidence that the voltage of cancer cells has been measured, that it differs from that of normal cells, or that changing it will influence the rate of cell growth. Furthermore, before an effect by NK cells could be produced, the tumor cell surface receptor must be identified and NK cells must be conditioned in the laboratory to recognize them. Since NK cells can be identified, their concentration can be measured. There is no credible reason to believe that Dowling has the training or laboratory facilities to develop any such methods.]
Other pages indicated that the method was centered around a device called the BioScan 2010, which analyzes the "biological terrain" and was used to help select products formulated by the Institute. In 2001, the FDA notified a manufacturer and a distributor that the device lacked FDA approval and could not be legally marketed in the United States [3,4].
Dowling and his Institute have were also involved in the marketing of dubious test kits through a company called Natural Health Consultants, of Vallejo, California. In May 2000, this company posted the following notice:
We are branching out now with the inclusion of tests you can take at home to determine your state of health. Our first two tests are revolutionary in scope and potential. They are the Ultra Early Biocellular Marker Kit and the Biological Terrain Management Kit. According to the manufacturer, the former kit is capable of telling you whether you are likely to acquire cancer or other degenerative disease in the next two years with almost 100% accuracy. The latter kit can analyze your body chemistry and blood picture in depth to create a customized protocol to restore good health. According to the manufacturer, even cancer can be reversed by strict adherence to the protocol.
About a year later, however, the FDA warned Natural Health Consultants that the kits were devices that would be illegal to market in interstate commerce [5]. Curiously, Dowling's book recommends the videos of Lorraine Day, M.D., another promoter of dubious cancer treatments.
Quantum Health Management
In January 2008, in response to an e-mail inquiry, I investigated again and found that Dowling now markets his offerings through several sites and claims to have discovered a breast cancer cure "four years ahead of schedule." His "institute" and a "division" called Quantum Health Management (QTM) operate from the same address in Hot Springs, North Carolina. The Quantum site states that through digital infrared thermal imaging he discovered that "oral pathology is the primary factors for causing most, if not all degenerative disease and cancer." (Digital infrared thermal imaging—commonly referred to as thermography—has very little if any legitimate medical use [7]. Moreover, the idea that the problems in the mouth could have such a broad effect is preposterous.) Another of Dowling's sites states:
Our team members – university professors, independent engineers and independent bio-scientists and researchers -- have made the most remarkable discovery in the history of man.
As the result of one of the largest human studies ever conducted for cancer and degenerative diseases – some 40,000 individuals -- we have found the genetic link to the real cause of cancer, and we have learned that . . .
Membership in the Quantum Health Management Club includes "access to our Club clinic that is staffed with Quantum Health Management professionals with a track record of stopping cancer, renewing the cardiovascular system, reversing Type II diabetes and other types of degenerative disease and health problems!" However, prospective clients are required to read the book Am I Dead . . . or Do I Just Feel Like it," which can be ordered through the QTM site. (Note: The QTM Club is not related in any way to medical billing services named Quantum Health Management in New York State.)
The Bottom Line
I have seen no credible evidence that Biological Terrain Assessment [6] or the other services offered at the North Carolina Institute of Technology have a scientifically plausible rationale. Please contact me if you have further information to share about Dowling's activities.
For Additional Information
- Dowling RH. CANCERCURED ORG: The Book. Columbia, South Carolina: NCIT Publications, 2001.
- Barrett S. Clayton College of Natural Health: Be wary of the school and its graduates. Quackwatch, March 20, 2007.
- Spears LD. Warning letter to company director Gehrhard F.P. Braun, April 25, 2001.
- Spears LD. Warning letter to company CEO Scott Moyer, April 25, 2001.
- Spears LD. Warning letter to Gerald T. Wolke, RPh, June 7, 2001.
- Barrett S. Biological Terrain Assessment. Quackwatch Web site, updated April 9, 2002.
- Barrett S. A critical look at thermography. Chirobase, Aug 9, 2007.
- Yes. BreastCancerCURED.com home page, accessed Jan 8, 2008.
This article was revised on January 7, 2007.


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When encountering someone with a disability, many people feel awkward and uncomfortable. How do I talk to them? Should I offer to help? What if I say something embarrassing? Here are a few suggestions that will help you and the person with a disability feel more comfortable.
- First and foremost, a person with a disability is a person. They have the same variety of feelings, attitudes, and behaviors as persons without disabilities. Treat people with disabilities with the same dignity and respect as you treat those without disabilities.
- If you are a faculty or staff member interacting with a student, remember that everything relating to their disability, even the fact they have one, is legally confidential. Therefore, do not discuss or mention anything about the student's disability where others can hear, even if you believe the student would not mind.
- Not all disabilities can be seen. Don't assume that just because someone doesn't look disabled that they do not need accommodations.
- If someone with a disability appears to need assistance, ask if you can help. If they say yes, then ask how and follow their directions. Don't be offended if your help is not needed.
- Talk directly to a person with a disability, not to their interpreter, attendant, or other non-disabled person about them. Adults with disabilities are adults and should be treated as such.
- A wheelchair is considered part of the user's personal space. Therefore, do not touch or lean on the wheelchair unless asked. Similarly, do not touch or move someone's crutches. If the crutches are in the way, ask the user to move them.
- Introduce yourself when approaching a person who is blind. Do not touch them without warning, as this may startle them. If they need guidance, let them take your arm. When leaving, let the person know so they don't continue to talk to empty space.
- Do not pet or distract a service animal. The owner's safety may be at risk if the animal is distracted.
- It's fine to use phrases like "Have you seen Bob?" with a blind person, "Do you want to run to the mall with me?" with a person who uses a wheelchair or "Have you heard from Joe?" with a Deaf person. These common phrases in our language and will be understood.
- Do not ask questions about the disability unless it directly relates to a service or assistance you are providing. How they became disabled or even then exact nature of the disability is personal information which they may not wish to share.
Communicating with a Deaf or Hard of Hearing Student
Communicating with a Deaf or hard of hearing student through a sign language interpreter can be a bit confusing at first, but here are some simple tips that will make it easier.
- The interpreter will sit or stand near you, so the student can see both of you at the same time.
- Talk directly to the student, not the interpreter. For example, say "What is your name?" not "What is her name" or "Do you have your homework?" instead of "Ask her if she has her homework."
- The interpreter will speak in first person, so when the interpreter says "I have a question", it means the student has a question, not the interpreter.
- The student will primarily be watching the interpreter while you are talking instead of you. The lack of eye contact can be uncomfortable for some, but the student needs to watch the interpreter to "hear" you.
- The student cannot write and watch the interpreter at the same time, so if you have asked him/her to fill out a form, please wait until they are finished to give further information.
- If you have any questions about using an interpreter, just ask the student or interpreter. You may also call the SSD Office at (559) 278-2811 for information about interpreters.


