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Vol. XXVI — No. 7
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. January 17, 1947
AS ROSY Sophs Have Big Plans for Iduhapi SEES IT
By Rosenquist
The New Year still finds Rosy
trying to figure out what makes
this world "tick." Now that the
holiday season is past, I presume
that everyone is glad to be finish-ed
with traveling awhile. If you
think you traveled far for Christ-mas
see what you, think of this.
H. P. Rockwell, a student from
Boston, boarded a Trans-World
plane and spent Christmas with
his parents in Cairo, Egypt. In ten
days he completed the 12,000 mile
round trip. I guess there is no Jim-it
some people will go to spend
Christmas with "the Folks."
* * *
According to the Gallup Poll the
entrance of the New Year finds
US's hope in the UN more encour-aging
than ever before. For the
first time more people are satis-fied
than dissatisfied with UN's
progress. The same holds true for
the people's faith that Russia will
cooperate in World affairs.
Proof that UN has some noble
aspirations is shown in the news
release stating that an Interna-tional
Children's Emergency Fund
has been started to help improve
the health of children throughout
the world. One reason for the
fund is to feed the children who
were fed by UNRRA, which lapsed
on December 31st. The UN also
believes that the best way to pre-vent
war is in having children with
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Dear Ethelbert:
Today has been very eventful.
Since this is the fifth quarter I've
spent at Bethel, I decided to do
something entirely new and diff-erent.
I spent a day studying in
the library. Truly, it was quite a
As I entered the massive oak
doors, I perceived t h e librarian
kneeling on the floor squirting
some liquid on the window panes
with an atomizer. She playfully
greeted each entrant with a spray
of this vile smelling concoction,
which drenched their clothing and
bathed them with an obnoxious od-or.
I imagine the welcome she
gave us all was just a diversion
from this painful task of window
Despite the unimpressive recep-tion,
I went into the study room
Shaw SPeal"
The Missionary Band expects
a fine meeting tonight with Dr.
Shaw from the St. Paul Bible
Institute as the guest speaker.
The St. Paul Bible Institute will
also furnish special music. Ev-eryone
is urged not to miss
this outstanding missionary pro-gram
at 8:00 p.m, tonight. As
usual there will be a social hour
following in the dining hall with
refreshments and a singspira-tion.
Founders' Week
Plans Made
with the naive hope of finding
peace and quiet and at least a
semblance of intellectual pursuit.
Ah, my search was rewarded.
There in the corner was a young
lady searching for some histories
of Sweden. Although her clothes
were dusty from her work in that
obscure corner and her legs ach-ing
from climbing up and down the
ladder to reach the books, she
wore -the victorious smile of a
scholar who has found what he
was looking for. But—alas! The
first six books were written in
Swedish and the others in several
foreign languages which she
couldn't decipher. She ran weep-ing
from the room.
It seems that the other students
w e r e conditioned to the library
however, and knew the proper be-havior.
They weren't letting their
difficulties get them down. There
Commuters' Club
Sponsors Party
A crowd of eager youngsters
comed Earl Hoagberg when he ar-rived
in the guise of Santa Claus
at N. E. Neighborhood House, Min-neapolis
on December 21st with
Christmas gifts from Bethel stu-dents.
The occasion was the child-was
a group of alert-looking young
men eagerly making airplanes
from the pages of their notebooks
and aiming them skillfully at one
another. In another corner of the
room a typical co-ed slept bliss-f
u 11 y, completely undisturbed by
the bedlam going on all around
Altogether, I found the atmos-phere
in the Bethel library one of
great gaiety except for a few wet
blankets who had a mistaken in-tention
of studying, and kept glow-ering
at the rest of their fellow-students.
My experiences of today will not
be soon forgotten, and I am eager-ly
looking forward to my visit
next week to the school gymnas-ium.
I will write and tell you all
about that too, Ethelbert.
Imabetha Lite
- The general planning committee,
under the direction of Dick Fors-line
; has made possible this win-ter
retreat. Working with Dick
will be Everett Forsberg, manager
o f transportation facilities, an d
Class President Harold Christian-son
and Earl Hoagberg, co-chair-men
of activities. They will be
assisted by Herb Ellison, supervi-sing
outdoor sports; Ingrid John-son
and June Lundquist, in charge
of indoor games, and Roy Nelson,
leader of religious services. Les
Larson and John Leggett form
the finance committee.
The class will leave i n two
group s. Those comprising t h e
first group, leave at one o'clock;
the others, who have lab periods in
the afternoon expect to leave at
five o'clock.
A sleighride, to be held Friday
evening, will be the opening event
of the r e t r ea t. Following the
sleighride, coffee and doughnuts
will be served.
Sleeping arrangements have
been made whereby ten individu-als
will be assigned to each of
the cabins. The cabins are heated
by pot-bellied stoves which it will
be each person's responsibility to
keep going.
Saturday will be spent in skiing,
skating and tobagganing, under the
direction of Herb Ellison, ex-army
ski-trooper. Indoor games such as
checker s, ping-pong and table-hockey
will be available for those
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Bus Topples;
Few Injuries
Students returning from a Mis-sionary
Convention at Toronto last
week had a miraculous escape
when the school bus in which they
were traveling toppled over into a
ditch near Brantford, Ontario. The
twenty-seven occupants, including
the Bethel contingent and other
students from the Twin City area,
climbed out through the windows
with only two cases of minor in-jury.
"The Lord and our driver saved
us from greater harm," was the
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Outdoor Sports To Thrill
Hearts of Tired Students
Skiing, skating, tobagganing under lights, singspiration and a smor-gasbord
will be enjoyed by the sophomores at their winter retreat next
week end, Jan. 24-26. Camp Iduhapi, thirty miles west of St. Paul, has
been chosen by the planning committee as an escape from post-vacation
Making Explorations
Details of Founder's Week, to be
held from February 17 through 21,
have been circulated among Gen- ren's party arranged by the Com-eral
Conference c h u r c h e s this 'miters' Club and the gifts had
week. The general theme is "The been contributed by students be-
Foundation of God Standeth Sure." fore they dispersed for their va-
II Tim. 2:19. cation. The afternoon's program,
Scheduled speakers include: Dr. which was arranged by Bertram
William Wrighton, former presi- and Martha Rutan, included the
dent of Western Baptist Semin- singing of carols, a Bethel trio, a
ary, and noted Keswich speaker; talk by Elna Avey on Christmas
Dr. Alvin G. Hause, pastor Bales in India, a picture portrayal of the
Avenue Baptist Church, Kansas Christmas story and, of course, the
City, Mo.; Dr. Paul Rees, pastor gifts and a distribution of ice-
First Covenant Church, Minneapo- cream.
lie; Dr. Herbert Kann, Pastor, Ol-iver
Presbyterian Church; Dr. Earl Congratulations are due Mr. and
V. Pierce, former President, Nor- Mrs. Maurice Lawson on the birth
thern Baptist Convention; Dr. Mor- of an 8-pound son Jan. 10th. He
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Page 2 THE CLARION
Do You Want
A Revival
To all Bethelites interested in
getting on fire for God: God has
work for you to do. It is every-where
in evidence. The time to
begin is now. The following should
help you to get -started.
Recipe For Revival
Take one soul that knows The
Lord Jesus Christ.
Steep it in 20 minutes of medita-tion
and prayer, alone with God
each day.
Heat it in God's love until it ig-nites.
Mix it well with other souls that
know the same Lord.
Do not allow it to cool.
Add at least one Bible and a song
Pray without ceasing.
(This recipe will serve all Chris-tians
who desire Christian fellow-ship
and will reach out to many
hearts that do not know Christ as
Savior.) For best results, let ev-ery
man use his own soul. Try it.
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who tire of the outdoor sports. A
library has also been provided.
Saturday evening meal will be in
the form of a smorgosbord. The
rest of the evening is to be spent
in tobogganing down lighted trails.
The day will close with a sings-piration
around the fireplace in
the recreation room.
Sunday morning, Dean Carlson
will come out to teach the Sunday
Chapel Quotes
This is the best way to get a
sight of who you are—to get an
idea of who God is.
W. Turnwall
I marvel at how God has condes-cended
to make us His fellow-laborers.
W. Turnwall
How do we work together with
God? First of all through prayer.
W. Turnwall
What are we doing? Are we
going to God in prayer? Are we
going to our fellowmen in com-passion?
W. Turn wall
The devotional life of the Chris-tian,
if it is really true, will ex-press
itself in service.
W. Tapper
Our service must be now—right
W. Tapper
I wonder if we have ever
thought of our own home as a
specific field of service.
