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Today is a big day.
My baby is one year old. No, not that baby. He's nearly four I'm talking of course, about my other baby, Unconsoleable (and here's her baby picture, before she was adopted by ESN :-))
My adult life has been a series of phases. I had my rudderless phase, where I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. Hardly unusual of course. I tried a few things. None of them took. Then I discovered media.
A year seems to be the length of time it takes for something to change the course of my life. Here's how it happened before, how I got into journalism.
This time, it was another low point in my life. Post-postpartum depression (on to just regular depression), no job, no means of acquiring one that would also cover the costs of my son's care, no desire to write, no desire to do much of anything really. I did take a full-time newsroom job when my son was a year old. My nanny made more money than I did, but I thought I could build this into something maybe. Alas, it didn't work out. Turns out parenthood and reporting aren't very compatible, at least not if you want to do both well.
Some of the friends I had made on App.net had started a gaming podcast. I was barely a gamer then. I could probably tell you all the games I had played and it wasn't a long list. The only console I had ever owned is the Wii (actually that hasn't changed :-)) As for PC games, I had played Oregon Trail and Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. I think that's all. I had a neighbor who had an NES so I experienced Mario and Duck Hunt, but only rarely.
But I had played some awesome mobile games recently and then I think it was my friend Steve Lubitz who recommended Monument Valley. It's not for nothing that we call him our Gaming Yoda. Steve knew then what I didn't yet. He knew that there were all kinds of gamers. And he also knew that you didn't have to be born with a controller in your hands to become one. I thought, back then, that gamers were a specific type of person. Insert every stereotype here. I was only faintly aware that women gamers existed. I didn't think this was a hobby for me and I also thought it was too late. I was 34 and had a child. People like that don't play video games, right? Wrong. Wrong. And wrong some more.
Like many people, I had a very narrow conception of what games were. I thought they were Call of Duty and Halo and sports games, because those were the only types of games I had ever heard of. I certainly didn't think mobile games were real games. (It really says something about the virulent hate in gaming towards mobile that this had somehow seeped into my consciousness without ever having read a single gaming website or publication, but I digress). I knew nothing of indie games. I didn't know Steam existed or any such similar platforms. All of this had passed me by.
When I started discovering all that was out there, I was amazed and blown away by the wide variety of games that exist and I was thrilled to discover that I could play and enjoy so many of them. Especially on my phone, because it's always with me and I can play for short bursts (or longer ones when I so choose) so it fits my life much better than 150-hour console epics. I've played a number of games on my MacBook Pro too, but that's not as great an experience for a number of reasons. Let's just say I began to understand why people spent thousands of dollars on gaming PCs.
We didn't talk about mainly mobile games on Unconsoleable at first, but it went in that direction because it was clear that 1) mobile games are not considered by many to be "real games" and we wanted to change that and 2) mobile is a woefully under-covered sector in games and especially so from a female and not "core gamer" perspective. We also just selfishly began to wish for better mobile games. Wonderful and amazing ones exist, to be sure, but there is room for so many more. The world does not need the millionth Candy Crush clone, but it does need a Prune, a Sling Kong, an Alto's Adventure, a Bertram Fiddle, a Pac-Man 256, to name a very few.
By highlighting what we think is the cream of the crop to our growing audience, we hope to encourage developers to take mobile games and gamers more seriously. We hope to discourage those who think that you can shovel just any crap out onto the App or Play Store because pfffft, these mobile gamers don't care, they have no taste, they're just killing a few minutes waiting for their bus. We hope to help indies gain traction, because they are more often than not the ones making awesome things and don't have a dime to spend on marketing. We hope to loudly and clearly declare that women play games and it's a real game even if there's no controller or keyboard involved. We hope to, when possible, highlight the fact that women also make games. Women like Megan Fox and Jenna Hoffstein. And that even young girls playing mostly mobile games are already starting to detect that gaming is not exactly an egalitarian paradise.
Just like my journey into journalism and maybe even more so, this one has brought me to a place of incredible new, hopefully life-long friendships, and wonderful, creative people who are immensely passionate about the work they do. I am so fulfilled and so lucky to be able to do this.
Of course none of it would be possible without my co-host and technical whiz, Jessica Dennis. Literally, the show would not exist. Because I still don't know how to edit audio and don't particularly want to learn. My talents lie in other areas. Jessica and I make an awesome team and I have nothing but excitement and anticipation for where this adventure will take us next and. It has already taken us somewhere amazing. Just listen to our anniversary episode if you don't believe me. It's great having someone to share this with and even if by some chance we ever hit it big, I can't imagine ever losing our sense of excitement and wonderment. We will never stop squeeee-ing, I know Jessica will back me up on this
There are way too many people to thank for helping us get to where we are so I'm not even going to try. Some of you have been mentioned, some I've thanked privately, some I may forget and I'm sorry. So for now, I think I'll just thank the listeners. If you're a listener of the show reading this, THANK YOU. Especially if you've been a listener since the beginning, but even if you haven't, we love each and every single one of you. We do this for you. Here's to many more years! *clink*
Apparently adulthood is over.
YA fiction, comic book movies, etc. It all apparently points to a state of perpetual childhood that adults are increasingly living in. Or so some people think.
Thankfully, there has been some extremely thoughtful and sober commentary on this. Among my favorites so far are this Salon piece. I emphatically agree with the economic arguments it makes as well, but it was this part which stood out to me for obvious reasons (bolding is mine):
It's all very well to discuss feminism as a force of cultural liberation expressed by Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Lena Dunham, but for millions of women in the Western world it has also been an economic imperative, one that set them free from some (but not all) traditional expectations and thrust them into a job marketplace where they are often underpaid relative to their male counterparts. This is too complicated an argument to develop here, but I suspect that the "death of adulthood" is so much more evident among men than women because women are still called upon to perform productive labor – the bearing and nurturing of children – that cannot be or generally is not performed by men.
Elsewhere, another very thoughtful analysis (in Twitter form!) by cultural journalist Jeet Heer, includes truisms like these:
Women have worst of both worlds: must bear the burden of adulthood without enjoying the privileges of patriarchs.
In other words, women, due to endemic sexism and calcified gender norms, have to present as adults, but don't accrue any of adulthood's attendant benefits. In this, as in other things, we don't get much of a choice. Furthermore, Heer points out that laments such as these about the supposedly dismal state of adulthood are themselves a way to prop up the patriarchy (bolding again mine):
Rhetoric of "we are not men our father's were" has been used to shore up male privilege since at least time of Homer.
Fear of the decline of patriarchy is inextricably from patriarchy: it's an essential rhetorical weapon by which authority is shored up.
If that's "adulthood," I say the 1950's and 60's can keep it.
This recent article made the case that no one who likes games should want to be called a "gamer," since the word is associated with all sorts of unpleasantness. To wit:
The term [gaming community] is a miserable legacy of the medium's niche past, where video games were viewed as the sole preserve of white, western indoors-yteenagers. The cliché has proven indelible. 'Gamers' (a term that further segregates 'players', while adding unwelcome ghost notes that call to mind the gambling industry) are routinely represented in media as socially inept boys with poor hygiene and a proclivity for impotent rage, perhaps expressed down a Britney-style head mic while playing online shooters, or typed wrathfully onto an internet forum.
I confess I once mentally defined gamers the very same way. I thought of gamers as people who owned consoles, played first-person shooters (a term I didn't even know prior to this year) and generally spent most or all of their free time gaming.
In my mind, there was a very narrow category of people who could rightly be called "gamers." These people were first and foremost, really good at games. In my mind, they could pick up any game and play it well almost right away. They were really experienced, really knowledgeable and most likely younger and male. Games, I thought, were not for me, a mom of a toddler in her 30's.
Then I got to know Brianna Wu, head of a game development studio that was working on an iOS game. We were both users of App.net for a time and I saw that she was looking for beta testers. She said she specifically wanted casual gamers. In other words, people who didn't have any gaming experience need apply. She mentioned the game had a Choose Your Own Adventure element and that sounded appealing. I used to love those books as a kid. So, I signed up to test what is now the extremely well-received Revolution 60.
I liked the game right away and didn't find it too difficult or stressful to play. It didn't make me feel stupid. It didn't make me feel like this wasn't something for me. It was fun!
Is what games are like now? I started thinking. At that point, I hadn't even played mobile games besides Bejeweled or Gold Miner. We had a Wii and I'd played plenty of Mario Kart and other fun, casual games, but that was about it. I had vague memories of being young and playing Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt on a friend's Nintendo down the street, but I don't remember the games grabbing me. I loved Tetris (and actually played it in the USSR in the late 80's on a family friend's computer) but never even owned a GameBoy and certainly not a console. We were immigrants of modest means and something like that would have been a frivolous and unwarranted expense. And besides, I wasn't interested. I had no idea what was out there or why I should care.
After Revolution 60 though, I started asking questions. Were there more games like this I might like? Where are they and what are they called? I started realizing that there were all kinds of games and far from all of them involved shooting people. There was a lot of light, as it turned out, between games like Halo and Call of Duty on one end and Bejeweled on the other. It turned out that even "hardcore" gamers played casual games!
