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Swimming Pool Blog
by Mark Garcia April 4, 2014
Install LED Pool Lights in a Weekend
What was a new idea over 20 years ago has come of age; LED pool lights are burning brighter than ever. Now in the fifth generation, manufacturers now use ultra efficient LED's to shine brighter while consuming less energy than their predecessors.
LED pool lights have numerous advantages over incandescent flood lamp type pool lights. The first benefit is that 500 watt pool light bulbs cost about a dollar a day to run. And if used often, it can add up to hundreds in electrical expense each year. LED lamps consume much less, the Color Splash light only uses 33 watts, and costs 4 cents per day to use, or under $10 per year.
The second big benefit to LED pool lights are the colors - amazing, brilliantly rich colors. The light shows are fun for lively parties, or lock-on a single color to set the mood for the night or season. The light output or reach of the light is nearly the same as incandescent, but without glare or bright spots.
The third benefit, and it's another big one - is the durability. LED pool lights use diodes that are very tough, not flimsy filaments in a glass vacuum. An LED bulb can last Twenty Times Longer than an incandescent bulb. That's twenty fewer bulb changes! Incandescent R-40 bulbs are rated for about 2000 hours, whereas the Colorsplash pool light is rated for 50,000 hours.
Step One: Choose a Brand
If you have the original paperwork, you know if you have a Pentair, Hayward, Sta-Rite or some other brand of pool light. If you're not sure, remove the light by leaning over the edge of the pool and loosening the screw at 12:00 on the face or bezel of the light. Sometimes pool lights need a little persuasion to come out of the wall niche. Pull it up on deck and look at the label attached to the cord or the lamp body. You may have a Hayward or Pentair light, in which case you could use the Hayward ColorLogic LED pool light or the Pentair IntelliBrite LED pool light.
If you are unsure what type of lamp or light niche you have, you can most likely use the Colorsplash Pool Light, which has a wide bezel (10.5") ,but a very small lamp body. The Colorsplash LED pool light retrofits easily to most existing light niches. The Jandy Watercolors light also has a slim profile that fits into many light niches.
Color Splash LED Pool Light Features:
- Uses only 33 watts of power
- 7 fixed colors and 5 light shows
- Fits most pool light housings
- Tempered glass zero-pixilation lens
- Nickel-plated brass lamp housing
- Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Bezel
- 3 year manufacturer warranty
Pentair IntelliBrite 5G LED Pool Light Features:
- Uses 70 watts of power
- 5 fixed colors and 7 light shows
- Fits Pentair, American, Pac-Fab, Sta-Rite light niches
- Superior reflector design extends reach; reduces glare
- Patented lens geometry prevents floor 'hot spots',
- Lens can be rotated for narrow or wide beam
- Integrates with Pentair Intellitouch system
- 1 year manufacturer warranty
Hayward ColorLogic LED Pool Light Features:
- Uses 98 watts of power
- 5 fixed colors and 7 light shows
- Fits Hayward wall niches
- Stainless steel or plastic wall bezels
- 500 W incandescent brightness equivalence
- Integrates with Hayward ProLogic
- 1 year manufacturer warranty
Jandy WaterColors LED Pool Light Features:
- Uses 50 watts of power
- 5 fixed colors and 16 light shows
- Slim design fits many popular niches
- Stainless steel or plastic wall bezels
- Unique wide angle lens
- Integrates with Jandy AquaLink
- 1 year manufacturer warranty
Yeah, so - they're all great. If you have one of their particular niches in the pool wall, it may be the best fit to use the same manufacturer. If you aren't sure what your light make is, you can probably use the J&J or the Jandy light - both of which fit most light niches.
Two other important factors to consider before you order your pool light, is that you buy a light that is the correct voltage (12V or 120V) and is the correct cord length to reach the light junction box. Most common is the 50 ft cord, but there are also shorter and longer cord lengths available, from 15 ft - 150 ft.
To finish step one, place your order for new LED pool light(s) and pick a day on your calendar for installation.
Step Two: Installing LED Pool Lights
Tools: 1/4" nutdriver or screwdrivers, duct tape, razor knife, wire strippers.
No need to lower the water in the pool in most cases, although if you lower it a little bit, you won't get wet all the way up to your shoulders. You should however, shut off power at the breaker, switch and GFCI, and be certain that power is off before proceeding.
After removing the old light from the wall, pull it up on deck, and cut the cord behind the light with lineman's pliers, or strip the cord casing with a razor knife and cut each wire individually. If the end of the old cord is funky and gunky, clean it with a rag and solvent.