W. Tapper
We should be willing to pay the
Dr. Sundell
I trust that 1947 will find us in
accordance with Paul's experience
—dead to self; ,our purpose, aim,
and object in full focus to the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Dean Carlson
school lesson. Sunday afternoon
the sophomores will r e t u r n to
Pawl ilte
dear boss
hi there repulsive you and your
deadlines i love both of you like i
love ddt
well its back to the old grind
again back to the same old round
of key punching and dry crumbs
without even a garnish of library
paste as the fellow said
if you put your nose to the
grindstone rough
and hold it down there long
just these three things will your
world compose
you the stone and your ground
down nose
such is philosophy it helps you
to like what you get rather than
get what you like theres a conso-ling
fact about everything but i
havent found it yet
now take this little deal about
poets starving in garrets i suppose
i should feel like a poet then well
i dont and as for garret ive seen
history students up to their ears
in garret but they werent starving
on the contrary you might say they
were satiated
look boss will you please tell
lindstedt that this business of
writing russian on the blackboards
will have to come to a focus he
writes the score of what looks like
the fifth symphony and signs it
4AnkoBckn then he says that
means tschaikowski and who are
we to argue with the way a rus-sian
wants to spell his name, noss
do you mind if i stick to english
i hate to bring up the subject of
food again boss but the crumbs i
now have are bone dry and since
the radiators been fixed it doesnt
leak anymore and im practically
but what do you care about that
youve got a heart like a nether
millstone go away repulsive youre
beginning to disgust me
A week of special meetings were
conducted at Norway, Mich., by
Prof. Anton Pearson during Christ-mas
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor,
While at the "pep-fest" last week
I mulled over in my mind the prob-lem
of school spirit . . . or the
lack of it .. . trying vainly to find
a panacea for Bethel's ills. The
trouble certainly could not rest
with the band, whose playing
started even my size 10's tapping
the floor with a military air nor
could the lovely and peppy yell
leaders be the bottleneck in the
production of vigorous and vocifer-ous
school enthusiasm. Frankly,
my thoughts were in a turbulent
state and I was on the brink of
despair when the light suddenly
dawned on me and the brilliance
of it made me want to run out on
the floor and lead a yell myself.
I suddenly realized that the
basketball team could be assured
of real support and a vital, wide-awake,
rooting section if we intro-duced
some good old Swedish
cheers to augment the present rep-ertoire
of yells . . . Not only would
it increase the vocal support of the
team, but we would be the sub-ject
of conversation on the lips of
all the visitors. I can hear them
now saying, "Imagine! Those kids
being able to cheer in two langu-ages!"
Bethel has always been
different and here is a chance to
return to bygone days to revive
"svensk" cheering and put Bethel
on the map again.
How about trying out this yell
at our next game?
Rutan, skrutan, rutan, skrutan,
Tag dem i nacken,
Sla dem pa backen,
Ja, Ja, de gar bra,
Bethel Jr. College, Rah! Rah!
As the old farmer said when his
cow kicked the bucket and he
turned a little pale, "Them's my
sentiments exactly."
Yours respectively,
David H. Carlson.
Missionaries to Our Educators
Proposed by College Dean
Guest editorial by C. Emanuel Carlson
Eighteen years ago a professor, Rufus M. Jones, returned from a
world tour and summarized his observations regarding the prevailing
patterns of though by saying, "I am inclined to think that there is no
one thing that impresses a man more as he travels through country
after country around the world than the spell which science has thrown
over the minds of youth today." "Science" in those days was good,
if not the good.
During the years since that time we have learned more of the de-vices
by which to release the latent energies invested in the universe,
and accordingly we have learned more of the vastness of those energies.
Now people generally, and not least the scientists, are fearful lest we
should put these energies to the wrong use. They can see that ignor-ance
or malice may cause some one to turn the wrong valve, or to
throw the wrong switch. Most informed persons now stand in awe of
the creation even though they do not recognize the Creator. Many of
the thoughtful scholars of our day are frankly yearning for a system of
values or a moral code which is based in eternity and usable as a guide
in handling these things.
It is now obvious that such a scale of values can never be derived
through science. The real scientists of our day are admitting that they
can not see the way through on the premises of science. To quote an
illustration, "We stand before the evil things in civilization with the
fascinated horror of neurotic minds. . . " Many colleges and univer-sities
led the way in the cultivation of science as a substitute for re-ligion,
and some among them are now finding that they need the "lost
To us at Bethel, the need of our day is clear, namely, a return to
God and to Christ. As the world stands today, it presents an unpre-cedented
challenge to evangelism, evangelism of all classes and all
races. We know that there are many on our campus who plan to
bring the Christian message to other peoples on other continents; there
are many also who plan to reach the American public. We hope there
are some who by native endowment and intensity of scholarship can
prepare to serve as missionaries to the scientific world by becoming
Christian leaders in the field of higher education.
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 :indents.
Editor Gordon Krantz
Ass't. Editor Charles Germany
News E. W. J. Avey, Ed.; Sheffler, Rosenquist, Ger-many,
M. Lindstedt.
Features A. Carlson, Ed.; Rosenquist, H. Anderson,
Bergman, A. Hansen, Raub, M. Lindstedt, archie
Sports Ellison, Ed.; H. Peterson, Goodrich,
E. Johnson, Dahl
Religious Editor Ruth Bridges
Circulations Manager Karl Rosenquist
Business Manager Bud Peterson
Typists Schultz, Christiansen, Ward, Bavin, A. Carlson
Faculty Advisor LaVone Berthel
THE CLARION Page 3
citaaegleadlecdue Indians Suffer Defeat By Waldorf THAT Dean C. E. Carlson wel-comes
students back f rom the
Christmas recess to what he called
a rest-up after the vacation.
THAT Mr. and Mrs. Warren Val-ine
have made a New Year Reso-lution
to arrive at their first class
on time every morning.
THAT Dr. Karl J. Karlson con-fessed
at the Dedication of the
Spring Lake Park Baptist Church
to following the adventures of Ma-jor
Hoople whom he considered to
be "the funniest guy I know."
THAT the Freshman Class is to
dispose of its surplus funds in a
distribution of bubble-gum to its
members at the end of the school
THAT consternation ensued in the
Faculty Room when Miss G. Berg-lund
went to her desk for a test
paper but let out a mouse instead
that had been disturbed in its meal
on a candy bar.
THAT the Bethel Pantomine
season has opened in the Commui-cations
class but that the mem-bers
pronounce it a dumb show.
THAT Weatherman Lingensjo
finds the elements unpredictable
but that, coming from the wilds of
Saskatchewan, Vernon Anderson
declares himself to be enjoying the
summer weather.
THAT historical data included in
Dean C. E. Carlson's lectures
classify Ann Boleyn as a flat-iron
with whom Henry pressed his suit
and further explain the collapse of
James' Parliament of Undertakers
by a failure to rehearse.
THAT Frieda Frank made a try-ing
visit to New York for the
Christmas vacation.
THAT radiator repair work has
made it possible to do German
without flooding and has removed
the favorite "in deep water" ex-cuse.
THAT Dean C. E. Carlson has
assumed the role of Emily Post
and is conducting a series of
Are there Snipe hunters still in
existance? Yes! We give you Mae
and Janet Fisher, the only two re-maining
Snipe hunters in the
Northwest. During Christmas va-cation
they traveled to So. Dakota
especially to bring back some of
the Feather Bearing Low Flying
Foot Long type of the Thin Body
Promptly - at 7 in the evening the
fearless hunters fared forth into
the darkness armed only with lan-tern,
flashlight, stadium boots and
sacks in which to carry home their
prey. With the hunters went three
escorts or drivers, small men of
the bush country who had been
hired to drive the Snipe out from
the bushes, trees and corn fields to
the hunters. Through the fields
the five went, quietly lest they
frighten the wary Thin Body Snipe.
Over fences, through a treacherous
maze of trees and branches lying
on the ground from the last wind
Bethel Loses
To Concordia
Thursday, December 19 Concor-dia
eked out a one-point victory
over the Indians. The score was
39-38. Bad passing and poor shoot-ing
resulted in a ragged game.
Bethel, behind 12-6 at the end of
the first quarter, managed to tie
the score at 23-all by the third
For Concordia, Braenn flipped 7
buckets and 6 free throws for 20
points. Sandberg and Greenman
scored 16 and 15 points respective-ly.
Bethel made 10 out of 19 gift
shots; Concordia scored 11 out of
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ris Peterson, pastor Elim Baptist
Church, Detroit, Michigan, while
special courses are to be conduct-ed
by Professor Edwin Omark and
Professor Reuben Omark.
The Anniversary banquet will be
held on the Friday evening at
Payne Avenue Church when the
Rev. Martin Erikson, Editor of
The Standard will be the speaker.