It wasn't long before I got a Steam account. I started trying out all kinds of games there and on Android and iOS and the rest, as they say, is history. I still haven't committed to a console other than the trusty old Wii. But I can see a day in the not too distant future when that may well change.
So I was a gamer now, as far as I saw it. What I learned is that anyone who likes and plays games, any kind of games, can call themselves that. Or at least anyone should be able to. Because alongside learning about games, I started learning something else. I started reading about the rampant sexism that was endemic to the industry. I watched the Anita Sarkeesian videos. I read admissions like this. I watched GTFO. I always innately felt that gaming had a big "NOT WELCOME" sign on it and I started to realize that this was partially because of my gender. I didn't feel like I belonged there. I didn't feel like I would be welcomed.
This, in my opinion, is one of the reasons sexism and other bigotry persists in gaming. People who are perceived to be the "real" gamers are seen by outsiders like me as owning the culture and being in charge of it. People like me feel like we don't have any skin in the game so we can't say anything. That mindset needs to change.
But instead of, as the article at the start of this post suggests, doing away with the word "gamer," I say instead let's ALL call ourselves gamers. Wherever you fall on the spectrum of gaming, start call yourself a gamer and own it. No one has to give you permission to sit at the table. You don't need to own a console. You don't need to have gone to PAX or E3. You don't need to read Kotaku, Giant Bomb, Polygon or any of the other gaming news and reviews sites. You just have to like to play. That's all.
If everyone starts calling themselves a gamer, the stereotypes will die out, the societal stigmas will fade and the dearly needed changes to games themselves and gaming culture will start to happen more rapidly. Let's do this.
Mathew Ingram at GigaOm has recently published a piece entitled Making fun of Silicon Valley is easy, but the next big thing looks like a toy. It bothered me as soon as I read it. Today I saw a few people I generally respect tweeting it and my unease grew. I'll explain.
The point of the piece is, as is the current fashion in online writing, entirely spelled out in the headline. It's fairly innocuous, but the message is clear. If you're making fun of moronic Silicon Valley startups like Yo, or startups in general, you could be stupidly mislabeling the next Twitter or Facebook. Take this line of thought to its logical conclusion and the result is that it would be a mistake to question any new product or service in the tech space. I say no.
The same day that I read Ingram's piece, I read this one on PandoDaily about a startup called Secret. The author of the piece, Sarah Lacy, has numerous concerns about this company and what they have created, concerns that seem eminently valid:
If Secret continues to grow with everyone trying to profit off of its popularity willfully justifying and ignoring the social cost, there will be Secret suicides. As a community, we will regret this. It will make the Craigslist killer and the Airbnb meth head-gate scandals look like nothing.
Lacy is a close watcher of the tech space. She has been writing about technology for 15 years. She has written two well-received books about it. But I guess she didn't get the memo that Valley startups can turn into amazing, wonderful things even if they start out as silly or, in the case of Secret, morally and ethically questionable. She is taking a critical approach and thank goodness, because she explicitly addresses in her piece that others are unwilling or unable to do so.
That being the case, that there is a clear dearth of critical thought about technology, do we really need another exhortation to basically leave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs alone? If even light comedy about a frivolous new app is to be frowned upon, what does that say about the more serious criticism of an Evgeny Morozov or a Sherry Turkle?
The reality is that technology, on its own, is neither a benevolent force, nor an evil one. Your MacBook or your Facebook account don't have feelings and motives. However, the people who built them and programmed them do. To pretend otherwise is utopian foolishness at best. At worst, it is dangerously careless.
First off, I just want to remind everyone that this is not a mommy blog. I repeat, THIS IS NOT A MOMMY BLOG. It never has been and never will be a mommy blog or even a parenting blog which I am told is the newer, more egalitarian term.
That said, I am taking a page from Chris Crocker and asking the Internet to LEAVE PARENTS ALONE!
Here is a blog post that appeared on a website that helps people find caregivers for their children.
My response is in the comments, but in case it is buried under many new ones, I'm reposting it here:
I realize that the goal of a blog like this is to get traffic to the website and controversial topics are more likely to do that. However, since I assume it is your company's mission to help parents, I would think seriously about what you are achieving with posts like these. It might seem like just a good-natured parenting debate, but what I hope you know is that many, many parents are insecure about their parenting and all you are accomplishing here is making those millions of parents question themselves further. In addition, you are putting your readers and commenters in the position of making pronouncements on what the "right" approach is and there IS no one right approach to parenting. This is not the first such post that I've seen, but I've finally gotten fed up enough to comment. The Internet and our media in general are already rife with parenting "advice" and debates that do exactly nothing to help parents unless one considers it helpful to make them doubt themselves further. Please don't add to this sort of noise on Care.com.
Now, I am singling out Care.com here, but as I wrote in my comment, this applies to SO MANY websites, not to mention books, TV shows, etc., etc.
Can we stop the madness, please?
Oh, but parents buy those books, you'll likely tell me. They read those websites! They watch those TV shows! And that's true. It's true, because systematic destruction of your audience's self-esteem is a lucrative industry. Just ask so-called "women's magazines" like Cosmo.
(As an aside, I love how the consumerist justification for all sorts of heinous tripe is that there is a market for it. Heroin has a market too. Does that mean we shouldn't try to stop dealers from selling it?)
So I'm going to say this one more time to Care.com and everyone else who is guilty of this crap. LEAVE PARENTS ALONE!
For a long time, I wanted desperately to work in the media industry. I briefly tasted what success might look like and I wanted more.
To my dismay, I quickly discovered that while everyone loved snarky bloggers (especially people in media), no one was looking to hire one. That sounds amusing now, but it was true as recently as five years ago and personally I think we still have a long way to go in integrating blogging into the mainstream media DNA.
Then, the seemingly impossible happened. I got a job. I was, to put it mildly, THRILLED. Unfortunately things quickly went awry and I was unceremoniously fired approximately 4 1/2 months later. Three days prior to being fired, I had found out I was pregnant for the first time.
I studiously kept looking for any sort of editorial job before I started showing when, I assumed, the jig would be up at interviews. Nothing materialized before my son was born. After, it became impossible even to shower or change into clean clothes for a very, very long time. He's 2 1/2 in three days and I've only marginally improved on that track record.
I did go to work for the Sun-Times Media Group/Pioneer Press when my boy was about a year old. That didn't work out. Four months into a job where my words and my reporting appeared in actual newsprint on a printed page, I felt ambivalent about the work. This was supposed to be my dream come true, but it felt hollow and unsatisfying. I wrote that I still didn't know what I wanted to do with my life. So I started to think bigger. If I couldn't find a media company where I actually wanted to work, maybe I needed to start one of my own.
Something that always irritated me to no end is that good journalism only goes halfway to where it needs to go. It reports on a problem or corruption or a terrible injustice and…. that's it. That's where it ends. The rest of the distance to measurable change is often traversed by activists. Non-profits. Interest groups. PACs. Etc.
As a reader, I have too often experienced the frustration of reading an amazing story and at the end, saying to no one in particular: now what? If I want to do something about this, what exactly should I do? Where should I start? The journalist or her news organization will not help me with this. That would be considered activist journalism and thus very baaaaaad and possibly unethical. Journalists are supposed to be like clouds floating above it all. Seeing all and reporting it, but going no further. On the one hand, I see the value in this approach. On the other, I wholly reject it.
What do we get in the absence of clear-cut ideas and suggestions of where to invest money or time to solve a problem? We get Facebook petitions. Tweets. You-Tube videos you share with your friends. Slacktivism, as its been dubbed. Or we get shrugs and inaction. The problems seem so big and so nebulous that even a motivated reader wouldn't know where to begin.
With Acta Magazine, I want to put a stop to all of that frustration. I want readers and those who want to reach a specific sort of reader to fund important journalism. I want to actually change the world, not just talk about doing it. Most of all, I want to write my own story instead of hoping that one day I can maybe get the sort of ending I want.
Will you join me? I'm doing a live chat soon about Acta, media and anything else people want to ask. Think of it like Reddit's IamAs but for regular people. It will be on Wednesday, April 2 at 3pm CST and will take place here. I hope you'll stop by.
I woke up this morning to news that Ezra Klein is pulling a Nate Silver and likely leaving The Washington Post.
If you want all the details plus smart takes on what this means, I recommend reading Dan Kennedy's piece and also Mathew Ingram's.
For my part, I'm going to tell you a story. Once upon a time, I wrote a blog called The Daily Daley on a now defunct site called The Windy Citizen. It was about Richard M. Daley, the iconic mayor of Chicago, son of the arguably even more iconic Richard J. Daley who was mayor before him.
