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In a late bid for 2011's award for Most Brazen Act of Chutzpah, a Denver cop who was kicked off the force for doing 143 mph in a 55 zone while intoxicated is appealing his dismissal on grounds that the penalty was too harsh.
Derrick Curtis Saunders was arrested on June 17, 2010, for his high-speed run caught by a Colorado State trooper in Arapahoe County. As if doing eighty-eight over the limit (at night, in a friend's car, with a passenger) wasn't bad enough, he blew a 0.089 blood-alcohol level; Colorado's legal limit is 0.08.
Saunders plead guilty to reckless and impaired driving charges, served a five-day jail sentence, paid a fine, did a hundred hours of community service, and was fired by Manager of Safety Alex Martinez on December 7. He is now contesting that termination.
The appeal has been filed by the Denver Police Protective Association, and claims that the pink slip is, in part, "disproportionate to the offenses alleged and/or is excessive so as to be punitive rather than corrective in nature."
Keep in mind that in 2009, Saunders was also charged with, tried and acquitted of waving his gun at the counter crew at a McDonald's after he allegedly grew impatient waiting for his order.
So, you know, there's that too.
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Unemployment rates dropped in 43 out of the 50 U.S. states and in the District of Columbia in April from a year before, according to Labor Department data released on Friday.
A handful of states, including Illinois, Delaware, Indiana, Wisconsin, Mississippi and New Hampshire saw their jobless rates rise over the year. Illinois' rate fell in April to 9.3 percent from 9.5 percent in March but rose from 8.8 percent a year before.
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"April data reflects the unevenness of this recovery," said the director of the Illinois employment department, Jay Rowell, in a statement. "This uneven path forward likely will continue until consumer and business confidence can be sustained at the national level."
Even though Nevada registered the largest rate drop of all the states over the year, it still had the highest unemployment rate in the country at 9.6 percent in April. The state, which reaped economic fortune during the housing boom, saw its rate spike to 14 percent in September 2010, the highest on records going back to 1976, and then steadily drop.
After Nevada the next higher rates were Illinois, Mississippi and California. In California, where the economy is on the mend, the state unemployment rate continued its decline falling to 9 percent from 9.4 percent in March - a record low since December 2011.
North Dakota's unemployment rate, the lowest in country for half a decade, inched up to 3.3 percent. The state is in the grips of a commodities boom, with North Dakota's 28,600 mining and logging jobs in April 321 percent more than five years before.
Still, it was one of seven states where the jobless rate rose over the year. In April 2012, North Dakota's jobless rate was 3 percent, and in March it was 3.2 percent. The increase may be due to its swelling labor force, which also grew since April 2012.
Seasonal factors could also be in play, according to Michael Ziesch, a manager of labor market information for the state, who noted "April rates have historically always posted a decrease from prior month, this year was no exception."
"Current period rates are slightly higher than a year ago and reflect longer winter type weather in the period that delayed many outside projects," he added.
From March, unemployment rates fell in 40 states and Washington, D.C., and were unchanged in seven. Rates rose in two other states besides North Dakota: Louisiana and Tennessee.
On Friday, President Barack Obama visited Maryland in a campaign-style stop on his "Middle Class Jobs & Opportunity Tour," and was set to appear at a local manufacturer to promote job creation and education.
Situated close to the nation's capital, Maryland is home to federal contractors and employees, and also has a burgeoning technology corridor. Some had warned that its employment would shrink once the across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration took effect on March 1.
In April, its unemployment rate fell to 6.5 percent from 6.8 percent a year earlier, the lowest in more than four years, according to Governor Martin O'Malley. Over the last 12 months, 34,600 jobs have been added to payrolls in the state, as well.
Neighboring Virginia, which has also prospered from a strong federal workforce, had an unemployment rate of 5.2 percent, also the lowest in more than four years.
At the national level, the U.S. unemployment rate fell to the lowest since December 2008 in April, 7.5 percent, while nonfarm payrolls rose, according to a report released earlier this month.
Over the year, payrolls grew in 47 states and the District of Columbia. Since March, employment increased in 30 states, decreased in 18 and the District of Columbia, and was the same in two.
Texas gained the most jobs over the month, 33,100, followed by New York, 25,300 and Florida, 17,000. Wisconsin lost the most jobs from March at 24,100 followed by Minnesota at 11,400.
At one point during the recession, Michigan's employment conditions were the worst in the nation with the struggling automobile companies that have long anchored its economy laying off hundreds of thousands of people. In April, its unemployment fell to 8.4 percent from 8.5 percent in March and 9.1 percent the year before.
"Michigan labor market indicators were relatively unchanged in April," said Michael Williams, acting director of the Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives, in a statement. "However, the number of unemployed in Michigan has declined for three consecutive months."
(Additional reporting by Karen Pierog in Chicago, editing by Tiziana Barghini and Chizu Nomiyama)


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House Republicans plan to vote next week on a three-month extension of U.S. borrowing authority in an effort to force the Democratic-led Senate to adopt a budget plan.
"We are going to pursue strategies that will obligate the Senate to finally join the House in confronting the government's spending problem," Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said in a statement Friday at the end of the party's private policy retreat at a resort near Williamsburg, Virginia. "The principle is simple: no budget, no pay."
Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia said in a statement that members of Congress won't be paid if the House or Senate doesn't pass a budget by the end of the proposed three-month debt-limit increase.
This is the first step to get on the right track, reduce our deficit and get focused on creating better living conditions
"This is the first step to get on the right track, reduce our deficit and get focused on creating better living conditions," Cantor said.
The Treasury Department has said the U.S. will exceed its US$16.4-trillion borrowing authority sometime from mid-February to early March. Republicans are seeking a legislative strategy to meet fiscal deadlines that Congress faces in the next 90 days.
Those deadlines include the need to raise the debt ceiling. Congress will also confront in March the US$110-billion in automatic spending cuts, half from defence, that were put off in the Jan. 1 tax deal. On March 27, a short-term measure that funds government agencies will also lapse, creating another potential fight.
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Both chambers of Congress should lay out a "framework" of future government spending, Representative Kevin McCarthy said today in an interview with Bloomberg Television's "Capitol Gains" program airing Jan. 20.
"You can't get out of this without passing a budget," McCarthy of California said.
Political divisions in Congress pose limits to the ability of Republicans to achieve their long-term goals of deep cuts in spending, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin told reporters at the retreat Thursday.
Attaching a requirement that the Senate pass a budget to a short-term debt-limit extension would require Senate Democrats to spell out their spending plans.
Ryan said Republicans want "a two-way discussion between Democrats and Republicans and out of that hopefully some progress being made on getting this deficit and debt under control."
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The last time the Democratic-led Senate adopted a budget was in April 2009. The Senate and House are supposed to pass budget resolutions early each year to set a spending framework, though there is no enforcement mechanism. Without a budget resolution, appropriations bills allocate money for the federal government.
Leaders said the tactic of short-term debt-limit increases was used in the 1980s during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as a prelude to broader agreements on spending cuts.
"No one is talking about default, no one wants to default," South Carolina Republican Mick Mulvaney, who voted against the 2011 debt-ceiling deal, said in an interview Friday with Bloomberg Television. There is a "lot of support growing" among the rank and file for a short-term debt limit, he said.
The comments by Mulvaney and Ryan reflected the new political realities following President Barack Obama's re-election that are spurring House Republicans to reassess their goals.
'Good Deal'
"If you get a little bit of reform for a little bit of extension" of borrowing authority, that "sounds like a pretty good deal," Mulvaney told reporters. "If you can figure out a way to get little types of reform, little fixes for small extensions, I don't find that objectionable."
