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5 reasons every PR pitch should include video
Videos grab attention and make your brand look cutting-edge and interesting. Read on for more ways they can help you land media coverage.
Vine is an application that allows you to create and share six-second videos. It's an awesome marketing tool for brands.
But the launch of the new video feature in Instagram is already challenging Vine's status as the frontrunner in video marketing.
Videos—not just six-second or 15-second ones, but larger productions—can tell stories in ways words can't. Marketers are slowly adopting videos into the marketing mix, and it isn't any different for PR professionals.
Here are the top five reasons every PR pitch needs a video:
1. Video helps your pitch stand out from the clutter.
Always remember that you are not the only person who sends PR pitches to the media. Thousands of pitches flood reporters' inboxes daily, and half of them look the same. Unless your story is remarkable, it will get lost in the sea of other pitches.
Be different. Include a video and stand out from the clutter. Besides, who doesn't love a good video?
2. Videos can explain information more quickly than copy.
Time is of the essence. The media does not have time for every PR pitch, so make it count. Send pitches that are worth writers' time. Bloggers and writers are always in a time crunch to deliver content. Videos are memorable, enjoyable and easier than reading.
3. Video makes your brand seem more interesting.
Video is a good way to show off your brand's personality. If your pitch is about the launch of a new product, use short videos in your pitch to build anticipation about the launch. Entice reporters to cover your event, news or product launch. Offer a visual accompaniment to what you are saying; it will make you look more interesting.
4. Video increases engagement.
If a video is relevant and entertaining, readers are more likely to click and share it with their friends. This is where the ad dollars come in. Publications and news outlets want to increase their viewership, and the best way to do so is through digital engagement with their current readers. Include a video in your pitch that will influence publications and news outlets to cover your story and thus drive traffic to their sites.
People love visual content because it's entertaining and informational. An entertaining and informational video can go a long way! Videos are more likely to hook readers and get them to spend more time on that publication.
5. Video is less expensive than it used to be.
Depending on what you need to shoot, you can get by with anything from a phone camera to a consumer DSLR. For more ambitious product videos, live-action comedy shoots and visual effects, you may need a creative agency and/or production company to help you develop concepts and produce the right videos.
Pua Sze Yuen is an account coordinator at Supercool Creative. A version of this article originally appeared on the Supercool Creative blog.
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Opinion: The iPhone is a Disease
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After months of struggling to understand the iPhone phenomenon, I have finally come to understand what makes the device so completely different from any other gadget. No, it's not a phone, a "mini PC," or even a portable media and entertainment system.
The iPhone is a disease.
One you catch this particularly virulent bug, you become susceptible to a personality disorder that compels you to filter all experiences in life through the prism of whether or not there's an app for it. It creates a bias in favor of information and media available through apps--and another bias against content not delivered through the iPhone.
I know, because I've got it. And I've seen others suffer from it as well.
This summer, I attended a conference in Southern California called FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH. The conference organizers arranged for all attendees to carry around SpotMe devices. These gadgets are essentially wireless mobile social networking devices that enable you to discover fellow attendees.
When I was issued my SpotMe gadget, my only thought was: "Why isn't this an iPhone app?"
Later in the conference, I was listening to a panel discussion called "Smart Cities: How Tech Can Make Urban Areas Leaner and Greener." The panelists discussed how making cities greener and saving the world, etc., would depend on a better-informed citizen. While they were talking about the enormous challenges, the solution seemed so simple and obvious to me: an iPhone app.
Someone should create an application that feeds data from your home electricity meter to your phone. It should know when you're in your car, and when you're in an airplane, and what you're doing. The app should show an estimate of how much money you're spending on energy (like a gas pump, with the dollars and cents rolling by). The app would encourage everyone to be green out of self-interest.
There! Global warming solved!
Recently, my wife and I were planning to see a movie, and of course I impulsively fired up my Moviefone app. The service had a hiccup that prevented the show times for a movie we wanted to see. So we saw a different movie.
Lazy? Of course. But it's a special kind of iPhone-centric laziness.
I'm a long-time Amazon Kindle freak, and I read books, magazines, and newspapers via my Kindle account. I used to spend most of my time reading newspaper stories, followed by magazine articles and--only when I had a little extra time--books.
But the Amazon Kindle app on my iPhone is so great, I spend about half my reading time using the iPhone, and the other half using the Kindle. (The service lets you pick up reading on one device where you left off on the other, making the switching process very nice.)
But because the iPhone app lets you read only books, and not read your newspaper or magazine subscriptions, I now spend most my time reading books. I'm ripping through books now, and my periodical subscriptions are neglected. An iPhone app has changed what I read.
I've been using an iPhone app at the gym called iFitness. It shows you (and illustrates) a list of exercises for each muscle group, then gives you a place to track the amount of weight you're lifting, number of repetitions, and so on. Because I consult with this thing constantly while working out, I'm doing a bunch of exercise I didn't use to do.
I used to listen to my own collection of MP3 files. I'm a cheapskate, so I rarely acquired new songs. As a result, I tended to listen to a pretty narrow range of music.
Since downloading the Pandora iPhone app, most of my music listening is Pandora music. The result is that I'm now listing to a different set of songs than I used to.
I've completely outsourced the remembering of things to iPhone apps, as well. Every time I want to remember something, I impulsively turn to one of three apps: Evernote, reQall, or the iPhone's calendar.
That makes sense, but here's the weird part. When I want to remember something, I find myself consulting these apps even when I actually remember it already.
I've come to trust my iPhone more than my own brain for the remembering of details, even though my memory is correct almost every time. I've come to accept, psychologically, that the iPhone apps are where my memories reside.
See what's going on here?
The world of iPhone apps is shaping my life experience, changing my expectations, determining what I learn, and what I know and how I think.
I tend to value things that are associated with iPhone apps, and discount things that have no such association.
I could justify all this by saying that the iPhone and the universe of available apps collectively represent a life-changing, culture-shifting phenomenon. But the truth is there's an impulsive quality to it all that goes behind mere utility.
I've been using cell phones with applications for years. I was a very early adopter of the Palm phones, which had downloadable software long ago. And I've owned BlackBerrys, and used those apps, as well.
But there's something fundamentally different about the iPhone and its universe of applications. They are so easy to install, so appealing to use and so powerful that the iPhone has become categorically different from any other device.
The psychological reaction to the iPhone is something that transcends geeky gadget preference, gadget addiction, or even gadget snobbery. It's a full-blown personality disorder.
The affliction filters life experience through the narrow prism of whether or not "there's an app for that." It creates bias in our choices. It directs what we think about and how we think about it.
Have you got iPhone Disease? If so, I'd love to hear how it has changed what you do, how you think and how you live: Leave a comment below.
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Starting the year positively, global consumer confidence saw an increase of one point from fourth-quarter 2014, with an index score of 97. After a slight dip at the end of last year, when all regional confidence scores declined, it was a more upbeat start to the year, as confidence increased slightly or remained stable in every region except Latin America.
Regionally, consumer confidence increased one point in Asia-Pacific, posting the highest quarterly index score of 107 while North America held steady at 106. Confidence in the Middle East/Africa (96) and Europe (77) edged up one point each in the first quarter but decreased two points in Latin America (86)—the region's lowest score since 2011.
"While confidence across global regions remained relatively stable in the first quarter, there is considerable variation across different markets," said Louise Keely, senior vice president, Nielsen, and president, The Demand Institute. "In the first quarter of this year, the key emerging markets of Brazil and Russia saw large declines in confidence for the second consecutive quarter, with the drop in oil prices and the political instability in Brazil. China dropped another index point at the start of this year, which comes after a four-point decline in the previous quarter, reflecting the recent slowdown in GDP there."
Among the world's largest economies, consumer confidence increased most in Japan, rising nine points to 82 in the first quarter, which was the country's highest score since 2005 when Nielsen began its consumer confidence index measurement. Germany also reached an optimism milestone: Sentiment increased two points to reach the baseline score of 100. Confidence also increased one point in the U.S. (107), three points in the U.K. (97) and three points in France (60). Conversely, confidence in China decreased one point to 106 from fourth-quarter 2014.
"In Europe, there are signs of improved consumer confidence in many countries, which reflects signs of growth in these markets," continued Keely. "Lower oil prices have helped European consumers who are not in oil-producing countries, and labor markets are improving. On the other hand, the falling Euro against the dollar is good for export industries but not for consumers, who will pay more for imports."
In the latest online survey, conducted Feb. 23 - March 13, 2015, consumer confidence increased in 37 of 60 markets measured by Nielsen (61%), compared with only 17 of 60 markets (28%) in the previous quarter. India's score of 130, the highest score among 60 markets, was one point higher than in fourth-quarter 2014, followed by Indonesia (123), the Philippines (115) and the United Arab Emirates (115). Italy (57) showed the biggest quarterly improvement, as confidence rose 12 points from fourth-quarter 2014. The Ukraine reported the lowest score of 41, a quarterly decline of 11 points—the biggest drop in the survey.
Other findings include:
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Q1 2015 Global Consumer Confidence Report.
The Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending Intentions was conducted Feb. 23 - March 13, 2015 and polled more than 30,000 online consumers in 60 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East/Africa and North America. The sample has quotas based on age and sex for each country based on its Internet users and is weighted to be representative of Internet consumers. It has a margin of error of ±0.6%. This Nielsen survey is based only on the behavior of respondents with online access. Internet penetration rates vary by country. Nielsen uses a minimum reporting standard of 60% Internet penetration or an online population of 10 million for survey inclusion. The China Consumer Confidence Index is compiled from a separate mixed methodology survey among 3,500 respondents in China. The sub-Saharan African countries in this study are compiled from a separate mobile methodology survey among 1,600 respondents in Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. The Nielsen Global Survey, which includes the Global Consumer Confidence Index, was established in 2005.


