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Neutral, because both sides will need supplies, and he's willing to make a deal with both of them.
Like most Icilees, Jeggrad is a merchant, dealing in most everything from produce, to artwork to (if you know the password) fire arms.
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Jeggred stands at 5'11 and weighs a lean 150. He has the typical runner's body, being fairly skinny but is all muscle. His upbringing allowed him to become fast and agile, and when he's not doing business he likes to keep in shape. Jeggred has a very pale complection, partially due to the climate of Icilee, and partially due to he does most of his work at night. He also has Black hair and White eyes, yes you read that right, white eyes. An oddity, the color of his pupils is as white as the rest of his eyes, only a thin outline can be seen when one looks close enough. This odd coloration has lead many people to believe he's blind, but in fact his vision is 20-20, though it does make a great ice breaker.
When out an about, Jeggred allows himself to at least look fairly decent for his customers. He wears fine black dress pants, and a nice white shirt to go along with it. Though it is rarely seen, due to the fact he always wears a fine leather trench coat and black Ivy Hat. He claims that it makes him look more fashionable, but truthfully it's a custom jacket, with a fair amount of pockets on the inside. It's helpful because it hides his ammo, gun, wallet, knife, and anything else he usually has with him without anyone noticing any of the items. He does however, wear comfortable shoes, not dress shoes. Mostly its because of stated above, were he likes to go for a run or walk every so often. Also on colder days, he's sometimes seen with a black and white checkered scarf, that manages to wrap around his neck and fall about gut length on his body. (This scarf makes most people believe his favorite colors are black and white, which in truth isn't, he just looks the best in those colors in his opinion.)
Jeggred is the shrewd business man through and through. A customer? He's the most honest and decent person you'll ever meet, buying or selling he'll never steer you wrong. A competitor? He's the most low-down, devious, despicable asshole you've ever seen. Willing to go as far as death threats and (in extreme cases) kidnappings to get you to back off his turf. Those foolish enough to call his bluff have regretted it every day. However his true personalty lies when there's no business to be had (rare times indeed). He's greedy, manipulative, and cunning no matter what the case, and that's how most people (outside the market) see him.
He isn't afraid to manipulate anyone to get what he wants. Jeggred's entire life is dedicated to making money. A few have seen him giving food to local orphans, while he was claiming he'd come from that life and wanted to make life easier for them. However truthfully he hopes they'll become successful like he is and eventually come spend their money at his shops. In fact probably the best way to describe Jeggred would be a mercenary. He goes where the money goes, no ties to anyone or anything if someone else is willing to pay more. He does a damn good job at what he's paid to do though, and you won't find him turning down a lot of job offers.
Jeggred's main hobby is gun collecting, of all sorts. Pistols, Shotguns, Rifles, he isn't picky. He mostly likes to collect them for the most important reason: profit. People on the black market are always willing to pay huge sums of money for weapons, however he does keep the best guns (in his opinion) to himself, but for the right price, he'd even give those up.
Jeggred grew up in the capital city Cyrko in Icilee as an orphan. Abandoned on the streets at five, he couldn't remember anything before then, just his name and where he was. Life's hard as an orphan, especially in a country as cold as Icilee, it was a tough life growing up, even in the ever booming economy of Icilee, it was still rare to find a kind enough Samaritan for an orphan. Especially considering he was in the poorest area of the capital city. Every day he would wander the market, looking for scraps, he would become even more fascinated by how much money these merchants were making. How could they charge so much for a loaf of bread, and everyone accept it? People were willing to waste money like that? Jeggred had to be apart of this system. Jeggred started working for them when he was 10. Who you may ask? Anyone who'd hire him. They didn't care, all they cared about was making sure the jobs got done. Most of them involved the black market, drugs, stolen goods, etc. Through his quick deliveries and lack of complaining or questions, he was given more advanced jobs, like blackmail and information gathering. These skills would help him to pursue his actual dream, to be the richest man in Icilee.
After working for the Black Market and Planning for 8 years, Jeggred decided to put his plan into motion. Because of his hard work over the years, those in the black market came to trust him, and that allowed him to have connections in the black market. Using them, Jeggred was able to snag produce, gems, and other various goods for cheap, mostly from robbers, thieves, murderers, etc, to sell every thing slightly cheaper than the other merchants. The same items for lower prices? It's no wonder he has so many loyal customers (Wal-Mart anyone?). They're so loyal in fact, no one's noticed the increases in prices since the sixth month he opened. Now his goods are some of the most expensive, so people believe they're of higher quality, and thus want them more.
Jeggred has cheated and stole to get to the seat of power, but he never lied to his customers, that'd just be bad business. However years of the same old, same old, began to bore him, immensely. He wanted more excitement in his life, and thus he returned to his roots. With the long war over, there was a huge supply of guns, and an even bigger demand for them. One of his friends let him try a revolver out, and after firing the six-shots at a target, he knew they were just what he wanted. Jeggred devoted the next few years researching, manipulating, and swindling his way into the arms dealership in secrecy, while maintaining his current marketplace standing as well. However, to keep the good graces of his connections, occasionally he will do a job for the Black Market, but they haven't contacted him for one in over a year.
Jeggred's carries a variety of guns with him at all times. Being a fairly successful merchant, one can never be too careful. He's usually carrying a standard six-shot revolver. He carries 24 extra bullets for the revolver, which he keeps in varies pockets on his coat. He also carries around a six inch hunting knife, for those foolish enough to try and steal his wallet or guns.
Psychic, mind reading to be exact. Its how Jeggrad is able to slowly gain people's trust and somehow know all the prices everywhere, everyone assumes he is just well versed in everything, but he can freely enter and exit anyone's mind. However, he can only look for specific things at a time, he can't just waltz in and start looking at everything, Jeggred has to know what he's looking for ahead of time in order to read someone's mind.
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The VCCP-created campaign stars Beyoncé and the crew from her tour in an opulent setting reminiscent of Marie Antoinette holding court in 18th century France, but with a modern twist, incorporating high hemlines and DJ decks.
O2 customers can buy tickets to 'The Mrs.Carter Show World Tour' gigs in Birmingham, London's O2, and Manchester from 9.30am on 21 February, 48 hours before they go on general release.
The art director at VCCP was Rachel Robinson and the copywriter was Stephania Silveira. Jonas Akerlund at RSA Films directed the ad and it features new music from the singer.
The TV ad, which is available in 40-second, 60-second and two-minute versions, debuted online today and will air on TV in the UK for the first time this evening.
Sally Cowdry, marketing and consumer director at O2, said: "Beyoncé is, quite simply, one of the world's biggest superstars. We know everyone will love seeing her and we're proud to be able to offer our customers access to tickets 48 hours before general sale."
All versions of the ad and a behind-the-scenes video are available on O2's YouTube channel and the campaign will be promoted through Beyoncé's and O2's social media channels.
In addition, a 30-second "artist's cut" of the ad will be used to promote Beyoncé's tour globally from 11 February.
As part of 'The Mrs. Carter World Tour', Beyoncé will play Birmingham's LG Arena on 26 April, The O2 on 29 and 30 April and 1 and 3 May, and the Manchester Evening News Arena on 7 May.
Media planning and buying for the campaign was by Zenith.
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As household gadgets turn more interactive — think programming a DVR with your cell phone — there's growing concern that "seemingly harmless devices" like televisions, media players and, yes, refrigerators could become electronic "zombies," infected by all sorts of computer bugs, says a report from Geek.com.
The proof of this dangerous trend? Proofpoint, an electronic security company, has found that some 750,000 emails have been spammed out to interactive devices other than computers, including apparently an icebox (OK, a high-powered icebox that probably has a built-in water filtration system and a fast-chill setting for white wine, but an icebox just the same). The spams were sent out starting in December — typically around "100,000 at a time," according to Geek.com.
It's a serious security issue that may ultimately require periodic software updates for all manner of electronic devices. The problem is that most of us have enough trouble remembering to update our computers, much less our refrigerators, Geek.com says.
But ignoring the reality is hardly the solution: After all, a fridge that's "infected" by spam may be a fridge that lets all your milk turn bad. Even worse: In our brave new world of hyper-connectivity, a bug could possibly spread from your fridge to your laptop to your phone. In other words, a software virus is the gift that keeps on giving.