text: Jim Lux wrote: > At 09:04 AM 11/26/2005, Mark Hahn wrote: [...] >> why? because low-end clusters are mostly a mistake. I disagree on this for a number of reasons. It may make sense for some university and centralized computing facility folks for larger machines. However, one of the things I have seen relative to the large scale clusters out there is most are designed for particular workloads which, if you look at the workloads that other folks are buying their clusters for, simply do not make sense. Specifically, few informatics folk need low latency interconnect. They need large number of processors, big memory systems, and large local IO facilities, not to mention very high speed data scatter across their cluster. This has been recently one of the fastest growing segments of the HPC market, as well as one of the largest segments. This is from IDC and other data we have seen recently. Large clusters designed to run HPCC/HPL very well will generally be poorly designed for the type of work they do. Of course, they are just one example out of several. >> at a university like mine, for instance, nearly _everyone_ realizes >> that it's >> insane for each researcher to buy/use/maintain his own little $50-500K >> cluster. I see three clear reasons for this: Again, it is not, if the large cluster was designed for different purposes. More on that in a moment. >> - the value of a cluster is some superlinear function of its >> size. Value is relative to the applicability of the particular system to the problem at hand, as well as how well it solves those particular problems. >> - the maintenance cost of a cluster is very sub-linear. >> - most workloads are bursty. Hmmm... the clusters we have put into universities are quite loaded. Bursty may happen at places (we see this in some of our commercial customers). >> the first two factors encourage larger clusters; the latter means that >> bursts >> can be overlapped in a shared resource very nicely. I cannot comment on all bursty natures. I have seen at some places a bursty load from a resource that was overspecified for the need. There simply is not enough work to fill the cycles. Waiting in queue is ok as long as those waits are not too long. When wait times exceed a few hours/days you can have issues. But at the same time, if a researcher requesting lots of resources always gets them right away from the large cluster, while they may like it, it is likely that the machine may have been a bit too large for the need. This is really hard to generalize about, as most of our customers have computing needs that grow linearly or superlinearly in time. > > > However, this sort of logic (the economies of scale) push clusters > towards the model of the "mainframe supercomputer" in it's special > machine room shrine tended by white garbed acolytes making sure the > precious bodily fluids continue circulating. Yes!!! Precisely. But worse than this, it usually causes university administrators to demand to know why department X is going off on their own to get their own machine versus using the annointed/blessed hardware in the data center. As someone who had to help explain in the past why our university did not want us to be running on the same million dollar plus IBM 43xx mainframe that ran student records, and buy a real supercomputer, I can tell you that this is a painful battle at best. Department X may be getting its own machine due to the central resource being inappropriate for the task, or the wait times being unacceptably long, or the inability to control the software load that you need on it. There are possibilities to find a happy middle ground, where the central folks manage the resource, and allow cycles to be used by others when the owners of the machine are not using so much of it. Moreover they can connect it to central disks, authentication, and so forth. That is, the value of the centralized IT is realized, even if it is a separate resource. Forcing all users to use the same resource usually winds up with uniformly unhappy users (apart from the machine designers who built it for a particular purpose). > > One of the biggest values of the early clusters was that they let people > "fool around" with supercomputing and get real work done, without > hassling the instutional overheads. Sure, they may have been > non-optimized (in a FLOPS/dollar sense, certainly, and in others), but > because they were *personal supercomputers*, nobody could complain. > They were invisible. Not really invisible. And not all workloads make sense to characterize in terms of FLOPS/$. This is not a swipe at Mark or Jim, but fundamentally, while the HPL has been interesting for characterizing some workloads, it is effectively useless for wide swaths of workloads that have no fundamental reason to look at FLOPS w.r.t. anything. Supercomputing as such is much larger than just FP calculations, and certainly folks doing Monte-Carlo FP heavy loads probably don't care about low latency. > There is, I maintain, a real market for smallish clusters intended to be > operated by and under the control of a single person. In one sense, I'm > wasting compute resources, but, I'm also doing this because my desktop > CPU spends most of its time at <5% utilization. Having that desktop > under my personal control means that if something isn't working right, I > can just abort it. Or, if I am seized by the desire to dump all the > other stuff running temporarily and run that big FEM model, I can do > that too. No calling up the other users and asking if it's ok to kill > their jobs. No justifying processor utilization to a section level > committee, etc. The interesting thing is that if you look at the numbers from IDC and others you realize something very interesting. First, the real HPC hardware market (this is a 7B$ market today, growing at > 10% CAGR) has its largest section by volume and largest growth in the 25-50k$ region. Second, the large market is shrinking. Again, this is not a slap against Jim and Mark. The real HPC cluster market is moving down scale, and the larger ones are growing more slowly or shrinking. This is going to apply some rather Darwinian forces to the market (has been for a while). This is not to say that there is not a big cluster market. There is. Its real. Its just not growing in dollar volume. Some of us wish it would, but budgets get trimmed, and hard choices are made. You have to go through fewer levels of management to justify spending 50k$ than you do 500k$, or 5M$. > > To recapitulate from previous discussions: a cluster appliance Yup. A 100k$ cluster appliance won't sell well according to IDC. If your appliance (board/card/box/...) sits in the 25-50k$ region and delivers 10-100x the processing power of your desktop, then you should see them sell well. This is where the market growth is. Companies retreating to the high end of the market risk the same fate as all the other companies that have tried this before (e.g. any exec pushing that strategy should take a long hard look at the HPC market and the players that have retreated to the high end, most of them are gone and buried). [...] > this is the real MS/Cluster disconnect... Clusters just don't seem to > fit in the MS .NET world. On the other hand, MS has a lot of smart > people working there, and it's not out of the question that they'd > figure out some way to leverage the idea of "commodity computers with > commodity interconnects" in some MS useful way. For one thing, I would expect that .NET will eventually == grid. Doesn't make it HPC, but this is what I expect. What Microsoft could bring to the table is forcing people to build reasonable interfaces for the HPC systems. Today we have lots of APIs for MPI, DRMAA for schedulers,.... Technology doesn't become useful for the masses until it becomes easy for them to use. If Microsoft makes this simpler by either creating/forcing a standard upon the cluster world, this might not be such a bad thing in the longer term. I find nothing wrong with the notion that more HPC users means more HPC. That said, I am not sure that they can do this without trying to force windows upon the users. The demo at SC was ok, but you can do stuff like that today with web services systems. The issue is that there are no real standards associated with that. Not w3c stuff, but higher level standards that make programming these things easier for end users. Also it should be noted that the Unix world laughed rather heartily when Microsoft started attacking its servers with their lower end systems. This was a mistake on the part of these people. Microsoft has effectively unlimited resources, and significant patience. My take on this is that it would be better to engage them to get them to create the stuff that we really all need (and make sure it is cross platform ala Mono, because like it or not, the world will not run just one flavor of OS/language on clusters/HPC systems ... this is part of the reason IMO that things like Java will probably not ever take off as HPC glue like python/perl/... do ... we can run Python/Perl/... on pretty much anything, good luck getting a late model Java supported on Itanium2, or some other beast of an uncommon processor ). Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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"Our investigation is continuing. It is an issue relating to the rules of competition. We have sufficient information to go on and we are preparing a statement of objection," Almunia told reporters at the margins of a conference in the northern Italian town of Cernobbio.
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He declined to comment on the timing of the investigation or when the statement may be delivered to Gazprom.
The Commission opened the investigation into suspected anti-competitive market practices by the Russian group last September.
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The maiden NFL voyage of Chip Kelly was a success.
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Band leader has praise for Jazz Fest
I've been to the Evergreen Jazz Festival with my trio many times, and the friendly and appreciative audiences that attend this event make it a pleasure to perform there. We are always thrilled to get the invite to return.