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Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) involves the 2 joints that attach the lower jaw (mandible) to the skull. These 2 joints allow the mouth to open and close, and are located directly in front of your ears.
There are 3 types of disorders
- Myofascial pain involving the muscles that control jaw function.
- Joint derangement, such as a displaced disc, dislocated jaw, or injury to the bone.
- Arthritis of the temporomandibular joint.
You may have TMD if:
- The temporomandibular joints (TMJ) are chronically inflamed and sore.
- The muscles that work the temporomandibular joints are regularly in spasm.
- The cushioning disc that should rest between the temporomandibular joint and the skull becomes worn out or displaced.
- You have limited movement of your mandible.
- Improper bite or malpositioned jaws
- You have clicking in the TMJ during motion.
The exact cause of TMD is unknown. Some people have had accidents or injuries involving their jaw, but many others have had no such incident. Some of the possible causes include:
- Grinding the teeth or clenching the jaw in response to stress—bruxism
- Arthritis of the temporomandibular joint
- History of injury or trauma to the joint
- Facial bone defects
- Misalignments of the jaw or of the bite
TMD symptoms may originate within the joint itself or from the muscles that surround the joint. The treatment of these 2 variants of TMD may differ.What are the risk factors for TMD?What are the symptoms of TMD?How is TMD diagnosed?What are the treatments for TMD?Are there screening tests for TMD?How can I reduce my risk of TMD?What questions should I ask my doctor?What is it like to live with TMD?Where can I get more information about TMD?
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The Constitution of the Ryerson Astronomical Society
Article I - Name
Section 1. The name of this organization shall be the Ryerson Astronomical
Society, hereafter referred to as the RAS or cyclic permutations thereof
(such as the SRA or the ASR).
Article II - Purpose
Section 1. The quintessential purpose of the RAS is to encourage all
humanity to behold the celestial luminaries in hushed awe.
Section 2. The means to achieve the purposes of the SRA, as specified in
Art. II, Sec. 1, are fourfold:
1. To educate the university community about astronomy through
open observation, lectures, et cetera, id est, to promulgate
astronomical information by inculcation.
2. To combat light pollution in all of its evil forms, natural
and artificial.
3. To properly maintain all equipment used by the ASR, thus
decreasing the entropy of our humble observatory.
4. To expand, in the fashion of the Universe itself, our
humble observatory.
Article III - Field of Membership
Section 1. The sole qualification for membership in the RAS is enrollment
in the University of Chicago.
Section 2. All members of the SRA are expected to pay quarterly dues, as
outlined below in article VIII.
Section 3. All due-paying members have the right to vote in elections.
Section 4. No member may accessk eys or use the observatory without
supervision until he/she has been trained in the proper use of equipment by
an officer of the organization.
Article IV - Officers
Section 1. The Number of Officers. There shall be five officers of this
organization. That is to say, in this organization the number of officers
shall be five. When the officers of the ASR are counted completely, the
count will inevitably reach five. Not four shall the number be, nor six,
for that matter, but always five. Of course, one person may execute all
five offices (or any fraction thereof). In other words, five may be one, or
two, or even three, or four, but most often five, and certainly not six,
seven, eight, nine or ten for that matter. However, the number of officers
may be changed by amendment (see Art. XI).
Section 2. Officer Titles. The naming of officers is a difficult matter.
It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as
a hatter when I tell you the officers' names: Grand Pooh-Bob, Secretary,
Treasurer, Chief Engineer, Head Engineer.
Section 3. The duties of each officer are listed below:
1. The duties of the Grand Pooh-Bob are threefold: to humbly direct
all meetings of the RAS, to resolutely manage all social events
sponsored by the organization, and to serve steadfastly as its
liason to the entire universe.
2. It is the duty of the secretary to uphold the integrity of the
oral tradition of the SRA to the best of his/her ability.
3. It is the duty of the treasurer to handle all financial
matters related to the ASR.
4. It is the duty of the Chief Engineer to faithfully maintain,
renovate, and expand the equipment of the RAS, especially by
preventing controllable, local entropic increases.
5. It is the duty of the Head Engineer to faithfully maintain,
renovate, and expand the equipment of the RAS, especially by
preventing controllable, local entropic increases.
Section 4. The sole qualification for each office is due-paying membership
in the SRA.
Section 5. The normal term of office is one year for each of the officers,
from the second week of Autumn Quarter to the same week in the following
year. New officers are chosen by general election, and unsatisfactory
officers may be impeached (see Art. VI).
Article V - Meetings
Section 1. Regular meetings shall be held fortnightly or semifortnightly,
at the discretion of the officers. The dates and times of the meetings
shall be chosen by a Golden Quorum of members (see Art. V, Sec. 2).
Section 2. A Golden Quorum is defined as any group of due-paying members
exceeding 100/\phi% of the total membership, where \phi = (1 + \sqrt 5)/2 or
approximately 1.61803398875. Thus the minimum Golden Quorum is
approximately 61.803398875% of the membership.
Section 3. At the beginning of each offical meeting, the following verbal
exchange shall take place:
Grand Pooh-Bob: "Pooh to you."
Club members: "You to Pooh."
Grand Pooh-Bob: "How do you do?"
Club memmbers: "Find, et tu?"
Article VI - Elections
Section 1. Elections of new officers shall be held annually during the
second week of autumn quarter.
Section 2. Only members who have paid their quarterly dues (or have
received a waiver) may vote in the elections. No one may vote in absentia.
Section 3. Candidates may be nominated by other due-paying club members.
The winner of an election is the one who has been approved by a Golden
Quorum (see Art. V, Sec. 2). If no one is thus elected, there must be
another meeting the same night. The meeting may not end until all five
offices are filled.
Section 4. Unsatisfactory officers may be impeached at any meeting a Root
Golden Quorum. The minimum Root Golden Quorum is defined as 100/\sqrt\phi%
of all due-paying members, which is approximately equal to 78.615137776%.
An election for the vacant office will be held immediately, pursuant to
sections 2 and 3, above.
Article VII - Advisors
Section 1. The ASR shall have at least one faculty advisor at all times.
Section 2. Candidates for advisor shall be nominated by the Grand Pooh-Bob
and voted on. A Golden Quorum of votes is required to select an advisor.
Section 3. The duties and responsibilities ofthe advisor shall be
determined by the officers of the RAS.
Article VIII - Dues
Section 1. Dues are currently $5 per quarter, but the amount may be changed
by amendment to the constitution.
Section 2. Members who do not have the financial means to pay the dues may
petition the Grand Pooh-Bob for a waiver. Waivers may also be granted at
meetings by a Golden Quorum. Members whose dues have been waived are
considered due-paying members. The Grand Pooh-Bob may have his or her dues
waived only at a meeting by a Golden Quorum.
Section 3. Only due-paying members may vote in elections or hold office.
Article IX - Handling of Funds
Section 1. All funds collected shall be deposited in the SAO account
belonging to the SRA. The treasurer shall be the primary officer designated
to handle the organization finances and manage the account.
Article X - The Official Items of the ASR
Section 1. Official Bird: Crow.
Section 2. Official Fossil: Microspirifer (a brachipod).
Section 3. Official Rock: Tektite.
Section 4. Official Mineral: Hafnium Flouride.
Section 5. Official Flower: Rose.
Section 6. Official Drink: Schweppes Bitter Lemon.
Section 7: Official Sound: grnd-grnd-grnd-grnd-grnd...
Section 8: Official Ozone Hole: The one over the Arctic Ocean.
Section 9. Official Newton: the Fig Newton (TM).
Article XI - Amendments to the Constitution
Section 1. Amendments shall be proposed one week before they are voted
upon. All due-paying members must be notified of proposed amendments.
Section 2. Amendments must be ratified by a Root Mean Quorum.
Section 3. The solitary exceptions to Art. XI, Sec. 2 are amendments
concerning the title of the Grand Pooh-Bob or Art. XI Sec 3. Such an
amendment may not be ratified by less than the modulus of 100/(\phi - 1)% of
all due paying members.
The Amendments to the Constitution.
Amendment 1. In official communications, the accepted permutation of RAS
shall be RAS, not SRA, ASR, SAR, ARS, nor RSA.
Amendment 2. Should the Grand Pooh-Bob dislike his/her title, he/she may
refer to him/herself as "president." However, the other members of the RAS
must compulsively honor him/her with his/her official title of "Grand
Pooh-Bob" at all times.
Amendment 3. No filibusters.
Amendment 4. \phi shall be pronounced "Phee."
Amendment 5. Elections of new officers shall be held annually at the first meeting of spring quarter.


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Fox News political analyst Dick Morris, who repeatedly predicted a "landslide" victory for Mitt Romney, is officially "through" according to the standard set by Bill O'Reilly earlier this year.
During a May appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly told Morris that he was "so far out on the limb" for a Romney win, that if Obama was re-elected, Morris would be"through" and would be "selling refrigerators in Topeka."
Major media outlets, including Fox News, are now projecting that Obama will win re-election.
In February, Morris appeared on Hannity and declared that there was "no chance that Obama will get re-elected." When Hannity disagreed, Morris said "zilch, zone, zip nada," prompting Hannity to tell Morris that he would hold the analyst to his prediction.