Of course, there is one alternative: Go with a simpler, non-interactive fridge — at least while they're still fairly commonplace. Auction site eBay even has some deals on genuine iceboxes.
— Charles Passy
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Twitter Inc., the social-networking company that has seen its shares soar since debuting on the New York Stock Exchange last month, was downgraded by Macquarie Capital, which said the stock has gone "too far, too fast."
Ben Schachter, a Macquarie analyst in New York, lowered his rating from neutral to underperform -- the equivalent of sell. The shares have jumped 40 percent since Macquarie initiated coverage on Dec. 11, without any improvement in Twitter's fundamentals, Schachter said in a report.
"We continue to believe that Twitter as a company has a bright future and many opportunities ahead," he said. "However, as a stock, we believe nothing has changed over the last 15 days to justify the rise in valuation."
Shares of San Francisco-based Twitter fell 5.5 percent to $69.28 as of 9:57 a.m. New York time. Through yesterday, the stock had almost tripled from its $26 IPO price. That has put it well above Schachter's 12-month price target of $46.
The unprofitable company was valued at $41.6 billion as of yesterday's close, making it larger than Time Warner Cable Inc., Viacom Inc. or Target Corp. Investors expect Twitter to benefit from a surge of mobile-advertising sales. Still, the wide discrepancies in analyst revenue estimates have raised concerns, Schachter said. Twitter's IPO had a relatively small number of underwriters, leading to a situation where more than a dozen banks initiated coverage without getting detailed guidance from management, he said.
Twitter also needs time to build up its headcount, Schachter said. The company has half as many employees as Facebook Inc., the world's biggest social-networking site.
"It takes time and people to execute against opportunities," he said.
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I wrote this poem in October 2012 as I was studying and experiencing prayer. I know I posted it to by blog before, but folks seem to connect to it. It resonates with me, so I'm repeating it with my Sunday morning devotions.
Abba, Thank You Today
Abba, Abba, how I missed you,
Even as you were by me all the time.
In your presence, you are so large, so great,
so much like when I was a very young one.
Your Name shines everywhere, every day.
You fill me up each day.
You pick me up each day.
You embrace me each day as I accept your presence.
How great is your presence here today each time we invite you in,
Each time we open our eyes to see,
Each time we listen and hear you.
Sometimes your words are so hard for me to hear,
So hard to understand,
The Greek so formal, the Aramaic so new yet intimate.
I listen today in new ways.
You bring me daily bread, protein and bulk to
feed me all day and night.
Untie, for sure, the knots of failure, knots I tie.
I fumble to untie the knots that I have tied
around me and around so many,
the strands so complex, so hard to see now.
Yet I see so much in your glow.
I am warmed and joyful.
From you, new blessings flow.
Blessings grow.
Blessings, I know.
I grow.
Shine within me.
You wipe out the darkness.
Glow, too, for these neighbors today.
Your Word is the light.
Your Word is my joy.
(c) Tom Bolton, Milwaukee, 26 October 2012


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By Jonathan Dobrer
In California it's illegal to force-feed ducks and geese. However, a federal judge has just ruled that prisoners on hunger strikes may be force-fed. What's bad for the goose and drake is apparently good for the jailbird.
It seems to me that we all should have a right to die — as long as we base the exercise of that right on reason or judgment and not on a transient impulse. It's one thing to feel bad, angry or depressed and reach for a gun or pills. Deciding to jump off a bridge or set oneself on fire can be a rash and irrational act. Society has a right to intervene and impose time and treatment.
But choosing to starve to death isn't an impulse. It takes time, willpower and is a constantly renewed commitment to an outcome —either political or personal. I believe our lives and deaths should belong to us. We can make bad decisions and take foolish risks. We can show extreme bravery or bad judgment — sometimes both at once.
Founding Father and patriot Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty or give me death." He didn't say, "Give me liberty or give me therapy." Nor even "Give me liberty or give me some cooling-off time."
Whether a prisoner or a patriot, adults who have been adjudicated sane enough to stand for office or stand for trial should be considered competent to make their own decisions in terms of food, feeding and health care. Deciding to torture people in order to prolong their lives, or living deaths, is cruel and tragically not that unusual.
We spend fortunes trying to execute prisoners who want to live, and now we fight to feed prisoners who want to die? All of this seems perverse, even crazy, to me. We impose food and health care on criminals and deny them to the poor and hungry who want to eat and live. We march for the geese (and that's fine) but stick tubes down the throats of criminals against their will. Only one month ago another federal judge held that force-feeding inmates at Guantanamo was illegal.
Whether inmates held in isolation for years without end or prisoners at Guantanamo held indefinitely without trial, they should have the right to escape hell. No one believes that those who jumped out of the windows of the towers on 9-11 should have stayed in a burning room. We shouldn't require even the worst amongst us to live indefinitely without any realistic hope for release.
Jonathan Dobrer, a professor of comparative religion at the American Jewish University in Bel-Air, blogs at http://blogs.dailynews.com/friendlyfire/. www.Dobrer.com


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, July 04, 2011
Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: "Maybe this country needs a bit of Fourth of July the year round."
But despite his best efforts, no government official in any department was interested. After many rejections Rockwell found himself making once last appeal; to the Office of War Information "or, to speak plainly," wrote Rockwell in his autobiography, "the propaganda department."
"I showed the Four Freedoms to the man in charge of posters but he wasn't even interested. "The last war you illustrators did the posters," he said. "This war we're going to use fine arts men, real artists."
Finally, almost coincidentally, Rockwell showed the Four Freedoms to Saturday Evening Post editor Ben Hibbs, who immediately, enthusiastically commissioned their completion. "Drop everything else," said Hibbs, "just do the Four Freedoms. Don't bother with Post covers or illustrations."
Rockwell spent six months on the four paintings. 'Freedom from Want' and 'Freedom from Fear' (both above) came quite easily... but he struggled tremendously with 'Freedom of Speech' and 'Freedom of Worship' (below), wanting to make his feelings on these subjects abundantly clearly to all those who would eventually see them. Rockwell painted and repainted these two pieces until he was satisfied he had "boiled it down into a clear, precise statement."
When the Four Freedoms were done, "The results astonished us all." Wrote Saturday Evening Post editor Ben Hibbs. "Requests to reprint came in from other publications. Various Government agencies and private organizations made millions of reprints and distributed them all over the world."
"The Treasury Department took the originals on a tour of the nation... to sell war bonds. They were viewed by 1,222,000 people in 16 leading cities and were instrumental in selling $132,992,539 worth of bonds."
"'Freedom of Worship' and 'Freedom of Speech' hang in my own office, and I love them. They are a source of daily inspiration to me - in the same way that the clock tower of Old Independence hall, which I can see from my office window, inspires me. If this is Fourth of July talk, so be it. Maybe this country needs a bit of Fourth of July the year round."
Hibbs continued, "Visitors... always exclaim over these paintings. They marvel at the depth of feeling which Norman was able to build into those pictures. Many people have asked me whether I regard the 'Freedom of Worship' and the 'Freedom of Speech' as great art. I do. Norman himself probably would disagree.
"He has always modelled himself an 'illustrator' with no pretensions of fine art."
* The Four Freedoms, as reproduced in today's post, appear courtesy of the Norman Rockwell Museum
Freedom from Want, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾ x 35 ½" Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943 ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum
Freedom from Fear, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 13, 1943 From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN (S569)
Freedom of Speech, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 45 ¾" x 35 ½" From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 20, 1943
Freedom of Worship, Norman Rockwell. 1943. Oil on canvas, 46" x 35 ½" Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27, 1943 ©1943 SEPS: Licensed by Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN From the permanent collection of Norman Rockwell Museum
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These 4 pieces are so stunning and so meaningful. They are an American treasure!ReplyDelete
No matter how many times I see these great illustrations, they never fail to take my breath away.ReplyDelete
Ditto to the remarks above. In 1953, when I was 13, I sent Norman Rockwell a letter telling him how much I liked his illustrations and that I wanted to be an illustrator someday. He wrote back a cordial letter thanking me and wishing me luck in my endeavor. A few days later came a large cardboard tube in the mail, and rolled up inside of the tube were a set of reproductions of the Four Freedom paintings. Freedom of Speech was signed in ink, "My best to Tom Watson, Sincerely Norman Rockwell." It is framed and now hangs in our guest bedroom. Needless to say, they are one of my most prized possessions to this day.ReplyDelete
Happy 4th of July, and thanks for the appropriate post, Leif.
