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Vol. XXVI — No. 15
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. May 23, 1947
Student Council Officers Elected
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School was somewhat empty yes-terday
because by some peculiar
coincidence all the sophomores de-cided
to skip classes. Many were
found at Phalen Park in furtive
hiding from Bethel's truant officer.
Their day of escape from intel-lectual
persuit started at nine in
the morning, and the weary sopho-mores
returned home in the eve-ning.
Activities consisted of tennis,
baseball, canoeing, etc., in the
morning with organized games in
the afternoon. Two meals were
served and the distinguished per-sonnel
of Bethel's sophomore class
had their fill of hot dogs, beans,
potatoes, meatballs, and all the
other things that help to make
picnic meals perfect.
James (Pie-face) Rehnburg was
the general chairman of the vari-ous
committees. Bud Peterson had
charge of games and Barbara Carl-son
was on the food committee.
A good time was had by all and
it is believed that the day's revolt
against higher learning may have
started a precedent which will con-tinue
through the years. This will
be one of the major contributions
to prosterity made by Bethel's
sophomore class of '47.
Sherburn Ray Is Elected to the
Position of Association President
I've always thought that it was
imposssible for a helicopter to
crack up, but I guess there is a
first time for everything. Recent-ly
a Coast Guard helicopter being
used for a demonstration to high
school boys in N. Y. C. gave the
spectators a real demonstration
when the machine slid into the
ground out of control and crashed.
* * *
A petition was forwarded to the
city councils of the two cities last
week requesting a change in the
double fare on streetcars between
here and Minneapolis so that it
will only be one token. That is
one petition of which I hope they
take notice. I'm tired of paying
two tokens just to get over to
Minneapolis. It isn't worth it.
* * *
The weather has finally begun
to resemble spring, for which the
children seem to be very happy.
But with the coming of this sea-son
there is also danger. Several
days ago Minneapolis Health Com-missioner
Dr. Frank J. Hill gave
a warning that the period of polio
is approaching. He hopefully stated
that "Past experience has indicat-ed
that the scourge does not gen-erally
strike the same locale two
years in a row." Let's hope that
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Awards to Be
Given June 6
Extra-curricular awards are to be
made this year for athletics, for-ensics,
journalism, and music. For
participation in athletics, letters
are to be awarded to members of
both teams and to. cheerleaders,
with sweaters for any student who
wins four major letters after grad-uation
from high school. The for-ensics
awards will take the form
of engraved charms of bronze, sil-ver,
and gold according to the
number of years of participation,
while participation by students not
in the forensics class carries a
half-credit per quarter. Work on
the staffs of the Spire and the
Clarion qualifies for both charms
and extra credit. Members of the
choruses and the band will receive
a similar award of a half-credit
per quarter of participation and
bronze charm.
Full requirements for qualifica-tion
were given in a circular issued
to students last week.
AleAis Society
Discuss Movies
The problem of the movies was
fully examined at a panel discus-sion
held by the Alexis Society at
the Seminary on last week Tues-day.
The moral aspects of the
question were discussed. by Sher-burne
Ray. Ralph Larson empha-sized
the Scriptural position, while
Bob Sandin raised the question of
that stand that should be taken
by Bethel. Bob Dischinger presid-ed
as moderator. Most of the en-suing
discussion centered around
the third of the questions, there
being a difference of opinion.
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....The nucleus of next year's
Clarion staff is already in ap-prentice
training. Recently the
student body elected Perry Hed-berg
editor - in - chief, Marwin
Lindstedt assistant editor, and
Bob Hamlett business manager.
Lindstedt is the only hold-over
from this year.
It is planned that next year
the Clarion will expend in size
and circulation and will in-crease
its budget.
Soph Breakfast
at Como Park
Dean Carlson played host to the
sophomore class, of which he is
advisor, at a picnic breakfast in
Como park last Friday.
Over 75 students turned out for
ham and eggs, coffee, milk and
rolls, served by Mr. and Mrs. Carl-son.
Breakfast began at 7:00 and
continued late enough to cancel
some first hour classes.
This breakfast has become an
annual custom, as each fall the
sophomores hurridly elect Dean
Carlson as advisor before the
freshmen can organize.
At a meeting held during chapel
on Thursday, May 15, the Bethel
Student Association adopted by a
unanimous vote a new constitution
prefaced by the student council.
After the revision, which makes
alterations in 12 sections of the
older document, had been read, a
motion to accept it as it stood was
passed without a dissenting vote.
One of the most important
changes provided in the new con-stitution
is that which deals with
representatives for the student
council. Representatives hence-forth
will be selected. not by extra-curricular
activity organizations,
but by each organized class in the
school, the two dormitory councils
and the religious council. With
five classes, as there are at pres-ent,
the student council would
have at least thirteen members.
However, the maximum number
of members .is made somewhat in-definite
by the provision that the
chairmen of standing committees
automatically become members of
the council.
A number of other amendments
establishes a new procedure for
nomination and election of the of-ficers
of the association. Under
the new system a nominating com-mittee
under the chairmanship of
the president of the association,
is appointed by the student council
to prepare a primary slate. The
two nominees who poll the high-est
number of votes in the ,pri-mary
election are then paired in a
final election before May 15. New
representatives for the student
(Continued on page 2)
Grad Speakers
Are Announced
Graduation arrangements a r e
now complete. Baccelaureate is to
take the form of a vesper service
in the College Chapel at 4:00 P.M.
on the fourth of June, when the
speaker is to be the Rev. Gordon
Hasselblad. Commencement exer-cises
are to be held at Payne Ave-nue
Baptist Church on the sixth of
June and on that occasion the ad-dress
will be given by Dr. Bern-hard
Christiansen, President of
Augsberg College. Class Day will
be during the morning of June 6th.
Final examnations are scheduled
for the week from May 29th to
June 5th.
Season Ends
A cotton-picking atmosphere was
created in the Chapel on Tuesday
evening when the Plantation Sing-ers
presented a concert as the last
Convocation of the year. The pro-gram
of spirituals was greatly en-joyed,
and deserved a greater mea-sure
of support than the size of
the audience suggested.
By Rosenquist
Students Revise
The Student Council election of officers for the coming year was
held in Chapel last Wednesday. Those emerging from the primary
election and on Wednesdays ballot were: president, Sherburne Ray
and Harold Christenson; vice president, Byron Skalman and James
Hoph; secretary, Ruth (Mrs. Vern-on)
Anderson and Faye Seaquist;
treasurer, Vernon Anderson and
Rollin Reasoner.
The results of the final voting
were Sherburne Ray, president;
Byron Skalman, vice president;
Ruth Anderson, secretary; and
Vernon Anderson, treasurer.
The retiring officers of this year
are: Bob Sandin, president; Mel
Soneson, vice president; Eunice
Peterson, secretary-treasurer.
pring jabot 4 .7-70
In the Spring a young man's fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts of Nancy,
Mary, Alice, Gert, or Lou,
And many hundreds others, too!
In Spring when days are mild and
A young man literally goes crazy
With great displays of his devotion
To groups as wide as any ocean.
He wears a tie, he slicks his hair,
He's very sage when girls are
Before a glass he'll primp and
Such "duding up" was never seen!
He frisks and gambols on the
And acts like all of sweet sixteen.
Just like a colt that's hard to
And all because of balmy weather!
Nov, listen gals, take my advice:
Even though our boys are awfully
Love in Spring is simply great—
But take my tip, don't concentrate.
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the children can keep playing
healthfully and safely.
Page 2 THE CLARION
Officers Don't
Make Army, Nor
Do Ministers
With the end of this quarter,
the usual groups of ministers from
the seminary and Christian work-ers
and pre - seminary students
from the college will be graduated.
They are the "full-time servants"
and what are generally regarded
as Bethel's characteristic and best
If only for their training, Beth-el's
existance is justified. Yet, it
is legitimate to question whether
they are the most important pro-ducts
of Bethel.
In the King's Army, as in any
other, the Infantry is still queen
of battle and the private soldier
ultimately counts. As does an
army, Christianity needs officers
but must depend upon the lay
Christian to do the basic job. It
is by the training given lay Chris-tians
that Bethel will most im-press
and influence the world.
