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Do You Have T. B.?
By Harold McClure
The day was hot, as days are in Africa. The mis-sionaries
had gathered for their annual conference at
Ft. Crampel. Cars and trucks were arriving with mis-sionaries
and cargo from the various stations. The
Wimers had riot yet arrived. Mr. Crawn, came to Mrs.
Paulson and said, "Do you know that Mrs. Wimer has
T. B.? Awe struck, Mrs.. Paulson replied, "No, when
did you hear that?- Is it serious?
Mr. Braun answered, "No, you see she contacted • it
by marriage! (Her husband's name is T. B. Wimer).
Seriously—we remember last year when word came
that our dear fellow student, Carlton Christianson.
would have to leave school because, in truth he had
tuberculosis. Carlton was making plans to graduate
with the others in his class. His hopes were high. - Then the army
called. In his physical the X-Ray showed spots. A test followed—Yes,
he had the dreaded disease. With only days left until graduation, Carl-ton
went home. We, who bade him farwell, will long remember his dis-appointment—
yes, ours too. Today he is in Denver. We hope and pray
that he will soon be able to return.
Do you have T. B.? Perhaps not, but you can help a friend that does.
In the near future you will be asked to make a contribution for the
Carltons who are disappointed but who are being helped by the Annual
Christmas Seal Sale.
Harris Youngquist and Gloria Anderson are on the committee to put
through our Christmas Sale Drive. Last year Bethel won the prize for
selling the most per capita in all the colleges of the Twin Cities. In
1944 Bethel will win again.
Protect Your Home
from Tuberculosis
Vol. XXIV — No. 5
BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota
December 7, 1944
Clarion Staff to Sponsor
Literary Contest
On Tuesday, December 12, dur-ing
the convocation hour, the Clar-ion
staff will sponsor a literary
contest for college and seminary
students. There will be four divi-sions,
poetry, essay, short story
and oration.
The contest is open to all the
student body, and those desiring to
enter are requested to register on
the bulletin board in the college or
The contest will be extemporan-eous,
and contestants will have a
choice of several topics, as select-ed
by President Wingblade.
Servicee Project
One year ago this month the
General Conference Servicees Pro-ject,
carried on through the Dean's
office, was originated. This pro-ject
is intended to supplement the
work of the local church in con-tacting
our servicees. The follow-ing
indicate the progress of the
Number of Conference Churches
cooperating 225
Number of Young People Con-tatted
Of these: In continental United
In overseas locations 1,900
Of this latter number these divi-sions
are made:
New York A.P.O. addresses 975
San Francisco A. P. 0. addresses
Seattle, Florida, New Orleans, etc.
Number of general letters sent
to Servicee es • 13,500
In reply to these general letters
we have received personal letters
numbering 625
Personal replies to all incoming
letters 625
A personal letter is dictated in
reply to any individual who shares
his appreciation, problems, or re-quests
with the school.
One of the main objectives of
the project is to record the gold
stars and prisoners of war. There
are at present 53 gold stars, 16
missing in action, 19 prisoners of
Another service of the project
is to mail The Standard, free of
charge, to any servicee desiring
the paper.
, At regular intervals, a general
letter is mailed to each servicee.
At present the office is busy pre-paring
a V-Mail Christmas greet-ing
to go to the two thousand
young people at overseas address-es.
A similar greeting will be sent
to the twenty-five hundred indi-viduals
in continental United
First and second place winners
and an honorable mention in each
division will be recognized. The
writings will be published in the
Christmas issue of the Clarion,
and awards will be presented to
each winner at the Christmas pro-gram.
Judges of the contest are: poe-try,
Miss Nelson, Professor R. O-mark
and Professor Sjernstrom;
essay, Professor E. Omark, Presi-dent
Wingblade and Miss Ward;
short story, Mrs. Sjordahl, Dean
Johnson and Professor Olson; ora-tion,
Professor Engwald, Dean
Karlson and Miss Sabel.
B.W.A. to Meet
December 14
Group three, under the direction
of Violet Carlson, is in charge of
the B.W.A. meeting scheduled for
December 14. A Christmas pro-gram
presenting eight scenes in
the Christmas story will be given,
with Alma Iblings as reader.
A quartet composed of Virginia
Peterson, Rhoda Anderson, Lillian
Nelson and Greta Fredrickson, will
sing, Dorothy Dahlman will give a
trumpet solo, and Audrey Skarp
will favor the group with a violin
Arian Chorus
Elects Officers
The Arian Chorus has chosen
the following girls as officers for
this year: Dorothy Dahlman, pre-sident;
Jean Hamlet, vice:-presi-dent;
Gretchen Clauson, secretary;
Phyllis Johnson, treasurer; Grace
Jorgenson, Virginia Peterson, and
Maxine Bjork, librarians. Profes-sor
Nels Sjernstrom is the director
and Ruth Rask is the pianist.
The chorus, which is composed
of forty-two girls, made its first
appearance on Missionary Day dur-ing
the chapel hour. In the future,
the organization is planning to pre-sent
concerts at chapel and possib-ly
throughout the Twin Cities.
The girls meet on Tuesday eve-nings
and Thursday afternoons,
and at present are busy practicing
Christmas music in preparation for
a Christmas program.
"Money is an article which may
be used as universal passport to
everywhere except heaven, and as
a universal privider of everything
except happiness."
—quoted in The Standard
Activities Begin
The activities of the Forensic
Club will begin functioning in the
near future. Miss Swanson, an
instructor in the Speech Depart-ment
at the University of Minne-sota,
will be here to present a ser-ies
of different types of readings.
Mr. Stjernstrom will also give us
a number of choral readings.
This constitutes the formulated
plans of the club for the present.
Further plans will be announced
Accepted By All
The student body was unanim-ous
in its vote to accept the recent
amendment to the Constitution
of the Student Council.
The ratification of this amend-ment
provides for two things: the
addition of the Missionary Band
and the Bethel Women's Associa-tion
as representative members of
the Council, together with the ex-clusion
of the College Club from
its rolls.
The College Club, which corres-ponded
to the Alexis Society of the
Seminary, has ceased to function.
As it now stands, the executive
board of the Student Council con-sists
of the president, vice-presi-dent
and secretary-t r e a s u r e r.
These govern with the co-operation
of one member from each of the
following campus organizations:
Seminary Student Body, Junior
College Student Body, Forensics,
Religious Council, Alexis Society,
Musical Organizations, Athletics,
Publications, Missionary Band and
Bethel Women's Association.
Bethel Men
Visit Chicagoland
The recently organized seminary
basketball team spent the weekend
of December 3 in the Baptist
churches of Chicagoland. With
basketball games scheduled for
Saturday, December 2, against
Wheaton College of Wheaton, Il-linois,
and for Monday, December
4, against North Park College of
Chicago, the team members were
able to visit on the Sunday inter-vening
in several of our Illinois
churches and to assist with ser-vices
Eugene Johnson supplied the
pulpit at Grace Baptist Church as
Rev. Don-ald Peterson was abseiat
conducting special services. Robert
Hails spoke at both the Young
Peoples and evening services at
the South Shore Baptist Church.
Robert Bergerud brought a mes-sage
at the evening service at the
Emerald Avenue Baptist Church.
Clarence Sahlin taught a Sunday
School class and assisted in the
worship service at the Edgewater
Baptist Church, of which he is a
member. Roland Gustafson and
Paul Edwards visited suburban
churches, the former speaking at
the Hinsdale Baptist Church and
the latter bringing messages to the
Baptist Church at Berwyn, Illinois.
Eugene Nyman spoke at the Young
Peoples evening services at Elim
Baptist Church.
The seminarians were well re-ceived
and enjoyed the fellowship
of our Chicago churches. Some
former Bethelites who wished to
send greetings to friends yet in
school are: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
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Page 2 - THE BETHEL CLARION
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor-in-chief Mabel Anderson
Associate Editor Carl Appelquist
Feature Editor Walfred Peterson
News Editor Carl Ekstrand
Circulation Doug Smith
Typists Elaine Ballentyne, Doris M. Johnson
Business Manager Bill Thompson
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
4:014 and NizetizieA,
A group of students in a secular college were asked to formulate a
list of life objectives which are so important that all students should
keep them constantly in view. They finally agreed upon two: first,
maximum persona development, second, maximum contribution to
Those of us who recognize God's claims upon our lives find it
necessary to add a third, the most important of all, namely, the max-imum
contribution to God's program.
These are ordinarily assumed to be separate objectives, and unless
we exercise some care we may not see the true relationship between
them. In fact, the maximum contribution to God's program requires the
maximum of personal development and the maximum contribution to
In the American education world the development of personal capac-ities
in their relationship to social needs is seldom seen in the light of
Divine will and Divine purpose. The latter are simply ignored. How-ever,
we also need to ask ourselves whether or not we see these re-lationships
in their true light. Have we not, by our actions if not by our
words, showed that we ignore the developments of our own capacities
and the opportunities to contribute toward the needs of people? Has
not the doing of God's will become something for the future, or some-thing
confined to church services and to devotional habits?
Many students have frankly stated in personal interviews that laxity
and disorganization prevail in our midst. We lack standards in many
matters which are most pertinent to the development of the students'
capacities. This in turn directly affects the students' present and future
impact on other lives, and accordingly, the fulfillment of the will of God.
An all-around program for the improvement of our social organiza-tion
and for the pulling-up of our standards seems to be in order.
eafraideltatiOa 104 Ot4e4s
Observations of the student conduct in the boarding club, dormitor-ies,
and library reveal a deplorable situation which should be brought
to the attention of each student for careful consideration and immediate
The pushing and shoving of individuals in the crowded dining-room
hall, sloppy table manners, incessant chatter, rattling of china and sil-ver,
shouting during dormitory study and sleeping hours, and loud con-versation
in the library are some of the major "sins."
These malpractices need not be discussed further. The point is
not what is done, or why such inconsiderations take place. It is the
immediate reaction of our fellow-students, faculty members, and vis-itors,
and the results of such careless conduct in our future life.
Doesn't love for our Lord and love for our fellowmen mean con-siderate
action and kindness toward them? Certainly it is not asking
too much for Christian college students to act as ladies and gentlemen.
Don't let yourself be classified as one of the two kinds of people who
have no manners—those who never acquired them and those who don't
want any. We have here a three-fold education—spiritual, academic,
and social. Let's make the most of it.
By Harold Carlson
Dr. Earl L. Riley, president of
Bacone College for the American
Indians, made this striking remark
when he was here last week: "He
who is willing to set on fire will
not be consumed, if he is in the
will of God."
When I heard this statement
immediately thought of the burn-ing
bush through which God spoke
to Moses. In Exodus 3:2 we read
hOw the bush burned with fire but
was not consumed.
What God said to Moses was
virtually this, "Moses, it is I that
am burning. It is I that am scorch-ed
with the heat of man's day. It
is time now you came to help me.
You must go back to Egypt once
more to bring out my treasures. It
is time for you to act. You must
become a part of this burning
And Moses aid fulfill his task,
didn't he? Moses let this fire be-come
a part of him. His training
had , been necessary before he
would be capable to fulfill his mis-sion.
It is just as important for us,
'but we can burn with that fire
even during our preparation.
May the Lord put within us a
fire which burn:; and yet does not
consume. My life will be consum-ed
without the burning of that
fire. It is want of enthusiasm that
kills me, wears me away. My soul
dies through lack of burning. I
never really live unless I catch
fire. I am never so weary as when
I am airmless, never so fatigued as
when I have nothing to do.
Set fire to my heart, 0 Lord!
Kindle me with Thy love. Inflame
me with a passion for the lost.
Holy Spirit, fill me and use me.
Chapel Nuggets
By Arleth Brask
Rev. McMillan:
"If the Son therefore shall make
you free, ye shall be free indeed.
We have four freedoms set before
us in the Word of God:
1. Freedom from bondage of sin.
2. Freedom from bondage of
3. Freedom from fear.
4. Freedom from want."
Dr. William Babcock:
"We shouldn't only thank God
for the past and the present, but
we should qlso thank Him for all
the things we are going to have in
the future."
Dr. Glenn Tuttle:
"We don't need to pray that the
Lord will open doors. We need to
pray that the Lord will send labor-ers
where the doors are already
Dr. Earl L. Riley:
"The mark 'of the Christian to-day
is the change in life, for from
the inside out he becomes a new
creature in Christ Jesus.
"A person who is on fire for God
will not be consumed until God's
work for him is done.
"God calls His workers today
and He needs them."
By Lorene Janssen
From down Texas way, Camp
Barkeley, to be exact, comes "In-ge"
Larson's greeting and testi-mony
that he is still witnessing for
his Lord. He says, "The Lord has
certainly 'been good to me while
I've been in the service. Just this
week I had a letter from a Jewish
boy 'with whom I trained at Camp
Pickett, Va. I and my friends from
the church in Monteclair prayed
much for him and in his letter he
told me he had accepted Christ as
his own personal Saviour, and he
said, "I've never been happier in
all my life!" We have such a won-derful
Saviour who goes with us
wherever we go and just pours
out His blessings on us. Keep
praying for all of us in the service
because we do need it."
Charles Berg who is stationed in
Miami, Florida has been graduated
to the rank of ensign. His con-tinual
interest in Bethel is shown
by his request for information con-cerning
the procedure for making
out his 6th War Loan Drive Bond
to the Bethel Men's Dormitory
Welcome news is that from a
hospital in England, that Pfc. Karl
Rosenquist is recovering from the
wounds he received in France. Not
only did he send best wishes for
the success of the Men's Dorm, but
also some cash to back up that
wish. He also. mentioned meeting
a fellow (postal-clerk) over there
who has a girl friend named John-son
who is attending Bethel. Well,
girls, who?
It seems that cupid has put a
joined heart brand on another
Bethelite. We heard that when Lt.
Dale Lindberg was home at
Thanksgiving, he placed the sym-bol
of solitaire confinement on a
certain Minneapolis girl's finger.
Turning to the civilian side of
the Bethel alumni news, comes the
word that Paul Dahlstrom graduat-ed
from Princeton Theological
Seminary in August and is now
pastor of a Covenant Church on
Staten Island. His wife, Lt. Marie
Dahlberg Dahlstrom is now sta-tioned
in England with the U. S.
Army Nurse Corps.
Ethel Heitzman reports that she
plans to go to Bremerton, Wash-ington,
soon to join her sister,
From English instructor at Beth-el
to Army employee in Washing-ton,
D. C. is the step taken by Miss
Alice Johnson. No wonder the
government officials in Washing-ton
have been having misgivings
concerning the coffee supply!
Word has been received that
Viola Stene (S. '34) arrived safely
in Africa to begin her second term
of service in French Equatorial
Africa. The housing situation pre-sents
problems there too, so Viola
is uncertain on what station she
will be located finally.
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
DORM ATELLS P4e44H-tulf e)tic
I was lolling in the living room
of our family diggings in Fergus
Falls on Thanksgiving Day when
mother strolled in and remarked,
"Son, the old family boiler is al-most
out of gas and I want you
should do something." That's what
they call me, "Son," on account of
my folks hadn't much imagination
left when I was born and couldn't
think of a name that properly ex-pressed
their disappointment, so
they just called me "Son," and let
it go at that.
Positive that my experience in
the hall outside the dorm dining
room would stand me • in good
stead, I set out for the building
which houses an ice cream store,
the draft board, the OPA, and
three distant cousins of F. D. R.
Finding the OPA office, I innocent-ly
asked the guard (he was still
wearing a Dewey button, believe it
or not) where I could apply for a
"B" card. He airily waved at a
number of desks at which were
seated many clerks busily combing
their hair. I walked to the nearest
one, and after I had whistled
through eight stanzas of "Mairzy
Doats," she looked up from her
Reader's Digest, smiled sweetly,
and said, "You want something?"
"Yes, I'd like to apply for a "B"
card," I returned confidentially.
Boarding Club
By Dana Larson
It's been called the Cooperative
Boarding Club, but opinions may
differ. Well, let's see—
Ruth Rask is getting coopera-tion
all right on her diet from
"friends" at her table who "water"
her milk. (She comes from Isanti
too, and can't even tell the differ-ence).
She's happy though (be-cause
she's losing weight, of
course) .
"Save me a seat," some one hol-lers.
And faithful, as always, the
friend complies with a seat right
in the aisle. And that's coopera-tion?
Who wants a waiter's chair,
—except, of course Birdell Em-mel!
But then, look at the table
he waits on!
A person has very little chance
of getting "bored" there either.
Take, for instance, the other day
when Roger Youngquist sat down
on the chair that wasn't there. He
got a board, in fact, several of
them seemed to come up from the
floor with an awful jolt. Or when
Mary Paulson thought she would
depart from the usual procedure
and put ketchup on her salad.
That's unusual for her too—I mean
to do something that might attract
attention, because she always
hangs her head and looks like the
bashful girl looking at a scolding
teacher. How is she to know that
stuff wasn't French dressing any-how?
She dropped her magazine and
laughed, and laughed. My morale
was helped immediately as I
didn't know I was such a card.
Next she asked assumingly, "Of
course you have with you your
birth certificate, draft card, social
security number, good conduct ref-erences,
Boy Scout pin, and last
month's laundry checks?" Natural-ly
I had, so I submitted them for
examination. Satisifed, she
brought a small truckfull of print-
_ ed blanks and instructed me to
return the forms to her upon com-pletion.
I began the task. Three
%reeks later I was still working
and finished late one Thursday
morning. Sauntering casually
back to her desk I found her still
combing her hair. She thumbed
through the first hundred or so
and stopped with a laugh. "Know
what?" she giggled, "These are the
wrong forms. These are for a
"C" card. Now if you will just
fill out these"—from there on my
memory is blank.
They told me later that they
found me standing there laughing
happily, a badly dented spitoon in
my hand, at my feet a pile of badly
dented clerks (no longer combing
their hair).
Yes of course there was a trial, I
was acquitted on the grounds of
justifiable homicide.
Bethel was invited to Bethel on
Friday night, December 1. The
streetcar left Pascal and Arlington
at seven P. M. sharp with a capac-ity
load, and choruses were sung
all the way to the church.
Students arrived at 7:45 and
gathered in the main auditorium.
The program was opened with the
singing of hymns, and then a series
of recitations and two vocal solos
were given by members of the
church. The junior choir also sang.
President Wingblade delivered a
very appropriate message concern-ing
Bethel invited to Bethel. Dr.
Karlson closed this portion of the
program with prayer.
Everyone was then invited
downstairs for about two full hours
of fun and food.
"Our thanks to you, Bethel
Church, for a nice time," say Beth-elites.
Once in a while some unfortun-ate
individual doesn't get his
board—that is, his food—down
either. Especially when forced to
sit over in the south east corner!
And between Alfred Gustafson and
Ardyth Honeywell too!
There goes the bell—don't push!
Ask me to write of the most un-forgetable
person I ever met and
a sketch of Eric Borgeson would
be the result. Why should this
man stand out as a striking figure
in my mind? The reasons are
numerous—so numerous that only
a few can be mentioned in this
The -girl's dormitory was cer-tainly
the place showered with ex-citement
ove r the Thanksgiving
holidays. Regardless of all the
tears shed by those who stayed,
Grace Larson and Ellen Freeman
were kept busy with the mops and
pails. (First time I've seen Ellen
use a mop). By the way was all
that water tears?
Doris J. Johnson was kind e-nough
to serenade those who were
pining for home by playing "God
Be with You 'Till We Meet A-gain,"
and "Home Sweet Home"
on the piano. This accomplished
young guitar player and Mary Lou
Rademacker, our accomplished
young violinist provided music for
a singspiration which cheered (?)
those who were lonely.
As I was walking along the col-lege
hall Monday after vacation, I
noticed two seminary students "o-o-
hing" and "a-a-hing." This arous-ed
my curiosity so, I too, had a
look. Yes, it was Arlis Johnson
with a diamond on her third finger
