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Alabama state government could save millions of dollars in future prison and crime costs by investing more in pre-K education, according to a report released today by the nonpartisan, anti-crime organization Fight Crime: Invest in Kids.
To draw attention to this opportunity, two members of the Fight Crime group, Jefferson County District Attorney Brandon Falls and Birmingham Police Capt. Henry Irby, plan to visit and read to children today at the Festival Head Start Center on Crestwood Boulevard.
"We are facing a major crisis with our corrections system at 195 to 200 percent of capacity," said Falls. "You can either spend more on the front end for education, or more on the back end for prisons."
Today's report, "Pay Now or Pay Much More Later," details research that followed the fates of children over multiple decades. Results show that high-quality pre-kindergarten education can slash the chances of a child growing up to be a criminal:
* The Chicago Child-Parent Centers found that by age 26, the children who did not get pre-K education were 27 percent more likely to have been arrested for a felony and were 39 percent more likely to have spent time in jail or prison, compared with children who got high-quality pre-K education.
* A similar study by the Perry Preschool Project found that disadvantaged Ypsilanti, Mich., children who did not get high-quality preschool education were five times more likely to be chronic lawbreakers -- with five or more arrests -- at age 27, and were 86 percent more likely to have been sentenced to jail or prison by age 40, compared with a randomized control group.
Alabama has one of the greatest chances in the nation to benefit from investing in pre-K education.
It's one of only 10 states with pre-K programs that meet all 10 quality benchmarks set by the National Institute for Early Education Research. But because of limited funding, that high-quality education doesn't reach enough children. Only 6 percent of 4-year-olds in Alabama -- fewer than 4,000 children -- have been able to get this pre-K education, leaving Alabama ranked 33rd for enrollment.
An additional 16 percent of Alabama children are able to attend federally funded Head Start programs.
Alabama has a deep gap between what the state spends on its pre-K education and what it spends to incarcerate prisoners, today's report says. Alabama spent $17.6 million for pre-K education in 2011, and it spent $605 million to house, feed and guard its criminals.
States, on average, spend nine times more on corrections than on pre-K education, according to the "Pay Now or Pay Much More Later" report. Alabama, in contrast, spends 34 times more on corrections than it does on pre-K education.
"It's common sense," said Falls. "Kids that otherwise don't have a lot of resources and don't have access to preschool education are often the ones who end up, down the line, faced with crime. ... Regardless of your political philosophy, it's important to spend money on education."
Today's report is part of an effort to preserve federal funding for preschool education at a time when lawmakers are struggling with the federal budget, Falls said.
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids seeks a boost in funding for early education programs like Head Start, Early Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant by $910 million, compared with the fiscal 2012 budget.
Falls, along with Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper, Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale, Oneonta Police Chief James Chapman and six other Alabama lawmen, wrote to U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby last month to ask for his support of this funding, as well as funding for after-school programming for older children.
Shelby, R-Ala., is the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies.
The lawmen wrote that "these investments can save taxpayer money and are sound policy during a time when fiscal difficulties confront our country. ... As law enforcement leaders who have watched too many kids grow up to become criminals, we urge you to prioritize these investments shown by research to give kids the right start in life and help keep them on track while saving taxpayers money."
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids has more than 5,000 U.S. law enforcement leaders as members, including 61 in Alabama.
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Yesterday we considered that maybe breaking the rules is the best way to play video games. Because — or despite that — game developers have to set limits. So is this Heavy Rain clip, via reader Syptel, a tolerable limit?
For those who haven't played the game, this scene is from the game's opening chapter. The game is still teaching the player how to move protagonist Ethan Mars through his world and will not allow the player to walk Ethan downstairs until he takes a shower (and teaches the player more of the game's controls in the process of tooth-brushing, turning on and off the shower and so forth).
The player of this YouTube clip is trying to break this particular limit. I recall trying to do the same. But Ethan Mars can't go downstairs before he takes a shower. Acceptable?


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Care, General Care Projects in Bolivia by Annie Devlin
When I think back on my time in Bolivia in the summer of 2010, I have very fond memories and undoubtedly spent some of the best days of my life there. Almost all my friends and family know that it only takes looking at one of my pictures taken there to throw me into a nostalgic mood. There was never a dull moment, whether I was at my care placement or spending time with the other volunteers, many of whom quickly became great friends of mine.
At the start, however, as cheesy as it may sound, I really had no idea what I was letting myself in for and I don't think anyone can really imagine what their time in Bolivia will be like until right at the end of the placement.
I don't think I have ever been as physically tired in my life as I was when I arrived into Bolivia in May. After two long flights from London to Miami and then Miami to La Paz, having spent seven hours waiting in Miami due to delays and having not slept in almost thirty hours, I arrived in a very cold La Paz in what felt like a dream. What hit me initially was the freezing temperatures, the altitude and the sheer number of people that continually come up to you trying to insistently sell all kinds of things. Nevertheless once I left the airport in a tiny "trufi", squashed in with thirty other people having had my suitcases hurled onto the roof of the van, I was stunned by the amazing views of the city and the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
I am very lucky in that my mother tongue is Spanish and, although I speak English at home, I understand Spanish well (or at least the version spoken in Spain) and I was very glad of this. Nonetheless I would definitely not let a lack of Spanish knowledge deter anyone from travelling to South America. It is so easy to pick up and all the volunteers help each other out as well. I would recommend starting some lessons before your travels as well, or definitely bringing some essential vocabulary books to have at your disposal when no one around you seems to speak any English. Anyway after a very confusing and long eight hour bus ride I finally made it into Cochabamba and was very happy to be met by Carmen from Projects Abroad who took me to my host family.
In the first couple of days all I seemed to do was sleep, however the more time I spent with my host family the more lovely they seemed. They were incredibly welcoming and I immediately saw how polite and generous Bolivians can be. They definitely helped me to settle in quickly and I cannot thank them enough for everything they did for me. My host mum's cooking was also excellent. Despite not failing to follow the Bolivian custom of having about four different carbohydrates per meal (get used to rice, potato and pasta next to each other!) I definitely tried some things I hadn't in the UK, like ox tongue and heart kebabs, but everything tasted great.
In the first few days I received a tour around Cochabamba from one of the local staff, which I found invaluable since I would have been completely lost otherwise. I don't think anyone can go to Cochabamba and not fall in love with it. It really has everything you need, from the perfect climate (during their winter), to the biggest, cheapest market where you can literally find anything you could want and more (La Cancha), to spectacular views (from El Cristo), to a great night-life (Pimienta brings back hilarious memories).
My main placement was working in the Ciudadela Orphanage, on the outskirts of the city, in the afternoon from 2pm - 6pm for two months. This was a particularly challenging placement because the orphanage is so poor it can barely afford helpers and the few members of staff that do work there are understandably very overstretched and exhausted due to long, hard hours and low pay. This means being assertive, taking control and being imaginative and creative are essential in my opinion. The centre is really in need of any help anyone can provide, so it's great when volunteers choose to help out here some afternoons as well, if their main placement finishes before lunch.
Despite being hard work I absolutely loved my time at the orphanage and frequently express a wish to return. The kids are just amazing, they are so funny and sweet (most of the time!) and just seeing how happy they are when you come to their little "casita" every day makes the experience so incredibly rewarding. They didn't just smile or call your name (which quickly became "Tia Annie") when you arrived; there would be screams, shouting, waving, running and about ten tiny children all grabbing onto any body part of yours they could find so that you couldn't even move every single day.
As I said you can just about do any activity with the kids, so there is a lot of freedom and anything that is fun but vaguely education and, above all, structured and organised will really make a big difference. Without extra help, a lot of the kids simply watch TV all afternoon or spend some limited time outside, but don't really have anyone to guide them. I had about ten children in the casita when I was there, mostly around five or six years-old, although the smallest was a massively cute little one-year old called Fernandito.
I found that all the kids loved colouring and drawing, so after some cleaning and tidying up we did that most afternoons we would play different games outside, usually in their playground area. I also helped the older kids with homework and did some English tutoring, which was also very rewarding, especially when I saw a little nine year-old in my casita improve her literacy skills a lot.
One of my highlights from the project was towards the end when, with the help of other volunteers, we managed to redo the area behind the casita, transforming it from a sort of waste-land with overgrown plants and a lot of rubbish to a pseudo-garden with a painted wall with all the kids' names and hand prints. I hope it made the place more child-friendly and created a happy atmosphere to play in while leaving them something to remember me by. I know I won't forget any of them and despite working there being very sad and moving, the children always made me laugh and they made me realise that, at the end of the day, they were just like any other kids. This strength and resilience really amazed me.