The term, "full-time servants,"
is to be deplored. It implies by
negation that those who are not
ministers are not doing, or sup-posed
to do, as big a job for God.
The fact is that all service should
be full - time, difference between
ministers and laymen being only * * *
one of function. The International Bank for Re-
It is up to those who have stud- construction and Development, or
ied here to go into life with that the World Bank as it is more com-fact
in mind. It must be 'remem- inonly called, has finally made its
bered that being a Christian teach- first transaction since it was
er, doctor, housewife, or ditch dig- chartered in 1944. It is hoped to
ger is in itself a full-time work for be a step forward to "bring about
God. The possibilities for corn- a smooth transition from a war-munity
influence are as great is time to a peacetime economy."
those of the minister. (Continued on page 4)
By Dave Carlson
Pardon me while I polish my Polaroids. I had these Navy glasses
locked up in my vault in Hoom 111 after the inital siege of "karatitis"
but the eye strain connected with these more recent entanglements . . .
I mean engagements . . . prompted their resurrection. I suppose I
should extend my sympathies to these new "victims" but I hardly dare
. . . not with Lucille waving that blackjack over my noggin.
It's interesting to notice the effect these people have had on campus.
If you hear girls screaming near the mail boxes, you can toll the bell
for another jeweler made his quota for the week . . . if you hear a siren,
look for an ambulance coming to pick up Mr. Lawson who was trampled
under foot by one of these couples while they were gazing into each
other's eyes . . . if you see Bob Unmack distributing calling cards, he's
just "drumming up" future business . . . and if you want to be happy,
too, "go do thou likewise."
Now, for the box scores as they stand at this writing . . . and I don't
want to be held accountable for any happenings between now and press
time: Herb Ellison edged out yours truly by two hours and presented
Lillian Bosk with a ring way back on April 30th. Then, all we quiet
until the night of the Seminary banquet when Walt Johnson brightened
up the evening by slipping a sparkler on Becky losty's finger and Geo-rge
Johnson found that he had a ring in his pocket that fit the third
finger of Dorothy Drotz's left hand perfectly. Hearing of the excitement
of the evening, Maynard Johnson slept on the idea and after fortifying
himself with a hearty breakfast at Como Park given by Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Carlson, he proposed to Thelma Burgeson . . . and they all lived
happily ever after.
SEEN AND HEARD: . .. Jan Fisher telling a group of fellas, of all
people, that she would like- to live in the Hagstrom Residence for Mar-ried
Students. Any luck, Jan . . . George Taylor returning from the
Tennis Tournament in Rochester looking as if he had been initiated
into the "Order of the Red Faces." It looked good in contrast with the
white dinner packet at J.S., though . . . Bill Wright and Morrie Eng-strom
studying the art of ping pong at 3 A. M. . . . the entire student
body sleepily roaming the campus last Saturday morning still reminisc-ing
of the evening before.
The Clarion
Published Twice a Month By
EDITORIAL POLICY: To maintain and promote the Christian
principles of Bethel; to promote scholarship; to foster
more school spirit; to establish a better understanding
among the viudents.
Editor Gordon Krantz
Ass't. Editor Charles Germany
News E. W. J. Avey, Ed.; Rosenquist, Germany,
M. Lindstedt, R. Dischinger, Kenward, Burgeson, Bavin.
Features A. Carlson, Ed.; Rosenquist, H. Anderson,
Bergman, A. Hansen, Raub, M. Lindstedt, D. Carlson,
Olson, Martinson,
Sports Ellison, Ed.; Goodrich, E. Johnson, Dahl.
Religious Editor Ruth Bridges
Circulations Manager Karl Rosenquist
Business Manager Bud Peterson
Faculty Advisor LaVone Berthel
Chapel Quotes n the (Carpet
By President Wingblade
The great statistician of Boston,
Roger Babson, used to say that
there are two schools of thought
as to how civilization started.
Some say that it started with
the taming of the horse; others
that it started with the invention
of the wheel.
Rodger Babson holds that both
are wrong. Civilization started
when man found that he could
trust his fellow man, when confi-dence
and faith was born.
They tell us that the custom of
shaking hands when men met grew
out of holding forth to each other
an open, empty hand, a hand with-out
any weapon—a friendly hand.
How much do we trust our fel-low
man today—when we ride in
his automobile, or when we go to
sleep on a pullman, or when we
enter an airplane? In fact 90% of
all business today is done on cred-it.
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council are also to be elected be-fore
May 15.
A number of amendments were
necessitated by the fact that many
provisions of the old constitution
were out-dated and were not being
followed. Article I, Section VII of
the by-laws was deleted, because
the standing committees mention-ed
therein were no longer func-tioning.
It was left to the discre-tion
of the student council to ap-point
such standing committees as
may become necessary.
We do- not know if we step
aboard a plane if we will see them
again or not, but we can never fly
from the presence of the living
—Dr. Hagstrom.
If we look upon our talents and
abilities as things of which we
can be proud or which we have at-tained
ourselves, we are headed for
ruin, disappointment, and disillu-sionment
in our lives.
—Reuben Holm.
It is through the work and the
power of the Holy Spirit that we
are to become more than conquer-ers
in the Lord Jesus Christ.
—Reuben Holm.
To be filled with the Holy Spirit
is not to have Him poured into us
as an empty vessel—it is rather
how much of us does He have?
—Bob Unmack.
Let no man be in the ministry
unless he can spend at least one
hour in prayer each day.
—Orville Burch.
If we cling close to the Word of
God we will give up sin,: but if
we cling close to sin we will give
up the Word of God.
—Bob Unmack.
How many days have you spent
in prayer and fasting? How many
nights have you wept over some
lost souls?
—Orville Burch.
I can charge every failure or
lack of success in my career to
little or no prayer.
—Orville Burch.
On the other hand it behooves
us to so live and so practice that
we shall deserve to be trusted. We
recall the concluding statement in
the poem on the coming of the
wolf: "The truth itself is not be-lieved
by one who often has de-ceived."
We build our social or spiritual
credit as we build our character
day by day. After the tragic sink-ing
of the palatial ship the Titan-ic,
when the Canpathia was carry-ing
several hundred refugees to
New York, a group of men were
standing in the Waldorf Astoria
hotel wondering whether the dis-tinguished
Englishman W. T. Stead
was on the Carpathia.
One man spoke up and said: "I
know that Mr. Stead is not on the
"How do you know? Have you
heard ?"
"No, I have not heard, but I
know W. T. Stead, and I know that
he would not step into the life
boats while women and children
and weaker ones were waiting in
line. I know he is not on the Car-pathia."
Some days later when the Car-
(Continued on page 4)
THE CLARION Page
J. S. Banquet Concordia Drops Braves from Lead Held at Lowry
Choruses, Band Bethel Gives 6 Hits, Takes 7
Plan Concert For Last-inning Win by 8-2 Score
This year's Junior-Senior ban-quet
was held at the Hotel Lowry
on Friday, May 16. The guest list
of nearly four hundred was the
largest of any J.S. banquet in
Bethel's history. Rollin Reasoner
of New Brighton, Minnesota was
master-of-ceremonies and the main
speaker for the occasion was Dr.
Ruth Eckert of the Department of
Education, University of Minne-sota.
Dinner was served at 7:30 o'-
clock and was followed by an in-teresting
program. Professors
Maurice Lawson and C. Emmanuel
Carlson in their capacities as class
advisors, and Bob Nelson and Har-old
Christianson, the two class
presidents, each gave short intro-ductory
remarks prior to the main
speech. The musical program pre-sented
several selections on the
violin by Miss Carol Landberg and
two vocal solos by Miss Marilyn
Dr. Eckert spoke on the great
challenge to the modern day Chris-tian
student. She empaasized the
opportunities to be had for those
who were ready to stand up for
their convictions. She also praised
highly the caliber of students pro-duced
at colleges such as Bethel.
King and Queen
Crowned Friday
The rough-looking figure, dress-ed
in a dirty pair of overalls held
together by a large rusty nail, who
was wandering around the Boys'
Dormitory on Friday evening,
proved to be Dean C. E. Carlson
on his way to a married couples'
party. The party was the first
get - together of married students
this year and was arranged by Mr.
and Mrs. Westerhoff. The evening
consisted of an enjoyable program
of games, winding up with refresh-ments.