Obama has said he won't negotiate the terms of a debt-limit legislation the way he did in 2011, and he is demanding more tax revenue to accompany further spending cuts. House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, has said that any increase in the debt ceiling would have to be accompanied by commensurate spending cuts.
Louisiana Republican John Fleming said passing one or a series of short-term extensions may prove effective at persuading Obama to discuss spending cuts because "he can't get onto other agendas that he sees as important like immigration and gun violence while we are still wrangling every three months on debt ceilings."
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Although the debt limit has been periodically raised since its creation in 1917 — with Congress increasing or revising it 79 times, including 49 times under Republican presidents, since 1960 — Republicans are girding for a fight with Obama and Senate Democrats over tying an increase to spending reductions.
The Treasury Department has said that it expects to run out of emergency measures to prevent a breach of the current debt limit between mid-February and early March.
Investors in U.S. Treasury bonds, who most directly bear the risk of a government default, haven't shown alarm.
The last time Congress fought over raising the ceiling, Obama signed an increase on Aug. 2, 2011, the day the Treasury Department warned that U.S. borrowing authority would expire. Standard & Poor's cut the nation's credit rating. Still, yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes declined to 2.56% on Aug. 5 and have continued to drop. The yield fell four basis points, or 0.04 percentage point, to 1.84% at 12:43 p.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader pricing.
"The worst thing for the economy is for this Congress and this administration to do nothing to get our debt and deficits under control," Ryan said Thursday. "We think the worst thing for the economy is to move past these events that are occurring with no progress made in the debt and deficit."


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carlon Bethel College St. Paul. Minnesota January 24. 1975 Malachi 4:2
I was hungry, but you would not feed me, thirsty but you would not give me drink; I was
a stranger but you would not welcome me in your homes; naked but you would not clothe me;
I was sick and in prison, but you would not take care' of me ... I tell you, indeed, whenever
you refused to help one of these least important ones, you refuse'd to help me.
MaHhew 25: 41-45, TEV
We need to grow in
more thaln numbers
To further explain the theme which was begun last week
in this column, we wish to reprint (the parenthetical phrases
are ours) a part of the "Response to Lausanne" a document
that was drafted last summer at the Lausanne convention
by "a group of people ranging from Plymouth Brethern to
an Archbishop." (POST A'MERICAN, November 1974) John
Stott presented the article from the platform and commended
it to the Congress to read and sign.
We have failed to incarnate the Gospel and to come to
men as servants for Christ's sake.
Our testimony has often been marred by triumphalism
and arrogance, by lack of faith in God and by diminished
love for his people.
We have often been in bondage to a particular culture
(American, Baptist, etc.) and sought to spread it in the
name of Jesus.
We have not been aware of when -we have debased and
distorted the Gospel by acceptance of a .contrary (American)
value system.
We have been partisan in our condemnation of totalitarianism
and violence and have failed to condemn societal
and institutionalized sin, especially that of racism.
We have sometimes so identified ourselves with particular
political systems (American capitalism) that the Gospel
has been compromised and the prophetic voice muted.
We have frequently denied the rights and neglected the
cries of the underprivileged and those struggling for freedom
and justice.
We have often separated Jesus Christ the Saviour from
Jesus Christ the Lord.
We have sometimes distorted the biblical understanding of
man as a total being and have courted an unbiblical dualism.
We have insulated new Christians from life in the world
and given simplistic responses to complex problems.
We have sometimes manipulated our message, used
pressure techniques and been unduly preoccupied with statistics
(for "doubling in a decade, the current Baptist General
Conference theme).
e carlon Published weekly by the students of Bethel College
Judy Harrington editor
Pamela Schultz copy editor
Steven Harris news editor
Curtis Kregness production editor
Duane Turner photography editor
Peter Enchelmayer business manager
Letters to the editor should be
sent to the Clarion, P.O. 91.,
by the Monday preceding
Volume 50, No. 14
We have allowed eagerness for quantitative growth to
render us silent about the whole counsel of God. We have
been usurping God's Holy Spirit of love and power."
Is numbers the name of the game in evangelism and
church growth? And does "the end justify the means"
in trying to achieve the goal of adding millions to our
salvation and growth statistics? We need an extensive reevaluation
of evangelicalism for it to truly grow. We need
to re-evaluate our lifestyle of sell-satisfied materialism,. our
nationalistic brand of Christianity, and our hi~h-pressure witness
if God is to move in the American church again.
I_ ___m _a_ilb_a_g _l
To the editor,
A parting shot. What follows is not a new issue, but one
which has not yet been sufficiently discussed, to wit: The
practice of closing the LRC during chapel constitutes a fundamental
contradiction In Bethel's liberal arts philosophy. If,
as the catalogue states, "liberal arts learning at Bethel
College assumes that a student should learn to know himself,
to appreciate his intellectual and cultural heritage, to evaluate
and understand the world and society in which he lives,
to exercise critical judgment, to be intellectually alert, and
to work effectively with other people," if this is true, then
to deny students access to what is perhaps their most indispensable
tool for acquiring a liberal arts education is to
talk out of both sides of one's corporate mouth. If one
purpose of a liberal arts education is to enable students
to make intelligent choices, then an institution cannot abrogate
the freedom to make a specific choice between 10 :30
and 11 o'clock a.m.
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by Rhonda Dye
During the past decade or more, headlines in news-papers
throughout the world have read something like this:
"Millions Face Threat of Starvation"
"Too Late ' to Control Population Scientist Claims"
"World Losing Pollution Battle"
"Energy Shortage Threatens Human Survival"
Scientists have been warning us for years of the grave
dangers of the rapidly increasing world population. The pollution
problem has long been on record as a threat to the
well being of the world. The energy crisis causes us more
and more concern as fuel resources are continually being
drained. But, perhaps the most recent widely publicized
cr;.isis is the world food shortage.
Yet, in spite of the increasing number of reports of famine
and devastation" and the rise of food prices and shortages,
those of us living in "middle" America have felt
little or nothing of the scarcity. Our grocer's shelves are
still filled and the restaurant business appears to be fairly
"We have . over-emphasized
the pet evangelical taboos
(smoking, drinking, sexual
immorality, ' etc,) and given
little or no attention to those issues
that confront much of humanity."
In a recent article in ETERNITY magazine, Senator Mark
Hatfield points out that the U.S. contains five to six percent
of the world's population; (yet) it consumes more than 40
percent of the world's food and non-food resources. It is estimated
that each of us living in America consumes nearly
a ton of cereal grains ' each year. Approximately 150 pounds
is consumed in the form of breads, pastries, and breakfast
cereals. The remaining 1,850 pounds is individually consumed
in the form of meat and animal products (it takes seven
times as much grain to put a given amount of protein
on the table in the form of meat as it does to consume
such cereal grains directly). Compare this to the average
person living in a poor country. He takes in only 400 pounds
or less of grain. Figures such as these reveal the enormous
economic dislocation present in the world today.
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In the present state of world conditions what does this
mean? As Americans we have been greedy, self-centered and
careless. We have lived by the doctrine of "rugged individualism"
for so long that we have become callous to the
95 percent (or so) of people living outside the confines of
the United States. We have practiced gross economic exploitatiori
in the name of free enterprise, and we have
justified our actions by employing the "protestant work
As Christians, we are guilty of conforming to the present
cultural norms and values. We have become so wedded to
the status quo that it is difficult for us to 'determine a set
of Christian social ethics.
In the face of world condition's, what does the story of
the rich young ruler have to say to us as Christians
living in one of the richest nations in the world? We need
to think hard about our lifestyle. Often times when we
evangelicals talk about living a Christian lifestyle, we refer
to a limited, traditional list of "do's and don'ts." We have
over-emphasized the pet evangelical taboos (smoking, drinking,
sexual immorality, etc.) and given little or no attention
to those issues that confront much of humanity.
