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Homecoming court for 1963 includes: (left to
right) Judy Lindaman, a sociology major from Ap-plington,
Iowa; Gail Nilsen, an elementary education
major from Waukegan, Ill.; Judy Van Wambeke, an
(photo by Starr)
elementary education major from Barrington, Ill.;
Jean Dahlquist, an English major from Rockford, III.;
and Marilyn Swan, an elementary education major
from Rockford, Ill.
Keswick Speakers To Present Chapels;
Rees Opens Series Next Tuesday
Speakers participating in the Minneapolis and presently serving inary, he is the author of the chil-
Upper Midwest Keswick convention as World Vision's vice-president-at- dren's doctrine book, Great Les-being
held at First Covenant large, will address the combined sons for God's Lambs.
church in Minneapolis, Sunday, college and seminary chapel on Dr. Robert Smith, chairman of
Oct. 27 through Friday, Nov. 1, Tuesday, Oct. 29. Bethel's philosophy department, is
will address Bethel chapel aud- Speaking on Wednesday at the scheduled to close the series on
iences next Tuesday through Fri- combined chapel will be Dr. L. E. Friday. Dr. Smith will be the open-day.
Maxwell, principal of Prairie Bible ing rally speaker at First Covenant
Dr. Paul S. Rees, for 20 years institute. He has authored Born church on Sunday, Oct. 27.
pastor of First Covenant church in Crucified, Crowded to Christ and Use of the word Keswick springs
Abandoned to Christ. from the name of a village in nor-
Dr. Howard F. Sugden, president them England where a conference
on the "deeper life" has been held
annually for the past 80 years. The
term represents Biblical teaching
on the development of the Chris-tian
Students Offer
Views of UN
of the Canadian Keswick confer-ence
board will speak on Thurs-day.
A teacher at Ontario's London
Bible institute and theological sem-
(photo by Johnson)
Found hiding are 1963 homecoming co-chairmen Liz Carlson, a
senior from St. Paul and Marcia Daniels, a junior from Rockford, Ill.
the CLARION
Volume XL — No. 6
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, October 22, 1963
Homecoming Sweeps Campus
Royalty Events Fill
To Reign Weekend
Jean Dahlquist, Judy Lindaman,
Gail Nielson, Marilyn Swan and
Judy Van Wambeke were picked
last Monday as homecoming queen
All-school balloting Thursday in
the student center will choose the
queen. She will be crowned by
Nancy Gustafson, last year's home-coming
queen, Thursday at 4:30 on
the lawn near the fieldhouse. A
reception will follow the corona-tion.
Senior among the finalists is
Jean Dahlquist from Rockford,
III. Majoring in English, she
plans to enter the field of jour-nalism
next year. Her exper-ience
in this area includes stu-dent
life editor and activities edi-tor
of the SPIRE, and two years
on the CLARION staff, of which
she is news editor. Last year she
served as chairman of the Sno-
Daze festivities.
Junior Judy Lindaman, from Ap-lington,
Iowa, plans a sociology
major. She served last year on the
social committee and dormitory
council and serves on the social
committee again this year.
Gail Nielson, elementary educa-tion
major from Waukegan, Ill., has
participated in college choir and
intramurals for three years.
Marilyn Swan, also an elemen-tary
education major, hails from
Rockford, Ill. Among her activi-ties
have been Big and Little Sis
co-chairman, dormitory council,
women's choir treasurer and
1963 welcome week staff. Cur-rently
she is president of wo-men's
Another elementary education
major, Judy Van Wambeke, con-cludes
the list of semi-finalists.
From Barrington, Ill. Judy has
served as president of Bodien dor-mitory
and women's choir. She is
presently coresponding secretary
of the student senate.
Homecoming royalty will lead
students and campus guests
through the weekend of "Impres-sions
from Autumn." The queen
and her court will be honored at
halftime of the Saturday effort to
"Tromp the Trojans."
Spanish Club
Dines at Cafe
Spanish club's annual opening
dinner will be held tomorrow at
La Casa Coronado, 1113 Washing-ton
Ave. S., Minneapolis. Tickets
must be purchased in advance in
the language laboratory for $1.85.
Cars will leave from the language
house at 6:15 p.m.
A supper meeting, "Guatemalan
Fiesta," with Miriam Mansilla as
the speaker, is planned for Nov.
13, and Dec. 11 will bring a gala
"Christmas in Mexico," complete
with traditional pinata and Christ-mas
Spanish club is open to any
Bethel student with an interest in
Spanish or Spanish culture.
United Nations day chapel will
be held Thursday to celebrate the
beginnings of the United Nations
and to emphasize its importance in
the Christian community.
In an effort to present a more
cosmopolitan view of the organi-zation,
several foreign students at-tending
Bethel this year will offer
their views. Those included on the
program are Sam Bolet, Cuba;
Aggrey Brown, Jamaica; Joy Chase,
India; Olaf Kongshaug, Denmark;
David Mbiti, Africa; and Elias Shib-ly,
Walfred Peterson, professor of
political science, will also discuss
the efforts and successes of the
United Nations in achieving world
"Purpose of the chapel," says
Jim Johnson, associate professor
of history, "is not to propagandize
the United Nations, but merely to
examine it."
"Impressions from Autumn" be-comes
a reality Thursday as the
homecoming queen is crowned to
open weekend festivities. The coro-nation-
reception will be held on
the lawn by the fieldhouse at 4:30
p.m. Bob Beckstrom, student sen-ate
second vice-president, will em-cee
the coronation.
A dress-up dinner in the dining
hall will follow. "Dear Wormwood,"
a dramatic production by the Royal
players based on Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis, will be presented
at 8 p.m. in the fieldhouse.
Friday's activities begin with a
special homecoming chapel ser-vice
at 10 a.m. in the fieldhouse.
Speaking will be Rev. Maurice
Lawson, pastor of Bethany Bap-tist
church, Whittier, Calif. and
a former English instructor at
Bethel. He will discuss a topic
related to "Dear Wormwood."
At 8 p.m. will be the second pre-sentation
of Dear Wormwood in the
fieldhouse. Following the play, a
torchlight parade will leave from
the front of the fieldhouse and
move toward the fairgrounds where
the pep fest will be held at 10 p.m.
The hootenanny to be held at
8:30 p.m. in the auditorium is for
students and all those attending the
play Thursday night. Mr. Gerald
Healy will emcee. Alumni will
gather immediately following the
pep fest in the dining hall for a
coffee hour.
Scheduled for 7:45 Saturday
morning is the alumni letter-men's
breakfast in the dining
hall, sponsored by the physical
education department. A tour of
the new campus will leave the
parking lot at 9 a.m. The dormi-tories
will hold open house from
10-11 a.m.
Informal receptions by the his-tory-
political science department
and the social science department
for alumni department majors are
scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Historians will meet in the history
house, while social workers meet
in the faculty lounge.
In connection with NEA conven-tion,
there will be an informal re-ception
sponsored by the education
department for alumni teachers,
senior education majors and fac-ulty
on Thursday, from 3:30 to 6
p.m. in the faculty lounge.
Royals will face the Trojans
from Northwestern, Wisc. at 1:30
p.m. Saturday at Midway stadium.
Half-time ceremonies will include
the presentation of the queen
and her court and the awarding
of the President's trophy for cam-pus
Saturday evening's banquet at
6:30 p.m .in the fieldhouse will
climax the weekend's activities.
Speaking will be Rev. Ray Apple-quist,
executive secretary of the
general commission on chaplains
and armed forces personnel, Wash-ington,
D.C. Special music will be
provided by college senior Kent
Lundholm and alumnus Gene
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the CLARION Tuesday, October 22, 1963
Homecoming Offers Fun
For Students, Visitors
Basic to having a good time this weekend is an under-standing
of the purpose of homecoming. This purpose has
already been implied and can be stated rather simply: the
purpose of homecoming is to have fun. This means different
things to different groups.
For the students, having fun means forgetting studying
and staying out until 1 a.m. For almuni it means exchang-ing
tall tales of exploits as students and trooping around the
campus remarking either "My, how the old place has chang-ed!"
or "Goodness, it looks just like when I was here!" For
parents having fun means finding out that Junior is getting
along fine and meeting his friends and teachers.
Homecoming weekend is full of a wide variety of acti-vities.
There are special techniques for enjoying each of
them. Homecoming begins with the coronation of the queen.