A special feature was the
crowning of the king and queen
of the evening (Ted Avey and
Betty Jo Greenman) with tasty
garlands of onions and radishes!
Have you noticed how fast the
trees have turned green and how
tall the lawn grass has grown?
The season of spring is heavy up-on
us and we are caught in the
clutches of its beckoning hands.
How can I concentrate on writ-ings
about batting averages and
the back-hand tennis style of the
Berg brothers under such condi-tions?
There's a host of material
that could be used if you wanted
to brag up your own school base-ball
team and it wouldn't take any
truth stretching to write about it
either. A score of 17-0 only tells
a small portion of the story about
Northwestern's defeat at the hands
of the Bethel nine. Russ Voight
was in true form as he hit safely
during each trip to bat, collecting
a double and two singles.
A whole column could be written
about our out-door man, "Renfrew"
Kolsrud and his wild game hunt-ting
and expeditions into the in-terior
of North Minnesota. "Coke"
is looking forward to the day when
he can become a seminary student,
and have Mondays free for fish-ing.
He turned down requests of
approximately five beautiful Bethel
girls for a date to the J. S. Ban-quet
that he might get an early
start out into his angling territory
on Saturday morning.
Tennis Players
Beat Concordia
I haven't yet mentioned the
swinging drivers and irons of
Lingensjo in his early morning
hook and slice parties on the Como
golf course. Or about the bull-dog
determination of Bob Daley in his
attempt to whittle down his time
in the half mile to 1:57:1 so that
he can apply for a position on Gil
Dodd's Wheaton cinder team next
spring. Or about the surprise our
number one tennis player got when
he found Jackie Wallace his op-ponent
during a recent tennis meet
Bethel had with the River Falls
State Teachers College. Wallace
played in the national play-off with
the U. S. Champion, Falkenberg
of California.
Concordia, getting hits when
most needed, dropped Bethel from
the undefeated column and from
first place in Southern Minnesota,
Conference baseball. The game
ended in a score of 8-2 and was
played at Concordia on May 14.
'Bethel scored its only two runs
in the eighth inning. Beck, fast-ball
pitcher for the Concordians,
allowed only 6 hits and struck out
13 men.
Sandin started on the hill for
Bethel and pitched 6-2/3 innings.
He give up 6 hits and 8 runs
while striking out 6 opposing bat-ters.
Starr relieved him and
struck out three.
Garvey did all of the receiving.
Greenman played first; Benson,
second; C. Olson, third; and
Simms, short-stop. Eddy, H. John-son,
and Voight were the outfield-ers.
Sandin replaced Voight in the
Bethel 6 2 1
Concordia 7 8 0
Braves Defeat
Luther 19-9
At the Como field on May 10,
Bethel won a ninth inning base-ball
victory over Luther, 10-9.
Bethel was behind throughout
the whole game. However, Voight
singled to open the ninth and Gar-vey
flyed, to the pitcher. Simms
got to first on an error and Ben-son
droVe in Forsman, who was
running for Voight. This tied the
score. Eddy flied for the second
out. C. Olson batted in the win-ning
run with a single.
Sandin, the winning pitcher, re-lieved
Starr after 3-1/3 innings.
He struck nine while Starr struck
out three. Luther used Jahnke and
K..Kolander. Kolander was charg-ed
with the loss.
Greenman got three hits in four
official times at bat. He walked
once. E. Schulz, from Concordia,
also had three for four.
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As a climax to the musical ac-tivities
of the past academic year,
Bethel's three musical organiza-tions
are planning to take over an
extended chapel period some time
at the end of this month. The two
choruses and the concert band will
perform several numbers, both sep-arately
and together. Original
plans to have a full dress evening
concert have been shelved, owing
to lack of time and the lateness
of the season.
This will be the first time at
Bethel that anything like this has
been attempted. The 30-piece band
and the combined choruses will
perform two numbers together,
and the rest of the program will
be rounded out by numbers from
each of the individual organiza-tions.
Bert Anderson, who has di-rected
the band for the past two
quarters, will be in charge of the
program itself. The program will
be sponsored by the music depart-ment.
Bethel tennis team downed Con-cordia
College, May 14, taking
three out of four matches, while
River Falls State Teachers de-feated
the Bethel men, May 7, sev-en
out of nine, in a total of six
single matches and three doubles
Out of sixteen players signing
on for the team, these five have
come to the fore and although
permanent positions for the team
have not yet been decided, George
Taylor has played number 1 possi-tion;
Jim Rehnberg, no. 2'; Roger
Berg, no. 3; Walter Eddy, no. 4;
and Bill Wright, no. 5.
Taylor and Berg formed the no.
1 doubles while no no. 2 doubles
have yet been chosen.
All future thatches have not yet
been decided. Definite matches
Although the exact date for the will be with Concordia on May 23
concert has not yet been definitely and with Bethany, May 31. Other
decided, it will doubtless be an- matches may be scheduled, one of
nounced shortly. It may be inter- them a return match with River
esting to note that plans are al- Falls State Teachers College.
ready under way to organize some- George Taylor, instigator and
thing like this next year. Provid- captain of the tennis team says,
"The team shows great competi-ed
that a sufficient number of in- tive spirit." With this spirit, Beth-s
trumentalists enroll next year,' an el expects to go far in the future
early start is probable. matches.
Mwte AVIS Piedete4. Aleecied
The NAS fund for a new fieldhouse is constantly building up. A
check last Wednesday showed that there are $22',216 pledged and there
are probably about $25,000 now. Over $16,000 of this was pledged before
the recent drive, $15,000 being pledged by last year's student body.
Only $5,190 have been pledged this year from as many students as
the entire student body last year. Only about 100-150 pledged have come
irk so far. Have you made your pledge? If not, see one of the solicitors
or contact the administration office.
All of the students—have you contacted anyone outside of Bethel?--
won't you do so today?
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Page 4
Hagstrom Hall
For several weeks Mr. a n d
Mrs. Zabel were curious of the
popping noise that persisted from
the basement below them. One
evening around midnight they fi-nally
decided that they had waited
long enough. On the way to the
basement they picked up two more
curious spectators, namely Mr.
Nee and Mr. R. Sandberg. The gas
water heater was the cause of the
noise and was quieted down with
the assistance of Mr. Meyers.
Now he's got one, Now he has-n't.
Rosenquist very innocently
bought a-car several weeks ago ex-pecting
to keep it for awhile, but
last week the cops changed all
that. They confiscated his car be-cause
it was previously stolen
from Chicago. No, Rosenquist did-n't
steal it. Someone else did . . .
The landscaping of the apart-ment's
surroundings has started
under the supervision of our cus-todian,
Eric Borgeson. The pro-ject
will include the planting of
shrubbery and the laying of a com-plete
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pathia steamed into New York
harbor Mr. Stead was not on the
Faith in God is the victory that
overcomes the world. Faith in one's
fellow is that which conquers mis-understanding
and discord among
Spring Brings
New Colors lo
Cjiyl's Dornv
"In spring a young man's fancy
lightly turns to love," may, be true,
but in spring women's fancy turns
to house cleaning. That is proba-bly
the reason for the disrupted
living in the girls' dorm now. The
rooms—in the old wing are being
redecorated one by one. Instead of
the usual white the girls may have
their choice of white, peach, pink,
or light blue.
This redecorating of course tak-es
in the process of moving all of
the furniture out of the room into
whatever space there is available
in the hall. The latest residents
of the hall were Laurel Borgeson
and Eunice Peterson, who have
made themselves quite cosy in one
end of the hall near the phone.
There they have their bed made
up on the floor and one desk is
conveniently located so as to en-able
the phone to sit on it. Near
the phone is a bank and a sign
which says "Please deposit nickel
when through with phone."
The girls who plan on coming
back next year are hoping to find
out what room they are going to
live in so they may influence the
decision present occupants as to
what color they would Hite.
The peace and quiet of the halls
is gone for the rest year, or at
least as long as there are occu-pants
in the halls to enliven them.