Aside from time spent with my host family and with the children at Ciudadela, I had an incredible time travelling at weekends with the other volunteers, including bravely cycling along the "road of death", visiting a traditional dance festival in La Paz, venturing into the "jungle" and, probably most memorably, following in Che's last footsteps along the "Che trail". I could write a whole essay about any of these trips and anyone who travels here will have countless funny, unique experiences that could probably "only happen in Bolivia" as we kept telling ourselves.
After my two months in Cochabamba, I travelled around almost all of Bolivia and then went to Argentina, Uruguay and finally Peru; all with people I had met while volunteering. Although I did things I had always dreamt of and went through some unforgettable experiences like paragliding over the sacred valley, going deep into the mines at Potosi and walking for four challenging, exhausting days to reach Machu Picchu, I still think my most special experiences were definitely in Bolivia and, above all, Cochabamba.
Annie Devlin
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Actually, what sucks is still being without home internet a month after moving here...However, the end is in sight! Two weeks! In two weeks I will be getting digital cable and high speed internet! Huzzah! At which point I will resume normal internet behavior, including posting to this thing...
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Vol. XXXI — No. 10
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
March 12, 1954
Music Groups Combine
For Spring Concert
Pictured above is the 39 voice Bethel Chapel Cho ir which will appear tonight in the Spring Concert un-der
the direction of C. Howard Smith. Also pictured are the two groups directed by Nels Stjernstrom, the
Girls' Chorus and Male Chorus, both of which will sing tonight.
4,1 2 016a0 Beatell Olificial Schaal Para's,
Tonights Program
Rev. J. Leonard Carroll, pastor
of the Temple Baptist Church in
Rockford, Illinois and a member
of the Conference Board of Educa-tion,
will be the speaker for the
combined chapel services through-out
the week.
Seminars will be held in the
evening from 7:00 to 8:30. Monday
the seminars will be on science
work; Tuesday, medical science
and mass communication; Thurs-day,
public school teaching and
government service; Friday, min-istry
and business.
This is the first vocations week
to be held on campus with the
purpose of enabling students to
become acquainted with the range
of occupational opportunities open
to them and to appreciate the
possibilities for serving Christ in
many fields. Seminary men will
also participate in the meetings to
gain a better idea of the layman's
ministry and contribution to the
work of the church.
February 10 the planning com-mittee
took a vocational interest
survey of college students by
means of checklists handed out
in chapel. Results of this survey
were used in preparing the pro-gram.
From the 213 returns, 89
were interested in the ministry
(including 39 for "pastorate" and
16 for "foreign missions"); 85
were interested in public school
teaching; 55 voted for social work;
42 were interested in college
teaching; and radio and television
work claimed 30 votes. Other
votes were well scattered among
more than forty other fields of
Seniors to Present
M'phail Musicians
The Chamber Ensemble from
Macphail School of Music in Min-neapolis
will present a concert
Friday, March 26 at 8:30 p.m. in
the college chapel. Sponsored by
the senior class, a concert of this
nature is an annual affair.
Directed by Howard Skinner, the
Chamber Ensemble will feature as
soloists Mary Ellen Jenkins and
David Eagle.
Tickets for the concert will soon
go on sale at $1.00 per person.
Bud Lee is chairman of the con-cert
committee assisted by Gloria
Manseau and Pat Alms. In charge
of tickets is Warren Nelson. Car-olyn
Clark is chairman of publici-ty
and Gordon Olson heads the
program committee. General ar-rangements
are Gene Messenger's
earns ea-lead-at
Tonight—Spring Concert, field-house,
8:15 p.m.
Tomorrow, March 13 — Camera
March 15-19 — Final examina-tions
March 23, Tuesday — Spring
quarter classes begin
March 26, Friday — Senior Con-cert,
Macphail School of Mu-sic
Senate Elections
Set for April 13
Elections will be held for next
year's Student Association officers
Tuesday, April 13. The nominat-ing
committee, chosen by the Stu-dent
Senate, will complete- the list
of candidates this week, and Thurs-day,
April 8, the candidates will be
presented in chapel, at which time
nominations from the floor can be
Qualifications for the officers on
the Senate Executive Council in-clude
having a 1.5 average for the
two preceding quarters, and they
must be in either senior college
or seminary the year the office is
held. Students will be elected to
serve in the following executive
positions: president, recording
secretary, corresponding secretary,
treasurer, and financial secretary.
A voting machine will be placed
in the college building the day of
Bethel Participates
In NW Tournament
Barbara Olander and Adella
Bennett turned in Bethel's best
performance at the Northwest De-bate
Tournament with a record of
five wins and three losses. Others
participating in this tournament,
which was held at St. Thomas Col-lege
and Macalester College, were
Sylvia Elthon, Kathleen Hanson,
Robert Hilton, Don Richardson,
Ronald Palosaari, and Wally And-erson.
Hilton, Richardson, Palosaari,
and Cal Peterson are participating
in a tournament at Madison, Wis-consin,
this weekend. Besides de-bating
these Bethelites will take
part in discussion, oratory, and ra-dio
Future debate plans are for the
state tournament at the Universi-ty
of Minnesota on April 9-10. At
this tournament Bethel students
will debate in both the freshman
division and senior college divis-ion.
The Bethel Women's Federation will sponsor a Spring Concert
tonight, 8:15 p.m., in the fieldhouse. All campus musical groups will
be featured, including the Chapel Choir, Girls' Chorus, Male Chorus,
and Band; and soloists who are Richard Peterson and Cathy Babcock,
pianists, Roger Swank, trumpetist, and Roger Baily, baritone who will
be accompanied by Peggy Smith Bailey.
Tickets for the concert are on sale at $1.00 per person, with a
rate of $.50 for students. The program is as follows:
March E Pluribus Unum Jewell
The Bethel College Band
Welcome and Invocation Dr. H. C. Wingblade
Holy Lord of All Tschaikovsky
This Is My Father's World Ringwold
Den Store Huide Flok Grieg
There is a Balm In Gilead Dawson
The Bethel Male Chorus
Sonata No. 9 in A Major '(First Movement) Mozart
Prelude in G Minor Rachmaninoff
Richard Peterson, Pianist
Rock of Ages, Air Vane Hastings-Barnhouse
Paraphrase, I Love To Tell The Story Fisher-Barnhouse
Roger Swank, Trumpet
Nancy Mullin, Accompanist
How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place J. Brahms
And Can It Be That I Should Gain? C. Wesley
Dark Water (Spiritual) W. James
Advent Motet (Second Movement) G. Schreck
The Bethel Chapel Choir
Sonata in G Major Op. 14 No. 2 (First Movement) Beethoven
Soaring Schumann
Cathy Babcock, Pianist
Lord God of Abraham (From Elijah) Mendelssohn
Hard Trials Arr. Burleigh
0 Savior Sweet Bach
Roger Bailey, Baritone
Peggy Smith Bailey, Accompanist
Send Forth Thy Spirit Schevtkey
We Thank Thee, Lord Bortwl a nsky
Love Divine Wohlfiel
Angel Voices Tell Overby
The Bethel Girls' Chorus
Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
Colonel Bogey March Alford
Inspirational Overture Irons
Knightsbridge March Coates
The Bethel College Band
Finale: God of Our Fathers Arr. Johnson
The Combined Choirs and the Band
Benediction Rev. Carl H. Ludquist
Vocations Emphasis Week
Planned for March 29-April 2
Plans are being completed for Vocations Emphasis Week to be
held from March 29 through April 2. Clifford Larson, chairman or
the Special Emphasis Weeks committee, announces that eight seminars
on different vocatonal fields will be conducted by Christian laymen
who can speak from first-hand experience.
Page 2 THE CLARION Friday, March 12, 1954
It Happened
On Skid Row
by Don Richardson
"I got a problem!" snarled a coatless fellow at me in the front cor-ridor
of a Washington Avenue rescue mission. I merely stepped in for
a minute to warm myself before continuing to pass out tracts and talk
to some more of the fellows on the Row.
The man who "had the problem" was clean-shaven and sober. He
did smell liquor though. I sat down beside him, and for half an hour we
talked about his problem — and it was a problem.
He had been a marine during the Second World War and had seen
action in the Philippines, New Guinea, and several other theatres of
Pacific warfare. There were about four hundred men in his battalion.
Only six of these returned alive — five were then in hospitals leaving
only this fellow able to walk.
"I wasn't any hero." He kept telling me, "All I did was my job.
Was that wrong?"
In the course of his active duty, he killed some thirty-four Jap-anese
soldiers. Each of these must have had a family much like his
own. He featured their widows and fatherless children hunting hungrily
to exist — in much the same way he had actually seen Philippine or-phans
and widows going about their starving business.