Classes are dismissed at two o'clock to permit primping be-fore
walking across the grass to the assembly behind the
fieldhouse. Be sure to talk and smile a lot. "I knew you'd
get it all the time!" is the most popular way to address the
Dear Wormwood is a must for all homecoming devotees.
After enjoying the play, more fun can be extracted from the
evening by joining several others for an earnestly intellectual
discussion of what the play really meant. Then go out and
have pizza.
Friday's activities include a hootenanny and a pepfest. A
hootenanny is the modern answer to sitting around a Civil war
campfire singing songs. Since hardly anybody knows the words
having fun here will involve listening as other people sing
and Coach Healy emcees. At the pepfest the whole campus
will parade by torchlight to the fairgrounds, burn a big pile
of boards and yell. Rather like a war dance.
Cheerleaders, queens, mums, trophies, a band, a new
lion and even a football team are featured at Saturday's
game. Everybody has fun here sitting in the stands shout-ing
"Tromp them! Tromp them!" as the Royals meet the
mighty Trojans.
Saturday night altogether too many people jam into the
fieldhouse for the alumni banquet. The secret of having a good
time here is watching other people having a good time and
pointing out how many people you know. After the banquet
students disappear to enjoy the liberalized curfew and alumni
retreat to Uncle John's to recount a few last episodes. Campus
guests say goodbye on Sunday, and Monday morning finds
only a few skraggiy decorations forlornly draped on a back-to-business
Homecoming is for students, alumni and parents. Stu-dents
are urged to participate in a week-end of entertaining
variety. Alumni are welcomed to the campus and encouraged
to both remember the past and observe the present. Parents
are also welcomed to Bethel and invited to share a weekend of
"Impressions from Autumn."
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To Deliver Banquet Speech
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by Fran Malmsten
Alumni, parents and guests will
enliven the campus as they arrive
Thursday for homecoming activi-ties.
Coming from many sections
of the country, they will partici-pate
in the weekend's events, rem-inisce
with classmates of academy,
junior college, college or seminary
days, and perhaps visit a son or
daughter currently on campus.
An alumnus returning for home-coming
this year is Rev. A. Reynold
(Ray) Appelquist, featured speaker
at the banquet. Mr. Appelquist
graduated from Bethel seminary in
June, 1943. Earlier he had receiv-ed
the only other degree then of-fered
by Bethel junior college, the
associate of arts.
Following his graduation from
the seminary, Mr. Appelquist was
pastor of the Ogden Avenue Bap-tist
church in Superior, Wisc.
After only two years he was called
to active duty as an army chaplain.
In the fall of 1946 he returned to
civilian life and became the pastor
of Bethel Baptist church in Joliet,
During this time he received his
A.B. degree from Roosevelt col-lege
in Chicago, following which he
held a brief pastorate in Massa-chusetts.
While there, the Korean
crisis made it necessary for the
government to recall some reserve
chaplains to active duty.
After spending short times in
Wisconsin and Louisiana, Mr. Ap-pelquist
was sent to Korea for 14
Following the Korean conflict,
Mr. Appelquist was stationed in
Colorado Springs, Colo., and then
in Germany. His family, including
five children, accompanied him
In May of 1958, at the request
of the American Baptist convention
to supervise their program for
chaplains and personnel, he was
released from the chaplaincy. In
June of 1962, he accepted the ap-pointment
to become executive sec-retary
for the general commission
of chaplains and armed forces per-sonnel
in Washington, D.C.
The commission is a protestant
agency established at the request
of Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker in 1917. Its purpose is to
coordinate protestant activities
through the chaplains' work with
the religious and moral welfare of
service personnel. There are 33
denominations constituent to the
commission, and nearly all others
are consultants to this program.
Mr. and Mrs. Appelquist live
with four of their children in Fair-fax,
Va. Their oldest daughter,
Nancy, attended Bethel last year
and is presently working in Cali-fornia
before enrolling at UCLA.
Another daughter, Jan, expects to
attend Bethel next September.
Mr. Appelquist will also speak
Friday at 4 at Walfred Peterson's
by Jim Anderson and Bill Damberg
We recently asked the Rev. Dr.
J. Lester Harnish, guest speaker
for the seminary fall lecture ser-ies,
to comment on the role of the
inner-city church. Harnish is pas-tor
of the 2,000-member First Bap-tist
church in Portland, Ore.
Harnish believes that problems
arise in the inner-city church from
geographic isolation caused by ur-ban
renewal, freeway construction
and changes in the dynamic society.
As areas change, the types of per-sonalities
composing the church
TO MEET the pace set by soc-iety,
the church must change the
time of its services. Dr. Harnish
holds three morning worship ser-vices,
with the first at 7:45 a.m.
He believes that the church must
not continue to impose its rural
time schedule upon urban mem-bers.
More activities must be sched-uled
when the people are at
church. "Structure your meet-ings
so that you don't bring peo-ple
to the church as often, but
keep them there when they
come," says Dr. Harnish. His
by Stan Olsen
Minneapolis Symphony orchestra
opened its 1963-64 concert season
last Friday with a stimulating pro-gram
of only orchestral numbers.
This coming Friday and the next,
the symphony will play two con-certs
with outstanding soloists.
On Oct. 25, violinist Hernyle Seer-yug
will perform a Beethoven con-certo.
The program will also in-clude
works by Schumann and
Duke and Stravinsky's "Rite of
At the performance Nov. 1
Malcom Frager will be the fea-tured
guest pianist playing Pro-kofiev's
"Piano Concerto No. 2."
Mozart, Rochberg and Respighi's
tone poem "Roman Festival" will
be featured.
Symphony concerts are scheduled
for 8:30 p.m. in Northrup auditor-ium
on the University of Minnesota
Of interest to Bethel students is
the Oct. 29 concert by pianist Ro-bert
Casadesus in the St. Paul audi-torium.
Performance time for this
Wednesday evening schedule be-gins
at 3:30 in the afternoon and
ends at 8:30 p.m.
Dr. Harnish holds that there
must be changes in the pastoral
approach. His church has fifty dea-cons,
each with responsibility for
visitation in a given section of the
three-county Portland area.
"Specialization is needed in the
ministerial staff of a church," con-tends
Dr. Harnish. His church's
staff includes four ministers, four
secretaries, two janitors, an organ-ist
and a part-time music director.
Each minister is responsible to a
board, not to the senior minister.
DR. HARNISH BELIEVES that
the church has no choice but to
broadcast by radio. Without this
media, the church is very limited.
Dr. Harnish feels that the in-ner-
city church must provide a
program to meets the needs of
the congregation so they may re-turn
into their daily activities as
stronger Christians. He feels that
the local church corporately
must express itself in the com-munity.
One corporate extension of Port-land's
First Baptist church is the
first concert in the Schubert ser-ies
is 8:30 p.m.
Walker Art gallery at 1710
Lyndale in Minneapolis is cur-rently
displaying an exhibition
entitled "Recent Paintings USA:
The Figure." All the paintings of
this collection are new stylistic
approaches to paintings of the
human figure.
Reed Marionettes are featured in
the junior theater production of
the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Oct. 26-27 at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m.
On Oct. 29 the Institute will host
"An Evening of Readings" co-ordinated
by Mr. David Jones, Eng-lish
professor at the University.
The program will begin at 8 p.m.
Admission is free.
University of Minnesota theater
will present two plays during the
next two weeks. "The Laugh-maker,"
a world premier of a play
about the lives of two great French
comedians, will run from Oct. 31
through Nov. 10 in the Scott Hall
auditorium. "Lysistrata," an adap-tation
of Aristophane's play by the
same title will run from Oct. 23
to Oct. 27.
Christian community relation com-mittee
(CCRC), which attempts to
communicate the church's convic-tions
to the downtown community.
Sometimes the CCRC will approach
the urban government to state the
church's stand on a vital issue.
Closely related to this commit-tee
is the citizens alert program.
This annual activity is designed to
demonstrate how the church can
more actively participate in civic
affairs. Leaders from all levels of
government participate in this pro-gram.
OTHER PROGRAMS in the plan-ning
stage which would attempt to
relate Christianity to human prob-lems
were also mentioned. The
establishment of a tobacco clinic
would probe such questions as why
people smoke. Another possible
project that Harnish hopes to set
up in his church is a divorcee
anonymous association.
Harnish feels that individual
Christians should participate in
various civic activities. Dr. Har-nish
especially encourages his
men to join professional organi-zations.
