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Vol. XXX—No. 11
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, February 27, 1953
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Orchestra Hall on Chicago's Michigan Boulevard, owned and operated
by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and one of Chicago's most elegant
concert halls, is the auditorium where the Bethel Male Chorus and Mr.
George Beverly Shea will present a concert on April 17, 1953.
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Tonight—Bethel vs. Northwestern at Northwestern, 8:15 p.m.
Monday, 2 March—Student recital in College Chapel, 7 p.m.
Monday, 2 March—Bethel vs. Jamestown, 8:15 p.m., field house
Friday, 6 March—Faculty recital presenting Mr. Roger Bailey,
8:30 p.m. in the College chapel'
Wednesday-Friday 4-6 March—re=registration for spring quarter.
Monday-Friday, 9-13 March—Winter quarter exams.
Tuesday, 17 March—Spring quarter classes begin.
Thursday, 19 March—B.W.A., 3 p.m.
Friday, 20 March—Senior Class Frolic
Male Chorus Announces
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Concert and Trip
Chorus-Shea Concert
Planned for April 17
The official announcement of the Orchestra Hall concert in Chicago
by the Male chorus was made by President Wingblade at the closing
service of Founder's Week.
Mr. George Beverly Shea, gospel singer for the Billy Graham
Evangelistic Association, will be the guest soloist.
The Rev. Nels Stjernstrom, director of the Bethel Male Chorus,
confirmed the Chicago concert and the East Coast Tour.
On Thursday, April 16, the 30 voice group will board a chartered
Greyhound Bus and begin their four thousand mile journey, Rev. Stjern-
Etrom reported. A "warm up" concert will be held that evening about
a hundred miles from Chicago preceeding the Orchestra Hall concert
the next evening on Friday, April 17, 1953.
Mr. George Beverly Shea, radio
gospel singer and member of the
Billy Graham Evangelistic team,
will be guest soloist with the
Bethel Male Chorus at the Orches-tra
Hall concert in Chicago, April
17, 1953.
Olson and Mr. Johnson will be ac-companied
by their wives.
Outdoor sports have been plan-ned
for the entire group. The
sophomores hope to spend time
ice skating, tobogganing, and play-ing
volley ball. Ice fishing is also
planned. Such indoor games as
ping pong and table games will be
enjoyed. The sophomores are also
anticipating the pillow fights on
the slippery log, an attraction at
A talent program is planned for
Saturday night. On Sunday morn-ing
there will be Sunday School
and church, with Dr. Olson speak-ing.
After dinner a final informal
service will be conducted. The
class plans to return to school late
Sunday afternoon.
Deadline Set for Selective
Service Test Applications
Selective Service Examining
Section, Educational Testing Ser-vice,
Princeton, New Jersey.
J. E. Terral, Director of Test Ad-ministration,
recently issued the
following announcement concern-ing
the filing of applications for
Selective Service College Qualifica-tion
All eligible students who intend
to take the Selective Service Col-lege
Qualification Test in 1953
should file applications at once
for the April 23 administration,
Selective Service National Head-quarters
advised today.
An application and a bulletin of
information may be obtained at
any Selective Service local board.
Following instructions in the bul-letin,
the student should fill out
his application immediately and
mail it in the special envelope pro-vided.
Applications must be post-marked
no later than midnight,
March 9, 1953. Early filing will be
greatly to the student's advantage.
Results will be reported to the
student's Selective Service local
board of jurisdiction for use in
considering his deferment as a
student, according to Educational
Testing Service, which prepares
and administers the College Quali-fication
Bethel's Librarian
Receives Degree
by Dorothy Larson
An interview with Miss Marina
Axeen, librarian, disclosed that on
March 19, she will receive her
Master's degree in Library Science.
Her minor has been Education and
Political Science.
Miss Axeen actually completed
her oral examinations on February
18. To lead up to this degree, she
has attended St. Cloud Teachers
College where she received her
B.S. in 1945; in 1949 she received
her B.S. in Library Science from
the University of Minnesota. She
also attended one summer at
Plans for the future are not
definite yet, but she may continue
her studying at Columbia Univer-sity
or the University of Illinois.
Her main interest is administra-tion.
Having completed her study-ing
for a titne at least, Miss Axeen
has turned to sports.
The Bethel Alumni Association
of Chicago and the Conference
Baptist Ministerial Association of
Chicago invited the Rev. Stjern-strom
to bring his chorus and sing
at Orchestra Hall.
The hall is one of Chicago's
largest and most elegant concert
houses. The capacity seating is
over three thousand people. Re-serve
tickets are now on sale at
the box office at Orchestra Hall
and may also be purchased through
Members of the Alumni and Mini-sterial
Ass't. to the president, the Rev.
Wyman Malmsten is making final
contacts with churches en route
to and on the east coast.
The chorus will leave Chicago
Saturday morning and travel as
far as Cleveland, Ohio, for a con-cert
that evening. From there they
proceed to Youngstown, Ohio; Erie,
Warren, Harrisburg, and McKees-port,
Pennsylvania. In the East,
some of their stops will be in
Brooklyn, New York, Brockton,
Boston, and Worcester, Massachu-setts.
The first weekend of the Spring
quarter, March 19, 20, 21, the Male
Chorus will present concerts at
Alcester, South Dakota; Worthing-ton,
Minnesota; and Willmar, Min-nesota.
The program will be main-ly
the same as for the concert
The Rev. Nels Stjernstrom stated
that the enthusiasm of the boys
is mounting high and he looks for-ward
to a successful tour, "But,"
he added, "we would sing only for
God's glory."
This is the 12th year the Rev.
Stjernstrom has led the Bethel
Male Chorus. He has made three
extensive trips with the chorus,
once previously to the East Coast,
once to the Denver area, and four
years ago to • Washington, Oregon,
and California.
A concert by the chorus for
Bethel students and faculty is be-ing
arranged for sometime in May.
The Rev. Nels Stjernstrom, dir-ector
of the Bethel Male Chorus.
The Rev. Stjernstrom is associate
pastor of the First Baptist Church
in Minneapolis and instructor in
speech at Bethel College.
Director Stjernstrom gave a ten-tative
list of the selections that
will be presented first at Orchestra
Hall and then on the East coast
tour. "God of Our Fathers," by
Warren, "0 How Shall I Receive
Thee," a chorale by Gerhardt, and
"A Song of Joy," by Grecthaninoff
will be part of the first group.
The chorus will render two selec-tions
by Bach, "Blessing, Glory,
and Wisdom," and "Now Let Every
Tongue Adore Thee."
Included in this concert from
the Russian Liturgy and arranged
by Peter Tkach -is "To Thee We
A Swedish number will bepre-sented
optionally. It is entitled
"Tonerna" by Sjoberg.
From the Fred Waring Series,
Director Stjernstrom has chosen
two numbers by Simone "Onward
Christian Soldiers" and "The Bat-tle
Hymn of the Republic."
The traditional numbers "Bro-thers,
Sing On" by Grieg, "Friend-ship"
by Haerche, and "Who'll Be
a Witness," by Ryder will be in-cluded
upon requests..
The 1953 Bethel College and Seminary Male Chorus will sing at
Orchestra Hall, Chicago, on April 17, preceding a two and one half
weeks tour en route to and along the east coast.
Carrying out an annual class
tradition, the sophomore class will
leave- at 7:30 tomorrow morning
for a two-day retreat at Camp Idu-hapi,
a Y.M.C.A. camp located west
of the Twin Cities, as announced
by Jay Fernlund, president of the
class. The retreat is held for spirit-ual
refreshment and fellowship.
Dr. Virgil Olson, Prof. of church
history in the Seminary, will bring
the messages. The sophomores
were asked to hand in pertinent
questions with which Dr. Olson
could deal in his messages. Discus-sion
centered around the ques-tions
will also be held. Eugene
Johnson, professor of art and Bible
survey and advisor for the class,
will assist by bringing a message
through chalk drawing. Both Dr.