The folks who make the festival run have become my good friends, and I always look forward to seeing Jeannie and Ted Mann, Jim Reiners, Sterling Nelson and all the gang.
All points of view deserve space at library
Regarding Dave Bagenski's July 11 letter objecting to the Gay Pride display in the library:
In other words, if he does not agree with an idea, he doesn't want the public to have access to the information? I thought a library was supposed to be a source for all kinds of information, not just what one agrees with.
School district's plea for tax hike should be ignored
Fire victims say thanks to Elks
On July 14, the Elks Lodge of Evergreen hosted a phenomenal fund-raiser to benefit the survivors of the Lower North Fork Fire (which burned 23 homes and killed three neighbors in March). The funds go to the Mountain Resource Center in Conifer.
Tolerance, understanding are on loan at the library
Regarding Dave Bagenski's letter (July 10, "Gay Pride display at library was not appropriate"): As my queer teenage daughter would say, "That letter is wrong in so many ways."
Library offers display space to variety of groups, points of view
On behalf of the Jefferson County Library Board of Trustees, I want to respond to Mr. Bagenski's letter in the July 11 Canyon Courier.
Gay Pride display at library was not appropriate
Recently, I noticed that a large portion of the main display case at the Evergreen Public Library was devoted to advertising and supporting the Gay Pride event held in Denver in mid-June. Prominent signs in favor of "gay sons" and "dyke daughters" were displayed, along with dates for the Gay Pride events downtown.
We cannot eat money
Do Republicans breathe air?
Sign on truck, announcer's comments at Rodeo Parade were inappropriate
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Summer Session
Plans Announced
By Dean's Office -012 CLZON@Z The 1948 summer session at Bet-hel
will begin on June 1st it was
announced by the Dean's Office
this week. Sufficient interest has
been shown by this year's students
to warrant a summer session
again this year.
A questionaire- was distributed
among prospective students and it
is on the basis of the results of
this poll that the sessions are be-ing
planned. -
The classes will meet on a
four day week basis, Tuesday,
through Friday, f o r eight
weeks, ending July 24. Pres-ent
plans provide for six
courses, each in a different
field. The course and credits
to be earned in each are:
Bible Survey of New Testa-ment
3 credits
English Literature II
5 credits
Philosophy Problems of Phi-losophy
3 credits
Psychology General Phycho-logy
g 6 credits
General Phychology I
Political Science .... Elements of
Political Science 3 credits
Sociology Introductory
Sociology 5 credits
The maximum load will be
twelve quarter credits, with ten
or eleven the recommended full-time
program. The instructors and
hours will be announced after
April 15th.
Tuition will be charged at
the rate of $5.50 per credit
hour of academic work and
$2.75 per credit hour of Bible.
Further information for those
planning to attend may be ob-tained
from the Dean's Office.
B.W.A. Plans Banquet
The annual all school formal debate squad.
Banquet sponsored by the BWA This year's topic was that of
will be given May 12, the week Federal World Government. The
following the J.S. Banquet, in final events in the forensic calen-honor
of graduating BWA. mem- dar is the model United Nations
hers. Marjorie Maim is chairman Assembly to be held at the State
of the banquet committee and has Capitol at the end of the month
begun preparations for an out- when several delegates are to be
standing program. sent.
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End Great Season
Kingsley, Germany Take Honors
At Minnesota Debate Tournament
Bethel's debating team took the juinor college debating trophy at
the Minnesota Collegiate Debate Tournament, which was held at the
University of Minnesota, April 9 and 10. Representing Bethel was a
debate team composed of Lee Kingsley and Charles Germany.
Outstanding teams were the University of Minnesota, St. Cloud
Teachers College and others. Although the junior colleges participated
with senior colleges in this tournament, Bethel took a high rating in
the meet and was awarded the junior college debate trophy.
Physics Lab Has
New Equipment
New in the Physics Lab this
year are many machines and de-vices
which would seem very com-plicated
to most people. There is
a high voltage machine which, to
quote Mr. Ahlquist, "makes a lot
of sparks."
There is an electro-magnet
which, if heated on one end, be-comes
magnetic on the other end.
A piezoelectricity demon-strater
is included in the lab,
as well as a high vacuum
pump which will take all the
air out of a vessel.
There is polarized light equip-ment
which enables people to look
directly at the sun without hurt-ing
their eyes. Bethel compared favorably with
There_ is equipment to cause other colleges at these tourna-florescence.
There is equipment to ments: Iowa State Teacher's Col-separate
water into hydrogen and lege, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Red
oxygen by the electrolysis method. River Valley Tournament, Concor-dia
College, Moorehead, Minne-sota;
Eau Claire State Teacher's
Tournament, Eau Claire, Wiscon-sin;
and the Northwest Annual
Debate Tournament, St. Thomas
College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Maurice Wessman
J.-S. Speaker
Rev. Maurice Wessman will be
the speaker at the traditional J-S
Banquet to be held Friday. May 7,
at the Lowery Hotel in St. Paul.
Rev. Wessman is well known
to most of the Bethelites as
being an active Youth leader.
He is Chaplain of the State
Penitentiary of South Dakota,
and has had many very un-usual
experiences there. Rev.
Wessman is pastor of the Cen..
tral Baptist church in Sioux
Falls, South Dakota, where he
has built up an alert Young
Peoples' group.
The tickets for this semi-formal
banquet are $3.00 each.
Debate Team Ends
Season with Dinner
A dinner in Dayton's Sky Room,
Minneapolis, last week marked the
end of the Forensic Department's
debating season.
Prof. S. Schultz (coach) presid-ed
over the function, which was
attended by Dean and Mrs. C. E.
Carlson, Prof. and Mrs. S. Paulson,
of the Speech Department of the
University of Minnesota, and the
Vol. XXVII—No. 20
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. April 16, 1948
The other most outstanding
event of the year was the partici-pation
in the Rocky Mountain
Speech Clinic at Denver, Colorado.
Bethel was represented by Lee
Kingsley and Harold Christenson,
who participated in the various
speech events of the conference.
Lee Kingsley received the Wachtel
Reward given by the Tau Kappa
Alpha Forensic Society for win-ning
first place in public speaking.
In debate the team was unde-feated,
receiving a superior rating.
Harold Christenson received an ex-cellent
rating certificate in public
speaking. Harold Christenson and
Lee Kingsley both received ex-cellent
rating awards in discuss-ion.
They successfully competed
with Universities of Colorado, Cal-ifornia,
Denver, Stanford, and
other colleges of the Rocky Mount-ain
A spectrum tube which can
cause a glow and permit spec-tra
lines to be seen, is in the
lab. This is used to prove that
electrons have space and vo-lume.
Library-ily Yours ea Tea, Caw Be an 94441cdo4 by Harry Ohsberg
When Ben Franklin established the first public library in America
in 1731, he probably thought of it as a place for quiet concentration—
an institution which would raise America to a cultural and educational
pedestal. Ben's intentions were good. How was he to know that the
American college student of the future would see no correlation between
the words "library," "quiet," and "concentration."
Any present-day devotee of the campus library would be quick
to tell Ben that the old watchword "silence" is a part of the
colonial past. "Jrritate"--that's the modern slogan. It permits the
student to utilize his talents to a far greater degree, and after all,
this is an era for individual expression.