As members of Christ's kingdom, we cannot passively
stand by in the face of human misery without denying our
deepest convictions. We are called to bear witness of Christ's
love. Let us actively show our concern and sensitivity for
our fellow man by incorporating into our daily lives principles
that will reveal our relationship to Christ. Matthew
25 :31-40 clearly states the responsibility of disciples of the
compassionate and loving Christ to the needy world. To refuse
to actively involve ourselves in relieving human suffering
is to refuse Christ Himself.
Being stewards of Christ demands our willingness to share
!ill that we have and are. Sharing involves more than the
giving up of our "extra." It involves sacrifice. This may
call for a voluntary reduction of our standard of living, or
it could mean a reduction in the amount and types of food
we consume. Senator Mark Hatfielcl states it well when he
says, "Stewardship means molding our own lives to the shape
of Christ. He calls us to far more than simply charitable
giving. He calls us to love, and to give in a way that
changes the shape of our lives."
Please, brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus, join with me
and others in prayer that Christ will humble us in our
arrogance, selfishne~s and greed that we may be taught
to live our lives in such a way that it brings us into a
closer likeness of Christ Himself.
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by Mort, Leaf, Andy
As you all know, Bethel like many other small colleges
today, is suffering from a serious money problem. Trying
to cut overhead operation costs, increasing enrollment, and
increasing tuition are some attempts at alleviating this
fiscal debt. We felt, however, that it was our duty as
educated· students to offer a few suggestions for aiding in
this struggle:
1) Throw President Lundquist's FIAT into the Old Camp-us
2) Turn Bethel Drive into a toll road.
3) Sell New Campus and move everything back to Old.
4) Have a Sword Drill Marathon.
5) Auction off a date with Miss Starr.
6) , Pancake Breakfast
7) Cupcake Lunch
8) Back cake Dinner
9) Package and sell Lake Valentine water as a varnish
remover and a men's cologne.
10) Keep tuition at a minimal level, but charge fees
for special student services: '
a) Road repair fee - 10c - checks payable to Chuck
b) Chapel fee 50c and 25c for first timers
c) 25c fee for checking P.O.
d) Philosophy
e) Silverware rental fee
11) Jumbo Jet Wash (one might be enough!)
12) Or disregard the above suggestions and reduce the
enrollment to 5 students and cnarge $1,000,000 each.
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Unlike the much discussed lifestyle code, this issue is
not concerned with choices that might infringe on other's
freedom or that might conflict with Bethel's moral stance.
As long as chapel attenijance is not mandatory, the decision
to pl1rsue other legitimate academic concerns during chapel
time must remain simply that: a decision, one which is made
by each student, not by the institution.
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Robert Weaver, Bethel's new full-time business instructor.
Busin,ess is bo'oming
with neW ';'nstructo:r
by Sharon Erickson
Attention: Those interested in business! Bethel hopes to
offer a concentration in business by the 1975-76 school year.
This is the goal of ol}r new full-time business professor,
Robert Weaver. •
Weaver, a doctoral student at the University of Minnesota,
will begin teaching at the start of spring semester:
He hopes to develop the business program into a personneloriented
area of concentration by utilizing and expanding the
resources and part-time faculty we now have. He would also
like to see input from the psychology and sociology departments,
in order to broaden business students' understanding
Of the people and organizations they will work with.
The program will probably lead to a degree in business
administration, he' said.
The new professor is spending Interim preparing for the
classes he will teach (Industrial Relations Systems and Management
II) and completing research and consulting projects
at the University. He has been a research assistant
there and is currently taking a class toward his doctorate
in industrial r elations. He hopes to finish his doctoral courses
in June and obtain the degree in about two years.
Prior to coming to Minnesota, Weaver and his. wife lived
in California , where he r eceived his B.S. and M.B.A. and
farmed. He said he learned about the opening at Bethel
through Bethel faculty members in his church, Salem Baptist
in New Brighton. The Weavers have two daughters, Karen, 3,
and Kimberly, born November 19. They like this part of the
country, but "I miss the mountains," said Weaver. Sliding
in the snow and ice skating with his family are current
forms of relaxCl'tion, and he looks forward to camping, hunting
and fishing in nicer weather.
Weaver has had little contact with Bethel students and is
eager to start teaching. "The faculty members that I've
met are 'interested in not only the academic portion of Bethel,
but the spiritual portion as well. It is a unique
combination," he said. He hopes to use this combination to
train Christian businessmen . and women to function in the
"real world" on a sound spiritual as well as business basis.
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Spire editorship open
Applications will open February 1
for Spire editor .' Applicants may pick
up necessary red tape forms in the
Student Association office. They will later
be expected to appear before the Communications
Board with a detailed plan
of action for the '75-'76 yearbook.
Be a senaf'or
An opening for the position of senatorat-
large in the Student Association has
been caused by the resignation of Gary
Wright. Any person interested should
leave a note in P . O. 1136 or the Studept
Association Office. Action will be
taken at. the second Senate meeting of
second semester (probably February 10).
Crazy? edit Clari,on
The time has come again for the Communications
Board to select a new Clarion
editor - one for the '75-'76 school
year. Anyone crazy enough to want the
pleasure of 'such pain may pick up an
application blank in the Student Association
office. Applications open February
1 and close March 1. Applicants are
expected to submit to the Board a detailed
statement of philosophy, a tentative
budget and the names of prospective
staff members. For more inside
information, drop down to the Clarion
RAe aids athletic program
by Bruce Olsen
"Boy, we lost again!" complains a
disenchanted student. "When are they
ever going to get some decent athletes
at this school so we can win a few
"I don't know," says another. "They
give those dumb jocks anything they
want. Why, I even heard that they pay
their full tuition just to get them to
come to Bethel." .
For the :sethel student who has heard
this discussion before, or even taken
part in it, he must be told that he
is wrong. Our teams at Bethel are winning
games. Second, not all jocks are
dumb. And finally, athletes who attend
Bethel do not receive full scholarships,
or anything close tq that amount. This
article will deal with the last point -
athletic scholarships.
Bethel's scholarship program is funded
through the financial aid system. "We're
just another piece of the financial aid
pie," said Athletic Director Eugene Glader.
"The athlete receiving financial aid
must fill out all of the forms just like
any other student who is receiving aid.
The most that any athlete can receive
is $600, and he must have a definite
financial need to receive that much."
Many athletes at Bethel receive a token
$100 or $200. "These athletes put in
a lot of time," said Glader. "They should
receive something for their efforts. Especially
the football players who arrive
two weeks before school starts for practic~.
Those- two weeks could mean an
extra $200 from their summer job."
How does Bethel compete with other
schools that can offer the athlete a full
scholarship? "Obviously we can't match
their money. We must rely on the
school's reputation as a Christian college,"
said Glader. He also said that
the iack of athletic facilities and academic
courses could keep the top athlete
away from Bethel, but the switch
to a new campus was a definite plUS.
"The new campus helps our recruiting,"
said Glader. "The old campus had no
appeal. It - was hard to persuade an
athlete to come to a school with all
those plain looking buildings."
The Royal Athletic Club (RAC). is a
new plan created by the athletic department
to get more money into the
program. The plan -is trying to get alumni,
parents and friends of Bethel involved
in the athletic program. Membership
into the club costs $10 a year,
but RAC members can contribute more
than the minimum $10. Once a member
of the RAC, one is entitled to a season
pass to all home athletic events. "The
program hasn't yielded that much money,
but we're hoping that the interest
will pick up," said Glader. The money
received from the RAC goes back to
the financial aid department to be used
by the athletic department for athletic
equipment and to help athletes with financial
aid. .
T ravel Europe;
earn credits
by David Unger
How would you like to spend most
of the summer traveling around Europe
and earn college credit besides? It is
really not as impossible as it sounds.