Morris had been publicly bullish on Romney's chances for months, including repeatedly during the past week.
Despite ample polling evidence to the contrary, Morris published a column predicting a big Romney win in The Hill last week with the headline, "Here comes the landslide." Yesterday on Fox News' America Live, Morris similarly predicted "Romney will win by a very large margin -- a landslide if you will."
Claiming that all of the polls were wrong, Morris declared that Romney would win 325 electoral votes and carry the popular vote by "more than 5 points." According to Morris, Romney was poised to win states like Pennsylvania, Colorado, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
None of these things happened.
Morris' touting of Romney this election cycle is more cynical than his usually awful political prognostication. Last year, Morris told radio host Mike Gallagher that he had stopped "dumping on" Romney -- even though he was concerned by the candidate's "flip flops" and his passage of health care reform -- because Morris didn't want to make the candidate's job of defeating Obama more difficult. Morris subsequently sang Romney's praises during media appearances, and in recent weeks has tied his lofty predictions of a Romney victory to fundraising pitches for his Super PAC for America.
During an appearance earlier this week on Fox & Friends, Morris announced that after the election, "either I'm gonna have to go through a big reckoning, or they are. And you know what? They are."
Now that Morris has completely whiffed on the presidential election, will Fox figures actually hold him accountable, or will they keep trotting him out as an "expert" to tell their viewers what they want to hear?
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"What is your major?" This is a question frequently asked of college students. Unless the response is a pre-professional degree, a second question usually follows: "What do you plan to do with that?"
For liberal arts students majoring in subjects like English or art, this line of questioning can be frustrating. If students have studied their department's website or brochure, they can usually satisfy concerned relatives and friends by replying with a list of possible careers and outcomes. But how does a student majoring in "storytelling" respond?
Andy Mills '07, a radio producer for WNYC's Radiolab, knows the feeling well. When Andy transferred to Greenville College and declared a major in "storytelling," his family worried that he might be squandering his potential.
"My dad thought I might be spending money on an education that may not lead to a job," Andy said, "And my friends just kind of playfully made fun of me. No one was very encouraging."
Andy transferred to Greenville College at a time when he was searching for a new major. When he was young, he wanted to become a preacher, just like his grandfather. "I would go to church on Sundays and just look at our preacher, a guy who gets paid to tell these compelling stories and to write his listeners into the narrative," says Andy. "These stories have been around for thousands and thousands of years, and he was able to create a relevancy to their lives."
When Andy decided not to pursue a vocation in ministry, he still sought a career that would allow him to tell stories. He explored becoming a teacher, instead. Andy admits it was naivety that led him to education. "I never really wanted to be a high school teacher. I really just wanted to learn how to do that thing that John Keating does in Dead Poet's Society."
Next, he settled on studying history. "I'll learn the story of humanity," he thought. It was an idealistic and romantic goal, but his enthusiasm was met by professors like Teresa Holden, who empowers her upper division students to think and write like historians.
Andy describes an African American history class, saying, "She would tell us, 'You are a historian. You will read many primary and secondary sources. You will need to figure out what happened and tell us how it worked.'" He developed a deep respect for the role historians play in society. Andy thought perhaps he had found a major.
The pivotal moment in Andy's search came through meetings with Rick McPeak, a professor of religion and philosophy with whom he had grown close. They shared many conversations over coffee about faith, life, doubt, and wonder. At one point, Andy remembers a time when McPeak asked him if he was happy with what he was studying. "In a perfect world, Andy, in a world where you ran the universe, what major would you want?"
Andy said, "I want to learn how to tell good stories. I want to learn why we like stories so much. Why are stories the foundation of every religion, of every nation? I want to know about that."
McPeak turned to his computer and typed: Andy Mills, first Greenville College student to graduate with a degree in Storytelling and Narrative Studies. He printed it out and handed it to Andy.
"How does that sound? If you want, we can do this through an individually tailored education plan (ITEP). It will be hard. There will be a lot of little steps along the way. But together, we can make this happen."
Andy said that he needed a few days to think about it. "I was nervous that I was going to be just a really talkative janitor for the rest of my life."
For guidance, he looked to the stories of people he admired. Some of the most successful people he knew made ambitious, entrepreneurial decisions that did not look smart or safe on the surface. They risked a lot and carved their own paths. They made decisions based on what they hoped would happen and worked toward success. He felt assured that somehow it would all work out if he did the same.
Together, McPeak and Andy developed the ITEP degree. Professors like Brad Shaw, Ruth Huston, and Teresa Holden helped by tailoring their syllabi and projects to develop Andy's focus on storytelling. For his senior project, Andy performed an artistic story telling recital.
After graduation, Andy traveled to South Sudan to work as a research journalist. Upon returning, he studied at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Maine. When his time at Salt came to an end, he pieced together jobs working at coffee shops and cafes while pursuing his dream of telling stories.
His big break came with a short radio documentary he produced for fun about his close friend, Kohn Ashmore. Andy recorded it in his apartment with the help of several friends he had met at Greenville College. After he released it on the Internet, several local public radio stations aired the story. It was well received. Radiolab picked it up and collaborated with Andy to create a version of the story called "Slow."
Andy won the "Best New Artist Award" at the Third Coast International Audio Festival, which he explains is like the Academy Awards of international public radio. Earning the award confirmed for Andy that he was headed in the right direction. It gave him the encouragement he needed to stick it out and keep working at coffee shops and waiting tables, trying to make his dream a reality. The award told Andy, "You're not the only one who thinks you have something to say."
Shortly after that experience, he found himself on his way to Brooklyn to work for WNYC, a public radio station in New York. Andy says that his heroes at Radiolab are now his coworkers. In his role as a radio producer, he participates in all the aspects of producing a story. He researches and pitches story ideas, conducts interviews, edits his coworker's stories, writes scripts, and mixes audio.
When asked if he has struggled explaining his unconventional degree to prospective employers, Andy said, "Every employer who has actually hired me - which is not a whole lot of people, but the ones who have - were impressed by my degree in storytelling. They were impressed that I created my own degree. I now have a job at the largest public radio station in the country, a job that 3,000 other people applied for, and I was offered the position."
He is quick to clarify, "Having said that, my success didn't come as quickly as it would have if I had studied something more conventional. I took a risk, and I had to pay for that risk with a few years of living on minimum wage jobs with bills and student loans that I didn't know how to pay. I got nervous that I had put all my chips in on the wrong hand. There were times of significant doubt. If students want to pursue an ITEP degree, they've got to recognize that this could be their reality. My ability to be adaptable is the reason I've had this success."
Andy's goal at Greenville College was not just to earn a degree, but also to leave campus smarter. It took the encouragement of Professor Rick McPeak and extraordinary effort on Andy's part. He worked to align every course, every paper, and every assignment with his overall research goals in storytelling and narrative studies.
Andy says of the experience, "The best thing, in my opinion, about Greenville College is the friendships. My best friends are the people I met at Greenville. The way that our faith and our views of the world changed all alongside each other at a place like Greenville College, where you're really encouraged to talk about such things, created this bond that continues to this day."
He adds, "I legitimately miss most of the educators there. I don't know if most people can say that about their college or university experience."
Andy and The Hudson Branch, a band comprising several Greenville College alumni, performed live at the 2012 Third Coast Festival on Sunday, October 7th. You can learn more about Andy's work at Radiolab and listen to his stories by clicking here.


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Life in Death
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Apr 08, 2011 Category: Articles
We do not serve a reactive God. It is certainly true, an abiding truth, that the most fundamental covenant between God and man is this—obey Me and be blessed; disobey Me and be cursed. Praise the glory of His name there is an addendum—if you trust in the finished work of Christ, He will be cursed for your disobedience and you will be blessed for His obedience. That obedience leads to blessing, however, doesn't mean that God is sitting on His throne with a box full of roses on His right and a box full of thunderbolts on His left. He is not watching to see what you will do, and reaching into the box appropriate for your choices. The cursings for disobedience are organic, connected to the sin itself. In like manner, the blessings of obedience inhere in the obedience.
Consider what happens when we live for ourselves. We, because we are sinners, think if we will pursue our own pleasure, our own desires, our own reputation, our own wealth, that we will naturally acquire them. When we end up disappointed we think God interfered, that He snatched up our hard earned roses and hurled thunderbolts at us. Having learned our lesson we seek to be more giving, more focused on others, we think then that God spared us the agony that such a life would naturally bring, and kindly dropped roses our way.
The truth is that we are naturally designed for things to work unnaturally. We gain our life when we lose it precisely because that is how our lives are gained. We were made for others, and our joy is found in service. We find ourselves when we lose ourselves. More is drinking from the ocean. Less is drinking our tears of joy in satisfaction.
When I am feeding or changing or carrying my profoundly disabled 13 year old daughter I don't receive roses from heaven. I receive instead something far more precious- smiles from my little girl. Her eyes crinkle together and sparkle, and every now and then she lets out a little laugh. I see in her eyes not only her trust in me, but her delight. She, because such is her redeemed nature, is serving me. I, by the grace of God, am serving her. We together drink in the gospel.
She in turn shames me. If she, whose father is such a miserable sinner, who is weak and selfish, looks at me like that, why don't I look to my Father in heaven with even greater trust and joy? The good news, however, is the good news. Despite my failures, my weaknesses, my frailties, despite the very sin that keeps me from looking to Him in that way, in her eyes I see His. Though He knows my sin more than she does, more than I do He looks at me with the same delight that she does. He smiles. His eyes crinkle together and He laughs. My daughter loves me because my Father loves me. I love my daughter because my Father loves me. And when we love each other, there He is in the midst of us.