For instance, softly opening the door to the library and creeping
in is ridiculous. In this age of speed, you shove the door open vigorously
using a special wrist action which has only been prefected after years
of student reasearch. This permits the door to issue a longer, more
exhausted-sounding gasp in closing and has a very irritating effect on
those within who beat you to the best seats while you were in the
coffee-shop. This sound has been known to hold some students spell-bound
for hours resulting in unfinished assignments and excess cuts.
Once you've stumbled into the library, stand in the reserve
room for several minutes to allow yourself sufficient time to scan
both rooms in search of the most interesting occupants. To be
sure that you will receive the proper welcome, and not misjudge
in choosing your study corner, whistle once or twice to the group
you plan to join. If they continue to study at this point, by all means
choose the other room.
Don't select the table next to the door; it's much too convenient
Choose the back table, since this will offer you a greater opportunity to
see who has the assignment you wish to borrow and to test the squeak-ability
of your new shoes. Above everything else, don't choose a table
where several couples are seated. Remember, your slogan is "irritate".
Scientific research and observation has proven that couples are never
studying anything affecting their scholastic records anyhow.
After removing your coat and throwing it over the back of someone
else's chair, slowly drag your chair out from the table and sit down.
Settle yourself comfortably scattering your books and papers over a suf-ficient
area to discourage any others from sharing your table.
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Editor-in-Chief Perry Hedberg
Assistant Editor & News Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Managing Editor Rudolph Forsinan
Feature Editor David Carlson
Sports Editor David Osterberg
Art Editor Ted Hamlin
Business Manager Robert Hamlett
Circulation Manager Margaret Helgren
Reporters: R. Anderson, E. Avey, Addle Bavin,
C. Fernlund, V. Hanson, L. Leaf, J. Leggett, W.
Lindroth, A. Olsson, P. Pope, M. Regier, J. Sone-son.
Feature Writers: C. Appelquist, H. Bondeson, A.
Carlson, H. Christenson, S. Delin, M. Engstrom,
B. Madsen, Z. McFarlin, D. Olson.
Typists: Jeanne Swanson, Chief; E. Carlson, M.
Carlson, C. Hedberg, A. Johnson, M. Keller, E.
Schultz, Muriel Thompson.
Photographers H. Paney, B. Skalman
Faculty Adviser V. Elving Anderson
Issued weekly during the school year
except vacations.
Subscription price $1.50 per year
Counseling Service
Along with the academic and physical ex-pansion
of our school there is a further
feature which should be given thoughtful
consideration. The suggestion in mind is an
improved faculty-student counseling program.
We do not criticize the present counseling
service, but there are observable weaknesses.
The program needs to be broadened in scope
and in definite stated time for counseling.
Counseling Service Defined
Such a service as we have in mind comes
from the fundamental premise that Bethel
College desires to offer every maximum ad-vantage
to its students.
Each student would be encouraged to
meet a counselor for an interview at re-gularly
stated periods throughout the
school year. The basic purpose of these
interviews is in helping the student to
adjust his attitudes and life to a "proper
life-and-world-view" in a more practical
Personal problems of personality develop-ment
would be discussed in these periodic in-terviews.
The counselors would be charged
with the responsibility of leading the student's
thinking to a satisfactory conclusion, the bene-fits
of which could be incorporated immedi-ately
into "a way of life."
Several Values Noted
To evaluate the good which is inherent in
a systematic college counseling program is
rather difficult. Certain immediate obvious
results would be noted, but more often, as
the attitude and aim of the student is adjust-ed,
the influence of his later life would prove
the value.
Several student bentfits are readily noted.
1. A workable college program to meet
the needs of the individual student could
be planned earlier either in terms of
graduation from junior college or senior
college or in preparation for entering
some professional school. This would be
one of the first objectives of a counsel-ing
1. The student would be more personally
challenged to consider his own abilities
and deficiencies in terms of life planning.
Some of the weaknesses could be master-ed.
3. The student would be encouraged to
take the "eternal view" of everything
that composes his life and its influence.
4. Generally, the counseling program
would help to make college years more
interesting; more vital; more direct in
realizing a connection between the stud-ent's
life and his responsibility in relation
to the world.
Destroying Ourselves
A few days ago the President of the United
States made a remark to the effect that if
Henry Wallace did not like this country he
could leave anytime, go to Moscow, and help
the Russians.
This crack merits analysis. In the first
place, let me state emphatically that at this
point, I, personally, do not agree with Mr.
Wallace and his approach. He looks ultra-ambitious
and ultra-naive. Additionally, be-cause
of these characteristics, he has permit-ted
himself to be used by the Communists, an
obviously dangerous element. This is undeni-able.
But in opposing Wallace, we do not need
to act like petty children and foolishly tell
him to go away and cease bothering us. His
erroneous and erratic policies can be refuted
adequately with facts and figures and com-monsense
and objectivity.
We should not condone the President's
comment. One of the very basic tenets
of our system is permitting the opposition
to speak. And not only are we obligated
to let all sides of a question be heard, but
we are also required to listen to all sides.
This is a fundamental difference between
free democracy and totalitarian commun-ism—
Stalin suggests a trip for everyone
who disagrees with him alsothis is why
democracy is worth life and labor.
This much-mentioned word "democracy"
does not imply only the privilege of expres-sing
your own opinion; it means also the
toleration of, and respect for, and interest
in other people's opinions. In order that your
freedom of speech continue, Henry Wallace's
freedom must continue also.
Of course, I feel confident that Truman
is not suggesting that we do away with
the loyal opposition, but on the other
hand, the President's statement is silly
in the least and shows, I think, an, ignor-ance
or lack of appreciation of the great
implications of one of our essentials.
If we are going to throw out the dissenters,
then we are operating precisely like the Com-munists,
and our uniqueness, our excuse for
existence would then be gone.
C. A. Appelquist
oubt b5.1aith
"Doubt sees the obstacle,
Faith sees the way!
Doubt sees the darkest night,
Faith sees the day!
Doubt dreads to take the step,
Faith soars on high!
Doubt questions, 'Who believes?'
Faith answers 'IL"
—New Sunrise Meditations
"This is the day which the Lord hath made;
we will rejoice and be glad in it."
Many people live in the "Good old days",
many live in the future, and some live today.
This day with its responsibilities and its pri-vileges
is the day which the Lord has made
for our use. This day of material abundance
can be a day of rejoicing if we will use our
gifts as God directs. This day can be a day
of gladness if we live this day according to
God's plan.
To make the most of this day we cannot
take time to meditate on the good we did
yestefday. This day will not be improved be-cause
we are satisfied with former achieve-ments.
If we failed yesterday we cannot
afford to allow the mistakes of the past to
stand in the way of our progress today. God
gives us this day for another opportunity.
Let us forget our yesterday's and let us carry
only their lessons into this day.
The visions of the future may attract us,
but we cannot spare the time to dream away
this joyous day. Our futures depend upon our
wise use of this very hour. The best way to
get ready for tomorrow is to fill each minute
of this day with God-directed activity and
to be glad for the opportunities of service.