Gordon College of Wenham, Massachusetts,
offers an excellent summer study
program in Europe. It is called European
Seminar. You would be traveling with
students from Christian colleges all across
the United States, such as Wheaton,
Trinity, Calvin, Taylor and Gordon.
I am a veteran of the Seminar. I
took one of its study tours during the
summer of 1973. So, in speaking from
experience, I can honestly say that the
Gordon College Seminar is a unique and
splendid opportunity to travel and study
in Europe at a moderate financial cost.
The field trip that I took was number
four as described in the brochure that
was distributed to P.O. boxes in Bethel.
This is the trip that goes through Western
Europe, Russia, and Sandinavia. We
covered approximately 3,000 miles travel ..
ing through the European countryside
in Volkswagon va,ns. The first part of
the trip - traveling through Holland,
Belgium, and France - was truly exciting,
but the place where the Seminar
teams stay in Switzerland is out of this
world. It is a mountain village called
Lauterbrunnen and this spot is described
by some experts as being one of the
ten most beautiful locations in Europe.
Lauterbrunnen is located at about 2,000
feet above sea level and is surrounded
by mountain peaks approaching 14,000
Our team continued travel through Germany,
Czechoslovakia and Poland. Poland
and Czechoslovakia are behind the
"iron curtain," but are much more western
in appearance than is the Soviet
Union itself, where we spent over two
weeks of our time. You would be sur-continued
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prised at how well the Communist countries
treat American student groups. For
example, while we were in Moscow the
Russian tour agency put us up in a
large, brand new, first class hotel adjacent
to Red Square and the Kremlin;
and we were fed three excellent meals
a day in the hotel dining room. If this
manner of treating foreigners is propaganda,
as some say it is, then give
me more of it. I would gladly go back
and accept more of this kind of propaganda.
The last leg of our trip was spent
touring through the Scan dina vi an countries
which in my opinion are the garden
spots of Europe.
Gordon College has four other field
my opinion
trips which could suit the traveling desires
of practically anyone. A trip like
this offers the opportunity of many different
and exciting k~nds of experiences.
If finances are holding you back there
are ways of getting around it. For instance,
I was able to finance this trip
by spending the money that I had available
for first semester of the -following
school year. I did not go to school
that semester, and instead I stayed home
and worked as I would have worked
in the summer. But the credits I earned
from Gordon enabled me to remain with
my class and I didn't lose a thing.
I can actually claim that I went to
Europe for nothing because I spent no
more money (and maybe less) than I
would have if I would not have gone
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E tlitor's note: Miss Lyn Ambacher
is a missionary to Hong Kong with
the Association of Baptists for World
Evangelism. Reprinted from the November-
December 1973 issue of THE
. by Lyn Ambacher
We Americans, Lord, we need our
shag rugs and our color TVs, our
extra cars, our air-conditioned comfort,
our carefully restored antiques,
our campers, and boats.
You know us, Lord. We take being
born again very literally. We're careful
about not being drunk with wine.
Some of us even watch the lengths
of our hair or skirts.
Lord, surely you weren't serious
about not laying up treasures on earth,
about setting affections on things above
not on things below. You don't
want us to take that literally?
Wha t could you have meant by-
"A cup of cold water given in my
name ... "
"Inasmuch as you have done it
unto one of the least of my brethren,
you've done it unto me ... "
Or that bit in ACts about "having
all things in common, distributing to
each as they had need?" (Lord, that's
what the Communists tried on the
mainland !)
Lord, you don't want us to take
those things literally, do you? We
Americans need nice homes to im·
press our neighbors so we can reach
them with the good news. Who would
listen to us if we sold our lovely
things and began to share with hungry
people? We're used to comfort,
Lord. And the Chinese don't expect
us to live like they do.
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all ho'spila'/-re/e'a!se'd
by Laura Alden
Five Bethel students were involved,in
an automobile accident in Minneapolis
on January 7. Connie Gibson and Judy
Broman suffered fractured pelvic bones
and Judy Whittaker sustained a fractured
pelvic bone, two , fractured ribs and a
bruised spleen. Karen Fischer and Denise
O!son escaped without serious injury.
The girls were enroute back to Bethel
after a morning of fieldwork for their
Inner City Education class at Clinton
Elementary School. Their vehicle was
hit broadside at the intersection of 36th
and Blaisdell. They were taken immediately
to Hennepin General Hospital.
The Bethel Community responded
quickly. "Students came right down to
the emergency room and I'm sure this
was comforting to the girls;" said Thomas
Johnson, associate professor of education.
"I know that there was considerable
prayer offered right from the
first, and I'm sure it is still continuing."
Said Judy Broman, "I couldn't believe
the concern people showed for us. I
don't think we would've received this
much support in any other school."
"I've received lots of cards, phone
calls and flowers," said Connie. "Everyone
has been really supportive. They
let us know that they've been praying
for us."
Judy Broman ~as released from the
hospital January 16 and anticipates returning
to Bethel for second semester.
Judy Whittaker went home January 18,
and Connie Gibson, who plans on completing
her interim course, was released
earlier this week.
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Royals seek wins
tomorrow, Friday
by Keith Kramer
The basketball team will try to get back on the winning
track in their two upcoming games against Concordia and
The Royals will take ott Con'cordia tomorrow at 7 :30
p.m. at Concordia. They will play Northwestern next Friday
at 4 :30 p.m. in the Bethel gym as part of. the Founder's
Week festivities.
All three teams ha ve gotten off to bad starts. Concordia
and Bethel met the same fate last weekend by losing
to Sioux Falls and Yankton respectively. Meanwhile, Northwestern
lost by ten points to Westmar.
Wrestling coach Dave Klostreich (far left) and
team members shout encouragement as a Bethel
gra,ppler nears a pinning combination.
The Royals' game plans ha ve been ruined by a lack
of scoring punch so far this season. A move to counteract
the deficiency by installing some quickness at the guard
positions has helped considerably. Tim Engebretson, Tim
Casey and Curt Oslin have looked impressive in the guard
and wing spots.
Tri1ple<lual wres't/ing ,alt Bethel;
Wes1tma'r to be toughest competition
by Dan Jaling
Tri-State Conference wrestling action
gets under way tomorrow as the Bethel
Royals take on Westmar, Northwestern,
and Concordia in a triple-dual at the
Bethel fieldhouse.
In the preview to the conference championship
showdown, the Royals can expect
their toughest competition from last
year's champ Westmar, along with stubborn
Northwestern. The match begins
at 1 p.m.
In action last week, the Royal grapplers
boosted their season: record to 2-6-1
by stopping Gustavus Adolphus 33-17. Gary
Peterson recorded a pin and Fred
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Witzgall and Jeff Zitzloff gained major
decisions in the victory.
At the Northland Invitational last Saturday,
the Royals placed fourth in a
field of nine teams, behind Concordia
Moorhead, St. Thomas, and host Northland.
Fred Witzgall was the high-point
gainer for Bethel, placing first in the
competition at 158. Rick Smith battled
his way to second place at 177, and
Jeff Zitzloff, Bill Helwig, and Gred Ogimachi
contributed third place finishes.
The results of last Monday's rescheduled
meet with Eau Claire were not
available at press time.
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Interim, it is said, is a time for members of the academic
community to experience new and refreshing courses. It is
a time for many to step out of their respective concentrations,
and relate with new students, new professors, and
new and interesting subject matter. With this spirit of adventure
as a guide, nine "gusto-grabbing" Bethelites have
put everything on the line, and are contestants in the First
Annual Interim Pinball Tournament.
The contestants represent different areas of the country,
and each has his own pinball philosophy. An examination
of these different philosophies will help in discovering just
what pinball is . all about in terms of its social, political,
economc and cultural relevance for the contemporary discussion.