In fact, he himself is an
active member of the Rotary and
the Professional city club of
Dr. Harnish does not view his
church as a pressure group. The
best way to bear a Christian wit-ness,
he maintains, is through in-dividuals
and through organizations
like the Council of Churches.
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Mr. AAnnddeersrsoonn and Mr. Dam-berg
are enrolled in the semin-ary
junior class. St. Paul, Minn.
is Mr. Anderson's residence. Mr.
Damberg, current president of
YGOP, was graduated from the
college last May. He served as
senior class representative to the
senate and sports writer for the
CLARION. College Park, Md. is
his hometown.
This Weeh . .
Tuesday, Oct. 22
6.45 p.m. Student senate. Room 105.
Thursday, Oct. 24
10 a.m. United Nations convocation. Field-house
11 a.m.-3 p.m. Homecoming queen election.
Student center.
3:30-6 p.m. Informal reception for alumni-teachers.
4.30 p.m. Coronation reception. Campus
8 p.m. Homecoming drama presentation,
"Dear Wormwood." Fieldhouse.
Friday, Oct. 25
10 a.m.—Homecoming chapel service. Field-house.
8 p.m. "Dear Wormwood." Fieldhouse.
8:30 p.m. Hootenanny. College auditorium.
10 p.m. Campus pepfest. State fairgrounds.
10:30 p.m. Alumni coffee hour. Dining hall.
Saturday, Oct. 26
7:45 a.m. Alumni lettermen's breakfast.
President's dining room.
9 a.m. Alumni tour of new campus. Tour
leaves from campus parking lot.
10-11 a.m. Dormitories open house.
10:30 a.m. Informal reception by history-political
science department for alumni
majors. History house. Informal reception
by social science department for alumni
majors and social workers. LL-B.
1:30 p.m. Football. Bethel vs. Northwestern
of Wisconsin. Midway stadium.
6:30 p.m. Annual alumni banquet. Rev. Ray
Appelquist, speaker. Fieldhouse.
Sunday, Oct. 27
10:30 p.m. Alumni presentation. WLOL ra-dio.
Monday, Oct. 28
7 p.m. Lambda Iota Tau. LL-C.
Tuesday, Oct. 29
8:30 p.m. Schubert club concert series. Ro-bert
Casadesus, featured pianist. St. Paul
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic year,
except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
rate $3 per year.
Volume XL No. 6
Editor-in-Chief Dave Johnson
News Editor Jean Dahlquist
Feature Editor Karen Neslund
Sports Editor Don Allison
Copy Editor Neva Rogers
Photo Editor Elizabeth Carlson
Advertising Manager ..................... Marcia Daniels
Business Manager Bob Larson
Circulation Manager Karin Berg
Office Manager Joan Anderson
Advisor Edward Avey
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
necessarily reflect the position of the college
or seminary.
(photo by Ekdahl)
Romping devils in the church belfry (Pauli Larson, Alson Toays
and Steve Seidl) relax for a moment from their serious task of tempting
poor mortals. These three characters will be seen formally this Thurs-day
and Friday in "Dear Wormwood," part of the homecoming festivities.
'Wormwood' Portrays Conflict
by Dan Martinez
Alas! The exhibition of water-color
paintings by John Martin
Socha currently displayed in the
student center is "art" we can all
understand. A tree is a tree, a bush
is a bush, grass is grass ... and all
are nice greens.
Colors are vivid for the media.
Different hues of green and browns
are used effectively. The blues are
less effective.
Line is used contrastingly with
the color washes. An excellent
example of Mr. Socha's skill with
line and solor washes is shown
in his "Whitewater Park," hang-ing
on the west wall of the stu-dent
center. This painting is
quite poetic in its total effect.
Mr. Socha definitely knows the
technique of watercolour painting.
His style is eclectic, using dry
brush, color washes and colorist
However, although there are in-teresting
variations in his brush-work,
his paintings lack a spon-taneity
and freshness which can be
accomplished by a more economical
use of paint to allow the white-ness
and texture of the paper to
Philosophy of beauty in these
paintings is easy to understand.
A view of a lake and rolling hills
against a blue sky is beautiful.
The paintings show lakes and
rolling hills against the blue
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Sunday School 9:30 Morning Service 10:45
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9:45 a.m.—Bible Classes for all
11:00 a.m.—Worship Service
7:30 p.m.—Midweek Service—Wed.
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720 13th Avenue South
Sunday School 9:45 Youth Groups 5:30
Morning Worship 10:50 Evening Service 7:00
John Wilcox, Pastor Bailey Anderson, Youth Director
Miss Charlotte Ransom, Education Secretary
Youth Welcome — Bus leaves Bodien at 9:15
Pastor's Phone : UN 6-6249
Elim Baptist Church
685 - 13th Avenue Northeast
Sunday School-9:45 a.m. College Class
Morning Service—I 1:00 a.m.
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At Snelling, St. Paul
Tuesday, October 22, 1963 Co-Chairmen
State Goals
by Minda Pearson
"We strive to present an image
of Bethel which constructively re-flects
a Christian liberal arts col-lege,"
said Homecoming co-chair-men
Liz Carlson and Marcia Dan-iels
last week.
Presenting their philosophy of
homecoming they further stated,
"This is a time for the alumni and
parents to become aware of the
growth of the school and to see
the directions in which it is mov-ing."
"Homecoming is one of the
greatest testing grounds for a co-curricular
activity attempting to
synthesize liberal arts and Chris-tian
attitudes. Admittedly it is not
easy to find the balance to please
students, alumni and parents," they
"Students who are in the current
scene often see a one-sided view of
the means to education," they con-tinued,
"While alumni carry a
white-washed memory of what
Bethel is and see only the ends."
"In other words," they concluded,
"The realistic and idealistic views
both represent aspects of Bethel
and one cannot necessarily be giv-en
priority to the other."
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skies. Thus, the paintings show
Naivete seen in this popular aes-thetic
is inconsistent with our aca-demic
standards and Christian sen-sitivity.
In fact, it is a product of
the de-spiritualization in art of the
last five centuries.
A landscape has the beauty
which the psalmist extols. Anyone
can and should obtain great satis-faction
from sketching or painting
a nice landscape. Sunday afternoon
painters are very fortunate people.
However, the satisfaction or
beauty of the experience, or the
spiritual involvement of the art-ist
cannot be transmitted on the
paper or canvas if the artist lim-its
himself to a literal presenta-tion
of forms.
At best, these paintings can share
the glory with the art of Grandma
We like the paintings ... they
are not too exciting nor meaning-ful.
Nor do they provide us with a
new visual experience, nor portray
any relationship with the metaphy-sical
... but they are nice.
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Their essential lack of
concern over their worth of their
souls make them fertile soil for
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Tuesday, October 22, 1963
Now that the Pioneer conference championship is safely tucked under
our belts, owing to the 33-12 shellacking of Morris last Saturday and
the earlier pasting of Northland 32-0, the next item of major interest
on Bethel's 1963 football schedule is Saturday's homecoming game with
Northwestern (Wis.).
In an effort to secure for you readers a few choice morsels of fact
about Northwestern's team, this writer placed a long distance phone call
last Friday to Northwestern's head football coach in Watertown, Wisc.
Unfortunately their coach, even though perfectly willing to help
me in any way he could, was unable to help me. When asked if he
could supply me with a few vital statistics he informed me that he
didn't keep them because he didn't believe in them. He commented
that he was only interested in touchdowns.
He was able to come up with a small amount of information, how-ever.
Northwestern's record at the time of the conversation was 1-2, the
win coming against not-too-potent Milton, 35-12. Saturday the Trojans
chalked up their second win, beating Eureka college 55-0. (I wonder if
he has statistics on this game.-
Actually, the game should be interesting. Northwestern's team has
changed little from last year, losing only four men through graduation.
Quarterback Len Schroeder and halfback Bob Bitter are among the
returning lettermen. Bitter has accounted for the bulk of Trojan scoring
this year.
Bethel's squad has also re-mained
basically unchanged
since last season, the big losses
being Bob Smith and Dave Cox.
The Royals, winning last year's
Northwestern contest 13-7, have
to be picked as favorites in the
upcoming joust, when you con-sider
their outstanding play to
date. I predict the Royals will
provide a happy homecoming.