Our best use of today depends upon our
attitude toward the day. We can ruin today
by spending our time and our strength in
grumbling and fault-finding, or we can make
this a glad day by cultivating the habit of
seeing the good about us. As children of the
Heavenly King every reason to be glad that
we can work in humility and in Christian
love among those who look to us for under-standing
and help today; remember—tomor-row
may be to late.
Effie Nelson
Campus Conduct
(Ed. Note: This is the last in a series of three
articles published at the request of the Religious
Being the week of mid-quarter examinat-ions,
it would do us well to remember the
words of admonition received in the chapel
as to our honesty to taking tests. It isn't
that as a Religious Council we desire to be sup-ercritical,
but from our responsibility to pro-mote
and maintain Christian standards on
the campus and from the awareness that
dishonesty has been practiced in examinations
this year, we feel that bringing such a matter
to the open attention of every student creates
alertness unto honesty.
At Bethel there is, no doubt, on the
whole greater honesty in examinations
than will be found on most other cam-puses;
yet we should not be inattentive
to the cheating which has taken place. I
Cor. 5:6-8 reads, "Know ye not that a
little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that
ye might be a new lump, as ye are un-leavened.
For even Christ our passover
is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep
the feast with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth."
To the servant who was given two talents
and who gained two other talents, the Lord
said, "thou has been faithful over a few things,
I will make thee ruler over many things". We
can paraphrase that to ask the question: how
can we expect the Lord to intrust us with
mighty things if he can't find us faithful in
our menial every day living?
THE CLARION Page II .
A recent article in the magazine
"Christian Opinion" sets forth
several interesting ideas on the
objectives of Christian education
on the college level in the post-war
world. The author, John Orr, Ph.D.,
of Westminster College, Pennsyl-vania,
first defines the concept of
the Christian college.
The generally accepted meaning
of the term is threefold. First of
all, the Christian college is under-stood
to be under Christian con-trol.
This usually means a church
or church affiliated organization.
The next point is that the school
sets forth its Christian aims in its
charter. Last of all the conduct of
the school from an educational as
sell as from a purely social angle
is Christian.
Dr. Orr then goes on to give
twelve points of his own which he
considers the basic characteris-tics
of all truly Christian colleges.
1. The ultimate control of the
school must be by an individual,
group, or church which is definitely
2. There must be a frank and
open statement of the Christian
aims of the school.
3. All of the members of the
administration, and this includes
the president, the dean s, t h e
boards, and the various office
staffs, should be genuine, loyal
4. The faculty should be made up
entirely of loyal, active Christian
workers. (This is one big point on
which many Christian colleges fall
5. In all business matters, the
college should be scrupulously hon-est
and as benevolent as its finan-ces
will allow.
6. The textbooks should be as
sound as possible and in harmony
with Christian philosophy.
7. Regular courses in Bible study
should be required of all students.
This should be included in the re-gular
curriculum and not relegated
to the elective or extra-curricular
8. There should be regular week-day
chapel services in which the
Word of God is preached.
9. The student body should be
predominantly C h r i s ti a n. This
wields a tremendous influence and
makes the college a much more ef-fective
10. The character and effective-ness
of the various student Christ-ian
organizations should be kept at
as high a level as possible.
11. Student social activities should
be so arranged, as to foster the
spirit and aims of the school. Much
harm can be done by careless con-sideration
of this point.
12. The type of community and
environment in which the school
is located has much to do with its
Bethel Bookstore
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Meet Around the Coffee Cup
Morning, afternoon and evening
Unless veterans attending col-leges
and universities under the
G-I Bill notify Veterans Adminis-tration
within 30 days before the
end of a term or semester that
they do not want to take leave,
VA automatically will place them
on 15 days' leave.
VA explained that veterans in
these schools are placed on sub-sistence
rolls from the date of en-rollment
until 15 days after the
close of the term or semester. This
automatic 15-day leave policy
makes it possible for veterans
studying under the accelerated pro-gram
to receive unbroken subsis-tence
payments between terms or
A veteran placed on 15 days'
leave will receive subsistence al-lowances
for that period. His per-iod
of training at goverment ex-pense
will be reduced by 15 days.
Veterans who do not 'want their
entitlement so reduced should no-tify
VA to that effect. VA forms
to be used by veterans to signify
that they do not want the leave
are available at all schools.
G-I Study Abroad
Shows Increase
The number of World War III
veterans studying abroad under the
G-I Bill has increased almost 350
percent during the past year, Vet-trans
Administration said.
At the beginning of the current
year, 6,055 ex-servicemen and wo-men
were studying in 422 schools
and colleges in 44 countries.
Almost half, or 2,741, of the
present veteran-students are en-rolled
in educational institutions in
the Philippine Islands. VA said the
large enrollment there comprises
mostly Filipinos who served in the
U. S. armed forces during the war.
The next largest student group
is in Canada where 883 veterans
are enrolled. France ranks third
with 635, followed by Mexico with
461, Switzerland with 427, and
Great Britain with 356.
France recorded the largest in-crease
during the year, with en-rollments
jumping from 3 to 635.
Other countries recording major
in creases are Italy, from 2 to 116;
Switzerland, from 32 to 427; Swed-en,
from 3 to 69; Great Britian,
from 52 to 356; Mexico, from 63
to 461; Canada, from 330 to 883,
and the Philippines, from 705 to
Another 186 veterans living in
foreign countries are taking cor-respondence
courses under the G-I
Bill from schools in the United
Veterans are eligible for over-seas
study under the G-I Bill on the
same basis as in the United States.
Those going abroad for study must
arrange for their own passports,
visas and transportation, VA said.
All arrangements for such study
are made with the Department of
State which administers the fore-ign
training benefits of the G-I
Four Teams Play
In Softball League
This week intra-mural sports
shifts it's scene of activity from
the basketball court to the soft-ball
diamond. More than forty men
have signed up for the sport, and
others are expected to join in as
the games progress.
On a blind draw four teams have
been formed to participate in a
six game schedule, each team
meeting the other three teams
twice. The games are scheduled
for 4:15 p.m. on Tuesday and
Thursday afternoons. The follow-ing
is a list of the teams and their
TEAM No. 1
Johnson, Ev Glader, E.
Oberg, G. Forsman, R.
Stenback, V. Lindstrom, C.
Tillman, G. • MacKinnon, R.
Eklof. Ed
Scholten, M.
Hoogasian, B.
TEAM No. 2
Welch, P. Bennett, R. °
Olson, Stan
McLain, P.
Olson, Vern, Johnson, Bud
Baltz, D. Ahlstrom, A.
Wallin, V. Gillquist, R.
Goodrich, D. Gustafson, C.
Honeywell, L. Lindh, A.
Dye, D. Forsline, G.
Sheldon, D. Johnson, G. S.
Johnson, R. Osterberg, D.
Coleman, T. Peterson, S.
Forsline, W. Nepstad, D.
Anderson, Cam. Travaille, A.
Reasoner, R. Schwartz, R.
Peterson, W. Skoog, R.
Eklof, Bud
Calvary Baptist
Top "B" Team 60-52
In a post-season basketball game
the Calvary Baptist Church of St.
Paul trounced a team made up of
former "B" squad players 60 to 52.
Earlier in the season the Calvary
hoopsters topped the "B" squad,
and in this game staged a deter-mined
second half rally to make it
two straight.