Duct tape the end of the old cord to the end of the new cord (snip off exposed wires on new cord first). Lay the two cords end to end, and use strips of duct tape to wrap it tightly together. Use diagonal wraps in both directions, very tightly but also not wrinkled or clumped up - keep it thin, so it won't get stuck going through the conduit. Rubbing some dish soap over the taped area can help it slip more easily through the corners.
Locate the pool light junction box, and remove the lid with the nutdriver or flathead screwdriver. There are 3 wires coming in, from the pool light, usually in the center conduit. The pool light wires will connect to the wires that lead to the pool light breaker, and are joined with wire nuts. Remove the wire nuts and separate the wires, then loosen the clamp that holds the pool light cord.
Unroll the pool light, stretching it out towards the opposite side of the pool, so it's fairly straight. At this point, it may be helpful to have a helper leaning over the edge of the pool, guiding and pushing the cord into the conduit, while another person pulls the old pool light cord through the conduit and out of the junction box. As the old cord is pulled out, the new cord is pulled in, all the way to the junction box. Keep pulling until you have 4' of cord left, or enough to bring the light up on deck (although with LED pool lights you may never need to!).
When the cord is pulled through, with 3-4 feet left to coil up inside of the light niche, you can cut the cord with lineman's pliers, about 6 inches above where it comes out of the conduit. Tighten up the cord clamp to secure the new light cord, and use the razor knife to slice around the casing, just above the clamp. Remove the cord casing to expose the three wires, and strip off 1/2" of the ends to expose the wire. Connect white to white, black to black, and green to the ground screw. Replace the wire nuts securely, wrapping them with electrical tape if you wish. Close up the junction box.
Placing the new light into the wall can be a bit challenging the first time you try it, because the light has some air in it and it wants to bob to the surface, while you are trying to coil the cord around the lamp, lock the tab at 6 o'clock and tighten a tiny screw at 12 o'clock. It's a bit easier without water in the pool, but here's how I do it. Lean way over the pool, so the coping edge is below your armpits. Coil the light cord around the lamp as you push the lamp toward the niche. Position the tab into the slot at 6:00, and then line up the screw at 12:00. Hold it in place with one hand while you reach up on deck for a Philips screwdriver (don't drop it!). Tighten up the screw gently to bring the light bezel close to the wall.
If the light screw tab (at 12:00) is broken off, as sometimes happens with very old niches, use a Light Wedge for a $10 fix to the problem.
Be sure to read through the installation manual for the light before you install, and pay attention to the cautions and hazards. 120V pool lights must be installed with care or they can injure the installers or swimmers.
Thanks for Reading!
Mark Garcia


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Mike Siculan
Chaos Through Art
My Life with ADD
Opening October 4
Show runs from Oct 4 through November 1st
Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 4-9 PM
Sat 11-7PM
See our events page for updates on special events concurrent with this exhibition
For the month of October Mike Siculan is exhibiting his collection of vintage carnival memorabilia, restored circus art, custom made puppets, and original paintings. The show opens on October 4th from 7 to 11 PM, and closes on November 1st with a masquerade ball (also 7-11).
In an online profile, Michael R. Siculan lists his gender as "Punch."
If he were Michelle Siculan, it would be "Judy."
Siculan, a resident of the Northland area, is a puppeteer, and proud to carry on a tradition that stretches back into ancient times. He was among the entertainers at the Sept. 21 Art, Native Plants and Pawpaw Festival, held in Clintonville's Lower Olentangy Urban Arboretum.
For Siculan, his fascination with puppetry dates back probably half a century, to when he was an 8-year-old growing up in Upper Arlington and his mother took him to the Lazarus department store downtown.
"Lazarus was the golden land of Columbus, the place where kids gravitated," Siculan recalled. "They had live puppet shows, probably wherever the toys were. I was intoxicated right away. I was bitten by it and never got over it. I saw houses chasing people and trees running around.
"It was just imagination in its purest form."
And imagination was a great help to a young boy who was then, and who still is now at 58, coping with attention deficit disorder, also called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
"They didn't know what the heck it was back in those days," Siculan said last week. "They just thought you weren't concentrating, weren't interested, were lazy."
In spite of his absorption in puppetry and painting, Siculan said one of his high school teachers told him he would never amount to anything in the art world because he couldn't concentrate.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most common childhood disorders and can continue through adolescence and adulthood, according to the website of the National Institute of Mental Health.
Far from hindering him as a puppeteer, Siculan said his ADHD sometimes comes in handy.
"A lot of people with ADHD sort of have to do their own thing," he said. "With puppetry, you can work on arms and make hands and make legs, and it's OK. That puppet will be finished ... come hell or high water, so that's kind of another aspect."