Gordy Gibson, a sophomore from North St. Paul, believes
quite simply that pinball is only a game. "You put your
money in and you play the machine, it's as simple as that,"
stated Gordy recently. This philosophy is quite popular today
in all levels of society, but is in my opinion just another
manifestation of the anti-intellectualism that is eroding America.
Many people believe that pinball is in fact a harmful
element in the world today. Paul Geery, a senior from illinois,
is a proponent of this view. "Pinball is just another
example of American Dream rhetoric. Its whole message
smells of the Horatio Alger myth that anyone can succeed
(become President) in America, by pulling himself up by the
bootstraps. Pinball companies preach that anyone can win.
The simple fact is that in the long run, you can't win at
pinball; the machines are electronically rigged so that you
have to lose. In America the system is rigged so that
certain people, because they are disadvantaged, disabled, or
in disagreement with American ideals, cannot succeed; there
is a limit to how high they can go. It's all a bunch of nonsense."
Although interesting, this view of pinball seems altogether
too narrow.
Dave Christian is a person who feels that pinball is primarily
a retaliatory mechanism by which he can "get even"
for all the injustices of life. Dave's nickname, "Magnets,'11
comes from his "win at any cost" philosophy, which has led
him to use magnets and electronic devices to help him
at pinball. He is a classic example of today's "new morality"
in pinball, and is keenly interested in the psychological
and rehabilitational value of pinball.
. Finally, we come to my own personal philosophy. I am
of the "pinball is life" school, and I believe that pinball
realistically mirrors life. In a strictly physical sense it is
man versus machine, but it is really much more than that.
Pinball is man against the system. It is man's attempt
to beat the system, its technology and bureaucracy. It
symbolizes the idea that technology and man are in constant
struggle and technology is a force working against
In a very real sense, pinball is much more than this,
however. Ultimately, it symbolizes man versus the cosmos.
It answers questions concerning the ultimate meaning of
existence by tackling the free will-determinism conflict. Man
does in fact control his destiny by use of the metaphysical
flippers of life By improper use of these tools, however,
man finds himself in the nothingness of existential estrangement.
This is what pinball is all about.
Hopefully, the tournament will be over by the end of
Interim so that we can return to regular studies, and put
aside these intellectual distractions for a time. But then,
isn't that what Interim is all about?
Bethel's Jo Watlov puts in two points on the
way to a 74·27 drubbing of Macalester, as Marilynn
Luce (18) awaits the rebound.
Women1s tea'm triumphs
in lea1syl season opener
Four Lady Royals scored in double figures January 16,
as the women's basketball team stunned slow-moving Macalester
"That was probably the easiest game we'll have all year,"
said Coach Shirley Dawson of the season opener. "We did
most of our scoring on the fast break, after we adjusted
to Macalester's defense."
Teri Schimbeno put in 19 points to lead the Royals'
scoring, followed by Marilynn Luce with 18. Cathy Olson
and Cindy Martin had 11 points apiece. Cindy led the team
in rebounds, with 12. As a team, the women cagers shot
46 percent from the floor.
Bethel played at St. Olaf Tuesday and Hamline yesterday
to two "fairly evenly matched" ga:rp.es, according to Miss
Dawson. The team travels to play St. Catherine's at 6
p.m. Monday, then faces Northwestern College, Thursday at
7 :30 p.m. Miss Dawson described Northwestern as having
a very good team, with a fine group of freshman players.
The next home game for the Lady Royals is against
St. Paul Bible College on February 6 at 6 :30 p.m. Bethel
also hosts Concordia at the same time on February 11.
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Emeritus Faculty
ROSENWEIN, Barbara H.
Title/s: Professor Emerita
CV Link: Rosenwein CV
Barbara H. Rosenwein (Ph.D. (1974), B.A. (1966), University of Chicago) is professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago. An internationally renowned historian, she has been a guest professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France; the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France; the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Oxford University, England; Reykjavik University, Iceland. Since 2009, Rosenwein has been an affiliated research scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University in London. She was a scholar in residence at the American Academy in Rome in 2001-2002 and was elected Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 2003.
Rosenwein has lectured throughout the world, including France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, Israel, Sweden, Taiwan, Australia, Italy, and Iceland. Her scholarship has evolved through at least four phases. Her earliest work examined the monastery of Cluny, the "light of the world (lux mundi)," as one eleventh-century pope described it, and culminated in To Be the Neighbor of Saint Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property (Cornell University Press, 1989). Rosenwein then proceeded to examine the issue of immunities in the Middle Ages, resulting in Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Cornell University Press, 1999). In a third phase, she explored the history of emotions, beginning with the edited book Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 1998), and continuing with Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Cornell University Press, 2006) and Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions 600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), translated into Italian: Generazioni di Sentimenti. Una Storia delle emozioni 600-1700, ed. and trans. Riccardo Cristiani (Viella, 2016). Forthcoming are two new books: with co-author Elina Gertsman, The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge University Press) and with co-author Riccardo Cristiani, What Is the History of Emotions? (Polity Press). She is author of numerous articles, including "Worrying about Emotions in History," American Historical Review (2002), "Problems and Methods in the History of Emotions," Passions in Context: Journal of the History and Philosophy of the Emotions 1/1 (2010), online at http://www.passionsincontext.de/. Finally, Rosenwein has sought to link her research to larger themes in medieval and European history. She has published several textbooks on the Middle Ages, including A Short History of the Middle Ages, the 4th edition of which is now in press; Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World (3d ed., in press); and Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings, edited with Lester K. Little (Blackwell, 1998). She is also the co-author of popular and widely-assigned The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (4th ed., Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 2013). In 2012, a conference was held at Auxerre, France, to honor Rosenwein's significant contributions to medieval history (De Cluny à Auxerre, par la voie des "émotions". Un parcours d'historienne du Moyen Âge) and in 2014 another conference to honor her work was held at the Newberry Library, Chicago (At the Intersection of Medieval History and the Social Sciences), and most recently in Paris, where she presented presented her intellectual autobiography, "Une vie dans l'interdiciplinarité: la fabrication d'une médiéviste américaine, Les 5emes Journées du LaMOP (2017).
Rosenwein has published in many languages, including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and German, as well as in an impressive array of journals, including Médiévales, Annales, Studia Monastica, Speculum, History Compass, Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, Historia: Journal of the Historical Society of Israel, Feministische Studien, Revue historique, The Haskins Society Journal, and History and Theory. She has a distinguished record of service as a chair of the history department at Loyola University Chicago, an editorial board member of Médiévales, Reti medievali and Passions in Context, a co-chair of the program committee for the American Historical Association Annual Meeting in 2011, the president of the Illinois Medieval Association (1999-2000), the series editor for "Conjunctions of Religion and Power in the Medieval Past" at Cornell University Press, and a board member for the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Jan Plamper, "The History of Emotions: An Interview with William Reddy, Barbara H. Rosenwein, and Peter Stearns," History and Theory 49 (2010): 237-265.
Research Interests
European medieval history, history of emotions
Recent Visiting Professorships
Reykjavik University, Iceland, May 2016.
Oxford University (Trinity), May, 2015 (see http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/home)
University of Dresden, Germany, March, 2015
University of Gothenburg, Sweden, March-May, 2014
Selected Publications
The Middle Ages in 50 Objects (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), with co-author Elina Gertsman.
What Is the History of Emotions? (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017), with co-author Riccardo Cristiani.
Generations of Feeling: A History of Emotions, 600-1700 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006; paperback, 2007).
Negotiating Space: Power, Restraint, and Privileges of Immunity in Early Medieval Europe (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999).
Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages, editor (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998).
To Be the Neighbor of St. Peter: The Social Meaning of Cluny's Property, 909‑1049 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1989).