The Proper Thing
Page 2 THE CLARION Friday, February 27, 1953
Congressman Walter Judd last fall said on Bethel Campus that as citizens of
the United States we should have a definite interest in those elected to govern
our nation. Their decisions can alter our present and affect our future.
One needs only to look briefly at a few historical events to confirm such a
statement. Wars, taxes, rationing, are only a few of the contacts we have had
had with our government.
We believe, as Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysburg address, that, "It is
altogether fitting and proper" to pay tribute to those who have sacrificed to pro-vide
and maintain our freedom, yes, our America.
In the month of February we give credit to two Americans, George Washing.
ton and Abraham Lincoln, who accomlished tasks in their lines that have affect-ed
every individual in America. If we could say to them, "Thanks."
The citizens of this nation elevated these two men to places of leadership.
if they had not expended themselves as they did we would challenge the esteem
in which their reputation is held. However, we are confident that each of these
men would in humility desire no "extra" credit for carrying out their duties.
They would assert that they only did what they thought was the best for their
country by God's guidance.
They would probably attest that the cares of state are much heavier today
than when they were in office. Yet we believe that these two men did their task
well and for that we pay tribute to them.
Their lines symbolize that intangible spirit which we call the "Spirit of
America." It is "fitting and proper" that we esteem these two great presidents,
but in reality we owe equal homage to the men that fought on the Normandy
Beachhead, Iwo Jima, Bunker Hill and Korea, or to the Mayor of Podunkville,
U.S.A., the commissioner of Waterworks, and
George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were great men, to be sure, but
to our concept they are more. They are ideals. They are our ideal of freedom.
They are America. For their deeds and for the deeds of all other Americans that
have sacrificed to develop, maintain, and guard this land of ours we praise our
Creator, Sustainer and Savior.
Thank you, Lord God, for America.
The Editor
Christian Maturity
by Westly Forsline
Keen interest and intellectual stimula-tion
have characterized Bethel students, as
they have shared the beginning of a ser-ies
of chapels sponsored by the Student
To date we have heard Mr. Elving An-derson,
Dr. Virginia Grabill, and Dr. W.
Robert Smith speak on "Wholesome Extra-
Curriculars" and Mr. Paul Grabill on "In-tellectual
The following chapels have -been, or
are being arranged for, in this series, which
centers in an approach to "Christian ma-turity."
Dr. Paul S. Rees, pastor of the
First Covenant Church in Minneapolis, will
speak on "You and Your Conscience," Bill
Adams, high school coach, will give a mes-sage
on "Opportunities in Athletics," and
"Christians and Politics" will be discussed
by Congressman Judd, this chapel being
sponsored by the Religious Council. Speak-ing
on "You and Your Mission" will be
Rev. Wesley Gustafson, and Dr. C. E. Carl-son
will discuss "Your Concept of Maturity."
Other chapels planned are in the area of
"The Christian and Suffering," "Devotion
and Piety," and two vocational interest
chapels on "Opportunities in Nursing" and
"Opportunities in Education."
The plan of these chapels is built upon
the need for a broader insight into areas
of Christian service and maturity. Too
often life becomes highly compartmental
and a deep sense of responsibility fails
to grip us, or life is viewed with blinders
of rose colored glasses.
My Kingdom for a Date
by Berge Hoogasian
(Part four)
The gentlemen on this campus have loudly cried to be heard, having had
to suffer in silence for several weeks. Sit back, fellows, this is your inning.
First of all, you ladies need some encouragement to be friendly. Almost in-variably
the fellows have told me that the cast down countenance, unwillingness
to smile in greeting boys, and unwillingness even to take any initiative in this
matter is extremely offensive. The common complaint among girls is—"They'll
think we're being forward." I'm sorry, gals—the facts are against you here. You
don't have to throw yourself at the fellows but loosen up a little. Smile and
greet all of , them whether or not you know their names. This friendliness applies
not only on campus but also in classes. And in the final analysis, friendliness is
a positive Christian virtue. Of the twenty or so fellows to whom I spoke, everyone
emphasized the need for more friendliness on the part of almost all the girls.
Take heed.
Along with this idea of being friendly goes dress. The complaint of girls
about the dressing habits of the boys reciprocated. The fellows -think the girls
are sloppy. They say you don't have to be a beauty queen for them to ask you
out (though it helps!), but if you try to dress in taste and cultivate your best ex-ternal
and internal traits the likelihood of your being asked out is much greater.
This means, for example, if you're a little heavy don't wear the baggiest clothes
on the market (or plaids and checks which tend to emphasize obesity) and con-versely,
if you're a "bean pole" don't wear tight-fitting clothes or clothes with
horizontal stripes. (This tends to make you look even thinner—glamour magazines
go hang!) Men don't like that hungry, tired-out look of thin women!) By the
way, while we're at it, men like to see
straight seams on stockings—more women
fail here than are conscious of it!
Along with this developing your best
traits we might add that you should widen
your interests and' reading so that you can
converse intelligently on almost any sub-ject.
You don't have to "know it all." In
fact, if you do, and express it, you can say
goodbye to that date! Further, modulate
your tone of voice; no matter how guilty
boys are of not doing so, they do not like
"loud" girls. When you're dated let the
fellow be the leader in conversation (unless
he's so shy you have to prick him with a
pin every now and then to find out if he's
Now about dating formalities:
If you're called four or five days ahead
of time and asked for a date, don't stall
the fellow by asking him to call back again
later. This happened to one fellow. When
he called the second time the girl said she
would be busy. By then it was too late to
ask someone else, but the fellow saw the
girl at the same event with someone else.
Her asking him to call back was tant among
saying: If I can't get something better, I'll
go with you. This is one of the surest ways
of being "blackballed" that I know of.
This next is for the inquisitive girls who
listen to the conversation of others on the
phone talking to boys. Have you never
heard of privacy? It's none of your busi-ness
who's calling or where the girl is be-ing
asked to go. No one likes a snoop.
She's not being ethical, and certainly not
When you're asked out, don't accept two
dates for the same day. The boys will
think you're too eager. When you do finally
go out, don't talk about previous dates with
other boys. It's nauseating! And don't con-stantly
gripe. No one likes a griper on a
And no matter how much you like a
boy, NEVER reach for his hand. If he likes
you he'll take the intiative. Boys immense-ly
dislike such action.
Along with the above, don't date one
fellow too often unless you like him ex-tremely
well and do not mind being "out
of the running." If you like to date a fel-low
and yet do not want to be pegged, be
genuinely busy when he asks for dates
too often. And by the way, the excuse that
you're studying is extremely feeble.
Last of all, quit talking about where you
went or what you did on your dates. That's
a private matter.
Thank you for being so kind in reading
these articles. I sincerely hope they have
accomplished the intended purpose.
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I I erns of Xbougbt
There is an old saying, and true, that
you cannot eat your cake and have it.
In the old McGuffey readers of other
years (so practically helpful and inspiring
to the children) there was a story of two
brothers, each of whom had received a
New Year's gift from their father.
In opening the packages, one impatiently
cut the strong cord, but the other took
time to untie the knots and saved the cord
in his pocket with the words, "I may need
this some day."
Both enjoyed shooting with the bow and
arrow. Later, in a boys' contest, both par-ticipated,
but the first was unfortunate
enough to break his string, and so was
automatically out of the contest. Soon the
other brother was called up and he also
broke his string, but it was the act of only
a moment to replace it with the strong cord
in his pocket, and he won the contest.
And so the lesson of this story was driv-en
home to the children of that genera-tion—"
Waste not, want not."
You waste your health and strength in
youth through careless living, and in later
years, when you need it for high and holy
purpose—it is gone.
You waste the fleeting moments, and
when the crisis comes you "miss the mark"
because you have not prepared. The value
of time seems to increase (inversely) as
we draw near the examination. We are
told that when Queen Elizabeth lay dying
she exclaimed, "My kingdom for five min-utes!"
