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(Editor's note – Continuing our series of getting cartographers to publicly criticize themselves, we next feature Mr. Andy Woodruff, proprietor of Cartogrammar and an alumnus of the famed University of Wisconsin Cartography Lab. If you're interested in following the brave example of Mr. Woodruff, and Mr. Reynolds before him, and showing the world some of your own cartastrophes, please write me at firstname.lastname@example.com. — DH)
Animated maps can be a delightfully cartastrophic realm, rife with dizzying excessive motion, poorly or over-designed interfaces, annoying sound effects, and (I really, really hope) perhaps a few dancing bananas. Daniel will perhaps be wise to steer clear of them here unless he is willing to give up the rest of his life to unearthing all the bad animated cartography on the internet. With this post I will only lead this blog to test the waters gingerly.
This is a map I completed for a class called Animated and Web-based Maps, instructed by Professor Mark Harrower, the king of cartography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and, I should add, a known expert in map animation. It's animated, sure, and you can click the image to load and play it, but that's not entirely necessary for what follows. Very briefly, a bit of background on the map: it was made for a lab assignment in which students were provided with a set of county-level agricultural data for the state of Wisconsin for the years 1970 to 1999 and instructed to make an animated choropleth map of a variable of their choosing.
Typically, my first reaction to viewing this map is to vomit at the sight of the colors. Unlike many of the maps that make their way onto this site, mind you, I actually used an appropriate color scheme: a diverging scheme using official Cindy Brewer ColorBrewer specs (and it's even colorblind-friendly!). But this red-blue scheme combined with the interface color pair of green and more disgusting green… well, I hope you're reading this on an empty stomach. Otherwise I probably owe you a new keyboard. Oh, and if your eyes aren't completely filled with blood yet, you just might discern in the background the ghost of a photo I took in Wisconsin's Driftless Area.
But chalk all that up to bad taste. On to the actual cartographic crimes.
First, the white color in the classification scheme, labeled "0% or No Data." Hold on a second, 2006 self, there's a big difference between those two! Zero is a legitimate data value that fits in the classification scheme. "No Data" is a different animal entirely. Ideally one would avoid an incomplete data set in the first place, but sometimes that's what you've got (like when that's the data provided for the assignment). In those cases, areas without data can't be indistinguishable from areas with data, or else the map reader can never really know what's going on. Look at the screenshot: which counties have no data, and which have a value of zero? Impossible to know. In reality perhaps some of those counties should be off-the-charts red, but you'd never know which ones. The counties without data need to be shaded with a color that is not in the map's color scheme, probably some kind of gray. Worse, in the image above there is in fact only one county with no data, but guess what the tooltip says when you mouse over it. That's right, "0%."
Next, two points about the choice of variable to map, beginning with the description I wrote near the legend:
"This map shows the change in the percent of land in farms over the preceding year in each Wisconsin county from 1970 to 1999. This is a percent change of a percent– for example, a change from 50% land in farms to 48% would be shown on the map as a -4% change ( 48 is 96% of 50), not a 2% change."
It's as though I deliberately chose the most complicated variable possible, probably in an effort to confuse the TA into giving me a good grade. Though I clearly realized the potential confusion (hence the descriptive example), what I didn't even think about until now is that the exact same thing could have been mapped without any of the "percent of a percent" nonsense. The percent of land in farms for a given year is the total land area in farms divided by the total land area of the county. The percent change that I mapped is that percent for the first year minus the percent for the next year, divided by the percent for the first year. But ignoring, say, erosion on the lakeshores (and I'm sure this data set did ignore it), the total land area doesn't change from year to year. So total land area magically cancels out of the whole equation, and it would be mathematically equivalent, and a lot clearer to the reader, to simply show the percent change in agricultural land area. I haven't taken a math class since high school, and maybe it's starting to show.
Beyond that, out of all the options this choice seems like a particularly strange thing to map in an animation. The whole purpose of an animated map is to show change over time. But the data are already showing change, so now we're dealing with change in change. Watch the animation; do you get anything out of it? I sure don't. Yes, you can see that some years are calm and some are not, but it is very difficult to get a sense of the overall trend of what's going on with farmland in Wisconsin. It would have been a lot clearer to just map the percent of land in agriculture and watch how that changed over thirty years. Now, this point is debatable because animating change maps is not unheard of. I've been told that some important minds and beards have investigated such animation. It can be useful for highlighting or discovering areas of instability. For general-purpose maps such as this one, however, mapping a change variable is best left to single, static instances. If I had animated just the percent of land in farms, the same trends could have been discerned through the animation, and the user would also actually learn something about the amount of agricultural land. A more appropriate use for the change map might have been a single map showing the change over the thirty year span. In fact, the subtitle here, "Change in percent land in farms 1970-1999" could be realized by that single map.
For a final quarrel, I would argue that the counties on this map should have been labeled. There is ample space, and whereas you might get away with not labeling states in a US map, few people know Wisconsin's 72 counties by heart. Instead of labels on the map, I forced the user to move the mouse cursor over a county to see what its name is. The rule by which I now try to abide is: don't lean on interactivity to solve all cartographic challenges. Interactivity as a means to reveal data is a good way to add lots of additional information to a map, but it can also make it easy to be lazy. Laziness is for the map reader, not the map maker. If the information is useful and can be accommodated without relying on interaction, then do it. The specific data value you see when hovering over a county is a good use of interactivity for extra information; the county name is not. It'd be a lot less work to visually scan persistent labels that are sitting there on the map than it is to mouse over counties to see their names one at a time.
And an extra special bonus typographic nitpick: I misused hyphens in place of both an en and an em dash in the subtitle and description, respectively.
One Nice Thing: The animated and interactive features of the map are nearly—but not quite—unbreakable. I won't mention the one bug I did find recently.


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Vol. XXVII—No. 15 February 19, 1948
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.
Christian Educator
Statistics on Christian Experience
Dr. Edgren Distinguished Founder of Seminary
John Alexis Edgren, the illustrious founder of Bethel, the Seminary
department, was born in the province of Varmland, Sweden, February
20, 1839. He received a very good education. A university student was his
Private tutor in the early years of his life. After preparatory studies in
high school, where he distinguished himself especially in languages and
mathematics, he entered the Navigation School of Stockholm. Here he
was graduated at the age of twenty as captain in the Swedish Merchant
Marine, receiving the highest honors ever bestowed on a nautical gradu-ate
in Sweden. Later he passed examinations as instructor in navigat-ion.
In the meanwhile, especially in summer time, Edgren, like a true
Viking, followed the lure of the sea and sailed for several years under
five different flags—English, Swedish, Norwegian, German and American.
The all important crisis in the young sailor's life came at the age
of eighteen. It happened one stormy night in February, 1857, while his
ship was waiting to sail from the harbor of New York. It was dark and
dismal. The storm howled and the snow whirled. In the soul of Edgren
it was even darker. Then he walked out on the deck and fell on his
knees to pray. As he prayed divine light broke in. He believed God's
promise and received assurance of His forgiving grace. The sailor
became a new man, a twice-born soul. A few months later he followed
the Lord in baptism.
Th opportunity to preach his first sermon came on Christmas day,
1859, when the brig on which he was sailing had encountered a gale in
mid-Atlantic. After he had returned to Sweden and his parents learned
that their son had become a Baptist, they were greatly alarmed, fearing
that thereby he would disgrace their good name. However, when the
father had heard him preach he said with deep emotion, "If that is the
way you preach, continue, my son, and God bless you."
Back in America in 1862, in the midst of the Civil War, the Swedish
sailor offered his service to the Union Navy. Having passed his exami-nations
as a naval officer, he served with distinction until the end of
the war in 1865.
In a severe storm in which his ship was nearly lost, Edgren had
promised God that if He would save them from perishing in the gale, he
would devote this life to the gospel service. This promise he kept. At
three different schools, Princeton, Hamilton Theological Seminary and
University of Chicago, he received a thorough training for his great life
work. Edgren became a scholar of distinction, a sound theologian, and a
linguist of rare achievements. He was able to read thirty-two different
languages. In the fall of 1871 the great opportunity of his life had come.
It was then, while yet pastor of the First Swedish Baptist Church of
Chicago, that he founded the Swedish Baptist Theological Seminary, now
Bethel Seminary, as a department of the Divinity School of the Univers-ity
of Chicago. Both scholastically and spiritually, and with heroic sacri-fice
and hard work, the founder laid a good and enduring foundation.