Freshman Conferences in etiquette.
THAT Prof. Norstrom considers
Hydrogen Sulfide to have the un-social
aroma of over-ripe hen-fruit
but was heard to drop a whispered
remark concerning a stench.
THAT in Carl Olson's view it is
as useless to ask the wall-proppers
to fill up the front seats at Chapel
as it is to narrate a hair-raising
story to a bald-headed man.
THAT last year's CLARION
award for horticulture goes to Miss
E. Nelson for her fine display of
lilies in the library.
storm they stalked. Brrr! here
is that old haunted house.
Beyond the house at the end of
the meadows the courageous girls
took up their vigil. Silently the
three Snipe drivers slipped far
around in front of the clearing to
drive the Snipe into the trap where
they would be helplessly blinded
by the dim lantern and weak flash-light.
And now came silence, si-lence
so loud you could almost
hear it. Five minutes, fifteen min-utes,
how long should the hunters
wait? One of the bush men crept
"They haven't come yet," was
the sorrowful wail from one of the
hunters. And so they waited some
For further details of the hunt,
see the fearless Fishers, who, at
great personal risk and with much
labor, have compiled a complete
dossier on the habits and habitat
of the Low Flying Snipe.
Bethel Wins
Hard Fought game
The Bethel Indians chalked up a
double victory over a hard-fighting
Bethany Jan. 10 by defeating their
college team 59-53 and their high
school team 36-21.
Center Kenny Greenman was
high-point man for Bethel with 24
points, while Bethany's star left
guard, Minke, paced his team with
16 points before being taken out
of the game on personal fouls ear-ly
in the last quarter. LeRoy
Sandberg and Ted Hamline each
registered 10 opints f o r Bethel.
In a preliminary game Bethany
high school lost to the Bethel "B"
team -only after a hard struggle.
Next Building
A glimpse of the proposed
new Administration Building is
given in a drawing included on
the 1947 General Conference
calendar. The building is to ac-commodate
the offices, auditori-um
and library and is to be
erected, as soon as the Centen-nial
Fund permits, as a memori-al
to the 180 Conference men
who died in the World War.
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The party was on its way home
after spending a week at a Con-vention
for Missionary Advance
held at the University of Toronto
by the Student Foreign Missions
Fellowship and the Inter-Varsity
Christian Fellowship. The journey
was made in the Bethel school bus
with Carl Olson as driver. The ac-cident
occurred when the bus turn-ed
out to pass a transport moving
in the same direction and was for-ced
into the bank because the
transport turned out at the same
time. As the state of the road
made braking dangerous the bus
continued straddling the ditch un-til
the embankment grew high and
the left wheels slipped into the
ditch and the bus turned on to its
New fallen snow padded the
ground on to which the vehicle
toppled and possibly saved the
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DINNERS and LUNCHES
1568 Como Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Team Outplayed
To 55-44 Score
Coach Edwards' cagers bowed to
Waldorf College by a score of
55-44 in a game played Jan. 11 in
the Bethel College gym.
The Indian quint exerted every
effort but were defeated by the
sharp-shooting power of the Wal-dorf
Warriors. Hamlin paced the
Indian scoring attack by garner-ing
a total of 18 points.
Paced by Halverson and Chris-tan,
scoring 26 and 23 points res-pectively,
the Warriors edged grad-ually
ahead of the hard-fighting
Indians in one of their most hec-tic
encounters of the season.
Edwards' quintet simply could
not click and were outplayed by
the Warriors. Several team com-binations
were used by the Ind-ians
in an effort to keep down the
opposition's scoring, but they
could find no combination that
would work for very long.
Bethel Victor
Of Northwestern
Bethel defeated Northwestern by
a score of 49-35 on Dec. 14 in a
game played in Bethel College
The score at the half was 25-13
in the Indian's favor. They held
that lead till the end of the game,
making a very decisive win over
Northwestern. Benson was high
point man for the Indians, with
11 counters, Sandberg followed
with 10 points—all of them field
The Bethel girl's team suffered
a very severe defeat to Northwes-tern
the same night in their first
encounter of t h e season. T h e
score at the half was 24-10, North-western.
Both teams doubled their
scores to end the game, 48-20.
Doris Richert paced the Bethel
team with 12 points.
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Jan. 17 B. W. A.
Jan. 17 Missionary Band
Jan. 18 Basketball—Tracy (here)
Jan. 21 Student Council
Jan. 21 Basketball—Bethany
Jan. 24-26 Sophomore Retreat
Jan. 25 Basketball—Luther
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Page 4 THE. CLARION
Dorm Doors
Anyone walking down the aug-ust
corridors of Edgren Hall can't
help but notice the signs on the
doors. Some merely announce to
the world the names of those liv-ing
behind those doors. Others
add a word or two of welcome or
warning, while still others can on-ly
be deciphered with difficulty
due to their being written in a for-eign
language of some kind.
Spike & Willie is the way one
sign read s. Another, illustrated
with a few trees and a fish, brings
home the fact that Skoog and Har-ing
have their earthly belongings
there. The two angels, Morrie and
Howie, have proved that there is
a use for old Christmas cards, es-pecially
ones with pictures of two
angels on them.
Study time is apparently no pro-blem
to those in room 304. Dew
Drop In is the announcement on
the door. The only condition is
that you wipe your feet before en-tering.
Just down the hall from
this haven of hospitality is the
only sign with sound effects.
The sign asks you to ring before
entering. This can be done by us-ing
the provided sleighbell attach-ed
to the door with a piece of
string and scotch tape.
Various foreign languages a r e
w ell represented. Swedish, Ger-man,
French, Russian, and an Ar-abic
of a sort can all be found. So
far no signs in Spanish, Italian,
Sanskrit, or Cunieform have ap-peared,
but anything is possible at
Sem Students
View Life
Where is Howie? The first hour
class on Jan. 7 opened with much
enthusiasm and good attendance—
but for one student. Yes sir, How-ard
Olson was absent! Wasn't the
vacation period long enough? Not
for all the work he had to do. You
see he was in Chicago over the
Holidays. Incidentally, his topic
for the term paper in Counselling
is "Premartial Counselling."
Overheard after one student had
looked at his quarter grades. "I
have thought it over carefully and
I have arrived at the conclusion
that I am feeble-minded."
Remember ."The March of
Dimes" January 15-30, 1947.
1560 Como Avenue
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sound bodies which in turn leads
to a sound mind.
Their fund at the present con-sists
of a $550,000 gift from UNR-RA
and $ 2 . 1 9 from the grade
school children of Carson, Wash-ington.
Let's hope the children of
Carson get their money's worth.
* * *
Between now and July, our 80th
Congress has many matters to -at-tend
to. Among them are such
items as Sen. Arthur Capper's pro-posal
for a federal divorce law.
The American Legion has no less
than 250 bills prepared for more
aid to the veteran.
Here are some of the other is-sues
that are likely to be brought
up. The high tariff Smoot-Hawley
Bill that has been dead since post
World War One days. There is a
prediction that the Republicans
will want a law limiting a presi-dent
to 2 terms. Most likely they
don't want a repetition of the
Roosevelt regime. There should be
a terrific brawl over the Immigra-tion
laws. Truman has stressed
the loosening of restrictions to ad-
. mit refugees and many GOP sena-tors
are dead against it. And of
course if there is to be a cut in
the budget that has been planned
by the Republicans, the various
government agencies and bureaus
will be in for a housecleaning.
From this preview of the 80th
Congress, news from Washington,
D. C., should prove rather interest-ing
in the months to come!
Couples Move
Into Ap'ts.
The entrance of the New Year
found the occupation of the new
apartments well under way.
The third floor is completly fill-ed,
and families are busily moving
their belongings into the second
floor. The various couples have
been busy scrubbing, waxing and
moving, and above all waiting for
such things as bathroom fixtures,
kitchen units to be connected, and
doors to be installed and var-varnished.
There have been some improve-ments
that the couples are respon-sible
for. Mrs. Dave Washburn has
improved her kitchen by painting
t h e handles of the utensils a
bright red, while Dave has stained
a writing desk and book shelf.
Ruth Anderson has used some
ingenuity by making some stools
out of used nail kegs and covering
them with red checkered cloth,
while her husband, Vernie has
spent some time building a kitch-en
There have been incidences that
have been a little out of the rou-tine.
Ray and Ruby Sandburg were
blessed with the arrival of a baby
boy, Wayne on the 29th of Decem-ber.
Even the St. Paul Pioneer
Press published a picture of the
new family.
Of course the carpenters and the
plumbers are still around. In fact
one morning when Dana and Ruth
Larson were sleeping late they
were suddenly disturbed by the en-trance
of a carpenter, saw-horse
and all.