Siculan, who is vice president of the Columbus Puppetry Guild, a nonprofit organization that brings together people interested in the art form, specializes in marionettes, which are distinguished from regular puppets by the fact that they are controlled by strings manipulated from above. This allows them a freedom of movement other forms of puppetry can't match -- but they require greater skill as well.
"I like marionettes, and marionettes are a different animal," Siculan said. "The marionettes you just do not see very often. They're all different styles and music and ideas. There's a lot of variety in this art form.
"I do not do scripted things," he said. "Pretty much, I like off the cuff, flying by the seat of my pants. I kind of gauge what the audience is. I like to be able to get the puppets close to the people. I answer questions a lot. People are very curious."
After living in St. Louis for 15 years, Siculan came back to Columbus in 2008 and concentrated on his puppetry, creating more marionettes and putting on shows with the help of longtime friends.
"I like it more all the time because I learn more about it, and hopefully, I get better at it as I get older," he said. "I just get energized by people who enjoy looking at my puppets. It's an instant gratification. With my puppets, the art moves around. It changes all the time."
Siculan has another reason for loving puppets: "The actors don't complain about money".

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tiARNING RESOURCE
Painting backdrops is one of the many tasks necessary in pro-ducing
the annual Festival of Christmas coming this Friday, Saturday
and Sunday. The backdrop was designed by Robert Nelson and depicts
the theme of this year's festival: "From Fear to Faith."
Decision to relocate the entire
Bethel campus by the fall of 1967
v.-as made by the board of educa-tion
at the mid-year Conference
board meetings held in Chicago
last Tuesday and Wednesday.
President Carl Lundquist report-ed
that several factors were in-volved
in this decision. The col-lege
is one and a half years ahead
of a projection made during 1959
in enrollment. If present trends
continue, the college enrollment
by 1970 would greatly exceed the
estimated 1,200.
This would bring problems in-volved
with overcrowding if the
present campus site is retained.
SPIRE Rates
First Class
SPIRE 1963 recently received a
first class rating by the Associated
Collegiate Press (ACP). Competing
with 21 other schools within the
enrollment division of 1,000 to 751,
the SPIRE was one of six books
which received the first class rat-ing.
Judged by prominent journal-ists,
the year book was awarded a
total of 5,570 points. A total of
6,100 points was needed in this
division to attain an All-American
Editor-in-chief Karen Neslund
headed the 1963 staff. Also includ-ed
were: Pam Hanson, art editor;
Miriam Carlson, organizations edi-tor;
and Kay Moir, academics edi-tor.
Paul Wedeking, athletic editor;
Jean Dahlquist, campus life edi-tor;
Minda Pearson and Carole
Lundquist, copy co-editors; Jean
Anderson, students editor; and
Paul Bierhaus, business manager,
completed the staff.
Upon the payment of a fee, a
yearbook is entitled to be entered
in the All-American Yearbook
critical service sponsored by the
ACP and held at the University of
Among the pressure points
which have already developed is
crowded hallways after classes.
Another consideration in this
decision was the feeling that the
success of raising funds depends
on the earliest possible relocation
of the campus.
No major problems are antici-pated
in the implementation of
this decision. Eugene Johnson,
chairman of the art department,
will be on sabbatical leave next
year to work on designing the new
Present plans include comple-tion
of programming the college
buildings in 1964; of schematic
drawings and designs in 1965,
and of working drawings and
building construction in 1966.
Complete relocation by 1967
hinges on a successful fund-rais-ing
campaign. Fred Harrison has
been employed in the public rela-tions
office to manage general
fund raising. Charles Ferguson,
Debaters Win
Third Place
Last Friday and Saturday Bethel
debaters competed in their first
major tournament of the season
at Iowa State university in Ames,
James Keim, Sharon Larson,
Fred Lund and Lindy Nelson en-tered
the senior division of debat-ing
as a four-speaker team.
Competing in the tournament
were 32 colleges from eight states.
At the end of five rounds each
Bethel two-some had lost only one
debate, having defeated teams
from the University of Minnesota,
Iowa State university, Grinell,
Macalester and Northern Illinois.
Bethel's total 8-2 record was one
of four qualifying for the semi-final
round, where they debated
affirmative and lost on a split deci-sion
to the University of Missouri.
This gave the team a tie for third
First coming of our Saviour will
once again be portrayed as the
seventh annual Festival of Christ-mas
is presented this week-end.
Programs will begin at 8 p.m.
Friday and Saturday nights in the
fieldhouse. The Sunday presenta-tion
will be at 3 p.m.