The entire picture of his actions was repeatedly played in his mind.
It haunted him. "Can God ever forgive me? What I want to know, kid,
is can God forgive me?" At this point he was almost frantic.
Seldom have I seen such a truly earnest sincerity. He really meant
busbies. We talked for sometimes about what it means to accept Christ.
Somehow I felt no prompting to force him into an on-the-spot decision.
I left him still graciously clutching onto the two tracts he had more
than willingly promised to read and myself walked back to the car "a
sadder and wiser man."
by Ronald Palosaari
"What do I do now, Mister?" the shabby but fairly clean man asked
Rev. Moore, director of the Union Gospel Mission in Minneapolis. The
questioneer was the third one who had come down the aisle. There
were at least 30 Bethel students in the beautiful choir loft of that mis-sion
on Sunday night. They had provided special music and some were
now dealing with the men who had come forward to find out more
about Christianity and possibly to put their trust in Christ. All the stu-dents
could remember the first man who had come forward that even-ing.
He was an Indian fellow. The students had been interested and
thrilled to see that the appeal of Christ is not to just one group but all
can be interested in Christ's salvation. The students could easily note
that man. The third one up the aisle was the man who had asked the
question. He had revealed almost pitiful lack of knowledge in Christi-anity.
The students could easily remember that man. But what about
the second man who had come forward?
The inquiring man had been tactfully led into a side room so that
the way of salvation could be explained more fully to them. They were
out of sight of most of the students. The Indian fellow and the ques-tioneer
were still in everyone's mind but it was easy to forget the sec-ond
felloW. He was dressed nondiscriptly. He was of average height. He
had come forward quietly. It would be hard to remember him. But after-wards
the Bethel students noted that man the most. Eric Warnstrom
was the student who came out of the choir loft to deal with the second
man. The man had tried to talk to Eric but he was unfamiliar, clumsy,
almost helpless in expressing himself in English. Then Eric recognized
the accent. He spoke to the man in his mother tongue, Finnish. The
man, surprised at hearing his own language, talked back to Eric. To-gether
they talked of Christ and prayed to God in the Finish language.
Eric sight translated some of the Bible verses for the man.
That man had come down the aisle probably because he had under-stood
enough to know there was a possibly better way of life. Maybe
even as he came down the thought flashed through his mind it would
be hard to express himself in English. Yet an unknown young man had
come down and talked to him in his own language. It must have seemed
a miracle to him.
Eric did not know the situation when he stepped to help the man.
Yet, he was the only one on the platform who could speak Finnish.
A person would hate to figure the mathematical probability of that
situation ; A strange language, a man coming forward seemingly by
chance; a student stepping down from the choir loft seemingly by
chance — but they met and talked and prayed together as they could
have with no one else in that group.
Should this be called a miracle? Many would scoff at this. Others
may wonder. The important thing has quite possibly been accomplished.
A man has had an experience with Christ because the right student had
been willing to serve at the right time.
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finis of Thought
by President Wingblade
I am sure that thoughts of Bethel Students, now and then, in the
quietness of evening hours—go back to the old home. They visualize
Mother and Daddy busy about their homely duties, or at the evening
meal, or in silent reading or meditation.
They are thinking often of son or daughter and praying, and maybe
sacrificing. They half expect to hear the sound of steps or voices still,
but then they remember that the boy or girl has gone to Bethel.
But they do miss and they wonder just what they are doing—and
hope that they are doing well. Of course they deserve not to be disap-pointed.
The next thing to the presence of the loved one is a letter in the
mailbox. They know just when the mail is coming and so they watch
and wait and hope.
It does not take long to write a little note home—even on a post
card. The message need not contain anything unusual or startling, but
it is from son or daughter and therefore it is welcome—and thrilling.
All right. How many times have you written home since you left?
In future years, when mother or daddy may be gone, you will never
regret that you warmed their hearts with this kind of remembrance.
I think I shall quote again from the experience of one who some-time
failed in this,—for it may help us to be more faithful:
"I found a little record of her days
At the old home. A few short lines
Each day were all she wrote. My mother's ways
Were simple. When she planted columbines
She put it down; the day she set a hen;
The little calf she weaned from mother-cow;
Her daily household tasks, or when
She visited the sick . . .But 0, somehow
One line apart from others seems to stand—
"I went to the post office" she would say . .
I look upon it—here in her own hand—
That one short line she wrote from day to day.
Dear God, on high, can Mother see tonight
These tears for letters that I failed to write?"
Elsie Duncan Sanders
Ronnie and Stretch
by Axel (as told to Wayne McArthur)
Bliss, bliss, all has been bliss since ariving here. Ronnie and
Stretch have been so good to me; they got me enrolled in Bethel.
(Little does the faculty know that I'm the missing link . . . but Ronnie
and Stretch know).
Say! Have you noticed how Stretch's arms hang down towards his
knees when he walks now? And notice the heavy hair on Ronnie's
arms, too. In spite of these growing distinctions these wonderful
cousins have fixed me up with a girl. Isn't that nice of 'em?
But that's not all! They've got me enrolled in their favorite class
with them, lawn-mower sharpening. We're planning a three-way part-nership
this summer with two branches (not related to Darwin). Ronnie
will sharpen in the basement of the girl's dormitory and Stretch will
set-up over at Northwestern Schools. I, being a brilliant student of
forensics, will do the sales-work.
Boy! Are they ever shrewd! They taught me how to make the
most of my time in the cafeteria. I can hold hands with the girl in
front of me and the girl in back of me and eat with my tail. That was
Ronnie's idea. Stretch, not to be out done by his accomplice, taught me
to eat with both hands and pick pockets with my tail. (We have to do
something to pay our tuition since Pop thought we were poor risks).
Much to my humiliation I caught them looking at some second hand
organ-grinders at Monkey-Wards. But I absolutely refused that kind of
a set-up.
We got the idea of singing after dubbing for the operatic team,
Jethro and Homer. We think we'll be able to make it through next
quarter with the profits received from this engagement.
A Day of Prayer
by Bud Lee
Following a recommendation of
the Religious Council regarding a
Day of Prayer on Bethel's campus
at the beginning of next quarter,
the Policy Committee has acted on
this suggestion and has set
Wednesday, March 24, as the Day
of Prayer.
Many times in the past, the
Bethel family has met together in
this way to bring before God needs
and problems common to us all.
God has always seen fit to honor
our petitions and to bless our
school at these times. We, even as
those who have gone- before, need
God's help and guidance in our
lives and in our school. And with
many matters pressing— the
choosing of a new dean, illness
among our faculty and students,
the responsibilities of a new quar-ter's
work, and numerous other
problems large and small—we are
impelled to pray.
On this day, the second of the
On the Limb
with Axel
by Stretch and Ronnie
Since he's been at Bethel, Axel,
my pet chimpanzee, has wanted to
make some true buddies. A week
ago Tuesday he bought a '38
Dodge. The day he got it he had
to cut Freshman Conference to re-polish
the spark plugs. It took him
a couple days to find out that a
car was more than gas and oil and
friends. By just looking around he
knew he needed some accessories.
He installed dual exhausts, blue
dot tail lights, and an automatic
garbage disposal unit. Last Fri-day
he, of course, signed up with
Glendenning for a forty - hour - a -
week job. Since he got the job
he's been looking at new Chrys-lers.
Last Saturday Axel went to see
"Pygmalion" in the college chapel.
He didn't stay long though. The
lion scared him so much that he
threw down his pop corn, jumped
through the nearest window, and
sat shivering on the flag pole for
two hours. Not knowing Axel's
jungle background, most of the
students dismissed this as an ex-treme
case of taboo conscience.
Just recently an advertising man
gave Axel twenty-five dollars just
because of his new crew cut. Axel
was happy to have the man take
his picture for a big magazine —
especially with a Bethel girl stand,
ing next to him. The man told
them that their picture would be
in a half-page ad with a caption,
"Which twin has the Toni?"
Ever since he's been at Bethel
Axel has been writing to his girl
back home in South Ubangi. Not
until a couple weeks ago did Axel
realize that he wasn't going steady
with his African sweetheart. He
would never have realized it then
had it not been that he carefully
observed those going steady at
Bethel. Up till that time he and
his girl had been risking their ro-mance
by never exchanging rings.
Neither even had a ring. Axel
lost no time in hustling down to
a Skid Row pawn shop. He bought
two rings. One was about the size
of a silver dollar. In keeping witk
the custom as he saw it, Axel
wound eleven band-aids around
one side of this larger ring and
sent it special delivery to his
chimp girl. The other ring was
about the size of a worn dime,
and he squeezed this tightly over
the first joint of his little finger.