His frail body, however, could not long endure the strain. After some
sixteen years of service, Edgren was forced, due to ill health, to give up
his beloved school work. He retired to California to spend the last twenty
years of his life in poverty and privation. On January 26, 1908, Captain
John Alexis Edgren entered the Haven of Rest. Adolf Olson
The Clarion For 1948-49 Urged
Early Registration
Bethek, PapeA
Retreat Planned
For Minn. BYPU
Headlining the activities of the
Minnesota B. Y. P. U. is their mid-winter
retreat to be held Saturday
and Sunday, February 21-22. Open,
ing the two day conference will be
a recreational evening of games,
swimming, a program with films of
the Y.P. work, and refreshments at
the Minneapolis Y. M. C. A., 9th
and LaSalle, Saturday evening. The
nominal fee of $.40 allows one to
take advantage of the evening.
Bethel students are invited to at-tend.
On Sunday afternoon a big State-wide
Y.P. Rally will be held at
the Central Baptist Church of St.
Paul. Dr. Christenson, President
of Augsburg College, will be the
principal speaker. Again, students
of Bethel are invited to attend.
Tentative plans for, the summer
work of the Y.P. Conference two
Bible Camps • at Big Trout Lake.
The Junior Camp, August 14-21, is
open for those of high school age,
and the Senior Camp, August 21-28,
for those over high school age.
Speakers for the Junior Camp in-clude
Professor Lawson, Carl Olson
and Gunnar Hoglund. Senior Camp
speakers are Rev. Curtis B. Aken-son,
Minneapolis First Baptist, Rev.
Maurice Wessman of Sioux Falls,
S. D., and Rev. Walter Olson of
the Payne Avenue Baptist Church,
St. Paul.
New Attire in Offing
For Male Chorus Trip
This year when the Male Chorus
goes on its annual tour, they will
be wearing new maroon-colored
robes. Last year the robes were
rented, but this year the fellows
will be singing in robes that belong
to the school. After a lot of con-sideration
over the problem, the
Policy Committee allowed the pur-chase
of these robes.
In the middle of January, survey
sheets on Christian experience
were distributed to all Bethel Col-lege
students. From the 50 reports
which have been returned to date,
we discover some interesting sta-tistics:
The most popular age of conver-sion
is the intermediate age (13-
16) which leads with 23; Junior
age (9-12) has 17; Young Peoples
has 2. The leading influence to
age (18-25) has 8; Primary (7-8)
conversion was through the reach-ing
of the Word, having 27; ; 16
were through the influence of par
ents; 8 through Christian com-panions;
Sunday School and DVBS
tied with 6 each; 5 influenced
through personal work; 2 through
reading the Bible; 1 in camp; 1 in
children's meetings.
Of the 50 surveyed, 27 joined the
church between the ages of 13-16;
12 at the Junior age (9-12). After
accepting Christ, 25 indicated sat-isfaction
and relief as the effect
of conversion; a change of conduct
was the effect- for 23. 21 valued
Christian friends as being the most
help in their Christian life; Bible
study and reading religious books
was the most help for 18. The age
of most difficulty occurred for 25
between the ages of 18-21; 13 in-dicated
the ages between 14-17 as
most difficult.
Thirty-eight of the 50 students
still attend Sunday school; 6
dropped out between the ages of
15-18; 4 between the agese of 12-15.
Twelve decided definitely for
Christian service between the ages
of 16-18; 8 between 19-21.
Students planning to attend Beth-el
next year may register for dor-mitory
rooms beginning the fif-teenth
of March, the Policy Com-mittee
has announced. Students
will be asked to state, when regi-stering,
their preferences as to
roommates. Due to the shortage
of rooms it Nvill necessarily be on
a first come—first served basis.
So register early.
It is also requested that students
be reminded of Dining Hall Rules
in regard to dress. Wednesday
evening and Sunday are dress-up
times. Proper dress at those times
includes the following: shirt, tie
and suit coat for men; stockings
with heels for women. Exceptions
will be made only to those coming
directly from work. Tee Shirts and
sweaters are not allowed at these
times— slacks may be worn on
Saturday only.
Faculty Plans Restudy
of Admission Standards
At the last monthly meeting of
the Bethel faculty, February 10, it
was decides that the committee on
admission restudy the standards
and policies heretofore used in
registering students. Both entrance
to the College and re-registration
for the subsequent quarter will be
The curriculm committee will
also consider the advisability of a
preministerial sequence of courses
of both required and recommended
Approved of a joint faculty and
student committee on visual ed-ucation
was voiced by the adminis-tration.
This group will select both
educational and Christian films for
weekly presentation. Films will be
shown at the most convenient time
for all students. Byron Skalman,
chairman of the committee, Zack
Icleinsasser a r e represenatives
chos neby the Student council.
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The New Approach?
The other night in Berlin a high-ranking
Russian Army of Occupation official spent an
informal evening in the quarters of one of the
American Army's top staff officers. The Rus-sian,
a Communist Party political adviser to
Marshall Sokolovsky, had explicitly asked for
the two-man meeting, and additionally, he had
requested the topic for the evening dis-cussion:
"The possibility of a political rap-prochement
between the United States and the
Soviet Union". Among other things, • the Red
officer said that the Politburo in the Kremlin
is eagerly watching what Congress does with
the Marshall plan ; and that Russia does not
want to commit itself to a long-drawn-out
economic struggle with the Western Powers,
but would now rather turn a foreign policy
- about-face" and accept the original invitation
to join the American sponsored European Re-covery
We know that this meeting did take place,
but, of course, as yet, we do not know how
much _authority this Russian officer had to
speak officially for his government.
But this is not an isolated fragment clutched
at in an idealistic wish for peace. There are
other concrete evidences that might add up
to an imminent radical change in the foreign
policy of the USSR. For instance, (1) after
two years of balking, the Reds have now begun
reciprocal reparations deliveries, (2) they
have opened negotiations to settle their Lend-
Lease account and have made their own offer
to return some of the Liberty ships, (3) they
have cut in half their claims on Austrian
assets and have agreed to currency reforms
in that country, thereby giving new hope for
an early peace treaty, (4) new Ambassador
Panyushkin is unusually sociable in Washing-ton,
(5)—and this could suggest clearing the
decks for co-operation with the Marshall plan-the
Kremlin has thrown overboard Dimitrov's
publicized proposed federation of the Red
Balkan states.
These six factors cannot be tossed aside
without thought. Responsible State Depart-ment
policy makers are greatly surprised by
these "friendly" Russian moves. They are baf-fled
worried. It is hard to visualize and plan for
co-operative Russia.
Are the Reds ready to sign the armistice of
the cold-war? Do they conclude that they have
extracted all possible gain from the present
European economic instability? Are the Russ-ians
now really afraid of the economic might
of the United States? And will the American
public support a Marshall plan without the
spector of spreading communism hanging over
the world's head? How can we immediately\
reorient our domestic military and economic
policy to suit a possible communist change?
These are some of the questions that keep
the diplomats awake at night.—Maybe we
will have "peace in our time".
C. A. Appelquist
If he's young, he lacks experience; if his
hair is gray, he is too old; if he has no child-ren,
he is setting a bad example; if he has five
or six, he is carrying it too far.
If his wife sings in the choir, she is being
forward; if she does not, she is not interested
in her husband's work.
If he speaks from notes, he has canned ser-mons
and is dry; if he is extemporaneous, he
is not deep.
If he spends too much time in his study, he
neglects his people; if he visits, he is a gad-about.
If he is attentive to the poor, he is playing
to the grandstand; if to the wealthy, he is
trying to be an aristocrat.
If he suggests improvements for the church,
he is a dictator; if he makes no suggestions,
he is a figurehead.
If he uses too many illustrations, he neglects
the Bible; if not enough, he is not clear.
If he condemns wrong, he is cranky; if he
does not, he is a compromiser. If he peaches
an hour, he is windy; if less, he is lazy.
If he reaches the truth, he is offensive; if
not, he is a hypocrite.
If he fails to please everybody, he is hurt
ing the church; if he does please everybody,
he has no convictions.
If he preaches tithing, he is a money-grab-ber;
if he does not, he is failing to develop
his people.
If he receives a large salary, he is mercen-ary;
if a small salary, it proves he is not worth
If he preaches all the time, the people get
tired of hearing one man; if he invites guest
preachers, he is shirking responsibility.
—Threefold Advocate
Bazit and Baziciv
Dear Buddy,
It was bad enough to see this sign on one
of the girls' dorm doors during mid-quarter
exam week: "Geniuses at work. Please do not
disturb." But the pay-off was at room 128,
where we read: "If you have a half-hour to
spare, don't spend it with someone who hasn't."
Don't tell anyone that Margie Rundquist and
Naomi Nesterud live in 128, will you, Buddy?
Well, here's hoping they get "A" averages.
While dictating 'a letter the other day, "Doc"
Karlson said something like this: "Rev
is. a man of sterling character, varied abilities,
and a forward look not the new look." Our
Sem Dean is really right up with the time,
isn't he?