Theme of the festival is "From
Fear to Faith," which will be de-veloped
through music, narration
and art work that depicts the de-velopment
of the Christian mes-sage
through the use of color and
Choral groups participating will
be the male chorus, directed by
Handel's Messiah will be pre-sented
by the festival choir next
Wednesday, Dec. 18, the last day
of school before Christmas vaca-director
of development, will de-vote
his time entirely to individual
special gift solicitation.
In other action at the Chicago
board meetings, Wendell Ander-son,
head of the Christian service
office, and his wife were commis-sioned
as missionaries by the
board of foreign missions. Dr.
Virgil Olson of the seminary de-livered
the charge to the total of
seven new missionaries at the com-bined
board meeting Tuesday
Bethel Recruits
New Chessmen
Chess players are currently be-ing
recruited to represent Bethel
at the association of college un-ions'
1964 intercollegiate chess
tournament to be held in January.
If enough interest in shown, a
local tournament will be held to
select four representatives. Under-graduate
and graduate students
are eligible to participate. For fur-ther
information contact box 1197
in the seminary.
Dry ground
Short days
Winter has arrived.
C. Howard Smith; the college
choir, directed by Robert Berg-lund;
and the women's choir, dir-ected
by Oliver Mogck. All three
groups join together to form the
festival choir, directed by Mogck.
Also participating will be an
enlarged orchestra directed by
Berglund, and a brass choir,
directed by Charles Erickson.
Clara Seecamp will sing Reger's
"Virgin's Lullaby" accompanied
by Gordon Howell. Both are
members of the music depart-ment
Of special interest will be the
presentation by the speech and
tion. The Christmas portion of this
great and beloved oratorio will
be given at 10 a.m. in the field-house.
Special auditions for Bethel stu-dents
were held for solo parts
earned by the following people:
Sheila Crabtree and Carol Brisson,
soprano; Fran Malmsten and Diane
Fagerberg, alto; Kent Lundholm,
tenor, and Clifford Penner, bass.
Accompaniment will be by
Nancy Nelson at the piano and
Mary Bang on the organ.
The Messiah was first presented
by Handel in England as a benefit
for charity and has since become
well-known through countless pro-fessional
recordings and church
This great oratorio is unique in
that it presents a very complete
scriptural account of the prophecy,
birth, death, resurrection, ascen-sion
and second coming of Jesus.
Language classes and several
foreign students will bring cele-brations
from Africa, Cuba,
France, Germany, Israel, Mexico
and Spain to the 10 a.m. service.
Bethel will enjoy a trip to foreign
climes in chapel next Monday
when the language department
presents its annual Christmas pro-gram.
Language classes will present
scenes representative of Christmas
in their countries and sing tradi-tional
Christmas carols. German
students will tell about the Ad-vent
French classes will present the
traditional Yule log and Spanish
classes will bring their Mexican
pinata. Greek students will read
the Christmas story in its orig-inal
Individual students participating
in the program include several of
drama department in which voice
and gesture will be used to parallel
the Biblical and contemporary ex-pression
of man's attempt to un-derstand
God's will.
Individual selections by the col-lege
choir will include "How Far
is it to Bethlehem," a traditional
English carol; "He is Born;" and
"Born Today."
The male chorus will offer
the following selections: "Oh,
Po' Little Jesus," a Negro spir-itual;
"Christians Awake;" and
"On Christmas Night All Chris-tians
Sing," a Sussex carol.
"Sing We Noel," a French carol;
"This Little Babe;" and "Give to
the World Thy Peace" comprise
the selections by the women's
Campus Plans
Bethel students and staff will
celebrate the Christmas season
again this year with the traditional
Christmas smorgasbord.
Staff and faculty smorgasbord
will be held in the dining hall
Friday following the Festival of
Christmas. The student smorgas-bord
will be on the following
Tuesday. It will begin at 4:30 p.m.
Students not on the meal plan
will be charged $1.50 as they en-ter
the dining area. The students
will first pass the salad table in
the dining room and then pass the
serving line. The dining hall will
be decorated for the Christmas
the foreign students on campus
and a lathes trio.
Dave Mbiti of Kenya, Sam Bolet
of Cuba, and Elias Shibly of Israel
will tell about Christmas customs
in their countries. Members of the
audience will have opportunity to
sing in Swedish and in Spanish.
Band Prepares
Pops Concert
Members of the college band,
under the leadership of Charles
Erickson, will present the third
annnal pops concert on Friday,
Jan. 10, at 8 p.m. in the fieldhouse.
A variety of music will be per-formed,
including such composi-tions
as "Allerseelen," a tone poem
by Richard Strauss and the march
from "Second Military Suite" by
Hoist. "Allerseelen" will be con-ducted
by Kermit Grenz, college
junior and director of the band.