Freshmen Elect
'47-'48 Officers
At the Freshman Class meeting
held last Monday the officers were
elected for next year's Sophomore
class. The following will hold of-fice:
Rollin Reasoner, president;
Byron Skalman, vice president;
Mrs. Vernon Anderson, secretary;
Delmar Johnson, treasurer; and
Bill Brice for Student Council rep-resentative.
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France was the first customer
for $250,000 payable in thirty
years at 3 1/4 (4 plus a 1% commis-sion
for a special reserve. France
can spend the money anywhere
that she sees fit, but is planning
to spend most of it in the U. S. for
machinery and raw materials to
reestablish her economy.
Sem Seniors
Hold" Sneak//
On Tuesday, May 20, the senior
class in the Seminary threw their
traditional conservatism to the
winds and cut all classes to enjoy
a healthful day of fun and fellow-ship
in the great out-of-doors. Leav-ing
from the married couples'
dorm at 9:30 a.m. they journeyed
to Taylor's Falls for the scene of
their "Sneak day" and returned
home in the early evening.
W. J. Borchert
Midway 4287
Mid-Town Cleaners
1558 Como Ave. at Snelling
Banquet Theme
Is "Spiritual
Probably the largest group in
the Seminary's history gathered
for the Annual Banquet on Thurs-day,
May 15 in the Curtis Hotel
to enjoy a program headlined by
Rev. Bruce Fleming of Stanchfield.
The theme was "Spiritual Prepar-edness"
and the part the Semi-nary
plays in preparing ministers
of God was highly evaluated and
gratefully acknowledged. T w o
most important items slipped the
minds of everyone on the program
and so missed the public atten-tion
that was due them. They
were namely, the engagements of
Johnson-Drotz and Johnson-Iosty
that were announced that evening.
Gifts received at the Seminary
Banquet: by Bob Unmack and
Joyce Johnson—ping pong paddles
with balls attached. By Bob Dis-chinger—
a scissors to cut his ora-tions
short (he yielded it to Dr.
Karlson as to a better man). By
Shorty and Connie Bjelland — a
modern bath tub for the mission
field. By Ellwood Anderson — a
new "buzzing" member for the "B"
club. By Howie Olson and Clar-ence
Sahlin—a setting of "silver"
for their new homes.
In spite of much urging by
friends, Vernie Stoneberg refused
to have a certain little lady fly in
for the Seminary Banquet. He
said it would cost too much money
and then admitted she was not
rich. That left no possible excuse
for his interest in her as evidenc-ed
in their regular correspondence,
except real love. It has taken a
long time to work this admission
out of "Stony," but we have it
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The Fish Shop
This is the third post in a row where I've reviewed a place near Potts Point and I must say it's been fun discovering all these new fun eats near where I work.
Led by Executive Head Chef Jeremy Strode of Bistrode CBD, Fish Shop
is a casual and quirky eatery in the heart of Potts Point, serving fresh seafood, cheeseburgers and the most amazing ice cream sandwich I have ever discovered.
I love the interiors of this place, it makes me feel like I'm at the local fish and chips shop near the beach. The lovely blue and white hues adds to the warmth and coziness.
The menu ranges from fresh oysters to cuttlefish, snapper and scallops in addition to a daily specials menu with the best catches from the markets.
We start off with
Fish Fingers with Tartare Sauce ($13)
which were absolutely delightful. The external crunch to the fish fingers were amazing and the innards were searing hot with tender fish meat. Dip into tartare sauce for a refreshing boost in flavour.
M was so excited to try
Dan's Famous Cheeseburger ($17),
which came with some nice golden thick cut chips. To be honest the burger was a bit of a let down - it wasn't super special and in hindsight quite expensive for what it was.
The flavours were tasty and nicely balanced but as mentioned before, quite ordinary. Maybe Mary's has set our standards up too high?
Linguine with Spanner Crab, Chilli and Bottarga ($29)
was so delicious. Usually with these kind of pastas they tend to come off a bit dry and bland but here the flavours were spot on. The linguine was cooked perfectly to al dente and I enjoyed the mixture of flavours from the chilli and the sweet spanner crab meat. Portion size wasn't too big but quite decent if you don't want a heavy pasta main. Very tasty!
Now the highlight of the night was definitely the
Ice Cream Sandwich & Salted Caramel ($9)
. This beautiful slice of heaven wasn't too big but enough to get you craving more. The biscuit on top was glazed with rich sticky caramel - don't fret, the decadence is nicely balanced with the vanilla ice cream in between. Each bite was deliriously divine. If you're the type of person who saves the biscuit side of Maxibons towards the end so that you can savour the goodness of it...you would love this. I would go back just to order 2 of these. For myself. Obviously.
Overall the food wasn't too bad at Fish Shop however I must say the prices were way too expensive. The produce is nice and fresh and the flavours in the dishes were great but both M and I felt that we could've gotten the same thing elsewhere, cheaper.
Nevertheless, it was great to try out this place and service was very attentive.
The Fish Shop
22 Challis Avenue
Potts Point NSW 2011
02 9326 9000
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"The Geocaching Triad" Geocaching.com's Lost & Found Video
This video follows Ohio, USA geocachers Keith Lemons (keithlemons) and Nancy Steyer (27jack) as they visit the three caches required to complete the Triad. Beware, the video containers spoilers.
The Triad is one of the crowning achievements of geocaching. Geocachers must log three specific geocaches: the APE Cache Mission 9: Tunnel of Light, Groundspeak Headquarters and the Original Stash Cache. Each find is rich in geocaching tradition. The geocaches do not need to be logged in any particular order.
The Original Stash Tribute Plaque hides outside of Portland, Oregon. The plaque there commemorates the placement of the first geocache in 2000.
Geocachers must also log The Mission 9: Tunnel of Light Project APE Cache, hidden outside of Seattle, WA. Twelve APE caches were originally placed around the world in 2001 to generate publicity for the remake of the movie Planet of the Apes. Mission 9: Tunnel of Light is one of only two APE caches still active in the world. The other, Mission 4: Southern Bowl is in Brazil.
Geocachers need to also visit the geocache at Groundspeak Headquarters. Groundspeak HQ is also known as the Lily Pad. It is home to the offices of Geocaching.com.
Geocachers who complete The Triad says the accomplishment not only earns them personal satisfaction and but also bragging rights.
Have you ever completed The Triad? Do you have plans to do so?


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A History of Apple's Operating Systems© Amit Singh. All Rights Reserved. Written in February 2004
Mac OS X is a unique operating system in that it represents a rather successful coming together of paradigms, ideologies, and technologies that have usually resisted each other in the past. It is a result of the trials and tribulations of Apple and NeXT, as well as their user and developer communities. Mac OS X is perhaps one of the best examples of how a capable system can result through the direct or indirect efforts of corporations, academic and research communities, the Open Source and Free Software movements, and even individuals.
Apple has been around since 1976, and many accounts of its history have been told. If the story of Apple as a company is fascinating, so is the "technical" story of Apple's operating systems.
This document discusses operating systems that Apple has created in the past, and many that it tried to create. Through this discussion, we will come across several technologies the confluence of which eventually led to Mac OS X. An important goal of the discussion is to better understand the reasons, and if possible, the rationale behind Mac OS X and its important components. This, in turn, will be helpful in understanding and appreciating the system as it is today.
My approach in this discussion is to have somewhat high magnitudes of the depth and breadth of historical coverage, as long as I believe the discussion is interesting and relevant from a system design perspective, within reason. For example, while I will briefly describe "the influence of Xerox PARC" and the background of Mach, I will not go to farcical limits and talk about the invention of the transistor, or the discovery of Silicon.
I will welcome, and do request constructive feedback. I will highly appreciate if any errors, omissions, or misrepresentations are pointed out to me.
I thank all those who have taken time to send me feedback in the past, and apologize to those whom I did not, rather could not, reply to individually.