Tom Watson
These are classic examples of propaganda done correctly and successfully. The fact that so many people forget that it is propaganda and instead look upon these great pieces of art as symbols of their personal and national identity is a testament to the genius of the artist and the way he conveys the message.ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting these! They never get old!
Looking at "Freedom From Fear" at the Rockwell Museum a couple of years back brought tears to my eyes. A extremely powerful piece, as effective today as when it was first painted, I think.ReplyDelete
The independent animator,ReplyDelete
I agree with your assessment of Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. However, just the word "propaganda" can be misleading (a knee-jerk negative connotation) for some people.
[prop-uh-gan-duh] Show IPA
information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc.
the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement."
Unfortunately it's the negative view of "propaganda" that draws all the attention. I think that Rockwell did mean the Four Freedoms paintings to be "symbols of America's personal and national identity". This was what they risked loosing if they didn't continue to come together as a nation and fight for victory against Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Those paintings are such monumental reminders of our history during that time, that I hate to attach a label to them like "propaganda," even though the government used them as a propaganda tool to inspire and raise money for the war, through war bonds sales. For most Americans, they were far more than that, as suggested by your's and other comments.
Tom Watson
I've been to Thanksgiving dinners that "felt" like the one portrayed. I've been tucked in like those children. I've seen all sorts of different religions practicing without disturbance in New York where I live. And I've been at town meetings where people complain and heard the worst slanders spoken against president after president without retribution.ReplyDelete
These are masterpieces of truth.
The Norman Rockwell Derangement Syndrome that plays so often online and in pseudo-sophisticated culture circles is boring, provincial and the product of unhappy minds that can only think in terms of criticism and negativity.
Tom and Kev,ReplyDelete
As someone who considers much of his work to be in the realm of propaganda (whether overtly so or not), I do not consider this to be a dirty word. I am proud to work in propaganda, because it is a powerful tool that can be used correctly for the good of humans everywhere.
Anytime you need to mobilize a group of people to work toward a common purpose, whether as a country, company, or even a family, you will find that you have to overcome the divisions between people before you will accomplish anything. That is why pictures like Rockwell's were so important: they emphasized the "us" rather than "us but not them."
This was a big problem for the U.S. government. As my grandfather said of his entry into the Navy in 1943, "The recruiter told me how we would fight side by side, but that first night in boot camp we fought the Civil War all over again."
Yes, these Rockwell pictures ARE propaganda. That doesn't mean that they are not grounded in some truth or that they are cynical attempts to manipulate people for selfish purposes. Yet you cannot deny that Rockwell painted idealized images intended to tug at the heartstrings in order to persuade people to say, "Yes, that is the way I want to live, and I will fight to protect it."
Personally, I find it odd that propaganda machines are today used globally to unprecedented levels, yet people still consider it to be a dirty word. It kind of reminds me of the quote, "The biggest lie the devil ever made was that he didn't exist."
It is my hope that we embrace propaganda, both the word and the industry, and use it correctly to its full and positive effect.


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Olivia Brown necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 316 diseños de 58 diseñadores freelance.
Olivia Brown Photographic
YAY! I'm so excited about this process. Come on designers! If you can make something clean, fresh, upscale-yet-artsy, hit me up. I will hug you electronically with glee if you make me something awesome.
Me? I'm Olivia, a successful, award-winning creative photographer, shooting 30-40 weddings a year. I'm young and on the up-and-up, am involved in international photography associations, and my clients are high-end, but laid-back and artsy.
Think more Austin than L.A.
However, since pictures apparently, paint thousands of words, I want to keep my focus on the images rather than a distracting logo.
CLEAN. ULTRA-MODERN. ARTSY. HIGH-END. Don't go nuts with the colour... Subtle is good. Looking for mainly font-based, maybe one iconographic element in background or to balance text.
It's totally necessary that you check out my blog and site to get to know me and my style a bit.
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Text-based logo "Olivia Brown Photographic" with possibly some iconographic elements added.
Trendy but not over-the-top.
I don't mind - clean-but-retroey - all-caps are cool - script is cool - all lower-case is cool.
you are cool. Be cool for me! :)
Colours- I like black/white/beige
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When we spotted a dream catcher suspended above Nicole Cari's bed, we couldn't help but find some irony in what may be the coolest item in her slick Silver Lake abode. There's no getting around it — the down-to-earth, curly haired brunette's life is the stuff fashion fantasies are made of. As the senior director of marketing and communications for one of our fave native-L.A. brands, Band of Outsiders, Cari regularly plays dress up with Scott Sternberg, is blessed with an enviable clothing allowance, and has had a major hand in building the brand into the empire it is today.


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2008-09: Participated in every event for the second straight year, playing 18 rounds as a sophomore...Recorded an average score of 91.0 on the season...Shot a season-low 87 on three occasions...Two of the 87s came at the Northeast Conference Championships...Season-best finish was at the Hartford Spring Inviational where she placed 26th with rounds of 90 and 91.
2007-08: Appeared in every event during freshman season...Had a 90.0 stroke average over the 20 rounds...Tied for 17th at the CCSU Spring Invitational, posting a pair of 88s...Shot season-best 82 in second round action at the Northeast Conference Championships...Finished 27th.
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Fleming Receives Honors
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V. Brandt also
of Concord i a;
and the "United
States of Tomor-row"
by H.
Krenz of Dr. Martin Luther College.
Arvid Gullerud of Dr. Martin Lu-ther
College won first place in de-clamatory
with "Our Guide in
Genoa and Rome." Doris Lundquist
gave "The Sign of the Cross" as
Bethel's declamatory contribution.
After the judge, Mr. Schekesbe of
the Minneapolis Public Library, had
given his remarks and pronounced
the winners, Prof. H. C. Wingblade
presented the trophies to the win-ners.
The contest was sponsored by the
Student Council. The visiting con-testants
were entertained by a corn-mittee
with Gustav Ferre as chair-man.
Bruce Fleming
Rev. Holm
9ttel ' The Bethel Clarion Vol. XVII, No. 8 BETHEL INSTITUTE, ST. PAUL, MINN. May, 1938
Gospel Bus Purchase
Plans Changed;
Are More Certain
Boarding Club and
Council May Cooperate
Plans for purchasing a Gospel
Team bus have been entirely
changed since the last issue of the
"Clarion." The State B. Y. P. U. is
no longer interested in the coopera-tion
plan as they have now pur-chased
a trailer of their own.
However, the student council re-cently
met with the Boarding Club
to consider a plan of going half and
half with that group. The plan
seemed very favorable, but the
Boarding Club will not be able to
render a final decision until it has
received its financial reports which
will be in the very near future.
The following policy will be fol-lowed
if the plan is adopted: The
Gospel Teams will take over the
Fall work of the Boarding Club,
visiting the various churches. The
bus shall be so constructed that the
seats will be removable and may be
taken out for a bulk load. It will
also have doors in the rear.
If any organization besides the
Gospel Teams desire to use the bus,
it will be necessary for them to get
permission from the c o bine d-boards
of the Boarding Club and the
Student Council.
The bus, a 1938 model, including
$50,000 worth of insurance, the li-cense,
and any other small ex-penses,
will cost between $900 and
$1000. Over $200 is now available in
cash and more will be on hand when
the pledges of last year's students
are collected. There has been some
confusion in the plan concerning the
Boarding Club: Some think that the
purchase of the bus will mean a
cutting into the deposit of the Club,
but it merely means that perhaps a
small amount will be taken from
the refunds. It is being planned,
also, to approach the student body
for subscriptions. Other friends, too,
may be interested, but there will be
no approach to bodies outside the
./ College Club Meets with
Professor Glen Clark
Prof. Glen Clark, instructor in
English at Macalester College, gave
a message on prayer at a meeting
of the College Club, Wednesday eve-ning,
April 27. Prof. Clark is a well-known
author; among his works is
"Souls Sincere Desire."