left hand. She has given her final
word.' Best Wishes, Arliss!
Congratulations are now in or-der
to Mary Lou Rademacker. She
has reached the ripe old age of
eighteen. We couldn't refuse giv-ing
her a splash party when she
has so willingly co-operated with
the rest of our parties.
We, too, want to congratulate
Dagmar Jansen on her eighteenth
birthday. She was also honored
with a bathtub party at six o'clock
in the morning.
A new comer has arrived. Helen
Holle has moved into room 307
with the Chicago debutantes. Wel-come
to the "Chicken Coop,"
Eric is likable. . His sharp,
twinkling eyes, his brisk step, his
real, ready smile, and pleasant
Swedish accent are qualities so
noticed in him that few people
could contact him long before they
learn to be fond of Eric.
Eric is interesting. Where are a
few hours more profitably spent
than in listening to Eric relate his
life story? It begins in Sweden—
there he lived as a boy. Then he
joined the navy, and from there
he sailed in the service of the
Swedish-American Line. His des-criptions
of life at sea are most
Eric is a friend. If one is for-tunate
enough to be with Eric
much, he soon finds that it is easy
to confide in him. He is not only
a friend to those who daily con-tact
him, but also to each student
on the campus. A sincere smile
from him seems as natural as se-ing
him playing four-horse on the
basketball floor.
The inches allowed here are too
few to describe Eric—janitor, bas-ketball
player, Swedish teacher,
philosopher and friend.
The latest report is that "deer-hunting"
is best in Mora, Minne-sota.
At least Phyllis Johnson will
heartily agree. Could it be an old
flame for a new marine? Her
roommate, Joyce Gilbert, was at
Lake Crystal, Minnesota for the
holidays. Joyce takes a silent trip
there every now and then. What
is the attraction at Lake Crystal?
(Continued from page 1)
Swanson (Henrietta DeCamp),
June Hedman, Lois Carlson, Mil-dred
Enberg, LeRoy Johnson, Ed
Moberg, and Stanley Rendahl.
The last evening of the stay in
Chicago was the occasion for a
party at the home of Miss Lois
Carlson with the Bethel team as
guests of honor. At the close of
this social hour, the travelers
started back to St. Paul. Despite
roads made treacherous by a sheet
of snow and ice, the trip was un-eventful
and the team returned to
Bethel Seminary by mid-afternoon
of Tuesday, December 5.
Men take to flattery because
they don't believe it of themselves
—women, because they do.
Commend a fool for his wit, and
a knave for his honesty and they
will take you to their bosoms.
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Bethel Defeats
North Park 63-40
In a complete reversal of form,
the traveling Bethel team trounced
the North Park Seminary Club 63-
40. Bethel's shooting, which had
been weak against Wheaton, was
torrid against the North Park out-fit.
The Bethel cagers started and
finished the game in sensational
style, scoring 17 points in the first
quarter and so in the last. The
taller Park team, boasting at
least three men over 6' 3" and a
center that stood 6' 5" was not
able to cope with the speed of the
Red and White team. Bethel
jumped into a 17-8 quarter lead,
increased it to 30-20 at the half-time
and increased their advant-age
to 23 points at the end of the
game. Janson, as one of the guards
scored 24 points, keeping his team
from an over-wbelming defeat. A
total of 103 points went through
the nets so the game eras inter-esting
both to the spectators and
to the players. Gustafson led the
Bethel scorers with 14 points close-ly
followed by Edwards and Hails
who Stored 13 and 11 respectively.
The game was never out of the
"preachers" hands and showed at
times the best ball ever played
by them all year, particularly in
their passing and shooting.
North Park 40 G FT P TP
Hagberg 5 1 4 11
Winstedt 0 0 0 0
Lindell 0 0 1 0
Forsberg 0 0 2 0
Nelson 2 1 4 5
Green 0 0 2 0
Carlson 0 0 2 0
Janson 11 2 5 24
18 4 20 40
Bethel 63 G FT P TP
Gustafson 7 0 0 • 14
Hails 4 3 2 11
Bergurud 3 2 0 8
Nyman 2 2 0 6
Edwards 5 3 2 13
Johnson 3 2 2 8
Sahlin 1 1 0 3
25 13 6 63
Augsburg Rolls
Over Indians
In a loosely played game with
neither team showing their true
ability, Bethel dropped a 49-34 tilt
to Augsburg College, Minneapolis.
After an early game lead of one
paint, Bethel fell behind and never
headed the ever improving Augs-burg
team. At the half the score
was 19-12.
Bethel definitely was handicap-ped
by the lack of manpower, hav-ing
only one substitute and play-ing
on an extremely large floor.
Sahlin and Sandin as guards kept
up their fine defensive play but by
far the most impressive howing
was made by "Wally" Peterson.
He sank 7 buckets and 3 free
throws along with playing a fine
defensive game. "Butch" Johnson
led the Augsburg scorers with 14
points closely followtd by Seto
with 11 and Steck with 10.
Frank Cleve of Henry High
School and Lute Mona of South
High School were the officials.
Both of these men are well known
in high school basketball circles.
This department wishes to com-mend
the fine school spirit shown
, in the goodly number that follow-ed
the team over to the Armory.
Bethel FG FT F TP
Peterson 7 3 4 17
Lindstrom 1 0 1 2
Lundh 0 4 4 4
'Sandin 0 2 3 2
Sahlin 1 3 3 5
Nelson 1 5 1 4
10 14 16 34
Augsburg FG FT F TP
Anderson 1 0 4 2
Addair 3 0 3 6
Moe 0 0 0 0
Steck 3 4 2 10
Johnson 6 2 4 14
Northfeld 0 0 3 0
Klefsass 3 0 5 6
Seto 4 3 4 11
Rude 0 0 0 0
20 9 25 49
Girls. Beat
With the final score 58-12, the
Bethel girls easily triumphed over
the girls from Minnehaha Church
on Tuesday evening, November
28th, in the college gym.
The first quarter was the high
scoring period of the game. Betty
Nyman, who succeeded in making
eleven baskets for 22 points, prov-ed
to be the high scorer.
Coach Betty Danielson acted as
Day Enjoyed
Wedhesday, November 29, was
set aside as Missionary Day at
During the morning session Dr.
Glenn Tuttle, of the Congo mission
field in Africa, Dr. Earl L. Riley;
president of Bacone College, only
college in America for the Ameri-can
Indians, and Mr. Walfred Dan-ielson,
new foreign missions secre-tary
of the General Conference
were the speakers.
An open forum was held during
the afternoon, led by Mr. Danielson
when students could ask questions
of the visiting missionaries con-cerning
their respective fields. At
this session besides the above
mentioned missionaries, Miss
Vendla Anderson of the Congo
field, and John Selander of Assam
were also present.
Following the forum, students
could personally interview the
missionaries and discuss further
The last session was in the eve-ning
when Dr. Tuttle showed the
moving picture, "Samba," a story
of a native boy in Congo, Africa.
Following the pictures the closing
message and challenge was given
by Dr. Riley when he presented
many problems of his field and the
great opportunities for service.
Bethel Falls
To Wheaton
Wheaton College of W'heaton, Il-linois,
won out over a group from
Bethel Seminary on Saturday, No-vember
2, in a game that saw the
Wheaton team ,go out to a long
lead on some sensational shooting
by Horbeck and Patterson. Play-ing
under the 5 foul rule and the
20 minute half the blue and orange
led at the end of the first half
213-11. This period of play was
controlled pretty well by the col-lege
team, mostly because of their
gigantic 6' 7", 230 pound center,
Dick Hills, who time and time
again without much effort took the
rebounds. When the teams went
off the floor at the half it seemed
that Bethel's cause was entirely
lost so the Wheaton fans settled
back for an evening of not too in-teresting
basketball. Their con-fidence
seemed justified when
their team came through with two
more baskets making the score 26-
11. Coach Coray then sent in sub-stitutes
but in less than three min-utes
he had his first team back on
the floor again.
Led by Paul Edwards, a whirl-wind
both on defense and offense,
Bethel scored 13 points while hold-ing
Wheaton to 2 making the score
28-24. The other team's superior
numbers and height was not to be
denied and the game ended in a
37-28 victory for the Crusaders.
The consensus of opinion was
that Bethel's team could have done
better, which was proven by the
play of the first 10 minutes of the
second half. Wheaton was usually
contented to sit back and shoot
long shots while Bethel's game
was throughout the whole contest
fast breaks and open court play.
The scoring was well divided on
both sides with Edwards having 7
for the "Preachers" and Norbeck
8 for the Crusaders. Gene Nyman
held the tall center to 5 points.
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Sunday, December 09, 2012
The Salafi Crusades
Egypt's Sadat had made the move to the American camp early enough to avoid the fate of Syria or Iraq, but instead his successor, Mubarak, encountered the fate of the Shah of Iran. With the fall of Egypt, Syria is the last major Arab Socialist holdout, and if it falls, then the Middle East will have shifted decisively into the Salafi column.
Unlike the Soviet Union, the United States has not actually collapsed, but its international influence is completely gone. Bush was accused of many things, but impotence wasn't one of them. Obama however gave the Taliban a premature victory with a pullout deadline, ineptly waffled over the Iranian and Arab protests, before eventually getting on board with the latter, and allowed the UK and French governments to drag him into a poorly conceived regime change operation in Libya.
The Palestine UN vote, China's South China Sea aggression and Karzai's growing belligerence were just more reminders that no one really cared what the United States thought anymore. America had ceased to matter internationally as a great power. It still dispensed money, but its government had become an inept tail being wagged by Europe and the United Nations.
The loss of American influence was felt most notably in the Middle East, where its former oil patrons took the opportunity to back a series of Salafi crusades, the political Islamist version of which was known as the Arab Spring. The rise of political Islamists in democratic elections was however only one component of a regional strategy that depended as much on armed militias as on the ballot box.
In Egypt, protests followed by elections were enough to allow the Salafis, a category that includes the Muslim Brotherhood, to take over. That was also true in Tunisia. In Libya, a new American client, the government put up a fight, little realizing that Obama wasn't Putin, but a horrible mashup of Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Henry Wallace. Instead of getting American backing, Gaddafi got American bombs, and the Islamist militias, armed and funded by Qatar with Obama's blessing, got Libya. In Benghazi they repaid the help they received from Obama and Stevens by humiliating the former and murdering the latter.
In Syria, the Muslim Brotherhood's militias are racing the Al-Qaeda linked militias to the finish line in Damascus, while Western pundits prattle reassuringly about a moderate and secular Syrian opposition, which is as moderate and secular as Egypt's Morsi.
The regional snapshot of the Arab Spring isn't reform, but a land rush as secular governments affiliated with Russia and the United States fall, to be replaced by believers in an emerging Islamist Caliphate. The Arab Spring isn't 1848; it's 638, the Mohamedan expansion at the expense of the ailing Byzantine Empire, a rampage that eventually ended in the Islamization of the Middle East. For Salafis, this is their opportunity to Re-Islamize the Middle East under the full force of Islamic law.
The Muslim world does not keep time by European progressive calendars. It isn't out to recreate the republican revolutions that secularized and nationalized Europe; rather it is trying to undo the secondhand European effects of those revolutions on the Middle East. The left is celebrating this as a triumph for anti-imperialism, but it's just a matter of replacing one empire with another.
Muslim imperialism and colonialism were far more brutal and ruthless, as the Indians could tell you, and if the Salafis have their way, and they are having their way for the moment, it will be the beginning of a new wave of global conquests, with old sheiks using oil money from the decadent West to outfit militias of young men with top quality American and Russian weapons before sending them off to die, while they wait for news of the new caliphate and bed down with their eight wife.
The notion of the Salafis threatening the Middle East and the whole world would have been even more absurd if American oil companies hadn't rewarded their tribal allies with inconceivable wealth while turning a blind eye to their ambitions. And the notion that the Salafi crusade would ever extend to Europe would have been even more absurd, if not for the jet plane and the liberal immigration policies of Socialist governments with aging populations looking for a tax base and a voting base.
The Salafis, despite their feigned obsession with the purity of the desert, have piggybacked their conquests entirely on Western technologies and policies, from the wire transfer to the jet plane to the cell phone to liberal political correctness and Third Worldism. The Salafi crusades were never any match for 19th Century policies and weapons, except in the occasional brief conflict. But they are a match for 21st Century policies and the accompanying unwillingness to use the full force of modern weaponry on people that a century ago would have been considered bloody savages, but today are considered potential peace partners.
Declining empires want stability without war and they are willing to cut a deal with anyone on the way up who has a large enough army and will promise to keep the peace. In that way, the imperialism of the Post-American politician is a good deal like Eisenhower's foreign policy. The difference is that a British Prime Minister in the 1930s or an American President in the 1950s picked their battles, while their contemporary successors allow their battles to pick them and then surrender preemptively.
Carter's Green Belt strategy hoped to build a wall of Islamist governments to keep the Soviet Union out of the Middle East. The Soviet Union is dead but the Green Belt strategy has been revived by Obama in the hopes of using political Salafis willing to run for office to hold down the Salafist militias willing to kill everything that moves. It's hard to imagine a more decadent strategy than trying to outsource your defense policy to the least evil of your enemies, but variations on that theme have been the American defense strategy since the Salafi terror attacks of September 11.
After a decade of trying to divide the Islamist sheep from the Islamist goats, feeding billions to Pakistan to fight terror, extraditing Gitmo terrorists to revolving door rehabilitation programs run by Saudi Arabia, setting up a Palestinian state, making nice to Muslim Brotherhood front groups at home and then setting up the Muslim Brotherhood with a few choice countries of their own in the Middle East; the United States is less secure than ever for trying to appease its way out of the Salafi crusade.
Handing over Egypt and Tunisia to the Islamists earned us a new wave of attacks on September 11, 2012. What handing over Syria to the Muslim Brotherhood will get us, assuming that "our" Salafis will even be able to beat out the other Salafis who want to skip elections and move straight to the hand-and-head-chopping and Christian genocide, can only be imagined.
But Western leaders have a long history of misreading the Muslim world by assuming that Muslim leaders want what good European and American liberals do. Instead Muslim leaders want the sort of things that even few European right wingers want anymore.
Understanding the Salafi crusades means imagining a society where Anders Behring Breivik wasn't a deluded madman fantasizing about an international network of knights waiting to carry out acts of terror in a war to seize control of Europe and murder millions, but where he and his ideas were mainstream enough that billionaires would fund them and tens of thousands of young men would go to carry them out while television shows and preachers cheered them as martyrs.
Europeans, of course, shudder at the idea, but they have brought those tens of thousands of Breiviks into their own societies through Muslim immigration and Saudi and Iranian mosques. And they have turned over the Middle East to the sort of men who make Breivik look like a schoolboy.
responsible for the Luxor Massacre of foreign tourists. The Luxor Massacre consisted of an hour of torture, mutilation and murder that would have sickened even Breivik. But what is an incomprehensible atrocity to the Western mind is an act of courage and bravery to the Muslim mind. And it is on such atrocities that the Salafi crusades build their caliphate of blood and bone.
The Salafi crusades follow those rules and we saw them in action on September 11. We can see them in action in Nigeria where Boko Haram terrorists blow up churches and in Mali where Salafi fighters chop off the hands of thieves and give teenage girls 100 lashes for talking to boys on the street. We can see them in action in Aleppo where the bodies of tortured priests turn up and in Israel where their terrorists fire rockets from the shade of schools and hospitals.
The Salafi political victories, militia victories and terror attacks are all part of the same phenomenon, and it is about time that we confronted it for what it is. War is politics by other means and politics is war by other means. To the Salafis seizing power, by the bullet or the ballot, the one are one and the same so long as the road leads to the Islamic empire of the Caliphate. Obama's forced decline of America has led to a new wave of Salafi conquests and the war for civilization has begun in earnest
7 comments:
- Empress Trudy said...
In practical terms, for all the complete political surrender and strategic withdrawal from the world's stage Obama is effecting for the US - what is it we're actually getting in return? That is, if one agrees with him that shrinking the US' global footprint to near zero then shouldn't we at least shrink the entire DoD down to the level of say Holland? Seems to me that Obama's flunkies are missing the wider point. If America has no role on the world's stage, then America doesn't need the wherewithall to have one. The only problem for Obama is how to cope with 2 million more unemployed as a result. They can't ALL be cops, teachers and firefighters, can they?
- 10/12/12
- meema said...
@Empress Trudy
"If America has no role on the world's stage, then America doesn't need the wherewithall to have one."
And...if America doesn't have the wherewithal, then all those billions of aid $$$ funneled in by the boat load would have to stop. Interesting how this all works isn't it. Kinda like watching the Whore riding the Beast until it turns and devours her. But once the Whore is consumed, what will the Beast eat then?
- 10/12/12
- Doug Mayfield said...
In order to have a role on the world's stage, a country has to have values.
The left wing in America and elsewhere, at its intellectual root, is subjectivist, that is, there are no values and everything is a matter of opinion.
Hence the derivative left wing affection for political correctness ('Don't say anything mean about anybody even if, like all dedicated Islamics, they are clearly observedly evil', multiculturalism ('No one culture is superior to another even if Western culture favors freedom and individual rights and Islam favors slavery and death.'), etc.
Obama is a Socialist and, based on the above, through his Left wing foreign policy, is willfully obliterating America's role in the world at the same time as he, to the degree possible, wrecks the American military at home.
Thus, it is no surprise that Islam is making the gains which we see currently. Given our current Commander in Chief and the cowardly pathetic 'me too', semi-Socialist, Republican 'opposition' we can only hope that Islamics spend their time slaughtering each other (Sunnis versus Shiites, etc.) and don't focus on us.
- 10/12/12
- Empress Trudy said...
I don't believe Obama is a socialist. That would require an ideology no matter how badly conceived and thought out. Obama is an anarchist. The Clint Eastwood empty chair should have been flying through the shattered window of a burning store for the full effect.
- 10/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Obama is an anti-colonialist. Recall the title of his book was Dreams FROM My Father, rather than Dreams OF My Father? His father hated British colonialism, i.e., the white, Anglo-Saxon, who in the mind of anti-colonialists, stole the land and resources of indiginous people's and enslaved them in order to get rich and have power.
As an anti-colonialist, Obama's actions make sense. To him, America's time of domination needs to end because America is a child of British colonialism, and took over the reigns of thievery when the British Empire collapsed. Israel, too, is a child of British Colonialism because it was born out of an agreement between the oppressors, thieves and slaveholders after WWII, Britain and America.
His anti-colonialism also explains why he cheers for and supports America's enemies and his heroes are Communists, Socialists, and Islamic terrorists. To him, they are simply freedom-fighters.
Obama was imbibed with racist (anti-white), anti-America and anti-capitalist ideology his entire life. To think he would defend America against the principles, values and people who are enemies of America is absurd.
- 10/12/12
- Anonymous said...
We are doomed. That is all.
- 10/12/12
- Anonymous said...
Since the fall of the Warsaw pact, there really been no real enemy of the West. A silver lining to the formation of a Calliphate is that it will give the West a proper enemy. Once the calliphate is a political force, the same measures can be adopted towards it as a whole, as were on the Warsaw pact - no immigration, and only essential economic contact. It will also allow targeting of Muslims within the West as agents or sympathisers of the enemy.
- 13/12/12