Jesters, Semin
Dukes Rally t
Still unbeaten, the Jesters con-tinued
to romp in intramural touch
football action last Saturday as
they buried the Barons 53-6. The
Barons got on the score board first
on a pass from Keith Davis to Phil
Linden, but from then on in it was
no contest as Jester quarterback
Dave Buck threw seven touchdown
passes. Bruce Erickson gathered in
four of them and Clint Stark grab-bed
three more. Buck also ran for
one touchdown to complete the
Knights and the Counts battled
to a scoreless tie during the regu-lation
playing time only to have
the Knights, behind the passing of
Osterberg to Madsen and Peterman
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by Denny Port
Bethel's Royals rolled to a 33-12
victory over league opponent Mor-ris
in their first night game at
Midway stadium. The victory gave
Bethel captured its second
straight cross country victory last
Saturday with a 25-32 win over
River Falls. The race, run over the
3.2 mile River Falls course, was
slowed by wet grounds and fog.
Dale Rogers won the meet with
a time of 16:41. The race was
Rogers' second straight victory and
his fourth of the season.
Oscar Skoug, River Falls' first
finisher, ended in second place
eight seconds behind Rogers.
ary Triumph;
Bethel a 2-0 record and the champ-ionship
in the newly-formed Pio-neer
League. The new league con-sists
of Bethel, Morris and North-land
colleges. Bethel rolled past
Bethel's Dale Pearson edged
River Falls' Chuck Woiwode and
Mike Callics for third place.
Pearson, running fifth most of
the race, passed Callics at the 2 1/4
mile mark and caught Woiwode
with about 300 yards to go. The
course was fairly level with a large
gully 200 yards from the finish.
Bethel's Ken Haniwalt captured
sixth place and was followed by the
Royals' Bill Carlson, Riley Combs
and Rich Hallbeck. River Falls'
Phil Denmunck, Paul McNaughton
and Roger Williams captured the
final three places finishing tenth,
eleventh and twelfth respectively.
Pearson, Bethel's second finish-er,
finished 20 seconds behind Rog-ers
with a time of 17:01. Haniwalt
was timed at 17:28, Carlson at
17:43, Combs at 17:48 and Hallbeck
at 18:05.
Skoug, River Falls first finisher
circled the course in 16:53. His
teammates Woiwode, Callics, Den-munck,
McNaughton and Williams
circled the course in 17:08, 17:16,
18:12 and 18:36 respectively.
Royal harriers face Hamline uni-versity
in their Homecoming on
Saturday. The meet will be held
at 11:00 a.m. on the 3.6 mile Como
park golf course.
Northland 32-0 in an earlier meet-ing.
Morris caused the home fans
some early anxiety as they took
the opening kickoff and marched
down field to a score. The TD came
following a 30 yard pass to the one
yard line and a short plunge from
there. The kick was blocked and
Bethel trailed 6-0.
The Royals didn't trail for long,
however, as they rolled back fol-lowing
the Morris kickoff. The
touchdown was scored on an op-tion
from Don Strickler to Don
Peterson. The kick by Stan Mil-ler
gave Bethel a 7-6 lead.
With just over two minutes re-maining
in the half, Bethel struck
the killing blow. On a screen pass
to the left, Jim Nelson galloped 58
yards down the sidelines for the
With time running out in the
half and Morris trying desperately
to score, Duane Gibson picked off
a pass and was off to the races. He
followed beautiful blocking down-field
all of the 50 yards needed
for the tally. Miller's kick made
the score a very sudden 20-6 at
Quickly in the second half the
Royals scored again. Quarterback
Strickler plunged over from the
one yard line to cap the drive.
After Bethel regained possession
they scored their final touch-down.
From the 15 yard line re-serve
QB Bob Nolin threw a
strike to Gibson, who scored his
second touchdown of the even-ing.
Don Peterson kicked the
point and Bethel led 33-6.
With five minutes remaining in
the final period Morris drove for
their other score. Again the kick
was blocked. The gun ended the
game at 33-12.
Bethel takes on Northwestern
(Wis.) next Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
to highlight the weekend's home-coming
Ready for Homecoming!
x Play tickets
x Date
x Banquet tickets
x Football game tickets
Oh yes — I want to
get one of those
at the
Bethel Booladia/se
o Beat Squires
Behind some great defensive
play, the Seminary remained un-defeated
as they beat the Pages
25-0. Rich Massey, Morrie Simon
and Carl Linden did most of the
scoring for the Seminary. The win
enabled them to stay in a first
place tie with the Jesters.
After trailing 13-6 at halftime,
the Dukes rallied and came back
to dump the Squires 21-13. The big
break of the game came in the
middle of the second half when
the Dukes were able to score a
safety as a result of a bad snap
from center. John Dickau threw to
Jim Friberg and George Palke and
also ran for another touchdown to
complete the Duke scoring.
Harriers Beat River Falls;
Run Against Ham/me Next
Jim Peterson, Bethel's seventh
harrier, was running a strong
gain sixty more yards than the sixth over the first two miles but
Counts in the overtime period to had to drop out with breathing
gain credit for the win. problems. The victory gave
Bethel a 2-2 record in dual meets
and a 1-0 record in triangular
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Young Peoples dass taught by Dr. Anton
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14 comments:
- Debbie said...
WOW! Stunning necklace Sherry! Awesome idea! Must give it a try...if i can find the time! Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving comments. Muchly appreciated!
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:43:00 PM
- paddy said...
I love the necklaces you have created! they look like such fun and carefree necklaces.
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011 2:50:00 PM
- Shirley said...
Your necklace is so cool. I love making charms but have not tried that technique yet. You did a great job.
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011 3:30:00 PM
- Helen said...
Just stunning!!!
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:20:00 PM
- Gaby Bee said...
Your necklace is divine, my friend! The imagination you have ~wow~ you create such beauty with such simple objects. Incredible!
Hope your day is going great!
Gaby xo
- Tuesday, August 23, 2011 11:33:00 PM
- Karen said...
Gorgeous work Shelly: I'd love to make something like this.
- Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:14:00 AM
- Netty said...
Oh wow Sherry this necklace is awesome. You go for it girlfriend. x
- Wednesday, August 24, 2011 12:15:00 PM
- Kellys Art Journaling/ Sharing The Journey said...
This is so beautiful. I love the idea of this necklace!
Hugs and blessings.
- Wednesday, August 24, 2011 1:34:00 PM
- My name is Toni said...
Hi Miss Sherry... beautiful piece as usual... just love your work. Hope you are doing well.. I will have to admit I had to get up and dance a bit with your music "Stone Soul Picnic" while reading your blog !!!! Thanks as always for your wonderful inspiration.
- Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:11:00 PM
- Kathy Eddy said...
Fantastic as always!
- Friday, August 26, 2011 8:10:00 AM
- Sue West said...
Wow. This is amazing, what a fantastic necklace.
Sue :)
- Sunday, August 28, 2011 3:44:00 AM
- fairy thoughts said...
what a fab funkey necklace. I'm still making my piece, but having fun
- Thursday, September 01, 2011 2:44:00 PM
- Claire said...
Very pretty!
- Friday, September 09, 2011 7:16:00 AM
- Candy C said...
HI Sherry! I am just now getting caught up on some back blog posts. I think your fragment charms are stunning! Love them! <3 Candy
- Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:36:00 PM


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Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that provides an end-to-end image and video management solution including uploads, storage, administration, manipulation, and delivery.
After uploading media assets to Cloudinary, they can be made available to users of your web and mobile applications via dynamic URLs. With these simple URLs, you can tell Cloudinary to transform and manipulate your images and videos. Cloudinary optimizes your images and videos and then automatically routes them through a fast CDN applying advanced caching techniques for optimal user experience.
Cloudinary can create transformed versions of your resources either eagerly while uploading or on-the-fly when their url is first accessed. Transformed resources are stored persistently in the cloud for future delivery through worldwide CDN edges. All manipulations are performed automatically in the cloud. You don't need to install any special processing software such as ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick, or gm. Cloudinary will take care of all your Node.js manipulation needs.
Cloudinary also supports retrieving and manipulating your users' Facebook and Twitter social profile pictures.
In addition to images and video, Cloudinary can be used to manage non-image (raw) files. These can be uploaded to Cloudinary and delivered to your users as-is.
Cloudinary's Javascript module simplifies the generation of image manipulation URLs. The module includes view helper methods for embedding resources and transformed resources in your web views. This section describes the specifics of using image manipulation functionality with Javascript.
For a full list of supported image transformations and their usage, refer to Image Transformation Reference.