Special music was rendered by
Phyllis Swanson and Ruth Ericson,
in the form of a vocal duet. Paul
Lundgren led in devotions. Re-freshments—
strawberry shortcake—
and a social period followed.
At the previous meeting of the
College Club, Dr. Wallace, former
president of Macalester College,
gave an address on the results of
the last World War.
Seminarians Appoint
For Annual Banquet
Seminary students and guests will
gather on the evening of May 16,
for their annual banquet, with Dr.
Wm. B. Riley as the main speaker.
Plans for the remainder of the ar-rangements
are going forward under
three committees: program commit-tee,
Herman Tegenfeldt, chairman,
Henrietta Carlson, and Wilbur Sor-ley;
decorations committee, Bruce
Fleming, chairman, Maurice Wess-man,
Maurice Lawson, Ruth Tegen-feldt,
and Harold Wilson; finance
and place committee, Folke Ferre,
chairman, Clifford Dickau, and Carl
Officers of the seminary classes
are as follows: Juniors, president,
Herman Tegenfeldt; vice president,
Ned Holmgren; secretary-treasurer,
Florence Lindstrom; Middlemen,
president, Edward Nelson; and sec-retary-
treasurer, Gordon Anderson;
Seniors, president, Andrew Sinkiew-icz;
secretary, Lois Sorley, and
treasurer, Floyd Richert.
Sophomore Class Entertained
In Dean Johnson's Home
The Sophomore class of 1938 was
invited to a pleasant evening in
Dean Johnson's home, Monday eve-ning,
April 11. Entertainment was
furnished with a variety of inter-esting
games in which several stu-dents
tended first prizes. Refresh-ments
were served by Mrs. Johnson
after which a few songs were sung.
Student Missionary
Group Reorganizes
Students representing five differ-ent
student groups met in the in-terest
of missions at Medicine Lake,
May 8 and 9. There were forty-two
registered delegates and these de-cided
to organize the students of
Minnesota into a Missionary Con-ference
entirely separate from the
Student Volunteers.
They adopted a new constitution
with the "purpose of promoting mis-sionary
interest among students and
developing a sense of unity in the
common cause of evangelical mis-sions
by a general annual fall con-vention,
an annual spring retreat,
the development of local fellow-ships,
and the interchange of mis-sionary
programs among member
groups." Charter members of this
Students' Missionary Conference in-clude
Gustavus Adolphus, St. Peter;
St. Olaf, Northfield; Augsburg Sem-inary,
Minneapolis; St. Paul Bible
Institute; and Bethel Institute, St.
Paul. The officers for the following
year are: Pres. — Sam Schultz,
Bethel; Vice Pres.—Arnold Ander-son,
Gustavus Adolphus; Recording
Secy.—Margaret Sovak, St. Olaf;
Corresponding Secy. — Ruth Olson,
Bethel; Treasurer—R. Edythe Gant,
St. Paul Bible Institute; and our ad-viser
is Rev. J. Hilmer Norum.
Alexis Society Frolics
Around Hearth Fire
Because of unfavorable weather
conditions, the outdoor meeting
planned by the Alexis Society for
the evening of May 4, became in-stead
an "indoor pow-wow."
Games were played in the Semin-ary
gym under the direction of Wil-bur
Sorley, after which typical
"p o w- w o w" refreshments were
served around the open fire in the
dining hall.
Andrew Sinkiewicz, president of
the society, was in charge of the
meeting, and Henrietta Carlson, Mrs.
Herman Tegenfeldt, and Florence
Lindstrom acted as refreshment
14 Baseball—Bethany—here.
Visitors' Day.
16 Seminary Banquet.
17 Baseball—Concordia—here.
18 College Club.
20 Baseball—Luther—there.
21 Junior College Banquet.
25 Alexis.
27 Baseball—Waldorf—there.
30 Memorial Day—Holiday.
31 Baseball—Concordia—there.
1 Reception for H. C. Wingblade.
"Conflict in religion is the worst
kind of conflict."
"The best way to secure peace is
to present the Gospel of Christ."
Rev. B. Schlipf.
Full Program
Promised for
Visitors' Day
Missionary Holm
Is Guest Speaker
Visitors' Day, which is an annual
affair at Bethel, and which includes
open house, an entire day's program
of varied entertain-ment,
will be held
May 14, at Bethel
Institute. Several in-teresting
events will
occur, each one a
feature. Plans are
being made to have
an entertaining so-cial
time, athletic
events, a musical
program, and a de-votional
- missionary
The main athletic
event of the day will
be a baseball game
with Vocational High School.
Falling in line with our noble
ancestry, coffee fumes shall be
smelled, and every one will trek to
the source to enjoy conversation
while enjoying "coffee and".
Changing the order from last
years' celebration, the musical con-tribution
to the day's events will be
in the afternoon. The Male Chorus,
recently returned from a successful
concert tour, will give several num-bers
from their repertoire. The A
Capella Choir will also sing several
selections. The program is under
the direction of Prof. Hultgren.
An intra-mural kittenball game
will be played preceeding supper.
The fellows have been practicing for
this game, and it, too, should be a
lively one.
For the nominal fee of twenty-five
cents, supper will be served to all
visitors and students. This should
be an opportune time to meet new
Bethelites and friends, see old ac-quaintances,
to recall old times, and
participate in a general happy as-sociation.
The greatest event of the day will
be the evening service which is of
a missionary character. Missionary
Reuben Holm, on furlough after five
an one-half years of service, will
give the address. Rev. Mr. Holm is
succeeding Dr. 0. L. Swanson in the
mission field. This occasion will
hear the Melody Twins, Missionary
Holm and Rev. Alphin Conrad,
evangelist, who will sing several
numbers. During their time together
before Mr. Holm left for India, they
travelled throughout the country
singing after their graduation.
Other musical offerings will be
given by the Central Girls' Chorus,
directed by Mrs. Alfred Rundquist.
and accompanied by Evangeline
Wingblade, Bethel music student.
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To a Higher Ground
Bethel has a wealth of opportunities in re-gard
to her musical possibilities.
A finer voice instructor could not be obtained,
and his willingness and desire to serve the stu-dents
and school have not been appreciated as
highly as they might. The background of ex-perience
that has been his is just a part in his
contribution, for his personality inspires all who
come in contact with him. To Professor George
G. Hultgren, our faithful instructor, our most
sincere thanks for all kindness, inspiration and
In Professor Theodore Bergman there lies
teaching talent that a few have used, but as a
school his presence can be utilized more fully
not only in piano work, but in various lines of
theory study and history of music.
With these men on our faculty, Bethel's music
department should soar to more elevated
heights, but we as students are lax and are fail-ing
in responding to the chances that are ours.
Courtesy or Crudity
Don Quixote is dead, Cervantes pricked his
quasi-chivalry with a sharper weapon than the
sword. King Arthur, his gallant knights of the
Round Table, and their marvellous deeds of
valour and knight-errantry moulder in the
dusty archives of memory. And yet through all
their absurdly heroic extravagances there ran
a golden thread that should be imperishable
and endless—common courtesy—the outward
expression of an inner state.
Somehow there has crept into our school life
a strangely crude attitude. Instead of respect-ing
the birthrights of our friends and address-ing
them by the fond names their proud parents
so carefully selected we assail them with such
poetical and endearing names as: louse, rat,
weasel, punk, stooge, sour puss, and a zoo of
others, thinking that because we grin when we
say them that they are perfectly "swell." It
seems that the more intimate our friends are
the lower we place them on the evolutionary
chain. If we enter into a discussion on a theo-logical
or social question with fellow students,
we consider ourselves exceedingly fortunate if
we escape with only one or two labels adhering
to us, such as: heretic, modernist, liberal,
heathen, Socialist, Communist, and Anarchist.
Brethren, these things ought not so to be.
And as for the civilities due the frailer sex,
well, 'nuff said. At any rate the matter has
more serious aspects than may be indicated
herein, which are worthy of your consideration
and analysis; but maybe you'd rather sit back
and smile, wondering who the droop is who
wrote this rot.
The Holy Grail
"And he took a cup", is the brief
word of the Evangelist. But around
the simple vessel of the Last Supper
legends have accumulated and the
precious cup has become the Grand
Saint Grail of saga and song. Gala-had,
Percival, Bors had sight of it,
and on the death of Percival it was
again taken to heaven.