Various ensembles from within
the band will be featured through-out
the program. The trumpet
choir, under the direction of Dave
Wedeking, will play "Trumpet Vol-untary"
by Purcell.
"Holiday for Trombones," by
Gould, will be led by Vivian
Walker, and a French Horn quar-tet,
headed by Annette Booher,
will be featured in Bennett's "The
Four Hornsmen."
Adding a little fun and humor
to the program, the band will play
"Little Bop Riding Hood," narrat-ed
by Duane Perry.
Tickets for the concert will be
sold at 25c apiece to cover ex-penses
for refreshments. They will
be on sale Monday through Fri-day,
Jan. 6-10.
the CLARION
Volume XL—No. 12
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, December 11, 1963
Crowding, Fund Raising Influence
Decision to Move College In 1967
Combined Choir, Soloists
Present Handel's Messiah'
quietly receives a blanket of glistening whiteness.
are broken by the tranquil loneliness of snowy
C. Lundquist
Language Students Portray
Foreign Yuletide Customs
Bathe] College Learning Resource Centel
Theme`From Fearto Faith'
Journey of the Magi
'A cold coming we had of it,
Just the worst time of the year
For a journey, and such a long journey:
The ways deep and the weather sharp,
The very dead of winter."
And the camels galled, sore-footed, refratory,
Lying down in the melting snow.
There were times we regretted
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling
And running away, and wanting their liquor and women,
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:
A hard time we had of it.
At the end we preferred to travel all night,
Sleeping in snatches,
With the voices singing in our ears, saying
That this was all folly.
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness
And three trees on the low sky,
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.
But there was no information, and so we continued
And arrived at evening, not a moment too soon
Finding the place; it was (you may say) satisfactory.
All this was a long time ago; I remember,
And I would do it again, but set down
This set down
This: were we led all the way for
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly,
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,
But had thought that they were different; this Birth was
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,
With an alien people clutching their gods.
I should be glad of another death.
T. S. Eliot
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Wednesday December 11 1963 Church Must Face Challenges Page 2 the CLARION
A Layman's Guide to Protestant Theology
by William Hordern. the Macmillan company,
New York. 1962. $1.45.
by Paul Johnson
In a Christian academic environ-ment,
the serious student, no mat-ter
the area of his formal disci-pline,
soon finds himself involved
in theological discussion. This is
right, for acquaintance with the
historical and contemporary trends
in theology is imperative to a ma-ture,
discerning Christian faith.
Lack of a certain breadth of
knowledge in this subject not only
leaves one unequipped for intelli-gent
interaction with the rest of
the Christian world, but also limits
the possible avenues for one's own
intellectual and spiritual growth.
Such knowledge, however, is
not always easy to come by, for
the field is complex and often
hard to grasp.
At this point, William Hordern's
book, A Layman's Guide to Pro-testant
Theology, is particularly
helpful. The book provides a very
adequate introduction to this com-plicated
Growth of orthodoxy is traced
from the early Christian centuries
through the Reformation. But or-thodoxy
did not remain unchal-lenged.
It was questioned by rational-ism
and scientism from without
and dissatisfaction and the rise
of Biblical criticism from within.
These atacks are summarized by
Hordern. The bulk of his book
then goes on to describe the re-sponse
to these challenges.
Conservatism or fundamentalism
is pictured as the defender of
orthodoxy, hampered by its restric-tive
reaction. Liberalism, accepting
the attacks as valid, attempts to
reconstruct orthodoxy along vary-ing
new lines.
Hordern describes two move-ments
resulting from the failure of
by Paul Johnson
The awesome challenge facing
the Christian church today, ac-cording
to recent lecturer Gibson
Winter, is to "develop a theory
of history from which man can in-terpret
what his responsibility is."
Pointing out the "institutional
crisis in the churches," he stated
the crux of the problem to be the
inability of the church to make
any significant influence on the
parts of society which have a role
in forming its environment.
Urbanization of society has
led to a multi-faceted beauro-cracy
of organizations which are
shaping our culture. Though so-ciety
has changed, the church
Dear Editor:
This is the Christmas season—
supposedly a time spent in cele-bration
of the birth of our Savior.
And yet, at no other time of the
year has there been such frantic
rushing and tearing through acti-vities
— some supposedly in His
name, and many others flagrantly
without a thought given to Him.
We cannot even remember why
we give one another gifts. The giv-ing
of gifts at one time symboliz-ed
the love of one person for an-other,
but more often it is the
case that gift-giving has become
an expected, taken-for-granted tra-dition.