It was 2008 and this was my first foray into media, a pivotal moment in my life. I had not gone to journalism school. I had not studied it as an undergrad either. I had never written a blog before. I didn't know anything about how online publishing worked. Brad, Windy Citizen's founder, had to walk me through everything. He introduced me to the fundamentals of blogging, gaining an audience, how online traffic worked and so much more. From then on, I learned on my own. I read everything I could about media and journalism and eventually became a small, but vocal voice in the "future of news" crowd, online and off.
As for the Daily Daley, though I worked on it for only slightly more than a year and although it never reached a mass audience, it was read by nearly everyone in the local media. It was snarky and funny and politically informed and I liked to believe that journalists read it because I said the things they couldn't. I remember that years later, I was at an interview for a job at the Chicago Tribune and my interviewer turned out to be a reader of the blog (this happened more than once). I remember him saying he was sad to see it stop. By then, I just shrugged, smiled and didn't say much. There was a time though, when similar interest from a person employed by a major media organization gave me palpitations and delusions of grandeur.
In February of 2009, the Chicago Journalism Town Hall took place. The reason it was convened was this:
Ken Davis, former Chicago Public Radio guy, realized talking to his peers that, as he said, "People are freaked out" by the shift from traditional to online journalism.
Let's put aside for a moment the fact that people were "freaked out" about the shift to online media in 2009. It was a great event and although nothing substantive was accomplished, decided or agreed upon, I believe it was a turning point. It drew attention to the fact that there were definitely two sides in this big sea change that was happening. There were the traditionalists who would cling to the bitter end to the old ways of doing things and there were the futurists who wanted to change everything. Since then, some people have changed sides but the sides remain and they remain obviously not only in Chicago, but all over the country and the world.
But back to my brush with grandeur.
In the ladies' room at the event, I ran into a woman who worked for the local CBS affiliate, let's call her Sue. She too was a fan of the blog. She was enthusiastic and gushed about how she loved my take on politcs. To my delight, she said she had been talking to her boss about putting blogs on their station's website. She said maybe I could blog for them about the impending Rod Blagojevich trial. My eyes must have widened to the size of saucers. An actual media outlet might employ ME? At that point, I hadn't even done the freelancing that would eventually start me down the path to doing actual journalism and getting paid for it.
Sue and I would bump into each other at future events and I would often email her to ask whether I could come in and meet with her boss to talk about the blog. She always said she was working on it. I was naive then and just starting down my path of self-education about how media worked. I actually thought that just because I was good at something, I could get a paid job doing it. Eventually Sue broke the news to me. "He just isn't going for it," she said with genuine regret.
Fast forward back to today and the news about Klein and I find myself crestfallen that things haven't changed significantly. Sure, every old media site has blogs now. They're all on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else. So much has changed. Except that what is most important has not. What hasn't changed inside the majority of media organizations is the attitude, the culture, or whatever you want to call it. And what else hasn't changed is the rigid hierarchical structure of most news shops. This was the lede of Kennedy's piece for good reason:
What should a 21st-century news organization look like? A single entity, run from the top, with a common set of values? Or a loose network of related projects, sharing a brand and to some extent a mission but operating semi-independently?
Unquestionably it has to be the latter. It must. There is no other way forward, because while it seems right now like the status quo can endure, this won't be the case forever. There are a number of reasons why this is so, but for today I will make the case that someday very soon, news shops that still function like a corporation from the 80's won't be able to attract the best and the brightest. Oh, they might work there for a while, like Silver and Klein and others have done, but they will invariably leave for one simple reason: freedom. The freedom to do what they want. To test new things, to fail and start over, to iterate, to reach new audiences, launch new products and create the future of news. People will say they left for more money. And that might be true to an extent, but it cannot be the full story. It cannot because people like these don't do a job for the money. I know this because I am one of them.
Now, I am hardly a wunderkind on the order of Klein or Silver. I've nowhere near their accomplishments or reach. But I have been fired from one media job and willingly left another, because I cannot work in an environment hostile to innovation. I feel suffocated, frustrated, chained. I am horrified by the inefficiencies and the lack of a will to embrace new things and new ideas, regardless of where they come from.
A company where people do as they are told and don't feel free to suggest changes or, even if they do, know that they have no hope of being heard or implemented,,, this is not a company that can succeed in the 21st century. A company that doesn't embrace their star performers and give them every means to become better is not a company that has a bright future.
I have no doubt that the higher-ups at every major media organization would say, if asked what their mission is, that they want to deliver the news, inform the public, uncover important stories and of course (for many) make a profit while doing so. If that were really true though, there wouldn't be an apparent need to tightly control all aspects of that mission. If you love something, in other words, you have to set it free. I hope it's a lesson old media can learn before they become totally obsolete.
"I've never understood people who watch CNN all day long."
This was said by someone in a discussion I saw happening on App.net recently. Later on, the same person diagnosed the types of people who do this. News junkies, he called them.
I smiled when I saw it. Hello, my name is Anna Tarkov and I am a recovering news junkie. Though I've long shunned TV news as a means of getting my fix (as is fashionable for all news snobs), I abused Twitter and various websites for years. Given my chosen career path, it's hardly surprising.
In the world of journalism and media in general, it is assumed that you are a news junkie. Reporters, broadcasters, web editors, etc work with news all day long so if you weren't a news junkie when you got into the business, you're very likely to become one. Everyone who has worked in the industry knows the feeling. The rush of a fresh, new story is intoxicating. SOMETHING IS HAPPENING, your mind screams and you have to find out all the facts and report them.
Being a passive consumer of news is very similar. A story breaks and suddenly you want to know everything about it and follow all the developments.
For many, news is not a recreational drug. It is highly addictive. And like any addiction, it takes increasingly higher doses to get high. So you start out innocently enough, checking news sites, blogs or Twitter a few times a day or turning on the TV here and there. But pretty soon you're glued to the computer and/or TV screen, terrified of missing something. The symptoms of your addiction are both predictable and strange all at once. For instance, you begin to delight in being the first to know about a story.
"Did you hear about the earthquake in Indonesia?" you ask your coworker. They reply that they haven't and you proceed to smugly give them all the details. In essense, you are reporting the story to them, the same as a journalist would report it to their audience. You are telling them something new, something they don't already know. It's exhilarating, isn't it, being the first to tell someone something? This is precisely what gets many people into the news business. That feeling of telling people what they don't already know is so satisfying that we accept pathetic salaries, crazy work hours and all sorts of indignities in order to keep doing it.
These days of course, you don't have to be employed by a news organization to feel like you have a captive audience who needs and wants to hear from you. If you have a popular blog or Tumblr or lots of followers on Twitter (or all of the above and more), you can be a one-woman newsroom. You know what your audience wants and you enjoy giving it to them. They look to YOU for information, perspective and context. It's a dizzying feeling of power. You have become something greater than a junkie. You are now the dealer.
I still remember the moments when people said they were paying attention to MY Twitter feed for curation on an important story that was then developing. It felt like I was holding the world in the palm of my hand.
Having now gained some distance from those days, I can categorically say my life is better this way. I don't know about every story, I don't know what the latest Twitter war is about, I don't know about the controversy du jour and I don't care.
Like all former addicts, I may always have to watch myself to make sure I don't backslide, but I'm fairly certain I won't. The reason is that I have gained so much by kicking my addiction. I have gained focus for the things that really matter. I now have deep, nuanced conversations about important topics that go beyond the headlines. I have time to work on things I truly care about. More than anything, I have much greater peace of mind. You didn't think it was a coincidence that journalists drink, did you?
So if you're reading this while feverishly scanning Twitter or glazed over from five straight hours of cable news, I have a message for you. There is a life beyond your addiction. Come live it with me.
When I sat down to write this, I thought about doing it all professional-like, pretending it would be something that would appear in Wired or some such. But I decided to opt against that. Why should I pretend that I don't have strong feelings on something? That would be very unlike me. So here goes.
Last night I saw some posts on ADN (that's what users call App.net btw) from someone I have followed on Twitter for years and someone I respect, Patrick LaForge. Editor of News Presentation at the New York Times. Patrick's posts expressed, among other things, a desire for ADN to become distinct from Twitter and Facebook. Reading this, I became compelled to finally write down what I've been wanting to say for a long time.
ADN is not like Twitter. Let me repeat that. ADN is not like Twitter. One more time with feeling. ADN IS NOT LIKE TWITTER.
Allow me to explain the way I know best, by using a metaphor. Think of Twitter as a hammer. It's made of metal, but the metal has been fashioned into a hammer. A hammer is mostly only good for one thing: hammering in nails. I suppose you can misuse it to bash someone's head in, but most people just use it to hammer in nails. So outside of a few edge cases, it has a discrete and finite purpose.
Now think of ADN as metal. It can be shaped into a hammer, but it can also be shaped into anything else metal can be used to make. Currently, ADN looks like a hammer to many people, because that's the most prominent thing that has been made from it. Also, it's recognizable. After seven years of Twitter i.e. the hammer, people see another hammer and say aha! I know exactly what this is. But that doesn't mean it's the only thing ADN is even right now and it certainly doesn't mean it's the only thing it will ever be.