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RaiPhoto needed a new stationery design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 104 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Raimondi Art & Photography website - http://www.raimondiphotography.com
I am a fine art photographer specializing in artistic photographs, weddings, photojournalism, high end photo collections and work also with traditional art mediums (paint and pencil works). I would like to target high end clients, classy, elegant, different - I create art with my photographs and try to provide excellent quality images with unique visual flavors.
High end clients. You know, the bride who orders a custom Vera Wang dress and has her cake flown in from Europe. I spend A LOT of time editing photographs to bring out the meaning in the picture, and I want clients who are looking for the difference and looking for high end, fine art. Clients who will be willing to pay for a completely hand painted painting of their wedding day and expect exceptional quality.
~ Business card MUST BE SQUARE!!!! 2 inch by 2 inch will be the final size.
~ Business card MUST HAVE TWO SIDES!!!
~ Business card MUST have very unique qualities, something high end, something that you would see in a 6 million dollar home, something you would see at the most expensive golf course.
~ Format must contain layers (whether you use photoshop or illustrator, I must receive it in some kind of layer format)
~ My logo MUST be on the business card. You will find it in the attatched files. If you need other formats please contact me.
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This post was going to be about grief and loss. It's two years this week since some of us lost a dear friend, Miss R. By the way she lived, Miss R affected many enabling us to become better people. But then I found Mary Oliver's poem, When Death Comes, and I knew Miss R would love it. This is the way she lived and wanted us to live - as 'Brides of Amazement'.
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps the purse shut:
when death comes
like the measles - pox;
when death comes
like an iceburg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?
And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
as I consider eternity as another possibility,
and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,
and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,
and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
And I think she'd want us to dress up too. As a Bride of Amazement I think this veil would be lovely. I know I wouldn't want to do the whole big wedding thing but a nod to conventionality wouldn't hurt would it, particularly when I'm quite smitten with this little number.
from Gilded Shadows
I'd need a dress too. Nothing expensive. One I could explore in and not worry about it getting crumpled when I lay in the grass to gaze at my partner, Amazement. This dress is perfect and it's only $55.
from Kitty Girl Vintage
Boots, yes I'd need boots. Comfy, yes, but cute as well, so Amazement and I could stroll together through different terrains.
from The Vintage Voice
No I don't think I'd bother with a ring. Much better to have a useful trinket like this magnifying glass pendant. Amazement and I would get a lot of use out of this.
from Rachel Loves Coffee
And of course as a Bride of Amazement, just as Miss R was, goodness would come more easily don't you think?