If you ever happen to be in the
building and happen to hear some-one
speaking with a decided Eng-lish
accent, it most likely is Betty
Rosenquist, an English war bride.
Bethel Hero
eaounifiell WM. all
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of a hero greater than Paul Revere;
One who puts the rest to shame,
By his mighty deeds, his cause to fame.
I am that hero of such repute. . .
I am a hero—for I commute!
It's rise and shine at the alarm's first scream,
Then race like mad for the seven-fifteen.
Bolt my breakfast (I can chew it later),
Then down the street like a champ speed skater.
The only light is the stars o'erhead-
It was just this dark when I went to bed!
Board the car with the morning masses,
Me and the rest of the laboring classes;
Stand with the men in the dungarees,
Their lunch pails banging against my knees;
Strive with the mob to get a seat—
They win, I lose, but there's still my feet.
My legs are weak and so are my looks,
My arm is cramped where I held my books,
My feet are tired, good humor departed;
I'M ready to quit and the day's just started,
The bruise on my shin is really a beaut.
All these are mine—for I commute!
Arvilla Hansen
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passengers from serious injury, but
the broken glass along the right
side of the bus indicated what
might have been.
That night the students found
accommodation in the Y. M. C. A.
and Y. W. C. A. at Brantford, while
the bus was taken to a local ga-rage
for replacement of the win-dows
and repairs to a spring.
What and When
In Near Future
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Looking for a fun game for your Windows Phone 8 device? You may want to give Chimpact a try.
Chimpact is a jumper game of sorts where you have to navigate your chimp up the screen by launching him from hammock to hammock. Graphics are great, game play challenging and Chimpact is a enjoyable way to pass the time.
There are two game modes with Chimpact, Gem Quest and Totem Trail. Gem Quest is a multi-level game where you are tasked with moving your chimp up the screen, collecting gems along the way.
Totem Trail is a multi-level game but more task oriented. For example one level will require you to collect a certain number of bananas in a set time period while another reach the top of the screen without any damage.
Each game mode has four worlds with twelve levels each. All totaled, Chimpact has 240 challenge medallions to earn and eight special abilities for your chimp to unlock.
Game play is simple. Your chimp starts sleeping in the hammock at the bottom of the screen and you have to launch him around the screen until he reaches his home hammock. Just tap/hold on the hammock, drag your finger down (a directional arrow will appear) and release to launch your chimp around the jungle.
There are dangerous to avoid and bonus items to collect for extra points. Some launches require full power, while others require a more delicate touch.
Chimpact is a fun game for your Windows Phone 8 device. There is a free trial version to let you try Chimpact with the full version currently running $2.99.
You can find Chimpact here in the Windows Phone Store.

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Halliburton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Oil Spill Evidence
Halliburton has admitted to destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon case. The company pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and will pay a $200,000 fine.
Today, a guilty plea in the case of the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. A subsidiary of Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to charges that it destroyed evidence connected to the disaster. The oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers, launching a massive oil spill. NPR's Jeff Brady tells us more.
JEFF BRADY, BYLINE: Halliburton was BP's cement contractor on the well. Halliburton told investigators that it warned BP to use additional centralizers. These are devices that hold pipes in place in a well. To bolster its case, Halliburton ran two computer simulations after the accident, but those simulations showed the number of centralizers didn't make a difference.
Despite being told to preserve all evidence, Halliburton deleted the results. Ed Sherman is a law professor at Tulane University.
ED SHERMAN: They destroyed it, those computerized studies, even though they might have been favorable to BP.
BRADY: Halliburton declined an interview request, but in a statement the company says it will plead guilty to one misdemeanor count. It agreed to three years' probation and will pay the maximum fine of $200,000. The company also will make a $55 million contribution to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Still, Sherman says this is a blow to Halliburton's reputation.
SHERMAN: It does, of course, leave a bad taste in terms of Halliburton's good faith.
BRADY: There's still a wide-ranging trial stemming from the Deepwater Horizon accident underway in New Orleans. The first phase has been argued, and a judge will decide how to allocate fault between BP, rig owner Transocean, and Halliburton. During that first phase of the trial, Halliburton said it only recently found cement samples that should have been turned over as evidence earlier.
This was nearly three years after the accident. Loyola University law professor Blaine Lecesne says the judge clearly was not happy about that.
BLAINE LECESNE: So what you have is a pattern of behavior which seemingly suggests deception by Halliburton in terms of withholding, hiding or actually destroying evidence that's relevant.
BRADY: The question now is whether the judge will decide to allocate more fault for the accident to Halliburton because of its behavior. Jeff Brady, NPR News.
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Our weather will get worse, warn scientists
3 Sep 18 - El Niño and La Niña the weather patterns that bring New Zealand droughts on the one hand and storms on the other will get worse as the climate warms, scientists say.
SHOCK WAVES: Should we be using tech to control weather?
28 Aug 18 - Farmers in Mexico have accused Volkswagen of ruining their crops by installing hail cannons, which fire shockwaves into the atmosphere in an effort to prevent hail storms from damaging cars rolling...
Why summer weather keeps on getting 'stuck'
22 Aug 18 - Summer weather patterns are increasingly likely to stall in Europe, North America and parts of Asia, according to a new climate study that explains why Arctic warming is making heatwaves elsewhere...
A city in Oman has just posted our hottest low temperature
2 Jul 18 - Over a period of 24 hours last week, the temperature in the Oman city of Quriyat never dropped below 42.6deg, most likely the highest minimum temperature observed on Earth.
Slower cyclones will mean more damage
18 Jun 18 - Tropical cyclones are slowing down. Hurricanes have lost their hurry. Paradoxically, this is bad news: they have more time to work their mischief.
Climate change dust storms can kill
14 Jun 18 - The US Dust Bowl in the 1930s was one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century.
STORM SEASON: Category 5 warning is no longer enough
7 Jun 18 - As the Atlantic hurricane season begins, scientists are worried that US coastal communities could face more storms so intense that current warning categories don't fully capture the threat.
US battens the hatches for season of storms
16 May 18 - The US is bracing for another harrowing spate of hurricanes this year, with forecasts of an active 2018 season coming amid new research that shows powerful Atlantic storms are intensifying.
Seeding clouds is common ... but does it work?
16 Mar 18 - Cloud seeding has been used to influence weather conditions in in more than 50 countries worldwide. But we still dont know whether it works.
We might need a new storm scale of category six
23 Feb 18 - The increasing strength, intensity and duration of tropical cyclones has climate scientists asking whether a new classification needs to be created: a category six storm.
We've just had the hottest month on record
5 Feb 18 - New Zealand continues to tick off the climate records, with January the hottest month ever recorded.
2017 hottest year on record without help from El Niño
22 Jan 18 - Last year was the hottest since global records began that was not given an additional boost by the natural climate cycle El Niño, according to new data.
Spring is second-warmest on record
6 Dec 17 - This spring has set a mark as second-equal warmest on record.
November shapes up as record dry month
24 Nov 17 - Parts of New Zealand are on track for the driest November on record.
Get yourself ready for a world 3deg warmer in 80 years
2 Nov 17 - The UN expects a world 3deg warmer by 2100, even if countries cut their greenhouse gas emissions as they promised in 2015.
Thunderstorms set to grow stronger
18 Oct 17 - Thunderstorms are set to become more intense throughout the tropics and subtropics this century as a result of climate change, according to new research.
Stormy outlook for insurance-linked securities
6 Oct 17 - Recent extreme weather events highlight the significant changes have taken place in the insurance and reinsurance sectors to cope with the mounting exposure of private and public sectors to disaster...
Does Irma mean we need a new measure of hurricane strength?
13 Sep 17 - Hurricane strength is measured on the SaffirSimpson scale, ranging from one (the lowest) to five (the highest) After Irma, is it time to introduce a category six?
Its here, its happening, it's time to stand up
12 Sep 17 - By BILL McKIBBEN | Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, flash fires, droughts: all of them tell us one thing we need to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and fast.
In an era of dire climate records the US and South Asia floods won't be the last
1 Sep 17 - From the US to India and China, human impact on the climate is likely to have made droughts and storms more severe and the trend is only set to continue.