Meet Mr. Widgit
by Tom Warden
"Brother, have you got the joy?" "Oh,
that test was a bear, huh?" "Well, don't
get all shook up over it." These consti-tute
only a few of the expressions, initia-ted
by the Widgit, quickly seizing the
campus conversation. Is this the only rea-son
the Widgit is outstanding? This would
quickly be answered by a walk through the
boys' dorm about 10:30 p.m. For truly, I
can say it's hard to decipher between the
mating call of an elephant and the high-pitched,
Tarzan-like shriek, "neeet000", the
only approval expressed by the Widgit.
Despite the shriek of "neeet000," we
dare to explore the dormatory. We look in
one room, amazed that anything could sur-vive
the tornado, for still hanging over
the bureau and book shelves are the Wid-git's
wardrobe, evidently heaped there by
the storm. His desk is completely covered
with books and papers which could only
have been heaped there by a ninety-mile-an-
hour wind. The floor is not to be seen,
so covered by bed sheets, blankets, and
the Widgit's shoes.
So far we've only heard the shriek and
seen the habitat of the Widgit, the self-named
boy (or boys) from California. Now
let us peer around the corner. Lo and be-hold,
we see him. Not only does his call
and room represent something out of this
world, but his dress also. Standing there
in a pair of "long Johns," a straw hat
(completely topped, known only as his dis-tinct
"official" hat), by a pair of ear muffs,
a screw driver (for removing door locks),
and a water pistol, fully loaded! This late
evening attire we soon find out is for the
climax or the grand finale of the even-ing,
the "interrogation."
The Widgit, upon spotting us, fires his
weapon, and by the odor we know we
were just missed by shaving lotion.
But before we are to suffer
too much, the dormitory super-visor
"Wally Pete" (affectionately called
the "good head" by the Widgit) comes
along, breaking up the "interrogation" for
the night.
Although he has such a noted midnight
garb, he is featured by day for his low-slung
levis which have no belt loops and
are therefore never worn with a belt, his
highly polished shoes (with the reflective-ness
of a mirror, characterized by his one
and only Cordovan Stain), and the clicking
heel plates. Yes, Bethel without him would
be "below average," but the whole campus
is a regular "genuine" and thrilled to be
honored with the presence of Mr. Widgit!
All Around
the Twin Cities
by Catharine Brandt
Under the direction of Antal Dorati, the Minneapolis Symphony
orchestra will present its next regular concert of the season Friday,
February 27. The program will be at 8:30 p.m. in Northrup auditorium.
Two weeks later, Friday, March 13, Paul Hindemith, noted German
composer, will be the guest-conductor of the symphony orchestra. Assist-ed
by the orchestra, Mr. Hindemith will present the American premiere
of his new symphony, "Die Harmonie der Welt."
Enter Filth Meet ti Q.
Six Bethel debate teams partici-pated
in their fifth major tourna-ment
together with colleges from
seven states at Wisconsin State
Teacher's College, Eau Claire on
Feb. 19-21. Ronald Palosaari and A.
Don Richardson led the Bethelites
with three wins and two losses.
The only Bethel honor at the
meet was a third place in folklore
by Robert Hilton. Hilton also made
the final round of oratory but then
was eliminated. Other events par-ticipated
in by Bethelites were
after dinner speaking, extemporary
speaking, and discussion.
Entered in upper division de-bate
were: Ronald Palosaari, Don
Richardson, Robert Hilton, and
Wendell Anderson. In the "B" de- Q.
bate were: Jean Seldon, Catherine
Babcock, Helen Peterson, Gloria
Nelson, Tom Warden, Harold Rich-ardson,
Roger Bergeson, and Don
The next test for Bethel debate
talent will be the Northwest tour-nament
at St. Thomas College here
in St. Paul. This will be the larg-est
regional debate meet of the
year including the colleges and
universities of eight or more
states. I
Bailey Presents
Faculty Recital
The second faculty recital of the
year will be presented Friday,
March 6, by Roger • Bailey, voice
instructor. Mr. Bailey, who will be
accompanied at the piano by his
wife, is assistant conductor of the
University Chorus.
As a concluding number to the
various solos which Mr. Bailey will
present, a small choral group will
accompany him in the presentation
of a cycle of "Five Mystical Songs"
by R. Vaughan Williams centered
around words written by George
Herbert. Those included in this
choral group are Bert Anderson,
Marilyn Anderson, Vicky Balcom,
Carolyn Clark, Paul Dubuque, Rod-ney
Erickson, Jim Hubbard, Doris
Moberg, Florence Oman, Cal Pet-erson
and Nancy Swanson.
The recital will begin at 8:30
p.m., in the college chapel.
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Evening School to Begin
March 23 for 10 Weeks
Evening school at Bethel will once again commence this spring
on March 17 and will last for ten weeks ending May 19. The school
will convene on Tuesday evenings.
The curriculum will include four courses of study. "Great Christian
Literature" will be taught by the Rev. Maurice Lawson, assistant pro-fessor
of English at Bethel. The Rev. Lawson is also the pastor of the
Olivet Baptist Church in Minneapolis. The intended purpose of this
course is to acquaint the student with their Christian Literary heritage.
Dr. Bernard Ramm, professor of
philosophy and apologetics at our
college and seminary, will instruct
a course entitled, "How we got
our Bible." The course will deal
with the writers of the Bible, its
collection and translations.
The classes will last two periods
each from 7:00-7:50 and from 8:10
to 9:00 p.m. A chapel hour will
take place from 7:50 to 8:10 each
evening between the divided class
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In keeping with good "railroad-ers"
' tradition, I'd like to "haul
freight" for a few lines in answer
to your editorial. This is not a
defense, but rather purported to
be a reflection and application. I
shall generalize intentionally.
Early in life I began to learn,
"If you can't live creatively, live
appreciatively." This principle has
never inferred a weak passivity,
but does suggest that I must accept
people and organizations where
they are and for what they are.
Opinions are made from the ob-vious—
but hesitantly!
However, in a situation where
it is quite obvious that a few
individuals live in the "Sweet Bye
and Bye," rather than the "great
here and now," it seems imperative
that one meets the problem within
the client's own frame of refer-ence.
Strange how traditions and "sets"
force us into hyper-categorized
thinking, even in a liberal arts col-lege!
We miss the obvious too
often—the fact that we live in a
challenging, insistent present!
Strange living is only "wish
fulfillment," and if we're stymied
we turn "inward"—victims of our-selves!
You know the adage,
"Can't see the forest for the
trees." Life can be mighty drab
and personality quite paranoidic if
self-examination is unknown.
Remember—honesty was all that
was asked, and if the principle
were carried out, individuals would
speak their mind freely, and not
"scapegoat" only on the echos of
an issue. And if responsibility is
bypassed, one can only let the
chips fall where they may, with
concern for the brethren!
Furthermore, if popular educa-tional
theory is at all a norm for
evaluation, I'm sure that college
life ought to be full of meaningful
experience plus being student-cen-tered.
Ideals are necessary, but ideals
are not enough. Similarly, college
for college sake is not enough, nor
is entertainment for entertainment
sake adequate. When a need is
faced and its criterion met, I think
that then self-realization and ma-turity
find direction and dynamic
in living.
No one would wish to take the
"candy from the child," but if this
is too generalized, may I cordially
extend an invitation to a "bull-session"
at any time. You well
realize that this letter is for a
few, and is written in genuine sin-cerity
(and in love too.) One can-not
live with these issues of cam-pus
life, except that he becomes
deeply appreciative of a progres-sive
group with the highest mo-tives.
This best characterizes our
student body at Bethel. And I am
grateful for a Christian campus
where real progress lives in con-flict—
and conquers! That takes
real Christian gentlemen!
Wes Forsline, President
Student Council
P.S. These reflections might be
relevant far beyond the classic J.S.
Dr. W. Robert Smith speaks to
an overflowing Founder's Week
crowd at the Thursday morning
chapel service. Dr. Smith spoke on
the powerful "drive" of emotions.
"The Teachings of Jesus" as a
course of instruction will be pre-sented
by Professor Alphin Conrad
of our seminary. This study is con-cerned
with applying the intended
emphasis of Jesus to practicable
Christian living.