I suppose you, as well as everyone else on
the campus, have heard Bob Bronko complain,
"Sometimes I wish they'd feed us Red Heart.
At least we'd know what we're eating; the
contents are right on the can." No kidding,
though, the food has improved since milk has
been limited. However, now Bob is afraid he'll
lose his teeth—lack of calcium, you know.
Since I found it necessary to be absent from
Freshman Conference the week that table
manners were discussed, I asked my neighbor
(Cliff Anderson) what he had learned during
that hour. This was his rely: "I learned how to
hold the lance while harpooning." Come to
think of it, sometimes those steaks are tough,
aren't they? Not at Bethel, of course.
Now if I weren't a lady, I'd follow Berge's
tactics of a couple of weeks ago and put an ad
in the Clarion, giving my phone number (NEs-ter
8855), free evenings (all of 'em), general
description (blonde, Dlue eyes, 5' 5"). and
Did I hear you say something about age and
weight? Well, I'll have you know I'm a lady
and therefore wouldn't even think of putting in
an ad like that! Goodby!
by President Wingblade
How true it is that he who has good books
for his companions and who has cultivated a
love for them need never be lonely, even though
he be marooned on a desert island.
"A good book", says Milton, "is the precious
life blood of a Master Spirit embalmed and
treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life."
Says another, "This is the best of me. For
the rest I ate and drank, loved and hated, and
my life was as a vapor and is not. But this
I know and felt, this is the best of me this
is my book!" When we read a great book, we
are communing with a great man at his best.
Some years ago, President Charles Elliot of
Harvard listed a number of books which be-came
the famous "five foot book shelf." These
were chosen as forming the nucleus of the
great literature of all time. The person who
read this selection could well be called "an
educated man."
Not so long ago there came out a list of one
hundred of the greatest books chosen by a
committee of one hundred people, all of whose
names were in "Who's Who." The suggestion
was that everyone should read those hundred
books before he was forty.
High on the list were such works as The
Scarlet Letter, Ivanhoe, Les Miserables," and
The Tale of Two Cities. Farther down were
such works as The Will to Believe by William
James, and Pilgrims Progress.
Certainly there are great opportunities open
to young people these days for inspiring and
edifying reading—biography, history, philoso-phy,
literature—and many other fields.
David Pryde wrote a guide book some years
ago entitled, What to Read and How to Read.
This was a good help, especially for beginners
who wish to cultivate a good reading program.
Ruskin points out that there are booKra for
the hour, and books for all time. We should not
waste time on the first class. We can scarcely
put in too much time on the second. A book
that is worth reading at all is usually worth
reading again, or referring to many times. One
of our fine pastors told me that he had read
through Les Miserables- once each year since
he left Bethel.
But in all our reading, there is one book
we must not neglect. That is the Book that
draws its inspiration from the eternal heart of
A-roma-round 10:30
"Make Mine White, Hooligan,"
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Students Serve
Near-by Areas
Approximately seventy-five per
cent of the men from the seminary
are student pastors. They serve
local, small town, and rural
churches in Minnesota, Wisconsin,
and Iowa.
Those seminary students serving
churches in the Twin Cities area
find it possible to hold midweek
prayer meetings and young peoples
meetings during the week besides
serving on Sunday. In contrast,
those serving churches in rural
areas have to crowd their week
end schedule to accomplish all
these activities.
A typical pastor will leave Bet-hel
campus after his Friday class-es.
Upon arriving at his pastorate,
a weekly prayer meeting is held
that same evening. Saturday is
taken up with visitation work and
sermon preparation f o r Sunday.
After breaking the Bread of Life
on Sunday, the student pastor
starts back to Bethel on Monday to
get back early for Tuesday classes
in the seminary.
The student pastor program is
a very practical phase of - a min-isterial
training. This program al-lows
a release for the blessings and
Classroom learning of the week.
Many of the people who hear the
Gospel preached by these students
would not hear it otherwise.
Le Glorieu
This is Founder's Week. Reminds
one of the poem, "Founders Keep-ers,
Losers Weepers". Speaking of
poems, how does this sound for
coming out of my jokebook.
I never see my pastor's eyes;
He hides their light divine—
For when he prays he shuts his
And, when he preaches, mine.
For the benefit of the visitors
here this week, I would like to
tell a little about Bethel. First, we
have students. Bethel Students like
to be treated with kindness by
their parents, but not with unre-mitting
Some students budget, that's a
method of worrying before you
spend instead of afterwards. We
have a school bank where we can
borrow money if we have suffic-ient
evidence to show we don't
need it. We are gaining much ex-perience
in Public Speaking
though. Experience is a name we
give to our mistakes. Public Speak-ing
is the art of diluting a two-minute
idea with a two-hour vo-cabulary.
We are busy though, with
committee meetings and all. A com-mittee
is a body that keep minutes
and wastes hours. It's easy to pick
out the good students around here;
they'll help you do it. And so ends
the untruth about Bethel.
School Calendar: Abe Lincoln's
Birthday—School As Uusual
King Gustaf's Birthday — No
School-3 wks. Smorgosbord.
Greenman Leads
Team Scoring
The Indians have played 14
games to date, winning 9 and losing
5. They are in first place in the
conference with 9 wins and 2 de-feats;
3 losses have been non-con-ference
games. In compiling this
record the Indians have scored an
_ average of 47.7 points per game
while holding their opponents to
43.7 points per game. These are the
score of games played:
Bethel 40 Bethany 36
Bethel 39 Rochester 38
Bethel 41
Northwestern 45
Bethel 42
Superior State 64
Bethel 48
Concordia 42
Bethel 65
Worthington 36■
Bethel 64
Luther 44
Bethel 50
Benthany 40
Bethel 38
Austin 32
Bethel 29
Rochester 32
Bethel 75
Luther 53
Bethel 41
Sioux 54
Bethel 41
Tracy 42
Bethel 55
Tracy 54
Ken Greenman leads the Indians
in scoring with 166 points, and
Wayne Peterson is a close second
with 139 points. The next 4 high-est
are Sandberg, 112 points;
Eklof, 64 points; Porcella, 53
points; and Nelson, 50 points.
These statistics do not include the
game with Waldorf.
Arrangements have been made
for a game with Northwestern Fri-day
night, February 20th.
Super Party Features
Mantzke-Nelson Team
Radio Quiz Program
On Friday the 13th, the Clarion
and Spire staffs combined to spon-sor
the first all-school Super Party
of the year. Party games, a radio-skit,
and a birthday specialty lunch
crowded the evening with laughter
and enjoyment for nearly 200 stud-ents
and faculty. The "Miss Tyst"
identity contest, finally won by Art
Bergeson, lent an air of mystery
to all activities.
Group games led by Bob Nelson
were held in the gym for the first
forty-five minute period of the
evening. The group then moved to
the autitorium where a radio pro-gram
over station KJCE took place.
Bob Mantzke and Nelson directed
a quizz period in which contestents
won coupons redeemable for mer-chandise
in the Coffee Shop.
"Orchestra" music was provided by
maestro Marwin Lindstedt with the
aid of phonograph records. Marilyn
Fredrickson and Mantzke supplied
several vocals in the same manner.
George and Martha Washington
(Jim Rhenberg and Doris Turn-wall)
served as host and hostess
during the lunch hour in the din-ing
hall. Pat Calbom gave a read-ing
of a radio program. "Miss
Tyst" was identified as Mrs. Harold
(Evelyn) Christenson for which an
$8.75 Parker Pen was awarded
through the courtesy of Falcon
Heights Pharmacy.
I-M League Goes
Into 2nd Round
Intra-mural Besketball Standings
at the end of the first round, Feb-ruary
Team Wan Lost
#6 Unknowns 7 0
#7 Goldbricks 6 1
#4 Grubbers 5 2'
#5 Angels 3 .4
#1 Red Rebels 2 5
#3 Whiz-Kids 2 5
#2 Coldshost 2 5
#8 Undertakers 1 6
With the opening of the second
round last Friday, play became
plainly faster and more furious. In
the first game of the day, the
Angels, led by Bob Daley, came
from behind and e4ed out a 26-24
overtime victory over the up-and-coming
Red Rebels. Bud Johnson
played good ball for the Rebels
racking up 9 points.
In the second game, the Un-knowns
made it eight straight wins
by trouncing the Coldshots 40-16 in
a one-sided game. Nels Nelson cap-tured
top scoring honors for the
winners, sinking six field goals and
one free throw to total 13 points.