But in our day the Holy Grail has
appeared again, and appeared in
Biblical Archeology. In the year
1910 some Arabs who were digging
a well on the site of Antioch in
Syria found several objects of silver.
Of these the most important was a
chalice, consisting of an inner cup,
hammered out of a plain sheet of
silver, and an outer receptacle of
exquisite workmanship. Two art
collectors, Salim and Constantine
Kouchakji, heard of the discovery
and finally secured the objects and
sent them to their brother George
of the firm of Kouchakji Freres of
Paris and New York. On the eve
of the battle of the Marne the chalice
was forwarded to the representatives
of the firm in New York, and there
it has remained.
One day in the year 1915 the prom-inent
Swedish-American scientist
and writer, Dr. Gustavus A. Eisen,
stood in front of the window of a
Fifth Ave. art store. A necklace of
antique glass pearls interested him
and he wished to make a sketch of
these unusual pearls. Mr. Habib
Kouchakji became interested in the
visitor and brought out the myster-ious
treasure of the Orient. For Dr.
Eisen this was the beginning of nine
years of the most painstaking study
of the cup, resulting in the publica-tion
of two large folio volumes,
"The Great Chalice of Antioch."
On opposite sides of the outer re-ceptacle
there are two figures of the
same person; one represents him as
a youth, the other portrays him as
a mature man. Around each of
these two figures five other figures
are grouped all looking in adoration
toward one of the first mentioned
figures. Dr. Eisen believes the two
central figures to be figures of
Christ, one representing him as a
youth, the other as the Savior of
the world. The four figures about
the youthful Christ he believes to
be the four evangelists; the fifth,
John's brother who was added be-cause
of his kinship to John. The
four about the mature Christ he
believes to be Peter, Paul, James,
and Jude, while Andrew, Peter's
brother, is added as the fifth figure,
to correspond to the addition of
John's brother in the other group.
"The face of the Christ seems di-vine",
writes Dr. Eisen; "no subse-quent
artist has succeeded in impart-ing
that sweetness and gentleness
which tradition gives to the Savior's
features and which we here for the
first time see realized. The heads
of the apostles are equally remark-able.
We seem to read the char-acter
of each of them; the very soul
of man is here portrayed in the metal
as perhaps never before or after in
Christian art."
In conclusion a word of Professor
George A. Barton: "If the artistic
work was done in the first century,
what cup, except one, would be so
honored. It is immediately sug-
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Neglected Consultations
Following an advisable tendency for student
guidance, Bethel maintains the advisory group
plan. Consultation proves beneficial and it is
recognized as a good procedure, but the plan
lacks definite organization on the campus.
The Monday chapel hour could be set aside
for the main purpose of a council group under
its respective faculty advisor. Here the various
problems of the student can be approached,
necessary announcements for the week made,
and the time made into an orientation period
in discussion of each student's problems.
The advisory plan is a good one, and we
should take advantage of it.
"In Silver Slanting Rain"
There is a special sort of thrill that comes with
defying the elements of Nature. Have you ever stood
at the top of a hill on a windy day in Spring and
experienced the peculiar exhilaration that comes
with the fierce driving of wind against your body
and through your hair? Or have you ever been
caught in a sudden storm and gloried in the strange
and unknown power you felt within you as you
found yourself breathless but victorious in the midst
of a world gone suddenly and furiously wild?
The other evening a friend and I donned old
clothes and went walking for over an hour in the
pouring rain. We held out our hands like cups to
catch the drops and laughed aloud as the water
trickled in small, cool rivulets from our hair and
over our faces. The wet, living ground was black
and spongy beneath our feet, and the dripping
blades of grass clung teasingly to our ankles.
Up above us, in the trees the birds were calling
forth the budding leaves, and the sudden gusts of
wind, showered us with pink, wet blossoms. Cars
drove past us slowly, sending sprays of muddy water
in every direction. Some of the occupants looked
at us askance, and some in open amusement as we
walked bareheaded and leisurely through the rain.
Parts of every rain poem I'd ever learned raced
through my head, and much to my friend's amuse-ment,
I found myself repeating them in short, jum-bled
sentences, ending always with my favorite—
"I find a lasting song
In silver, slanting rain."
We were so wrapped up in the rain-wet world
around us that we scarcely noticed that grey twi-light
had given way to early darkness until we saw
the street lights snap on like flickering stars through
the rain; and then we hurried home gratefully to
the comforting warmth of dry clothes and a fire-lit
room. Our hearts felt somehow light and glad as
though, like the blossoming trees outside, they had
been washed clean of everything that could mar
their beauty.
"And he wist not that the Lord was departed
from him." Judges 16:20
The strong man betrayed the source of his
strength to the object of an unholy affection.
The calamitous result was preceded by a char-acteristic
self-sufficiency which leads inevitably
to a fall: "I will go out as at other times be-fore."
The breaking of a vow will have its serious
consequences in any life. Samson ventured on
the enemy's territory, succumbed to tempta-tion,
and without consciousness of God's with-drawal,
began to exercise the last vestiges of
the strength that to all appearances remained—
but to no avail. He was forced to pay the pen-alty
for trifling with God.
What a sad sight it is to see a Christian try
to "keep up a front" when the sweet conscious-ness
of the Lord's presence has departed. The
first love is gone. We become as one who "beat-eth
the air." May God restore to us the joys of
salvation, so that we may serve effectively in
His enablement. "My presence shall go with
—Gordon E. Meyer.
Carl Young
Ruth Erickson
Olga Shenning
Gustave Ferre
Margaret Racer
Ruth Olson
May, 1938 THE BETHEL CLARION Page Three
By the Way
To the Editor of the Bethel Clarion:
On the Deplorable Use of Semantics
Dear Sir:
No, semantics aren't the tom-fooleries
indulged in by the dorm
boys as some puerile punster is apt
to observe when the word is sep-arated
thusly, Sem. antics, but
simply words. I stumbled over the
word as I was merrily sauntering
through a magazine article the other
day, and before I could lose my tem-per
the writer apologetically offered
the meaning in much the same man-ner
that I pass it on to you. Seman-tics,
words, the word is of Greek
origin of course, and has a particu-ularly
rich connotation in that lan-guage
which, if you don't believe,
ask Kermit Johnson or Paul Back-lin,
who are even now diligently
employed on an unusual translation
of the New Testament to be brought
out in the near future. But enough
of those Hellenistic gentlemen and
back to semantics.
Stuart Chase has recently publish-ed
a book which he calls "The
Tyranny of Words." Now to my no-tion
he has it all wrong, for words
are the unwitting victims of tyranny,
and some day I'd like to write a
book correcting this popular fallacy
and call it "Tyrannized words."
Yes indeed, tyrannized words!
But you say placatorily, "My dear
Stooge, aren't you a trifle too vehe-ment;
couldn't you say worried
words or harried semantics; for
tyrannized words sounds so harsh
and stern, and then too it lays a
dreadful burden of guilt upon us
who are supposed to be their mas-ters."
No! I shall not equivocate, I shall
not excuse, I shall not retract a
single letter. We, every last one of
us, are guilty of tyrannizing words!
Isn't it strangely pathetic how we
treat these indispensable friends
with whom our lives are so inex-tricably
bound up? We bully, beat,
crush, stretch, cut, mutilate, distort,
and torture them in a thousand bru-tal
ways in order to be able to mis-use
them in speech. Ah, friends,
tyranny is too mild a term, torture
sounds more appropriate.
There really ought to be a society
formed for the sole purpose of en-forcing
the humane treatment of
words. Oh, it offends me to the soul
to hear a robustious big strapping
fellow sprawled all over that im-poverished
little word "wonderful,"
goading and spurring it on to new
fields of expression when there are
at least a hundred fresh virile words
chiding their bits for enlistment if
only Sir Malaprop would pause,
think, and dismount in their favor.
Yes, I've seen many such brutes, and
they make my blood boil, but the
truth of the matter is that I'm guilty
of overworking the poor jade my-self
on occasions.