I actually don't understand why the concept is so difficult for people to grasp. All of you reading this probably use Facebook, right? You can use your Facebook account to post updates, photos, share links, etc., but you can also use it to play games and do lots of other things via applications that developers build for Facebook. The same is true of ADN, It's just early still and no one seems to knows about the non-Twitter like applications that have already been built. Many more will surely follow.
Does everyone get it now? I really hope so. If you still don't, why not try it out and see for yourself. You can also sign up for free via the iPhone app or the Android one. And please find me if you have questions.
In my next post, I will talk further about what makes ADN so special and why it is more than worthy of your time and attention. But for now at least, I hope we have the idiotic Twitter comparison resolved.
Until somewhat recently, I've always worn makeup. Like many girls, I started in my teens and never looked back. Why wouldn't I wear makeup? It's what the grown-ups do, right?
As I got older, I learned that less is more, but I continued to put on makeup to go to work, go out (even if just to the grocery store :-)) and practically every other life situation. Very, very faintly, somewhere in the background, I heard men saying that they like when women don't wear makeup. Ha, I thought. That's just because they haven't seen us first thing in the morning. And everybody knows that after a certain age, women don't primp to impress men. They do it to impress other women.
Though never a heavy user, I nonetheless felt naked and unkempt if I left the house without any makeup whatsoever. I felt like everyone was looking at me thinking how ugly I looked (I've thought that plenty even while wearing makeup, but that's a story for another day). I felt self-conscious. I felt judged, mostly by myself as it turns out. Putting on makeup to me meant a woman cared about her appearance and took the time to make it a priority. The alternative was obviously a lazy slob who couldn't take even 5 minutes to powder her shiny nose.
Everything changed after the birth of my son in the Fall of 2011. I suddenly had no time and no perceived need for makeup. With a newborn, especially one like mine, you don't leave the house much.
At first, I thought I'll go back to my old makeup routine eventually. And I still did it occasionally. A wedding. A job interview. The seven months that I went back to full-time work. But then something started to happen.
The more I saw myself without makeup, the more I realized I actually liked how I looked. So I stopped putting on anything to leave the house, not even concealer or powder which is makeup that is somewhat undetectable as such.
It felt kind of exhilarating. Freed from the fear that people were staring at me and thinking I looked terrible, I felt so much more comfortable in my own skin. It radiated to other things too, like body image. No one loves their body after having a baby and I still want to make changes for my health, but I've accepted myself for now and it feels fantastic.
I'm hardly the first to the no makeup party of course. The image atop this post is from a Twitter account promoting natural beauty and the #nomakeup hashtag on Twitter is always fairly active.
So I decided recently to ask women on my new favorite online place, ADN, for pictures of them without any makeup. I was surprised at how many readily shared them and I want to share them here so that we can all see what true, unadulterated beauty looks like. Some of these came from Twitter as well and you'll find a link to the lady's ADN or Twitter profile next to each photo.
Please enjoy and if you're a woman who always, always wears makeup, I'm not judging you. You should do whatever you like to feel beautiful. But maybe you could try this sometime.
Jessica, wife of Jeff
And finally me.
I hope this helps give some of you the courage to try going without makeup. And if you do, I hope you'll find it as liberating as I have.


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Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual or perennial herb from caudex or rhizome
Stem generally erect, 120 dm
Leaves basal, cauline, or both, alternate, generally entire; basal generally petioled
Inflorescence: heads generally radiate, solitary or in a cyme or panicle; involucre obconic to hemispheric; phyllaries in 26 series, outer generally < inner, free, at least inner with pale, papery margins; receptacle ± flat, naked
Ray flowers 0many; corolla violet to pink or white
Disk flowers many; corolla and anthers generally yellow, tube generally < throat; anther tips ± triangular; style branches flat on inner face, base ± warty, tip acute, hairy
Fruit generally rounded, ± ribbed, ± brown; pappus of bristles, white to brownish
Species in genus: ± 250 species: North America, Eurasia, Africa
Etymology: (Greek: star)
Reference: [Allen 1984 Syst Bot 9:175191]
Recent taxonomic note: *See also revised taxonomy of Nesom 1994 Phytologia 77:141297.
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Stems ascending to erect, 512 dm, sparsely hairy
Leaves basal and cauline (basal generally 0 at flower), 615 cm, elliptic to obovate, ± clasping, acute, entire to serrate, hairy
Inflorescence: heads in an open cyme, generally leafy-bracted; phyllaries generally ± subequal, lanceolate to oblong, acute, green, ± pale-margined at base, ± spreading
Ray flowers many; corollas 815 mm, pale violet
Fruit hairy
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Here's a post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we bring you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post about an incredibly fit Instagram mom.
One of Instagram's latest stars is not only a photogenic mom of two, she's next-level bendy. Allow me to introduce you to Laura Kasperzak, best known on Instagram as @laurasykora, and her breathtaking images:
Laura, who is the cofounder of Two Fit Moms with longtime best friend and fellow yoga enthusiast Masumi Goldman, spoke with me by phone about her family, keeping in such amazing shape, and yes — the woman the term 'yoga mom' brings to mind for most of us.
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This 36-year-old has been practicing yoga for 17 years, and along with collecting Instagram followers by the hundreds of thousands, teaches classes and workshops in the New Jersey area.
Curious about the small cutie seen in a number of the images, I asked Laura how she gets her daughter to join in the posing.
"It doesn't take much," she told me with a laugh. "She's the ham of my two children, and loves to be photographed. Just recently she was doing a headstand and said 'Mommy, take a picture!' After I did she said 'Let me see.' She goes, 'Oh no, mommy, we have to do it again. I wasn't smiling.'"
While Laura's son is a little more camera-shy, her preschool-aged daughter is learning sun salutations, down dog and other basic poses in 5-10 minute practice sessions.
During her pregnancies, Laura was not quite the yoga enthusiast she is now. After giving birth to each of her babies naturally, she opted for a mix of strength-training, cardio and yoga to get back in shape. Today though, her workout is power yoga all the way.
When asked what the common misconceptions about yoga are that are held by people who have never tried it, she quickly told me, "That it's easy. That it's boring. That it's just sitting on your mat meditating. That's one form of yoga, and there are many, but it can be a workout — and is not boring!"
Regarding the infamous 'breastfeeding yoga mom' I spoke to last summer, Laura says she did see the photo and found the comments that ensued to be an interesting read. Though she didn't feel the need to jump in and support Amy Woodruff or say the nude image took things too far, Laura stands by her fellow yoga enthusiast's right to share.
She explained, "That picture that she took was very artsy, and I think people have the right to put out to the world anything they choose. I had no problem with it whatsoever."
And to those who allege such an unusual image must have been staged, the mother of two said, "I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt. On my social media account I don't like to be called a liar…if she says it was natural then hey, I take her word for it."
Laura and Masumi's main message to fellow moms out there who might be struggling to find time for fitness is simply: "Don't give up."
She went on to share, "Once my son was born I felt very guilty if I was not doing something for him, but taking an hour of the day for yourself can only benefit your whole family."
Their number one tip for those ready to make a start today is simply "do something active 15 minutes a day." Assuring it's all right to start small with daily walks rather than jump into 2-hour gym sessions, she says just get going.
Along with offering yoga tips from beginning to advanced (plus some 'why didn't I think of that?' photo tips), Two Fit Moms offers recipes and wellness advice. In a statement that surely must be yoga-approved, Laura tells me their goal is "to just keep spreading the love."
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If you're a person of a certain age, you might remember that Pogo used to say, "We have met the enemy and he is us." I've been very vocal in my criticisms of wireless carriers, but as broadband traffic continues to soar, and unlimited data plans go the way of that ancient comic strip, I'm beginning to think that we video- and VoIP-happy users are becoming our own enemy.
Consider these statistics from a report issued by Allot Communications, a traffic management vendor based in Israel:
- Video streaming continued to show significant growth in the first half of 2011 with a 93 percent increase, and it remains the single largest application taking up bandwidth, accounting for 39 percent of mobile bandwidth used.
- YouTube remains the single most popular mobile Internet destination, accounting for 22 percent of mobile data bandwidth usage. (A separate study by Pew Research found that 70 percent of adults who use the Internet -- desktop and mobile -- use video-sharing sites.)
- Mobile bandwidth consumed by Twitter and Facebook grew by 297 percent and 166 percent, respectively.
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Given those numbers, the next statistics in the report should come as no surprise: A majority of the 50 carriers surveyed by Allot have dropped all-you-can-eat 3G data plans, and nearly one-third are implementing application-aware pricing.
Paying for usage is fair -- there's no free lunch
It's not popular to say it, but users can't expect to consume unlimited amounts of bandwidth and not pay for it. Carriers, though, certainly bear some responsibility. All you need to do is watch a few ads for AT&T, Verizon Wireless, or T-Mobile touting all the terrific new things you can do on their networks. "The carriers are bearing the brunt of increased demand, but at the same time, they're doing everything they can to spur it," says Michael Voellinger, executive vice president of Telwares, a telecommunications consultancy.