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If you were able to get a jump start on alfalfa harvest this year with the early spring and plan to take five cuts this year, be sure to allow plants to recover.
Normally, if four cuts are taken, it's recommended that one of the cuttings be allowed to mature to first flower to rebuild carbohydrates in the plant's root system. If you're planning to take five cuts, allow two of those cuttings to go to first flower, recommends Dan Undersander, a University of Wisconsin agronomist.
If you don't, plants likely won't have enough reserves to make it through winter, he says. Even though cash flow might be tight this year due to low milk prices, also try to make sure soil fertility levels are adequate.
Allowing alfalfa to reach first flower means the plant will be higher in fiber and lower in protein. So target these cuttings to your lower milk producing groups, dry cows or heifers.
For more information on late summer alfalfa cutting management, click here.


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Last fall I started experimenting with bas relief (low relief) design on pots and hand built forms. This style of carving and design seemed to me a natural progression/extension of the designed raku pieces I already do.
I had a number of pieces ready to glaze, but when we started having serious issues last fall with our raw materials that consequently, left our old standby glazes unusable, I put the pieces safely away until some of the technical issues were resolved. With all that work, I was reluctant to commit them to the fire.
With some long needed changes to the kiln this spring, and a fresh full bucket of celadon glaze, I finally felt brave enough to commit them to the fire.
Carving a relief design and knowing how the glaze will play with it, has its learning curve like everything else. I am anxious to see how this process evolves.
Here is that same platter after it came out of the kiln last Friday. It was glazed with celadon then fired to Cone 10 (2400 F) in a gas kiln.:


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BRUNSWICK, Maine – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's and women's cross country teams finished in third and sixth place at the Bowdoin College Invitational on Saturday.
The UMass Dartmouth men's team compiled 103 points, finishing behind Bowdoin (27) and Tufts (59). Senior Zach Switaj (Tamworth, N.H.) was the first Corsair runner to cross the finish line with a 10th place time of 26 minutes, 43.20 seconds. Junior Matt Ferro (Halifax, Mass.) covered the 8-kilometer course in 27 minutes, 16.09 seconds to place 21st overall. Senior Chris Jordan (Taunton, Mass.) finished 29th, while sophomore Michael Vaz (Dartmouth, Mass.) and classmate in Andrew Goncalves (New Bedford, Mass.) completed UMass Dartmouth's top-five.
Tufts' Ben Wallis captured the men's individual race, covering the course in a time of 25 minutes, 28.52 seconds.
The UMass Dartmouth women's team recorded 181 points to place sixth in the team standings. Freshman Jennifer Miranda (New Bedford, Mass.) led the Corsairs across the finish line, posting a 6-kilometer time of 25 minutes, 44.85 seconds. Classmate Reme Digiovanni (Southborough, Mass.) was 26 seconds of Scott's pace. Freshman Mary Leach (Peabody, Mass.), junior Brittani Atkinson (Peabody, Mass.) and freshman Rachel Frazier (Mansfield, Mass.) completed the Corsairs' scoring.
Tufts' Olivia Beltrani won the women's title with a time of 22 minutes, 40.26 seconds.
The UMass Dartmouth harriers will be back in action on Saturday, Oct. 12, when the Corsairs compete at the James Earley Invitational (Westfield State).


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I've never been much of a football fan. Oh, when I was in the 9th grade, the quarterback of my high school football team was a lean beautiful boy who threw tight spirals down a long green field. (Improbably, his name was Track.) A few times, my father and I climbed high in the bleachers on what felt like chilly Friday nights — I grew up in Southern California, so it was probably 65 degrees — and stomped our feet on the wooden boards beneath us as the team marched down that field. I remember being so swept up in the momentum of the crowd feeling that I jumped up and down, shouting "Go Track, go!" with the couple hundred other people doing the same. It felt good, in that moment, to be part of something.
That's the last time I attended a football game.
Baseball has always been more my thing. All those clean lines, clear rules, and individual moments of triumph. Oh, how I loved baseball as a kid, sitting on the floor of my living room listening to Vin Scully call out the plays, a Dodger dog in one hand, my glove on the other. In those days, I bled Dodger blue. I was convinced I would be the first woman in the Major Leagues, then crushed when I wasn't allowed to play Little League because I was a girl. I still think my most triumphant moment in life might have been when the 5th-grade boys didn't want me to play softball with them at PE, even though I had to go all the way to the principal to advocate for the right to play. I begged them to let me take one at bat. If I struck out, I'd be backstop catcher. (That's the person who stands behind the catcher, and picks up the balls that skip between his legs.) After arguing back and forth, the boys allowed me to stand at the plate. I hit a home run.
So I have no essential problem with sports.
Football, to me, feels like war. All that marching and whistles and smashing and strategy. I know those men are padded well, but every time I see one enormous man with bulging biceps and thighs the size of canned hams ram his head into the chest of another one, I cringe. It's just not my thing, all that violence. I'm probably just too sensitive for this world. (People, I tear up when I watch Daniel Tiger with Lu, because I grow grateful that she has Mister Rogers in her life the way I did.) Seriously, I'm probably not meant for football.
But Danny? He's a football fan. That's not to say that he's any less sensitive than I am. Sometimes I look over to see him listening to Lu tell a story about climbing a tree, and see her put her hand on his for a moment, and his eyes tear up. He has no violence in him. But he's a boy from Colorado still, and he loves his Broncos.
All fall and winter, Lucy and I had a date Sunday afternoons. We spent a few hours at the library, choosing her latest towering stack of books, then went to our local tea shop to share a pot of gingerbread rooibos and a cheese plate with grapes to read every book in that toppling stack together. I cherish that time with her. We began that ritual so Danny could watch the Broncos, alone, unabashed to stand up and shout when something unexpected happened.
On Sunday, we had a house full of people watching with him.
You probably know the ending to this story already. Surrounded by a crowd of people dressed in blue and green, my man in orange watched his team end their season in ignominy. After the game, sweetly, a dozen of our friends texted him, saying, "Sorry, Danny. Better luck next time." And to his credit, he recovered immediately. He laughed with our friends and went on with our feasting. He's the most loyal person I know. He's a fan, no matter what. There's always next year.
Me? I didn't care who won, either way. It was great fun to watch the area I live in relax into that crowd momentum for days before the game. On Friday, I walked through our island grocery store confused by the number of people dressed in football jerseys around me. Even the old hippie couple buying seitan in the produce section wore Seahawks winter hats with tassels. (It turns out the grocery store was offering 12% off the purchases of anyone wearing regalia for the team, in honor of the 12th man. I would have painted my fingernails blue and green, if I had known.) As my brother said to me the day before, we could probably use more reasons to paint our faces and chant songs together in this world. There's not enough communal spirit in this culture.
Right now, there are thousands of people camped out on the streets in downtown Seattle. Some of them huddled into sleeping bags in 19° weather and slept on sidewalks overnight to stake their claim to a piece of concrete. There's a giant parade in honor of the Seahawks going on. I hear coffee shops and restaurants are running out of coffee. Now this is a Seattle story. This is a polite city. After the game was over, clutches of people took to the streets to celebrate, waiting until the light turned green to throng into the streets, then dispersing when cars needed to drive through. (There was a hashtag on Twitter: #howseattleriots. My favorite? "Buying out all the Skittles in the city but not eating them because of the corn syrup.") As little as I want to sleep on the streets in the cold to watch cars full of football players drive by, I sort of grin when I think of it. We could use some more wide-open cheering these days.
The friends who gathered at our house for the Super Bowl aren't the types to go downtown for a parade in the cold. Michelle is a nurse and professional skeptic. She kept asking Tony, "Wait, why did that team stop throwing passes?" And he explained first downs to her, and the frustration of not getting one. Marie is a social worker and advocate for children with different learning abilities. She most enjoyed following Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter, talking about the physics of football as the game went on. The kids romped and played, pretending to be interested in the game, far more interested in the commercials at times, since most of them had never seen one. (We all, as one, diverted their attention when the violent video game commercials came on.) There was a lot of conversation about how creepy the computer-generated lines on the field are, because they're so realistic. We sort of watched the game.
Mostly, we gathered. We were the isle of misfit toys Super Bowl party.
Last week, when I posted a link to a spread of gluten-free treats Saveur magazine featured, someone wrote me an angry email: "Saveur? For the Super Bowl? What, tortilla chips and bean dip are beneath you? You don't have to be a snob to be gluten-free." I laughed, actually. But it also made me wonder. I wonder what happened in her day to make her this angry. I wonder where we got the idea that we have to march ourselves into separate, contained corners. "I'm a football fan. I'm the kind of person who disdains football and can't believe all this ridiculousness. I eat real food. I eat normal food without making a fuss." Can't we stop playing war with our likes and habits?
I'm a woman who doesn't much like football who enjoyed the heck out of the Superbowl, surrounded by friends who don't much understand the game, and ate roasted kabocha squash wrapped in crisp prosciutto and smoked salmon potato cakes with parsley dressing for the big game. And a handful of Skittles to celebrate the Seattle victory, after Lucy pressed them into my palm.
Life's too short to not enjoy it, any way it arrives.
Smoked Salmon Potato Cakes
We're pretty crazy about potatoes around here. Ahern is an Irish name, of course. Honestly, if we have a day without potatoes, Danny starts to feel a little squirmy. Luckily, I have learned something great lately. If you cook potatoes, and let them cool, you reduce the glycemic index of the potato by half. Plus, cooked potatoes that have been cooled to room temperature form resistant starch, which is the kind of food the good bacteria in our guts love. Add smoked salmon and it's a party.