The third game was another
thriller as the Engstrom-less Gold-bricks
went down to their second
defeat of the year, being nosed
out 32-30 by the Whiz-Kids. Ev
Johnson was the star of the Wiz-
Kids as he scored 15 points, and
won the game with a basket in the
last three seconds.
The final games saw the Under-takers
finally come through with
their first regular win of the sea-son
in defeating the Grubbers 22-14.
Dave Osterberg paced the victors
with eleven points.
Top Church Loop
League Standings
Won Lost
Central 5 1
Bethel 5 1
Bethlehem 4 1
Bethany 4 2
Payne Avenue 2 4
Bethlehem Chp. 1 3
Elim 1 4
Minnehaha 0 6
The Twin City Baptist Church
League moved to a close with
four games played at Wesley Tem-ple
last Saturday evening. Bethel
scored an overwhelming victory
over the Bethlehem team 58 to 16,
to climb into a first place tie with
Central. Other scores were: Cen-tral
28, Bethlehem Chapel 21; Beth-any
31, Payne Avenue 26; Elim 23,
Minnehaha 11.
The final round of league play
is scheduled for Wesley Temple on
Saturday evening, Feb. 28th. In the
first game at 6:45 p.m. Bethel will
play Payne Avenue; Bethany and
Elim play the second game; in the
third game Minnehaha will try to
top Bethlehem Chapel for their
first win;
Eklof Leads Team
With 18 Points
The Indians eked out a 55 to 54
triumph over Tracy Junior College
in a conference game played at
Bethel last Saturday evening. This
important win enabled Bethel to
remain in first place in the league,
and it avenged a previous 42 to 41
defeat in a game played at Tracy.
Playing sensational ball, Ed
Eklof dropped in six buckets and
six free throws to lead the scoring
with 18 points. Greenman followed
with 12 points. Hatch and Ford
starred for Tracy, scoring 17 and 15
points respectively.
This was one of the most ex-citing
games of the season, and one
of the roughest, as evidenced by
the total of 42 fouls called. The
game followed the pattern of the
first meeting of these teams on the
previous Monday in that Bethel
held a 3 point lead with bu,t a
minute and half to play. From this
point on the play was exceptionally
wild with two Tracy players foul-ing
out. The fans alternately moan-ed
and cheered as the Indians des-partely
stalled the precious seconds
away, and the Tracy team just as
desperately fought to narrow the
margin to one point, only to have
several game-winning shots roll off
the rim. This time it was Bethel's
rite, and they gained a thrilling
one point victory.
In the preliminary game the "B"
Team trounced the Bethlehem
Baptist by a 54 to 37 score. Roy
Johnson and Waage led the scoring
with 19 and 15 points respectively.
Benson, who played for Coach Ed-words
last year, scored 15 points
for Bethlehem.
Peterson I 5 0 2 10
Sandberg f 0 4 1 4
Nelson f 1 2 3 4
Porcella c 1 1 3 3
Eklof c 6 6 2 18
Greenman g 6 0 0 12
Dischinger g 1 2 5 4
Rentz g 0 0 0 0
Totals 20 15 16 55
Olson f 4 5 5 13
Hanson f 0 0 3 0
Nackerud f 2 1 5 5
Wettestad f 0 0 2 0
Hess c 1 2 5 4
Ford g 6 3 2 15
Hatch g 8 1 4 17
Cook g 0 0 0 0
Totals 21 12 26 54
Peterson f 0 1 2 1
Waage f 6 3 0 15
Sims f 1 0 1 2
3 hnson c 1 5 3 7
Olson g 3 1 5 7
Vance g 0 0 0 0
Dickenson g 0 0 5 0
Anderson g 0 0 0 0
Skoog g 1 1 1 3
Johnson g 9 1 1 19
Totals 21 12 18 64
Benson f 6 3 3 15
Peterson f 0 0 0 0
Johnson f 1 1 0 3
Nelson c 3 1 5 7
Wessman g 0 0 3 0
Nyquist g 1 2 4 4
Adolphson g 3 2 1 8
Dahlquist g 0 0 0 0
Totals 14 9 16 37
Indians Edge Tracy in Thriller 55-54
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goal. We are counting on "dime
week" to put us back on sched-ule.
Right now we are $200
behind. Will you do your part?
When you get a dime, put it
in one of the jars in the coffee
shop, main hall, or any of the
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Page 4 THE CLARION
Sem Classes Gospel Team Regulations Stated
Explain Plans
The Seminary Senior Class met
last Thursday. The main topic of
discussion was the choice of the
class gift to the school. Definite
plans have been made but are not
yet ready to be revealed.
Garnet Jenkins, President of the
Class, will complete his studies at
the end of this quarter, but will
return in May for graduation. Del-bert
Kuehl will be acting president
during his absence.
Tuesday, May 4, has been set by
the Middlemen as the date of the
Seminary banquet. Dr. Karlson has
consented to be the main speaker
with "That I May Knok Him" as
the theme. This annual affair will
be held this year at Lee's High-land
Village in St. Paul. Final
arrangements are being made by
committees of the Junior and the
Middlemen classes of the Semin
At a meeting of the Seminary
Junior Class last Thursday, Allen
Johnson President, appointed two
committees to work on the Sem-inary
Banquet. They are: Decora-tors,
Arlene Peterson, Chairman;
and Program, Dorothy Nelson,
Tape Recorder Purchased
By Speech Department
A new addition to augment the
speech department of our school
has been made with the purchase
of a new recorder. The recorder,
which is of the newest soundmirror
type, employs a magnetic principle
to reproduce sound waves on a
metallicized tape.
Each reel of tape is capable of
recording a full half-hour program.
If a permanent recording is not
needed, the tape can be "erased"
by merely runing it _through the
process of making a new recording.
Besides being able to use each
real of tape an unlimited number
of times, it can also be spliced to
remove or add special portions of
recorded material.
Take Debate Honors
Denver, Colorado, now knows of
the debating prowess of two Bethel
students, Lee Kingsley and Harold
Christenson. These two students
won all of their debates in the
speech and debate meet held in
Denver, February 13 and 14. King-sley
placed first of forty in one
contest while Christenson placed
fifth in still another contest. King-sley
and Christenson were ac-compied
on their trip by Mr. Sam-uel
Schultz, their advisor. All
three men - held meetings in
churches while there.
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—Where Students and Faculty
Meet Around the Coffee Cup
Morning, afternoon and evening
The following recently-altered re-gulations
governing out-of-town
trips by Gospel team groups were
printed by request of the Religious
Council. These regulations were
approved, as amended, by the
Policy committee last week.
1. Students are allowed two late
leaves per quarter for Gospel Team
participation in addition to their
regular stated weekly late leave.
Eighty mile limit for Sunday even-ing
2. Maximum of six trips in any
one quarter for any one team.
3. All such excursions are to be
chaperoned and programs approved
Hagstrom Residence -
Goal of Many Couples ;
All by 1958, Perhaps
With rumors flying concerning
new occupants of the 'married coup-les
dormitory next year, it became
necessary that the Clarion should
divulge the facts relating to the
Yes, it is true that there are a
few names of unmarried and un-engaged
male Bethelites on the
list of couples waiting to move
into Hagstrom Hall. And, it is
true that one of these unmarried,
unengaged males is at the begin-ning
of the list, but we also find
that moving either in or out is now
at a standstill.
It is a requirement that residents
have only one child of pre-school
age. There are thirty-three apart-ments
in all, and all are occupied
at present which doesn't look very
encouraging to the 70 people on
the waiting list. However, the
names are taken in the order of
their application and if the present
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one week in advance by advisor
and Vice-president in charge of
Gospel Teams.
4. Only "C" average students
shall be permitted to go. (Check
for o.k. in dean's office.)
5. The Vice president in charge
of Gospel Teams is responsible for
planning the programs that are to
be presented.
6. No trips are to be planned for
the Sunday previous to examination
7. All overnight stops must have
Policy Committee approval.
8. Any other trips are to be acted
upon by the Policy Committee.
Mr. Sedard Speaks
To French Club
The French Club held its second
regular meeting in Edgren Hall
Tuesday night, February 10. Main
feature of the program was a
motion picture depicting a trip
through Belgium, France, Switzer-land,
and Denmark. Mr. Sedard, of
the Sedard World Travel Agency,
was present and explained the
pictures as they were shown.
The question of affiliation with
the I. S. S., a world wide organizat-ion
of foreign language clubs was
brought up for discussion and ap-proved.
It was also decided to do
something to help alleviate the
suffering in Europe by sending
some clothes to needy families.
The meeting closed with refresh-ments
and a time of fellowship.
residents decide not to take all
seven years at Bethel, everyone on•
the list may be included by 1958.
Commers' Fashion
Ladies and Childrens Ready
to Wear
Open until 9 Mon. and Thurs.