And then there is that other
offensive rascal albeit more polished
than many others, the pompous
pedant, who on being confronted
with an idea, thought or problem
that .eludes his comprehension, leans
back in an Einsteinian manner,
strokes his chin and drawls, "Well,
after all of course it's only relative."
All along the gauntlet of our vo-cabularies
we observe the same mal-
Banquet Preparations
Near Completion
Full steam ahead! The commit-tees
that have been appointed to
make the arrangements for the an-nual
Junior-Senior banquet, to be
held May 21, at the Lowry Hotel,
are working diligently to complete
their plans and to put everything in
readiness for the occasion.
According to the ways and means
committee, the theme and the motif
have been chosen and will be car-ried
out in each detail. The decora-tion
committee has enlisted its help-ers,
and they are working at top
speed to make the evening one that
will be long remembered.
It has been announced by the pro-gram
committee that every moment
will be filled with surprises, and the
evening will also offer those num-bers
which are looked forward to
from year to year, such as the read-ing
of the class will by the Sopho-more
Class and the class prophecy
by the Freshman Class.
Dr. Hagstrom will be the faculty
speaker for the evening while the
remainder of the program will be
carried on by the students.
"Melodic Moments" Is
Claimed Success
The program sponsored by the
sophomore class, given in the Col-lege
auditorium, April 13, was per-formed
to a capacity crowd surpass-ing
all expectations. In an attrac-tive
setting of a color-lighted stage
set off by streamers giving a spring
atmosphere, the "Melodic Moments"
were presented to an appreciative
Professor H. C. Wingblade, class
adviser, welcomed the listeners, and
introduced Gordon Peterson, direc-tor
of the program. The band, com-posed
of fifteen members, played
several numbers, and a group of
fourteen selected singers rendered
different selections.
Variety of talents were furnished
by a saxophone duet, vocal solos
by Margaret Larson, John Valine,
and Doris Moberg, piano solos by
Ruth Fredine, who also acted as ac-companist,
a cornet trio, a clarinet
solo by Esther Schlipf, a selection
by the Bethel Mixed Quartet, and
the Bethel Girls' Trio. Rodger Good-man
assisted with several readings
each introducing a musical number.
treatment of a few unfortunate
words. I shudder when I think of
the abysmal abuse that the strong
almost sacred word "love" has been
subjected to so often. We love every-thing
from orange marmalade to the
Rocky Mountains. And everything
from a new pair of shoes to a cup of
coffee may be lovely.
And you say that words aren't
tyrannized? Zounds, the Spanish In-quisitors
couldn't do a better job on
their racks and wheel than our
tongues do daily with the meek se-mantic.
Need I say more? One might sug-gest
a "Better English" campaign or
a "Seeking Suitable Semantics"
drive but all that is rather juvenile.
Let every man look to himself, but
the least you can do is to find a copy
of Roget's "Thesauras" and look up
a few synonyms for "nice" and
"cute." —Semantically yours,
Twin City Swedish Youth
Initiate Youth Conference
Beginning with a "mixer" at 7
o'clock, Friday evening, April 29,
the first Twin City Swedish Baptist
Youth Conference started for a three
day duration. The conference as-semblies
were held in the college
chapel, and the discussion periods
were held in the college building.
At 8 o'clock on Friday evening, Rev.
Fritz Hamlin, pastor at Superior,
Wisconsin, addressed the assembly
with the subject, "Jesus Christ and
the World Today," which was the
conference theme.
At 1:30, the high school group met
for a worship period and to hear a
talk on "The Future Plans of the
Conference" by William Adam,
Dean of the Conference, after which
their discussion groups were con-tinued
from the morning sessions
until 5 o'clock, when a recreational
hour was enjoyed. The college and
business group started their session
at 1:30 with a worship service and
an address "I am the Way, the
Truth, and the Life," by Rev. Curtis
Akenson of the Prospect Park Bap-tist
Church. At 5:30, both groups
met for a fellowship supper which
was arranged by Edward Nelson,
student pastor of the Wheelock
Parkway Chapel.
On Sunday afternoon, May 1, at
3 o'clock, a rally was held at the
Central church, with Rev. Henry C.
Wingblade as the speaker of the
rally, having as his subject, "I Have
Set Before You Life and Death—
Choose Life." The new officers for
the coming year of the Twin City
Swedish Baptist Young People's
Union were installed in a ceremony
by Rev. O. Milton Lind of the First
Swedish Baptist Church of St. Paul.
The new officers are: William Adam,
president; Lawrence Benson, vice
president; Margaret Gravell, secre-tary;
Alice Anderson, assistant sec-retary;
and Arvid Youngquist,
Room Rant
"Stand in line and don't be im-patient."—
Doesn't that sound just
like Harold? You see,. he has offer-ed
a corner of the bookstore (in the
interest of the J. S.) to be used as
an advisory and counciling booth to
the undated and brokenhearted girls
and the bashful and indifferent fel-lows.
Perhaps it will be run on the
order of an escort bureau. Accord-ing
to the talk floating around school
as to the general confusion of things
he will not be wanting for business.
. . . Bom Bom has been inquiring
just what kind of a corsage would
look nice on a peach-colored formal
(not over $5!).
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Minneapolis Choir
The Minneapolis A Capella choir
favored a large group of students
and friends at the concluding Chau-tauquan
concert given in the Junior
College chapel, Friday evening, May
6. The choir gave their concert
under the direction of Prof. George
Singing with the group was Miss
Margaret Larson, student in the
Music Department of the Junior Col-lege.
The entire concert was sung by
the choir with Regs Ellefson and
Ruth Peterson singing the incidental
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Page Four THE BETHEL CLARION May, 1938
First Conference Tilt
Brings Victory
Although rainy weather retarded
all serious baseball practice, and
wet grounds slowed the field,
Bethel's first conference tilt brought
victory over Waldorf Junior College,
Rustad was on the mound for Wal-dorf
with Barker behind the plate.
Carl Holmberg found Rustad to his
liking and carried away hitting hon-ors
with three hits in four times at
bat, two singles and a double. Dick-au,
0. Johnson, and W. Johnson got
two hits each.
Orville Johnson, besides getting
two hits and driving in four runs,
held last year's champs, who, in
their conference clashes with New
Ulm and Bethany, drove in over
thirty runs in each game, to seven
hits, three of them singles.
Bethel took an early lead by push-ing
across two runs on three hits in
the first inning, adding two more
on the third. Waldorf kept fighting
away, getting one run in the second,
two in the fourth, and finally two
more in the eighth to take the lead,
5-4. The lead was short lived as
Bethel came in the last of the eighth
with two runs. Three up and three
down for Waldorf in the ninth gave
Bethel the game.
Bethel— A.B. H. R. E.
C. Dickau, S.S. 4 2 2 0
G. Peterson, 3rd 3 0 0 2
C. Holmberg, 1st 4 3 2 1
0. Johnson, P. 4 2 1 0
W. Johnson, C.F. 4 2 1 0
F. McOlash, R.F. 3 0 0 0
G. Ferre, 2nd 3 0 0 0
A. Slaikeu, L.F. 3 0 0 0
A. Blomquist, C. 3 0 0 0
Coach Adam Arranges
Tennis—Golf Matches
Coach Bill Adam has issued a call
for intra-mural activity in tennis
and golf. All applications are to be
given to the coach no later than
May 14. Singles and doubles in ten-nis
will be run off and a blind bogey
golf tournament will be played.
Matches will start May 16 and run
through June 1. A definite time
schedule will be set and games not
played on time will be forfeited.
Male Chorus Chooses
Holmgren Prexy
The male chorus, which has just
returned from its concert tour
through the state of Minnesota, held
its annual election of officers. Ned
Holmgren was elected president of
the organization for the next year;
Henry Rahn, vice president; Her-man
Tegenfeldt, secretary; Carl
Holmberg, treasurer; Folke Ferre,
librarian; and Arthur Slaikeu, finan-cial
Alumni Notes
In the national extemporaneous
speech contest held recently, Carl
Lundquist, '37, tied for first place.
Also he and his colleague received
the highest possible rating in debate.
Evelyn Holm, '37, is working in
an office in Chicago, Illinois.
Rebecca Backlund, '37, who is at
present working in Chicago, Illinois,
writes: "I miss Bethel very much
this year and wish that it were pos-sible
for me to be back. But now
I am even more appreciative of the
one year that I spent there."