Let's eat potatoes!
- Set a large pot filled with cold, salted water on medium-high heat. Put all the potatoes inside. Bring the potatoes to a boil and let them cook until a sharp knife slides easily into the potato, 20 to 30 minutes.
- Drain the potatoes. Cool them completely, preferably overnight.
- The next morning, grate the potatoes on a box grater, skins and all, into a large bowl. Add the smoked salmon, onion powder, garlic powder, parsley, egg, and potato starch. Season with salt and pepper. Mix thoroughly.
- Heat the oven to 425° Form a small cake in your hands. Dust both sides of the cake with the gluten-free flour. Set a large skillet over medium heat then pour in a bit of olive oil. Brown one side of the cake, then flip it over. Put the skillet in the oven and bake for 5 minutes. Take the potato cake out of the oven. Let it cool enough so you don't burn your mouth! Taste the cake. Happy? Proceed. Not quite? Season with more salt, pepper, or spices.
- Form the remaining potato mixture into equal-sized cakes and dust them in the flour. Set the skillet back on medium heat, then pour in more olive oil. Fill the skillet, reasonably, with potato cakes. (Think about a train at 10 am, not rush hour.) Brown the bottoms, then lay them on a sheet pan lined with greased parchment paper. When the sheet pan is filled, put it in the oven to continue cooking the cakes until they are firm to the touch and browned, 5 to 8 minutes.
- Continue this until you have cooked all the cakes.
You can eat these hot from the oven. And you might want to, certainly. But I think they're best cooled to room temperature, dolloped with a good homemade mayonnaise or parsley dressing, as we did here.


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Why the World's Cheapest Car Flopped
No-Frills Minicar Gets Chrome, Sound System, Higher Price to Boost Appeal
MUMBAI—When the Tata Nano, a stripped-down minicar priced at around $2,000, was introduced in 2009, it was marketed as a car that would transform the way aspiring consumers in India and other developing countries got around.
But the low-cost automotive revolution fizzled. Selling poorly at home and with exports drying up, the Nano has become a cautionary tale of misplaced ambitions and a drag on sales and profit at Tata Motors Ltd., India's fourth-largest auto maker and the owner of Jaguar and Land Rover luxury vehicles....


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DETROIT (AP) Jarrod Parker pitched well enough to keep Oakland in the game against Detroit.
Trying to field his position proved costly to the Athletics.
Parker's error allowed the Tigers to score a go-ahead run in the third inning of a 3-1 win over the A's Saturday night in Game 1 of their AL division series.
``If he fields it cleanly, he gets the out,'' Oakland manager Bob Melvin said.
The right-handed rookie scooped Quintin Berry's dribbler down the first base line with his glove. It looked as if he then attempted to flip it to first baseman Brandon Moss - a converted outfielder - and found out too late his teammate wasn't on the bag.
Berry was safe at first and Omar Infante scored to give Detroit a 2-1 lead in the closely contested opener of the five-game series.
Parker appeared dumbfounded that Moss didn't aggressively charge the grounder or cover first to await a throw.
Game 2 is Sunday, about 15 hours after the final out of Game 1, at Comerica Park before the series shifts to Oakland.
Parker gave up three runs - two earned - and seven hits over 6 1-3 innings. He walked only one, struck out five and gave up a solo homer to Alex Avila that gave the Tigers a two-run lead in the fifth inning.
``It wasn't like we blistered the ball around. Parker was pretty good,'' Detroit manager Jim Leyland said.
The Tigers chased Parker with two singles in the seventh.
Oakland relief pitcher Pat Neshek entered the game, getting the final two outs of the inning and stranding two runners - soon after the death of his newborn son.
``Not only was it good for us, it was good for him,'' Melvin said.
Neshek's son, Gehrig John, died 23 hours after his birth and he posted the tragic news on his Twitter account late Wednesday night. He told reporters being at the ballpark and playing catch helped with the healing process.
The A's got off to a fantastic start offensively with Coco Crisp hitting a leadoff homer off Justin Verlander before fizzling at the plate against the reigning AL MVP and Cy Young award winner.
Verlander matched a career playoff-high with 11 strikeouts against the AL West-championship team that led baseball with 1,387 strikeouts during the regular season.
The upstart A's struck out 14 times overall and had only four hits.
``I think we were a little frustrated, yeah,'' Melvin said.


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OAKLAND — While police officers met in Edna Brewer Middle School classrooms with residents about neighborhood crime during a town-hall meeting last week, a TV reporter's nearby vehicle was vandalized and $9,000 worth of equipment was stolen.
The town hall meeting, the first in a series called by Mayor Jean Quan, focused on four topics — crime, public works and infrastructure, youth and economic development. The majority of the roughly 140 attendees were there to hear what police had to say about the increase in crime, a rise that corresponds with the reduction of 200 officer positions since 2008.
The vandalism and theft of the reporter's vehicle and equipment added an upward notch to the police department's chart that shows roughly 7,000 burglaries in Oakland in 2008. Most recent figures show nearly 12,000 burglaries, with the strongest spike occurring from 2011 to 2012.
Robberies and homicides have risen as well, also with the highest spike in robberies and the increase in homicides jumping from just less than 80 in 2010 to about 116 as of the Dec. 5 meeting.
The meeting began with an upbeat welcome by Quan, her new deputy mayor, former state Assemblymember Sandre Swanson, and city employees giving progress reports from their departments. Quan acknowledged the crime issue as a serious one but said she believes the scene is set to begin adding new officers to the force this spring, with continued hiring until the staffing is adequate to handle the work. Fifty cadets are taking police training now, and another session is set to begin in spring.
District 2 City Councilmember Pat Kernighan said: "The crime rate has been escalating in the past year, and I hear a lot about it. Children on their way to school don't feel safe. This is not business as usual."
Police Chief Howard Jordan and a number of police officers spoke about some of the programs the police department has initiated or is in the process of initiating are "civilianizing" the department with volunteer residents who train to respond to burglary reports by gathering information and evidence when it is safe to do so and providing the information to police. Other programs include working with youth to lead them away from a criminal life and working with early offenders to divert them away from crime.
As to the violent crime issues, Jordan said the department is trying to rebuild its street crime unit so it can focus on that topic alone.
Reviews of the meeting differed. Attendee Joanne Early said she liked it.
"It was very good positive information," she said. "We're so used to negative news. It was nice to see the department heads responsible for running the city."
But attendee Emily Montan was disappointed.
"It was mostly marketing, and I resent that," she said. "I wanted to hear more detail."
After the presentations, several officers met in classrooms with residents and business people from their beats to talk about how the Problem Solving Officer program operates and address concerns. These officers are in touch with the community and are mandated to work on their beats' top problems. They are not patrol officers, though they do go to the neighborhoods they oversee; they are specialists focusing on helping the patrol officers, residents and merchants reduce crime.
Officer Chris Keden encouraged people to attend monthly Neighborhood Crime Prevention Council meetings and stay abreast of what is happening in their neighborhoods by checking their local council websites. Go to http://uncofo.com to get the email address for each neighborhood council website.


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I 'Dr. Widen Joins Medical Corps ,1
Dr. W. F. Widen, board member of Bethel Institute, has enlisted
in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Navy, and is commissioned as Lieu-tenant
Commander. He will be stationed at San Diego for the present. .
Dr. Widen is one of the outstanding physicians and surgeons of
Minneapolis. For twenty-one years he has served as Sunday School
Superintendent of the First Swedish Baptist Church. He is also on the
board of deacons and trustees of the church.
Rev. Anton Sjolund pastor of the
church said, "Dr. Widen will be
greatly missed both because of his
ability as a leader and because of
his deep interest in the salvation
of souls. We shall carry him in.,
the arms of prayer, and be looking
forward to the day when he will
be back with us."
Song Interupts Prayer
Evening prayer meeting goers
may be pleased with the innovation
now being made in the order of
service. A ten-minute song service
is being held before the leader
takes charge. A song leader will be
appointed for each week.
Speaking of prayer meetings, tinued to completion with every
the other night a little of the un- one listening. When the song was
expected took place. Some one in finished, the prayer meeting con-the
laundry room directly below tin.u ed. A talk with the offender re-the
chapel began to sing (a song vealed a penitent spirit for the in-not
exactly conducive to the spirit convenience he had unwittingly
of the meetng) and the song con- caused.
Vol. XXII No. 11
BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota March 17, 1943
Funds Needed by Red Cross
Spire Ad Sales
Are Mounting
dbork on the Spire is progress-ing
gradually and the hopes and
expectations of the staff have been
raised. There is still a large task
ahead; therefore they ask that
continued cooperation from stud-ents
and administration be given.
In financial matters the ad sales
are mounting, while the sale of an-nuals
is a little slow. The staff
wishes to emphasize the advertis-ing
goal of $600.00, one third of
which has been reached. Besides
getting ads, they wish to empha-size
the voluntary obligation of
each student to sell at least two
copies of the 1943 Spire.
Dolores Clauson says, "Selling
ads is fascinating work, besides be-ing
profitable. No one can lose."
Students with just such enthusi-asm
and interest as expressed in
Dolores' statement are respon-sible
for the financial success of
the business department.
Merle Freihiet says, "Bethel
Spire salesmen are needed, free
sales lessons, prospects furnished.
All interested see the business de-partment."
Most of the pictures have been
taken and some of the prints are in
the possession of the staff. The ed-itor
requests that the students turn
in any snapshots that would be ap-propriate
for snapshot pages.