Display images
You can add images to your Node.js view using the cloudinary.image helper method. This method generates the full image resource URL based on the given transformation parameters and adds the image to your HTML code:
For example, displaying the uploaded image with the sample public ID, while providing an alternate text:
If cloud_name is configured to be demo, this tag is equivalent to:

You can use cloudinary.image to show transformed versions of your uploaded images by adding transformation instructions. For example, displaying the 'sample' image resized to fill a 100x150 area:
This is equivalent to:

Below you will find many additional examples of image manipulations for your Node.js applications. For a full list of supported image manipulations, see Image transformations.
Image versions
By default, Cloudinary assigns a unique public ID to each uploaded image. Alternatively, you can define your own public ID. If you upload an image with a public ID that already exists, the file will be overridden. Still, the CDN may already contain a previously cached copy of the older image.
To force the CDN to display the latest uploaded image, you should add a version component to Cloudinary's URLs. The version value is returned by Cloudinary as part of the response of the upload API call, and is unique per upload. Adding the version component to URLs can be done by setting the version parameter, for example:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { version: 1315746344 })
Direct URL building
cloudinary.image generates an HTML image tag. In certain occasions, you might want to generate a transformation URL directly, without the containing image tag. You can do that by either using the cloudinary.url helper methods. Here are few examples:
cloudinary.url("sample.jpg", { width: 100, height: 150, crop: 'fill' } ) // Output: "https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/c_fill,h_150,w_100/sample.jpg"
Secure HTTPS URLs
Cloudinary supports delivering images using HTTPS URLs. These images are delivered through a CDN as well. When using cloudinary.image in your Node view, this is done automatically for you, based on the request protocol of the page containing the image tag.
You can force cloudinary.image to always use HTTPS URLs by setting the secure parameter to true, either globally or locally in each call to cloudinary.image or cloudinary_url. For example:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { secure: true, width: 100, height: 150, crop: 'fill' } ) // Output:
cloudinary.url("sample.jpg", { secure: true, width: 100, height: 150, crop: 'fill' }) => "https://res.cloudinary.com/demo/image/upload/c_fill,h_150,w_100/sample.jpg"
Multiple CDN sub-domains
Browsers limit the number of download requests they perform concurrently from each unique domain. The lower concurrency means that downloading many images from a single web page might be somewhat slow. To overcome this limitation, Cloudinary supports downloading images from multiple sub-domains. This can results in a much improved web browsing speed.
You can enable downloads from multiple sub-domains by setting cdn_subdomain to true either in globally or in each call to cloudinary.image:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { cdn_subdomain: true }) // Output:
cloudinary.config({ cdn_subdomain: true })
See this blog post for more details: Reduce site load time with multiple CDN sub-domains.
Error handling
Did you get a broken or an empty image when accessing a Cloudinary transformation URL? it might be a simple matter of using a wrong syntax. To understand more, check your X-Cld-Error HTTP response header. This is where Cloudinary reports the errors it encounters.
For example, trying to access the following URL:
X-Cld-Error: Invalid width - abc
To view the X-Cld-Error header on the Chrome browser, select Developers Tools from the View menu. Then select the Network tab, refresh your page, click on the image name with the 400 status code and look for X-Cld-Error under Response Headers.
Resize, crop and thumbnails
Cloudinary makes it very simple to manipulate images. To show a transformed version of an uploaded image, simply provide transformation instructions as part of Cloudinary's image urls.
For example, displaying the 'sample' image transformed to fill a 100x150 area:
Note that you must provide the crop parameter, for the resize or crop transformation to take effect. Without it, the image will be downloaded at its original dimensions and the browser will end up stretching or shrinking it on the client's side.
If you want to transform an uploaded image to a certain dimension and display it within your page in a different dimension, you can use the optional html_width and html_height parameters. Here's an example of the Cloudinary code and its equivalent image tag:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { width: 100, height: 150, crop: 'fill', html_width: 50, html_height: 75 })
This is equivalent to:

Scale mode
You can scale an image to an exact width and height by setting the crop parameter to scale:
Fit mode
Cloudinary's fit cropping mode (set crop to fit) transforms the image to fit in a given rectangle while retaining its original proportions.
Fill mode
Transform an image to fill specific dimensions completely while retaining its original proportions by setting crop to fill. Only part of the original image might be visible if the required proportions are different than the original ones.
By default, fill keeps the center of the image centered while cropping the image to fill the given dimensions. You can control this behavior by specifying the gravity parameter. In the following example, gravity is set to South East.
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { width: 100, height: 150, crop: 'fill', gravity: 'south_east' })
Limit mode
The limit cropping mode is used to create an image that does not exceed the given width or height. If the original image is smaller than the given limits, the generated image will be identical to the original one. If the original is bigger than the given limits, it will be resized while retaining original proportions (similar to the 'fit' mode in this case).
Pad mode
Cloudinary's pad cropping mode will resize the image to fill the given dimensions while retaining original proportions. You can specify 'gravity' to select which portion of the original image will be used to fill the rectangle.
Crop mode
The crop mode allows custom coordinates cropping based on a given gravity parameter or a combination of x, y, width and height parameters.
cloudinary.image("brown_sheep.jpg", { width: 300, height: 200, x: 355, y: 410, crop: 'crop' })
See crop_modes documentation for more details.
Percentage based resizing
You can change the dimensions of an image using relative percentage instead of absolute pixels. Simply use a decimal value to define the required size. You can provide only width or height instead of both and Cloudinary will maintain the aspect ratio.
For example, resizing the 'sample' image to 20% of its original size is done by setting the width parameter to 0.2:
Increasing the image size is also possible. Setting 'width' to 1.5 will scale up the image by 150%:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { crop: 'scale', width: 1.5 })
Format conversion
To convert an uploaded image to a different image format, simply change its extension. For example, to convert an uploaded JPG file to GIF, add .gif suffix to the public ID of your image:
You can also set the first parameter to be your image's public ID and specify the required image type by setting the format to the required format:
cloudinary.image("sample", { format: 'png' })
When delivering JPG photos, you might want to control the image quality (compression level). A lower quality means a much smaller file that can be viewed faster by your users. You can set the quality parameter to a value between 1 to 100.
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { quality: 50 })
Cloudinary supports generating thumbnails from PDF documents. You can use the page parameter to generate a thumbnail of a specific page.
The supported image formats are: jpg, png, gif, bmp, tiff, ico, pdf, eps, psd, webp, svg, wdp
Face detection
Cloudinary can detect one or more faces in a picture. This allows it to smartly crop photos or to manipulate images based on the automatically detected faces in them.
You can transform an image to fill given dimensions while keeping the photographed subject's face visible, by setting the gravity parameter to face together with the fill crop mode:
Creating a thumbnail centered on a detected face is done by specifying the thumb crop mode and selecting the face gravity:
You can also crop a certain region of an image based on face detection by selecting the crop mode and specifying the face gravity:
In order to create a thumbanil covering multiple faces detected in a photo, set the gravity parameter to faces.
You can even tell Cloudinary to automatically pixelate or blur all detected faces using the pixelate_faces and blur_faces effects. For example:
cloudinary.image("couple.jpg", { effect: "pixelate_faces", width: 150, height: 150, crop: 'thumb', gravity: 'faces' })
Facebook and Twitter profile pictures
cloudinary.image with the type parameter set to facebook, twitter or twitter_name can be used to embed the social profile pictures of your users inside your web or mobile apps.
See Facebook profile pictures and Twitter profile pictures for more details.
You can manipulate the fetched profile pictures with any of Cloudinary's transformations so they perfectly match your graphic design. For example:
cloudinary.image("billclinton.jpg", { type: 'facebook', width: 90, height: 98, crop: 'fill', gravity: 'face' })
Social pictures were automatically fetched from the social network by Cloudinary, dynamically transformed and delivered cached through a CDN. Social profile pictures delivered by Cloudinary are refreshed once a week. This way, when your users switch their profile photos, the latest ones will be used. See Update and delete images for more details about image refreshing.
Displaying and transforming Google+ and Gravatar images is also supported.
Alter shape
Cloudinary supports various shape and content image manipulation features.
You can tell Cloudinary to round your images corners by setting the radius parameter. For example, using a radius of 20 pixels:
Setting the radius parameter to max makes an image circular (or elliptic):
cloudinary.image("face_left.jpg", { width: 150, height: 150, crop: 'thumb', gravity: 'face', radius: 'max' })
You can rotate an image arbitrarily using the angle parameter. For example, rotating by 25 degrees:
Photos taken by digital cameras or smartphones usually include additional metadata (Exif, IPTC) that stores the orientation of the photo (e.g., portrait or landscape). Cloudinary can automatically rotate an image based on its orientation metadata by setting the angle to exif:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { angle: 'exif' })
See this blog post for more details about Automatic and custom image rotation.