May 7 was the day chosen by
Cecilia Ling, '34, for her wedding.
She is now Mrs. Clifford Sandin.
Another recent bride is Lois Carl-son,
'3'7. On April 14, Miss Carlson
was married to Spencer Bower, mis-sionary
at the Union Gospel Mission
in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Rev.
F. Hasselblad officiated.
Not long ago Pearle Rold under-went
an operation in Denver, Colo-rado.
Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Hubin (Eliza-beth
Wall, '32) were doubly blessed
recently by the arrival of twin boys
in their home. Their names are
Edgar Anthony and Wilbert Norman.
Emma Mossberg, a High School
teacher in Racine, Wisconsin, spent
three months last summer traveling
in Sweden, England, Norway, Den-mark,
Germany, Holland, Belgium
and France.
Henry D. Funk, '24, has been a
teacher in the Buhl, Minnesota, high
school for the past seven years.
Mrs. E. C. Vollmer (Mathilda
Flood, '25), is one of Bethel's newly-weds.
She writes that she enjoys
her new home and her new occupa-tion.
Brainerd Christie, '25, works at
the headquarters of the Christian
Missionary Alliance in New York
City. He is married and has a two
year old son, David.
Joseph Mattson, '29, is attending
the University of Minnesota.
Ruth Mayo is the church mission-ary
of the First Baptist Church in
Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Melvin Okerstrom, '20, a Sergeant
on the U. S. S. Augusta Flagship,
Asiatic Fleet, has visited ports in
Haiti, the Philippine Islands, Rus-sia,
and is at the present time in
China for the fourth time.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Clover are
the proud parents of a baby girl
born April 2.
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Two large slightly crushed beetles,
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sliding distance in direct propor-tion
to the force used in stepping.
When Florence Dunning waited in
the cold rain for a street car last
week, she didn't know that there
were three, cocky, young sparrows
in the tree above her grinning at
her and imitating the way she
hunched her shoulders.
Junior-Senior Banquet.
Tragedy I.
She made her bow
Without a date
She'd delayed her "yes"
Until too late.
Tragedy II.
She didn't go,
She had no beau,
Without his dough
She couldn't show
Tragedy III.
His face was long;
His eyes were baggy;
His uncombed beard
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"A J. S. date?"
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Echoes From Chapel
"The Christian religion can stand
the laboratory test."
"Take the Christian out of the
community and the flavor is not very
"The more there is of sin in my
life the less there is of fellowship
with God."
Rev. L. E. Peterson.
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Supper! That view is further sug-gested
by the fact that bits of silver
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inner cup, apparently as sacred
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evening at 8:30 o'clock. With a
varied selection of numbers, Mr.
Bergman plays his program rightly
called "Organ Pastels"; lighter num-bers
that appeal to the public. This
series of half hour concerts will con-tinue
until July 1.
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For more than a generation, plastic cards have been the de facto on-ramp to the payments highway. With the widespread adoption of smartphones and other mobile devices, how will the use of plastic cards change?
The payments industry is in a period of dramatic change, with innovation and experimentation surrounding mobile technology and products at the forefront. Over time, the mobile channel will likely become the new payments on-ramp, providing safe, secure and real-time access to debit, credit and prepaid accounts. The threat to credit unions is that nontraditional competitors, including technology giants, telecom companies and startups, are well-positioned to attract members' mobile payments now. To keep payments in-house, credit unions must innovate to remain relevant and keep credit union brands at the top of the mobile wallet.
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Members overwhelmingly trust their credit union to handle their mobile financial activities. Fiserv research indicates consumers prefer to utilize mobile payments from their primary financial institution, as opposed to a third party. Nine out of ten consumers surveyed say they trust the security and privacy offered by their financial institution and 85% want to manage their money in one location–their financial institution. Credit unions who take the lead in developing branded mobile networks will be rewarded.
Credit unions must be able to support payments tendered from debit, credit and prepaid card accounts accessed through mobile phones and also be able to process transactions from mobile card readers. Providing these capabilities will put credit unions on the path to becoming the mobile payments hubs for their members. By embracing mobile networks sooner rather than later, credit unions will be able to provide a dynamic payments experience that will safeguard their markets and prevent member payments from defecting elsewhere.
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Lawmakers Issued License Plates That Make Them 'Invisible' To Traffic Cams And Parking Tickets
from the and-yet,-reps-complain-about-the-public's-cynicism dept
There are rules for the common people and rules for their "leaders," and only in rare cases do the same rules cover both. Chris Morran at the Consumerist points out how politicians (yet again) are being allowed to ignore the same laws that affect their constituents. Colorado legislators are immune from speeding tickets and parking tickets thanks to the special plates issued to lawmakers -- ones that aren't included in the DMV database.
According to CBS Denver, the info for these particular license plates is never entered into the DMV database, so when some state senator goes zooming by a speed camera, he or she won't get a ticket, because the camera system looks up the license plate number through the DMV. Since no info comes up, no ticket is given.On the parking ticket side alone, there are $2,100 worth of unpaid tickets linked to these "invisible" plates. The Dept. of Public Works has decided it's "too costly" to pursue collection of those fines. Of course, now that this is public knowledge, a politician has "stepped up" to right the wrong.
This appears to be true for parking tickets as well. See, even though a parking enforcement officer might leave a ticket on the car, cities like Denver that rely on the DMV for addresses of vehicle owners come up empty when they try to collect on those tickets.
One state lawmaker recently stated his intention to close this loophole through legislative action in the next session, by simply doing away with the plates altogether.If only this sort of behavior were an aberration. Earlier this year, Iowa Governor Terry Branstad's speeding SUV was pursued by a highway patrol officer who decided (or was instructed) not to pull it over after realizing whose vehicle it was. Like in Colorado, certain public vehicles are issued plates that aren't listed with the Iowa DMV, which makes these vehicles automatically exempt from traffic cam tickets, parking violations and apparently, even speeding clocked by an on-duty state trooper. It should be noted that the trooper raising the complaint about the governor's speeding driver (another state trooper) was placed on leave after making this public.
"[I]t's absolutely unfair," said state representative Chris Holbert. "We should be held accountable like any other citizen. We are elected to represent the people and there's no reason for us to be treated differently."
After this small debacle, Governor Branstad too "stepped up" to rein in the injustice, except that his idea of "reining it in" falls far short of Colorado legislator Chris Holbert's plan. In Branstad's view, the problem isn't with the plates, per se. It's that there are too many of them.
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is upset about the number of specialized license plates that have been given to state, local and federal agencies.Over 350 agencies in Iowa have these plates at their disposal (over 3,000 issued so far), a ridiculous amount considering the plates were originally intended for undercover use by various arms of Iowa law enforcement. Branstad probably isn't looking to give up his ticket-dodging plate but presumably will be forcing several others to play by the same set of rules as the public -- that same public these public servants are supposed to be serving.
More than 3 thousand plates have been issued that exempt the vehicles from getting traffic camera tickets. Brandstad has ordered state transportation officials to cut the number of the special plates.
But that's nothing compared to the staggering level of abuse (ranking between 'Chris Brown' and 'Foster Home' on the Abuse Chart) taking place in our nation's capital. Back in 2008, a report by the US Committee on Transportation detailed the astounding number of violations racked up by government employees and officials.
Municipal, state and federal government agencies are among the biggest offenders when it comes to illegal parking and non-payment of parking citations. A report released last week by the US House Committee on Transportation documented 4000 cases last year where employees in federal vehicles skipped out on paying parking tickets worth $700,000 in Washington, DC and New York City. The total does not include unpaid tickets in foreign countries and other cities throughout the fifty states where 642,000 automobiles registered to the US government are in use.The worst offender? The FBI, which the report found to be responsible for the largest number of delinquent parking tickets by a single agency. The FBI, properly chastened, examined the cases listed and, because it's such a shit-hot investigative agency, found itself "unable to come up any suspects who may have been responsible for illegally parking FBI vehicles on 218 occasions."
"Over one-half of all workers in the southernmost section of Manhattan are government employees," the report explained. "Essentially, all of lower Manhattan is a free parking lot for government vehicles."