Now he feels much safer.
new spring quarter, a brief mes-sage
will be given in the united
chapel followed by a season of
prayer together. Classes will run
as usual with a session of prayeL
in each class — as long as seems
wise. There will be noon prayer
meetings and other prayer meet-ings
scheduled throughout the day
at various places on campus, cli-maxed
by a vesper service in the
chapel. Here another brief mes-sage
will be given.
Many times it has been said,
"Prayer changes things." We be-lieve
that it is true. May our lives
and our school be changed! May
we take on a deeper and brighter
aspect for our wonderful Lord as
we pray together!
Let us be faithful in keeping this
day and praying for its impact for
Jesus Christ on our campus and on
others to whom our influence
Friday, March 12, 1954
adttita 4cliadied,
Tonight -- Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra with Isaac Stern, violinist,
Northrop Auditorium, 8:30 p.m.
March 13 — Hamline University Band Concert, Norton Fieldhouse, 8:15
March 14 — Science Lecture — "A Geological in the Canadian Arctic"
— Minnesota Museum of Natural History, 3:00 p.m.
March 14 — Gershwin Pop Concert, Northrop Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
March 16, 17 — Collegium Musicum, St. Catherine College
March 21 — St. Olaf Lutheran Choir, Twilight Pop Concert, 4:30 p.m.
Pictured above are eight members from the Girls' Chorus in their
new light blue robes. Through the help of the girls and the school, the
chorus was able to purchase forty-two robes from the E. R. Moore
Company. This is a big step toward the maintenance of a permanent
Girls' Chorus.
Tonight will be the first campus appearance of the girls in their
new robes. However, they wore them last Sunday evening when they
gave a Sacred Concert at Elim Baptist Church in Minneapolis.
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Plans Made for
Prospecti•v e Students
Norris Magnuson has been pla-ced
in charge of plans for Pros-pective
Student Days, which will
be April 14 and 15, the Wednes-day
and Thursday before Easter.
During the weekend between
quarters, letters will be sent to
the individuals who have request
ed information and to those sug-gested
by conference pastors.
An attempt is being made to
limit the attendance to graduates
and seniors (though not altogether
excluding juniors) and those who
have not been here before. This
limitation is due to the lack of
space. Bunks will be set up in the
boys' dorm recreation room, and
as many prospective students as
possible will share individual
rooms with the regular students.
Committees are being named to
handle transportation, programs,
campus tours, and discussions.
Sbindo to Speak
At Camera Club
Frank Shindo, seminary senior
and experienced photographer, has
chosen "Composition of Photo-graphs"
as his topic for the next
Camera Club meeting.
Tomorrow evening, March 13, at
8 p.m. is the time planned for the
meeting which will be held in
room 109 of the college building.
All students interested in pic-ture
taking are urged to attend.
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"A Friendly Christian
Gospel Team Briefs
• Carol Joy Turnwall was the
speaker at Booth Memorial Home
last Sunday morning, with Nancy
Swanson, vocalist and Ida Lund-sten,
pianist, assisting her in the
• At the First Baptist Church in
Red Wing, Minnesota last Sunday,
Mrs. Don Dye, Mr. and Mrs. Ron
Skoog, Ripley Moore and Fred
Erickson furnished special music,
and testimonies, ana Don Dye
• A gospel team composed of
Harold Angell, Russ Voight, Nan-cy
Swanson, Jerry Anderson, and
Martha Tieszen had charge of the
service Sunday evening at the
Baptist church, Mora, Minnesota.
Students Hold
Spanish Meetings
Spanish Club members are cur-rently
participating in Spanish
meetings held in a home in Min-neapolis.
At the Spanish Club meeting on
April 8, Mrs. Applequist will
speak on "Foreign Languages: A
Tool for Peace."
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Wednesday, April 7, is the date
chosen for the annual BWA formal
banquet to be held in Bethel's din-ning
hall. "April Showers" is the
theme for this year's banquet.
Heading the various committees
are: Barbara Harper, decorations;
Angie Armbruster, food; Shirley
Knutson, program: Dorothy Lar-son,
invitations, and Bonnie Wel-in,
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Secy.—Beverly Carlson
Asst. Secy.—Gladys Johnson
Treas.—Carolyn Dahlquist
Asst. Treas.—Lois Barnes
Big and Little Sister Chairmen—
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Guest Missionaries
Are Featured at
F.M.F. Meetings
The Foreign Missionary Fellow-ship,
made up of Bethel students
interested in serving on the mis-sion
field, is sponsoring monthly
missionary fellowshp meetings.
These meetings are designed to
better acquaint the students with
the needs and opportunities of
various fields.
In future meetings, the F. M. F.
anticipates having as guest speak-ers
Dr. William Cook, who has
spent twenty years in India with
the Conservative Baptists, and Dr.
Stam, who has spent fifteen years
in Africa with the Africa Inlanu
Mission. These men will be on
Bethel's campus to present vari-ous
phases of missionary life and
to answer any particular ques-tions
students may have.
The next meeting planned by
the F. M. F. will be March 25.
The Foreign Missionary Fellow-ship
invites all interested students
to attend its prayer meetings. In
the seminary, meetings are held
Tuesday through Friday at 12:15
in room 109. Prayer meetings are
held in the college building, room
210, Monday through Friday at
5:30 p.m.
Cabinet members: Dorothy Ibling,
Barbara Martin, Meme Olander
and Marlys Malmsten.
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THE CLARION Friday, March 12, 1954
. . . Shee-Rai
Five wins and one loss is the
record for the girls' basketball
team so far this year. Although
the boys' basketball season is over,
the girls still have more games
scheduled. The toughest game yet
remaining to be played is a return
game with Augsburg who defeated
Bethel during the first encounter.
The team has had a very suc-cessful
season beating Fairview
nurses, Spring Lake Park Baptist,
Northwestern and Elim Baptist,
while losing only to Augsburg.
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• • •
Prospects for next year look fa-vorable
with the majority of the
players returning.
The lineup for the team this
year is as follows: Playing at
guard positions are Grace Komp,
Meridian, New York; Beverly
Patterson, West Concord, Minne-sota;
Carla Kern, Zion, Illinois;
Carolyn Dahlquist, Red Wing,
Minn.; Donna Anderson, Montrose,
South Dakota; and Beverly Lentz,
Cedar Rapids, Iowa; while those
at forward are Jan McKinney,
Council Bluff, Iowa; Kathryn
Gustafson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa;
Marlene Anderson, Joliet, Ill; Jan-et
Johnson, Alcester, South Dako-ta;
and Mary Nicol, Minneapolis,
Mrs. Lynn Lundin, physical ed-ucation
major from Augsburg, is
the coach.
Athletic awards were received in
Chapel last Tuesday by the foot-ball
team, basketball team, cheer
leaders, and the girls' basketball
team. Dr. Wingblade presented
the awards as Coaches Del Ray
Peterson and Lynn Lundin pre-sented
the teams.
Cheer-leaders awarded were Hel-en
Messenger, Beverly Patterson,
Ramona Nelson, Judith McOmber,
and Lynn Kulle.
Letter awards to the girls' bas-ketball
team included Donna An-derson,
Marlene Anderson, Caro-lyn
Dahlquist, Kathryn Gustafson,
Janet McKinney, Carla Kern, Grace
Komp, Beverly Lentz, Janet John-son,
Mary Nicol, and Beverly Pat-terson.
Receiving football awards were
Bruce Peterson, Ed Brunzell, Bruce
Steinhaus, Wayne McArthur, Har-old
Erickson, DuWayne P o p l e,
B. Season Ends
The unheralded Bethel B bas-ketball
squad has finished its sea-son
with a much improved ball
club over its shapeless beginnings.
Under the direction of assistant
varsity-coach, Lynn Lundin, the
team showed the progress that al-lowed
them to finish the season
with a respectable won-lost record.
Earlier in the season the B
squad was having a very hard time
winding up on the right side of
the score board. The development
of John Walberg and Paul Sand-berg
caught on to winning ways.
Howard Johnson was always a
steadying influence and Jay Dik-kers
filled the hole especially
well. Jim MacFayden started B
squad and showed enough im-provement
to earn a varsity suit.
Don Quarnstrom, who hit many
points from out, was also a valu-able
asset to the team before his
Dave Seaquist, Paul Berg, Donn
Goss, Ron Skoog, John Berg, Carl
Sundeen, John Walberg, Fred
Thomas, Richard Pearson, Don
Helton, Douglas Dalton, Jay Dik-kers,
Dale Nystrom, James Long,
Dale Shellman, Lavern Peterson,
Cliff Schroeder, and Bud Brayton.