Rhinoceros Bound: Cluny in the Tenth Century (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982).
A Short History of the Middle Ages (Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2001; 2d ed., 2004; 3d ed, University of Toronto Press, 2009; 4th ed, University of Toronto Press, 2014; 5th ed, University of Toronto Press, 2018)
The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (Boston: Bedford, 2001; 2d ed., 2005; 3d ed., 2009; 4th ed., 2013), with Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, and Bonnie G. Smith.


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He's an action hero and father figure combined – a regular guy whom you would trust with your life.
And so, as stupid as Non-Stop gets at 35,000 feet, Liam Neeson is just the man to make sure your Saturday night popcorn has the 'pops' factor.
Air marshall Bill Marks (Neeson) needs a stiff drink before he's even boarded a plane.
The monotony of airport life, endless suspicions and a crumbling personal life all contribute to the feeling there must be more to a career than joining another bunch of cramped, faceless passengers.
And then Marks begins to receive a series of mid-flight text messages promising that one fellow passenger will be killed every 20 minutes unless he orders a $150 million dollar payment from above the clouds.
The 'Speed-in-a-plane' set-up is far-fetched, but this is a dumb action thriller with brains and Neeson's returning Spanish director Jaume Collet-Serra (Unknown) keeps hold of the simple plot in a vice-like grip.
There's no need for a meddling US president when you have an ageless 61-year-old leading man and a cast including the brilliant Julianne Moore (Jen Summers), 12 Years a Slave's Oscar-nominee Lupita Nyong'o (Gwen) and, as David McMillan, the underrated Linus Roache (son of Coronation's Street William Roache).
The flexibility of modern cameras enables Non-Stop to feel as if it was shot in real-time but, at its pulsating heart, there are also pertinent questions about freedom and responsibility, too.
Who are the 4,000 armed US Marshall's patrolling our skies – and who polices them?
Echoing Paul Greengrass's more harrowing post 9/11 film United 93 (2006), at what point in an escalating situation should passengers turn gung-ho?
Beyond the brilliant, close-combat action sequences lies an integrity about how inspiring it can be to put your trust in strangers.
The script also clearly alludes to the heartache Neeson must still be feeling about his wife Natasha Richardson's tragic death in 2009.
Surviving such a bereavement has given Neeson's performances genuine extra warmth, rather like the widowed Dame Judi Dench and Pierce Brosnan before him.
Drawing heavily on the techniques used to shoot fellow sky high thrillers like Air Force One (1997) and Red Eye and Flightplan (both 2005), Non-Stop should not be seen as 'Taken 3'.
Its closest relative is Executive Decision (1996), Kurt Russell's pulsating hijack thriller which might well have given Osama Bin Laden a few ideas in the first place...


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Memorylage presents your photo albums in collage format, has a photo booth feature to create new collages and the ability to create collages from existing photos that can be used as lockscreen wallpapers.
We were able to take Memorylage out for a pre-release test drive and found it to be a nice supplement to our native Pictures Hub. Memorylage is a popular app over at the Windows 8 Store (you can find it here) and should be well recieved by the Windows Phone 8 crowd.
There is a trial version available to let you try Memorylage before buying. The full version of Memorylage is currently running $1.99 and you can find it all here in the Windows Phone Store.


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Part Of Inaugural Class As Female Athlete
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – It made for a busy two days, but Yale softball coach Barbara Reinalda received a special honor last Thursday. Reinalda was inducted into the Cerritos College campus-wide Hall of Fame as part of the college's inaugural Hall of Fame class. She flew out to California on Thursday morning, was honored at the ceremony that night and was back on a plane Friday to return in time for Yale's weekend series with Harvard.
Reinalda put the Cerritos College softball team on the map. As a member of the first two Falcon teams in school history, she was voted the conference's Most Valuable Player both seasons, went undefeated in her career as a pitcher and batted over .500 over the course of both seasons.
After completing her collegiate career at Cal Poly Pomona, Reinalda spent 19 years as a pitcher for the world-renowned Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, Conn., and posted a career record of 441-31 with 19 perfect games. She was a member of Team USA during both the World Championships and Pan American Games and was inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame in 1999. Additionally, Reinalda is a member of the ASA, Cal Poly Pomona and Connecticut Softball Hall of Fames.
"I would have to say that I owe my life and career to Cerritos College," Reinalda said. "After playing softball at Valley Christian High, there really weren't many options at that time [1976-77] but a couple of friends and I decided to go pitch at Cerritos. There was a story about me in the newspaper and a salesman from Raybestos saw it, contacted me and I ended up pitching for their softball team, which opened all the doors in my life. To be a forerunner in the sport has been an honor, and I still speak very highly of my days playing and going to school at Cerritos College."
At Yale, Reinalda is the second winningest coach in school history. In 2006, her first season solely in charge of the team, she guided the Bulldogs to 28 wins, only three shy of the school record. In 2009, Yale posted its best Ivy League record since 2003 and won at least 20 games for the fourth straight year.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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text: Perth - World No 1 Novak Djokovic sounded an ominous, if light-hearted, warning to his Australian Open rivals after suffering a narrow defeat in the Hopman Cup final on Saturday night.Speaking after he and Ana Ivanovic were beaten by Spaniards Anabel Medina Garrigues and Fernando Verdasco in the mixed teams decider, the defending Australian Open champion was already eyeing his title defence."I will have my revenge in Melbourne in a week," Djokovic said with a laugh as he exited Perth Arena in the early hours of Sunday morning.While the Serbian pair suffered their third near-miss at the Hopman Cup, Djokovic rounded out his Australian Open preparation in fine style, beating former top 10 player Verdasco in straight sets, 6-3, 7-5.That result followed an impeccable performance against Germany's Tommy Haas on Friday, with Djokovic winning 6-2, 6-0.Although he had a shock loss to young Australian Bernard Tomic earlier in the tournament, Djokovic was pleased with the improvement in his singles form during the Hopman Cup.The Serbian said his preparation was building nicely as he targets a historic third successive Australian Open title, opting for a third year running to bypass tournament play in the coming week and instead practice in Melbourne."I've been trying to play my best tennis and prepare for Melbourne, the last few days I have been striking the ball better," Djokovic said."Last few matches was really good, I'm happy with the way I'm playing and another eight days of really good practice and I'm fit for Australian Open."I've been using this kind of preparation routine for few years now."Djokovic said playing in Abu Dhabi, where he downed Nicolas Almagro to win the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament, and the Hopman Cup had given him plenty of match time ahead of the year's first Grand Slam, which starts on January 14.


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A Governance Reform Message from Barney Frank
The landmark piece of legislation that President Obama signed into law yesterday - The Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, 2010 - was a massive lift for all concerned. Students of governance always say that a crisis is one of the best opportunities for reform, yet the fact of the global financial crisis has not made the reform of financial services an easy lift in any country. And we all know why: banks are rich and they can hire the best lobbyists either to block or water down the reform. So, the reform process has been tough, but now we have the historic legislation.
Last Thursday night, Charlie Rose interviewed Barney Frank, the Chair of the Financial Services Committee of the US House of Representatives. Frank, together with Senator Dodd, his opposite number in the Senate, shepherded the new law through Congress over many tough months. Towards the end of the interview, Rose asked him to reflect on the lessons of the reform process itself. What had he learned? You might be surprised by one of the things he said; but, then, if you have been reading this blog, you might not be.
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A new layout for a new job
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I wrote an android application
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Distributed social networking
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Easy Exchange Email Extraction
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Toshiba announces 'digital secretary' functionality
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The time is now for inference engines in user interfaces
My google wave post just broke :( but google fixed it :)
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Paho/Project Call Minutes
The Paho project is holding weekly calls.