Add a border around an image by setting the border to either a hash of width in pixels and color (RGB of name) or a string of the following format '4px_solid_rgb:553311'. For example:
See this blog post for more details about Adding borders to images.
You can make an image semi-transparent by setting the opacity parameter to a value smaller than 100. For example, reducing opacity to 20%:
See this blog post for additional details about Image opacity manipulation.
Chained transformations
Cloudinary supports powerful transformations. You can even combine multiple transformations together as part of a single transformation request, e.g. crop an image and add a border. In certain cases you may want to perform additional transformations on the result of a single transformation request. In order to do that, you can use Cloudinary's chained transformations.
To support chained transformations, Cloudinary's transformation URLs allows you to include multiple transformation components separated by '/'. Each transformation component is executed on the result of the previous one. Applying multiple transformations is done by specifying the transformation parameter.
The following example first crops the original image to a specific set of custom coordinates and then transforms the result so it fills a 130x100 rectangle:
cloudinary.image("brown_sheep.jpg", { transformation: { width: 300, height: 200, x: 355, y: 410, crop: 'crop' }, width: 130, height: 100, crop: 'fill' })
You can chain more than two transformations together. In this case, the transformation parameter can be set to an array of transformation hashes. The following example applies 4 chained transformations: custom cropping to 300x200, fill to 130x100, rotate by 20 degrees and scale to 50%.
cloudinary.image("brown_sheep.jpg", { transformation: [ { width: 300, height: 200, x: 355, y: 410, crop: 'crop' }, { width: 130, height: 100, crop: 'fill' }, { angle: 20 }, { width: 0.5, crop: 'scale' } ] })
Named transformations
Cloudinary's URLs include your full transformation instructions. If you use Cloudinary to apply complex transformations on your images, you may end up with somewhat long URLs.
To shorten your urls, You can give any dynamic transformation a short name. You can name single transformations and also complex chained transformation. Named transformations can be created either in the Transformations web interface of our Management Console or using the Admin API.
Using named transformations also hides the exact manipulations you apply to your images, from your more advanced users.
Cloudinary's transformation parameter can be set to a name of a single transformation and will also accept an array of transformation names to chain together. For example, if you created a transformation named 'jpg_with_quality_30', you can apply it like this:
Using a named transformation means that your image URLs will include this transformation's name. If you wish to modify this transformation, we recommended that you assign a different name to it, otherwise your image URLs won't change and older, cached copies of your transformed images might be returned by the CDN.
Cloudinary's web interface and Admin API can be used to delete and re-create a named transformation. This is currently limited to transformations with up to 100 derived images associations.
Filters and effects
Cloudinary supports applying various filters and effects on your pictures. A full list of filters and effects is available here. You may also want to look at the following blog posts:
- Cloud-based API for applying effects on images.
- Automatic cloud-based image improvements and effects.
- Automatic image sharpening and blurring in the cloud.
Applying an effect can be done by setting the effect parameter with the name of the required filter or effect. For example, applying the sepia effect:
Some effects can be controlled using a level attribute. The following example increases the image's saturation by 70% using the 'saturation:70' effect parameter:
Some effects accept a negative level value. The following example reduces the image's brightness level by 30%, using an alternative interface - passing an array of the effect name and level value:
Using chained transformations you can apply multiple effects to reach more complex results. The following example reduces the image's green level by 50%, increases brightness by 50% and applies a gradient fade effect:
cloudinary.image("sample.jpg", { transformation: [ {effect: "green:-50"}, {effect: "brightness:50"}, {effect: "gradient_fade"} ] })
Don't forget to browse through our always growing list of filters and effects.
Overlays, underlays and watermarks
Cloudinary supports generating new images by layer multiple images one on top of the other.
See this blog post for some examples: Adding watermarks, credits, badges and text overlays to images.
Add an overlay to an image by setting the overlay parameter to the public ID of a previously uploaded image. All additional transformation parameters will be applied to the overlay images instead of the original one.
The following example adds the image with the public ID of 'cloudinary_icon' as an overlay to the image with the public ID of 'mountain'. The overlay is scaled to a width of 100 pixels before being appended.
You can resize and position the overlay using the gravity, x and y parameters. You can also apply effects to the overlay and reduce its opacity to generate a watermark:
cloudinary.image("mountain.jpg", { overlay: "cloudinary_icon", width: 80, gravity: 'south_east', x: 5, y: 5, opacity: 50, effect: "brightness:200" })
In case you want to place an image underneath another image, you can use the underlay parameter. It is identical to overlay but positions the layer below the main image.
cloudinary.image("smartphone.png", { underlay: "site_bg.jpg", width: 80, height: 80, effect: "brightness:100", transformation: {crop: 'fill', height: 80, width: 80 } })
Text layers
You can use any image as an overlay or underlay of another image. This includes uploaded images, social profile pictures and also text layers. In order to append text layers, first you need to define your custom text style using our API. See Text creation for more details.
Appending a text overlay is done by setting the overlay parameter to 'text:STYLE-NAME:YOUR-TEXT'. Notice that the actual text should be URL encoded. The following example adds the "Hello World" text using the previously created 'bold_dark' font style:
cloudinary.image("face_center.png", { overlay: "text:bold_dark:Hello+World", gravity: 'south_east', x: 8, y: 8 })
You can customize the size and position of the text overlay as well as chaining additional layers:
cloudinary.image("face_center.png", { transformation: [ { overlay: "text:bold_dark:Chained+Sample", gravity: 'south', y: 5, width: 0.9, flags: 'relative' }, { overlay: "sample_watermark", w: 50, gravity: 'north_west', y: 5, x: 23 } ] })
Fetch images
Most examples in this page discussed how your can show and manipulate images uploaded to Cloudinary, but Cloudinary can also manipulate images that already exist online, given their public HTTP URLs.
Cloudinary's "fetch" capabilities can automatically fetch images from remote URLs, store them persistently, transform them on-the-fly to match your requirements and deliver them to your users via Cloudinary's CDN. Cloudinary will even automatically refresh these images periodically in case the image in the original URL is modified.
See this blog post for more details: Delivering all your websites' images through a CDN.
The following example embeds a remote image fetched by Cloudinary:
cloudinary.image("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Jennifer_Lawrence_at_the_83rd_Academy_Awards.jpg", { type: 'fetch' })
The same remote image is available in the following example after turning it into a 150x150 face detection based thumbnail with rounded corners:
cloudinary.image("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Jennifer_Lawrence_at_the_83rd_Academy_Awards.jpg", { type: 'fetch', width: 150, height: 150, crop: 'thumb', gravity: 'face', radius: 20 })
You can convert the format of fetched images by setting the fetch_format parameter to your preferred image type. The following example converted a remote PNG image to the JPG format:
cloudinary.image("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4/Globe.png", { type: 'fetch', width: 150, height: 150, crop: 'fill', fetch_format: 'jpg' })
More options
For a full reference of all supported transformations and their usage, refer to Transformations reference.


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Any company that truly aspires to be authentic must dare to wear the see-through. It must have the courage to publicly bare, for all to see, its good, bad, and ugly impacts on society and the environment. Only then can an enterprise make a convincing case that it's authentic—that its actions live up to its words. This is especially true of a company that seeks to do good. Stakeholders expect—and the Web's accelerating influence demands—that values-driven companies reveal their shortcomings and engage the outside world on how best to fix them.
Seventh Generation has taken on the see-through imperative by leveraging our blog, Web site, and corporate responsibility reports to reveal our successes and more importantly, our setbacks. Here are three critical lessons that we've learned—sometimes the hard way—in our effort to become authentically transparent.
As companies become less opaque, demands increase for greater transparency. Thanks to the democratizing effect of the Web—as well as outside pressure from activist groups, NGOs, and citizen stakeholders—the traditional corporate-communications model has been flipped. A company's communications no longer flows exclusively from the top-down, with only executives in the C-suite permitted to make "official" pronouncements. The public airing of company business also flows from the bottom-up—and out—as front-line employees blog on nearly everything that the company is up to—wrong as well as right.
With more and more employees, CEOs, activist groups, and citizen stakeholders taking to blogging, the pressure to air company business grows stronger every day. Up until several years ago, no U.S. company would dream of listing its subcontracting factories on its Web site. But when Nike and the Gap broke that taboo, it became an issue that every company with a global supply chain needed to deal with. Once you let in a little sunshine, it tends to spread.