1 Sep 17 It's time for cities to ready for bigger rainfall
29 Aug 17 What links Hurricane Harvey and climate change?
14 Aug 17 Crazy climate records from 2016 you might know
25 Jul 17 Wet weekend rewrites the record books
25 Jul 17 Bunker down, El Nino summers will get worse
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Less than two years before the opening of new SunTrust Park, the Braves are in the process of retooling their roster. They've got a crucial building block, however, in franchise first baseman Freddie Freeman. Freeman's already locked in for years, as is shortstop Andrelton Simmons. Nick Markakis has also brought some reliability to the offense. It's a transitional time but an important one for Atlanta as they decide who to build around for 2017. They also won a lot more games early on than expected, so watch out for the young Braves. The Atlanta Braves play at Turner Field in downtown Atlanta. One of baseball's greatest brands, the Braves have won three championships (1913, 1957, and 1995), winning one each in Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. They won the NL East 14 straight seasons between 1991 and 2005, making it to five World Series along the way. Improved pitching led to three playoff appearances in four years between 2010 and 2013. A softened offense has contributed to the team's decline since, but the Braves won't be down for long. A great front office has had an advantage on the rest of the league for decades and they're scheming for future playoff success. For right now, the Braves are still competitive, one of baseball's great classic teams, and the Team of the South. Get your Braves tickets from Gold Coast Tickets today!
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Thomas Steitz, PhD
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Departments & Organizations
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Center for RNA Science and Medicine
Structural Biology
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Office of Cooperative Research
Prof. Thomas Steitz received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Harvard, with William Lipscomb. After a postdoctoral year at Harvard, he moved to the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, to work as a Jane Coffin Childs fellow with David Blow. He next joined the Yale faculty, where he remained, except for sabbatical work with Klaus Weber in Göttingen, Germany; Aaron Klug at Cambridge; John Abelson at the California Institute of Technology; and Thomas Cech and Olke Uhlenbeck at the University of Colorado. He received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Pfizer Prize from the American Chemical Society, the Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award for distinguished work in basic medical sciences, the 2001 Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Lawrence University Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2006 Keio Medical Science Prize, and the 2007 Gairdner International Award. Dr. Steitz was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He had been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education & Training
|Harvard University (1966)
|Lawrence College (1962)
|Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
|Cambridge, England
|Postdoctoral Fellow
|Harvard University
Honors & Recognition
Nobel Prize in ChemistryThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2009)
George E. Palade Award (2008)
Gairdner International AwardThe Gairdner Foundation (2007)
Keio Medical Science PrizeKeio University, Tokyo, Japan (2006)
Frank H. Westheimer MedalHarvard University (2004)
Lucia R. Briggs Distinguished Achievement AwardLawrence University (2002)
AAAS Newcomb Cleveland PrizeAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (2001)
Rosenstiel Award for Distinguished Work in Basic Medical SciencesRosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at Brandeis University (2001)
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and BiochemistryYale University (2001)
Honorary D.Sc.Lawrence University (1981)
Pfizer Award in Enzyme ChemistryAmerican Chemical Society (ACS) (1980)
Professional Service
National Academy of Sciences (1990 - Present) Member
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1990 - Present) Fellow
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1986 - Present) Researcher
Caltech (1984 - 1985)
Göttengen, Germany (1976 - 1977) Fellow
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Innovation happens at the intersection... of two or more different, yet similar, groups.
- one technology meets another
- one discipline meets another
- one department meets another
- one network meets another
- one neighborhood meets another
- the forest meets the meadow
- the ocean meets the shore.
The intersection of Art and Technology will be highlighted at Cleveland's Ingenuity Festival next week. Art, dance, music, theater and technology remixed through a long weekend: July 19th - 22nd.
I was first introduced to the intersection of art and technology many years ago when a client told me, after a long examination of a social network map of his organization, that my network diagrams reminded him of Jackson Pollock paintings! I took that as a compliment, and the art/tech seed was planted for me. Hmmm... I thought... analytic data visualizations as art... could be!
As a prelude to the Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland State University is holding a public forum on Creativity and Technology. Come hear more about Innovation at the Intersections!
UPDATE: For a more detailed examination of Innovation at the Intersections come hear Ed Morrison and Valdis Krebs at the Synergy Speaker's Forum, Saturday, July 21st @ Noon during the Ingenuity Festival.


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Silicon Valley Icon Steve Wozniak to Speak at Santa Clara University Undergraduate Commencement June 16
Deborah Lohse
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 13, 2012 — Steve Wozniak, the iconic co-founder of Apple Computer, current chief scientist at Fusion-io, and one of the original architects of the personal-computing industry, will be the commencement speaker for SCU's undergraduate class of 2012.
Wozniak will deliver his address at the University's commencement ceremony taking place Saturday, June 16, at 8:30 a.m. at Buck Shaw Stadium. He will receive an honorary degree of Doctorate of Engineering Leadership.
The event will mark the University's 161st commencement, as well as the centennial celebration for the University's School of Engineering.
Wozniak's career is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. In 1976, he and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. The following year, he introduced the Apple II personal computer, with features like a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The development of the Apple II proved to be an integral step to launching the PC industry.
"I look forward to speaking to Santa Clara's graduating class as they close this academic chapter of their lives and embark on the many adventures that await them in the next chapter," said Wozniak, a longtime supporter of education, especially math, electronics, and science education for school-age children in the Bay Area.
He has spent many years supporting causes to spark a passion for math and science education in grade school students and their teachers, teaching grade school, stressing hands-on learning, and encouraging creativity for students. He "adopted" the Los Gatos School District by providing students and teachers with teaching tools and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment. He also was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet, and Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose.
"We are pleased to welcome Mr. Wozniak back to campus, as a reminder to our students that following their passions and nurturing their talents is a path to becoming men and women for others," said Michael Engh, S.J., the president of Santa Clara University.
In 1981, Wozniak went back to UC Berkeley and finished his degree in electrical engineering and computer science. For his achievements at Apple Computer, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America's leading innovators.
In 2000, he was inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame and was awarded the prestigious Heinz Award for Technology, The Economy and Employment.
He has been involved in a number of business and philanthropic ventures in recent years, including serving as chief scientist for Fusion-io and writing a New York Times best-selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, released in September 2006 by Norton Publishing.
A highly sought-out speaker, Wozniak's extracurricular pursuits include playing Segway polo for the Silicon Valley Aftershocks team, and having appeared on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, The Big Bang Theory, and the reality show Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List.
About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, theology, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.
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The Hadoop Distributed File System has been great in providing a cloud-type file system. It is robust (when administered correctly :-)) and highly scalable. However, one of the main drawbacks of HDFS is that each piece of data is replicated in three places. This is acceptable because disk storage is cheap and is becoming cheaper by the day; this isn't a problem if you have a relatively small to medium size cluster. The price difference (in absolute terms) is not much whether you use 15 disks or whether you use 10 disks. If we consider the cost of $1 per GByte, the price difference between fifteen 1 TB disk and ten 1 TB disk is only $5K. But when the total size of your cluster is 10 PBytes, then the costs savings in storing the data in two places versus three is a huge ten million dollars!
The reason HDFS stores disk blocks in triplicate is because it uses commodity hardware and there is non-negligible probability of a disk failure. It has been observed that a replication factor of 3 and the fact the HDFS aggressively detects failures and immediately replicates failed -block-replicas is sufficient to never lose any data in practice. The challenge now is to achieve an effective replication factor of 3 while keeping the real physical replication factor at close to 2! How best to do it than by using Erasure Codes.
I heard about this idea called DiskReduce from the folks at CMU. The CMU PDL Labs has been a powerhouse of research in file systems and it is no surprise that they proposed a elegant way of implementing erasure codes in HDFS. I borrowed heavily from their idea in my implementation of Erasure Codes in HDFS described in HDFS-503. One of the main motivation of my design is to keep the HDFS Erasure Coding as a software layer above HDFS rather than inter-twining it inside of HDFS code. The HDFS code is complex by itself and it is really nice to not have to make it more complex and heavyweight.
Distributed Raid File System consists of two main software components. The first component is the RaidNode, a daemon that creates parity files from specified HDFS files. The second component "raidfs" is a software that is layered over a HDFS client and it intercepts all calls that an application makes to the HDFS client. If the HDFS client encounters corrupted data while reading a file, the raidfs client detects it; it uses the relevant parity blocks to recover the corrupted data (if possible) and returns the data to the application. The application is completely transparent to the fact that parity data was used to satisfy it's read request. The Distributed Raid File System can be configured in such a way that a set of data blocks of a file are combined together to form one or more parity blocks. This allows one to reduce the replication factor of a HDFS file from 3 to 2 while keeping the failure probabilty relatively same as before.
I have seen that using a stripe size of 10 blocks decreases the physical replication factor of a file to 2.2 while keeping the effective replication factor of a file at 3. This typically results in saving 25% to 30% of storage space in a HDFS cluster.