What's more, the carriers -- particularly AT&T -- need to work harder at optimizing their networks and adding capacity to meet the demand they've helped create. Peak-time users are already noticing congesting, and as available spectrum gets sucked up, we're about two years away from seeing a significant 3G bandwidth shortage, says Voellinger.
There's another subtle factor at play: Because spectrum is not yet in very short supply, some companies are buying it on the cheap and essentially hoarding it in hopes that prices will spike in the future, says Voellinger. When that happens, costs will increase for everyone.
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Are we in a crisis? Not yet, but we're moving in that direction. And the crisis will hit enterprise IT along with consumers.
The most obvious impact will be on quality of service (QoS). More and more businesses allow employees to use their smartphones at work, and workers are doing a lot more with them than playing Angry Birds. As slowdowns and even outages become more common, business will suffer and management will expect IT to help -- even though IT has nothing to do with bandwidth.
Meanwhile, traffic from VoIP and IM applications increased by a massive 101 percent in mobile networks over the past six months, Allot found. Not only does that surge place a burden on networks, both mobile and wired, it reduces traditional sources of carrier revenue, such as SMS text-message charges. What will the carriers do about it? Raise prices, of course.
That just happened in the Netherlands. KPN, the country's largest carrier, posted weak first-quarter earnings as its mobile data customers flocked to Skype and other Internet-based messaging services. That undercut the company's more expensive offerings, so to make up for the loss, KPN is charging more.
Interestingly, KPN at first was going to use application-based pricing to charge more for VoIP calls. But that move was met with outrage, and the Dutch parliament then passed a bill barring companies from hindering competitors or giving preference to their own traffic on mobile networks -- in other words, a Net neutrality act.
Consumer groups hailed the law, but E.U. guidelines allow companies to charge more for certain services as long as they do not do so in a discriminatory fashion. You'll probably see that happen in the United States as well, so already tight budgets will be hit with higher mobile data bills.
New pricing models on the way
There is, though, an upside for business and consumers in application-based pricing: "Corporate users don't want to have to carry around two phones, and segmenting personal and business use of one device is much more easily accomplished with an application-aware network," wrote Chris Hoover, vice president of telecom service tools provider Openet, in a blog post earlier this year. "Operators have the ability to offer enterprise users the option to use their personal smartphone as a business device, without any party worrying about potential fraud."
In any case, it's clear that the tidal wave of video traffic is going to force changes in addition to higher prices that will affect carriers and users alike.
Google is already in talks with carriers about how to manage YouTube traffic, and an option called traffic shaping is being discussed within the wireless industry. Allot's marketing director Jonathan Gordon explained in a recent interview that much of the video traffic on the network isn't optimized for the device it's being sent to, resulting in a lot of data being tossed out once it reaches its terminus. "The network can recognize the type of device on the fly and, for example, transmit to an iPhone a lower-quality stream than it would, say, an iPad," he said. Or carriers could start offering incentives for using networks at off-peak hours, sort of a happy hour for broadband, he told me.
How this will play out is unclear, but we have to recognize that our unending appetite for new data-intensive applications comes with a price.
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In his first stint as a head coach, things didn't go very well for Josh McDaniels. Hired by the Broncos in 2009, he was fired during the 2010 season.
At first, things were looking good for McDaniels, leading the team to a 6-0 start that included a fist-pumping win over his mentor, Bill Belichick.
Unlike other Belichick pupils who went elsewhere and failed, McDaniels' road led back to Foxboro, where he is serving as offensive coordinator a year after having that same job in St. Louis. Now, as the 2013 coaching carousel approaches, McDaniels' name is bubbling back onto the list of potential head-coaching candidates.
The first rumor that has landed on our radar screen links McDaniels to Cleveland. Coincidentally, that's where Belichick ultimately failed as a first-time NFL head coach, before becoming regarded as one of the best ever in New England. As the rumor goes, McDaniels and G.M. Mike Lombardi would come to the Browns as a package deal.
A native of nearby Canton, it's unclear how McDaniels would be received by Browns fans. The local media already has been bristling at the notion that Lombardi could supplant G.M. Tom Heckert.
And with plenty of coaching jobs expected to be available this season, McDaniels could be lured elsewhere. Perhaps he'd be interested in coaching up Cam Newton, if the Carolina job is open. Or perhaps McDaniels would be willing to work with likely front-office chiefs Jimmy Raye and John Spanos in San Diego, if that also means working with Philip Rivers.
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(CNN) -- How do you replace the adrenaline-filled emotion of scoring one of the greatest goals in World Cup history when your football career ends?
If you're Michael Owen, you start a multimillion-dollar horse racing business.
It's 16 years since a teenage Owen slalomed his way through the Argentina defense to announce himself as England's brightest superstar at France '98.
Now he is cantering to success with his own horse stables -- not that it comes close to emulating the feeling of a sweetly struck goal.
"The surge of emotion and adrenaline of scoring a goal can never be matched, no matter what you do," Owen told CNN's Winning Post show.
"This is a weird type of feeling. It's a feeling of emptiness when you say cheerio to the horse and jockey down at the start and you've just got no control over anything."
As a striker, even if you are part of an 11-man team, your fate is very much in your own hands -- or rather feet -- and you're judged by the number of goals you score.
But as a racehorse owner, Owen's success or failure is governed by a whole new range of emotions.
"With football you always feel in control. On the pitch, you can always do something to make something happen. Your destiny is in your hands in many ways," he says.
"But with racing there's none of that. It's just a real emptiness."
Except when your horse passes the winning post.
"You're just sitting there hoping ... but when one of your horses crosses the line in front it's a great feeling and a great adrenaline rush. Not quite that of scoring a goal, but it comes close."
Owen retired from football in March 2013 following an illustrious career in which he played for several of Europe's top clubs and scored 40 goals in 89 international appearances for England.
After starting his career at Liverpool, where he scored 158 goals in 297 games, Owen went on to play for Real Madrid, Newcastle, Manchester United and Stoke City.
Named European Footballer of the Year in 2001, his pace and predatory instincts made him one of the most prolific strikers in the game before a succession of injuries took their toll.
But horse racing always provided a much-needed escape from the pressure of playing at the highest level of the game, having been introduced to the "sport of kings" by his father Terry.
Owen set up Manor House Stables in May 2007 with trainer Tom Dascombe and businessman Andrew Black. Situated between Liverpool and Manchester in northwest England, the 170-acre operation houses 90 horses co-owned by up to 250 investors.
While the pace may have gone from his own legs, Owen's horses continue to prosper, with 81 winners last season and over 60 this time around.
As an elite footballer he was very well paid, but he is very conscious that his stables are well run financially even if it is a hobby.
"It's a business that takes a lot of money to run," he says.
"You don't want to continue to not be in profit or at least break even, so the business is in a healthy position now.
"I don't want to have to plow money into it every year, which is why it's important that it's run correctly.
"Aside from that, it's purely a hobby and if it gives me a lot of enjoyment then that's exactly what it was built to be."
Owen remains connected to football, working as a media pundit for broadcasters such as BT Sport -- which is threatening to break Sky Sports' dominance of UK coverage after landing big-money deals for the Premier League and UEFA Champions League.
His love for the game can be seen in an advert he did for BT Sport in a sketch where he sneaks into a recording booth to excitedly commentate on his greatest goals.
"My real business and my real passion and my real purpose for getting up is still in football," Owen says.
"I look after a lot of young talented players in this country and I do a lot of television work and everything else connected with the game, so that's where my main passion lies."
Owen is not alone when it comes to a love of football and horses -- trainer Mick Channon played for Southampton and Manchester City as well as England.
Then there is Owen's former manager at Manchester United, Alex Ferguson, who has an interest in a number of horses, which means he is often seen on racecourses around the country.
Wayne Rooney, who recently signed a $500,000 a week deal with Manchester United, also has his own horse -- Switcharooney.
"Wayne and his wife Colleen own two horses with us," Owen says.
"His family love it as well -- his father and his granddad, they're often down here, so there are a few footballers here."
The likes of Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and Paul Scholes all part-own horses too, according to their former United teammate.
"A lot of footballers enjoy it," he adds. "The likes of Paul Scoles, John O'Shea, he's a big racing fan, and Joey Barton likes his racing.
"A lot of the others have just bought it for a day out or whatever, but some of them are really keen."
Read: Royal Ascot agrees Qatari sponsorship deal
Owen's own horse, Brown Panther, has enjoyed success in England and finished eighth at Australia's Melbourne Cup in November 2013.
He shot to fame in 2011 by winning the King George V Stakes at Ascot -- a result which left Owen with tears of joy streaming down his face.
While he does not profess to be a trainer, and is happy to leave such work to his 40-strong stables staff, Owen does believe his experience of playing elite sport can be translated into the horse world.
"The training of a racehorse is very similar to that of an athlete," he says.
"We're all mammals at the end of the day, we require the same things to make us go fast and recover.
"We all get stiff after work so there are a lot of things that football could teach racing and vice-versa."