Mrs. Harold Paulson, teacher of
Weekday Church School in St. Paul
will instruct a "Vacation Bble
School Workshop." The subjects of
staff training and program mater-ial
will be discussed during the
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Edward Berryman, organ instruc
for at the University of Minnesota,
will give a recital Saturday, Feb-
1 nary 28, at 8:30 p.m.. in Northrup
auditorium. The program will be
given free of charge.
The Julliard String quartet,
members of the faculty of the
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A tight zone defense, effective
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Bethel's forward line composed
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Jandek Selected Album Cover Gallery
Jandek is one of the strangest stories in the whole of recorded music. Starting in 1978, Jandek released a steady stream of albums, most of which were amateurish and barely listenable. He did not release them conventionally, sending them instead of radio stations and shipping them mail-order to anyone who requested them (not for free but for a price so low that it eliminates any suggestion that he was in it for the money). Until 2004, absolutely nothing was know with certainty about the man except that he lived in Houston: he refused requests for interviews and made no attempt at conventional 'marketing'. Due mostly to his tunelessness, a Jandek cult was slow to grow. Due mostly to his tenacity, sooner or later it did arrive. Starting in 2004, he appeared in public for the first time, and it appears that slowly (perhaps upon retiring from whatever his day job once was) he has decided to 'play the game' at least a little bit. By his own rules, of course, which is how it's always been. Jandek is influenced by no one and has influenced no one. He exists entirely outside of the music industry, and for that reason he's fascinating. The contents of his albums are at times less interesting than their very existence, and are rarely conventionally listenable. His album covers are an important part of his mystique, but in this case we're not speaking of an amateurish naïf: it's my opinion that many of these covers are excellent in their own way. Jandek clearly old photos he has lying around as his source, and as a photographer he never seems to go out of his way to shoot anything above the mundane basics of his surroundings (if he is indeed the photographer, which - particuarly since he features in many of them as subject - is by no means beyond dispute). And yet a good many of these covers reveal an eye for finding beauty in the mundane. I'm not doing a complete gallery of all 66 Jandek album covers - as that would take too long and dull the impact through endless repetition. But here are nineteen that, to me anyway, really stand out.
Ready for the House, from 1978, is Jandek's début, and immediately the cover art is striking. It's just a chair and a window, with some books and maybe an ashtray. What is striking is (a) those jurid colours, and (b) the fact that no element in the cover is actually the focus, or in any way seems like 'album cover' material. Jandek plays music as if he was unaware that anyone else out there was actually making music. His approach to album cover design is equally sui generis.
The Rocks Crumble was Jandek's third release of 1983 and his first-ever 'electric' album. Merely a picture of a drumkit behind a wall, this cover still manages to be indistinct and creepy. The drawn curtains (famously, many Jandek covers feature drawn curtains) supply the light source that illuminates the drums. Like Jandek's music, the cover gives this impression of stumbling upon something you weren't meant to see.
Foreign Keys came out in 1985 and features a major theme from covers of the period: buildings, taken from the outside. Jandek is entering a door, not in the centre of the picture but off to the side. By now, we can call this man Jandek, but at the time of this release, it was not clear whether this man, who graced many but by no means all Jandek covers, was the singer on the albums or not: almost nothing was known about Jandek. It was this extreme level of mystery that made him so compelling (though I didn't hear of him for another ten years or so after this).
Modern Dances, from 1987, has a very similar cover to its follow-up Blue Corpse, but the latter is a central piece in his body of work whereas this one, well, isn't. But the cover is better, once again Jandek in front of a building, off-centre. But it's all more naked: Jandek is shirtless, the building is bare brick. He's facing away from the camera, looking at the more interesting stuff that is merely hinted at, crammed into the rightmost 10% of the cover.
You Walk Alone, from 1988, is Jandek's sixteenth, and while it's similar to Foreign Keys (it might be the same building), Jandek is well-dressed and has a confident, almost cocky, look on his face. And he's not entering the house but leaving it, defiantly. Maybe he's on his way to his high school prom?
On the Way has a particularly amazing cover - it's a drum kit, I guess, but the picture is so poorly taken that the whole thing is just a blue haze. Abstract art, and as amazingly weird as the contents of the album itself.
One Foot in the North, from 1991, is one of Jandek's last vinyl releases, and one of about ten or so I've held in my hands: I can be sure because I distinctly recall the 'Chinese restaurant' lettering on the back cover, the sole Jandek back cover to deviate at all from the strictest of formats - and then only in that the font is different. Otherwise, all Jandek back covers are essentially the same. Anyway, this beautiful cover looks very similar to one of his first ones, except that that was clearly a portrait, and this one looks like a photograph of Jandek's shadow, except that you can make out details of his hand at the bottom. Confounding, but utterly beautiful.
White Box Requiem, from 1996 (approximately the year I first came across this strange man's recorded output), is Jandek's third CD, but 25th album. This incredibly grainy photo, perhaps blown up from a much smaller image, shows Jandek, in suit and tie, sporting some rather magical sideburns.
I Woke Up. A complete change of pace, this one: this is a kind of still life made from garbage: a very deteriorated sofa sits in front of an overgrown shrub and is surrounded by pieces of wood. Like almost all Jandek covers, you can't come close to guessing the year the photo was taken - one might take a stab at the late seventies, but it feels more accurately like Jandek inhabits a world that knows nothing about the passage of time and is stuck, Twilight Zone-style, in some permanent Möbius-loop.
Put My Dream on This Planet is an a capella album, which is bizarre even by the standards of history's most bizarre musician. The cover is another beautiful abstract: I think it's a shoulder and arm wearing a white shirt. But it could be anything at all.
Worthless Recluse actually features Jandek posing and (kind of) smiling - as if he had decided he was shooting an album cover as opposed to choosing covers by rifling through his old photographs. The barn behind him is red as barns must be, and the land-out-of-time clearly has a rural area too.
The Humility of Pain is Jandek's 33rd, from 2002, and the second to feature covers taken 'somewhere in Europe' - clearly vacation photos from a trip overseas. Yet it's gorgeous and off-the-beaten-path, as you'd expect. It's Ireland, but once again it gives the impression of places meant to remain unseen glimpsed through stolen furtive looks where one ought not be. An invasion of privacy, but the privacy of an abandoned (or never-completed) ghost town. Somewhere in Ireland, or perhaps anywhere on the planet at all. Gorgeous.
The Place is the very next record, and it's more vacation snaps, but the tone couldn't be more different: it's not a double-exposure but a picture taken of mannequins that reflects the houses across the street in the shop window. The mannequins' lurid red and the overcast sky's dim blue contrast, and the whole thing seems to mock glamour and even 'reality', with the plastic models seeming to communicate but trapped in the density of the image. Hipgnosis has never made a cover this beautiful.
The Door Behind is from 2004, the annus mirabilus when Jandek not only released four albums but - to everyone's shock - actually started performing live, breaking the wall of secrecy that had surrounded him for a quarter of a century. So these covers have to be seen now as creations of someone more conscious of an audience than he had previously been - and this castaway-Jandek, or perhaps captive-Jandek, with stern eyes glaring at the camera like that Afghan girl, might well be an attempt to comment on Jandek's public image (much like naming an album 'Worthless Recluse').
A Kingdom He Likes is the very next cover, and the contrast is striking: like the last was 'old Jandek' and this one is 'new Jandek', comfortable in his own skin and happy to be the centre of attention. He wears his hat like a Texan, and that wooden wall frames him wonderfully. He seems unnervingly normal here.
Khartoum: but not anymore. This goes way back into the weird as its cover, and the cover of the one preceding it, have Jandek looking like a Muslim convert. Nothing in Jandek's music suggests any such thing (though there are a lot of Christian references scattered across his albums), so perhaps he just grew a beard, put on a cleric's hat, and liked the effect. The deep blue monochrome is lovely, and the cover is a return to that out-of-focus feel you get from so many of his covers.
Glasgow Monday is his third live album - in typical form, he appears to have decided to release every concert he plays, and so far has put out 16 live albums, four in Glasgow. Most feature snaps taken from the city where the album was recorded, often with a posed Jandek in front. This one shows an abandoned structure - a farmhouse perhaps - in the rolling green hills of somewhere-in-Europe, or perhaps Scotland. I imagine Jandek has an eye for lonely places like this, and probably pulled the car over for a snap while travelling from here to there.