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New Book Notices
Some of the new books added to
the library this week:
Beaumont, Francis: Selected
Borg, Dorothy: American Policy
and the Chinese Revolution
Breasted, James: Ancient Rec-ords
of Egypt
Cooper, Herbert: Scientific In-struments
Ferm, Vergilius: Religion in the
TWentieth Century
Havighurst, Walter: Upper Mis-sissippi,
A Wilderness Saga
Mander, A. E.: Logic for Millions
Marlowe, Christopher: Plays
Munoz, Frank: Microscope and Its
Powell, Chilton: English Domes-tic
Relations 1487-1653
Radcliffe, Ann : Mysteries of
Singmaster, Elsie: I Speak for
Thaddeous Stevens
Smith, T. Lynn: Sociology of
Rural Life (rev. ed.)
Speiser, Ephraim: United States
and the Near East
Stern e, Lawrence: Tristram
Strausbaugh, Perry: General Bi-ology
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Sweet, William: Story of Re-ligion
in America
Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays
Yearbook of the United Nations
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FBI Continues To Foil Its Own Devised Terrorist Plots
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This whole game of pretend law enforcement showed up at my doorstep this weekend, when the FBI announced yet another arrest of a potential terrorist, this time an 18 year old suburbanite whom the FBI (you guessed it) encouraged to try to bomb a downtown bar in Chicago.
Adel Daoud, 18, was arrested following a months-long FBI undercover investigation. He was taken into custody after he parked a Jeep Cherokee in front of the bar Friday night and walked into a nearby alley where he tried to detonate the device, court documents allege.Oddly, the article notes that Daoud allegedly gave the FBI more than two dozen high profile Chicago targets to 'splode, but decided eventually on this unnamed bar instead, perhaps because they had, like, totally taken his fake ID that one time. Actually, I just made that up because I can't think of a single reason why a supposed terrorist would settle on a drinkery as their target.
The bomb, which was inert and had been constructed by FBI technicians, didn't explode, according to federal authorities.
Now, it is true that Daoud professed his wish to participate in jihad. It is true that he attempted to set off this pseudo bomb. He does indeed sound like a disturbed kid that needs to be dealt with in some fashion. But would he have participated in any of this without the urging of the FBI?
Perhaps more importantly, is foiling their own plots the best use of law enforcement in Chicago, a city that appears to be engaged in a concerted effort to have the most murders ever in a calendar year?


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Care, General Care Projects in Togo by Anna Sutton
As I sit here in my cold bedroom in the South of England, thinking about Togo, it's hard to know where to start when talking about my time there, but I do know that I would love to be back right now. After having gone on a 3 week trip to Ghana with my school a few years back, I knew I wanted to go to West Africa again. This time I wanted to go for longer and to somewhere where I could practice my French! So I booked my trip for 5 weeks starting in July after my A-Levels to work on a Care Project- which was a nice change from the studying I had been doing for my exams, but as I found out, no less hard!
Before I went I got lots of information about my host family and my project with so many contact numbers for people if I ever needed help whilst there- very consoling for me and of course for my worrying parents!
Arrival and my host family
When I arrived I was greeted by one of the smiley Projects Abroad staff at the airport who took me to my host family. Obviously I was nervous to meet them as I would be living in their house for five weeks, but there was no need for nerves, they were some of the loveliest, most caring and funniest people I have ever met.
The family made sure I took in all aspects of Togolese culture making sure I got my braids done, teaching me their card games and involving me in family parties. They even excused my very ropey French.
I remember once when Maman was asking me whether I wanted a husband (mari), I thought she was asking whether I wanted more rice, ('du riz') I just kept saying, "No, no thank you, I've had enough!!"
The time I spent with them gave me the best opportunity to improve my French as we would chat every night at dinner much more useful than my A-level conversational classes! All of the family went out of their way to make sure that I was happy and safe (and always well fed!).
Work at the orphanage
The work in the orphanage 'Maison Bethanie' was such hard work, but as I said before, I want to go back now as I loved my placement. The orphanage had about forty children from babies to a 21 year old. Before I went I think I just expected a few cute toddlers but having the age range made the experience so much more interesting.
I now consider the older kids, many of whom were the same age as me (17) to be good friends of mine now. Unlike the younger kids who swarm you from the moment you arrive, the older ones take some time to warm to you, but after a while we built up a really good relationship.
I taught English to the older ones as well we set up classes in the morning because they were on school holidays and we needed something to do with them every day! We learnt lots of verbs by playing games and phrases like "I'm hungry" which spread around the orphanage very fast. The little ones were saying it in no time! I hope they did learn something from me but I learnt so much from them. Their hard work in the garden, in the house and in their school work was inspirational.
Aside from the English teaching, we also took everyone on trips to the beach, played games with them, and arranged different activities, as well as trying to just help out in the day to day happenings of the orphanage.
There was always a baby who needed their bottle, a crying 6 year old to look after or chores to be done. We were there from 8am till 5pm each day but had a break in the middle when the kids slept. I miss everyone at the orphanage and with thanks to Facebook have been able to keep in touch!
Weekend Trips
At the weekends we had time for sightseeing with some of the other volunteers at Projects Abroad to Benin, Togoville and a bit more of the North East. I saw crocodiles, climbed a mountain, visited a waterfall, went to slave forts, saw the slave route, museums, a deserted chateaux and sacred forests, had a ride across a huge lake in a traditional boat, rode a horse and had a python round my neck intentionally!
There are so many things to explore in Togo and with cheap transport, the weekends were really the perfect time to do that and make friends with volunteers like me from all over the world.
Other memories
On the subject of transport, that is one of the things I really miss about Togo. Riding on the back of a motorbike makes you feel very cool and people shout out "Yovo" to you.
My orphanage was about a 20 minute bike ride away which to begin with I thought was quite a lot but after a while I started to savour the time to myself before and after a long day of work. Plus by moto driver was always really kind and would pick me up later in the evening if we had been out late with other volunteers.
I have so many happy memories from Togo, from when the orphanage threw me a party on my last day to having to say an English dictée with a French/African accent so the kids could understand. I obviously missed my family whilst I was away but especially in the last week I realise that I really didn't want to be leaving so soon.
I think I probably annoy my friends and family at home with how much I talk about my time in Togo, but it has really shaped the way I think about life. It has also helped me in my studies (French and International Development) and made me very certain that I will return there in the very near future.
Projects Abroad was one of the only companies which would allow me as a 17 year old at the time to travel there by myself and work where I wanted to. I am so happy I chose Projects Abroad and so happy to have had the experience.
Anna Sutton
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(CNN) -- There are more Hispanics in the U.S. than Spaniards in Spain.
By nominating Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Barack Obama has shored up Hispanic support.
That fact underscores some smart politics by President Barack Obama this week, who nominated a Hispanic judge to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Hispanics are the largest and fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States: approximately 45 million people, who make up 15 percent of the population. Spain has a population of about 41 million.
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Like all nominees, she'll have to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Republican activists regard her judicial rulings as too left wing and want their senators to fight her nomination. They're ready to broadcast critical television ads, rally voters and try to build a national consensus against her.
But Republican lawmakers are the minority in the Senate, some are ready to support her and even those who oppose her don't have the numbers to defeat her nomination.
And, of course, Republicans want to win elections. They know that alienating Hispanics won't help.
If Sotomayor gets the job, Obama gets the credit and if she doesn't, Republicans get the blame. It's smart politics either way.


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TRIAD Program
What is TRIAD?
A Triad consists of a partnership which involves
- Senior Citizens
- Law Enforcement (Sheriffs / Police / District Attorney)
- Support / Protective Services (Council on Aging / Clergy / Visiting Nurses, etc.)
Who agree to work together. Their primary goals are to reduce the criminal victimization of older citizens and enhance the delivery of law enforcement services to this population. Triad provides the opportunity for an exchange of information between law enforcement, support services, and senior citizens. It focuses on reducing unwarranted fear of crime and improving the quality of life for seniors. A Triad is tailored to meet the needs of each community and is guided by a S.A.L.T. council (Seniors and Law Enforcement Together). Triad is an integral part of community policing.
Why is TRIAD necessary?
Older Americans comprise the most rapidly growing segment of the population. One in every eight Americans is already age 65 or older, a total of more than 33.6 million. Increased life expectancy is leading to new issues and problems for the criminal justice system as most communities experience a dramatic increase in the number of older persons. Calls for service, crimes, victims—all are changing.
What can TRIAD do?
A Triad assesses the needs of each community. Areas with serious crime problems may focus on crime prevention and victim assistance. Where older persons are not often targets of crime, the S.A.L.T. council may decide to concentrate on reassurance programs, training for law enforcement, and involving volunteers within the law enforcement agencies.