Capitalizing on a fast break the
"B" squad ran up a first quarter
lead of 24 to 7 before the Calvary
team could set up a good defense.
Finding the range in the second
period the Calvary squad trimed
ten points off that lead to trail
by a 34 to 27 count.
In the second half the church
team had little trouble in over-taking
the "B" team and going on
to win by an eight point margin.
Gustafson, Calvary's leading scorer
all season, poured in 26 points to
lead both teams in scoring. Ohs-berg
and Taylor scored 13 and 12
points respectively for Calvary.
The big gun for the "B" squad
was Waage with a 24 point total.
Girls Organize
For Softball
No to be outdone by the men,
the Bethel girls have sent out a
call to all girls interested in play-ing
the rugged game of softball.
At press time there were enough
girls signed up to form three
teams, and efforts were to be
made to get a fourth team ready
before play starts next week.
Games will be played on either
Monday or Wednesday afternoons.
Come on gals, let's play ball! ! !
Small Squad Reports
For Baseball
With the coming of balmy
Spring breezes and warm sunshine
(sometimes) , the Bethel Indians
thoughts have turned to baseball.
Up to this week the squad has
confined its workouts to light ex-ercising
to loosen up, but with the
first league game coming up April
24 the squad will turn to some
hard and intensive drills to whip
into shape.
This year Eoach Edwards has
little to work with in the way of
numbers, but despite this handi-cap
the team's prospects are fair.
Pitching, of course, is going to be
the biggest problem the team will
have to face. Bob Sandin, the
team leading hurler last season,
is not eligible for further league
play although he is still in school.
Another last year's pitcher, Bill
Starr, is at Wheaton College this
year. Don Le Master is the only
veteran hurler on the team, but
Coach Edwards will be counting
on a lot of help from two new-comers
who have looked good in
practice. They are Hagman and
Ljung. Rumors have it that Kenny
Greenman may be called away
from first sack to bolster the
pitching staff.
Taking a look at the rest of the
team, here is what we have. At
catch there is Al" Olsson back from
last year's squad and Woody Lar-sen
from Minnehaha Academy. At
first we have Greenman and Gint-her.
At second base Sims, at short-stop,
Ev Johnson, and at third
base the job is wide open. Other
infielders include, Bob Hamlet,
Dick Upton, P. Peterson, Ander-son,
and Hagman, who transferred
here from North Park College of
Chicago and likes to play the in-field
when not pitching. In the
outfield there is Palmquist, Sand-berg,
and Harlis Johnson from
last year's team along with Frank
Doten and perhaps Upton.
Last year the Indians placed
third in conference play and
though they are weak in several
departments this year, they hope
to do better.
Tennis Team Has
Fine Prospects
With the return of Jim Rhen-berg
and the Berg brothers from
last season's squad the 1948 Beth-el
tennis team is looking forward
to a successful year. In addition
to these veterans nine new hope-fuls
have signed up for the squad.
The complete roster follows: Roger
Berg, Gordon Berg, Milton Berg,
Rhenberg, Oberg, Frykenberg, Ost-e
r b e r g, MacKinnon, Porcella,
Wright, Adam, Gilquist, and Eddy.
Arrangements have been made
with the University Farm School
to use their courts for practice.
The team has been working hard
this week in preparation for an
elimination tournament conducted
between team members to deter-mine
the final squad to represent
the school in the opening match.
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Spring is here! Ball teams are Offered Students Theme Is Set
being organized. Even the girls
think they will be able to keep
from tripping over their long
skirts long enough to play ball.
But, now is the time for spring
cleaning also. It gets pretty mono-tonous
reading the same cluttered
papers on the bulletin board. Most
students have memorized every-thing
on there now.
The camera contest sounds
interesting. They'll be hearing
from me, especially if those
judges don't show fairness
and pick deserving winners.
With By Skalman as a judge,
Marge Ostrom is a cinch win-ner.
It's squirt gun season. Our dig-nified
college students are buying
up all the squirt guns so the grade
school kids don't get a chance to
play cop and robber. The semin-ary
dorm was almost flooded one
Leona (Josephine) Larm is not
officially a boy chaser but—on
April 1, witnesses say she chased
one of the fellows down the semin-ary
hall and out the door. And
right after he had handed her a
note expressing some kind of sen-timents.
Phil McLain is complaining
of hearing strains of Mendel-son's
wedding march every
time he picks up a book to
study. You're not the only one
Phil. Guess there are others
in the same boat.
A bunch of the girls had a gab
fest awhile ago as a farewell for
Mae Fisher. Mae has left for Wor-cester,
Mass. where she is to con-tinue
in her preparation for her
M.R.S. degree.
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before they have to throw them
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Laying aside their theological
dignity, the Seminaary young
ladies became, just for last Sat-urday
night, howling schoolgirls
again. It was the occasion of the
Seminary girl's party, and the
guests arrived at the Seminary
Lecture Hall dressed as sweet
little girls and boys from grade
school. But they weren't sweet for
very long and took to squabbling,
fighting and pulling pig-tales as
the program of childish games pro-ceeded.
Outstanding in the fun
were Ruthy Henk, with her one-armed
colored dolly, and rough-neck
naughty boy Joyce Johnson.
The juvenile theme was carried
through the entire evening, in
charge of which were Ruth Henk
and Eloise Jensen. The decorat-ions
included a paper clown
balancing a balloon; the games
were adopted from the nursery;
refreshments consisted of pink
lemonoade and animal cookies.
Evening devotions to conclude
the program were led by Dorothy
Campus Opinion
What is your opinion? Are poli-tics
and economics given the place
in Bethel's curricular and extra-curricular
program that you desire?
John Balian: I believe that sev-eral
lectures or discussions by
qualified individuals, ie. leading
candidates for office, H. Stassen,
Professors from the University, of
political and economic aspects of
our national life would measurably
add to the student body's under-standing
of the times in which we
Eunice Johnson: The average
Bethel student does not know very
much about the political and econ-omic
world in which he lives. He
should know because he, as a
Christian, plays a vital part in de-termining
our future democracy.
The visual education program is
helping to keep the student posted:
many other methods to acquaint
the student could be used also.
REMEMBER MAY 7th!
Students will be given the op-portunity
to study in Europe this
summer in an estimated forty-six
colleges from Perugia in the back
of Italy to Oslo in the fiords of
Norway, who are offering special
courses for foreigners. If you act
quickly and keep in mind your
language background you still
have time to enroll.
Most schools are open to all
students of all college age. The
length varies from three weeks to
three months. In most cases you
will find the topic is the culture
of the country in which the course
is given. The Institute of Internat-ional
Education, 2 West 45 Street,
New York 19, can give you com-plete
Tuition costs vary from $10
to $80, room and board from
$15 to $35 a week. The present
minimum' cost of round-trip
transportation is $300. In ad_
dition you must buy pass-ports,
visas and allow for per-sonal
and travel expenses
abroad. The Institute of In-ternational
Education advises
students to allow a minimum
of about $750 to cover their
entire costs for the summer.
Transportation is still an indefi-nite
factor. Last summer, two ships
were set aside by the Maritime
Commission at the request of the
Department of State for the trans-portation
of students and academ-ic
personnel to and from Europe.
It is hoped even better arrange-ments
will be made this year.
All students interested in seeing
the list of schools available may
stop in at the Clarion office to
do so.