Glasgow Friday is Jandek's seventh live album, and his 52nd overall, believe it or not. Not a mere farmhouse but some castle, this is probably a tourist destination, and so by rights ought to be a more traditional holiday snap. Yet however Jandek takes his pictures he invariably manages to give them a sense of gloom and a sense of loneliness: this was taken on a cold December day after the nuclear bomb had destroyed all signs of life on the planet excluding atonal guitarists from Texas. How come my holiday snaps never look like this?
London Tuesday: or this? This is as simple as it gets, Jandek is touring Europe, is on a hill in front of a fence, and stops to pose for a tourist snap, urban life sprawled out beneath him. But here's the thing: this may well be London (it'd be logical), and his age in the picture suggests it must be from the 2000s, a relatively recent picture when the CD was released. Yet somehow - like every other album cover Jandek's released across thirty-plus years - it completely belies its date of origin. It's a trick Jandek is very adept at pulling off, and even though Jandek is clearly posing, and even though his head is in dead centre of this picture, it's somehow very much a Jandekesque cover, as beautiful as many of the others even as it remains entirely confounding. Like everything about Jandek.
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Isn't "Put My Dream on This Planet" Jandek with his white-sleeved arms crossed upward (put your hands on your opposite shoulders and you'll understand what I mean), facing centre from top left? I really love the first one (it reminds me of something early The Cure or New Order would have done), but I hate the porn links just above this comment.ReplyDelete
Actually, correction: "Put My Dream on This Planet" is Jandek (wearing a black hat and white shirt), sitting on a porch step (or other type of staircase) hunched over his knees with his arms crossed, hands nearly touching his opposite shoulders. Oh, and you're right: "The Place" is gorgeous.ReplyDelete
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Some points - A) The colors in Ready For The House pop out that way because Sterling liked painting his furniture/house that way.
B) Someone once asked him in a letter if the Khartoum cover was dressing up for fun or a legitimate spiritual transformation. The (typically cryptic) response: "Neither fun nor spiritual transformation but far closer to the latter. Just obliging the neighbors!"

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I. Come In Under the Shadow of This Red Rock (or, Shelter in the Wasteland)
Bamidbar 1:1- And Gd spoke to Moshe in the Sinai Desert within the Ohel Moed (the Appointed Tent) on the First of the Second Month in the Second year from the Exodus from Egypt saying…
This week we begin the fourth of the books which comprise the Torah. This book, known most commonly as "Bamidbar", "In the desert", is also known as "Homesh Hapequdim" or as it is conveniently translated, as "Numbers". In general, we have a return to the narrative of the wanderings in the desert of the Israelites, as well as some commandments, most of which, as pointed out by Ramban, are not of normative force today, though as usual we will attempt to derive emotive meaning from them as we encounter them. The opening perasha, which concerns us this week, has very little narrative or ritual, it consists almost entirely of the census taken of the people on the first day of the second month of the second year after the exodus from Egypt. I approached this perasha with great trepidation, given the fear I have of numbers since my grade school days; expounding, for example, on actuarial procedures in antiquity did not seem very inviting (OK, I can't resist. One day the bookkeeper shows up at the office looking completely worn out. "You must have had had some busy evening", said one of his co-workers. "It isn't that", yawned the bookkeeper. "I couldn't fall asleep, so I started counting sheep. But I made a mistake somewhere, and it took me all night to find it.").
This perasha consists primarily of this repeat census. The classical commentators wonder why a census is needed at this time. The Ibn Ezra explains that it was necessary in order to best set up the encampment and the flags. Rashi and the Ramban take a different approach. Rashi states that this census represents a counting of love, coming just after the erection of the Mishkan, as the Divine Presence was to rest upon the people. Ramban disagrees, as a census demonstrating love after the Mishkan was built should have been taken one month earlier, when the Mishkan was erected. Ramban's conclusion, as stated in 1:45, is, well, that he doesn't really have a good explanation of why these numbers needed to be related to us. Given this hermeneutic opening, the Hassidic commentators felt the liberty to take these passages in an entirely different direction, not being bound by a "normative" earlier traditional reading. I will present the readings of several authors, among them the Noam Elimelech and two of his disciples, the Or Pnei Moshe and the Maor V'Shemesh.
The opening verse, as presented above, is seemingly a trivial restatement of the date the command for the census was issued. To the mystically oriented, however, there is no such thing as a trivial text; if a time is given, it must come to teach something. Deleuze and Guattari name this kind of relation to time, such an individuation of a time experience as an haecceity; as they explain:
"A season, a winter, a summer, and hour, a date have a perfect individuality lacking nothing…concrete individuations that have a status of their own and direct the metamorphosis of things and subjects."
There is the usual sort of indefinite physical time, and then there is a determining measured time, a very different relation to temporality, as reflected in a phrase such as "once upon a time". To the commentators of a mystical bent, it is not only the date per se that is alive and instructive, but also the descriptions and other terms used to identify these times which produce meaning, becoming the source of important messages about how to lead our lives. The Ben Ish Hai in Baghdad, who is contemporary with the Hassidic masters and shares much similarity in approach with them, explains that the actual numbers presented in this verse, the numbers 1, 2, and 2, or in Hebrew aleph, bet, and bet, form the acronym "Bereishit Bara Elokim", the first three words of the Torah, as well as the Aramaic word "bava", which means gate. He insists that the narration of these numbers is of cardinal importance, and offers his own Kabbalistic meanings, which we won't delve into at this time. What matters is the sense that there is a message here.
The Daat Moshe notes a series of superfluities in the text. For example, why does the verse repeat that they were in the Sinai Desert? That would be fairly obvious, where else would they be? This superfluity strengthens his impression that this verse is not merely meant as a caption giving us a time and place. He explains the multiple superfluities in the verse as encoding within it a lesson on how to attain the spiritual heights that Moshe reached. How did Moshe achieve this state of personal dialogue with Gd? The Daat Moshe explains: by virtue of Moshe's extreme humility, a humility achieved by being in the emotional state of "midbar", "desert" an annihilation of the ego brought about by a total openness to all, metaphorically as open to all as the wilderness. By virtue of existentially inhabiting this state of desert-hood, he earned "Sinai", which numerically in Hebrew is equivalent to "sulam", ladder, the ladder skyward, that is, by virtue of one's self annihilation one achieves the heights of spiritual transcendence, and earns the "ohel", which in Hebrew means 'tent' but etymologically also relates to "halo" (as in Job 29:3, b'hilo nero), meaning that he achieves transcendence and enlightenment. Ego negation is a prerequisite for openness to spiritual heights and enlightenment. Yet, bodhisattva like, a Moshe's ohel is not complete, a Moshe resists climbing this ladder and keeps the light limited to this world, as a lesson for those who seek to learn and emulate this path; thus Moshe's tent is kept "moed", literally meaning "appointed" or "reserved". that is, constricted to this world, available to those not yet on a high transcendent state. This lofty spiritual transmission is delivered via "echad lachodesh hasheni", literally "the first of the second month", but here, echad, "one" is famously the numerical equivalent of ahava, of love (the letters add up to thirteen, and it is an important meditation when reciting the Shema prayer, for example). It is through love that chidush, hitchadshut, renewal, is consummated, love renews the hearts of the people, because love means the care for the spiritual state of the sheni, of the Other. Love for the Other brings about a spiritual renewal so dramatic that it can transform even time, even time that has passed; the years of the spiritual poverty brought about by the hegemony of Egypt are now "b'shana hashenit", shenit (second) being similar to the term hishtanut, transfiguration; even the past gets a second chance and is reconstructed in holiness. This verse we are reading ends with the term "laymor", "saying", reminding those who seek spiritual heights that they have a responsibility to speak the truths they learn, to teach the people the routes by which he or she gains this enlightenment, to share this love and light.