Participation is aimed at those actively contributing to project code, testing and integration.
The generally informal meetings are held via teleconference and minutes will be posted here on the Paho Wiki and on the Mailing List to encourage broader discussion and participation.
June 5, 2012
- Scott de Deugd
- Ian Craggs
- Andy Gelme
- Andy Piper
- Wes Johnson
- Nick O'Leary
The first Paho project call was set up to cover the format/purpose of future calls, current status, and suggested topics needed for near and short term plans. We had brief introductions. It turned out there was much to cover, so we focused on Paho component status, next steps and needed work. We agreed to discuss short and long term planning on future calls.
MQTT C (and Java) Client
Dave Locke was not able to make the call so Ian covered C and Java Clients:
- Ian and Dave are working minor bugs and suggestions. Please use the Paho Dev forum or Bugzilla to discuss these.
- We discussed feedback that current committers and others at IBM, Eurotech and others familiar with MQTT design/usage need to try and get more involved in community. Nick O'Leary, who has been engaged in the Eclipse and MQTT.org forums was on the call and made some comments later on in the call.
- A Paho near term goal is to get up binary files in the Repository.
- Ian is looking into the availability of code to test MQTT Client installations and ports. Feedback, participation and new contributions are welcome. It was suggested that a protocol level compatibility test suite for MQTT and its design points needs to be a Paho plan item.
- Another item Ian is considering for Paho is an MQTT tracing program to monitor the interactions between the client and the server.
- Andy Piper mentioned that the original Paho Git Directory structure needs to be changed. A few options were discussed and Andy agreed to put a proposal and discussion on the Paho Wiki.
MQTT Related Forums
- Andy Piper gave everyone a brief level set on the main Paho community forums: MQTT.org, the Google Groups MQTT Mailing List, and the Eclipse Paho Development Mailing List
- Andy is planning a blog post to discuss these forums and how they can best be used together to build the MQTT community.
MQTT Lua Client
- Andy Gelme is contributing a Lua implementation of the MQTT client. He submitted his proposal in Eclipse Bugzilla and has created a Paho branch in Github. He has already put some fixes in there.
- The Lua CLient contribution needs to be pushed further in the process. Scott and Ian have been working through a few internal process issues in order to to access and review this code. They will report back to the group on progress.
- Andy shared that his objectives, for this and other projects he has underway, are to get MQTT in as many places as possible with a focus on graphical interactive applications on Lua clients such as iOS and Android.
- He plans to publish some of his projects in the future including; running the Paho client on Android, and its integration with the Arduino Processing language.
- Andy suggested that this group consider looking further into MQTTs, its status and inclusion in the MQTT open community.
- He has support for the iPad Codea IDE so that iPad applications can be built to talk MQTT.
Eclipse based MQTT Client
- Eurotech is contributing an MQTT Client to run in the Eclipse environment itself. It is an Eclipse IDE plugin, built as a wrapper that they have refactored to work with the current Paho Java implementation.
- Wes Johnson reported that the work is done but the committer (Chad Kienle) is running into issues with EGit access. Scott will work this out with Chad.
Community Building
- Nick O'Leary observed that there are a lot of excellent discussions, suggestions and issues about MQTT protocol that are not being picked up by the implementation folks in Paho. Much information has been gathered but what are we going to do with it?
- A suggestion was made that a road map for the protocol including plans for standardization, should be followup up by this group on this call. Nick suggested we start with "What would a v3.2 look like?".
- Scott pointed out that the Paho project and the Eclipse M2M Industry Working Group were chartered to collaborate with standards ans other open community efforts that are important to growing and supporting the M2M market per our goals. There is still strong interest in taking the MQTT protocol to a body like OASIS for standardization. Scott will report any new developments here.


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How high sea levels may rise has remained a subject of considerable debate among the climate cognoscenti. Even as their models have grown ever more sophisticated, researchers have struggled to make sense of some of the underlying physical mechanisms driving sea level fluctuations—particularly the response of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to global warming. This, on top of the intricacies inherent to a complex system, has left sea level predictions subject to significant uncertainties.
The most recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, estimated that sea levels would rise by 18 to 59 cm by 2100. It couched its forecast in caveats, however, acknowledging that even the most advanced models did not consider the full range of changes in ice sheet flow and uncertainties in climate-carbon cycle feedbacks. Devising a single model that accurately incorporates the full array of parameters and processes that shape the global climate system has been a continual challenge for researchers, leaving most models focused on a particular variable, such as temperature, around which they center their prognostications.
To tackle changes in sea levels, a team of researchers led by Mark Siddall of Columbia University opted for a different approach, looking to the past by drawing on reconstructions of sea-level rise, derived from fossil corals, which span the past 22,000 years—since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). They used this to create a simpler, integrated model of sea-level response, which they detailed in the latest issue of Nature Geoscience.
The advantages of this approach are two-fold. First, because the model covers such a lengthy period, the authors were confident that it at least implicitly includes the contributions from thermal expansion, which occurs when water expands as it heats up, and the changes in glaciers and ice sheet flows. Second, and, perhaps, more importantly, it enabled them to carefully scrutinize the non-linear response of sea levels to large temperature fluctuations on centennial timescales— most current models are only accurate on shorter time scales.
Because temperatures in the Northern and Southern hemispheres do not change in synchrony, Siddall and his colleagues considered two temperature proxy records to track the impacts of temperature variations on sea level: the oxygen isotope record of the North Greenland Ice Core Project (NGRIP), which is representative of the Northern Hemisphere, and the deuterium record of the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) Dome C, which is representative of the Southern Hemisphere.
After inputting the data and letting the models run, they found that the NGRIP data tracked the structure of the sea-level record very closely during the different phases of the deglaciation, while the EPICA Dome C data do not, failing even to track the transition to the Holocene, the current interglacial period, which began around 10,000 years ago. The NGRIP scenario estimated 4 to 24 cm of sea-level rise during the twentieth century, in good agreement with the IPCC's report, and 2 to 6 cm per century before the industrial period. However, it was unable to resolve sea level variations on a decadal timescale.
Projecting their model ahead to 2100, they concluded that sea levels could rise by as much as 82 cm and as little as 7 cm, depending on the warming estimates drawn up by the IPCC (6.4�C and 1.1�C, respectively). When one includes the additional 9 to 17 cm rise that the IPCC estimates will come from accelerated ice-sheet flow over the next century—this raises the upper bound of sea-level rise from 59 cm to 76 cm—their numbers compare favorably to the IPCC's.
Looking even further ahead, their model predicts that the impact of twentieth century warming will continue to drive sea level rises over the coming centuries. In that sense, the IPCC's focus on establishing a value for the end of the current century doesn't provide a complete picture of the challenges.
Nature Geoscience, 2009. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo587
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the regional economic development councils have been "a tremendous success," but more than half of respondents to this week's RBJ Daily Report Snap Poll do not share that view.
Of the 58 percent who disagree with Cuomo, 32 percent said they disagree strongly. This compares with only 9 percent who agree strongly.
Last week Cuomo kicked off round three of the regional economic development councils competition, a process that was launched in 2011.
Statewide, the first two rounds allocated $1.5 billion to support more than 1,400 projects. In the third round, $760 million in state funding and tax incentives will be awarded, Cuomo said.
The Finger Lakes council was the top winner in 2012 with an award of $96.2 million, bringing its two-year total to $165 million. Regional projects receiving funds include Eastman Business Park, the Health Sciences Center for Computational Innovation at the University of Rochester, UR's College Town project, the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology and the Midtown Tower redevelopment project.
Cuomo created the councils to help revitalize regional economies. In April, New York's unemployment rate was 7.8 percent, down from 8.6 percent a year earlier. Nationwide, the jobless rate was 7.5 percent versus 8.1 percent a year earlier.