One of the shortcoming of this implementation is that we need a parity file for every file in HDFS. This potentially increases the number of files in the NameNode. To alleviate this problem, I will enhance this implementation (in future) to use the Hadoop Archive feature to archive all the parity files together in larger containers so that the NameNode does not have to support additional files when the HDFS Erasure Coding is switched on. This works reasonably well because it is a very very rare case that the parity files are ever used to satisfy a read request.
I am hoping that this feature becomes part of Hadoop 0.21 release scheduled for September 2009!
Friday, August 28, 2009
HDFS and Erasure Codes (HDFS-RAID)
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Kim has lots of projects so let's get started looking at them and see what she has to say about them! Kim used the Noah and Audrey collections to create with.
On the 12x12 layout, I cut stars from the cute little boy paper, then covered them with Ranger Crackle medium.
Thanks Kim for being our Guest Diva for the month of April! We are in love with all the great projects you did for us and our readers!!
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As receiver DeSean Jackson officially becomes a member of the Redskins, the team's quarterback has pumped the brakes a bit on the presumption that Washington suddenly has become the favorites to win the NFC East.
"We are excited to have him join our team," Griffin told 106.7 The Fan via text message. "Our team and this city will be there for him. I understand his drive and his competitiveness to win. Always doing it for his dad and now doing it for this city. It's an exciting time be a Redskin fan and a part of this team because of the fire power that we have with all our guys. Everyone needs to understand that we haven't won anything yet, and these next few months will be about building those bonds and chemistry so that we can."
If anyone understands the Redskins haven't won anything yet, it's Redskins fans. Still reeling from a disastrous 3-13 season, few will presume that the team is destined to reclaim the division crown based merely on the arrival of DeSean Jackson.
Still, DeSean gives the organization the one thing for which every fan of every team is searching in March: Hope. Regardless of what happens from September through December (and maybe January), hope will help carry fans of the team through the next five months, making them perhaps more inclined to buy tickets and hats and other stuff along the way.


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A bill requiring more financial disclosure and new ethics rules for the operations of the Port of Houston Authority received quick committee approval Thursday.
The proposal by Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, would maintain a locally-appointed, seven-member Port Commission, but would prohibit any commissioner from serving longer than 12 years. It also would require commissioners to file the same personal financial statements as state lawmakers and prohibit commissioners from engaging in private investments or accept gifts that would create a conflict of interest. The port authority also would be required by the legislation to maintain a hotline for whistleblowers to report complaints of "fraud, waste or abuse" of ethics policies.
The state sunset commission would conduct another review of the authority in four years. Local officials would lose their right to make appointments if they fail to name new commissioners within 30 days of an expired term.
In a document explaining the bill, the Sunset Commission staff wrote that a special review was ordered after "a series of missteps and negative media attention. " The legislation would "address concerns, restore trust and respond to the significant challenges and opportunities" experienced by the Port.


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Office for Inclusive Living and Learning (OILL)
The Office for Inclusive Living and Learning recognizes the human diversity represented at Beloit College and in its surrounding communities as the College's greatest educational resource. Our bodies, histories, social identities, worldviews and inspirations - our whole lives - make this campus a setting unparalleled for a true Liberal Arts in Practice education. Who we are today and who we will become, both individually and collectively, provide the field in which we live, learn and strive to achieve Beloit College's mission.
We engage not only students but also college faculty and staff, along with members of the wider Beloit community, through:
- Intentional identity based programming focused on the differences represented on our campus and in the community, acknowledging not only those identities that have been privileged and empowered but especially those that have been underrepresented and/or marginalized.
- Challenging and exploring understandings of race, class, gender, power and privilege, by creating opportunities for dialogue between faculty, staff and students.
- Collaborative ongoing initiatives with campus partners, including but not limited to the Office of International Education (OIE), the Office of Academic Diversity and Inclusiveness (OADI), Learning Enrichment and Disability Services (LEADS), Residential Life, and the departments of Critical Identity Studies and Religious Studies.
- Developing training and high impact practices aimed at creating a campus learning environment that is safe, understanding and interculturally competent
- Setting benchmarks and tracking progress through intentional research and assessment of our work around inclusive living and learning.
The Office for Inclusive Living and Learning is part of the Division for Student Life and also includes two additional programs focused on identity, relationship building, dialogue and student leadership:
- The Spiritual Life Program fosters interactions and promotes relationships in which students, faculty and staff can explore their spiritual journeys and express their religious identities as they evolve in this age of rapid change and conflict.
- The values, skills and learning that come from our Sustained Dialogue program are utilized by all college stakeholders, administration, faculty, staff and students to set the norms for how we communicate, build relationships and resolve conflicts.


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(Editor's Note: Readers of the Tomahawk Leader have found this "Youth Weigh In" column each week on our Education page. In it, Marleen Lehnherr of Tomahawk Together puts some tough questions to local young people. We've been impressed with their responses, logic and compassion. Take note of this week's dilemma and how some of our youth would handle it. Then consider what you would do in a similar situation. We also send our best holiday wishes to Marleen and the kids who have become active in Tomahawk Together's Healthy Community/Healthy Youth Intiative. –Kathy and Larry Tobin, co-publishers of the Tomahawk Leader)
By Marleen Lehnherr and friends
Healthy Community/Healthy Youth Initiative
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'The way I see it'
Holiday pressure
2007 has been a rough year for some families and now it's Christmastime and money is especially tight.
Stress in some families is high and expectations are great. The meaning of Christmas for many is built around giving and getting. Many feel the pressure so strong that they go into major debt that isn't paid off until five or six months into the next year (if at all). This year, however, for some that option is not available as several factors have already claimed all or most of their expendable income.
This week's dilemma addresses just such a predicament for one family.
Your best friend, Jane, comes from a loving family who has hit on hard times this year. One of her brothers suffered a major illness that eventually drained the family savings account. It was a long process of medical procedures, but it now looks like he is in remission and should fully recover.
Added to that, Jane's father was laid off and it doesn't look likely that he will be called back. So the only family income is from mom who has taken a job to help out with expenses.
It's Christmastime, a favorite time of the year for Jane. But as she tells you, it won't be a normal Christmas for her family. Living expenses, heating, gas for mom's transportation to go to work have all escalated. No, this will not be a normal Christmas.
Jane tearfully tells you that her brothers, mom and dad are not going to be able to spend money on presents this year like they so dearly loved to exchange with each other for past Christmases. There will be no money for extras, and this year, gifts are certainly extras.
How do you console Jane? What can you say to let her know you understand, care and want to help her feel better?
Do you have any positive suggestions that she could latch onto at this sad time in her life?
Do you have any creative ideas about gifts that could be exchanged that didn't cost money?
•The way I see it, one suggestion for gifts to her parents could be art projects that she made at school. It's a no-cost gift that will still have a warm meaning. Tell Jane that presents are a fun part of Christmas, but it's the meaning of the gifts that really make the holiday special, not whether it's big or small. She can be grateful for her family's achievements in the past year. Even though it's always fun to talk about what you received for gifts after Christmas, tell your friends to consider not telling all about what they got, to make Jane feel better.
-Jen, age 13
•The way I see it, you and a few more of Jane's friends, could chip in Christmas money and do a little Secret Santa for her family. This would be a good way to bring her spirits up and you can feel that you have done a great thing for a friend and her family. Another suggestion would be for her family to look to an organization like the Salvation Army for help. I would tell her that even though the gifts that usually are given won't be, she can still feel gracious for all that she does have, like her brother's health, after all that is the true meaning of Christmas.
-Hilary, age 16
•The way I see it, I would tell her it's okay, at least you get to spend time with your family!
Anyway Christmas isn't about gifts, it's about love, caring and spending time with your family. Most of all, Christmas is about Jesus being born. I would tell her to come to Christmas Eve service at church with me. I would also tell her that she could make cards and little gifts to give to family and friends, they mean just as much as a big gift.
-Anna, age 11
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|Leila Ruth Harvey Douglass, "Poetess"
My husband's Great Aunt Ruth must have been a wonderful lady. I wish that I could have met her as I am sure that I would have really liked her and I would have loved to have been able to just sit and talk with her. Her ability to recall and tell the story of her early life in Wyoming has served to be a beautiful window into the past for all of her family and so many of the things that she recounted would never have been known by all of her future generations as well as to all of us; the nieces and nephews. Her memories have allowed us all to know our Grandparents and Great Grandparents in ways that would have otherwise been lost to time. Aunt Ruth recounted her life on the open prairies of Wyoming and included several of her own poems which to us are works of written art to be treasured. She titled her story "As I Remember" and it is a very good descriptive story of the early life of a homesteading family in Wyoming.