As an alternative reading to the latter part of the verse, he also suggests that "b'echad lachodesh hasheni" could insinuate that like the Echad, a term which is also a descriptive name for Gd, through Gd the uniquely One, who we are taught "each day mechadesh, recreates with His goodness", one can become a "mishneh", Gd's aide-de-camp, in reconstructing the world toward the good, in tikkun olam. This can be accomplished by "shana hashenit". Shana numerically is equivalent to "sefira", similar to the Hebrew word "sapir", "sapphire", which glows from within itself (in other places the period of Sefirat HaOmer is thought of as a way to achieve an inner "glow"). Thus, one who is enlightened, through his or her own light, can bring about this same "shinui", renewal, in others; this shinui is a result of each individual's exodus from their own "metzarim", those gnawing inhibitions which keep one from manifesting their own greatest potential.
In a similar approach, the Meor V'Shemesh reads this verse as symbolic of a process, a bildungsroman of spiritual growth. The MVSh notes that this first verse is constructed in a chiastic form. It begins with "dibbur", traditionally meaning a public speech act, to Moshe in the Sinai Desert, an open space, which the verse then opposes with "in the Ohel Moed", a covered space, which many Midrashim specify as referring to a more intimate dialogue, concealed within the tent, ending with the term "laymor", "saying" the saying of "amira" being traditionally contrasted with the more commanding "dibbur" as referring to a more personal, softer address.
The Meor V'shemesh explains all of this by resorting to a central theme in Lurianic mysticism. In Lurianic Kabbala, spiritual growth is not linear but rather dialectic in nature. As explained by the MVSh, the first growth spurt, Katnut Rishon (Kaplan, translates this term as "first constricted consciousness"), is one of childlike, brute thinking, total nonceptualization. When one suddenly becomes "conscious", achieving "Gadlut Rishon", First Expanded Consciousness, action are performed with total commitment, in full vigor, prayers and studies in full voice. As the adept becomes more sophisticated and knowledgeable, as life reveals its complexities and doubt becomes a prominent aspect of life, there is a retreat to "katnut sheni", the Second Restricted Consciousness. Overcoming this, and returning to a Second Expanded Consciousness, one can then encounter spiritual praxis again, this time without the childish shows of force, sans clamor, in sotto voce. All this, according to the Meor V'shemesh, is alluded to within our verse. The verse begins with term Vayidaber, signifying commanding speech, loud and forceful. After the humility that contemplative thought and life experience engender, metaphorized as "midbar", the desert, the wasteland, one can achieve the state of "chidush hasheni", this renewal, this evolution into Gadlut Sheni, where all action can be done covertly, intimately, as an "amirah" in the personal space of the "Ohel Moed".
The Or Penei Moshe, also a student of the Noam Elimelech, puts his focus upon the term "Ohel Moed". These two words "Ohel" and "Moed", teach us how to relate to our lives. The reason people are haughty and arrogant, he explains, is that their relationship to time is based on a mistaken sense of immortality. We forget that we are mortal and that death waits for us at some point. The moment the individual realizes that one's time is limited, that life must end in death, then there is a total transformation of the person's commitment and being toward life. This is what the phrase "bamidbar Sinai b'ohel moed" means to teach us. "Ohel", "tent" symbolizes the sky, stretched over the earth like a tent, stretched over, beyond, not-in-this-world, transcendent. "Moed", on the other hand, translates as "time", with the full phrase Ohel Moed thus connoting: "there will be a time in which one will be not-in-this-world", our lives are pointed skyward, beyond or after the world we live in now. Becoming conscious of this, alters life entirely- one achieves the state of "midbar", recognition of ultimate annihilation leading to a lack of attachment to the ego. Once the immature illusion of immortality is overcome, the individual is open to Sinai, there where the Torah is given. Thus, through conscious awareness of the individual's transience, new transcendent possibilities of meaning regarding life appear. Interesting how this anticipates by about one hundred years, the following signal paragraph of twentieth century thought:
Death is a possibility of Being that each Dasein must itself take over. With death Dasein stands before itself in its most proper potentiality for Being. What is involved in this possibility is nothing less that the being-in-the-world of Dasein as such…When Dasein stands before itself as this possibility it is fully directed towards its very own potentiality for Being…As potentiality for Being, Dasein cannot surmount the possibility fo death. Death is the possibility of the unqualified impossibility of Dasein. Death thus reveals itself as the most proper nonrelational insurmountable possibility… (M. Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, section 50, p. 250).
Both the Meor V'shemesh and the Or Pnei Moshe were students of the Noam Elimelech, R. Elimelech of Lizensk. Thus it is interesting how the Noam Elimelech's teaching on this verse is much more tragic and radical than those already presented. He explains that in the giving of the Torah specifically at Sinai, we are taught the extreme humility necessary to actualize the Torah's message. The Torah was deliberately given at Sinai, as the midrash teaches, Sinai being a smaller hill, not the most lofty of hilltops, in order to relay this message. However, this type of extreme humility, this ego annihilation, runs the risk of being a psychologically destabilizing experience, one that can quickly bring on a debilitating depression. Thus, Sinai is linked to Ohel Moed in this verse, meaning that along with the depressive Sinai postion one must surround themselves (thus the term Ohel, tent) with Moed, which here is translated as festival, the combined phrase meaning a "joyful environment". Here, I believe, in 1788, first appears the phrase more frequently associated with Breslov, that is, that it is a "mitzvsah", a commandment to be "tamid b'simcha", to maintain joy (I suppose I should point out that in an earlier source, in Shaar Hakavanot of the Ari, we find that it is forbidden to pray while in depression, because it eventually causes prayer to become unpleasant for the person, and the Likutei Amarim (Tanya, chapt. 26) proposes a form of cognitive psychotherapy, given that depression is of no value, one must create imaginative techniques to get rid of it).
We are commanded, then, to maintain joy as a bulwark against depression, which is so readily a fate for a soul that recognizes the Divine in the world. But the self-punitive soul may ask itself, how can I maintain joy when I know that I have sinned and am not worthy of joy? Thus, the verse continues, "b'echad lachodesh hasheni"- every individual (echad) soul is twice born- the first time at birth, the second renewal (which is like a total rebirth) at the time of repentance, which is a change of life equivalent to the exodus from Mitzrayim, from those inhibitory cathexes which accompany sin.
The Noam Elimelech also presents another reading which to me reveals a level of sensitivity to human suffering, particularly meaningful to those of us who deal with the gravely ill on a daily basis- he points out that even a parent who sees the suffering of their child, may attempt to ameliorate the child's pain by offering candy or food or whatever they have at their disposition, but they know that they can't ever really remove the pain and the trauma or undo the loss caused the beloved infant. Gd is aware of the sublime tragedy of the human condition, R. Elimelech explains, and Gd means to inform us that communication to humanity is not from some exalted and removed Olympus, but from within the midbar, from within the desert wasteland of our human existence itself. From within that world, through a relationship with Torah, with Gd's speech act, we can erect an Ohel Moed, a shelter, an envelopment of joy, within the sad tragic realities of the human condition.
Taking into account the Shem MiShmuel's explanation for this census, being that is was meant to teach us that each and every individual "counted" is as important as the "people" as a totality, that every individual life is part of the Text, then we find, derived from a seemingly trivial passage, a profound and affecting set of teachings, which are at the core of the Hassidic hermeneutic project.
II. Correspondances
L'homme y passe a travers des forets de symboles
Qui l'observant avec de regards familiers… (Baudelaire)
In this week's perasha, among all the other actuarial information, we are presented, in 2:2, with the marching orders of the Israelite camp. The tribes are broken up into four, three tribes to a side, not counting the tribe of Levi, forming a large square, with each group maintaining its side of the compass. Noteworthy is the itemization by flags. Each group of three tribes has a flag ( or to some, each tribe). The Abravanel sees in this marching order a proper military administration, thus the stronger tribes such as Yehuda serve as the "avant garde" (his term, spelled out in Hebrew letters!) though he is willing to entertain that this set up may in some way also reflect a more cosmic order.