Basketball letters were awarded
to Frank Burleson, William Con-rad,
Harold Erickson, Howard
John- on, Eugene Messenger (co-captain),
Paul Redin (co-captain),
Paul Sandberg, Brue Steinhaus.
and John Wallberg.
A letter was awarded to Gene
Anderson as manager for the sea-son.
Minor basketball awards were
presented to Kenneth Garrison,
James MacFayden, a n d Darold
14$ orrp ports
by Dale Nystrom
Li'l Gorry the groundhog i s
soon going to be poking his head
from his hole for the third time
this school year at Bethel. The
athletic department, who knows
Li'l Gorry can't stand much ab-using,
has been waiting all year
for a chance to grab him . . . and
hang on. In fact, the news-scoop
is that they've acquired a rope
with a new type of chemical make-up
which contains a secret radical
known as "P.E." (Editor's note:
Li'l Gorry is of the phylum "Win-ningstreekis,"
not "Losingaspirit-niss.")
___ In the meantime, however, Li'l
Gorry is quite perturbed about the
complexity of his previous "above
the terra firma" episodes. He
came out of his hole last fall righr
in the middle of the football-field.
Such confusion! A gang of brutes
romped all over the field kick-ing
a pig around. Li'l Gorry, in
the midst of his frustration, was
mistaken for the pig and the
brutes battered him back and forth
for the entire third quarter. That
was it! Li'l Gorry crawled back
into his hole for the rest of the
_.The second time Li'l Gorry came
out was in the middle of the Beth-el
field-house. The place was in
an uproar with lights so bright
he could hardly see anything.
Sometimes he couldn't see at all.
"B" Leaders &
Spring Sports
At a recent letterman's meeting
Norman Moore, a junior, was
elected president of the "Letter-man's
Club." Bruce Steinhaus was
elected vice - president and Jay
Dikkers and Carl Sundeen were
elected to positions of secretary
arid trea=3urer. These new officers,
with the counseling of Coaches
Del Ray Peterson and Lynn Lun-din,
have already swung into ac-tion
for a brilliant Royal future.
The first action to follow their
election was the athletic chapel
program at which the athletic a-wards
of the year were presented.
The second action was the estab-lishing
of a date and place for the
athletic banquet this spring. The
date set is April 10th.
But more important action than
those things already mentioned is
the creation of full-hearted inter-est
in the current schedule of
spring sports. The competition is
not push-over with any event of
any of the sports included. Base-ball
prospects are good! And with
a few lettermen back on the ten-nis
court again there's new encour-agement
for the new enthusiasts.
Track and golf are ready to flare,
too. But, it takes practice, prac-tice,
and more practice for a win-ning
team . . . and now. Presideni
Norman Moore urges all those in-terested
to sign up now in the
field house, or see Coach Del Ray
Once, in a state of this tempor-ary
blindness, he fell into a crack
(even though it's a new field-house)
and just decided to stay
there until he felt "good and
ready" to come out.
The lettermen's club sent him
a note the other day and invited
him to the athletic banquet. They
hope to influence him to stay on
the top side through the spring
quarter. But Li'l Garry answered
their invitation with this note:
"i'd rilly luv to cum up 'n travul
crose-cuntree, umpyre basebawl,
shute a burdy in golf, take a set
of tennus; but yu'd haf to rope me
gud befer I'd stey."
Contained herein lie the moans, groans, and the latest SKEE-RUTs
to hit the athletic aspiranteers of the Bethel Royal's fanfare . . Jim
MacFayden has been voted the "Hostess with the Mostess" for the
Edgren third floor party-line. On the grid-field he vied to hold a line
for just one play; at Edgren he can hold on for an hour. SKEE-RUT!
.. . A little bucket ball says that Don Stipe has adopted "The Ninety
and Nine" as his No. 1 concern now. But another little bucket ball
says "It Is No Secret" where the 100th is. SKEE-RUT! . .. Since there
was not enough snow for skiing and ski-jumps this winter, a few
notorious "Royaleers" decided to try a few runs down the clothes-chute.
The only casualties listed were a few secret bruises and peeled
knees. The sport was dropped (literally) when coach Wally Peterson
called for a substitution. SKEE-RUT! . . . Donn (Juan) Goss finagled
a '52 Blue Dragon. Immediately he established a "no lend" policy. He
learned from others—others live and learn. SKEE-RUT! . . . Ed Brun-zell
vowed a life-time contract with "barberous" Eric Borgeson and
Gene Messenger as first assistant. The contract includes no bowls, no
clippers, no experience, just scissors and lots of fingers. SKEE-RUT!
. . . "Dauntless" Dalton saw his reflection in a glass the other day. He
did the only natural thing he could think of. It took the king's men
thirty some stitches to put him together again. SKEE-RUT! . . • Duane
Pople wants his name in the CLARION—so does Jay Dikkers. SKEE-RUT!
. . . The greatest tragedy in Edgren is found in the room where
they can't prevent the smell of pop-corn from floating down the hall-way—
nobody "nose" the trouble they've been having. That room's
a "Paradise Lost." SKEET-RUT! .
girl's B-Ball Advances
by Bunny
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ASSET team members Karthik Raman, Bronwen Matthews and I recently attended the NYU Poly CSAW IX Cyber Security competition in Brooklyn, New York. The annual event first took place in 2003 and has since grown from a small, local cyber security competition to a worldwide event. This year, more than 10,000 students from high school to Ph.D level registered to compete in a total of seven CSAW challenges.
Karthik and I contributed four Web challenges to the "Capture the Flag" competition, which were designed to be similar to real-world scenarios hackers face. The challenges were related to commonly found bugs, but required the hacker to deduce the nature of the bug without much feedback from the website. The students responded with a pragmatic approach to the problems, and the competition was won by a team from Carnegie Mellon University. There was also an embedded systems challenge, a forensics challenge and an applied research competition.
Adobe sponsored the "Security Awareness" video challenge, open to high school and college students worldwide. The contest challenged students to develop a consumer-friendly educational video on an important security topic with the theme: "Securing Every Device, Everywhere." Adobe provided access to the free version of Adobe Creative Cloud for all participants, enabling them to use our latest video production tools. Guest judges from the security teams at Adobe, Microsoft, VMWare, Facebook, and the NSA selected the final winners. The first place winner of the challenge this year was Ethan Bain of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Aurora, Illinois. You can watch his winning video here.
The first day of the event focused on mobile security, with presentations from Dan Guido, Vincenzo Iozzo and Dino Dai Zovi from Trail of Bits, as well as Mike Arpaia. Other presenters included: Collin Mulliner of Northeastern University, Jon Oberheide of DUO Security, and Chris Rohlf of LeafSR.
Ryan Naraine from Kaspersky Lab moderated an interesting panel discussion entitled: "If a Cybercriminal is Determined to Hack You, Can You Do Anything About it?" Panelists included representatives from Kaspersky, Harvard University IT and NYU Poly.
The high school students competed in a challenging, live security quiz, sponsored by DHS. (We played along in the audience. Let's just say we got most of the answers right.)
It was a fun couple of days. We met some excellent students doing interesting and important work in security. It is reassuring to know that the next wave of security researchers coming out of some of our high schools and colleges are way ahead of the game in cyber security.
Rajat Shah
Security Researcher
Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET)


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I´m new to the show, and decided to go fully into it.
I have Snowboard background and some times wakeboarded. But never had time and money to start anything with kites. But now finally decided to go for it.
Since I enjoy the snow and the summer, I´d really like to do all the sports named in the titel.
The question is which is the best call for the gear? I´m hoping to be able to use as much gear as possible for all 3 sports.
Since I´m absolutely new, I decided to get a trainer kite first of all (HQ Rusch III or IV Pro 300 or 350). If that works, i figured i can probably use that kite for my mountain board (bought it today ) at the beginning, right?
So how do I proceed after that, if it comes to power kites / bigger and more powerfull gear. As well as kite surfing gear. Is there gear which would be useable for snow/water/land? (I might need different harnesses for snow and water/land I guess, since i gonna wear thick pants in the snow)
Any help, tips and maybe people from the area to talk with are very welcome (NJ Princeton area)


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If number of photos taken is in direct proportion - evidently a lot!
Our gang ran into Kayak Cowgirl during our circumnavigation, but I didn't know that until she asked if I'd been part of the group she'd seen when I posted my trip gallery on Facebook. I replied:
"Yep! I was wondering if that was you but I couldn't really stop, I was taking so many pictures going around the northern tip of Manhattan that I was lagging behind, and we had a bit of that thing that you get when you turn a horse back towards the barn going on. That bit where you come around the corner at Columbia has always been a particular favorite piece of a circumnavigation - the Harlem is sort of confined and industrial and you're on it for a while then you come around the corner after the MTA bridge and ahhh, everything just opens out - I got utterly silly taking pictures every 30 seconds or something!"