The S.A.L.T. council plans activities and programs to involve and benefit both law enforcement and seniors. Triad sponsored activities include:
Information for older persons on:
- How to avoid criminal victimization
- Increased involvement in Neighborhood Watch
- Home Security information and inspections
- Knowledge of current frauds and scams
- Coping with telephone solicitations and door-to-door salesmen
- Elder abuse prevention, recognition and reporting
- Training for deputies and officers in communicating with and assisting
older persons
- Telephone reassurance programs for older citizens (Are you O.K.)
- Friendly Visitor programs for shut-ins
Intergenerational projects beneficial to seniors and youth
Emergency preparedness plans by and for seniors
911 flash light
Victim assistance by and for seniors
Safe shopping days
File of Life (Emergency Medical information cards)
Mature volunteers within law enforcement agencies
Speakers bureau available to the community
Is your number up (House Numbering)
For more information on TRIAD, contact
Major Donald Rose @ 508-627-5173


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A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, and serves as recognition or evidence of merit. Trophies are often awarded for sporting events, from youth sports to professional level athletics. Originally the word trophy, derived from the Greek tropaion, referred to arms, standards, other property, or human captives and body parts (e.g., headhunting) captured in battle. These war trophies commemorated the military victories of a state, army or individual combatant.
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Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-I-C-Lewiston, joined his Republican Assembly colleagues Wednesday at the State Capitol to advocate for legislation that would establish "recall" to help clean up Albany by removing unfit and corrupt elected officials from office.
"Recall would give New Yorkers a louder voice in state government, while affording them greater control over the people they send to Albany," Ceretto said. "Recall puts elected officials on notice that they can be fired at any time, and gives citizens greater power over their elected officials."
Ceretto noted the legislation (A.6161) would foster greater participatory democracy in New York state by allowing citizens to circulate petitions and gather signatures, which would then be submitted to the secretary of state for certification. Once certified, the governor would call for a recall vote of that public official within a specific time frame.
"Albany has long been known as one of the most dysfunctional state capitals in the nation - a place known for its backroom deals, powerful special interest groups and corruption scandals," Ceretto said. "This culture has eroded the legislature's ability to tackle the state's serious problems, like our sky-high taxes and woeful employment prospects. To clean up Albany and reform the government, lawmakers must change the power dynamic in Albany. The best way to do that is by empowering New Yorkers through recall."


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Bill Murray's 10 Most Bill Murray-est Moments on TV and Film
Three decades ago this month, one of the all-time great film comedies was unleashed when 'Ghostbusters' debuted in theaters across America. It doesn't matter that our young minds didn't understand all of Bill Murray's cracks, because, as everyone agrees, Bill Murray is just plain funny. In good movies, in bad movies, in serious ones and strange ones, he can't help being funny.
Forget just the films he's starred in. He can steal an entire movie in a four-minute cameo. If Murray is in a movie or on a talk show or hosting a music festival or getting an award somewhere, it's always worth watching. On the 30th anniversary of Murray's most iconic role as Dr. Peter Venkman, we're celebrating this brilliant performer with 10 of his best moments on TV and in film.
'Ghostbusters'"Cats and dogs living together – mass hysteria!"
Every single line that comes out of Murray's mouth in 'Ghostbusters' is a gem -- a testament to both the script and his talents as an actor and improviser. Any of his scenes could have made this list, but our favorite has always been the bit in the mayor's office. "Yes, it's true: This man has no dick" is funny, but it's even better when followed by Venkman's explanation ("Well, that's what I heard!") yelled in the cadence of an eight-year-old making excuses on the school playground. Even when he's standing in the background, he's funny -- wearing that beautiful, all-knowing Bill Murray smirk before he convinces "Lenny" to save the lives of millions of registered voters.
'Saturday Night Live'"I am such a huge fan … of your father."
Murray's 'Saturday Night Live' character Nick the Lounge Singer doing 'Stairway' and 'Shaft' and 'Star Wars' are classics. No doubt about it. But one of the best and overlooked is Nick's triumphant return to lounge singing in the cold open for 'SNL''s 25th anniversary special in 2000. Murray is arguably funnier here than in any classic Nick sketch, whether he's warbling 'Me and Mrs. Zeta-Jones,' making tasteless Native American jokes or getting in a Chico Escuela reference with Garrett Morris. His aside to Drew Barrymore is beyond priceless.
'Groundhog Day'"Ned, I would love to stand here and talk with you, but I'm not going to."
OK, this is a bit of a cheat, but how can you resist a compilation of all the Phil Connors/Ned Ryerson scenes from 'Groundhog Day'? The clip could be subtitled "the many moods of Murray" because we see annoyed Bill, scared Bill, angry Bill and facetiously loving Bill. Doesn't matter which Bill you get. Whether he's sneaking in sarcastic responses to Ned, gripping him in a tight embrace or punching his lights out, Murray is funny in every version of the interaction. Just watch out for that first step ...
'Lost in Translation'"I don't get that close to the glass until I'm on the floor."
Murray's never given a more soulful performance than his one as Bob Harris, the American movie star who's making ads in Tokyo when he "could be doing a play somewhere." And still, his sad-eyed portrayal of Bob still makes room for Bill Murray to be Bill Murray (on Japanese TV, with an aggressive hooker or in a hospital waiting room). The funniest moment is Harris' interaction with a photographer who wants him to mimic the personas of the Rat Pack for an ad shoot. Harris, somewhat embarrassed, manages to ham it up: "Ring-a-ding-ding." "That's more Dino." "Joey Bishop, would you like?" He can't help but be a performer.
'Caddyshack'"So I've got that going for me, which is nice."
'Caddyshack' is not Murray's funniest movie, but his role as Carl Spackler is undeniably one of his most famous and endlessly imitated. And the reason for that is all Murray. Spackler was intended to be a small character, but became a major one because of the funny lines Murray kept improvising during his six (yes, only six) days onset. Fans all have their favorite scenes, but we've always loved the Dalai Lama story because it has the juice of an improv sketch. You can tell he's making it up as he's going along, and yet you know you're in more-than-capable hands because it's Bill Murray. There's the slushy speech impediment, that great Midwestern accent (he pronounces "Lama" like Alabama) and all these little touches ("big hitter, the Lama") that turn nothing into something. Then there's the capper, said with the total confidence of someone who is completely crazy.
David Letterman"He's a ginger Hoosier, folks."
Murray was the first guest on 'Late Night With David Letterman' in 1982, he was the first guest on 'The Late Show With David Letterman' in 1993 and, if we were a betting man, I'd guess that he'll be Dave's last guest when he retires in 2015. Among the many losses that Letterman's departure will bring are Murray's regular appearances on his shows – always event viewing. Over the years, Murray has dressed as Peter Pan, the Unabomber and a jockey. He's gone swimming in dumpsters, played football with Regis and beaten up hecklers (it was staged, but still funny). And then there's this appearance in 2013, in which Murray marked the 20th anniversary of 'The Late Show' by dressing up as Liberace, taking an ax to the set to find a time capsule and sang 'I Will Always Love You' to Letterman, who was equally tickled and honored by the ridiculous act. Somewhere amid all of that, we even got to see vintage footage of die-hard Cubs fan Murray being sly with legendary announced Harry Caray. Let's hope Murray stops by a few more times before Letterman hangs it up.
'Rushmore'"I'm a little bit lonely these days."
This list would be incomplete without a clip from a movie directed by Wes Anderson, who has become a kindred creative spirit for Murray. It's also been a mutually beneficial relationship. Anderson brought extra attention to Murray's dramatic skills by casting him in 1998's 'Rushmore,' and the actor has enlivened every one of the director's subsequent flicks. The elevator ride to the depths of Herman Blume's despair is perfectly calibrated Murray – the sparkle of his comedy buried in an understated, deadpan performance. When asked who gave him the shiner, he responds, "Either Ronnie or Donnie. I can't tell the difference anymore" with a malaise that belies that he's speaking about his sons. His actions enhance the weariness: He pours a tiny liquor bottle into a soda can, hides the liquor bottle in a towel cart, drinks from the can, hides the can, then lights up a cigarette while he's halfway through the one dangling from his lips. After all that, the naive and proper Max Fischer still has to ask "Are you OK?" The dark humor of this question is amplified by Blume's response. "Mmm," he thinks about it for a second, "I'm a little bit lonely these days."
'Little Shop of Horrors'"It's your professionalism that I respect!"
Sadistic dentist Steve Martin meets his match in masochistic patient Murray, who skips into the dentist's office like he's Lou Costello. In his small screen time, Murray makes a big impression, making wild eyes at the grotesque dentist tools, screaming "Caaaandy Baaaaar!" as the work gets done and clawing Martin's back as his tooth is finally penetrated by the drill. The childlike enthusiasm that Murray's character displays for this peculiar sexual fetish only makes the patient stranger and the scene even better.