Faculty Wives Will
Entertain at BWA
Faculty wives will entertain the
women at the B.W.A. program to
be held tomorrow afternoon at the
Women's dormitory.
The program features games and
chort devotional period.
Effie Nelson, Dean of women ur-ged
all women to attend as this is
the only time during the year that
the faculty wives entertain and
they would like to see a good at-tendance.
If you walk around the halls of
Bethel inquiring about St. Patrick,
you will be met by a dumb res-ponse.
St. Patrick—St. Patrick—
he was a saint of Ireland wasn't
he? Why are you asking about
him? We're Swedes around here.
One little girl will, no doubt, be
wearing the green shamrock on
March 17. By her name you will
know she is of Irish descent.
You've guessed it haven't you?--
Eileen Murphy.
The Irish really have a great
Bus Is Ready
for Business
The Religious Council now has
full charge of the bus and will be-gin
scheduling trips outside the
Twin Cities. The trips are limited
to a forty-mile radius of the Cities
this year. A Gospel team is going
to Cambridge and Fish Lake on
March 21 and one to Spring Lake
Park on April 11. Several other
assignments are made tentatively.
The effort on the part of the
Religious Council to renew the in-terest
in prayer meetings has re-sulted
in a better attendance at
the evening meetings. However,
the noon prayer meetings, both the
men's and women's, could be much
better attended. In former years
the attendance exceeded that of
this year both at noon and in the
deal to admire their patron saint,
St. Patrick. His life is one of ad-venture.
When he was sixteen
years old, he was carried away to
an island of pirates. There he was
sold to a chieftain called Macho.
When Pat escaped six years later,
he entered a monastery and devo-ted
the rest of his life to God's
His church in Ireland (accord-ing
to the Britannica) was monas.
tic, ascetic, a n d sacramental.
Through it 300 churches were
Drive to Start at
Bethel This Week
As the American Red Cross
spring drive goes into full swing,
the potential aid to millions in dis-tress
is being solicited. Some time
during the month of March, a Red
Cross worker will ask you for
your contribution. With all other
Americans you will have the priv-ilege
of helping this organization
of mercy which is moving swiftly
to meet its-war time tasks at home
and abroad. Not only does the Red
Cross serve as a connecting link be-tween
our armed forces and their
families, but it also occupies a role
in caring for every phase of war
emergency, especially in the armed
services. Last year alone, $40,400,-
000 was expended for our armed
forces in addition to $17,200,000
used in other types of war relief.
This year the need is even greater,
and so the goal of the war Fund is
$125,000,000 for the nation. Of this
Bethel must furnish a part of the
$481,000 goal set for the St. Paul
As an example of how the money
is used, the Red Cross has sent in
the form of blood plasma, 1,500,000
pints of blood and 25,000 nurses to
our Armed Forces.
President Wingblade, the chair-man
of the Red Cross drive at
Bethel, gives the following words
of appeal:
"How fortunate our country has
been thus far in the war. No
bombing has touched the Home-land.
Yet there are those less for-tunate
by far—those of our own
who have gone out to meet the
enemy on the battle front. There
is a great need for Red Cross
funds now, and the need will be, no
doubt, ever increasing.
"We at Bethel have much to
thank God for—very much. A full-fledged
membership in the Red
founded and 12,000 people were
The above are facts which have
been overlooked by the average
person. St. Pat is usually remem-bered
by the story of the charmed
snakes who followed the Saint to
the sea and were drowned.
No matter what is said to the
contrary, St. Patrick is a man to
be honored by all. His bell is said
to be preserved in the Museum of
Arts and Sciences in Dublin for
all good Irish to see and admire.
"Tex" is Found
Conrad B. Tedlund, "Tex", who
was reported missing some time
ago, wrote to "Shine" Swanson this
He has been in India for three
months and on all the continents
but two, since he left the U.S.
Tex was a star baseball pitcher
when he attended Bethel, and a
well-liked member of the student
He sends greetings to the Bethel
Chaplain Reports
Chaplain Delbert A. Kuehl,
is in the paratroop unit at Fort
Bragg, N.C. He graduated from
Bethel Junior College in June
An article by him, with his
picture, is found in the Febru-ary
issue of the Moody Month-ly.
In this article he states that
when men are faced with the
realities of life and deata- God
becomes real to them. He be-lieves
that the men who come
home from this war will read
and study the Bible as never
Men In Service
Earl Johnson, soph, and Roy
Nordstrom, frosh, received their
notices to report to the Army. Roy
plans to leave tomorrow and Earl
is called for April 8.
John Danielson is taking a Navy
examination April 2. This is in
connection with the V-1 program.
Cross costs only one dollar. Would
it be too much to -ask on the part
of our boys over there that Bethel
enroll 100%?"
24 Staecie4 Celekiate %Jai/
A bl-weekly campus newspaper.
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor-in-chief Ethel Hale
Associate Editor Carol Rexion
Feature Editor Virginia Holmberg
Sports Editor Dana Larson
Reporters Carlton Christenson, Doris Fanberg, Gordon
Krantz, Clarence Lauer, Janet Lyth, Ruth
McClure, Robert Norstrom, Francis Otto, Mir-iam
Quarnstrom, Janet Rye, Charlotte San-din,
Margaret Swanson, Roger Youngquist.
Circulation Marjorie Porter--Janet Rye
Typist Evelyn Sundberg
Business Manager Stamford Widen
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
bat's the core ?
The ignorance of history, of international affairs, and of sociology
`which was displayed at a recent College Congress, made us stop and
wonder if those representatives were a cross-section of the college youth
of today?
Are they the ones who will be answering tomorrow's problems on
economics, are they the ones who will be living and voting in the United
States after the war?
If they are the leaders we are to look to, then the situation; of the
ignorance of fundamentals in government, and lack of understanding is
a serious one.
This brings to the question of why. Why is there a situation where
average college students are so obtuse in regard to national affairs?
We would not blame the educational system, entirely—although it
must be at fault if it dos not instill a desire for learning government,
in the minds of the young people.
The greatest condemnation is for the students themselves. How
often have we heard the remark, "Oh, I haven't time to be reading a
daily newspaper!" And along with these individuals come the ones who
think TIME is a connotation for clock.
How can there be any understanding of history and sociology and
economics if there is no practical application of the factual material
learned? Practical application by reading what is going on in today's
world, and in trying to understand it in the light of what has gone
It is too easy to say, "Let Congress or neighbor Jones worry about
it. I'm going to play baseball."
As easy as it is to say that, is it to see what has happened to the
people all over the world who have let ,,neighbor Jones do the worrying!
It all comes down to this, democracy cannot exist in a shrunken
world such as ours will be after the war unless the leaders are able to
solve the problems of world hunger, world peace, and world economy.
The leaders will not be able to solve those problems unless, today, they
are reading daily what other leaders have to say. The leaders, many
of whom will come from our colleges, cannot do it alone. They must
be backed up by an intelligent, international-minded group of people.
Those people too, are today's college freshmen, sophomores, juniors and
Should not every bit of our education be supplemented, be high-lighted,
be understood by reading, by studying the newspapers and news
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
3-5-43—E. Eastlund, R. N.
There are obstacles, stress-ing
moments, hardships to
be sure, in the missionary's
life, but it is then we real-ize
the fulness of the pow-er
of God.
3-9-43—E. Frykenberg.
Read the Bible, trust it, and
obey it.
3-10-43—Dr. Pierce.
The Bible is "God in print."
>by Marjorie Porter
A. J. WINGBLADE, "The Red
Cross carries on a wonderful work.
We should not believe all the ru-mors
we hear to the contrary."
JOY PHILLIPS, "The Red Cross
and their force of nurses certainly
deserve the money we can give."
HARRIS YOUNGQUIST, "The
First Aid courses that they spon-sor
will certainly be of a lasting
value to the people."
BERNICE SHOLD, "There must
be much sacrifice on the part of
the workers. I think it is essential
not only to the boys in service but
also to those who have lost their
homes, parents, and all they once
GORDON G. • JOHNSON, "The
testimony of soldiers is enough to
convince one of its worth."
ALICE JOHNSON, "The Red
Cross steps in where no other or-ganization
could and helps soldi-ers."
GENE NYMAN, "Not many or-ganizations
serve as unselfishly as
the Red Cross. Surely we who are
deferred should be -willing to give
of our means and of our blood to
indirectly help our brothers and
friends who are serving in the
Armed Forces for our country's de-fense."
MILLIE PETERSON, "Not only
is the Red Cross a friend to all
our Armed Forces, but it is also the
first one to come to the rescue in
our flood areas."
KARL ROSENQUIST, "The Red
Cross field hospitals will speed the
victory for the allies."
KAY JACOBSON, "It is one of
the most important aids in winning
this war and also in preserving our
nation for the future."
HAROLD McCLURE, "The Red
Cross has high and lofty ambitions
and has been able to realize them
to a great extent."
DORIS FANBERG, "The fact
that it is helping hundreds of
thousands of people is reason
enough to think it is important
and indispensable."
DALE BJORK, "Over and above
our tithes to the Lord, we should
feel a responsibility to support the
Red Cross work."
'Member When?
IT WAS fashionable to buy three
pair of shoes per season?
• • •
PLANTING a garden was some-thing
only farmers did?
• •••
JOY RIDING was an entertain-ment
As We
By Harold Carlson
Many of the basic thoughts here
are not originally my own but were
taken from a radio talk by Dr.