Then I reassured people that I hadn't posted all of them in the trip gallery (it's still an endurance event in and of itself but I actually did edit things down a lot) - but then I started wondering how many pictures I'd actually taken in that section. Answer: This many. Click on the first one for a better view & go through slide-show style.
Being the Continuing Adventures of a Woman and her Trusty Kayak in New York Harbor, the Hudson River, and Beyond. (with occasional political rants just to keep things lively!)
Friday, May 23, 2014
How Much Do I Love Rounding the Northern Tip of Manhattan?
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2 comments:
- JP said...
What a great trip - congratulations!
BTW, have you ever been to North Brother Island? I've just been reading about a book of photos from there.
- bonnie said...
I have been! I'm scared to poke around in the old buildings because if something falls in on you nobody will find you for who knows how long, but even though it's not really allowed, like many local paddlers, I have stopped there for breaks every now and then. I'm not a big believer in the paranormal but it's certainly a haunting place, if not actually haunted.
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A Burlington teen pleaded guilty last week to second-degree kidnapping, crime against nature and sexual battery in a case involving a girl who was 12 years old at the time.
Ricky Jajuan Thorpe, 18, of Deer Run Trail, was originally charged with first-degree rape, promoting the prostitution of a minor and four counts of first-degree sex offense with a child. The Alamance County Sheriff�s Office charged him with committing the offenses between Jan 1, 2012 and April 30, 2012, following a complaint from the girl�s parents.
Superior Court Judge Richard Stone consolidated the charges into a 25- to 42-month suspended sentence and placed Thorpe on 36 months probation. He was ordered to register as a sex offender for 30 years, have no contact with the victim or her family and not reside with a minor child.
Alamance County Assistant District Attorney Lori Wickline said she crafted a more lenient plea agreement to reflect the victim�s father�s wishes and Thorpe�s age.
�The driving force was her dad. The victim�s father wanted him to be punished but was also forgiving. He didn�t want (Thorpe) to go to prison for 10 years,� Wickline said. �I structured the plea so that he would be required to register as a sex offender and gave him a lot of time hanging over his head.�
Thorpe is currently working to obtain his GED, Wickline said.
Wickline said Friday that the details surrounding the charge of promoting the prostitution of a minor were sketchy and that she would have had a difficult time proving that charge to a jury.
�It was a tough case, but it was one I think ended with a good outcome for the victim and her family. Any time you can get someone registered as a sex offender without the victim having to testify I consider a good outcome,� Wickline said.
Also in Alamance County Superior Court last week:
▪ A Raleigh man pleaded guilty to passing counterfeit bills to purchase items at a Walmart store.
Lamel R. Truesdale, 24, was part of a ring of counterfeiters making the rounds at stores throughout the state, Alamance County District Attorney Lori Wickline said Monday.
On June 8, 2012, Truesdale used 13 $50 bills to purchase an iPad from an Alamance County Walmart.
Truesdale pleaded guilty to possessing five or more counterfeit instruments. In exchange for the plea, the state dismissed an additional charge of possessing counterfeit instruments, conspiracy and obtaining property by false pretenses.
Stone issued a 12- to 24-month sentence to run concurrently with sentences Truesdale is already serving from convictions in other districts.
▪ A jury found Bryan Glenn Riley, 29, of Sheppard Road, Elon, guilty of driving while impaired.
Riley was charged Nov. 19, 2011, with driving while impaired and cited by Burlington police for an open container violation.
He was appealing a guilty verdict in Alamance County District Court.
Stone issued a mitigated, 60-day suspended sentence with one day credit toward a split sentence and placed Riley on 24 months� probation.
Riley was ordered not to drive until licensed, complete a substance abuse assessment and pay a $100 fine.
▪ Stephanie Lauren Turner, 30, formerly of East Sycamore Road, Graham, was found guilty of the lesser-included charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.
Turner was charged with larceny of a motor vehicle after her then-boyfriend Justin Todd reported that she had stolen his 1989 Chevrolet Blazer on Aug. 1, 2012.
Turner argued that Todd had given her permission to use the SUV but wanted it returned following a fight.
Stone issued a 45-day suspended sentence with six days� credit for time served and placed Turner on 18 months� probation.


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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A succession of satellite images from the Australians, the Chinese and the French, as well as a Chinese plane's report of "suspicious objects," has bolstered hopes for a breakthrough in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
It has also raised hopes of a different kind: that the multinational effort to find the missing plane may prove to be a step toward easing some of the potentially dangerous tensions that have been growing in Asia.
Although many of the problems in this region are seemingly intractable, fraught with territorial interests and historical mistrust, the search for the jetliner has prompted countries to cooperate and engage with one another on sensitive issues.
PHOTOS: Missing Malaysia Airlines plane
On Monday, a Chinese search plane spotted "suspicious objects" in the southern Indian Ocean, China's state media reported. The crew sent the coordinates to the Australian command center as well as a Chinese icebreaker, which was en route, but it was unclear how far away the icebreaker was.
China and Japan have sparred for months over islands in the East China Sea, but now are working with the Australian-led team of U.S. and New Zealand planes that has been combing the waters off the coast of western Australia for the last four days. India and China, despite their long rivalry, will share an air base in Malaysia to conduct sweeps of another section of the Indian Ocean.
In all, 26 countries are taking part in coordinated operations to solve one of the great mysteries of aviation history.
"Obviously we have now had a number of very credible leads and there is increasing hope, no more than hope, that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen," Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday.
Australia's maritime authority said Monday morning that the first of 10 military and civilian aircraft, two more than used Sunday, had taken off to look for objects spotted by satellite in the same general area of the southern Indian Ocean about 1,500 miles southwest of Perth, capital of Western Australia state.
"The weather forecast in the search area is expected to deteriorate, with rain likely," the authority said in a statement. That could make it difficult for spotters to see debris, including a wooden pallet that was observed Saturday and that could have come from Flight 370 — though such pallets are also commonly used on ships.
The underlying issues that had produced the tensions in the Asia-Pacific region will not evaporate just because of the current cooperation on the search. But it could subtly help improve the climate in which those issues are addressed.
In the dark days of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union used "confidence-building" measures of cooperation on small matters to make it easier to deal with the larger concerns of nuclear survival. In much the same way, some experts see reason to hope the search for the airliner will make it easier for Asian powers to deal with the larger problems dividing them.
"We're seeing a level of collaboration that's pretty much unprecedented," said John Blaxland, an expert on Asia-Pacific defense and security issues at Australian National University. He likened the current broad-based team effort to the cooperation after the devastating tsunami that struck Indonesia and other countries in the Indian Ocean region a decade ago.
"It's a silver lining to a new dark cloud that has emerged," Blaxland added. "I think it's a pretty exciting and encouraging development."
Relatives of Flight 370 passengers, particularly those from China, have been very critical of the Malaysian government's handling of the investigation, and some U.S. Republican lawmakers Sunday complained about what they regard as a lack of openness and cooperation from Malaysia. But President Obama's deputy national security advisor, Tony Blinken, said Sunday: "If there's anything encouraging in a tragedy like this, it's you have countries working together in ways that they haven't before.
"We have the South Koreans, the Chinese, the Australians, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, all working in the same direction, which is to get to the bottom of what happened," he said on CNN.
The White House is preparing for an Obama trip next month to East Asia, where he plans to visit Malaysia, among other countries. Though events in the Middle East and now Russia have occupied the president's foreign policy efforts, leaving him less time to pursue the administration's strategy to step up its role in Asia, the U.S. has been extensively involved in the Flight 370 case, with the FBI, Navy, NASA and other agencies helping with the investigation and search.
"There clearly is a political element to it for many countries, particularly China," said Euan Graham, a maritime security specialist at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. With Chinese nationals accounting for the majority of the 239 people aboard Flight 370, Beijing faces considerable "grass-roots pressures that it has capabilities it can deploy in China's interests. This is a test case that [Beijing] can make the grade."
On one hand, China's response to the missing flight has demonstrated its technical prowess and formidable resources — from its pictures, taken from one of its many satellites, to the ships Beijing has in the Indian Ocean now steaming toward the location of the objects.
China's extensive naval presence in the region has been a growing concern among a number of Southeast Asian nations that feel Beijing has been throwing its weight around to advance its commercial and political interests. China has clashed with Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines over fishery and other issues.