Ruth Harvey was born 29 September 1894 in Albia, Monroe County, Iowa to James William Harvey and Fannie (Lee) Harvey. In 1904, Ruth's parents relocated to Laramie County, Wyoming and homesteaded very near that of Fannie's parents, Milton and Hannah (Hyndman) Lee. It is from the memories of that time that Aunt Ruth wrote her story. Here I would like to share the story and poetry of Leila Ruth (Harvey) Douglass, our beloved "Poetess in the Family."
"As I Remember"
By Ruth Harvey Douglass
When I was nine in nineteen-four
I stood beside an open door
Where the vast distance I could see
And things looked very new to me
For I was young and liked to roam
In this…Our New Wyoming Home
The canyon hills, pine trees, and prairie grass
With wild flowers all around
And there upon the horizon far
The Rocky Mountains reached the stars.
No one but us could ever know the thrill of that expectation
The building of our new home in Wyoming
It was the first part of July, 1904, when I was nine years old, that we left our home in Burlington, Iowa to make a home in Wyoming. Before leaving, we went to visit my Father's parents in Martinsburg, Iowa to bid them good-bye. My Grandparents decided that as Jim, my Father, was going to make a new home so far away, he would need extra money, so they gave him his share of their estate, which was a great help in buying the things we would need.
To save as much money as we could, father let my brothers Ed and Earl 'bum' their way on the railroad to Pine Bluffs, Wyoming. They left on June 28 and as Ed was the oldest, he had charge of Earl and also enough cash for their food. When they got to Omaha, in Nebraska, they were picked up by the police and put in jail, as the police thought the boys were running away from home. They spent the night in jail until the police contacted our parents. The next day, however, they were permitted to leave and they continued on to Pine Bluffs. The day was July 4th so the boys took in the celebration put on by the Dolan Boys and other local cowboys. The next day they walked out to our Grandfather Lee's farm at Albin. When they got there our Uncle Pete had received a letter from our parents telling that they would be in Pine Bluffs on July 7th with all of the family, including Ed's little dog, Coaly. Thus, when we arrived, all of our family was together again and we were all so very happy.
When we left Martinsburg, there were numerous suitcases and a big basket of lunch so that we would not be hungry on the way. The train ride seemed endless and I was sick from the smell of bananas in our lunch…the smell seemed to be everywhere…and I never ate another banana for years and can't say I really like them today. I can remember constantly bothering my mother with questions. Every time we saw a river I asked what river that was and when she answered 'The Platte' I always repeated 'The Flat'.
It was my Brother Elmer's duty to transfer our little dog when we got to Council Bluffs, and that left the suitcases and lunch basket for us to see to. Each of us had something to look after. In the rush to get transferred, and everybody seemed t o be in a great hurry, one of the valise straps broke and everything fell out in the aisle and had to be picked up and re-packed. By that time we were all getting a little tired and our father got very cross.
When we arrived in Pine Bluffs, my mother's father and brother, Grandad Lee and Uncle Pete, met us with a covered wagon and our things were soon loaded as the household things had been shipped by freight and would be picked up later. We drove past some ranches far to the north and when we came to a rocky hill, my sister Mary and I wanted to walk up it so they let us off the wagon and we found some pretty little white flower like wax stars and some bluebells. We saw some yellow sweet peas off a way but Grandad would not let us go get them for fear of rattlesnakes.
Grandad Lee had a team of white horses he called 'Old Nig' and 'Maud'. He never drove them off a walk so we were all day getting to their homestead. As I remember, he so loved these two animals that when they died, he could not bear the thought of wolves eating their carcasses so he dug graves and they were buried out back of the barn.
The Rocky Mountain Tops are etched against the sky
And golden eagles fly from lofty crags where purple shadows lie
Serenity and jewel-like brilliance of sunset on distant hill
A horse and rider pause to drink their fill.
All is quite but the evening breeze
The sun sinks to rest behind distant trees.
How different everything looked to us, from Iowa, with miles and miles of prairie and in the sky, large white clouds that floated by with the wind and made big shadows on the ground. Mary and I would run to see if we could stay in these shadows. Our grandparent's house was made of logs and had two rooms and we also thought that was very unusual.
I stand looking at the old log house
built by my grandparents in the early nineteen hundreds.
Walls still solid as that day,
the roof now badly in need of repair.
The windows and doors listening for those who come no more
and in the shadows, can it be myself
or the shadows of others before me? I touch these old log walls
remembering…..and I am not alone.
Our folks made a trip to Cheyenne to file on the land we had picked out for our home. One half section of land: Section 4, township 17, range 60. Half of this was to be Elmer's and half for our father. To us, it would be the finest home in the world because it was ours and we were together.
Our father had $750.00 and when we started our new life, he first bought a team of horses for $300.00 and we named them 'Dick' and 'Dan'. He bought a low wheeled wagon with a flat bed on it to haul the things we needed to build our place to live. He paid $15.00 f or it and bought harness for the horses for $28.00. Our placer was near some canyons where there was plenty of pine trees and dry wood to burn. Father and my brothers went to the canyons and made fence posts and hauled them to town where they were sold for 15 cents each and that is how we got our money for groceries that winter. They also realized enough money to buy a high wheeled wagon with a grain box for $80.00 and a McCormack mowing machine for $50.00.
Our house was to be dug down into the ground three feet and then completely boxed in with lumber to give walls a six foot height. It measured thirty two feed in length and had two rooms, a bedroom and a kitchen, each sixteen by sixteen. The roof was a peak on which was covered with tar paper and a layer of sod. After this was done, the dirt they dug out was placed back against the walls up to the eaves. Both north and south ends had one small window that could be opened and the door was in the south end too. About five steps led up to another door which was our entry so that we could get out in case we were drifted in by snow. On one side of this entry were some shelves where mother had pans of milk. This type of house was called a dugout. Half was on Elmer's land and half on ours.
My mother was quite proud of it as we had a wooden floor and most people in those days only had a dirt floor and dirt steps, which soon wore off to no steps at all. Mother had brought her 'Ingrain' carpet and this went over a layer of paper covered with straw to make it soft. I can see her yet…down on her knees stretching the carped with the carpet stretcher and tacking it down along the walls. She made a curtain of white muslin to divide the two rooms and she put her curtain rods high above the windows as the lace curtains were long ones. There were two beds and Mary slept on a cot and I on a leather sofa. The three boys slept in one bed.
In the Kitchen was a small stove, a work table for the water pail, etc., and a red painted 'safe' for the dishes and silver. As I remember, there was a wooden sugar pail that held exactly ten pounds and it even had a wooden lid that fit down over the top with a rim. Our table was made of boards, large enough to seat the seven of us and we had long benches to sit on. By the door was the wash bench and on the door, the roller towels hung. There was a mirror and a case to keep the comb in. I can still see today the stack of flour and corn meal in the corner….it reached to the ceiling….four sacks piled criss cross to the layer. Mother wouldn't use yellow corn meal…it had to be white. As I remember the flour was 'Triple X'. Granny Lee had told mother that it was so far from town that we should have on hand a thousand pounds of flour and plenty of corn meal, plus about four gallons of Swift's lard and a quantity of baking powder. We also had lots of dried fruit.
The tables and the benches that were made of boards by our father,
The little four-hole stove would hardly cook for seven.
Our bed ticks that were filled with straw that rustled when we turned
which reminded us of mice and many other things.
Our clothes were warm, we girls had button shoes
And if they needed fixing our father did that too.
His tools were called a last and stand
With shoe nails and an awl
These he used to make them new
And useful once again.
Our underwear was made of Triple X flour sacks
But we didn't care about that.
We didn't know of mini skirts
Or even skin tight slacks.
The dresses were made of calico
In what was called 'sack aprons'
To us these were as fine
As any Paris creation.
Our barn was made by setting two rows of poles, one row inside the other, and these were covered on two sides with woven w ire s o that the center could be filled and tamped in with straw. We got the first straw from an old stack at a neighbor's farm. There were two doors, one for the horses to go in and one by the mangers near the hay stacks. The roof was straw weighted down by wire and rocks. I can remember that the horse named Dick was ornery about being tied up. He broke every rope by pulling back and shaking his head, so my father said he would break him of that and from then on Dick was secured by a chain. When our first grain crop was being threshed, all the straw was blown over the barn and that made it nice and warm.
We didn't have a well yet so water was hauled on the flat bed wagon, five barrels at a time. One was for drinking and was always covered by a cloth. The rest was for the stock.
One winter it snowed for nineteen days and nights and the snow was so deep it covered the fences and our stock walked over the top on the drifts. Our dugout was drifted all around and we had to burn the lamp all day, too, for the windows were drifted in. We could not g o to get water so we melted snow in the wash boiler to drink and for the stock. We couldn't get the chickens dug out for snow drifted in as fast as the men could dig it out, but they had food and were nice and warm so laid their eggs as usual.