Never at any other time of
the year have there been so
along with a short evaluation of
their approaches. This is done with
admirable objectivity and accur-acy.
Having served as an assistant
under both Reinhold Niebuhr
and Paul Tillich, Hordern de-votes
a helpful and insightful
chapter to each of these great
leaders of American theology.
Written in an interesting and
readable style, yet without sacri-ficing
precision and depth of un-derstanding,
this book can be high-ly
recommended to the Christian
student as a source of insight into
this complex but essential area of
has remained centered on a resi-dential
structure, thus losing
access to the forces forming the
The church must gain insight
into the meaning of history—that
is, the ongoing of society and
man's place in it.
In spite of, perhaps even be-cause
of, the organizational orien-tation
of modern urban society,
man has attained a new height in
freedom. He is not only free to
take part in all the aspects of his
society; he is free to "assume his-torical
Man is free to plan and shape
his own society. This planning
is a manifestation of a religious
many assignments due: tests
and papers which carry great
weight in student courses.
Never at any other time of the
year have there been so many
programs to write, to practice for,
to attend.
What is the matter with our rea-soning?
This should be the season
that affords us time to spend in
adoration and quiet worship.
We should have time to re-member
with thankfulness the
fact that God sent His Son to
live among us, to die in our
place, and to rise again that we
might have TRUE life as He
pours Himself out through us.
Through the life of Christ we
have the power and the Way to
overcome the depression, the de-feat
and the sin of the age in
which we live. We have the power
to live in actual love for one an-other.
Christ is sufficient for every
challenge we face. Only let us take
time for Him this Christmas sea-son.
Let us take time to pray with
one another in joyful thanksgiv-ing
to God for His Son.
Jan Bowman
Questions Need Answers
Dear Editor:
Why has Bethel college grown
from 580 students in 1959-60 to its
present enrollment of 802 while
Bethel seminary has remained es-sentially
static during this time?
A closer look at statistics shows
that the number of men entering
seminary from Bethel college has
not increased, but decreased.
To what can we attribute the
fact that fewer young men on
Bethel's campus are making defin-ite
plans to enter the ministry?
Could it be that our home church
has not provided adequate coun-seling
and encouragement for the
Could it be that we have a stereo-type
of what the ministry is so we
have said, "That is not for me."
Or have we considered all the
various specialized ministries like
teaching, evangelism, youth work,
mass communication, the chaplain-cy
or missions as possibilities?
Could personal problems be the
reason for our indecision regard-ing
God's call? Or could it be
that we are not completely aware
of the type of academic study that
we should pursue prior to semin-ary
On the other hand, could there
be serious spiritual problems that
must be dealt with before we make
any definite commitment to God's
These questions must be answer-ed.
Neither we nor the church can
afford to wait much longer for the
answers. Seminary students and
faculty are willing and anxious to
answer any questions addressed
to them. Don't be afraid to stop
us and ask.
Bill Damberg
outlook—a view of man, moral-ity,
The church, in focusing its min-istry
on drawing people to-gether
out of their places in so-ciety,
has lost its capacity to meet
the needs of that society and the
men in it.
Ministry of the present - day
church is to "take its responsible
place in history." This will not be
accomplished through our present
church structure.
If there is to be responsible
living in this secular, organized
society, it will be through the
Theological activity dealing with
issues of life and death such as
social planning has fallen into the
hands of the laity. The church as-sumes
its importance in helping
the laity become more responsible.
If the church is to minister to
modern man and society, it must
do so through the historical re-sponsibility
of the laity."
History is the sphere of God's
activity, and it is the sphere of
the church's activity. Society is
not to be conformed to but to
be responsibly planned.
The church does not serve by
withdrawing with its members in-to
itself and speaking an unattach-ed
message. It serves by taking on
various forms at all levels of so-ciety
where the movement and
planning is occurring, and shoul-dering
its responsibilty in the new
freedom of man.
It is through a responsible laity
working out its faith in the various
areas of life that the church must
look for its place of service today.
Tha Week . . .
Wednesday, Dec. 11
6:30 p.m. Festival of Christmas rehearsal.
Thursday, Dec. 12
6:30 p.m. Festival of Christmas rehearsal.
Friday, Dec. 13
6:15 p.m. College and seminary wives
smorgasbord. Bethany Baptist church.
8 p.m. Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse.
Saturday, Dec. 14
8 p.m. Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse.
8 p.m. Basketball. Bethel at Northland.
Sunday, Dec. 15
3 p.m. Festival of Christmas. Fieldhouse.
Monday, Dec. 16
10 a.m. Christmas language departments
chapel. Fieldhouse.