The effort to find Flight 370 has presented opportunities for Beijing to show a different face. Although Beijing has been frustrated at Malaysia's management of the search and investigation, Chinese officials at times have tried to be diplomatic, passing on information about satellite findings right away to Malaysian officials to allow them to announce it to the international media, as well as sharing it quickly with Australia.
"That was a very significant courtesy they extended to Malaysia," said Blaxland. "I think we're seeing countries recognize that collaboration on such issues is in everybody's interest.... I don't view this as a zero-sum game."


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As we approach the Queen's 90th birthday, we turn the clock back to the day her majesty visited Lancashire for the first time as ruler.
As the Queen celebrates her 90th birthday we have turned the clock back to the day Her Majesty visited the city for the first time as monarch.
Almost 61 years to the day, and on a beautiful, gleaming, sunny, afternoon, a royal carriage pulled onto platform six at Preston railway station and out stepped the sovereign greeted by a red carpet and an adoring crowd of excited onlookers.
Her car then made a 25-minute, three-mile, trip through Preston.
Accompanied by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, the young Queen greeted the 200,000-strong crowd that lined the city's streets.
All along the parade exuberant children waved their Union flags and buildings were decorated in red, white and blue.
Everywher the city stood still as people covered each and every inch of the pavements, some having waited for five hours just to catch a brief glimpse of their Queen.
The Queen's car moved throughout the city, under a twin-row of glistening bayonets Fishergate, to the infirmary where patients welcomed her with cheery placades.
On Deepdale Road the Queen was granted a more sombre welcome by the elderly before she signed the esteemed visitors book and was treated to a round of three cheers organised by the Mayor, J.P. Gray.
Before leaving she inspected the police station at Hutton for 35 minutes.
The visit to Lancashire took in much of the county including Lancaster and Morecambe as our pictures show.


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8th December 2017
Today, the art of storytelling for brands has reached exciting and innovative levels, but regardless of the touchpoint we use to tell the tales, a strong narrative is the driving force. Christian Wilfer, Senior Strategic Planning Director for Grayling Germany, on our #6into18 trends.
Brands are becoming more aware that they do not always have to be the focal point of a good story. Instead, they see the value in giving a voice to real people- be it celebrities, company founders or your everyday hero. If casted correctly, the stars of the show will breath necessary life and meaning into a brands core philosophy, USPs, values and beliefs. Suprising, touching, fascinating and very 'human' stories are all around us – the key is in finding and optimizing them. This is something Coke seems to manage impressively well around Christmas time.
Emotion is key to understanding virally successful and far reaching content we see on the internet. Lets forget about conventional advertisement for a moment: Studies show that there are a variety of different emotional reactions to convincing pieces of content: be it funny, useful, nice, and inspirational or nostalgic, surprising, heart-warming, etc... If brands ignore this and continue to stick with the now antiquated 30 sec and online ad-formats for consumers, they cannot expect engagement figures to change much, but should rather expect only the use of ad-blockers to increase. Organizations need to ask themselves what their audience want to hear, what they would find funny, useful, nice, inspirational, and how they can produce content to resonate with these emotional needs. Only then can brands make it to the 'next level'.
These are the organizations brave enough to invest in high quality media production and to integrate their product and key messages in an artful and yet periferal way. Instead of more traditional advertising methods, they concentrate on emotional storytelling through film, podcasts, or YouTube series.
It has been a while since P&G coined the term 'Soap Opera' through their communications strategy. From the 1930s, the company began to produce their own groundbreaking Radioshows- wiith over 15,000 episodes between 1937 and 2009, Springfield Story was the longest running P&G original production.
Brands today, must devise captivating characters and truly original content in order to buld a loyal following. Collaborations now extend beyond that of brand and agency, extending out to innovative contributions from artists and commedians to regular people. Brands now take the place of media producers. The 'Good To Be Bad' campaign from Jaguar, for example, translates the luxury automobile catgory with an ironic James Bond attitude and star-power. The campaign comes across as a pleasant surprise to audiences, urging viewers to dust off the logo, and view the brand anew.
Similarly, Nike has gone on a content offensive for Women. With 'Better for it', the athletic brand wants to motivate women around the world to become active, pushing out organized runs and a personal training-app. The project has culminated in Branded Entertainment, in the form of the YouTube-series 'Margot vs. Lilly'. The eight part mini-series features two very different sisters who make joint new years resolutions: lonely YouTube star Lily has to find three friends in real life, and the rather un-sporty Margot needs to create a fitness channel reaching 1000 followers.
'Margot vs. Lilly' is an ideal playing field for Nike to promote its products, as well as its sport and lifestyle items (ie Fitness-app Nike+ Training Club). Every episode is followed by a video blog and a landing page where the user can enter to win products used in production. For Nike-manager Bremicker, this creates the perfect synergy between the motivation achieved through the campaign and the easy customer journey down to the suitable fitness equipment a click away.
Interactive StoryLiving means that stories are now truly coming to life for consumers. Through clickable instagram stores and virtual reality adventure, the user is now also part of the story. StoryLiving, a term coined through a Google study, looked at experiencing stories and brand offerings through VR. The ethnographic study found that the perception of users experiencing a 360-degree-video sufficiently provided the immersive experiments as with Headsets like Google Daydream, HTC Vive or Oculus.
The study from Google Zoo shows how much greater a potential VR has to spread incredibly impactful advertisement and journalistic-narrative in comparison to content classically derived from copy, images or videos. Audiences are likely to take stories delivered through VR to heart, at a deeper, and often longer lasting level. Multisensory communication allows the viewer to better see, hear, feel and identify with what other experience. It is no wonder that, according to Forbes, 75% of the most valuable brands are likely to start communicating with audiences using a type of virtual or augmented reality by 2020.
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Seated left to right - Miss West; Isabel Voorhuse, the Ambassador's niece; Conchita Sepulveda; two seated in back don't know their names; Miss Garcia, daughter of Mexican Ambassador to Cuba; Hortense Nixon.
Standing left to right - Marjorie Douglass; Dorothy Kenyon; Frances Molar; don't remember next two; Miss Casey; that is Lois Warren in back, the one you can't see very well; the next three are the Fortuna sisters; don't know the last girl.
Lois Warren is my great grandmother. She married William Levis Judson.


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Visiopharm recently closed its first round of funding with Northcap Partners as only investor. For the first almost six years of its existence, Visiopharm was successfully grown organically, with the determination not to pursue venture capital. In 2004 we came into contact with people from Northcap Partners (then IVS), through serendipity and initially without any intent to collaborate. It turned out to be both a useful and very pleasant acquaintance, where we especially interacted with Thomas Weilby Knudsen and Sten Larsen. Even before we decided to pursue formal collaboration, we were delighted that Mr. Knudsen accepted our invitation to take a seat on the board of Visiopharm. In this capacity he has helped forming long term strategies and both Mr. Knudsen and Mr. Larsen have always been very helpful and valuable as sounding boards for practical operational issues. It soon became a natural step for us to invite Northcap Partners to become formally involved in growing Visiopharm. Even as informed skeptics of the Venture model, we have become convinced that working with Northcap Partners was the right step for Visiopharm.PRIVATE: Members Only


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Mammoth's version of 'The Complete Works of William Shakespeare' delightful
I am not a typical fan of Shakespeare.
Actually, I'm not a fan at all.
I understand why people enjoy his work, and I can respect that, but Shakespeare was never my cup of tea.
When I heard Sierra Classic Theatre was presenting "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)(revised)" in Mammoth Lakes, I knew I had go see what all the hype was about.
I've heard good things about the play before. Critics and reviewers billed the play as a show for Shakespeare lovers and especially for Shakespeare haters.
For those of you who missed out and have no idea what this play is about, in a nutshell, the show takes all 37 works of Shakespeare and presents them in shortened form with a handful of actors.
This loosely patched series of parodies is a malleable piece of lunacy that leaves plenty of room for improvisation and adaptation, making each performance a little different.
Director Craig Sterling called the production—his first one directing—"a labor of love."
"I really didn't fully understand how much went into directing a play," Sterling said. "I had to first choose a script, then re-work the script quite a bit, and then cast the roles.
"Once you had your cast, there was still a lot of reworking of the script that had to be done to work with the cast you have. In the end, I was very proud of our production and the cast."
In addition to Sterling, who did a little acting himself, four more Mammoth locals—Madeline Roy, Pricilla Toledo, Kevin Green, and Sabrina Clevenger—acted, commented, sang, and not only entertained their audiences, but also made them participate in the most hilarious production of "Hamlet" I had ever seen.
Sterling revised the original play to suit Mammoth Lakes and each actor incorporated real-life characteristics into their roles, giving the entire performance a natural and light-hearted touch.