'Zombieland'"Garfield, maybe."
Within the realm of great Bill Murray cameos, there is a sub-realm of movies in which Murray makes a cameo as himself. He joins the Tune Squad in 'Space Jam.' He's found waiting tables by members of the Wu-Tang Clan in 'Coffee and Cigarettes.' And, in the apex of cameos, we find out that one of the last six people left in the world is Bill F---ing Murray in 'Zombieland.' Of course, his appearance is short-lived because the guy who created Facebook shoots him in the chest, resulting in a great death scene. Little Miss Sunshine asks if he has any regrets and Murray deadpans, "Garfield, maybe," And then Murray lets out the longest death gasp in film history, pausing in the middle to take a breath and crack up Gwen Stacy. Murray got a Scream Award for this, but why not an Oscar? Judi Dench won for 'Shakespeare in Love' and was onscreen for the same amount of time.
Golden Globes"There's so many people trying to take credit for this, I wouldn't know where to begin."
We wish Murray would win more awards, just because his appearances on live TV are always dynamite. His quick tribute to Harold Ramis at this year's Oscars was particularly Murray-esque (sly but heartfelt) as was his acceptance speech at the 2010 Scream Awards (delivered in a Venkman jumpsuit). But the speech that looms large in our memory came when Murray picked up a Golden Globe for his part in 'Lost in Translation.' He cracked wise about the boring people that actors often thanked ("my physical trainer killed himself"), joked about the Hollywood folks jumping on the bandwagon of a successful film, offered a meaningful tribute to his family, skewered Wes Anderson ("I'm away right now on a death ship called 'The Life Aquatic') and finally mocked the Globes' silly separation of comedies and dramas with his sledgehammer wit. That's another Oscar he should have won (for real this time), just so we could have heard what he would have said.


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Wikula » WPARoaming
wpa-roaming is a method with which you can browse and connect to wireless networks within and without a graphical desktop environment. This is very convenient for notebook users. Some Linux users might know network-manager from other distributions which looks great but has some caveats:
- it only can be used in a GUI environment
- it has a daemon running
- it is sometimes very unreliable
wpasupplicant is a program to not only address wireless networks with WPA keys but all wireless networks. In combination with the "classic" /etc/network/interfaces it is a very powerful method to connect to networks without even doing anything. It does it automatically if a network is open or the network is added to a configuration file. Even more convenient: if you allow hotplugging, the correct connection is set fully automated right after logging in (into a desktop environment or into a non X session).
To be able to use wpa-roaming with wpasupplicant in a GUI environment you have to have two packages installed:
- wpasupplicant
- wpagui
apt-get update && apt-get install wpasupplicant wpagui
wpasupplicant is mandatory, wpagui is a very convenient addition for GUI controlled networking in environments in which you want to change your access point.
An excellent theoretical introduction and very elaborate setups for /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf you find in our aptosid manual∞, this wiki entrance strives to present the practical part: how is wpa-roaming set up and how is it used with wpa_gui.
Have also a look into:
Using wpa-gui without network configuration
As root adapt your /etc/network/interfaces so that it contains those lines. the name of the interface might vary:
allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf iface default inet dhcp
As root you also edit a raw /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ key_mgmt=NONE }
This setup connects automatically to any available open WLAN.
If you do not want to be automatically connected, add the option "disabled=1". You then can decide on your own when you want to be connected to an open WLAN by using wpagui:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ key_mgmt=NONE disabled=1 }
The next step secures wpa_supplicant.conf from unwanted access. This is necessary, because secret keys of private networks are saved in this file:
chmod 600 /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
Running it
- Make sure, you are member of the group netdev (1)
- Restart the network or reboot (2)
(1) default for the user who is set up during the installation of sidux
(2) Stop any running network with
ifdown <interface>
(3) Initiate roaming for the first time with
ifup wlan0
Starting wpa_gui
This starts the wpa_gui as user (you need the full path!):
This is the default screen (forget the data in it, I have a very custom setup):
This is the interface for managing networks:
To add a known network just click "add" and you will get this interface with pulldown menus (supports no encryption, WEP, WPA - just add the correct data) and hit "add" here as well:
Or more easily, just hit "scan" to scan the network
and doubleclick on the network you want to add the desired network (all data is automatically added, you just need the passphrase - plain or in hex) and hit "add":
If you are happy and everything is working, you can add the settings to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf by choosing "File > Save Configuration".
Using wpa-gui with network configuration
With the help of "IDString" and "Priority" you can direct to which network the box is connected at boot time. Highest priority is "1000", lowest priority is "0". You have to add the IDString to /etc/network/interfaces as well.
Here now the syntax for /etc/network/interfaces. First for connection to DHCP servers, the second if you are provided with a fix IP address. Adjust to your settings:
# id_str="home_dhcp" iface home_dhcp inet dhcp # id_str="home_static" iface home_static inet static address 192.168.0.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1
Here an example how I use it. I want to be automatically connected to my home WLAN when I am at home, so I gave that the IDString "home" and priority "15". When I am travelling, I want the laptop to connect to any free, non passworded network which is available. I gave it the IDString "stalk" and priority "1" (very low). But please, always check if your connection is legal and disconnect if it is obviously not intended to be free.
So, here my stanzas in /etc/network/interfaces:
# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo iface lo inet loopback allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf iface home inet dhcp iface stalk inet dhcp
And here my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf (SSID and passwords are changed or just explained):
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ ssid="my_ssid" scan_ssid=1 psk=123ABC ##here comes the passphrase in hexadecimal code!! # psk="password_in_ascii" ##I do not use that key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=TKIP group=TKIP auth_alg=OPEN priority=15 id_str="home" } network={ ssid="" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=NONE auth_alg=OPEN priority=1 disabled=1 ## no automatic connection, one needs wpa_cli or wpa_gui id_str="stalk" }
With "disabled=1" you will not be automatically connected to a defined network block (here: open WLANs), you have to initiate roaming through wpa_gui or wpa_cli. For automatic roaming don't use that option at all or comment the line with the "disabled" option using a #.
WEP encryption
If you want to add WEP encrypted networks to your wpa_supplicant.conf permanently, the syntax is:
network={ ssid="example wep network" key_mgmt=NONE wep_key0="abcde" wep_key1=0102030405 wep_tx_keyidx=0
1. Easy to reuse
Once set up, you can easily reuse your setup on other laptops or desktops with WLAN cards. Just copy /etc/network/interfaces (adjust the name of the interface if needed) and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf to your new box. There is no need of "installing" anything after that. It is "wash & go" (TM).
2. Backup
It is good to backup /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, but encrypt your backup because it contains sensitive information. An easy way is a password protected archive like 7zip, zip, rar or others.
3. Desktop button
To create a desktop icon, rightclick on kmenu>internet>wpa_gui and choose to send it to the desktop.
4. Hidden SSIDs
Hidden SSIDs are detected when "scan_ssid=1" is defined in the network block.
5. Authentification algorithms
For WPA/WPA2 encryption you need
For static WEP encryption you might need
That's about it, have fun, it is really great.


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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928 / Dorchester / England)
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SEC Still Way Behind The Times In Dealing With The Way People Communicate
from the broken-regulations dept
We're seeing something of a repeat of the episode a little more than six years later, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote on his Facebook account the news that Netflix users were watching "nearly a billion hours per month." The SEC decided that this might be material information that Hastings had dangerously shared in a new-fangled manner and this might violate RegFD. Amusingly, Hastings told the world about this... via Facebook.
SEC staff informed us yesterday that they are recommending that the SEC bring a civil action against us for my July 1 billion hour public post, asserting we violated "Reg FD". This rule is designed to ensure that individual investors have equal access to information as large institutional investors, by prohibiting selective disclosure of material information. The SEC staff believes that I gave you all "material" investor information in my post and that we needed to instead release the June viewing fact "publicly" with an 8-K filing or press release.Hastings points out that the whole thing is stupid. The Facebook postings are public and viewable by anyone with a Facebook account, and he already has 200,000 subscribers to his updates. Furthermore, he pointed out that the announcement itself had nothing to do with "material" information for investors, it was just cool news -- which had been blogged about a few weeks earlier anyway.
Hastings finds the whole thing so ridiculous (and it is) that he's promised to keep posting news to Facebook even as the SEC continues its "investigation." As he points out, the whole thing is more about SEC red tape than any reasonable regulation:
"Reg FD was about protecting me from telling Carl Icahn something special, the big investor, that not everyone else got," Hastings said. "This was me talking to 200,000 Facebook followers; it is letting the small guy in on the information."It would be nice if our various regulatory institutions didn't react to any new technology by automatically dumping it into the "must be evil / most be stifled" category.