*By exposing problems, transparency begins to solve them. When a company begins to make itself transparent, it essentially conducts an unblinking audit of all its activities. The process is analogous to the lifecycle analysis of a product. Just as a product-development team puts a spotlight on all the impacts of a new offering, from cradle to grave, the company casts a bright light on itself, by measuring the systemic effects of operations.
That's what led Timberland to affix Green Index tags to some of its footwear, outlining the shoes' climate impact, harmful chemicals, and non-renewable materials. This transparency-fueled design innovation has helped the company understand that most of its carbon footprint comes from extracting and processing raw materials, before it even makes the shoes. By producing a 3-D picture of its carbon output, Timberland has taken the first step toward mitigating the problem.
*Transparency builds trust. No company lives entirely in a glass house, meeting the transparency challenge at every level of the organization. Some secrets—Coke's formula, Apple's design process—will most likely always remain unrevealed.
And yet, the accelerating power of viral media has upended the carefully scripted communications still venerated by many in the business establishment. To confront the relentless, Internet-powered scrutiny by outsiders (and blabbing insiders) of their business activities, companies will have to strip away the layers of secrecy surrounding their impacts on society and the environment. That's a good thing, because fewer secrets generate greater trust. And in our bottom-up media culture, trust accrues to the most transparent.
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It's game day!!
Our first 4:15 game looks like it'll be our first difficult matchup. I'm hoping for a big lead early so we can get Byron in there and get Ben some rest, but I'm doubting that'll play out.
I`m almost ready, 2.5 hours to go!
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I am ready!!!! About an hour until kick off!!!!!
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Im ready for the game but I am stuck in RatBird Hell at work today and I believe they are showing the Clowns vs Ratbird game in my area. Guess I will have to listen to it on the radio
Friggin Bengals/Giants is in OT, NY better win this quick!
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Shootout games mean less time for the print edition story. So here are a few things that didn't get into that account of San Jose's 2-1 shootout loss to the Detroit Red Wings.
Todd McLellan wasn't happy about a lot of things, starting with his team's energy level. But he was most critical of the fact nobody got off a shot in separate 2-on-1 rushes involving three of this top offensive players: Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton, both with Marty Havlat. One pass skipped over Havlat's stick, another to was broken up by the lone Detroit defender back.
McLellan's quotes are in the story. But before we talked to the coach, we talked to Thornton. His response:
"It's going to happen. I'm a passer."
*****In the shootout, Jonas Gustavsson — yes, the same goalie the Sharks tried to sign as a free agent in 2009 when he opted for the Toronto Maple Leafs — stopped Michal Handzus, Patrick Marleau and Ryane Clowe. Antti Niemi stopped Pavel Datsyuk, but not rookie Damien Brunner.
"I was trying to be patient. The shot hit the glove and went in. Maybe I got a little too deep in the end," Niemi said.
*****McLellan consistently has said that the real game ends after 65 minutes and teams take their chances in the shootout. After the 3-2 shootout win over Colorado on Tuesday, he said the outcome was pretty much what his team deserved for its effort over those 65 minutes.
Would he say the same about the 2-1 shootout loss to Detroit?
"Probably. We'll bank the one, but we missed out on an important one."
****Ryane Clowe had more than a few decent scoring chances, none better than what he called his partial breakaway after getting past two Detroit defenders in the first period. But he put put the puck a little too far ahead of him and his shot went wide.
Clowe said Gustavsson was giving up rebounds, just not in the Sharks direction.
"The shots were coming off like grenades. He played well, maybe that's just the style he plays, coming out heavy. A lot of times you drive the net and the puck bounced out to the slot. We had good chances and we passed on a few good shots as well."
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Vera Chapman
Vera Ivy May Chapman (née Fogerty) (May 8, 1898- May, 1996, aged 98) was the founder of The Tolkien Society, known by her pseudonym "Belladonna Took". She is also the author of various pseudo-historical and Arthurian books.
She was born in Bournemouth and lived in South Africa, until she went to Oxford. She studied at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford. She founded The Tolkien Society of which she was secretary, and persuaded J.R.R. Tolkien to become the society's honorary president. She wrote her first novel in 1975 and continued writing until her death in 1996.
- 1989: Amon Hen 100
- "Amon Hen, A History" (with Brin Dunsire)
- "Leaves from the Party Tree"
- "Books of My Childhood"
- 1992: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
- "Reminiscences: Oxford in 1920, Meeting Tolkien and Becoming an Author at 77"
See also
- Vera Chapman and the Tolkien Society 6 February 1972 (letter from Tolkien)
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The best way to predict heart attack risk and other obesity-related diseases is a measurement that divides the circumference of your waist by your hips.
If you're a woman, the waist-to-hip ratio should come out as no more than 0.8. Men have a little more wiggle room: a healthy waist-to-hip ratio for them is 0.95.
I don't have a tape measure so I can measure mine yet. I do know that before I started cycling, my waist was more than 100 cm, which just by itself is a fairly serious risk factor. At a guess now, I would say that it is maybe 94 cm based on my trouser size. Anyway, it's a big improvement. Still a way to go though (at a guess).


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Creating a new Graph
Custom Graphs
The world wide administrative data built into STEM is represented as a graph. It is also possible for users to create their own custom graphs using the new graph wizard. The New Graph wizard supports user creation of custom lattices based on a set of "Graph Generators." A graph generator is a pluggable component able to generate a graph (a collection of nodes and edges) either algorithmically or from an external file. Currently, we have implemented an abstract Lattice Graph Generator with a Square Lattice Implementation. A user can specify the size of the lattice as well as several options for how the nearest neighbor (Common Border) are organized. In the future we plan to also support creating a New Graph From File. A graph generator can also be used to create a collection of edges (or other graph components) that can be optionally added to another graph. To use this feature, begin by launching the new graph wizard.
Button to launch the New Graph Wizard
Creating a Square Lattice Graph
This wizard makes it possible to study the propagation of a disease model on (for example) a simple lattice instead of the more complex geographical administrative divisions.
1) Click on New Graph
2) Name your project
3) Click on TestSquareLattice
4) Specify the size of the lattice
5) Select from the options available how you want the nearest neighbor mixing edges to be organized
6) Click "Finished"
save your work at this point by hitting <ctrl>S
In the future we plan to also support creating a New Graph From File.
Creating a Graph from a (Pajek) File
For more information on how to create a graph from a pajek file, please see the page on Importing a Pajek Graph. This page also contains information about the downloadable example scenario based upon Pajek.
STEM allows users to create a custom graph using Pajek. Pajek ([1]) uses a kind of standardized language for describing networks. Some examples might be found here: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/testdata.zip. A subset of this language is interpreted by the PajekNetGraphGenerator to import arbitrary graphs into STEM. The PajekNetGraphGenerator allows creating user-defined graphs (coordinates and shapes of nodes, type and rates of edges) for STEM and is based on the Pajek format.
An example project available for download may be found on the STEM website or a [2]. This is a standard STEM project that you may import into your workspace. It contains a graph generated using the Pajek Graph Generator. It also contains examples of the original Pajek files used to create the graphs found in the project. The files are located in the 'Doc' directory of the project. Also in that directory you can find additional documentation. Read the PajekStem_Format.doc (or PajekStem_Format.txt) for further information about the modified Pajek format. The PajekNetGraphGenerator is available in the graph creation dialogue of STEM. Please see the page Creating a new Graph for information on using this dialog.
Creating a Graph of Migration Edges
See also Migration Edges: Given an existing graph, another graph generator allows a user to create a graph of components that may be (optionally) added to the existing graph. For example, the Migration Edge Graph Generator will create a graph of migration edges. If these are then added to a model containing the original graph, migration of a population will be enabled. Migration edges are created for a specified population and, at the current time, with a single migration rate. If no location is specified, a migration edge is created for every physically adjacent region of node within a graph. If a location is specified, migration edges are created for every physically adjacent region the selected node contains. For example, give a graph of the United States, specifying California would create migration edges for every county in California. In the future we will provide a graphical editor to allow creation of specific edges.
Migration Edge Graph Generator


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The Massive Workforce Shift: Bridging the Gap Between Millennials and Boomers
As 80 million Baby Boomers shift into retirement, 80 million Millennials (born 1980-95) take center stage as our next-generation workforce. This massive shift is changing the way work gets done as this new cohort brings a different mindset with expectations for a different work environment than the one know and loved by Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, and Gen Xers.