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Consistency and cost-effectiveness are keys to success for Coyt Hendon, and they have helped earn him the 2004 Farm Press High Cotton Award for the Delta Region.
Hendon, who farms 1,000 acres of cotton near Shaw, Miss., consistently produces high yields of high-quality cotton. He also focuses on managing his production input expenses and keeping costs at a minimum — a rule of survival in recent years for cotton growers.
"My 10-year average yield is about 1,000 pounds of lint per acre," says Hendon. "Some of our cotton picked 1,300 pounds this past year, and some picked less, but we maintained an average yield of about 1,000 pounds per acre."
Hendon owns 650 acres and leases another 350 acres, with all but about 75 acres of his farmland under irrigation. To better manage production expenses and improve irrigation efficiency, he is precision land-leveling his cotton acreage on a field-by-field basis.
"We land-form a field or two each year during the winter months to improve drainage and lessen runoff, both from soil erosion and pesticide applications. Considering that the entire farm is located on Porter Bayou, the soil and irrigation water would run straight into the bayou if it could. We're doing everything we can to make sure that doesn't happen," he says.
Hendon's efforts at improving his land apparently are paying dividends. "It's easier for us to water the land-leveled fields, and we now use less water to irrigate our cotton. Hopefully, the improvements we're making to the land will continue to increase our water conservation, while still providing the water needed to produce consistently high yielding cotton. We've definitely seen less sediment runoff from our fields," he says.
Thus far, Hendon has land-formed about 200 acres of his cotton acreage. The majority of the remaining acreage has a natural fall, away from the bayou. "We have touched up these areas, and knocked off the ridges. That's allowing us to use only one run of plastic irrigation pipe across the field instead of two."
In addition to his cropland, Hendon manages about 60 acres of woods for wildlife, primarily deer populations.
Hendon plants his cotton during the third or fourth week of April or the first week of May, but still doesn't think he's planting quite early enough. "I'd like to get in the fields and get the cottonseed in the ground even earlier. There are numerous benefits to planting earlier. For one, it would allow us to harvest cotton quicker before the undesirable weather comes in. Planting early can really made a difference, especially in recent years when the Delta experienced extremely wet fall weather conditions. Thank goodness we had a dry fall in 2003, and planting date wasn't nearly as big an issue."
This past year, Hendon planted Stoneville 4892, a stacked-gene variety with early- to mid-season maturity. It was his second year of planting a Roundup Ready variety.
"I really like the convenience of Roundup Ready cotton. We don't have to make nearly as many trips across the field. And, as far as the cost goes, our technology fees combined with the cost of Roundup is about equal to what we would normally spend in herbicide and application costs on conventional cotton."
The Bt technology is also helpful, he says, but he did have to spray his 2003 cotton crop five times for plant bugs. Despite necessary insecticide applications like the ones he was forced to make to control heavy plant bug pressure, Hendon says he carefully manages all herbicide, insecticide and herbicide costs on his farm, always striving to get the most bang for his buck.
Hendon has successfully marketed his cotton both independently and through the Staple Cotton cooperative marketing pool, which has enabled him to maintain acceptable profit margins even during times of low prices. "I've really been satisfied with Staple Cotton, and I'll be in their marketing pool until I die. They do a good job each year."
One year Hendon used Staple Cotton but decided to pull the price trigger on his cotton himself. "After that, I told the folks at Staple Cotton to tell me that I could never get out of the pool again. This was probably in the early '90s, and I found out quickly that it didn't work well for me. I decided that they can do a much better job of marketing my cotton."
Hendon says he did hit the high price for cotton during the year he named his price, but it was very time consuming and made him a "nervous wreck." "I worried myself and everyone at Staple Cotton to death. It took me substantially longer to sell my cotton that year, but I was able to recoup the additional storage costs. I got my money back out of it only because that was the one year when it paid to hold cotton. But I'm not built for such risky ventures, and I won't be trying it again."
Hendon, whose family has been farming for several generations, is pretty much a one-man operation. He and his wife Charlsie have twin daughters, Gracen and Caroline.
"In my grandfather's generation, everyone in my family farmed. Now, the only people in my family still in farming are me and one cousin," he adds.
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Before sitting down for tea in Echo Park, the poet reaches for her iPhone.
"I have to turn this thing off," she explains, silencing the ringer. "It's getting too noisy these days."
As a publisher, educator and author of seven books of poems, Eloise Klein Healy is a stalwart of the Los Angeles literary scene. Her phone has been buzzing more than usual in recent weeks as she prepares to take on a new title. On Friday, Healy will be named L.A.'s first poet laureate.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa decided earlier this year that his city, like others, should have a namesake poet. The mayor, who chose Healy from a pool of three finalists recommended by a selection panel, said he was moved by the grace of her writing and by her "belief in the power of poetry, and her commitment to sharing this power far and wide."
Healy spent her formative years in Iowa and still maintains an air of Midwestern modesty. She says she doubts the quality of her poems won her the laureate honor.