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I have designed a circuit board with a LORA antenna 868Mhz (with pi filter and 50ohm) and an integrated trace antennas on the PCB, designed per manufacturer design recommendations with pads for a "PI" filter for impedance matching the antennas to 50ohm impedance.
I'm looking for a RF engineer who can select components (capacitors and inductors) for the PI filter and test the circuit boards with the proper equipment, a network analyzer.
Please only bid if you have the correct equipment and experience with this type of antenna tuning / impedance matching. Thank you.
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Hartsville, S.C. – Coker College head men's and women's tennis coach Alvin Cheng is pleased to announce the signing of Faith Baxley to a National Letter of Intent to play tennis for the Lady Cobras tennis team during the early signing period.
Baxley is a native of Mullins, S.C., where she is a standout player at Pee Dee Academy. An All-Region selection, Baxley had a singles record of 22-3 during her senior season and was 18-1 in doubles play.
"I am very excited to have Faith join the women's team," said Cheng. "She is going to be a great addition to Coker next season and I cannot wait to see what the future will bring for her."
The Coker men's and women's tennis teams will begin their 2010 spring season on Feb. 2, when they take on cross-town rival Francis Marion in their first match of the season.


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Lucky to call him 'Dad'
I count myself very lucky to have been raised by wonderful parents. I am especially fortunate to still have my mom in my life, and am thankful for that blessing each day. However, this coming weekend marks the day we celebrate those special men in our lives, Father's Day.
I recall so many wonderful memories of my father over the years. He was a wonderful man with a very dry sense of humor. He enjoyed cooking on the grill and loved to enjoy times with family and friends. He taught me how to row a boat, catch a ball and ride a bike. He taught me how to bait a hook, shoot a gun and mow the lawn. As I got older, he always gave me flowers for my birthday. He would take me to lunch from time to time and share some time with just me. Being the only girl with three brothers, it was nice to have some dad and daughter time.
There was not a thing it seemed my dad couldn't do. He was always remodeling the house; of course, it wasn't until I grew up and had a home of my own that I truly understood that there is always something around the house that needs fixing or changing. I learned how to paint, drywall, and do general repairs from watching and helping him. I am certain that he could have gotten these tasks done much faster without my help, but he never complained (at least not to me).
We had a large garage that was filled with mini bikes, cars and bicycles. There was usually always something in need of repair, so I would follow him around sometimes and learn a thing or two. Luckily, my dad thought I needed to know how to change the oil and the tires, fill the fluids on the car and drive in reverse before driving forward! He loved to drive and made sure we all were very skilled drivers. I remember every year on our drive "up north" for the summer, awaiting my turn behind the wheel when he would let us sit on his lap and steer. I remember driving through the Smoky Mountains with my driver's permit, Mom a nervous wreck in the back seat and Dad telling me I could get a little closer to the edge because the view was so great! Mom didn't think that was very funny, but Dad and I just smiled.
I remember the day he told me that he had cancer. I was 16. When I was 17, he told Mom to tell my brothers and me that although he wanted to be there for Christmas, he didn't know if he would be. And Dad knew, because he passed away on the 15th of December. So close; he tried hard. I remember the color of the sky that day. I remember the snow falling from the sky that morning. I remember his last moments and I remember the drive home after he was gone. I remember thinking, "He won't see me graduate high school, go to college, or marry, or have children."
But today, I remember how lucky I am to have called him "Dad." He continues on in the laughter of my children and the silly traditions we carry on at holidays. Every time I go out fishing, play ball with my kids, paint a room or fix something, he is there. He is always with me, but I regret not having the wisdom all those years ago to ask so many questions. I wish I could do that now, but I can't. But today, I know he did see me graduate; he sees his grandchildren and he shares all those moments with me, because I carry him forward.
So, this Father's Day, I hope those of you fortunate enough to share your life today with your dad take time to share old memories and make new ones. And for those of you who are only able to reflect on your dad, I hope you make time each day to share him with others in your life and that your memories give you comfort, as they do me. My favorite quote is one written on a simple card that came with a rose my dad gave me on my 16th birthday. It simply read, "A single flower to reflect the single love I have for you."
Happy Father's Day to my father and to all of the men out there fortunate enough to be "Dad."
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An Encounter with The B-52's
Photos by G.
I love The B-52's! I met the group in New York on June 11, 2011 prior to their sold out show at Irving Plaza. Kate, Cindy, Keith and Fred were all super cool in spite of our encounter occurring at the tail end of a rain storm. Thanks B-52's!
Fred Schneider did not want to be photographed, but he was cool enough to sign my "Funplex" CD!
Thanks again to The B-52's for all the great music – past, present and future and for being so cool!


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Sunday 13th January
Man Utd v Liverpool 13:30
– Man Utd thrashed Wigan 0-4 at the DW stadium last week to maintain their advantage at the summit of the Premier League. Two braces from Robin van Persie and Javier Hernandez ensured all three points returned to Old Trafford in a fixture which underlined just how ruthless their rivals can expect them to be as they attempt to regain the league title. Read the full story


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Wednesday at Parkway North High School field in St. Louis.
For the first time in 20 years the St. James High School football team will play an 11th game in a season.
And the Tigers' reward for that achievement? The state's No. 2-ranked team as an opponent.
Fourth-seeded St. James (4-6) advances to the Missouri Class 3 District 2 semifinals tonight against top-seeded John Burroughs at 7 p.m. at Parkway North High School in St. Louis. John Burroughs would have hosted the game but couldn't because its field does not have lights.
In the other District 2 semifinal tonight Cardinal Ritter hosts Soldan.
Tonight's winners move on to the District 2 championship game at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 11.
John Burroughs made it to the 2012 Show-Me Bowl, finishing runner-up to Maryville in the Class 3 title game.
And the John Burroughs Bombers, ranked No. 2 in the final regular-season Class 2 state poll, enter tonight's contest perfect, with a 8-0 record after receiving a first-round district bye last week.
St. James head coach Greg Harlan has watched film on the Bombers and knows his squad has its hands full.
"It's a short week of practice but that's not necessarily a bad thing; there's not a lot of time to think about it," said Harlan, whose squad advanced by beating Bishop DuBourg 34-21 in first-round district action last week. "They don't do a lot of things we haven't seen; they just do them very well.
"I just hoping the strength of our schedule has prepared us for them. We've played Class 4 teams like Sullivan, who is 8-2, and Union, who finished 7-3. And Moberly, who has been state-ranked all year."
The Tigers will have to find a way to slow down John Burroughs' junior running back John Moten, who ranks among the St. Louis area leaders in scoring.
Moten has rushed for 1,264 yards (9.2 yards per carry) and has scored a total of 24 touchdowns.
Also, Bomber senior quarterback Nick Duncan has hit on 74-of-115 passes for 989 yards, two interceptions and 10 TDs. Duncan has also rushed for 280 yards and four touchdowns.
Duncan's favorite target has been senior wideout Jake Wood, who has 28 receptions for 259 yards. Also for the Bombers 6-5, 210-pound junior tight end Nathan Van Slyke has 18 catches for 219 yards and five TDs and Moten has caught 11 passes for 133 yards.
Defensively sophomore linebacker Thomas Bolstad leads the Bombers with 62 tackles while senior defensive back Henry Rogers has 61. Sophomore 6-3, 180-pound defensive back Ronald Smith has six QB sacks while senior linebacker Gregg Booker leads the squad in interceptions with three.
"They run some spread formation but also use some I-formation," Harlan said of the Bombers. "They have good speed.
"They run the ball predominately but also pass the ball well. We've got to find a way to slow them down; they do have some good skill guys."
For the Tigers sophomore quarterback Brett Karnes has completed 111-of-210 passes for 1,315 yards, nine interceptions and 14 touchdowns.
Senior wideout Jamal Sconiers has been Karnes' top target, with 40 receptions for 553 yards while junior wideout Jake Money has 24 catches for 287 yards and senior wideout Addison Conway 22 catches for 265 yards.
Senior running back Jesse Hays tops the Tiger ground game with 754 yards on 144 carries and has scored five TDs. Karnes has rushed for 315 yards and four touchdowns.
Defensively junior linebacker Cameron Orlando leads St. James with 62 solo tackles and 91 total while junior linebacker Garrett Ubben has 55 solos and 76 total and Money, a defensive back, has 45 solos and 73 total.
"We know it'll be a tough game," Harlan said. "It's on a neutral field and sometimes upsets happen if things line up just right. Hopefully we have that happen for us."


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