While the recession is shaping the Millennial attitude, a recent study commissioned by the Career Advisory Board1 indicated that "both Millennials and their managers agree on the strengths (e.g. digital comfort) and weaknesses (e.g. impatience with established processes) of the younger generation…Millennials will manage their careers by pursuing advanced education, changing professions and work situations, and overcoming unique challenges associated with the 21st century workplace."
Technology has the power to bridge these two generations, helping the olders to become more comfortable with new technology approaches, and helping the youngers to learn how to be strong contributors to a successful, effective workforce. It's clearly time for a paradigm change, as pointed out by Sir Ken Robinson at RSA Animate.
One of the most striking aspects of this generation really is the significant role that technology necessarily plays in their everyday lives. They live and die by their mobile devices, and much of their online activity is driven by and through a social networking platform. These individuals communicate via text, think in short phrases, and connect and collaborate extensively with one another.
This technology mindset also has major implications for how schools, colleges, and universities prepare them for the workforce. In fact, this generation is driving the shift across all educational institutions as they struggle to develop teaching approaches that are relevant, engaging, and more effective than the majority of today's traditional classrooms.
This is a wonderful, terrible thing for school and university leaders: wonderful because we have a new generation of students and workers who see the world in a different, often more creative, way, and technology is at the heart of how they think. Terrible because they have to make investments in time and money to make sure they're ready to take on jobs that demand they have advanced technology and social interaction skills.
Ironically, it is technology that can help to bridge the gap between this new generation and those Baby Boomers getting ready to retire. In fact, technology can help to connect these two generations in ways unthought-of before, and before this valuable brain-trust leaves the workforce altogether.
More and more schools, colleges, and universities are considering ways to use technology to bridge this gap by:
– Creating and joining online professional development communities, linking newer teachers with more experienced teachers in coaching-mentoring relationships.
– Using lecture-capture technologies to record the very best teachers and professors in action, and archiving these for use by newer teachers.
– Using distance-learning technologies to reach younger students and teachers with more seasoned professionals in other cities, states, or countries.
– Using video technologies to take virtual field trips, led by teachers and professors who have extensive experience in a given subject or course.
– Using webconferencing technologies to hold instant meetings between newer teachers and assistants and more experienced master teachers and professors.
None of us wants to waste a good generational shift. For the first time in our history, we have the tools at hand to help us to effect a smooth transition between these generations. Let's use them to our advantage so that we Baby Boomers can rest easy at night, knowing we've prepared our Millennial brethren to shape a healthy and prosperous workforce and economy.
1Levit, Alexandra, and Licina, Dr. Sanja. "How the Recession Shaped Millennial and Hiring Manager Attitudes about Millennials' Future Careers," study commissioned by the Career Advisory Board, 2011.
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Joe DiDuca
it is so important to understand this thinking for traditional service organizations in order to interest the younger generation in our programs which are pointed toward serving Humanity.


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The 60-room Best Western Executive Inn at 3105 Millbranch Road has been financed for $1.4 million, the second loan owner Jai Gayatri Inc. has filed for the Whitehaven property in as many months.
The most recent filed loan, through First Capital Bank, follows a $1.1 million loan through Renasant Bank filed March 1.
Built in 2000, the 30,668-square-foot, two-story hotel is situated on 1.5 acres on the west side of Millbranch between Nonconnah Boulevard to the north and East Brooks Road to the south.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2011 appraisal of the property was $1.6 million.
Jai Gayatri, doing business as Best Western of Memphis, acquired the then-vacant land via quitclaim in 1999.
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– Daily News staff
The schools consolidation planning commission took its first look Thursday, April 26, at a committee recommendation that the group recommend the countywide school board consider closing 21 schools.
Which schools would be up to the school board and the group doesn't intend to say which ones it would recommend if it approves the general set of suggestions that go to the school board approval.
The planning commission's logistics committee picked 21 schools out of 90 total – most in the southwest and northwest parts of the city – that have a utilization rate under 80 percent.
But the decision isn't as simple as pointing to schools that are below capacity, said committee chairman Richard Holden.
Holden, who is the former chief of operations for the Shelby County Schools system, said some under capacity schools could remain open and be brought up to capacity with the closing of other nearby schools also under capacity but in buildings that are older than the under capacity school that might remain.
That was what happened in North Memphis several years ago when the Memphis City Schools board opted to close Caldwell Elementary School and send its students to another under utilized school, Guthrie Elementary, which is about a mile away.
The planning commission will vote on that and other recommendations including adapting the Memphis City Schools nutrition services model with a central kitchen concept of preparing meals when it meets in May.
– Bill Dries
The First Tennessee Foundation is distributing $385,000 in grants to 15 Memphis-area arts groups through a new ArtsFirst grants partnership with ArtsMemphis.
All requests for First Tennessee Foundation ArtsFirst grants are made through ArtsMemphis.
Funding is decided by a grant panel made up of representatives from the First Tennessee Foundation and ArtsMemphis, and eligible organizations, which include museums and performing arts and visual arts organizations, must be located in Shelby County and have a history of presenting quality arts projects.
The 2012 grant recipients are The Blues Foundation, Creative Aging Mid-South, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Levitt Shell, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis College of Art, National Metal Museum, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, New Ballet Ensemble, The Orpheum Theatre, The Pink Palace Museum, Playhouse on the Square, Hattiloo Theatre, RiverArtsFest and Theatre Memphis.
– Andy Meek
Record-breaking donations from customers at fred's Super Dollar stores have raised more than half-million dollars during its annual campaign to collect money to benefit the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.
This year's campaign set a new record with a total of $637,916, officials at fred's Super Dollar announced. The total was a 17.4 percent increase over last year's $543,025.
In what has become a fred's Super Dollar tradition, shoppers were offered a chance to purchase special paper Miracle Balloons for $1 each at any store location. All the proceeds from the sale benefited the Children's Miracle Network Hospital closest to the fred's Super Dollar where the balloon was purchased.
This year's campaign – from Feb. 20 to April 8 – well exceeded the goal of $595,000.
As an added incentive, customers who purchased a Miracle Balloon in a fred's Super Dollar were rewarded with a coupon for $1 off the purchase of two bags of Hershey's Candy.
Since 2006, the first year of the campaign, fred's Super Dollar has raised $3.3 million.
– Sarah Baker
Dr. Robert W. Williams, director of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's Center for Integrative and Translational Genomics, has received two grants totaling more than $2.1 million from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, a subsidiary of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Williams is also a professor in UTHSC's Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Pediatrics.
The awards – part of a large NIH initiative, the Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism – will be used to fund ongoing research over a five-year period, with the goal of understanding how increased stress predisposes people to addiction and alcoholism.
Williams and his team will process, analyze and distribute massive data sets from research conducted on the causes, prevention and treatment of alcoholism. Data sets from various research studies will be integrated into GeneNetwork, which is a free scientific Web resource and database that allows relationships between differences in genes to be studied.
Williams' collection and research of data will help to make connections between studies, as well as to create new avenues for further research.
– Aisling Maki
A proposal to move up the cutoff date to meet kindergarten age requirements is headed to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam.
The measure sponsored by Republican Sen. Jack Johnson of Franklin was approved 21-10 by the Tennessee Senate on Thursday, April 26. The companion bill passed the House 68-30 earlier last week.
Currently, children must be 5 years old by Sept. 30 to enroll in kindergarten. The measure would move that cutoff date to Aug. 31 in the school year beginning in 2013, and to Aug. 15 the following year.
Johnson says he proposed the legislation at the urging of kindergarten teachers who say some children are not ready to learn until they have reached a certain age.
Democratic Sen. Roy Herron of Dresden said the measure would hurt cash-strapped parents.
– The Associated Press
Natural gas is rising as cooler weather and production cuts are raising expectations that demand may improve.
Natural gas rose 2.1 cents to $2.147 per 1,000 cubic feet Friday in early trading.
The previous week the price dropped to the lowest level in more than a decade.
The price plunged this year as a natural gas production boom created a glut of supply and demand dropped due to a mild winter.
The weather has turned cooler in some regions, which could create more demand for the fuel.
Oil is down 36 cents to $104.19 per barrel in New York after the U.S. reported slower economic growth. Brent crude has dropped 64 cents to $119.28 in London.
At the pump, gasoline prices fell less than half a cent to $3.826 per gallon.
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