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The theme for the week will be
"That I May Know Him"—Phil.
3:10. Carl Lundquist will speak
each morning at chapel and each
evening at a vesper service begin-ning
at 6:45 p.m. April 26 to 30,
There will be special music num-bers
by our own students at
chapel and outside talent will be
used for the evening meetings-
Adora Norlander, Nelson Brothers
Quartette, etc.
Dr. Starret Speaks
In Chapel Service
Last Wednesday the chapel
speaker was Dr. Norton Starret.
executive secretary of the Inter-
Varsity-Foreign Missions Fellow-ship.
At present his work consists
of directing the FMF and doing
deputation work among the stud-ents
of American colleges and uni-versities
who are interested in
Dr. Starret was born in Persia
of missionary parents. Typical of
missionary children, he lived in
many different parts of the world
and saw the need of missions as
a child.
He was educated at Columbia
Bible College and Wheaton Col-lege,
where he received his B. A.
degree in 1935. Graduate work was
completed at Dallas Theologicol
Seminary from which he received
his docorate in theology in 1938.
He stated, "I was called /nth
missionary work by a strong con-viction
in my heart", because of
that conviction he is now a mis-sionary.
He spent his first term,
1939 to 1945, as a missionary in
India. Dr. Starret did evangelistic
work in Cawnpur, United Provin-ces,
India, and plans to return
early next year.
Bethel Group Attend
Iowa Youth Rally
April 10th and 11th was a time
of inspiration for about 150 Iowa
young people. The occasion was
the annual Iowa State Spring Ral-ly
held in the Central Baptist
Church of Sioux City, Iowa.
Fourteen Bethel students made
the pilgrimage in the school bus.
Miss Axeen accompanied t h e
Rev. Maurice Wessman of Cen-tral
Baptist Church Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, was the main speak-er
of the Rally. He spoke on the
general theme "Stand Fast", tak-ing
one of the three phrases, name-ly
Challenge, Resolution and Testi-mony
in each of the thrre services.
Special music was provided by
the Heralders Quartet of St. Paul
of which group Chuck Starr is a
member. The other three members
are Gary Zimmerman. Dan Gus-tafson,
Chat Starr.
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text: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton takes some time out of practice to sign autographs for fans [AP]New McLaren driver Sergio Perez set the fastest lap on the second day of Formula One testing at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya on Wednesday.The Mexican, who has moved from Sauber to replace 2008 champion Lewis Hamilton at the team, completed 97 laps - early one-and-a-half times the Spanish Grand Prix race distance - with a best time of one minute 21.848 seconds on the soft tyres. Perez did a series of shorter runs in the morning and then longer ones in the afternoon focusing on familiarising the driver with systems and procedures including the cockpit switches and radio messaging.Red Bull's triple world champion Sebastian Vettel had been the fastest before lunch, although testing times must be treated with caution since teams are working through different programmes, but was forced to end his session early. "We had some issues with reliability today and we couldn't do as many laps as we wanted" Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel "We had some issues with reliability today and we couldn't do as many laps as we wanted," said the German, who was still second fastest overall (1:22.197) and did 84 laps. "It was nothing disastrous, just small things that hampered us today."The team's race engineering coordinator Andy Damerum said the problems would be resolved by the start of Thursday's session with Australian Mark Webber."The stops we had today weren't too serious...we know where the issues are," he said.Kimi Raikkonen was third on the timesheets for Lotus (1:22.697) although the 2007 champion was sidelined for much of the morning and part of the afternoon by a gearbox problem.Hamilton, now with Mercedes, was fourth fastest in 1:22.726 after completing a whopping 121 laps - the most of any driver - with his best lap set on the hard tyres in the morning. "We had a good day and it was nice to get so many laps in," said the Briton. "We're making continual steps forward in terms of our understanding of the set-up and the tyres."The guys are working really hard both here and at the factory and it's encouraging to see the amount of work that's being put in. We're focusing on our own programme and just getting on with it."Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was fifth fastest.The second test of the pre-season ends on Friday. The first race is in Australia on March 17. SOURCE: Reuters Sport Formula One Australia


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NuSphere MySQL: Free Beer in a Tall Glass
Integrated web development in a box.Linux administrators can choose from numerous HTTP servers, database servers, programming languages, and administrative tools for creating web servers on Linux. Among the most prevalent, however, is the so- called LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) configuration. LAMP is great way to run a web site: It's fast, reliable, efficient, and flexible. It can also, however, be daunting to set up and manage for those not intimately familiar with Linux configurations. Just installing the pieces of the LAMP puzzle involves anything from a few RPMs (if you do it from binaries) to multiple source builds (if you prefer to roll your own). Configuration often consists of editing text-based files and restarting daemons -- not a problem if you're a Linux wiz, but intimidating if you are not. Perhaps most difficult is getting secure (SSL-based) web hosting to work, a task that can try the patience of anyone who is not a cryptography guru.
A number of companies have taken on the task of automating the task of building and managing Linux web servers, among them NuSphere Corporation with their "NuSphere MySQL" product. NuSphere claims the installation process works on Windows 95/98/NT4/2000, Solaris 2.6 and 2.7, and Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.0. It turns out that it also works on Caldera eDesktop 2.4, though with a few caveats as you will see later. To make a long story short, NuSphere is an extremely easy way to build a fairly comprehensive Apache server with all the bells and whistles.
I did several installations in various configurations on my Caldera system, which is close to Red Hat and is RPM-based. The only method that would not work for me was the one that seemed most straightforward: running the installation program locally. There were several dialog windows that simply showed blank white backgrounds, and the main sequence of installation just hung and had to be killed. This was probably due to a GTK or other widget library being either too new or too old, though it was hard to say which since no error messages were generated.
On the other hand, the remaining three installation methods worked quite well even though Caldera isn't officially supported by NuSphere. Source is source, so I won't belabor the tarball option further here. Installing from the generic RPMs worked correctly except that the startup and shutdown scripts weren't copied or linked into /usr/local/bin (a matter easily corrected with some judicious "ln -s" commands). The other problem with the generic RPMs was that they attempted to create files under the login name of "dmcmahon", presumably one of the company's engineers. RPM handles the non-existence of this login gracefully by defaulting to root, but it's something the folks at NuSphere should fix.
The most interesting approach is the remote install, and this is a real power tool for distant servers! You need to get the installation files onto the target machine (the remote), though it doesn't matter much how you do this. On the remote machine, with no X DISPLAY variable set, running the "setup" script from the installation directory brings a prompt to start a browser on the local server (the controller) and point it at port 4001 on the target. From within the browser window, CGI-like forms are used to control the installation and testing process. This worked flawlessly for me, and within minutes the system was ready for use. After a successful installation, the main NuSphere screen is visible if a browser connects to the local machine, and menu items offer links to the other functions depending on what has been installed and what has not.
All of the major applications on the NuSphere media are Open Source software, so what this company brings to the table isn't so much code as it is integration. In some areas, I found this to be quite beneficial while in other areas I remain skeptical. For example, the company's literature says, "...rather than scattering installed components across your disks in multiple directories, the NuSphere MySQL installation puts everything under one common root directory." They certainly do what they say (it defaults to /usr/local/nusphere), but I question the value of this when most standard installations would create only a few new directories, and those beneath /usr/local. Does it really matter that /usr/local/apache is replaced by /usr/local/nusphere/apache? In fact, as integral as Perl is to the operation of many system utilities, I'm not certain that I want it to live in /usr/local/nusphere/perl. This is just an opinion, of course.