As his playing fortunes dwindled, Owen's popularity dipped markedly at the end of his career and he was regularly targeted on social media with unrelenting abuse.
With injuries curtailing his time on the pitch, he would more often be seen on the turf next to his horses than at football stadiums.
Read: Thoroughbred therapy on Cape Town's sun-kissed coast
It led to the accusation that he was no longer interested in football and simply picking up the wages to fund his new venture -- something he strenuously denies.
"You live in a world as a footballer where people are quick to criticize or quick to question you," Owen says.
"But those same people that said, 'Oh you're taking your eye off the ball, setting up a business,' they don't realize that when you finish football you're finished and you've got nothing."
Plenty of footballers have suffered from depression or squandered their considerable earnings, but Owen was determined not to fall into that category.
"I've got a young family, so I've prepared for life after football," he says.
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Kindavlog: 750 Mile Roadtrip... In a 33 Year Old Mercedes
Took a trip from Rochester, NY to Tennessee in my 33 year old Mercedes-Benz 300SD.
This car had over 206k on it when we left, it has a 5 cylinder turbo diesel engine, starts and runs amazingly well for its age. these older Mercedes diesels are amazing, I have owned this car personally for over 8 years and i have not really done anything too major maintenance wise.
Some of the cool stuff we saw along the roads on the road trip from New York to Tennessee. Made fun of a Prius, Cool buildings, awesome road for motorcycles, The track I talk about was in need for speed 3: Hot pursuit. it was called rocky pass.
Car drove fine all the way down and back. over 1400 miles total, not a single problem, after 33 years and for the most part basic maintenance that's quite a feat of engineering in my book.
We got around 25 mpg on the way down, about 28 on the way back.
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Pre -View of Vet's Dorm
VOL. XXV—No. 7
Bethel Junior College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. -APRIL 12, 1946
Bethel Building Program Advances
Men's Dorm, Vet's Building
Take Shape on Campus
This week Bethel College and
Seminary has been holding a
"Deeper Life Week" with Rev.
John Linton,' outstanding preacher
and teacher as speaker. Rev. Lin-ton
has been speaking at chapel
services and evening prayer meet-ings
throughout the week, and will
bring his last message at the meet-ing
tonight. Maurice Lundh has
assisted as song leader at all of
the services.
Rev. Linton was born and raised
in Edinburgh, Scotland, and his
speech betrays his Scotch back-ground.
His wife was born in Eng-land,
and they now have their
home in Wheaton, Illinois. Rev.
Linton has been preaching in Tor-onto,
Canada, and will return there
after his stay in the Twin Cities.
He has written several books,
including "Walking on Water,"
"Tears in Heaven," "Devil's Bird
The Clarion is facing a problem
that comes up nearly every year.
Frankly stated, we have lost near-ly
all of our workers, and the jab
of publishing the paper is coming
to rest more and more on the
shoulders of a few individuals.
That works a hardship both on the
individuals, whose time and energy
is thus demanded and on the paper
itself, since it loses perspective
and life when a couple of students
try to print it alone.
I think as long as the school has
had a publication of this sort, its
editors have been crying for help.
On Monday and Tuesday, April
8 and 9, the Sunday School Cora-mission
of the Minnesota Baptist
Conference held a "School for the
Prophets" at Bethel Seminary.
Preachers, teachers, and pre-minis-terial
students were invited to at-tend
the school, the primary pur-pose
of which was to instruct pas-tors
in the art of visitation and
canvassing in a community.
Rev. Martin W. Samuelson of the
Bethel Baptist Church in Duluth,
and Rev. Ned Holmgren of the
Stanchfield Baptist Church were
the speakers at the school, each
man speaking four times during
the two days. Rev. Samuelson's
subject was "The Church in its
Cage," "Household Salvation," and
one on which he is still working,
"The Rapture."
The week of meetings was spon-sored
by the Religious Council of
the school.
If you were to go through the
files of former editions, you would
be surprised if not amused at the
regularity with which such appeals
appear. Every editor has had the
same trouble. Workers whom he
thinks to be faithful and true find
the business of publishing a paper
very uninteresting and drift away
to other activities. It happens ev-ery
We are asking students who are
interested in newspaper work to
use whatever talents they may
have for the remainder of this
year. We intend to reorganize our
whole setup, with a view to mak-
Out-Reach in the Community."
Rev. Holmgren spoke on "The
Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts."
There were sessions Monday af-ternoon
and evening and Tuesday
morning and afternoon. The ses-sions
usually included a forty min-ute
message and twenty minutes
of discussion. The school was dis-missed
at four o'clock on Tuesday.
A program of visitation was actu-ally
carried on in this community
on Monday evening, under the dir-ection
of Harold Carlson, pastor
of the Snelling Avenue Baptist
On Wednesday, March 28, 1946,
faculty members, students and
friends of Bethel gathered on the
northeast corner of our campus to
witness t h e cornerstone-laying
ceremonies for the new boys' dor-mitory.
Dr. Carl J. Burton, presi-ing
the work of the staff as sys-tematic
as it ought to be. We at'e
asking you, for the good of the
paper, and because the job is too
large when handled by a few peo-ple,
to come in and help us. We
realize that most students have
rather full schedules, but take
time off for this service. If we
can efficiently divide the work
among many rather than among
a few, it will mean much less work
for each individual. The meeting
for re-organization will be held in
the Clarion office next Thursday
at 2:00 P. M.
Chorus Trip Cancelled
The Bethel Male Chorus' sched-uled
trip to the West Coast has
been cancelled, it was announced
last week by the group's president,
Warren Magnuson. The reasons
for the cancellation, said Magnu-son,
were numerous and compli-cated,
but the length of the tour
was the biggest factor. The trip
was to have covered a total of
nineteen days, and would have tak-en
the singers to about fifteen
churches in Washington and Ore-gon.
At the beginning of the spring
quarter, the chorus was reduced
to about half of its original size,
some of the men being ineligible
because of scholastic standing, and
others not desiring to miss the
amount of school-work that would
be necessitated 'by the trip.
dent of the school board, placed
a metal box in the cornerstone
containing a Scofield Bible, the
Standard, the Clarion, the minutes
of the last school board meeting,
a student directory, the Pioneer
Press headline: "Way Paved For
Atomic Power," the conference an-nual,
"Advance," and the College,
Seminary, and promotional bulle-tins.
The $100,000 structure will house
89 students and will be dedicated
during the Baptist General Confer-ence
of America which meets here
June 26-30. It will be ready for
occupancy next fall.
On Saturday of the same week
the contractors also began work
on the married couples', or veter-an's
apartment, which will be lo-cated
on Arona Ave. The structure,
which will contain thirty-two
apartments, will be two stories
high, with twelve apartments on
each floor and eight in the base-ment.
The apartments will be one-room
units with adjoining kitchen-ette
and bath, and each will be
completely furnished.
It is necessary that sixty per
cent of the occupants be ex-ser-vicemen
and their families. Res-ervations
for the apartment have
been practically all filled for the
fall of 1946.
Set for Today
An Easter cantata entitled Be-cause
I Live will be presented at
the B. W. A. meeting on Friday,
Aprjl 12.
The girls taking part in this con-tata
are Lois Norberg, reader;
Ruth Rask, Marion Lund, Marion
Johnson, Jeam Hamlet, Deloris Er-ickson,
Annella Krueger, Myrtle
Krueger, Carol Peterson, Phyllis
Anderson and Grace Jorgenson,
The B. W. A. cabinet has ar-ranged
this very fine program.
Girls, let's all try to attend this
special Easter meeting.
Ruth Anderson and her commit-tee
are now planning the annual
formal B. W. A. banquet which will
be held on May 7th at 6:30 P. M.
in' the dining hall.
The group is making plans now
for a shorter concert tour of about
five days. It is also planned to
present a -number of isolated con-certs
between now and May 20.
Several of the members, who drop-ped
out of the chorus because of
the long west coast trip have now
returned to their former positions.
Dr. John Linton Speaks
At Deeper Life Week
eicihiefrt a•eA 74frtaktal
"School for the Prophets"
Meets at Seminary
CHRIST Is RISEN"
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
John Ruskin, in one of his es-says,
points to a striking fact ,in
the production of works of art,
and particularly, of architecture.
Says he: "A nation cannot be
affected by any vice or weakness
without expressing it, legibly, and
forever, either in bad art, or by
want of art; and there is no na-tional
virtue, small or great, 'Which
is not manifestly expressed in all
the art which circumstances
able the people possessing that
virtue to produce." Again he says,
"If there is indeed sterling value
in the thing done, it has come of
sterling worth in the soul that did
The principle enunciated by Rus-kin
may be called "The Unfailing
Harmony of Life." It declares the
certain correspondence between
man's inner and outer life. Inner
evil will manifest itself in outward
evil, and inner goodness will mani-fest
itself in outward goodness.