Federal workers were not alone in ignoring parking laws. City workers in Washington and New York also disregarded citations issued by fellow employees. DC government vehicles generated 329 unpaid tickets worth $33,360 while New York city and state vehicles skipped out on paying 2562 tickets worth $490,939.
To the surprise of roughly no one, those responsible for enacting and enforcing laws are seldom as interested in following them. Apparently, performing the "business of government" is such a total sacrifice that illegal parking, speeding and other traffic violations should be waved off so that our nation's do-gooders are unimpeded in their good doings.
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This time of year when the days are short and the nights are cold, I turn to claypot cooking for warmth and comfort. Be it claypot bak kut teh, claypot chicken rice, stews, or soups, claypot somehow adds that earthy aroma to the dish I cook and make the food a lot more appealing just because it's cooked and served in a claypot.
This claypot full of braised bean curd/firm tofu (in the US, bean curd is marketed as firm tofu at the grocery stores) with mushrooms is no exception. In a way, claypot cooking is like a fireplace; it gives you that warm cozy feeling…
I have many recipes to share when it comes to braised tofu–there are just endless possibilities. You can play with the different protein, be it pork, chicken, or seafood.
You can also throw in different vegetables and mushrooms you like–napa cabbage, carrots, bok choy, dried shitake mushrooms, button mushrooms, enoki, and the list goes on.
And then there is the sauce: soy sauce, oyster sauce, with beaten egg, or without it. As I said earlier, endless possibilities and all delicious.
My creation was a bit spontaneous. I had some leftover ground pork but no vegetables in the fridge, so this is my simple dish. Oh yeah, this braised bean curd with mushrooms made my stomach all warm and cozy, despite a cold night outside…
Rasa Malaysia Suggested Menus This braised bean curd (firm tofu) with mushrooms would go well with
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- Pork Rib and Lotus Root Soup
- Assam Pedas Fish (Malaysian Spicy Fish Curry)
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Friday, June 8, 2007
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It's got at least one developer very excited.
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Due to how feedburner grabs your feed, there is no way to turn the "I'm moving my feed" warning off is there? I'm already subscribed to the feedburner feed, but I am getting tired of having to read that at the end of every item, anyways.ReplyDelete
Course, when I moved over I had full control, since my blog is hosted, so I just put a redirect, if user-agent not Feedburner, so nobody even needed to consciously move their subscription over. I guess that's not possible with blogger, eh? Maybe they will integrate it in the foreseeable future, anyways.
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Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, one company humiliated itself by using topless models covered in body paint and booth babes with the company logo tattooed above their breasts to draw attention to its exhibit.
It drew a flood of complaints, and CES organizers and attendees were forced to acknowledge how weird and sexist it is that the most important tech trade conference on the planet uses young, half-naked women to decorate their products.
This year, "booth babes" were in short supply. They're nearly extinct, in fact.
While we did see a few traditional booth babes in risque outfits (like the image above right, featuring representatives of the Sports Armor iPhone case brand), most booths were staffed by women who were modestly attired.
In fact, at the few booths that went the traditional way, it was uncomfortable to be confronted by a woman dressed like a stripper trying to describe computer accessories to you. That's what happened at the Xtreme booth (right), which perhaps had the most traditional on-staff eye-candy of any exhibitor at CES this year.
In their place was a new, evolved version of the booth babe, retaining the original platform — young woman, hired for her looks, lots of makeup — but covered in a new uniform. Generally, the new dress-code consists of knee-high boots, leggings and a T-shirt.
It's an ingenious solution, because it solves the overt symptom of booth-babeism (the girls are semi-dressed) but keeps the underlying sexism (the outfit only works if they're young, hot and female, and there is no equivalent for men).
And, yes, we're aware that we're having our patriarchal cake and eating it with this photo essay. But "marketing consultants" are still a huge part of CES, and you're deluding yourself if you think you can spend any time at the show without encountering this army of 20-something-year-old females who were recruited based on their appearance.
Samsung generally set a progressive tone with its staff, from both genders, dressed alike in "retail casual" (below).
But even Samsung couldn't help itself when it came to its main new product, ultra-high def curved TVs:
Traditional booth babes tended to be confined to the automotive exhibits this year. Tech companies pride themselves on being forward-thinking and progressive, so it's more difficult to justify someone in a bikini. In Detroit, however, cars and sex appeal remain strongly linked, and many brands are sticking with that tried-and-tired formula. Sigma, the camera brand, "borrowed" that justification and stocked its booth with a car. The staff then posed for pictures around it:
Audio brand DTS had go-go dancers and a DJ in its booth. The justification seemed to be that the product produces music, and people dance to music, so therefore ... dancers!
But none of the dancers was a man.
The worst offender this year was probably Fuji. Its booth featured a model dressed as a 1950s Bobby-soxer. Attendees were encouraged to photograph her (because it's a camera brand), and she posed for everyone who walked by. It's not that she was the most naked of the booth babes at CES. Rather, it's that she was literally kept inside a pen, and her only purpose was to be mechanically objectified by guys with cameras.
Even the most sexualized of booth babes are usually armed with product specs and a pitch speech. This poor girl was kept mute for four straight days.


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Today's Guest Blogger is Wes Tunnel, Ph.D. , marine biologist who has studied oil spills and their impact on the environment. For over 40 years he has helped develop the National Spill Control School. Dr. Tunnell, is Associate Curator of Malacology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Associate Director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Dr.
Studying oil spills is not something many scientists do as a planned area of study for their advanced degree. Unless they are at a university near a major spill, they likely will not get engaged in studying oil spills unless one happens "in their back yard."
That is exactly what happened to me early in my career as a marine scientist, and it is what happened to many scientists across the northern Gulf of Mexico last year (2010) with the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo spill.
I first had the opportunity to start learning about oil spills and their effect on the environment in the mid-1970s when our university received a grant to develop the first oil spill training program in the United States.
It took about two years of gathering information and interviewing people for the leaders of this program to establish the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (then called Texas A&I University at Corpus Christi). The week-long classes established for the School included specialists lecturing on the biological, chemical, and physical aspects of oil and its impact on the environment, and it also covered aspects of policy, law, social impacts, clean up techniques and strategies, and a whole realm of related topics. Attendees would see newly created movies, as well as vintage ones of previous oil spills, and they would get field experience in working with booms, skimmers, and other clean up techniques.
However, for me, this was all just book learning, and I had always been a proponent of hands-on, field oriented biology for the best understanding of any topic.
Well, on June 3, 1979, when the Ixtoc I oil well blew out in the southern Gulf of Mexico, it looked like I might get that chance. By early August, the predicted 60-day movement of oil proved true as South Texas beaches were coated for over 150 miles between the mouth of the Rio Grande to north of Port Aransas. The oil ranged from 5 to 10 yards in width and 3 to 15 inches in thickness along this entire stretch of coast. It was sickening, and I thought our beloved beaches would be ruined forever.
Working with funding from NOAA, we ran 13 transects along the length of Padre Island from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande.
These extended from the third sandbar offshore to the upper extent of the intertidal zone. Since we knew the oil was coming, which often is not the case, we were able to do pre-spill samples before the oil arrived and then post-spill samples after it arrived.
In general, we found reductions in numbers of organisms (not numbers of species) by 80% in the intertidal zone (area where the waves wash the shore) and 50% in the subtidal zone (offshore bar and trough zone, where the waves are breaking). Although this news was devastating at first, we were pleased to find out that the beaches had recovered fully in about 2.5-3 years. A combination of fast weathering of oil (biological, chemical, and physical break down of oil) and fast reproductive abilities of most beach organisms allowed for this quick recovery.
Although this story of impact and recovery is much more complex than what is related here, we did not have sufficient funds to track the exact timing or impact, since research funds were cut off. This is typical of many large spills, so we don't have the kind of information to answer many of the question that were flying last summer. The commitment of BP to fund the Gulf Research Initiative at $500 million total, or $50 million per year, over the next 10 years should greatly help our knowledge of dealing with and understanding future spills. Funding from NSF, NOAA, EPA, and other federal and state agencies should add to this knowledge also.
Learn more on oil spills and their impact on the marine environment from Dr. Wes Tunnel at his lecture on Monday, August 29 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.


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