Foulkes. As I have meditated over
the subject of forgiveness, I have
seen the need of practicing it in
my own life.
We pray: "Forgive us our debts
as we forgive our debtors." These
are simple, amazing words from the
lips of the Master, words that fall,
shall I say like a bomb-shell upon
our pretences and upon so much of
our un-Christlike performances. It
is a simple petition that we often
repeat. What would happen to us
if God were to take us at our word
and to "forgive as we forgive"?
Are any of us ready for His judg-ment
upon us? Perhaps too many
of us are like the man of whom
Jesus once spoke to His desciples
—a man who had been forgiven a
vast indebtedness, we would say, of
millions; and who then went out
and imprisoned one who owed him
a few dollars. "As we forgive!"
"Forgive as we forgive," is quali-tative
and not quantitative. It
means that unless we forgive, our
hearts are steeled against forgive-ness,
whether divine or human. To
speak reverently, God cannot for-give
the unforgiving heart and life.
If we would be forgiven we must
forgive. ..We must put our hearts
in the only attitude in which we
may receive the experience of for-givness
The Master, upon His Cross, ut-tered
a prayer of forgivness for
those who crucified Him, "Forgive
them for they know not what they
do!" He cried. How marvelously,
too, He outpoured His forgiveness
love upon His very own, those who
had fled in fear and had tragically
forsaken Him. In the coming days
we will need desperately to pray
'for a spirit of forgiveness and per-mit
God to crowd all hatred and
bitterness out of our hearts. Unless
this is done, we shall not be pre-pared
when the night of strife is
over and the day of victory dawns,
we shall be able to pray as we
ought for all human kind: "Thy
Kindom come, Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven! Forgive
as we forgive!"
WE WONDERED what bonds were
�� • •
ENGLAND and Germany and Af-rica
were thought to be far, far
WE DEBATED ABOUT giving
men a year's military training?
RED CROSS work was only inci-dental?
saisideituff Aruidice, with geacteit
Seeing as how Ginger is doing the front page and so forth, Ethel
Hale is sauntering this week. Go to it dear Editor.
* * *
I was having an awful time with motive appeals and counter-appeals
in speech, so Lois Nelson helped me. She said a counter-appeal was
when a salesgirl sold me something I didn't want over a counter. Hum.
* * *
Dale Bjork is something of a sight in overalls—!.
And speaking of sights did anyone see Mary Hamlin parading,
draped in a sheet? Oh, my.
•FIGmTING COQ.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Some visitors are in the cities
this week. Rev. Walfred Daniel-son,
Johnnie Danielson's father is
here, from New Jersey.
Earl Johnson's father, Dr. Linus
Johnson, came from Portland, Ore.
Dwight Hause, is also a visitor
from Kansas City, Missouri.
Archie sent this balm for the
aching heart—
"It has often been conceded that
editors as a general rule are rather
odd goofs. They have a habit of
tearing their hair over what to
print and what not to print when
they could avoid it all by expending
their time and energy in running
a peanut stand or hanging wall
After all, people either like or
dislike what an editor says, prais-ing
him as a wise and astute gent-lemen
if what he writes is com-plimentary,
and informing the
world and sundry that he doesn't
know enough to pound sand in a
rathole if it happens to be other-wise.
Ain't it the truth?"
* * *
At the moment (Thursday, 5:30)
it seems as if spring is in the air.
I'm almost afraid to mention it!
Of course you've all heard about
the bedbug who spent the winter
in the mattress and came out in
the spring??
What Is Wrong
With Overeating!?
By Gwen Parson
Plenty! Just take a look at me
and see. There's a little bulge here
and a big one there. If these bulges
were the accepted thing I wouldn't
mind, but the're definitely out of
style. Sometimes friends wont tell
you how badly off you really are,
so here's a warning: when you
have to use a large safety pin to
make your skirt band go around,
it's past time to take yourself in
hand and stop overeating.
Over-eating causes bulges, but
more serious, if you indulge too
heavily, you might be considered a
social outcast. Did you ever sit
down in front of a well done "sizz-ing
hot" steak, creamy mashed
potatoes, a side dish of peas and
carrots, a crisp fruit salad, and a
piece of pecan pie and forget that
you were in a "swanky" hotel din-ing
room instead of around your
own kitchen table? Mother and
daddy were extremely embarrassed
when the host remarked, "Your
daughter does exceptionally well in
her eating." If you haven't caught
the moral yet it's this:over-eating
isn't good etiquette.
Etiquette. is important When
you're "eating out", but there's an
after-effect that comes regardless of
the place you are while eating. One
piece of pecan pie a la mode would
be all right, but when you eat two.
it's impossible to escape the after-effect.
In the middle of the night
the talking of your stomach will
awaken you, there will be a slight
? Guess Who
The mention of 'Hi Little Feller'
will tell all the male chorus of last
year who he is. He might even sing
it for you if you ask him nicely—
he does sing solos occasionally I
am told. But he not only sings, for
he also plays a trombone. Watch
for him in the band.
When his Terraplane won't res-pond
obediently, he takes the Chev.
(Plutocrat with two cars—and ra-tioning
days too). Maybe he likes
to use the Terraplane when he
takes Shirley out.
In spite of the fact that he is not
a Baptist, he's doing a good job as
a Gospel team leader. He's that
tall, curley-haired junior with an
engaging grin, and that well-known
hearty, contagious laugh.
Howie Olson.
pain, and then there'll be one that
isn't so slight. Must I go further?
The rest of the night won't be a
pleasant one. This should be a good
lesson, but will you need it the
next time?
When you're such a glutton that
you have to spend hours of suffer-ing
in order to actually enjoy one
hour of eating, things are getting
pretty serious. The Lord gave us
the power of self control, and here's
an ideal situation in which to use
it. Overeating is really only a phy-chological
attitude, isn't it? This
idea of staggering away from the
table every day because you didn't
know how to pronounce NO is only
an unnecessary habit which can be
checked at will. Prove yourself
that you have self control, and you
won't have to announce it to your
Moreover, over-eating is unpat-riotic.
War time means ration time
and assuredly that includes food
luxuries especially. Go ahead ana
drink more milk and eat more
bread, but forget about the second
'piece of pie. You'll appreciate your
sacrifice when Easter Sunday
comes and when you'll have to
take in your new dress two inches
on both sides.
It sure is swell out here and I'm
beginning to feel more at home. At
first I felt like a stranger and I
missed Bethel an awful lot, but
I'm coming around now.
In two weeks I'll get my nottice
and will know what branch I am
headed for.
What's wrong with the basketball
team? I guess they miss me be-yond
words! ! ! You know this is
war and the cream of the men are
taken into the army and you'll just
have to struggle along with what
you've got.
Keep your chin up, your eye up
and remember us guys in your
prayers because we'll sure need it.
Yours in Him
I suppose you Clarion people
have troubles of your own. I can
see you all gnashing your hair and
pulling your teeth, and neatly
chewing your pencils to shreds. It
ain't fair but it's inevitable.
Anyhow, I wish you luck, you
need it.
Gordon Krantz
P.S. I would have written a long
letter, but I had the envelope seal-ed
and mailed before I thought of
anymore to say! ! G. K.
I am in Philadelphia at the Naval
Hospital for intensive training.
We work one day from 7 A.M. to
9 P.M. and the next day from 7 A.
M. to 12 noon.
In the hospital I am in charge of
medicines and dressings. I must
see that medications are given out
properly, etc. At nite I redress the
patients wounds.
I can imagine Bethel is becoming
a lonesome place with so many of
the fellows pulling stakes, but I
know the old spirit is still there.
Gilmore (Fish) Lawrence
Agatha Answers All Annoyances
Dear Miss Agatha:
All winter (rather I should say
all year, for there is but one season
in Minnesota) I am bothered with
an overheated radiator. (Since
when—in the women's dorm?) It
makes all kinds of funny noises
during the night starting promptly
at 11 bells. Sometimes I think that
there must be creatures (grem-lins?)
stirring about the room. Not
to mention my roomate, though,
who also does her share of wonder-ing.
Is there anything we can do to
remedy such a situation as a hot
radiator? Incidently, there are
numerous other girls in the dorm
who are bothered with hot radia-tors,
too. What can you offer in the
way of a helpful suggestion?
Dorm Inmate
Ans: When and if said radiator
gets overheated, heave water on it.
This seems to be the best solution.
P.S. Try turning it off, or else
scout around for a new roomate.
But that would be silly, wouldn't
it? It isn't her fault.
Dear Agatha:
I'm an outcast —a social outcast.
Nobody likes me. I read all the ads
and still nobody seems to like me.
I am a faithful contributor to your
column and having taken all of
your sound (?) advice! Recently I
was heard on John J. Armstrong's
hor (Helps to the Helpless) and
simply adore herring with garlic
stems and fried onion cakes. Tell
me `Cathy, aren't these the things
that interest men? And Oh, I
might add —my mother tells me
I have B.O. (I guess that means
Beauty-and 00mph) so you see I
have a few things in my favor. But
please —can't you tell me what's
Country • Cousin
Ans: Lady, you have been read-ing
the wrong ads.
P.S. (For the benefit of our read-ers)
She doesn't eat herring. She is
a herring.
Dear Miss Agathy:
My desire for success is hinder-ed
by my not being permitted to
study at night —just when my
mind functions to the nth degree.
This may sound peculiar but it is
the truth.
It has been proved down thro
the ages that success depends upon
the amount of effort and study set
forth in your work. The greatest
men of all times labored long, hard
hours over their books. But how
can I attain similar success when
my lights must be out at 11 P.M.