The Scriptures are clear in this
principle of the harmony of man's
inner and outer life. The Book of
Proverbs says : "As he thinketh
within himself, so is he," and,
"Keep thy heart with all diligence:
for out of it are the issues of life."
Jesus in rebuking the hypocritical
religionists of his day said, "Ye off-
"The Great Father above is a
Shepherd Chief. I am His and with
Him I want not. ,
"He throws out to me a rope,
and the name of the rope is LOVE.
"He draws me, and He dray.- s
me, and He draws me to where
the grass is green and the water
is not dangerous; and I eat and
lie down satisfied.
"Sometimes my heart is very
weak and falls down, but He lifts
it up again and draws me into a
good road. His name is Wonder-ful.
"Sometime, it may be very soon,
it may be longer, it may be a long,
long time, He will draw me into a
place between mountains. It is
dark there, but I will not draw
back. I will not be afraid, for it is
spring of vipers, how can ye, being
evil, speak good things? For out
of the abundance of the heart the
mouth speaketh. The good man out
of his good treasure bringeth forth
good things: and the evil man out
of his evil treasure bringeth forth
evil things."
One may attempt to put on an
attractive and virtuous exterior,
while ugliness and vice rule with-in,
but he is deceiving no one
as much as himself. The mold of
inner motive and aspiration has an
irresistible way of stamping itself
upon the outward expression of
An appreciation of the applica-tion
of this principle in our indi-vidual
lives will convince us of
the importance of heeding the ad-monition
: "Be not conformed to
this world, but be ye transformed
by the renewing of your mind."
A life becomes strong and beauti-ful
and virtuous from within, and
then only when the center of life
is Christ. "Christ liveth in me."
That is the secret of outward love-liness
and strength.
Jesus the Light of the World,
Jesus the Light of the world!
May His Light by my Light, --
So others may see
Jesus the Light of the world.
in there between these mountains
that the Shepherd Chief will meet
me, and the hunger I have felt. in
my heart all through this life will
be satisfied.
"Sometimes He makes the love
rope into a whip, but afterwards
He gives me a staff to lean on.
"He spreads a table before me
with all kinds of food. He puts
His hands upon my head and all
the 'tired' is gone. My cup He
fills it till it runs over.
"What I tell you is true, I lie
not. These roads that are 'Away
ahead' will stay with me through
this life; and afterward I will go
to live in the 'Big Tepee' and sit
down with the Shepherd Chief for-ever."
Now upon the first day of the
week, very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulchre,
bringing spices ... with them. And
they found the stone rolled away
from the sepulchre. And they en-tered
in, and found not the body
of the Lord Jesus. And it came
to pass, as they were much per-plexed
thereabout, behold, two
How true it is that "the meaning
of life to you and me depends upon
how far we see."
We are told of a wealthy young
man who kept a stable of thor-ough-
bred horses and whose hobby
was to train young horses for the
races, though he himself, knew
very little about the business.
An older man who had spent a
life-time with horses warned the
young man that the horses he had
chosen would never make the
The older man then pointed out
a young horse and said, "Now,
this one will make a racer."
"How do you know?" questioned
the younger man.
"You can tell by the eyes. Note
that this horse has a far-away look
in his eyes. Here is your race
horse. You have there that which
betokens vision of a distant goal,
and that vision is usually identi-fied
also with a deepseated deter-mination
and subsequent prog-ress."
Said Phillip Brooks to those high
school boys in Boston: "What kind
of men do you want to be at forty?
Do you want to be intelligent and
well read? Do you want to be
strong in character, honest and
trustworthy? Do you want to be
kind and benevolent? Have you
drawn the picture?
"Very well, begin now to be that
kind of man—or you will not be
be that kind of man at forty."
Moses' marvelous success and
leadership was all due to the vis-ion
of the unseen—"For he en-men
stood by them in shining gar-ments.
And as they were afraid ...
they said unto them, "Why seek ye
the living among the dead? He is
not here, but is risen: remember
how he spake unto you ... saying,
`The Son of man must be delivered
into the hands of sinful men, and
be crucified, and the third day
rise again.
dured as seeing Him who is in-visible."
And that is true of every
genuinely successful person today.
There must be "a light that never
yet was seen on sea or land" if
the deep spirit of man is to thrive
"Not of the sunlight,
Not of the moonlight,
Not of the starlight,
0, young mariner,
Down to the haven,
Call your companions,
Launch your vessel,
Crowd the canvas,
And over the margin,
Ere it vanishes—
After it, follow it,
Follow the gleam."
The Harmony of Life
By Prof Reuben Omark
Indian's 2 3rd Psalm
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1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor Robert Sandia
Ass't Editor Nettie Castle
News Editor Doris Engwall
Feature Editor Pauline Lundholm
Sports Editor Roy Nelson
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Hold Fast to Ideals
While on the bus, Nell Larson
brushed her teeth after a mid-morning
Jackie and Grace were really
studying. Well, at least they had
their books open. Mr. Archerd,
please take note!
Marjorie Erickson was o r
Thursday morning chapel speaker.
Her topic was Why I am Interest-ed
in Missions in India. Special
music for this impressive service
was furnished by Donella and
Petie who played I'm Popeye the
Sailor Man.
Vannie Hedstrom was seen put-ting
up her hair as she walked
down main street in Lytton, Iowa.
Girls—your mothers didn't give
you permission to hitch-hike even
if the bus did get a flat tire.
Gladys Carlson, perched on top
of the front seat, led the girls in
their Thursday afternoon chorus
Bill Haring held the most en-vied
position of handsome escort
for fifty girls. Firemen and Chi-cago
wolves wanted to trade, but
we're glad Bill didn't.
Glenn Chilstrom was carefully
guarded by his wife, but Pop
Stjernstrom was free to wink at
all the girls. To quote him, "A.s
long as I wink at fifty-two at one
time, I guess it is all right."
Milton Speas' entire family was
kept well-informed about the girls
as they traveled along.
Speaking of a man-power short-age—
two bachelors at Kiron had
to entertain five girls. Poor fel-lows,
they had room for ten.
Who was responsible for all the
rare discussions which were car-ried
on in the station wagon?
These fast Bethel girls—Six
girls took advantage of their posi-tion
at the back of the big bus to
write notes to five boys from At-lanta,
Georgia who drove along
right behind. Aren't you glad the
bus stopped so that you got a
chance to talk to the Southerners?
Not one important place in Chi-cago
was forgotten by June Lund-quist,
our sight-seeing guide. Eyes
became larger and necks were
craned as we passed Navy Pier.
Leo Lindberg quickly decided to
come back to Bethel next fall.
A mother's love never wanes for
her prodigals. As the weary and
dirty travelers came straggling in,
Mom Hademan greeted each with
a kiss. Why was Bob Daley in
line? Was he the prodigal son?
Thank you, nursy, for all the
wonderful backrubs. They helped
us to sleep later on Tuesday morn-ing.
If you want any further informa-tion
on the trip, we will be glad
to show you our albums of pic-tures.
Hold fast to your ideals. You
know what ideals have meant in
your own life. You have seen their
influences in your home, in the
lives of your comrades or teachers,
or in the life of the church. Cer-tain
ideals have been dear to you.
You have held to them, sacrificed
and labored for them. These ideals
will grow into habits, form cha r-acter.
They will stay with you
through life. The quality of your
ideals will determine the excel-lence
of your achievement.
Do not be discouraged if some-times
you fall short of your ideals.
They would not be ideals if they
did not make you reach with your
utmost strength. Some people may
tell you that you must do as the
world does. In many little things
of life, flexibility and adaptation
are necessary, but there are fund-amentals
which your own common
sense will reveal to you. Hold fast
to these ideals for yourself, your
home, and humanity.
Journal of National Education
Edna Seestrom left our sunny
North country to go home to that
snow-infested Ashland, Wisconsin.
They don't know Spring has come
there, as it's still snowing.
Several of our members are
quite excited over the divided af-fections
of a new male student.
According to some of the tales,
he's already hooked, but we have
our doubts. We wonder where J.
W. fits in the picture ...
Last Friday night a group of
students were instructed in the
position of Jupiter at 10:30 P. M.,
or "When is a 30 degree angle not
a 30 degree angle?" or "Who was
that in the back seat?"
"I'm sty-ie eyed and vaguely dis-contented"
is Louise "Evil-eye"
Hansen's theme song.
We can't let this whole column
go by without a short word about
the joke played on Nurse Ericson
by the sem fellows ... John Agee
played the part well of a patient
with a fit, but honestly, fellows,
did you have to throw all those
laundry bags in the halls?
New decorations hai7e been ap-pearing
on all the doors in the
dorm. Also new decorations on
many of the, walls. The circus
theme in the Gates, Lundholm,
Vonesh home is attractive, as is
the decorative Easter 'basket with
all the hard-boiled eggs on it on
the rear of the Grenz, Nelson, An-derson
The Forsline automobile will
never be the same since Gladys
Carlson decided to drive it one
night. Poor Dick was somewhat
afraid that it would resemble that
wreck of Harold Dark's jacked up
over at the sem.