- First Bytes into an Apple
- Early Apple Systems
- Apple DOS
- Apple Pascal
- Apple CP/M
- Apple SOS
- Apple ProDOS
- Inspirations
- The oNLine System
- Smalltalk
- Xerox Alto
- Xerox STAR System
- The Graphical Age at Apple
- Lisa OS
- Macintosh
- Many Systems for Many Apples
- System Software Releases 2 - 6
- Blue, Pink, and Red
- Seeking Power
- System 7
- AIM for POWER
- Mac OS for PowerPC
- NetWare for PowerPC
- AIX for PowerPC
- Quest for the Operating System
- Star Trek
- Raptor
- NuKernel
- Taligent and TalOS
- Copland
- Gershwin
- BeOS
- Plan A
- The NeXT Chapter
- What NeXT? The Mach Factor
- Rochester's Intelligent Gateway
- Accent
- Mach
- MkLinux
- Musical Names
- Strategies
- Mac OS 8
- Mac OS 9
- Rhapsody
- Blue Box
- Yellow Box
- Towards Mac OS X
- Mac OS X Server
- Darwin
- Mac OS X Developer Previews
- Mac OS X Public Beta
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- Others
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The Foster Prize finalists at the ICA Boston
The Foster Prize at the ICA Boston is one of the perennial Boston happenings where we take part in our favorite pastime: complaining. We complain about it from beginning to end investigating the minutia, gossiping about the motivations behind nominations, and frowning at the notion that any of the art could be worth our time. This worthwhile award has been slighted in recent years as[…..]


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Democrats took control of the Colorado Senate by a narrow 18-17 margin after the 2000 election. Republicans maintained control of the House and the governor's office. When incoming Senate President Stan Matsunaka spoke at the annual pre-legislative forum sponsored by the Colorado Press Association that year, he announced that because he didn't believe a split legislature could agree on a plan, the Senate wouldn't try to pass a bill to establish congressional districts for the next 10 years and the issue would be passed onto the courts.
Even more beauty is coming to our mountain community. Visual merchandiser Leezl Gnatovich will be opening a new store in the new year. Her aim is to create a rich sensory experience that will invigorate your shopping. There will be a touch of nostalgia thrown in.
Recently I was reading a book to my kids about the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787 when a remarkable fact jumped out: The delegates conducted their work in absolute secrecy. This was one of the only ground rules of the convention, and not until James Madison's death in 1840 did his notes reveal the content of many discussions that took place.
It's very possible the Constitution — and this nation itself — would not exist as we know it had the deliberations been subject to public scrutiny.
"This is a quarter of a billion dollars in stimulus we can't pass up," exalted County Commissioner Kevin McCasky in a story last week. "It's going to be a great Christmas."
Commissioner McCasky clearly has caught the holiday spirit and envisions a joyous Noel at the Taj Mahal. In fact, he's even provided the snow job.
By Russ Campbell
It's the little things in life that are important. And for a little girl in Conifer, a small thing has left her life, and she's pretty sad about it.
Garlands the hamster, voted Conifer's first unofficial mayor in 2009, passed away in November. Garlands was 3 years old.
Garlands' owner and human companion, Phoebe McKeown, 8, said she misses her furry friend.
"I've been sad for a little bit," Phoebe said.
Every so often, the stars align and an organization has a dream year. This fall at Evergreen High School was one of those seasons for extracurricular activities.
In the classic cartoon "A Charlie Brown Christmas," Charlie Brown writes a letter to Santa as his sister, Sally, dictates. "Please note the size and color of each item," she says, "and send as many as possible. If it seems too complicated, make it easy on yourself: Just send money. How about tens and twenties?" Rolling his eyes in disgust, Charlie Brown laments the commercialism that has crept into Christmas.
By Linda Kirkpatrick
By now you've probably read or heard a story about the invasive policies of the TSA. Here's another example of manipulation by the financial elite. Struggling to understand how the minds of these afflicted affluenzas work, I am wont to admit their incredible success. The entire country has been brought to its underwear by the likes of Michael Chernoff, George Soros and many other CEOs and lobbyists.
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If 2012 offered the first signs of an economy poking through the ashes of the sub-prime apocalypse, 2013 offered some proofs of tangible improvement:
Property valuations were up.
Unemployment went down.
And Cape residents again began to look toward the future.
New beginnings
In 2013, Cape Coral voters finished what they started an election ago, sweeping out incumbents on both sides of a political divide that mired the city in a muck-fest during the worst of the recession years.
Newly elected mayor Marni Sawicki and council members Jim Burch, Rick Williams and Richard Leon offered voters little similarity in the way of background, experience or even political philosophy, but they did have one thing in common with the council members elected, or re-elected, two years ago: They promised a more positive approach - less faction-based in-fighting and more problem solving, something sorely needed if the Cape is to return to economic normalcy.
To get us there, they, along with the rest of the elected board -council members John Carioscia, Lenny Nesta, Rana Erbrick and Derrick Donnell - have their work cut out for them as the city moves into the new year.
At the top of the list remains on-going pension reform, the sole area where the Cape's Fitch rating took a smack in 2013 despite a touted $50 million in savings over the next 25 years on top of a previous $75 million savings from police negotiations alone.
Negotiated reforms in 2013 included no cost-of-living increases for three years; a $95,000 cap on annual payouts; a two-year increase in service time from 25 to 27 years; and a two-year increase in retirement age from 60 to 62.
In exchange, affected employees received a collective $1.8 million in "bonuses" to be paid out over two years.
We thank the city's union employees for their willingness to bargain and make concessions and we urge the new council to continue to prioritize this effort through 2014 as third-party analysis still says the city's contribution, as a part of overall spending, is "high."
Also in the top tier for 2014 is the now on-again utility expansion program.
Expansion to the neighborhoods dubbed Southwest 6&7 - a four-mile-square area south of Pine Island Road involving about 6,100 properties - was tentatively approved in 2012, with final approval and construction of this $103. 7 million phase beginning last year.
The good news is ratepayers, who got hammered with a 30-percent rate hike when the UEP was halted, saw a tick the other way as the new fiscal year got under way. The $38 annual decrease for an average user might not seem like much but it stemmed projected increases until, at least 2017.
The downside for many?
Property owners in SW 6&7 got their expansion fee bills and while they were less than they would have been had the project proceeded as scheduled during the boom, lot owners also had the impact fee portion added to the amount owed. Previously, this renamed "expansion fee" was not due unless and until the property was developed.
The first pre-payment/discount period has past with the second under way. The cost to property owners who now pay before July 31, is $15,824.
Otherwise, SW 6&7 property owners will be billed over 20 years at a total cost of $24,414. The bulk, $13,074, about $181.58 a month, will come due in the first six years. The remaining $11,340 to be paid over the final 14 years will cost property owners $67.50 per month.
Next in the queue is North 1 & 2 with various additional areas north of Pine Island Road to follow.
We hail the progress but continue to urge council to examine how the city will fund what is essentially the second half of a billion dollar project.
Despite numerous promises by candidates previously elected to council who actually, for two years, did have a solid majority on the board, little has been done to address the issues at the heart of the expansion debate: Assessment methodology and whether, at least for the neighborhoods north of Pine Island Road, there is a better way of extending public utilities than the assessment-impact fee method under which the bulk of the project has painfully moved forward.
In fact, if anything, the next phases may actually prove more painful than those of the past as the city eyes a major deviation in a plan previously dictated primarily by density: Water first.
That means property owners in future phases could face two, separate assessments, the first to bring in water alone, the second to bring in sewer services.
Critics say this could add substantially to overall costs.
As council looks down the road to the next phases, its eye must be on equitable methodology; whether to continue with construction processes that include extremely expensive road re-building; and possible new methods of financing in lieu of blank-check assessments.
Options used elsewhere include the establishment of special taxing districts to pay for infrastructure improvements and/or a compensatory rate structure similar to that used by the private sector, which has no authority to assess.
This past election confirms that most property owners agree a citywide system is the best way to go.
But they just don't want to pay more than they have to.
Make sure that they won't. Twice.
The third top tier priority for 2014 is, of course, taxes.
Cape residents and property owners saw two new, significant taxes approved in 2013; a 7 percent "public services tax" on electric bills and a new fire "assessment." The now court-validated assessment allows the city to transfer some operational costs into this new fund, shifting property tax dollars previously budgeted for fire operations in the general fund to capital improvements.
Collectively, it's a relatively small amount - an estimated $150 per "average" homeowner - but each holds the potential for continued increases in the future.
Council needs to watch this, especially in light of - finally, thank goodness! - rising property values. Otherwise, the city could again get itself in the same kind of fiscal pickle wrought by the boom years. That was "holding the line" by decreasing the property tax rate all the while spending money by the fistfuls from artificially - and unsustainable -increases in property values.