One night when we were eating supper late at night a wild animal screamed and our calf that was staked out bawled at the same time. Father took the gun and the boys took the lantern and ran outside but the animal had run off by then. Several years later Uncle Pete
and a neighbor named Wad Robinson shot this unwelcome night visitor over in the canyons behind John McMann's. I can't remember if it was a cougar or a panther. It was very large and had paws as large as saucers and long claws which were half torn off when he was dying on the rocks. They sent the hide away to have it tanned but Wad claimed the company said it was no good. Uncle Pete was always a little doubtful of Wad's story.
I hear it sighing in the pines
Along the canyon walls
Of years gone by so long ago
When I was but a child.
I hear it in the prairie grass,
The bluebells on the hill,
The sea of waving wheat
That my father tilled.
I hear it in the dust storms,
And in the falling snow;
I hear my sister's laughter
As we ran through drifts of snow.
It blows the clouds across the sky
To lay shadows as they go sweeping by.
I hear a symphony of soft, warm winds
to bring the flowers in spring.
I hear it in dry corn fields
Now that it is fall
Autumn leaves on the trees
Make patterns on the wall.
I would not leave my home again
No matter what the cost
If I could hear these winds again
That I am dreaming of.
Father and my brothers helped dig potatoes around the country and go fifty bushel for eating and seed. They also worked at the threshing around the country and bought two sows so we could get a start of hogs. We also bought two brockle-faced heifers and old 'Tex', a nice gentle milk cow. As I remember, the heifers would run off every chance they got and return to their home way over on Horse Creek near LaGrange. Old Tex always followed us around as she liked to eat any potato peelings that might be thrown out. We put up lots of prairie hay for our neighbors and for ourselves. We obtained a sack of white beans from Grandad Lee and Uncle Pete. At one time I remember we had sixty four pounds of frozen jack rabbits hanging on the north side of the house. The canyons were just full of small sand rabbits which were just as good eating as chicken. We had some chickens and they had a cave for their place to roost. In winter a lighted lantern was hung in it when the snow got deep and the door had to be closed.
Once when my father went to town he brought home a new estate stove for my mother and she was so pleased, for the old small one really wasn't large enough for seven of us. I had heard her say it burned everything that went in the oven or else it wouldn't get hot enough to bake anything. When fall came, the excitement of father getting our winter supplies was a great day. He brought boxes of dried fruits and a great big box of crackers. In those days they were in wooden boxes as big as an egg crate. We always had raisins, prunes, dried apples and sometimes peaches. We not only made stewed fruit of them but pies, too.
My father made a cave not far from the house to keep our vegetables and the big barrels of cured meat and kraut in. We butchered from four to five hogs at a time and papa never rested until the last bit was taken care of. It all had to be done at once. There was lard rendering and we girls ground sausage to fry into cakes which were then placed in stone jars and covered with hot lard. By then he had the hams and shoulders and side meat put into the barrels and covered with brine that held up an egg. All bones had to be cooked and the head made into head cheese. Mother was weary when all was finished and often wished he would not kill so many at once, but he was thinking about the feeding of them. If a beef was butchered in those days it was quartered, wrapped in cloth and hung outside up high and the pure mountain air formed a crust on the outside and it didn't spoil or flies didn't bother it.
To be continued...Poetess in the Family, Ruth Harvey Douglass- part four: here
Poetess in the Family, Ruth Harvey Douglass- part two: here
Poetess in the Family, Ruth Harvey Douglass- part three: here
Poetess in the Family, Ruth Harvey Douglass- part two: here
Poetess in the Family, Ruth Harvey Douglass- part three: here
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Exam head says assessment system encouraged teachers to boost marks
The Guardian |by Robert Booth on March 12, 2013
The head of one of the leading exam boards has told MPs investigating last summer's GCSE English furore he believes teachers have been encouraged to boost marks by government measures that hold them to account based on their pupils' results.
Andrew Hall, the chief executive of the AQA exam board told the House of Commons education select committee he did not believe teachers were cheating in the way they marked controlled assessment modules, but he said they were in a position where "their judgments were influenced by the pressures of the accountability system".
He said this, combined with a qualification design that gave teachers control over 60% of marks, had been at the root of the disappointment caused when thousands of pupils last summer received D grades in GCSE English after exam boards moved a grade boundary to toughen up the exam.
The parliamentary hearing followed a high court ruling last month against an alliance of pupils, unions, schools and councils who alleged that the government's exam regulator, Ofqual, and the exam boards Edexcel and AQA had unfairly moved the boundary, in a last-minute "statistical fix" to counter exam grade inflation.
The bar was raised higher than for pupils who submitted papers in the earlier January marking round and some pupils claim they missed out on sixth-form places because of the change.
Hall told the MPs his exam board's data revealed peaks and troughs of marking around grade boundaries and that indicated teachers involved in internal controlled assessment of GCSE candidates' work were engaged in "fine judgments".
Hall agreed with the hypothesis of the committee chairman, Graham Stuart, that once teachers knew "all they had to do was find two more marks and magically a D would become a C" there was a temptation to overmark.
Ziggy Liaquat, the managing director of the exam board Edexcel, also said his exam board, which accounted for 10% of English GCSEs assessed last year, had observed inaccurate marking by teachers.
"We adjusted downwards 8% and we adjusted upwards 5% so there was inaccurate marking both ways," he said. He added the evidence did not yet show teachers had pushed marks deliberately to cross grade boundaries.
Mark Dawe, the chief executive of the exam board OCR, told the committee it had not found evidence of overmarking of controlled assessment modules.
Liaquat apologised for the "distress to children and parents" that had been caused by the move to the grade boundary between the January marking cycle and the summer marking.
"We should be relentless in communicating that grade boundaries can constantly move," he said. "We really need to educate teachers, parents and pupils in how the process works."
Hall admitted to MPs there had been "a loss of trust" over the marking of last summer's GCSE English. He said he had continued worries about the changes to standards in GCSE science, which is "one of the most sensitive things we are doing", and stressed the need for work to communicate that to students, teachers and parents. "It is in the worry mix, of course it is," he said.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 60-year-old woman accused of escaping from a Michigan prison 37 years ago is fighting her extradition to the state.
Defense attorney Lisa Damiani referred to her client as Jamie Lewis and told the court Thursday she is not affirming that she is Judy Lynn Hayman.
"We are not prepared to admit identity," Damiani told the judge.
The woman, with her long gray hair pulled back in a ponytail, stood before the judge and did not turn around during her brief court appearance. Her clean-cut, 32-year-old son attended the hearing but declined to speak to reporters, following Damiani's instructions. Police say the son was stunned when they showed up Monday and arrested the woman at her San Diego apartment.
Michigan authorities say Hayman escaped from a prison in Ypsilanti, about 35 miles west of Detroit, in 1977 after serving eight months of an 18- to 24-month sentence. She was in prison for attempting to steal sweaters and other women's clothing from a Detroit-area store.
San Diego police say Hayman identified herself as Jamie Lewis and produced government documents with that name when they went to her apartment after the FBI reported finding fingerprint matches at various police agencies for Hayman but under different names.
Officers said her eyes resembled those of Hayman in an old Michigan mug shot they were holding.
Damiani told reporters outside the courtroom Thursday that her client will plead not guilty to being a fugitive when she is arraigned Friday. An identity hearing will be held 10 days after that, and the suspect will remain in custody until then.
"We are planning on having an identity hearing and setting a court date for that to look into this and see whether this is a legal extradition," Damiani said.
San Diego police Lt. Kevin Mayer said the suspect acknowledged being Hayman after police took her in.
Michigan authorities want her returned to the state to complete her sentence for attempted larceny. She also could face a separate criminal charge for the escape.
Lt. Charles Levens of the Michigan Corrections Department said he was stuck at his desk because of bad weather when he sent the fingerprint cards to the FBI. Many police agencies had fingerprints that matched Hayman's but under different names. Levens said he gave the information to one of his investigators, who tracked Hayman to San Diego.
Hayman, using aliases, apparently had been arrested and fingerprinted in the past, and San Diego police "were familiar with her," Michigan corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said.
Mayer declined to give further details about the case, including whether Hayman had prior arrests or contact with police in California.
Neighbors said Hayman kept to herself and didn't appear to be married or have a job.
Theresa Padilla said she lived next door to Hayman for more than six years and described her as a "quiet loner but basically a nice person."
Hayman had three sons, and they "seemed like they were raised well," Padilla said.
If she is extradited, it will be up to the Michigan Parole Board to determine how long she'll be imprisoned.
Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report.