Highlights included reciting the story of Othello as a rap song, all of Shakespeare's histories acted out through an American football game, and Green pretend-puking on audience members sitting in the front row (and also stealing puking scenes from other characters every chance he got).
After about two hours of diaphragmatic convulsing over absurd Shakespeare, I went home with newfound appreciation for the dead guy.
"Shakespeare was an incredibly gifted writer," Sterling said. "It is amazing how much he is quoted or how many of our 'sayings' are derived from [him]. Most people would be surprised how much Shakespeare they really know."
When asked if Sterling would continue directing, he said "definitely."
"I am already working on the next script."


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Wabash's Mobile Applicationby Tom Runge • December 18, 2012 Share:
Wabash College Mobile Site Information
Accessing the Mobile Web Site
The Wabash mobile web site is accessible from any device with a web browser, at m.wabash.edu. In most cases, if you visit the Wabash web site www.wabash.edu from a mobile device, you will be automatically redirected to the mobile site.
What's on the Mobile Web Site
The mobile web site provides easy access to the information you're most likely to need when on the go – news stories, events, campus map, directory information, and athletics information. It also offers easy access to admissions information (including a short form to refer a student), academic information, and campus office hours. If you need to access the full Wabash web site, there's a link at the bottom of the page. Here's a picture of the mobile home page:
What about an app?
The mobile web site provides functionality similar to an app, but is cross-platform and works the same on all mobile devices. It's easy to add the Wabash mobile site to your phone home screen, whether you have an iOS or android device. If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, click the button at the bottom of the browser screen, and click Add to Home Screen.
From an android device, the steps may vary slightly depending on your device, but for most devices click the in the address bar to create a bookmark, then choose Add to Home Screen for the bookmark location.
With your Apple or Android device, you'll then have a "W" icon on your home screen that will take you to the Wabash mobile site with a single tap.


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Opera and art meet for a fundraising evening on Thursday 15 March at Whitechapel Gallery.
Alongside an auction of art, the proceeds of which will fund the gallery's diverse education work, the evening will see performances from The Royal Opera Chorus. Attendees will be transported to the style and spirit of the 1920s with dining options including an oyster bar and vintage cocktails, as well as an Italian menu by Angela Hartnett with Smart Hospitality. The auction will be followed by DJs and dancing into the night.
The Art Plus auction is supported by Swarovski and will be conducted by Sotheby's. Work by artists including Philip Allen, Michael Craig Martin, Sir Howard Hodgkin, Robert Holyhead, Janice Kerbel and Lisa Millroy is on offer with each of these artists bringing their signature styles to bear on the brief.
An annual event, Art Plus explores the dynamic fusion of the visual arts with other mediums including drama, dance, film or music - culminating each year in a one-night only, unforgettable party and performance event; a celebration of creativity.
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Click here to tell Congress: Don't Double Student Loan Interest Rates!
Interest rates for student loans will double on July 1 unless Congress acts. That's outrageous – but the fiscal abuse of our nation's young people runs far deeper than that. An entire generation has been trapped into debt servitude and joblessness by the implacable machinery of Wall Street greed. Bank-servile scolds insult the young people of America while the bankers' economic engines strip-mine their financial future.
Jobless or overextended college graduates aren't even allowed to declare bankruptcy – a privilege that's extended to every reckless investor and mismanaged corporation in the nation. Once they finally find work, college graduates face years of garnished wages to repay the loans that funded their often-overpriced educations. If they haven't repaid that debt by the time they grow old – a very real possibility at the cost of a college education today – they'll even be forced to surrender part of their Social Security benefits.
That's indentured servitude.
Meanwhile banks have been slicing and dicing student loans into derivativefinancial instruments called "SLABS" – student-loan asset backed securities. We've seen this movie before – the one where big banks mass-market loans to a population with stagnated wages and dwindling economic prospects, then bundle them and sell them to investors who haven't reviewed the way they were underwritten and sold.
Hey, what could go wrong?
It's true that many of these packaged debts are backed by the US government – but not all of them.
Why are these graduates facing such a bleak job market? Because Wall Street's gambling on other financial bets crashed the economy, leaving an entire generation without much of a future to give them optimism and hope. Their parents can't help them much, because most of their assets were taken by Wall Street too. So as an entire generation of college students graduates with unprecedented debt – and joblessness that's unprecedented in modern memory – they're looking forward to a lifetime of reduced expectations.
And just like their parents, these young people being told the the banks aren't the problem: They are.
Half of today's college graduates are un- or under-employed. The total amount owed on student loans is greater than our country's entire credit card debt. The banks were rescued in a multi-billion dollar bailout (that did not turn a profit), but If anybody talks about a WPA-like program to rescue young people the bank-funded political crowd gasps in horror.
Instead of help, young people get comments like this now-notorious one from perenially ignorant GOP representative Virginia (Ginny) Foxx: " I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there's no reason for that."
Ginny Foxx is acting out the last in a four-step process to crush the soul and spirit of a generation:
First, cut funding for colleges and universities throughout the country, driving the cost of a college education out of reach of most Americans. And while you're at it, play footsie with the for-profit college industry, giving out student loans for paper mills that churn out worthless diplomas at inflated prices – but whatever you do, don't tell the students that!
Second, lobby to "privatize" much of the student loan industry. Turn Sallie Mae, the agency created to help students, into a greed-driven get-rich-quick scheme for greedy executives (See "Sallie Mae's Jets") who used government money to lobby for their own get-rich-quick schemes and turned the student loan program into a taxpayer-funded money tree for already-rich bankers. (To their great credit, the Obama Administration and Democrats on the Hill did a great deal to roll back this part of the greed machine with last year's student reform law.)
Third, deregulate Wall Street and allow them to wreck the economy, forcing an entire generation to face the bleakest job future in modern memory.
Fourth, condemn them for their own situation. That distracts some people from the real cause of this generational misery.
Blame the victim: It's the oldest game in the world. In fact, it's exactly what was done to many of their parents when they bought their homes. They convinced them that homes would rise in value forever, sometimes hired crooked appraisers to inflate their homes' value, encouraged them to take out loans on that inflated value – and then, when the bubble burst, convinced a lot of people that the real problem in this country is 'greedy homeowners.'
But this time it may not work. There are too many young people, and too many parents, who have learned how the game works. They may not stand for it a second time.
There's another reason why it won't work – and why Mitt Romney is suddenly the voice of reason urging his fellow Republicans not to let these interest rates double. If they do rise after July 1, a lot of students will be unable to pay their debts. Not all of those loans are backed by the government, so a lot of banks will be hurt.
Republicans don't want that to happen – so expect a lot of conversions to "reasonableness" in the coming weeks. The delinquency rates for these loans may be higher than originally believed, and there's reason to believe it could go much higher as more students graduate into a bleak job market. The financial industry is beginning to worry.
It should worry. So should all of the investors who have bought those "SLABS." Between the politics and the economics, Republicans would be crazy to let these interest rates soar. But then, they've done lots of crazy things lately …
Our financial system can't afford another shock. That's another reason why the Administration's additional proposals for easing student loan debt should be passed immediately, especially the "pay as you earn" and "forgiveness in 20 years" (or less) provisions.
But that isn't enough. We owe the next generation a lot more than what's being offered. We owe them nothing less than a national program of jobs – a program that will give them experience, income, and a sense of restored optimism about the future.
Students also deserve the chance to pay off their loans altogether by taking on tough jobs (with salaries) that help society, as well as themselves. (There's some reduction in the length of the loan under the current system, but it should be improved.)
And yes, we should be talking about forgiveness.
It's surprising that we haven't seen more student protests like those that have gripped Quebec. The Occupy Student Debt Campaign may be the first step in that direction.
Think about it: One trillion dollars in loans – loans that look increasingly risky with every month that passes. A generation that was tricked into borrowing for their educations – in many cases for an overpriced or useless diploma, and in many other cases at costs that were driven sky-high by the selfishness and false economy of their elders.
And now, instead of helping our kids, we're letting people like Ginny Foxx demonize them. Or we're letting candidates like Mitt Romney say all the right things, then push for only the bare minimum needed to placate the public – and protect the banks, which is their real agenda.
The choice is simple, really: We can do the right thing by the nation's young people – or we can let the banks slice and dice their futures and sell them to unwary buyers. We can give our kids the chance for a decent life, or let their hopes be run through the Wall Street meat grinder.
We welcomed them into this world with promises. Will we sell their dreams to Wall Street to be carted away on SLABs?


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USA: Pathmark losses rise despite higher sales
Regional grocery chain Pathmark Stores Inc today (Thursday) reported an increased loss for its first quarter ended 30 April 2005, despite higher sales.
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