Order is important, of course, but the Midrash sees more in this segment than a description of martial discipline, particularly when regarding the matter of the flags:
Gd fixed His name in our name and made of us flags, as is written (2:2) " Man upon his flag".With great love did God envelop Israel, making for them flags as carried the Angels of the celestial host.When Gd revealed his presence at Sinai, thousands of angels descended with him, and all were with flags; when Israel saw this, they became desirous of flags as well.Great and awesome were Israel with their flags; all the nations stare and wonder: (Shir Hashirim 6:10) Who is this appearing like the dawn. (Midrash Rabba, Bamidbar 2)
It is clear, then, that aside from a proper alignment of tribes, etc, there is a unique message within the flags, which could be seen by the Midrash as being a source for great yearning. The Mei Hashiloach, without too much elaboration, states that the flags symbolize the ideal situation in which everyone is in their proper place, an idea akin to that in Plato's Republic.
The Netivot Shalom goes in the opposite direction; he suggests that the reason each angel bears an individual flag is that each angel has its own unique mission; this idea, that each individual has a unique purpose, is what the people of Israel wanted to sense at their formative moment.
The reading that attracted my attention is that of the Shem Mishemuel, given the signifying nature he attributes to the flags as such. According to the ShMSh, the flags signify perfected states of holiness, such as pure Mercy, pure Judgement, etc, as stated in the mystical texts. However, until this time they are carried by the angels, who serve as intermediaries in carrying these effluxes from heaven to earth, and vice versa. The Israelites, however, wished to be intermediary free, they wanted to raise their own flags, and the recognition of the propriety of this desire is signified by the people receiving the command to raise flags on their own.
What struck me as interesting in this reading, is that the sign of attaining an unmediated state is the flag. A flag would then be a signifier, which itself is classically considered a mediated symbol, that is, a signifier stands in for an object that is no longer present. To Saussure, and semioticians until recent times, the signifier was itself an empty symbol, devoid of its own meaning and significant for meaning something else. In other words, the priority is given to the signified, with the signifier being only a secondary cipher.
The Shem Mishemuel, giving the signifier flag the status of representing non-mediation, seems to be in lines with the Derrida of "On Grammatology", who prioritizes the signifier. The signifier, the text, the flag is the sign of unmediated encounter, unmediated thus always present, rather than some event in the past. The signifier is the message; hoisting the signifier gives meaning to the signified, rather than the reverse.


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my pet peeve is when they say "dedicated themselves to public service"
unless you are military
It's the "BILL OF RIGHTS" not the bill of "needs"


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=== '''try-catch''' rules ===
=== '''try-catch''' rules ===
This document describes the recommended coding style for kdepim and akonadi. Nobody is forced to use this style, but to have consistent formatting of the source code files it is strongly recommended to make use of it.
In short: Kdepim and akonadi coding style follows the Kdelibs coding style.
But we have some more rules for some more situations.
Let us make a comparision with real life. To make an addition, one can write:
123 + 456 ========== = 579
But we have learned in primary school to write:
Addition 123 +456 ==== =579
Which is much more readable, easy to control (or debug).
This is Coding Style: not mandatory but very useful and pretty to read.
We need at least:
astyle is a suitable tool to make such changes. But astyle doesn't implement (yet) all the specification rules.
You can find below some awk-scripts which help us to check all the rules.
You can find below some awk-scripts which help us to make most of the changes. The last part must be done manually.
As discussed at the KDEPIM meeting, Berlin, 3 March 2013, all the files of KDEPIM will be reviewed to follow the coding style. This will be done over a long time, directory after directory, for each of the rules defined above. For each rule, there are one or two script(s).
The main part of the changes can be done with astyle: http://astyle.sourceforge.net/
The results can be seen here.
You can download the software with test files and install instructions.
Download Coding Style: Media:CodingStyle.tar.gz
Most of the rules can be checked with the scripts below. For some of the rules, we don't have a script to change the sources. It is better first to make a check for such a rule, second to make the modification(s) manually to suscript the rule(s).
There are two scripts that run all the checks and apply all the changes at once:
For each specification rule, the name of the scripts to check and apply the changes are given at the beginning of the section.
The first script is to check a single file or all .h and .cpp files in a directory.
If present, the second script applies the changes. For some complicated situations, the script makes no change.
You can use the scripts for your own work. It is recommended to use them in this order.
If a .no_coding_style file is present on a directory, the test will not be done.
If a .no_recursion file is present on a directory, we do not explore the subdirectory(ies)
astyle --indent=spaces
The output of the check script is:
check the file ktnefparser.cpp 308: Tab at 16: stream_ >> i; // i <- attribute type & name 311: Tab at 16: stream_ >> i; // i <- data length 326: Tab at 22: case attATTACHMENT: // try to get attachment info 367: Tab at 16: stream_ >> u; // u <- checksum
This shows:
astyle --indent=spaces
The output of the check script is:
check the file trim.cpp 51: Space(s) at end of line (28): QVariant m_matchData;
This shows:
Refer to http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Kdelibs_Coding_Style#Whitespace
The output of the check script is:
check the file enclosure.cpp 25: multiple empty line found 26: multiple empty line found 30: multiple empty line found
This shows:
The change script:
Some of the sources have empty lines at the beginning of the file. Some have one or more empty last line(s).
The output of the check script is:
check the file trim.cpp The first line is empty The last line is empty
The change script:
We don't provide (yet) any check for this rule.
We follow the kdelibs rule: [[1]] We don't provide (yet) any check for this rule.
We follow the kdelibs rule: [[2]] We don't provide (yet) any check for this rule.
Refer to http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Kdelibs_Coding_Style#Whitespace
For most of the keywords, it is not necessary to make a test. Because the sources have been already compiled. For example this code never appear in a compiled source:
intmyVariableAa; floatmyVariableBb;
In this case, the missing space leads to a syntax error which is detected by the compiler. We don't need to check this manually.
Some of the keywords are alone in the statement, such as break and continue. No test is necessary.
The only tests we have to do are the ones where a keyword is (or can be) followed by a sign ( { [ :
These are: alignas decltype alignof noexcept typeid asm static_assert switch if catch while for foreach sizeof new Q_FOREACH FOREACH do try enum union Q_FOREVER bool char char16_t char32_t double float int long wchar_t signed unsigned short
For only one keyword:
For all keywords above:
We prefer having a space before the keyword public at the definition of a new class:
class DbException : public Akonadi::Exception { ... };
The output of the check script is:
check the file public.cpp 98: no<SPACE>: public found: class foo: public QObject
The change script:
Refer to http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Kdelibs_Coding_Style#Qt_Includes
We prefer no space at the beginning of the directive. Some (not many) files need to be corrected to unify to all the other files.
// some files use this # include <A/b> // we prefer to unify the coding style #include <A/b>
The declaration S *D; declares D as a pointer to the type determined by decl-specifier-seq S.
For most compilers, the three declarations below are semantically the same:
int *a; int* b; int * c
We prefer the first one, without a space beetwen the star and the name of the variable:
int *a;
The same rule may be use for:
myFunction(int &a, int& b, int & c) { // some lines }
We prefer:
myFunction(int &a, int &b, int &c)
The awk-script checks also the occurences of:
Not all the ouputs are real errors. Some codings might be correct.
astyle --reference=name --align-pointer=name
Some lines with "type & name..." must be manually corrected.
The output of the check script is:
check the file public.cpp 35: Star<Space> found. Check it. ContactSearchJob::ContactSearchJob( QObject * parent )
We prefer having all in one line:
namespace foo { ... }
We prefer having the same coding style for a class and a struct
struct foo { ... }
NOTE: The script must be use after astyle.
This example shows the indentation we prefer. Notice that colon sign and comma(s) are at the beginning of each initialization line(s):
class myClass { // some lines public: myClass(int r, int b, int i, int j) : r(0) , b(i) , i(5) , j(13) { // more lines }
This is well done with astyle:
astyle --pad-oper
This example shows the indentation we prefer:
switch (a) { case one: // some lines break; case two: { // some lines break; } case three: { // some lines return; } default: // some lines break; }
NOTE: By using a new block, we prefer having break; and return; within the new block.