With new taxes on the books and increased revenue from property taxes, it would be easy to try to "catch up" all at once and begin to spend not only on neglected capital improvements, but also things like hirings, position reclassifications that mean higher salaries, and raises.
As the city has learned to its detriment, these are the expenses that creep.
To council we say, go slow. Scrutinize every expenditure and make sure it is justified as a quantifiable need.
The taxpayers will thank you.
So what is in the queue for those of us who pay the bills?
Housing market stabilizes
After seeing overall taxable property valuations plummet for five years running - including a near 33 percent drop in 2009 alone - the Cape saw the small increase of 2012 double to more than 7 percent in 2013.
It was the biggest bump countywide.
Pushed primarily by mid-market sales, median housing prices also saw a big boost - 21.4 percent year-over-year in November with the overall median price of a single-family home in Lee County jumping to $170,000. In November 2012, the median price was just $140,000.
Meanwhile, "inventory," - the number of homes listed for sale -is stable, the number of days "on market" is down, and the number of "traditional sales" - sales that are neither foreclosures or short sales - are up.
That's good news, indeed.
Lee County lost more than 60 percent of its property valuation in the five years following the real estate bust as the median home price dropped from its inflated bubble peak of $278,000 in 2005 to about $92,000 by the end of 2009 - well below replacement cost.
With foreclosures glutting the market - No. 1 in the country - construction came to a standstill.
The economy tanked and unemployment skyrocketed.
As we move into 2014, there is light at the end of the tunnel both in terms of new construction and employment, key interlinked economic factors.
Housing rebirth?
New home construction is making a quiet comeback in Cape Coral.
Last fiscal year saw 541 permits pulled with 72 so far in the first quarter of the new fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.
While a far cry from the 7,004 pulled at the height of the boom, FY 2005, it's also a solid improvement over the 150 issued in '09 at the base of the construction freefall.
In addition, according to Builder Magazine, pricing is up, with a 25.3 percent increase in August reported year over year.
For Southwest Florida and Cape Coral in particular, residential construction means much more than rooftops. It means jobs, good-paying jobs that disappeared with the bulldozers and cement trucks.
Our new city council needs to take a very pro-active stance here, putting proof behind all the pro-business, economic development promises made while campaigning.
One, as we have said since the real estate market collapsed, a moratorium or severe reduction in impact fees on residential construction - which would put the Cape on a level playing field with unincorporated Lee County - must be considered.
About $18,000 per home at last count, including school fees, residential impact fees are a hefty add-on, especially in a market still rift with too many short sales and foreclosures.
Two, council also must re-instate the "change of use" impact fee waiver enacted in 2011 and then allowed to quietly sunset last year.
Getting vacant office buildings and shopping centers filled by eliminating the tax - yes, call it what you will, it's a tax - assessed to convert use from, say, a florist shop to a dental walk-in, will do more to put people back to work than many an economic development plan, proposal, and target list.
Yes, we do acknowledge that growth has a cost.
However, as we have all painfully learned, its flip side - no growth - has a cost as well.
That cost is record unemployment, a tragedy tallied family by family.
But here, too, there is light, finally, perhaps, at the end of the tunnel.
Job market improves
Hiring in the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metro is predicted to be strong in the new year with a Manpower Group survey saying the employment outlook for the first quarter of 2014 is the third best in the nation.
The forecast is based on employer surveys and it's the best first-quarter prognosis the area has received since 2008.
Year-end numbers put the city's unemployment rate at about 6.5 percent in October, slightly less than the state's 6.7 percent.
For many families, this is the best news of all as at the recession's bottom, the Cape Coral-Fort Myers metro saw double-digit unemployment that only now is clawing its way slowly to normalcy.
To a better, brighter year in 2014!
Things ARE looking up.
- Breeze editorial


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There was early hope and speculation as the "Arab Spring" kicked off last year that the ostensibly pro-democracy uprisings would lead to better relations between Israel and its neighbors.
Israeli officials from the beginning cautioned skepticism, and the outcome of Egyptian elections have certainly justified their concerns. With a parliament and possibly a presidency controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt is more hostile toward Israel today than any time since the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the nation's second president who launched two wars against the Jewish state.
Syria is now following a similar path, with leading rebel officials making clear that should they seize control of the country, Israel will continue to be regarded as Syria's number one enemy.
Israel is "the main enemy of the Syrian revolution," Syrian opposition leader Burhan Ghalioun told Saudi newspaper al-Youm at the weekend.
Syria's revolution has seen thousands killed as the regime of dictator Bashar Assad brutally clings to power. But the West's blind backing of the opposition forces has come under recent criticism. A number of Christian sources reported that the Sunni Muslim-dominated Syrian opposition has massacred and exiled huge numbers of Christians in the towns it controls.
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I no longer remember who gave us the advice, but when our family first moved to Vermont some wise soul told my husband and me: "The winters are long and cold. The best way to survive them is to find an outdoor activity that you enjoy."
For the first couple of years, we stumbled around trying to settle on the optimal winter recreation. Snowshoeing was pleasant and could be done in the woods right behind our house, but it required substantial snow and willing children – both of which were lacking during the past two years. Sledding was fun for the kids but not for the parents; on our end, it mostly involved lugging 80 pounds of little girls uphill. Ice skating was lovely in concept, but since my husband claims he can't skate due to "flat feet," it required me to navigate inconvenient rink times for the pleasure of skating around picking up fallen children who flopped around on the ice like eels out of water.
This year, however, our family has a newfound sense of clarity: we cross-country ski.
We chose cross-country skiing due to a combination of affection and practicality. Affection, because it's something that my husband and I enjoyed together pre-kids. Practicality, on multiple counts:
1. It's cheaper than downhill skiing.
2. It's very convenient, since we're within easy driving distance of both Rikert Nordic Center and multiple trails around Middlebury.
3. We've heard that you can teach kids to cross-country ski and then transition them easily to downhill skiing, but you can't go the other way around; once they get a taste of speed, it's all downhill from there….
4. It allows us to keep a sense of control over our children; managing four girls ages six and under is always like herding cats, but I can't imagine trying to keep tabs on them when they're all hurtling down a mountain.
So last year we signed up our oldest daughter for weekly cross-country ski lessons as part of the Bill Koch League that practices up at Rikert; our second daughter was able to take classes through Rikert's own "Snowflake" program. We did the same thing this year, but with added commitment: My husband and I each bought a pair of cross-country skis at Middlebury Mountaineer's promotional sale.
"Commitment" is an important concept when it comes to cross-country skiing with kids – with our kids, at least. Just getting out the door every Saturday morning requires the patience of a saint and the endurance of a distance runner: all those wriggly limbs needing to be stuffed into layers and mittens and hats and boots.
Once we reach Rikert, our two oldest daughters head off to their respective lessons, giving us roughly an hour "alone" with the baby and the two-year-old. We could pull the toddler in a polk and put the baby in the carrier and head out on the trails together, but usually my husband and I tag-team it, one of us going out for a 20-minute run while the other stays in the lodge with the children.
Those 20 minutes alone in the quiet, snow-dusted woods are what sustain me whenever I start to wonder whether the effort is worth it.
The truth is, it's not much fun to ski with our girls right now. Our oldest is determined but cautious; our second is more daring but less persistent. Both of them spend most of their time on skis falling and complaining; so far, the only move they've mastered is how to get up off of the ground.
When it comes to life with four young kids, we get through the crazy now based on the hope that everything will be great in five years. Cross-country skiing is no different; we're giving our girls cross-country skiing lessons now because we envision a time when our whole family will be able to ski through those woods together -- and enjoy it.
So, when we're out together and I've skied 50 feet in 30 minutes, and I'm coaxing my daughter into getting up just one more time and trying again, I think, "I won't have to do this in five years; in five years, this'll be great!"
Then, I remind myself that I can't live completely in reference to the future, that I need to find ways to enjoy the crazy now. Whether we've skied far or well, we're all together now; in five years, my girls may have discovered the lure of downhill skiing and they'll have no interest in tagging along with their slow, embarrassing parents.
I resolve to do it all over again next week.
Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. Since moving to Addison County in 2011, her work has involved caring for a house in the woods, four young daughters, one anxiety-prone puppy — and writing for her blog, The Pickle Patch.


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Optimization and Context
Programmers who think about how — and whether — to try to optimize a piece of code should keep in mind the context of both the code and the optimization. Context can push decisions in either direction: Depending on context, an optimization that seems questionable might turn out to be essential, a waste of effort, or anything in between.
For example, a friend of mine was once asked to help a commercial data-processing shop in which its daily processing was taking 28 hours. In this example, there were only two choices: Figure out how to make the processing faster, or buy a faster computer. Accordingly, anything they could do to get the processing time below 24 hours would be worthwhile — provided only that it cost less than upgrading the computer.
My friend told me that he quickly found one problem. Part of the daily processing was to merge two large files into a third file, and then to sort that file. The usual merge algorithm assumes that the input files have already been sorted, and this was no exception. As a result, the output file was already sorted; so sorting it a second time was unnecessary. The files in question were all on magnetic tape, and they were so large that simply eliminating this redundant sorting step reduced the overall execution time to less than 24 hours.
Having found such an elementary mistake, my friend was confident that he could find others that were equally bad. Nevertheless, he was told to stop looking: Once the execution time was less than 24 hours, there was no need to make it run any faster. The same context that made the first optimization essential made further optimization unnecessary.
Another example of the importance of context comes from a journal paper I once read that described a system that was built for newspaper production. The paper began by pointing out that nearly every aspect of the system's design came from two fundamental properties of newspaper production:
- It is inconceivable that the newspaper should fail to be produced for any reason.
- The presses start rolling on schedule, no matter what.
This system, then, had a lot of "this result must be ready by a given time" constraints, because any text that wasn't ready in time would result in a newspaper with blank spaces where articles should have been.
Yet another contextual aspect that often goes unappreciated is whether or not a human is waiting for the program's output. If you're running something overnight, you probably don't care much whether it takes one hour or four; but if you're waiting for your screen to change in response to a key you just pressed, a fraction of a second will affect your perception of how pleasant the program is to use.
For example, I once used an email-reading program that stored all of its messages in a single data file. When the program started, it would read the entire file into memory, and then run through the contents of that memory to locate the beginning of each line of text. The code worked by defining pointers named
buf and
endbuf that pointed to the first character and one past the last character, respectively, of the buffer that contained the contents of the file. Once the file had been read, the program did something like this (except that being a C program, it didn't literally call
const char* p = buf; lines.push_back(p); while (p != endbuf) { if (*p == '\n') lines.push_back(p); ++p; }
At the time I was working with this program, it took about three seconds to read and process the biggest mail files that we had on our system. This three-second delay was enough to make the program feel sluggish.
I hit on the idea of making the buffer one character longer than the actual size of the file, thereby making the character located at
*endbuf accessible. Not only was it accessible, but I could modify it freely without changing the contents of the file. This extra character allowed me to rewrite the loop:
*endbuf = '\n'; const char* p = buf; do { lines.push_back(p); while (*p != '\n') ++p; } while (p != endbuf);
Although I replaced one loop with two nested loops, the inner loop had less work to do than the original loop. In fact, on the machine on which this program ran, the original version executed five instructions each time through the loop (compare
p with
endbuf; conditional jump; dereference
p; compare
*p with
'\n'; conditional jump). The revised version's inner loop made the first two of these five instructions unnecessary. As a result, the revised program ran noticeably faster on large mailboxes.
Under many other circumstances, this particular optimization would be a complete waste of effort. However, like the earlier examples, this particular piece of code ran in a context that made it worth rewriting for extra speed. Although the actual speed gain was modest, it happened in a psychologically important setting and required relatively little effort.
More generally, I think that in order to know how much effort is worthwhile to put into tuning a piece of code, it is important to understand how that code is going to be used and what kind of effect that effort is likely to have.


text: > -----Original Message----- > From: Eray Ozkural [mailto:examachine at gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 2:11 AM > To: Tom Elken > Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Using Autoparallel compilers or > Multi-Threaded librarieswith MPI > > On Dec 12, 2007 7:35 PM, Tom Elken <tom.elken at qlogic.com> wrote: > > Results of the VERY non-scientific survey: > > > > # reporting use of Autoparallel features with MPI: 0 > > > > # reporting use of multi-threaded math libraries with MPI: 1 > > > Well, then, is there really such a thing that extracts > threads from those > horrible C codes and generates MPI code? I have heard of SW tools that try to do some of that, but they did not achieve much commercial success. But that is not what I meant. I guess I was relying on memory of readers about my original post about this subject. Since that post was way back in November, that was a dangerous assumption. Thankfully we have an archive: http://www.beowulf.org/archive/2007-November/020211.html 'Autoparallel features with MPI' came from this in the original post: "I was wondering how many people use either auto-parallel compiler features, or multi-threaded math libraries (Goto, MKL, ACML, etc.) to provide some thread-level parallelism on a cluster where you primarily use MPI to achieve your parallel execution.*" So I meant that the source code is parallelized using MPI. Then in an effort to create something like a hybrid MPI/OpenMP program, but without having to add the OpenMP directives, you use the automatic parallelization feature of common compilers: -parallel in the Intel compiler -apo in the PathScale compiler -Mconcur in the PGI compiler, etc. to find loops which can profitably be parallelized using threads. Here was the example I mentioned in the original post: "For example, if an autoparallelizing compiler could find effective 4-way thread-level parallelism in an MPI code and you were running on a cluster of 8 nodes each with two quad-core CPUs, 64 cores total, you might choose to run with 16 MPI threads and set your NUM_THREADS variable to 4, to run with all 64 cores of the cluster executing work with reasonable efficiency. " So no one responded that they have done this, let alone finding it to be faster than running it with purely MPI ranks (no threads). -Tom > Not that I believe > it is impossible > (since I work for a company that does a similar thing) but I > would like to know > which autoparallel MPI code the posters had in mind. Is there > a market for > that kind of a compiler? > > Best, > > -- > Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent > University, Ankara >


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We asked our bloggers and guest bloggers for their predictions for 2014. Here is a summary of seven main themes, which we will re-visit in late 2014 to see how well we did.
1. Global growth will remain robust and tapering by the U.S. Fed will be less consequential to emerging markets than expected (Bhaskaran, Zaman, Raiser). China will do better than markets predict (Huang), and East Asia will continue to grow with relative stability (Quah). At the same time, the economic policies of some Latin American countries will bring their economies to a breaking point, causing political chaos as well (Gonzalez). Political turmoil and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa will continue to weigh heavily on these economies, with average growth for the region below 3 percent (Devarajan).
2. For Europe, 2014 will be a better year. 100 years after the beginning of the First World War, the Balkans will again be the focus of attention but for better reasons. A more pro-European outlook in Germany and a successful launch of negotiations with Serbia will bode well for the EU. Bosnia and Herzegovina, the scene of the assassination of heir apparent Franz Ferdinand which triggered the beginning first world war, will do surprisingly well at the World Cup in Brazil, for which it qualified for the first time ever. The joy, however, will only be short-lived because political infighting will continue to make it one of the least governable states in Europe (Fengler).
3. The steady improvement of both governance and incomes in large parts of Africa will generate greater confidence and dynamism on the continent (Kende-Robb, Quah). The creative arts (film, music, fashion, art), fueled by Africa's changing demography, will lead the way in trade and regional integration. Congolese music, Nollywood movies and South African soap operas will sweep the continent (Kende-Robb). However, 2014 will also become the "year of regional conflict", with significant uptick in violence in border regions spreading out of national conflicts (Hellman). The African Union and other sub-regional bodies will raise the profile of regional security cooperation, as ASEAN and the European Community did when they started (O'Connell). This will be one example of the potential for achieving success in fragile states (Kharas).
4. Girls in developing countries will outperform boys, especially as they move up the education ladder to secondary schools and universities (Andrabi). The incomes of the bottom 40 percent of Americans will be below that in 2000, and will have fallen in 2014 (Demombynes).