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New parents might need a little help, especially when the eyes of the world are upon them! Thanks to an ASDA store in Llangefni, Anglesey, the load should be a bit lighter for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
Photographers have caught the Duchess of Cambridge shopping at the local ASDA several times in the past and the Llangefni store manager, Peter Ellis, would like to make shopping trips easier for the first time mother-to-be.
"The Duchess of Cambridge has graced the store with her regal presence several times before," Ellis told the British press, "We hope that the addition of her own parking space will entice her and her little Prince or Princess <NAME> of Cambridge back to Asda.
As Kate's often busy with official duties, customers that fancy their own bit of royal treatment can park their carriages there."
With a "Royal Guard" in front of the parking spot, which is closely located in the front of the store, the Duchess can easily locate the space, and quickly dash inside if need be.
As an ASDA spokeswomen said, "It's created a lot of excitement amongst our customers who, like us are looking forward to the birth of the royal baby."
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2009 Media Releases
May 11 through 15 is National Bike to Work Week
Mayor Chris Beutler will kick off National Bike to Work Week Monday, May 11 by riding a bicycle to work and inviting others to join him. Bikers can meet the Mayor at 8 a.m. that morning at the "teachers" fountain on the southeast corner of 27th and Capitol Parkway. At 8:30 a.m., all residents are invited to join the bikers for a rally on the east steps of the County-City Building, 555 S. 10th St.
"An increasing number of Lincoln workers are using our outstanding trail system to save money, reduce pollution and get some exercise by biking to their jobs," Mayor Beutler said. "All of us have excuses for driving to work. Bike to Work week is a great opportunity to give biking a try and see if it fits into your lifestyle. And don't forget your helmets!"
In addition to maintaining and expanding the City's trails network, Beutler said the City has moved forward on other initiatives to promote biking, including downtown bike lanes and a new secure bike corral at CenterPark garage. A project is under way to install bike racks on StarTran buses.
Joining the Mayor on his ride to work will be City Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Director Bruce Dart and County Commissioner Ray Stevens.
Bikers are invited to stop by the teachers fountain anytime between 7 and 9 a.m. Monday for energy bars, water and trail maps. The rally at the County-City Building will include a Mayoral proclamation, refreshments and bike safety checks. Bikers also will be entered into a drawing for tune-ups, water bottles, jerseys and other items. Information will be available at both sites for these upcoming events:
Businesses and individuals wanting to participate in Bike to Work Week can contact Terry Genrich, Parks and Recreation, at 441-7939 or Mike Heyl, Health Department, at 441-3889.