This example shows the indentation we prefer:
try { // some lines } catch (...) { }
Even for blocks with only one statement, we prefer to use braces such as:
if (condition) { statement; }
This should be used with the keywords if, for, while and similar macros. The output of the check script is:
check the file test-if.cpp 62: if without { at end of line: if ( collection.cachePolicyLocalParts() )
But we get some false alarm with statements that extend over more than one line:
if (condition_1 && condition_2) { statement; }
This example shows the indentation we prefer:
typedef struct foo { // some lines }
Instead of having an untyped enum such as:
enum { aElement= 123 }
we prefer a #define directive:
#define aElement 123
The most compilers do not complain such a code:
enum mytype { aElement, bElement, }
The last element is empty. We prefer a "pedantic" code such as:
enum mytype { aElement, bElement }
The output of the check script is:
check the file enum-example.cpp enum with ,} found at 3-> bElement, 4-> }
Looking over the git-history, one can find some "pedantic" changes. These are changes to make a better code. The most of them are at the use of macro, where it is not necessary to have a ; at the end ofthe command. The script make a check over all these: AKTEST_MAIN;MAKE_CMD_ROW;Q_DECLARE_FLAGS;Q_PRIVATE_SLOT;Q_DECLARE_METATYPE;Q_DECLARE_OPERATORS_FOR_FLAGS;Q_DE CLARE_PRIVATE;Q_DECLARE_PUBLIC;Q_DISABLE_COPY;K_GLOBAL_STATIC;Q_IMPORT_PLUGIN;Q_PROPERTY;QTEST_KDEMAIN;QTEST_MAIN
Refer to http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Kdelibs_Coding_Style#Braces
The following code:
if (a > b) c = 123;
is correct, but we prefer the block:
if (a > b) { c = 123; }
which is easier to debug, to read and to modify.
It is also possible to put a breakpoint at the line in the block.
As the awk-script is too simple to recognize all the if-statements, we get some false alarm and we can't make the changes automatically.
The output of the check script is:
check the file if-example.cpp 25: one-line-if found
We don't want to have a space:
The output of the check script is:
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Diets heavy in meat and fat seem to raise the risk of diabetes, though the effects of this and other diet patterns may vary by ethnicity and sex, a new study finds.
The study, reported in the journal Diabetes Care, focused on white Americans, as well as Japanese Americans and Native Hawaiians — two groups that have relatively high risks of diabetes.
Native Hawaiians have high rates of obesity, which is closely connected to type 2 diabetes, but research shows that weight does not fully explain their elevated risk of the disease. For their part, Japanese Americans have higher rates of type 2 diabetes than their white counterparts, despite the fact that, on average, they weigh less.
The reasons for these ethnic disparities are not completely clear, but one possibility is that there are differing effects of diet on diabetes risk, independent of body weight.
In the new study, researchers found that among nearly 8,600 Hawaii residents, those with largely "fat and meat" diets — high in foods like meat, cheese, eggs and refined grains — generally had a higher risk of developing diabetes over 14 years.
Among men, the one-fifth with the highest intake of these foods were 40 percent more likely to develop diabetes than the one-fifth with the lowest intake — even with factors like age, weight and exercise habits taken into account.
That same dietary pattern was linked to a 22 percent greater diabetes risk among women.
However, analyzing the data further, the researchers found that the effect of the fat-and-meat diet was strongest among overweight men and overweight Japanese-American women. In contrast, there was no strong relationship between a heavy meat-and-fat diet and diabetes risk among Native Hawaiian women.
Similarly, other dietary patterns showed varying effects based on ethnicity and sex, according to Dr. Gertraud Maskarinec and colleagues at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Diets high in vegetables, for instance, seemed protective among Japanese and white men, but not Native Hawaiian men or women of any ethnicity. Meanwhile, diets rich in fruit, milk and yogurt seemed to benefit women more than men.
Despite the varying effects, the findings shed light on the types of eating habits that may raise, or lower, diabetes risk among Japanese Americans and Native Hawaiians, according to Maskarinec.
In particular, she told Reuters Health in an email, the findings "point to the detrimental effects of consuming a lot of meat, high-fat foods and white flour."
She added that both ethnic groups tend to have high intakes of red and processed meats, so cutting down on those foods may be important.
And while the findings suggested that fruits and vegetables did not benefit all groups equally, everyone should try to eat more of those foods for the sake of their overall health, according to Maskarinec.
"In our study, the findings for the fat and meat patterns are much clearer than for the other two (diet patterns)," Maskarinec noted. So, she added, some of the findings on fruits and vegetables may have been due to chance — as opposed to reflecting a true effect, or lack of effect.
The researchers call for further studies on the effects of vegetables, fruit and dairy products on diabetes risk. "A better understanding of dietary factors related to diabetes risk in Japanese Americans and Native Hawaiians will be useful in developing preventive strategies in these high risk groups."
SOURCE: Diabetes Care, online December 10, 2009.


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We recognize that our communities strengthen when we work as a team to build commonalities and support the causes that are essential for community health and vitality. One of our core values is to treat our world with respect. That means caring about each other, the environment and the communities where we do business.
We take great pride in the communities where we work. That's the focus of our community outreach. This page highlights our activities and the difference they make.
Read all about our great community outreach events that take place across North America.
It was "mission accomplished" on Sept. 24 as employees from Huhtamaki's Sacramento facility joined Habitat for Humanity to welcome the Prasad family to their new home during a dedication ceremony.
On July 29, 2015 the Prasad family was accepted into the Habitat program and started working on their required 500 hours of sweat equity. They were overjoyed when they received their home assignment with Rakesh Prasad exclaiming, "What an incredible blessing!"
That blessing became reality with the help of generous sponsors and volunteers like the employees at our Sacramento facility.
Huhtamaki – Sacramento presented Habitat for Humanity with a $5,000 home sponsorship, specifically for this new home, prior to a work day in July. The team then volunteered for two days of construction and teamwork to bring the house closer to completion in July and again in September.
"We all worked hard, maybe got a little sore, but felt good about contributing to this great cause," Craig Komulainen, Sacramento Plant Manager, said. "It was well worth the effort to see the smiles on the family's faces as they received the key to their new home."
Congratulations on a great project and a job well done.


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gOS a Company With New Ideas
gOS is a Linux distro that is struggling to find innovative areas and create new ideas. In many ways that is the kind of concept that brought me to Linux years ago…10+ actually. 10 years ago Linux was not much fun and the innovative Desktop options that we all take for granted were not even in the dream stage.
Here is a link to the gOS Website
Concepts that I Like About gOS:
1. Innovative Ideas
This is a company that is not just trying to make a minor modification to create a new version of Ubuntu. They have ideas that are different. Recently that have developed an OS focused on MySpace Users. I think that is great, I don't like MySpace but that is not the point, innovation is what is driving Linux in unique directions that I like to support. The Google Apps version "Rocket" was another innovative idea that many people who are only doing basic things with Linux can use and enjoy. I use "Rocket" on the Cloud Laptop which I have used for travel and found the ideas surrounding "Rocket" to be sound as it provides options when traveling that people want.
2. Mistakes Are Made
Quite frankly the support that has been provided in the past on the web site has been poor. People who purchased gOS machines at Walmart as first time Linux users have been frustrated and often have take back their Linux PCs out of that frustration. Currently the updates on MySpace Apps does not work…wow what a mess. However, out of this there are some good things about this company. They are taking risk and breaking new territory instead of sitting and only doing the safe and easy options of other companies. I can live with some of their mistakes…I can even be patient with the problems because I like innovation and where it is taking us.
gOS Rocket Training CD with Flash Movies
Al in all, gOS is in for a rough ride as they are small and have limited resources to make things happen quickly. However, I will be using gOS and buying their products because to Linux has always been about New Ideas.
August 5, 2008 at 6:12 am
I bought one of those boxes and wasted a couple of months on gOS. If you value innovation highly, but put little value on your own time, then gOS may be for you. I have been running plain Ubuntu for 6 months. I prefer to spend my time on the applications, not the OS.