5. Mobile banking and other "leapfrog" technologies will spread widely (Kharas). Drones (or "unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)") will become a game changer for development, by dropping emergency supplies in conflict and disaster-ravaged areas and vaccines in hard-to-reach regions, not to mention natural resource mapping, surveying and animal conservation, as they are already doing in anti-poaching schemes in Nepal or Indonesia (Sanghi).
6. As more and more economists point to the primary of politics in development, political scientists will wake up and wonder why they have been left out of the discussion. A new movement of "political contextualists" will be launched (Hellman).
7. Either Germany (Bundervoet) or Uruguay, repeating history in Brazil (Gonzalez), will win the World Cup in football.
What are your predictions?
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¿Esta cerrado? o algo parecido...
Un saludo.
No esta cerrado, de hecho nos
No esta cerrado, de hecho nos gustaria recibir mas opiniones acerca del tema. Saludos.
Only an economist would
Only an economist would assime that Uruguay could win the World Cup ;)
Kenya's current economy will
Kenya's current economy will rise in a minimal margin but if the county devolution is well managed then we will see a steady economy across the country.
Kenya is actually striving to
Kenya is actually striving to attract Foreign Direct Investment inflows on a big scale more so by the Central Government for infrastructure, devolved county municipal governments mainly for expanding social services or supporting small scale county level infrastructure and the Private sector (eg Proparco France lent over KEs3billion to Chase Bank Kenya to expand her SME business , Guaranty Bank Nigeria acquired Fina Bank Kenya for over Kshs8 billon, IFC lent Equity Bank US$100m etc).
Kenya still gets over US$1 billion in remittance inflows from Kenyans in Americas and Europe diasporas.
The Nairobi Stock exchange with almost 50% foreign investor base was one of the best performing stock markets globally in 2013.
The country is targeting to issue a US$1.2 billion sovereign Eurodollar markets bond sometimes this year and this will mark the ultimate test of foreign investors confidence. Most people are optimistic the sovereign Eurodollar markets bond will be oversubscribed.
Given the ICC cases facing the President and Deputy president , the only thing with Kenya is high shift and dependence on nontraditional allies more so East and Central Africa for international trade (now at 40% of total exports from Kenya) as well as China for Infrastructure financing.
Since the ICC seems an affront to Kenya's independence , the March 2013 General Elections became a Referendum on the ICC and majority of Kenyans voted for the current President and Deputy President in defiance of ICC and international community position on self determination and country sovereignty grounds. Most of those who defied are either aged Mau Mau war of independence veterans or children and grandchildren of Mau Mau with a high regard for self-independence and freedom of choice without the international community policing .
The ICC issue is also now viewed as a race war against Black Africans with her funders pulling strings to determine leadership structures while hidden well in the dark shadows more so after Kenya's successful lobbying of the African Union and also given the UN Security Council refuised .
As it is Kenyans seems to overwhelmingly support the de-capitulation of the overt or covert colonial legacy exploitation links owing to traditional unfavorable balance of trade positions with Western Europe and America. There is majority support for Look East (to china) AND Loon Inside (to Africa) if Kenya is to achieve the middle income status in the next 6 years to 2020.
Angelica, sorry, but I am
Angelica, sorry, but I am also with Uruguay repeating its last win in Brazil. Signed: a lawyer :)
Thank you for sharing this .
Thank you for sharing this . I also agree with point number 4 that is girls in developing countries outperform from boys and point number 5 mobile banking technology will spread widely.
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The global movement for
The global movement for climate action will grow and put pressure on governments (national, regional and local), individuals and the private sector entities to show leadership.
Any discussion on the future
Any discussion on the future of global Growth predictions is not complete unless we see how the international banking industry will do their business globally. Let's examine this: US and International Banks: Libor rigging allegations still continue to cost well known international banks. So what is in store for the overall banking business going forward and the impact on its sincere customers:
Year 2012/13 saw the opening up of the Pandora's Box of banking scams (thanks to the exposure of Libor rigging fiasco [news broke in June 2012] by the well known international (sic) Barclays Bank) where many known caught up banks followed suit with the exposure for all possible type of financial rout (including FOREX manipulation) affecting the common man. All the hefty fines paid by various well known international banks (to be still paid) has left a bitter taste on their activity thereby resulting in setback for the ongoing global business and the economy. Essentially, many businesses and consumers will remain wary and uncertain in 2014 and will be reluctant to commit to major spending and investment decisions. The ongoing write down of asset values will continue and banks will have to accept credit losses thereby giving rise to small banks merging to remain sufficiently capitalized. Two types of business focus will arise from the banks:
1. Banks in the developed countries will still continue with restructuring efforts whereas, 2. Banks in developing countries will focus on growth due to the sheer size of the population (the middle class – the target sector). This class of spenders has shown that they have the necessary buying power and this is driving the economy and consumerism. How to go about this: The global banking industry needs to build "customer trust" all over again. To do this, new set of reforms are urgently needed to fundamentally reshape and rebuild the scam ridden banking industry. That there are going to be challenges in reshaping is an understatement for the banking industry, be it in the area of resolution planning, structural reforms and/or disclosure norms, etc will eventually define the approach for banks to win trust and structure their global banking activity in a sustainable and ethical way going forward.
I agree with this writer
I agree with this writer completely
International Banks have a
International Banks have a lot of say in the shaping of the global economy in 2014


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There's a great conference out at UMass Amherst next weekend, September 23-24, taking a look at the future of the public history field.
Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the blog Museum 2.0 will be doing a workshop on Saturday afternoon.
Check out the program and registration information here. [PDF]


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In the latest issue of BonAppetit I was drawn in by an article on 10 foodie hotels. When you combine the adventures of travel and the deliciousness of good food, you definitely have my attention. And, I was not surprised when the #1 hotel was Blackberry Farm in Tennessee.
As a child, my family from the south met our family from the north in this remote, luxurious yet rustic resort in the Smokey Mountains. I remember it fondly. I remember the down mattress covers, pillows and comforters; I remember the bowls of sweet candy in every room in the inn; I remember the misty mountain views; and I remember the rich, southern charm. What I don't remember, though, was the food. I was somewhere between ten and fifteen, so the foodie appeal of the resort was somewhat lost on me. And it is a shame, since today I would give anything to experience the food lovingly written about in BonAppetit.
Although the cost is somewhere about $1000 a night, the issue gives you the ability to bring a dish from Blackberry Farm home – their griddle cakes. So, naturally, we decided to recreate the experience on a rainy Sunday morning.
The ingredient list is nothing short of intimidating. And I will admit, when I read it, I thought I could just use whole wheat flour instead of the oat flour, buckwheat flour and brown rice flour mix the recipe calls for. But my husband insisted we do the recipe justice, and I am so glad he did.
We found the flours at Whole Foods (nowhere else, though), and it turned into an expensive breakfast, yet we were able to mix additional dry mix for more griddle cakes at a later date (saved in a container for another weekend).
I don't know what flour did the trick, but the nutty flavor of the griddle cakes, combined with the texture of the cornmeal makes for a hearty and absolutely delicious breakfast. It was worth every penny and every trip to the grocery store looking for the elusive flours.
I highly recommend these, made the way I did with extra dry mix for easy griddle cakes later. Then the rest is cake. Well, pancakes. And although the steep price of Blackberry Farm might mean that I don't experience its beauty again, I can at least experience its breakfast.
Serves 6
Fast-track this recipe by tripling the dry ingredients and storing them in a jar. At breakfast time, scoop out 2 1/4 cups. All the other measurements stay the same.
1 large egg
2 cups buttermilk
1/4 cup pure maple syrup
1 cup gluten-free oat flour (I didn's use the gluten-free version since we couldn't find it)
2/3 cup yellow cornmeal
1/3 cup brown rice flour
1/4 cup buckwheat flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, melted
Vegetable oil (for skillet)
Whisk egg, buttermilk, and maple syrup in a small bowl. Whisk oat flour, cornmeal, rice flour, buckwheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.
Whisk buttermilk mixture into dry ingredients, then whisk in butter until no lumps remain.
Heat a large nonstick or cast-iron skillet over medium heat; lightly brush with oil. Working in batches, pour batter by 1/4-cupfuls into skillet. Cook until bottoms are browned and bubbles form on top of griddle cakes, about 3 minutes. Flip and cook until griddle cakes are cooked through, about 2 minutes longer.
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