Please give me advice as to how
I can evade such a rule legally.
Ans: I can appreciate your prob-lem
for I too was desirous for suc-cess,
but was hindered by many ob-stacles.
Why not try using rugs,
bedclothing, or old clothes as black-out
curtains for the cracks which
reveal the lights around the Dorm.
This seems to be the best and most
popular solution.
Send all annoyances to Agatha,
P.O. Box 106 and she will answer
them promptly.
Scalawags take opener
from Mugwumps then
Lose to Carpetbaggers
Ih attempting to take up the
slack in the deleted sports calen-dar,
the "Elite" of the Bethel bas-ketball
world have organized four
squads of very heterocapable ca-gers.
A play-off schedule has been
arranged and a tournament will
also be run to decide the winner.
Whether the names applied are
any indication of the nature of
the teams is not yet clear, but
we'll let you as well as the tourna-ment
decide that.
The teams consist of such names
as the Scalawags who are captain-ed
by Stan Paulson; the Mug-wumps
led by Don Johnson; the
Carpetbaggers with Gene Nyman
at the helm and finally the Muck-rackers
with veteran Swanson in
Schedule for the play-off as now
arranged began with a game last
Thursday which saw the Scala-wags
down the Mugwumps by the
score of 37-31. Two games were
run off on Tuesday night (the
score not being known at this writ-ing)
when the Scalawags faced the
Carpetbaggers and the Mugwumps
vied with the Muckrackers. The
date and time of the play-off game
between the Carpetbaggers and the
Muckrackers has not been sched-uled
as yet.
To begin the tournament on
March 15 at 2:00 P. M. the Scala-.
wags take on the Muckrackers and
the following day at 4:00 P. M.
the Mugwumps and Carpetbaggers
fight it out.
The championship will be decid-ed
March 23 at 8:15 P. M. in a con-test
between the winners of the
last two games and for consolation
place the losers play the prelimin-ary
at 7:00 on the same evening.
Interest in these games should
be adequate in filling the lag of
athletics in this awkward pseudo-spring
season. Watch the bulletin
board for announcements.
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On the Bench
By BO
I hate to think of it, but I guess
I won't have to sit on the bench
anymore. The basketball season is
through. And just when I started to
get going. That Concordia game_
was the best fight I've made from
the bench all season. It was a bad
one for the fellows to lose, but they
had nothing to be ashamed about.
You know it almost makes me
sad to think that it is all over. I've
appreciated the practice, scrim-mage,
and all the fellowship. In
spite of everything, I, for one, real-ly
enjoyed myself. Life on the
bench wasn't so bad. I always had
a good seat, could always mutter
about the "refs" and dirty players
without those around me thinking
the weather had cracked my block.
Besides, on the bench one always
lives in the fear and expectation of
being sent into the game. I really
believe the "ref" down at Roches-ter
liked me. He kicked Gordie
Johnson out on fouls so that I
could get in. Then when I had my
foot caught in the seat of some-body's
pants, he gave me the ball
because the other guy was in my
way. I would have kissed him, but
he didn't look very nice. I always
have the memory of that shot I
made in the scrimmage we had
once. I've been seeping on a wed-ding
cake for a preview of my
wife, but all I dream of is that shot.
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Intra-Mural Tournament Starts Sem vs. College
An unclassifiable basketball con-test
was played a week ago Tues-day
in the College gym. The card
called for the Collegiates versus
Seminarians but because of vacan-cies
in the Collegiates' ranks the
teams r were evened up by a mix-ture;
however, the "theologs'Ldom-inated
one and the "undergrads"
the other. Swanson and Gustafson
changed ranks and were a great
asset to the ill-fated College team.
The final score ended in favor
of the boys across the way by the
margin of 38-30. Perhaps on a la-ter
date the real thing will be
It was a honey. And that time all
the girls came down to sit on the
bench with me; it was great to be
alive. When you stop to think of it,
fellas, girls are nice.
Well, the boYs are leaving. Poor
Danielson won't get any more tips
on how to chase a girl and be dig-nified,
and it'll look strange for me
to keep sitting on the bench. Guess
I'll go shoot four horse with Eric
until next fall. So long, Bench old
pal. Save me a spot for next year.
I. Scalawag's III.. Muckrackers
S. Paulson (c) G. Swanson (c)
G. Thompson R. Gustafson
B. Bergerud A. Finke
C. Sahlin J. Danielson
C. Christensen D. Turnwall
A. Gustayson F. Otto
B. Cunningham E. Anderson
W. Ericson B. Haring
II. Mugwumps IV. Carpetbag'ers
Don Johnson (c) G. Nyman (c)
Bob Norstrom B. Hailes
M. Lundh
W. Wessman
C. Berg H. Youngquist
B. Dischinger B. Travaille
H. McClure D. Larson
K. Norquist
D. West
E. Johnson
Exam Boners
Q.—What has the government
done to protect Indians?
A.—Put them in reservoirs.
Algebriacal symbols are used
when you don't know what you are
talking about.
Q.—What did Paul Revere say at
the end of his rider
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2004 BMW MOA National Rally ÔÇô Spokane, WA
Chapter Five ÔÇô Go West, Young Man (and Woman)
(see previous posts/pages for Chapters One, Two, Three and Four)
All through the NW MT-Northern ID-NE WA area you will see reference to Mullan Rd and Mullan Trail. While the folks in the East were fighting each other, during 1859-1862 Captain John Mullan of the US Army was establishing a route between Fort Benton, MT and Walla Walla, WA. The goal was to connect the Missouri River and the Columbia River for a supply route. It was marked with ÔÇ£MRÔÇØ for Military Road but this designation is now more commonly described as Mullan Road.
This road was 25 feet wide, ran over 624 miles and hand dug. It was used for over thirty years; then it became part of the motorway designated The Yellowstone Trail (1912-1930s). This was somewhat of a marketing ploy to encourage tourism via a transcontinental highway stretching from MA to WA or ÔÇ£Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound.ÔÇØ This was a private endeavor, similar to the Lincoln Highway project which was started a year after this one and ran parallel but through Midwest states. In the 1930s, as the national highway efforts consolidated all the various routes, this route became Hwy 10. In the 1980s this became part of the Interstate system, now known as I-90.
You can walk on or drive stretches of the Mullan Road, see the old Yellowstone Trail signs and some of the original bridgework still intact across local streams as you leave Montana from Missoula (the frontage road on the north side of I-90) and all the way through the panhandle of Idaho. Stop and visit the historic tree nursery Savenac, I-90 exit 16, Haugen, MT; the road(s) cut through the front yard of the compound. The Mullan Tree monument is off of I-90, exit 28 in Idaho. The crew rested a day because it was July 4, 1861 and blazed a tree with the date. This resulted in the names you see today: Fourth of July Summit, Fourth of July Canyon, Independence Pass, etc. Some of the road can be seen here, too, along the interpretive trail.
Coming from the East: Stop for gas in St. Regis, MT, then take the local road called CamelÔÇÖs Hump, about 15 miles to the other end, where it connects with I-90 again at Harrison. Right now this whole stretch of I-90 is one way each direction and 45 mph due to bridge work so this is actually a faster way to get through the area, although this section of I-90 has incredible sweepers and is normally a sport-bike heaven.
If you have an extra hour or two, instead of CamelÔÇÖs Hump, for a different route, leave St Regis and I-90 behind and take Hwy 135, which follows the Clark Fork River. It is joined by the Flathead River at Hwy 200. Take Hwy 200 to Thompson Falls (or if you are coming across the State on Hwy 200, take note). Just past town, take the bridge to the left, across the river. This road will take you over Thompson Pass and into Idaho.
If you are riding GS and have an extra hour or two, take CamelÔÇÖs Hump to the Harrison end but donÔÇÖt get back on I-90. Instead turn up the forest road to the North (your right), go past the campground, up over Knox Pass towards Thompson Falls. When you come to the bottom you will feel like you just drove out of someoneÔÇÖs backyard, which you have. You will hit the pavement at the same road as the previous paragraph, but you are already across the river from Thompson Falls. Go left on the main road and you can rejoin your pavement-bound buddies (if you separated at St Regis at the same time, you should all join up again here with about the same time traveled) and you can all go over Thompson Pass together.
The road over Thompson Pass was first paved only a few years ago and many maps do not show it as paved or even show the route. When you hit the Y near Prichard you can quickly drop down to Wallace, ID and regain I-90 via a route that is steep, twisty and big time fun, or take the right hand route and meander along the Coeur DÔÇÖAlene River road back to I-90 near Cataldo ID. If you had friends who left St Regis via I-90, they will have had time to eat in Wallace ID while waiting for you to come in the back way.


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The gallery of the De Pree Art Center at Hope College will feature "Tulipier," a celebration of vessels designed for tulips, with works created by Hope art students, on Monday-Saturday, May 9-14.
The exhibition will open with a reception on Monday, May 9, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The public is invited to both the reception and the exhibition. Admission is free.
The vases are designed to hold fresh flowers, each creating a unique bouquet arrangement. The exhibition will feature more than 50 vases, created in a variety of styles during the spring semester by students in the Ceramics 2 class taught by Lindsay Montgomery, visiting assistant professor of art. Although the exhibition developed with tulips in mind, the vases can work with a variety of flowers.
The majority of the vases will be for sale, with prices ranging from $40 to $500.
The De Pree Art Center is located at 160 E. 12th St., on Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. Following the Monday-evening reception, the gallery will be open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., including during the Tulip Time parades. The gallery is handicapped accessible.