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Afraid to ask about social media? See you Friday
On Friday this week (October 2, 2009) I'm speaking in my home town (Huntingdon, Cambs) for the first time.
My seminar 'Everything you ever wanted to know about social media but were afraid to ask' will cover the basics of the 'media' part of the label - messaging; transmission; how content is created and distributed etc.
But it will also open a door on the 'social' side of the label - how the formation of groups, communities of purpose, has the potential to disrupt and reconfigure everything we do - from processes within organisations to politics, education, economics and beyond.
Really quite chuffed to say it's all-but a sell out with people attending from my local authority, business organisations, retail, training, a local engineering firm, marketing and pr teams, seo specialists and a global mobile tech company.
There's a handful of tickets still available so if you know someone who may benefit, please point them at http://everythingfaster.eventbrite.com
Tell them to use the discount code 'fastercommunity' and you earn them 33% off.
Tickets with that code are limited to just 6, so... well you know the drill.


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Friday, November 30, 2012
suntharaphon: lilat, vol. 1
6 comments:
- Dolmance said...
This is a great one. And discovering Sisuda Rattawan is a real treat. Thank you.
- December 1, 2012 at 4:59 AM
- Ruben Chandler said...
khon khun khop! thank you so much for making these great releases available to me in the states. i feel thailand is my home. someday i hope to move back. until then, your wonderful posts make me feel i am already there!
- December 1, 2012 at 12:52 PM
- Dolmance said...
I've had this album now for more than a month and I still can't stop listening to it. It's just great. By any chance, is there a Volume Two somewhere?
It's Heaven.
- January 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM
- peter said...
so glad you enjoy it, Dolmance. there was a volume two present when i bought this, but upon return to the shop it had since been sold.
- January 20, 2013 at 3:12 AM
- Dolmance said...
I just wanted to write and say, this album really has stood the test of time. It's still one of my most treasured additions to my collections, and always will be.
I've sent a friend in Thailand a request to find Vol. 2. Hopefully, if he can find it, he'll send it to me and I'll forward it to you.
A wonderful, wonderful album.
- November 25, 2013 at 9:25 PM
- char said...
I can't tell if it's just my computer but the download link isn't working for me - please reupload if you can, I would love to listen!
Thank you!!
- September 29, 2014 at 7:14 PM


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With the arrival of a new two-wheel drive Evoque and rumors of the next Defender being built in India, change is taking place at Land Rover.
Regarded as one of the cornerstones of British engineering and an integral part of its culture, traditionalists have clung on to a nostalgic view of the company's products for decades. However, the future has arrived and its new Indian owners don't want to be restrained by old doctrines.
To keep the company relevant, it needs to move forward, and a huge team of engineers, designers and enthusiasts are making that happen as empathetically as possible.
Fortunately, the first big move has been eagerly accepted. The Range Rover Evoque is an international success. Surprisingly for a company that previously designed using a right-angle and ruler, it's the cutting edge appearance that's winning fans; the off-road ability is either taken for granted or less important to potential buyers.
However, Land Rover was keen to show us the Evoque goes through the same rigorous design, development and testing process as all its vehicles. During a recent trip to its engineering facility in the British Midlands, we discovered it's as capable as any Landie before it, and new technology means future products will continue in this bold new direction.
Not since Bruce Wayne has anything useful emerged from a cave, but Jaguar Land Rover's Virtual Reality Centre is the result of $4 million of investment that has produced a 3D cave powered by 16 computers controlling eight Sony HD projectors. Wearing 3D glasses, you can achieve total immersion in the virtual model. A series of cameras detect your position, allowing you to pass through the model, examining the position of details down to individual cables.
Computer modeling and simulation has allowed the company to reduce the cost and time of model development, reducing physical prototyping by 20% (although clay models are still used). It also allows crash simulation to take place and damage to be visualized. The vehicle can also be placed into simulated surroundings to look at scale, reflections, window apertures, etc.
There are thousands of applications for this new technology and the company is increasing its use.
It's being employed in concert with new rapid prototyping technology, where physical 3D models can be produced in a matter of hours, saving valuable time in the design process.
A laser, commanded by CAD software, passes over resin powder. The heat builds durable resin prototypes a few microns at each pass. The piece can then be examined and even fitted to a prototype vehicle to ensure fit and finish. Once accepted, the parts can be manufactured but again, significant time and money is saved over traditional methods of prototype construction and modification.
However, the basics haven't been forgotten. Land Rover is still staffed by engineers able to get a vehicle across wet grass or up an icy slope. They concentrate on seven primary surfaces, with wet grass being the most dastardly with its delicate surface and inconsistent grip.
Of course, they have to consider ground clearance, approach angles and ramp-over angles, but it's not all off-roading these days. On-road performance is equally important, as is NVH, comfort and handling. Again, simulations are able to define these parameters, allowing virtual modeling to assess a design before the prototype is manufactured.
Once they reach the testing stage, Land Rover can use the Off-Road Dynamics facility at the Cranfield University in England. It has a giant sandpit that allows the content to be changed, but offers a consistent medium for development.
Armed with this understanding of Land Rover development, we were invited to Eastnor Castle, a stately home in the Malvern Hills whose estate provides a venue for the Land Rover Experience as well as product development.
Constructed in 1810, it's a spectacular faux castle. Open to the public, it's a wonderful place to visit but is best known as one of the ten venues in Great Britain for the Land Rover Experience.
Taking place around the world, the LR Experience can be a simple introduction to off-roading or an advanced course for driving techniques. Our session would be especially challenging since Britain had suffered one of its wettest winters on record – so it was very wet indeed!
As a result, the dirt roads had become a quagmire of wet, sticky clay, with mud-filled trenches reaching up to the sills. The steep inclines appeared insurmountable, and we were expecting to veer into the trees lining the route. However, these were Land Rovers. We had access to every model, from the new Evoque to the LR2, LR4, Range Rover and Range Rover Sport. There was even a long-wheelbase Defender 110 along for company.
Imagining the worst, we were almost disappointed when each vehicle tackled the obstacles like it was a rainy day on a California freeway. Only the Evoque's lower ride height required a little more thought in your approach angles, but otherwise, our muddy expedition was a breeze.
It was then that the stock road tires were pointed out. We'd assumed each car had off-road tires to achieve the near impossible, but instead we were on all-season freeway tires. This made the feat even more remarkable.
So while Land Rover may have introduced its first FWD model, is looking to replace the Defender with the DC100, is designing in virtual 3D and rapid prototyping in resin, it clearly hasn't forgotten its history. Each of its vehicles is as impressive off-road as their reputation demands, while bringing you luxury and composure on-road. Where do we sign up?


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Good time. And ,
Hey just a heads up, I wanted to let everyone know that Xio Dibin speaks English. I hope I posted in the right location?
Good site, admin.
Current release
...is now Catalyst 9.5 released 5/18/2009 here.
According to http://distrowatch.com/, Arch is now more popular than both Gentoo and Red Hat. Please link to Arch from the front page. Thanks. --Trontonic 18:14, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
- If you're referring to "page hit ranking" then I will have to disagree with your opinion of its popularity. --Mooninite 14:43, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
Catalyst 8.12
Please update the link in the front page, 8.12 is the current release. Ad8253 11:04, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
9.1 Just came out on January 28,2009... so this should be used instead!
ATI Catalyst 9.1
Please update the front page. Ad8253 09:26, 30 January 2009 (UTC)


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Democratic President Barack Obama defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania and won Pennsylvania's 20 crucial electoral votes in Tuesday's election.
HARRISBURG (AP) — Democratic President Barack Obama defeated Republican nominee Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania and won Pennsylvania's 20 crucial electoral votes in Tuesday's election.
He extended the state's streak of supporting Democrats to six elections and protected a key Democratic Party stepping stone to the White House.
Obama's victory in Pennsylvania was his second straight after beating Republican John McCain in 2008 by 10 percentage points.
Pennsylvania is a top Electoral College prize, tied with Illinois for the fifth-most votes, and is traditionally treated as a battleground state. But the candidates nevertheless ignored it for much of the campaign after Romney was unable to wipe out Obama's persistent polling leads.
Then, in the last week of the campaign, Romney and Republican allies blitzed the state with ads and Romney himself visited for a Sunday night rally that drew thousands to Bucks County before dropping in on Pittsburgh on Election Day.
The Obama campaign was heavily outspent in the last week, but responded with TV ads of its own and dispatched former President Bill Clinton to barnstorm the state the day before the election.
Harry Truman in 1948 was the last Democratic presidential candidate to lose Pennsylvania but win the election. Republican George W. Bush lost Pennsylvania twice, in 2000 and 2004, but won the Electoral College both times.
The Democratic Party went into the election with a built-in registration advantage of 4-3 over Republicans, partly because of the state's industrial history that gave rise to big cities and labor unions that traditionally favor Democrats.
The last Republican presidential candidate to win Pennsylvania was George H.W. Bush in 1998.