8 p.m. Basketball. Eau Claire at Bethel.
Tuesday, Dec. 17
6:45 p.m. Student senate forum. Room 105.
7 p.m. Messiah rehearsal. Fieldhouse.
9 p.m. WMF. Seminary chapel.
Wednesday, Dec. 18
10 a.m. Handel's Messiah. Fieldhouse.
5 p.m. Christmas vacation begins.
Friday, Dec. 20
5 p.m. Dormitories close.
Monday, Jan. 6
8 a.m. Classes resume.
8 p.m. Basketball: Bethel at Sioux Falls.
Tuesday, Jan. 7
7-9 p.m. Women's intramurals. Fieldhouse.
8 p.m. College wives. Dining hall.
9 p.m. WMF. Seminary chapel.
Wednesday, Jan. 8
7-9 p.m. Men's intramurals. Fieldhouse.
Thursday, Jan. 9
10 a.m. Convocation. Dr. Birkmaier on
"Language." Fieldhouse.
7 p.m. SNEA. Room 105.
Friday, Jan. 10
8 p.m. Band pops concert. Fieldhouse.
Sunday, Jan. 12
3 p.m. College choir vesper service. Sem-inary
Monday, Jan. 13
7 p.m. Seminary wives. Bodien lounge.
Tuesday, Jan. 14
8 p.m. Basketball. River Falls at Bethel.
Wednesday, Jan. 15
7-9 p.m. Men's intramurals. Fieldhouse.
Next CLARION issue.
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except during vacation and examination
periods, by the students of Bethel college
and seminary, St. Paul 1, Minn. Subscrip-tion
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Associate Editor
June Erickson
News Editor Jean Dahlquist
Feature Editor
Karen Neslund
Sports Editor
Don Allison
Copy Editor
Neva Rogers
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Marcia Daniels
Business Manager
Bob Larson
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Office Manager
Joan Anderson
Edward Avey
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do not
or seminary.
necessarily reflect the position of the college
liberalism to provide an acceptable
solution to the problem.
One movement (here entitled
neo-liberalism) has attempted to
maintain the basic tenets of the
older liberalism while making
some attempt to work the more
acceptable orthodox understand-ings
into its framework.
Neo-orthodoxy, while still ac-cepting
some of the Biblical tools
of liberalism, has rejected the bulk
of liberal doctrine and reconfirm-ed
the essential truth of orthodoxy.
In discussing each movement,
Hordern presents a concise, lucid
sketch of their basic teachings
Hordern Offers Guide to Theology
Letters to the Editor:
Studies, Activities Obcure
True Meaning of Season
Enjoys Year as Bethel Freshman
by Joy Chase
Pretty, poised and just a little shy, Miriam Man-silla
Solis comes from Guatamala as a freshman
this year.
Miriam graduated from high school in October
of 1962. She is now 18 years old. Since graduating
(photo by Ekdahl)
Miriam Mansilla, a freshman, relates her ex-periences
as a foreign student. Hailing from Guate-mala,
she finds the weather a shivery change from
the tropic climate of her homeland.
she has taken a commercial course and worked in
a travel agency as a secretary for some months.
During her spare time she worked with a
child evangelism organization for two years. She
was in complete charge of their Guatemalan
Her father is a businessman who owns a print-ing
shop. He is also an elder of the Presbyterian
church of which her family is a member. Her mo-ther
is director of the choir, which she teaches en-tirely
by rote.
Asked when she learned to speak English
Miriam explained that she went to a private high
school which was bilingual (Spanish and English).
Although she and her two younger sisters spoke
only Spanish at home they had daily' contact with
English at school. She also took other courses in
"But," she added, "there are at least twenty
other languages spoken in Guatmala."
Here at Bethel Miriam is taking courses in
chemistry, biology, English composition and Bible
literature. "I like all of them," she said "and I am
especially impressed with the fact that every class
begins with prayer."
Miriam has spoken about Guatamala both on
campus and at some of the churches in the Twin
cities. When asked whether she misses her home
food she said, "We eat more rice at home. The
fruits I miss most are cashew-apples, jocotes, ma-meys
and avacados."
Something else, she misses are the informal
gatherings of young people, who sometimes get
together for fun without pairing off.
Miriam also enjoys the fellowship here at
Bethel, especially with her roommate Joyce Berg-strom,
with whom she has already made a firm
Together they have a motto in their room:
"Smile." Miriam takes its advice seriously.
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Senate Debates Judiciary,
Elected Committee Heads Guatemalan Miss Misses Homeland,
Wednesday, December 11, 1963 the CLARION Page 3
by J. David Patterson
Two constitutional amendments
from student senate's Dec. 3 meet-ing
should prove to be two of the
most significant and controversial
items of business that the senate
will discuss this year.