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Short Biography
1945 Born in Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Tehran and Paris
New York University – Film School – NY, USA
University of the Seven Seas - Orange, California – USA
(Foreign Student Scholarship - The World University Tour)
Arizona State University – Tempe, Arizona, USA (Bachelor of Arts – Applied Arts of the Theater)
Primary and Secondary Education in England
Permanent Artistic Director
13 Vanak Street Gallery – Tehran, Iran
XVA Gallery – Dubai
Resident Designer
Iran-America Society Cultural Center – Tehran, Iran
N.I.R.T. Theater Workshop – Tehran, Iran
City Theater – Tehran, Iran International Festival of Arts – Shiraz, Iran
Artistic Director
Zand Gallery – Tehran, Iran
Hayden - Zand Gallery – Washington DC – USA
Member of "La Maison de Artistes"
Silk Road Gallery – Tehran, Iran
13 Vanak Street Gallery – Tehran, Iran
Hervé Van der Straeten Gallery - Paris, France
Seyhoun Gallery – Tehran, Iran
XVA Gallery – Dubai, UAE
B21 Progressive Art Gallery – Dubai, UAE
Iran-America Society Cultural Center – Tehran, Iran
Litho Gallery –Tehran, Iran
Zand Gallery – Tehran, Iran
Farideh Cadot Gallery - Paris, France
Seyhoun Gallery – Tehran, Iran
13 Vanak Street Gallery – Tehran, Iran
Omega Gallery - Athens, Greece
Sheikh Gallery – Tehran, Iran
Evènement du Jeudi – Paris, France
Salon d'Automne de Paris – Paris, France
Iran Heritage Foundation Show – London, England
"Iranian Contemporary Art" – Barbican Art Gallery,
London, England
"Regards Persans"- Espace Electra – Paris, France
"Iran Under the Skin" - Case Asia Barcelona, Spain
"Gods becoming men" - Frissiras Athens, Greece Olympic Games
"The Contemporary Persian Scene: The American and European Experience", Leila Taghinia - Milani Heller Gallery – NYC
Contemporary Art Museum – Tehran, Iran
Christie's Auction and Preview Exhibition – London, Dubai
"Welcome"- Kashia Hildebrand Gallery, NYC
"Photography Collection" - Centre Georges Pompidou
Art Paris – Abu Dhabi, UAE
"Routes" – Waterhouse & Dodd, London
Basel International Art Fair - Basel, Switzerland
Hayden - Zand Gallery – Washington DC, USA
Zand Gallery – Tehran, Iran
Contemporary Art Museum – Tehran, Iran
Contemporary Practices Journal
Artist Profile – March 2008
Canvas Magazine
Artist Profile – September 2007
Edward Lucie-Smith
"Erotica", The Fine Art of Sex; Hydra Publishing 2002
Edward Lucie-Smith
"Art Tomorrow", Pierre Térrail Editions – Paris 2002
Art Review Magazine
February 2002
Paris Musée Editions, France
Editions: London, England
"Regards Persans"
The Barbican
"Iranian Contemporary Art"; Booth-Clibborn Publications
La Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
Paris, France
Michket Krifa Collection
Paris, France
Goulandris Collection
Athens, Greece
Contemporary Art Museum
Tehran – Iran
Lloyd Bank
Geneva, Switzerland
Nemazee Collection
New York, USA
Rose Issa Collection
London, England
Harmonia Mundi Collection
Arles, France
Centre Georges Pompidou Collection
Paris, France
Farhad and Shirin Moshiri Collection
Tehran, Iran
Cy Twombly Foundation Collection
Overview and HistoryTehran is the capital of Iran and the largest city in the Middle East, with a population of fifteen million people living under the peaks of the Alborz mountain range.Although archaeological evidence places human activity around Tehran back into the years 6000BC, the city was not mentioned in any writings until much later, in the thirteenth century. It's a relatively new city by Iranian standards.But Tehran was a well-known village in the ninth century. It grew rapidly when its neighboring city, Rhages, was destroyed by Mongolian raiders. Many people fled to Tehran.In the seventeenth century Tehran became home to the rulers of the Safavid Dynasty. This is the period when the wall around the city was first constructed. Tehran became the capital of Iran in 1795 and amazingly fast growth followed over the next two hundred years.The recent history of Tehran saw construction of apartment complexes and wide avenues in place of the old Persian gardens, to the detriment of the city's cultural history.The city at present is laid out in two general parts. Northern Tehran is more cosmopolitan and expensive, southern Tehran is cheaper and gets the name "downtown."Getting ThereMehrabad airport is the original one which is currently in the process of being replaced by Imam Khomeini International Airport. The new one is farther away from the city but it now receives all the international traffic, so allow an extra hour to get there or back.TransportationTehran driving can be a wild free-for-all like some South American cities, so get ready for shared taxis, confusing bus routes and a brand new shiny metro system to make it all better. To be fair, there is a great highway system here.The metro has four lines, tickets cost 2000IR, and they have segregated cars. The women-only carriages are the last two at the end, FYI.Taxis come in two flavors, shared and private. Private taxis are more expensive but easier to manage for the visiting traveler. Tehran has a mean rush hour starting at seven AM and lasting until 8PM in its evening version. Solution? Motorcycle taxis! They cut through the traffic and any spare nerves you might have left.People and CultureMore than sixty percent of Tehranis were born outside of the city, making it as ethnically and linguistically diverse as the country itself. Tehran is the most secular and liberal city in Iran and as such it attracts students from all over the country.Things to do, RecommendationsTake the metro to the Tehran Bazaar at the stop "Panzda Gordad". There you can find anything and everything -- shoes, clothes, food, gold, machines and more. Just for the sight of it alone you should take a trip there.If you like being outside, go to Darband and drink tea in a traditional setting. Tehranis love a good picnic and there are plenty of parks to enjoy. Try Mellat park on a friday (fridays are public holidays), or maybe Park Daneshjou, Saaii or Jamshidieh.Remember to go upstairs and have a look around, always always always! The Azadi Tower should fit the bill; it was constructed to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the Persian Empire.Tehran is also full of museums such as:the Contemporary Art Museumthe Abghine Musuem (glass works)the 19th century Golestan Royal Palace museumthe museum of carpets (!!!)Reza Abbasi Museum of extraordinary miniaturesand most stunning of all,the Crown Jewels Museum which holds the largest pink diamond in the world and many other jaw-dropping jewels.Text by Steve Smith.


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Free Beer & Hot Wings: Robot Band Plays Motorhead's 'Ace Of Spaces' [Video]
We are getting to a point where there's no need for true live music anymore!
We have seen videos of dead musicians performing in hologram form. Most recently, Michael Jackson "performed" at the Billboard Music Awards, despite being dead for five years.
And, now, why even have a band or musicians at all?
This is Compressorhead, a band comprised of just robots. Yep, robots. And these guys can rock!
Check out its cover of Motorhead's "Ace of Spades." Rock on, robots. Rock on.
Source: Free Beer & Hot Wings