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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Wreckers: A-where? A-here.
So here's a round-up:
More robot dreams (electric sheep optional) coming true as the Transformers Wiwi site Wrecked itself, like, right up. Click here to see how those wonderful folk Wreckerised the logo and slapped in their entry on those Wrecker guys as there featured article for the duration of WAW. Guys, I dunno which of you wonderful motherfolkers are responsible, but mahoosive thanks. Seriously.
ANOTHER site has roofied this half-assed idea, toaken it home, done unspeakable things to it, and taken polaroids. High fives and over-egged ass-grabs at TFormers.com. They've thrown up a nice hoo-rah call to arms to whip all the uneducated into a lather. They're also responsible for THE innovation of the 21st century, the movement to Wreck A Friend (WAF. Wonderful, wonderful stuff outta those guys. Get on it!
WAW has even infiltrated Youtube! Infamy at last! They don't let just anyone on there, y'know?
A wonderful chap I only know as Peaugh (but who writes for Fangoria Comics) up-chucked a great video of him saying nice (like, RIDICULOUSLY nice) things about Last Stand of The Wreckers. Thanks so, so much man, that's really cool to hear. What's even coler, is that he came across LSotW inkbot, John 'Waki' Wycough (Where, we're unsure. His house? The changing room in the local swimming baths?) and grabbed some incredible pieces of original inked Last Stand artwork for himself. He has my two favourite pages in the whole series in his collection now. Swine. He also managed to grab the page from #1 with the first appearance of the now universally beloved Wrookies. So click til ya can't!
Our Antipodean friends (Yes, we're friends now) are doing their bit here, generally being smug with their masses of Wrecker toy photos. All iterations of Wrecker are accounted for, and it's enjealousing to see all those toys from yesteryear that you'll never own. Well, not for me. I have them all.
And lastly in our round up, here's a...mental website which I'm glad is on our side! Carcass is the man in charge, and his sit features a very Impactful piece of art from the glorious Marcelo Matere. Gotta be worth the trip for that, kids?
And that's it for now! Remember the point of it all: Last Stand of The Wreckers #2 is out pretty much everywhere, except where it isn't - and it'll be out there tomorrow. Or the next day. Just don't give up! You can track it down if you Dare!
I hate myself.
But I love YOU.
Don't be Wary: Be Aware.
You've Been Nicked
8 comments:
- Peaugh said...
No problem! I really do think you're my favorite TF artist. I was talking with John about it for a while at the local convention. He really enjoys inking your stuff, and I think you have a nice, detailed, expressive style that doesn't stray too far into cartoony or caricature. The lines are tight and clean and it just really makes the characters pop.
I'm guessing the two favorite pages are the first and last from issue #2? I don't blame you, they're AMAZING pages. I couldn't believe it when John let me know that I could actually OWN them. I happily dropped good money at his booth on Saturday. I don't know if you ever let the original pencils out into the wild, but I'd happily trade issue #2 Page 22 for the pencils for issue #2 page 1. I'm already planning on framing these next to the actual comic pages, I'd love to have a framed progression from original pencils, to inked art, to final page. And if not, no biggie, just figured I'd throw that out there.
Keep up the outstanding work! I'm always excited to see your name attached to a TF project, and I'll happily continue to promote Wreckers and any future projects.
- March 3, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- Coffee Catholic said...
Totally off-topic for this post but I was reading your, "25 Years Since Everything Changed." Too cool. I've been dreaming of writing Transformers since I was 11 and I've been plugging away at it for aboot three years now. It's so daunting it makes my teeth hurt but if you never try then how do you know if you can make it?
Ooops. Benji's screaming. Cheers!
- March 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- Matt said...
Don't forget Tformers also has
Got Wrekers? http://tformers.com/transformers-wreckers-awareness-week-got-wreckers/13129/news.html
Buy a Wrecker http://tformers.com/transformers-wreckers-awareness-week-buy-a-wrecker/13132/news.html
Enlist a Wrecker http://tformers.com/transformers-wreckers-awareness-week-enlist-a-wrecker/13135/news.html
and Rate a Wrecker! http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=13142
- March 3, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- Carcass said...
Hey, Nicker,
Just thought I'd mention that the link to my site doesn't work. Plus, I just reviewed issue #2 for you. No offense.
- March 6, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- MY GOD IS SO GREAT!!! said...
Hi Nick. I saw some of your transformers pages on DA and I wanted to drop you a line and talk to you about Comics and Projects. Is there an e-mail for you or could you drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com ?
Incredible work.
Amazing Joy Buzzards
New Brighton Archeological Society
- March 7, 2010 at 2:35 AM
- Brian said...
Man, I was so ticked when I saw Andy Schmidt say that Last Stand of the Wreckers was "nigh impenetrable to the casual fan." A representative of IDW should never say that about one of their own titles. It's akin to trash-talking, and the fact that he's your editor makes it worse.
This has increased my resolve to buy the series. I had to special-order issue 2 due to the problem with the shipments, but I'm seriously considering buying multiple copies of issue 3. We need to send a message to Schmidt that you're one of the best things about IDW's Transformers comics right now.
- March 13, 2010 at 7:25 PM
- Web said...
"A part of me dies with every death I must draw..."
So... less of you will die if you kill fewer robots... leaving more of you alive to do comic-y goodness in the future? =P
(My favourite characters in everything always die...)
- March 13, 2010 at 11:38 PM
- Red Matter said...
I just want to say I totally agree with Brian's point below,was shocked at the lack of support for an editor's own title! And I strongly disagree with the 'nigh impenetrable' comment.
I'm definitely going to reiterate this to IDW directly, just thought if anyone feels like doing the same the adress is firstname.lastname@example.com Though Andy Schmidt and IDW Editor in Chief Chris Ryall have accounts at IDW's own message boards and can also be contacted there.
I'm supporting Wreckers even if Andy Schmidt isn't!
- March 15, 2010 at 1:46 AM


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Charlie Sheen Admits He Has A Drug Problem & Hires A Sober Coach!
After a recent meltdown in a New York hotel room, a previous domestic violence charge and a long history of drug abuse, Charlie has decided to sober up! Do you think he can do it?
Charlie Sheen has finally admitted he has a drug abuse problem! According to TMZ, the 45-year-old Two and a Half Men has hired a sober coach to help him address the issue.
Sources connected with Charlie's hit show say that the sober coach is living at Charlie's house and escorting him to and from work.
Charlie's life changing decision comes just two days after he filed for divorce from his wife of two years, 33-year-old Brooke Mueller on Nov. 1. Maybe he's trying to get his act together so that he can actually convince a court that he deserves joint custody of his 19-month-old twin sons, Bob and Max?
This is going to be a real battle for Charlie who has a long history of drug abuse. Just last week, he trashed a room at New York's Plaza Hotel after allegedly going on a cocaine and alcohol binge. Charlie's ex wife Denise Richards was staying in the hotel at the time with their daughters Sam, 6, and Lola, 5 and accompanied him when he was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night.
BFFs — do you think that Charlie has a chance at getting better? Vote below!


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LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar and the euro rose against the yen on Wednesday in volatile trade after a G7 statement on exchange rates, designed to calm talk of a currency war instead triggered fresh concerns.
The G7 reaffirmed its commitment to market-determined exchange rates and said fiscal and monetary policies must not be directed at devaluing currencies - comments which at first were seen as supporting the recent weakness in the yen.
However, an official from the group, which links the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada, later said Tuesday's statement was meant to signal concern about the yen's excessive moves.
"The world's in turmoil with regard to currencies and it doesn't really take a lot, in terms of a bad word here or there, to spark volatility," Peter Dixon global financial economist at Commerzbank said.
Analysts were also concerned about an apparent lack of consensus at the G7 level in tackling the risks of competitive currency devaluations as countries try to spur growth through expansionary domestic monetary policies.
A concern illustrated when the Bank of England governor Mervyn King publicly criticized the anonymous G7 official.
"When I put my name to that (G7) statement yesterday, I didn't expect that other so-called officials will be out there giving unattributable briefings,...trying to claim that the statement said what it didn't say," King said.
The dollar and the euro both initially fell against a resurgent yen on Wednesday but then recovered with the greenback up 0.2 percent at 93.66 yen. The common currency recovered more strongly to be up 0.5 percent at 126.35 yen.
There was also some good news for the euro area when data showed industrial production rose a surprisingly strong 0.7 percent in December from the previous month although it is down 2.4 percent for the year.
The focus of the current concerns in the currency markets is Japan, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is pushing for aggressive policies by the Bank of Japan to beat deflation through monetary expansion.
Anticipation of the bolder measures has sent the yen down nearly 20 percent against the dollar since November, sparking comments from policymakers in the euro area about the impact on the common currency as the region struggles with a recession.
"Everyone would love a weaker currency, but it's a zero sum game. If you weaken the yen someone else has to suffer a stronger currency," said Dixon.
However, he added it was not just about the yen as there were concerns about the U.S. Federal Reserve's aggressive monetary expansion, which has weakened the dollar, and the Swiss central bank's move to cap rise in the franc against the euro.
The confusion sown by the G7 statement has heightened the risk that policymakers will use a G20 meeting in Moscow on Friday and Saturday to make further comments, either about the yen or the risk of wider currency devaluations.
"Presumably on the weekend there will be something that talks about the pace of moves in the yen. That's what the market is expecting now," said Geoff Kendrick, FX strategist at Nomura.
In the UK the Bank of England helped push down the British pound when it lowered its growth forecast and said it was open to more asset purchases. Sterling dropped 0.7 percent to $1.5544 GBP=D4.
The Bank's quarterly inflation report said the Monetary Policy Committee had "agreed that it stood ready to provide additional monetary stimulus if warranted by the outlook for growth and inflation.
Europe's share markets were little changed on Wednesday morning, hovering below the top of a six-day trading range, with investors more focused on mixed corporate results than moves in the currency markets. .EU
The FTSE Eurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 of top European companies was down 0.1 percent at 1,160.36 points. Around Europe, UK's FTSE 100 index .FTSE and France's CAC 40 .FCHI were unchanged, though Germany's DAX index .GDAXI was up 0.6 percent.
MSCI's world equity index .MIWD00000PUS was also flat at 356.65 points.
"We're in a lull right now, we've run out of positive catalysts and the great rotation out of fixed income and into equities hasn't really started," said David Thebault, head of quantitative sales trading, at Global Equities.
U.S. stock index futures did point to a slightly higher open on Wall Street, a day after President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, where he called for a $50 billion spending plan to create jobs. .N
Debt markets were also mostly steady as investors focused on an auction of 30-year bonds by Italy, its last debt sale before an imminent general election.
Italy's debt has been under pressure in recent weeks as a comeback in the opinion polls by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party has raised the prospect of a fragmented parliament that could hamper the next government's reforms.
At the sale investors bought 888 million euros ($1.0 billion) of the new bonds and bid for 1.97 times the amount on offer, The bonds due in 2040 yielded 5.07 percent.
However, at a separate sale of three-year debt the government had to pay more than it did a month ago, in a sign that some investors fear that the February 24-25 poll will result in a fragmented parliament.
Ten-year Italian yields were little changed on the day at 4.45 percent.
U.S. Treasuries were lower as traders prepared for an auction of $24 billion of 10-year bonds later in the day. <US/>
Many investors were also wary of putting on big positions in the U.S. debt market before retail sales data, due at 9.30 a.m. EST, which may reveal whether the higher payroll tax this year is encouraging people to hold onto more of their paychecks.
Additional reporting by Nia Williams; Editing by Anna Willard