"It's love, love, love" might well
be the theme of Janet Carlson who
has been seeing quite a bit of Rus-sel
Voight these days.
Speaking of pairs, we especially
like the Newfelt-Larson combina-tion
... on roller skates.
Thirty girls signed out Friday
night for the roller rink. A good
time was had by all. Why not have
more of these all-school non-spon-sored
Margie Nelson had a tough time
of it last Saturday night ... one
whole hour of wet-treatment, all
because Janet Phillip's shower cap
was missing. Tut Tut.
Bette Mae does dishes every
night now ... she wouldn't stay In
her room when she was confined.
Wonder if that big new picture of
Dwight could have anything to do
with it ... or maybe it was because
of Eddie that she just couldn't stay
Must go to that super-duper
dorm meeting to see "Bunny"
Burgeson do her ballet of "After-noon
with a rabbit" or "Would you
like another Easter ... egg?"
Joke of the Week
Fraga: Vein var denna kvinna
som jag sag med ni i natt.
Svara: Det var ingen kvinna. Det
var min hustru.
Dorm Doin's
By "Chink"
Monk's Meditation
A monk once lived in a rude stone but on the mountainside where
he could see from his window the village on whose streets he had
played as a happy little boy. But it had been five years since he had
left his home and the hillside where he had cared for the cattle.
Wearing the cross and a long robe fastened with a cord about his
waist—the symbol of his order—he had entered into solitude, hoping
to'rid himsel of the burden of the poverty, sin, and shame which lurked
about him.
He had climbed the plateau, built his hut, and planted his garden,'
enjoying the sunrise and sunset as he listened to the birds and the
breezes. Ignorant of the world and the suffering of others, he read and
meditated and prayed. Thus he was content, and thus he grew strong.
Then one day he fell asleep and dreamed. He had just finished
reading the , story of calvary, and was so enthralled with that sad story
of the cross, that he knelt in prayer, and as he prayed he fell asleep.
He dreamed that he walked upon the road from earth to heaven. It was
dark at first and hard to travel. But as he traveled on it grew lighter,
and then beautiful with blossoming flowers.
At a turn in the road he met the Master. "0 Master," he cried,
kneeling at his feet, "Why didst Thou leave us? We need Thee so
sorely. Couldst Thou not have stayed?"
The Master answered, softly, "I finished the work I had to do."
"But the poverty and sin," said the monk, "are still with us. 0
Master, who can bear the burden of man's need?"
The Master smiled, "I share with those who love me the burden of
man's need. I left part of the burden for them."
"But Master," cried the monk, in sorrow and fear, as the Master
looked deep into his soul, "what if they fail thee?"
"Ah," said the Master of Men, "I am counting on those who love
me, and love never faileth."
The monk awoke. His dream had been so real, and the vision so
clear, that he gazed for some moments about the tiny room, and then
out into the moonlight. Later he sat down in silence to think. It had
been so quiet and comfortable; there had been time for worship and
thought. But the dream disturbed him.
Again he fell upon his knees and prayed. Then he arose, took off
his robe, and folding it neatly with the cross and beads laid it away
with mingled feelings of fear and hope he dressed in the clothes he had
worn when, as a young student, he had left his father's house. "Now,"
he said, softly, "I am one of them—His friends on whom He is count-ing."
Then he grasped his mountain stick and started down the trail.
And as he walked his look of fear changed to one of joy.
"I'm going back," he said aloud. "Back down into the midst of
problems that must be met and solved—down where life is hard, and
men must toil; down into the thick of the battle with selfishness and
greed; down into the midst of mad pleasure, where souls seek release
and find it not—into' homes where men and women struggle to be true
and fail. The Master has finished His part. Now He works through me.
I must not fail Him.
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Page 4 THE BETHEL CLARION
Baseball Season Opens;
Team Reported Strong
Bethel College opened its 19-16 have been hitting the ball very
baseball season last Tuesday after- hard in practice sessions, and the
noon when it played a game with fielding of Picker, Bud Peterson,
Augsburg College. The game was Roy Nelson, and Earl Landsberg
played in the Parade Grounds at has been very good. The team is
Lyndale and Hennepin Ave. in expected to make a good showing
Minneapolis. The starting lineup this year.
for Bethel had Walter Eddy at
A schedule of nine games has
first base, Bob Picker at second, been arranged thus far. Augsburg,
Clarence Sahlin at shortstop, Bill
Hamline University, Concordia Col-
Peterson at third, Bob Daley in
lege, and Bethany Lutheran Col-left
field, Bud Peterson in Center, lege of Mankato have been con-
Russell Voight in right, Jim Rentz tacted for home series, and games
catching, and Bob Sandin pitching. might also be arranged with Luth-
Although final results of the er College of New Ulm.
game were not available when the
The schedule for the season fol-
Clarion was printed, Coach Paul
Edwards believes that this year's
nine will be stronger than that of
Bethany Luth. (there) Fri., Apr. 12
last year. Only a few of the 1945
Hamline (there) Tues., Apr. 16.
regulars are back, Sahlin, Eddy, Concordia (there) Wed., Apr. 24.
Sandin, and Peterson having seen
Bethany (here) Sat., May 4.
action last year, but several first- Concordia (here) Mon., May 13.
year men have been showing much Hamline (here)
promise both at the plate and in
Concordia (here) Tues., May 21.
the field. Rentz,- Voight, and Daley Augsburg (here)
Question: Qu'est que dame que je
vous vais heir soir?
Response: Elle n'est pas une dame
Elle est ma femme.
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597 Snelling Avenue North Ne. 8621
It wasn't so bad when they dug a crater in center field. Some
people felt that there would still be room in the center of the campus to
play baseball. You'd only need to move the backstop back to the side-walk,
and there would be plenty of playing space. But when they started
to tear up right field too, it became more evident than ever that Bethel
needs a new athletic field.
The school has obtained perfnission to use a diamond in Como Park
for home games, but the team must practice on the tiny patch of empty
space on this block, with mountains of dirt and piles of bricks cluttering
up the whole outfield. Obviously such a provision is entirely inadequate.
The school's facilities for basketball games are as insufficient, if
not more so, than those for baseball. Bethel's Athletic program has
always emphasized basketball, and several high-caliber teams have been
turned out. Accordingly, one would expect a fairly good gymnasium.
Yet the school's gym, to put it bluntly, is next to useless for anything,
other than the ever-present "four-horse." That's a strong statement,
but I believe it is true.
The length of our floor is just barely above the minimum required
by the rule book. In comparison with a normal college court, Bethel's
— floor is but a few feet longer than the others are wide. Our backboards
and baskets are not very solidly secured, and as a result they have not
the spring of ordinary rims—in other words, the baskets are "dead."
Seating arrangements are completely lacking. One can see the
game only if he comes early and gets a place next to the railing. There
is no time clock to show minutes-to-play, and the scoreboard is fre-quently
in error because it has no direct contact with the scorer's desk.
The balcony ",running track," which overhangs all four corners of the
floor, makes shooting from those spots out of the question.
The wooden walls of the gym have been split and broken, and the
splinters in the boards are a real hazard to the players. And the all-around
iffadequacy of the place makes free movement on the floor an
Such playing conditions not only limit the team's style on its own
floor, but are also a disadvantage away from home. Accustomed to
playing in cramped quarters and with dead rims, the players must adjust
themselves to the new court, and often the adjustment is so great that
it cannot be made before the game is lost.
Well, such conditions cannot be allowed to continue, especially with
the program of expansion that the school is pushing. The enrollment
next year is expected to exceed 400. A school with 400 students needs
a good deal of equipment to provide for that student body's physical
development. It needs far more equipment than Bethel has right now.
We must do something about this situation this year. If we don't at
least five months of work will be lost. We must begin the movement
for a new field house, and a new athletic field immediately. There are,
as of today, only six and a half- weeks until commencement exercises.
What are we waiting for? Let's get on the ball. Time's a'wastin'.
Pregunta: ?Quien fue ese mujer
que vio con Ud. noche pasado?
Contesta: '.Eso no fue una mujer,
fue la esposa de mia!
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JOBS: Mia Bella Salon expansion offers opportunities for Beauty Professionals
After eight years in the Manhattan neighborhood of Normandy Park, Mia Bella Salon has announced that they are moving to the Normandy Towne Center and expanding their successful salon.
Owner Laura Joseph has been operating in this area for over 17 years and is looking for the right individuals to staff what will be a multi-service beauty salon featuring Hair, Color, Skin, Make-up, Massage and Waxing services.
Are you looking for a new opportunity in the affluent Normandy Park community?
Call or email Laura today! Immediate interview opportunities are available for:
- Stylists/ colorists
- Massage therapists
- Estheticians
- Make-up artists
- Waxing Technicians
Laura can be contacted at:
- [email protected]
- (206) 431-5652
Her current salon is located at: 18016 1st Ave S. Burien, WA 98148 and will be moving to 19987 1st Ave South #104, Normandy Park WA 98148.
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