Snap Poll respondents were split on Cuomo's job performance on economic development. Fifty percent said they approve, with 14 percent approving strongly. Those who disapprove strongly outnumbered those who disapprove only somewhat, 29 percent to 22 percent.
More than 350 readers participated in this week's poll, which was conducted May 20 and 21.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the regional economic development councils have been "a tremendous success." Do you agree?
Agree strongly: 9%
Agree somewhat: 33%
Disagree somewhat: 26%
Disagree strongly: 32%
Overall, what is your opinion of Cuomo's job performance on economic development?
Approve strongly: 14%
Approve somewhat: 36%
Disapprove somewhat: 22%
Disapprove strongly: 29%
We need to stop all the gimmicks and tax breaks for the well-connected. If Cuomo simply lowers business and personal taxes, we will have plenty of economic growth. Then we wouldn't have to spend $140 million on an ad campaign to convince people that New York isn't the most unfriendly state in the country to run a business.
—Todd Baker, Henrietta
What we're getting is a high-priced PR campaign aimed at making us believe he's doing something! But he has done nothing to impact or change the underlying structural issues (high taxes, stifling regulations and arbitrary kowtowing to environmental groups), which curtail responsible growth and economic development.
—Tom Zimmerman, FAIA architect/consultant, Z2 Architecture PLLC
We need to see more proof that this program/process is working. I would ask the press to continue to show us, the reading public, that the money is going to the right places and we are seeing improvement in our state economy like new jobs and better wages that comes with better jobs and new services that make New York a better place to live.
—Ken Pamatat, Creative Images
Read my lips: Taxes are too high. Any program that does not include tax cuts will fail in New York State.
—Dennis Kiriazides, retired
Cuomo knows what needs to be done to spur Upstate New York's economy: lowered taxes, rollback of mandates, repeal of the 18a utility excise taxes, reform of the Triborough Amendment. He's not pursuing any of them. Instead, we have endless press conferences and these "councils" that are orchestrated public relations puff sessions. The fact that Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy is in charge of them tells you a lot—Duffy has never worked a day in business, never created a job, and is really not spearheading any systemic reforms, but he looks good and serves as the governor's cheerleader, so he gets the job done for the governor's pollsters. Let's just not confuse that with economic development.
—Bob Sarbane
Seeing as the government feels that they know better how to use the people's money by taking it from us and giving it back to spend as they see fit, how about the people take the government back and govern as we see fit? This regional competition is nothing more than Pavlovian training to make us all lap dogs for Albany. Pet me, Andy, pet me.
—Bill Lanigan
I think the intent to promote and support business is a great idea. Do it by lowering taxes! I also think that from a politician's perspective, the thought process is driven by maximizing political value. This program has to be "the golden egg" for Albany. Think of all the votes, payback, favors and lost trails of expenses $2.25 billion could hide. Do you really think that Albany is worthy of the task to pick and choose who gets the benefit of your tax dollars? I don't agree with it to be legal or ethical to confiscate tax money to give it to someone else. If you play nice and support a party or politician with your business clout and money, well then, you may get the nod for some "stimulus." If New York State had true intention to promote and support business, wouldn't it make more sense to reduce the tax burden on all businesses by $2.25 billion? That would certainly boost business activity in all of New York State. The current plan confiscates tax dollars and allows our corrupt, self-serving Albany politicians to dole out dollars. That is not what I want done with my confiscated money.
—Lou Romano
The very slight improvement in New York's economy is not enough and is certainly more a function of the normal economic cycle, coupled with artificially low interest rates and Federal Reserve intervention. Those in turn have helped Wall Street, which happens to be in New York. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke gets the thanks for that. I give Coumo's policies and term so far a failing grade.
—George Thomas, Ogden
Gov. Cuomo can't see the forest through trees. The key to economic vitality is low taxation. Upstate New York counties traditionally rank as having the highest real estate tax rates in America along with state income taxes, sales taxes, deed taxes, mortgage tax, utility tax, etc. Until the governor learns basic economics, upstate will continue to deteriorate over the long run. The governor should focus on reducing mandates, making New York State a right-to-work state, reforming public employee unions, etc. This is when the real change will happen.
—John Rynne, president, Rynne, Murphy & Associates Inc.
This is a joke, right?
—Karl Schuler
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Finding my puny brain too diminutive to fully grasp the dynamics of our present constitutional frame, I decided to follow my favorite all-time hero to the voting poll last week: Billy Graham- Life long Democrat. Lest it be said that all good Christians vote Republican, Graham knows what he's doing. Thanks Billy. With no disrespect, I've followed you faithfully to the polls "just as I wuz without one plea."
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Remember Wednesday (Sept. 12) when I wrote about Simon Cowell's little rant about The Voice ? Well, now it's that show's turn for equal time. Blake Shelton, unofficially representing the cast of The Voice, told Access Hollywood he thinks Cowell should just do his show (The X Factor), and Shelton will do his. "I normally don't react to the things that Simon has to say about The Voice," he said when he was asked how he felt about Cowell's complaints that The Voice premiere was going on too long. "Don't y'all wish y'all had time to sit around and bitch and moan like that guy does? Every time I turn around, he's mouthin' off about our show. It's like, 'Do your own show! We'll just do ours, and we won't mouth off about you,'" Shelton said, adding that Cowell must just have more free time than he knows what to do with. I so wish American Idol had its judges in place, so we could get their collective point of view on all this.


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ASU women rally late to upset 20th-ranked Syracuse
TEMPE, Ariz. — Kelsey Moos (15 points, 12 rebounds) and Joy Burke (14 points, 10 rebounds) both had double-doubles to lead the No. 24 Arizona State women's basketball team to a 63-60 win over No. 20 Syracuse on Monday.
Sophie Brunner added four points, 11 rebounds and three blocks for the Sun Devils (11-1), who won their 10th consecutive game. It was also the 313th career win at ASU for head coach Charli Turner Thorne, who is now No. 2 all-time among Pac-12 coaches in victories.
Also coming up big for the Sun Devils, who trailed by as many as eight in the first half, were Promise Amukamara (eight points, four steals) and Adrianne Thomas (seven points).
Syracuse (11-2), whose only previous loss was at current No. 22 Iowa (97-91), was led by the combination of Brianna Butler (25 points) and Brittney Sykes (13 points), who combined for 38 points overall but only 11 in the second half.
Butler scored seven straight points during a 10-0 run that gave Syracuse a 37-29 lead with 1:37 left in the half. The Sun Devils would score the next four points to cut the Orange's lead to 37-33 at the break.
Although it did not lead by more than four points the rest of the game, Syracuse was able to cling to its lead for most of the second half
A layup by Moos, which gave ASU a 55-54 lead, its first of the second half, started a flurry of lead changes over the final six minutes.
A Sykes layup put the Orange ahead 60-59 with 1:59 remaining in the game, but a putback by Moos on the following possession gave the Sun Devils a 61-60 lead.
Following two missed free throws from freshman forward Briana Day, the Sun Devils could not get up a shot in time and gave the ball back to the Orange with 33.4 seconds remaining.
Sykes drove the lane trying to draw a foul, but instead had her shot go out of bounds off ASU, giving Syracuse the ball with 14.5 seconds remaining.
After Sykes drove the lane under heavy pressure, it was Thomas who came up big for the Sun Devils, taking a charge and then calmly sinking two free throws to extend ASU's advantage to 63-60 with 7.6 seconds remaining.
Rachel Coffey drove the length of the court, but her desperation 3-pointer came up short and the Sun Devils were able to hold on for the victory.
ASU joins No. 4 Stanford (11-1) and No. 12 Colorado (10-1) as the only one-loss teams in the Pac-12 with league play beginning this week.


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