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I have metadata file errors on all 4 of my partitions:
- Seagate Barracuda 40GB, ATA 100, 7200 RPM drive
- Dual boot XP Pro with 2000 Pro
- The errors are listed at the bottom of this message (the same error message was reported for each partition
- Most of the time everything works just great (I almost always use Windows 2000)
Just in case the metadata file errors were not caused by an existing virus (located in Windows) how about backing up the MBR, then writing zeros to the MBR and using software (such as Boot Corrector) to rebuild it?
Also, any idea of how best to search for info on finding malcode/viruses (on your system), which may have been circulated by the RIAA? (through file sharing services). Someone said this is known to cause these types of errors.
I tired a web search and so far it's been very hard to find anything on this. I use google Groups too, when searching. You'd think this would be a hot subject.
I decided to check my Seagate 40GB HD with SeaTools Desktop v3.02.03
after experiencing some intermittent problems with my Windows 2000 Pro system locking up.
I ran all the tests and the result was that the drive checked OK but all four partitions were reported to have these errors (and chkdsk /p /r does not remove these particular errors although the drive then works normally for a day or so).
I used this Seagate utility to write zeros to the Entire drive, Partition Expert to create new partitions, copied the backed up partitions, one at a time, back to the main drive (using Ghost 8.0) and still the same error reported (using SeaTools).
The following errors were found while scanning the volume:
- One or more errors were found in the index
- One or more errors were found in metadata file records
- Other errors were found
***Testing the drive with Maxtor's and Gateway's utilities there are NO errors reported


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EDITOR'S NOTE — Georgia, which tied with Mississippi this past year for second in U.S. cotton production, once enjoyed a reputation within the cotton industry for high-quality fiber. But that's no longer the case. The quality of the state's cotton has declined in recent years, to the point of some textile mills avoiding the purchase of Georgia cotton and farmers losing money due to deducts in certain grade categories. This is another in a series of articles dealing with the cotton quality issue in the state.
Southwest Georgia farmer Jimmy Webb knows from tough experience what a difference timely harvesting can make in the quality of a cotton crop.
"Getting the crop out on time is very important in maintaining quality," says Webb, who grows 1,500 acres of cotton in Calhoun County. "The minute the boll opens, deterioration of the fiber begins.
"I was a peanut grower before I started growing cotton, and I'd harvest my peanuts before moving to my cotton. About six years ago, we had some bad weather come through our area. Our cotton was ready to pick, but we were busy harvesting peanuts. I made a change the next year and started picking cotton and peanuts when they were ready. I don't have enough people, but that's what we try to do."
Many Georgia farmers apparently haven't learned the same lesson, as poor harvest timing continues to be at least one significant cause of losses in cotton quality.
"If there's one thing I could change about what we do in Georgia, it would be to get the crop out in a faster fashion. If we could make a small change or improvement, it could mean millions of more dollars in the pockets of Georgia growers," says Steve M. Brown, University of Georgia Extension cotton specialist.
Making those small improvements could be more important than ever this year, says Brown. "Weather has been much more stressful this year than in 2003. Drought and extreme heat have been more prevalent this year than last, with a significant number of days with temperatures of more than 95 degrees and heat indexes of more than 100 degrees. My guess is that we're not going to have as good fiber quality this year as last year — I hope I'm wrong," he says.
Data from this past year shows that cotton uniformity was lower in the Macon, Ga., classing office than in most other U.S. classing offices. And it's not a new phenomenon, says Craig Bednarz, University of Georgia plant physiologist.
"Some mills try not to buy Georgia cotton," says Bednarz. "Certainly there are differences in the Southeast and the Mid-South in terms of production practices and soil types. But we're trying to find out what specifically is causing this problem in Georgia."
In examining cotton harvesting data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Bednarz says that for the five-year average, Mississippi and Louisiana are about 90 percent harvested by week 43 or 44, while Georgia is around the 60-percent mark.
Looking at the most active days for planting and harvesting, the ag statistics service reports that Georgia farmers plant cotton from April 25 to May 25, and they plant peanuts at about the same time. Producers in Georgia harvest peanuts from Sept. 10 to Oct. 15, and they harvest cotton from Oct. 5 to Nov. 15.
"In the past, we've planted our peanuts and cotton at the same time, and both of these crops take about the same number of days to mature. We've been going after our peanuts and letting our cotton sit in the field, and this delay in harvesting is costing us," he says.
In a three-year study, Bednarz says researchers machine-picked cotton at various stages of crop maturity and at various stages of weathering.
"The first year — after we harvested the cotton — we ginned it on a small table-top gin in Tifton. In the last two years of the study, we shipped the cotton to the ARS spinning lab in Stoneville, Miss. Our goal was to see when the maximum lint yield and the maximum adjusted gross income occurred in each of the three years of the study."
In 1998, the maximum lint yield occurred when the crop had achieved 100-percent open bolls. However, the maximum adjusted gross income occurred when harvest aides were applied at 61-percent open bolls.
"For every week we waited after the first week of 100 percent opened bolls, we lost 18 pounds of lint per acre per week. And for each week we waited past 61 percent to apply defoliants, we lost about $15.50 per acre in adjusted gross income.
"These numbers are out of sync, but remember that we ginned this cotton on a small table-top gin. We were losing money in our adjusted gross income due to low base-grade fiber quality faster than we were making money from increasing yield. Had we ginned this cotton in a manner consistent with a commercial process, that probably wouldn't have occurred."
In 1999 and 2000, the yield and adjusted gross income were more consistent, says Bednarz. "In 1999, we maximized yield and adjusted gross income at about 76 to 77 percent open bolls when we applied our harvest aides. In 1999, we lost 13.8 pounds of lint per acre per week for every week we waited past this point. We lost $6.74 in adjusted gross income per acre for every week we waited past 77 percent open bolls."
In 2000, the study showed that 57 pounds of lint per acre per week were lost past 89 percent open bolls. "We lost $20.32 per acre for every week we waited past 84.7 percent open bolls. We were losing money as the crop sat out in the field and weathered. This is due not only to losses in lint yields but also to losses in fiber quality. Just about every fiber quality parameter we measured decreased as the crop sat in the field."


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Earthen Floors
Electronic email message from Lew Marquardt, Austin, Texas, 2 March 2006
Fellow GR Listers:
Normally I do not participate in these what-our-ancestors-did discussions but I do have a small story concerning a favorite aunt who was born in a growing little border town in South Dakota before the turn of the 19 hundreds. Her tiny immigrant family had recently arrived from South Russia where her mother had already given birth to her older brother, who later in life would razz his siblings as being the only one in their family, outside of papa and mama, of course, who could claim two nationalities and still speak three languages. Curiously, he never did demonstrate to what degree of fluency he knew all three.
But Aunt A. would taunt him in turn as she claimed that he didn't know what the good life was as he was always in town or the fields with his father while she had to stay at home and take care of the smaller ones. Not only that, but she was born into a home that had a smooth, orange-colored, varnished, wooden floor that didn't dirty up one's knees so, and that had some substance when one placed a chair or table on the floor. Yes, she had to sweep her floor every day, she related, and always, especially, "in die Ecke," as her mother was a finicky sort who couldn't stand the least bit of dust or dirt in her new American city house. But her wooden floor was her responsibility and the very few toys or dolls the little family had she could play with on her shiny floor, in between her chores and duties looking after the other children.
And then they moved across the border, to take up a homestead in a lousy land full of rock and dirt where her new home was mostly a sod-house supplemented with a few clap boards here and there, and a window on each side of the longest room, a door on the front. And the floor? Well, like every other pioneer homesteader, it was compacted dirt, lousy dirty dirt that she also had to sweep as her siblings were growing and had no time for indoor chores. Mama was kept busy raising children and preparing meals for her hard-working new farmers, but Aunt A. had to stay at home and help raise the family. Consequently she never did attend school nor had to conduct much outside field work, except during major harvest, but she later became the favorite of the clan and to her dying days always told me of the day she had to enter that musty old sod house and give up her nice clean varnished wooden floors, now miles away, in town.
Later, my father would describe for me their corner stove in that soddie, at first an old metal barrel in which they were somehow able to burn the stuffed hay or straw he had to haul in to keep the fire burning and around which they used to sit on Sundays or certain evenings to chew their "Rooshian peanuts" or sunflower seeds as they became more available in the new country. He also related a story about how the relatives would visit and deposit the hulls, he said "spit," right onto the very floor which Aunt A. had to sweep as soon as they left. Yes, he too knew of her sweeping duties but he also told of how the sunflower seeds and oils, after an appropriate amount of time, gave a sort of polish and sheen to their darkened earthen soddie floor.
Then, just before the turn of our present century my spouse and I were able to visit with Aunt A. shortly before she died at 103 years of age, and I shall take to my own grave the image of my Aunt sitting on a chair in her living room, now with a carpeted floor no less and me kneeling before her listening to her stories. And just as we started to leave and before I could rise to say goodbye, she stretched forward and placed her forehead on mine and held my hands in hers for what seemed like three or four very long minutes. She knew, and I was later to learn, that neither of us knew what type floor she may have to care for next.


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Short Update on My IRS Situation and Other Miscellaney
by Him • October 26, 2012 • Tagged: links, taxes  • Comments
If you've been following us on Twitter (@lovenotdebt) you'd have known that I've been dealing with the IRS and their mistakes that I talked about in this post. I'm actually on hold with the IRS as I write this post, and I imagine that I look like this:
I'll be posting soon about what's happened since then, which includes a freakin' levy that was placed on my checking account. One piece of advice if you're contacted by the IRS: hire a pro. Seriously. I'm in way over my head and should have done that as soon as I received the first letter from the IRS. Also: the IRS is very, very incompetent.
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