First was an amendment to make
the five standing committee chair-manships
elected rather than ap-pointed
positions. Second was an
amendment that the student sen-ate
institute a "judicial board."
Bob Beckstrom proposed both
of the amendments and opened
them for discussion. Nancy Ro-bertson
asked what advantages
would be brought by making
chairmanships elected positions.
Beckstrom replied that more
students would now have the
opportunity to run for these
This change would also place
more responsibility in the hands
of the student body and would
subsequently bring an increase in
individual initiative. Jim Spiceland
questioned whether this amend-ment
would merely add more poli-tics
to the election system.
Of course the question arises,
"What if some one is elected who
is not capable or who is not will-ing
to do an adequate job?" This,
however, is not a fault inherent
within the election system but
merely a reflection of the wants
of the student body.
That senator who thinks the
student body is not able to elect
capable people is questioning
the capabilities of the students
who elected him.
Since senators were anxious to
adjourn in order to attend the bas-ketball
game the second amend-ment
was not discussed fully. Beck-strom
had time only to propose
and point out a few questions.
Questions were mostly ones of
mechanics, such as the relation.
ship of a judiciary board and the
Of the two amendments the es-tablishment
of the judiciary board
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Several questions must first be
answered. Is it a good idea to have
such a board with the power to
levy punishments and penalties?
In many cases would such a board
not be a duplication of the indi-vidual
dorm councils? How would
a student judiciary be chosen?
Next senate meeting will be an
open forum where each student is
urged to come and express his
individual opinions on these re-cently
proposed amendments. In-terested
faculty are also encour-aged
to participate and voice their
views on these important ques-tions.
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Frommer, author of the best-selling
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tours to take advantage of a new
vehicle known as the Minibus. The
Minibus carries camping equip-ment
including tents; sleeping
bags; stoves; air mattresses; cook-ing
and eating utensils.
"Student travelers only have to
bring clothing and personal sup-plies,"
Frommer said. "The tours
will cover ground at a leisurely
pace with never more than five
hours on the road in a single day."
Designed primarily for Ameri-can
college students of 17 to 25
years of age, the tours starting
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One tour covers Belgioum, Hol-land,
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Italy ending up in Rome. The
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covers major points in France, An-dorra,
Spain, back to France, Bel-gium
and England.
Further information is available
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New 1963
Bethel Choir Record
Just about out
Orders taken! Mailed free to Bethel
students on prepaid orders as soon as
they arrive (by Christmas, we hope!)
Basel Boole-slaw
by S. Severn Olsen
Winding up 1963 finds the Twin
City cultural calendar filled with
Christmas offerings, but with few
of them at times advantageous to
most Bethel students.
Friday, at 10 a.m., Macalester
college presents the first part of
Handel's Messiah featuring the
college orchestra and chorus.
"Christmas Oratorio" by J. S.
Bach will be presented jointly by
the Twin City Philharmonic soc-iety
and the choir of Concordia
college of St. Paul next Friday.
The concert will be performed on
the Concordia campus at 8 p.m.
Minneapolis Symphony orchestra
presents concerts at 8:30 p.m. in
Northrop auditorium this Friday,
Dec. 27. Featured performing
artists will be, in performing
order: Claudia Arran, pianist and
Janos Schein, cellist. Both have
performed with the symphony in
the past and both have been well
St. Paul auditorium theater pre-sentations
offers its second musi-acouta
aid peted
cal of the year with the Broadway
traveling organization's presenta-tion
of "The Sound of Music."
Dates include next Monday
through Saturday, Dec. 16-21 at
8:30 p.m. and matinees Wednes-day,
Dec. 18 and Saturday, Dec.
21 at 2:30 p.m.
Brave New Workshop presents a
spoof on the famous "Yes Virginia,
There Is A Santa Claus." This
group performs at the Cafe Ex-presso
on Hennepin Avenue.
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Bethel's wrestling team dropped
its season opener in the fieldhouse
last Tuesday, Dec. 3. Coach Dean
Gilland's inexperienced charges
lost to Macalester college 21-13.
Heavyweight Leroy Nelson scor-ed
Bethel's only pin as he finish-ed
his opponent in the first round
for five points.
Doug King earned three points
for the Royals as he won a 3-1
decision. Wrestling in the 147-
pound division, King won on a
takedown and an escape.
Bethel's final five points came
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on a forfeit to Mike Peterson in
the 167-pound bracket.
J. David Patterson and Keith
Davis lost decisions in their match-es.
Patterson, the only non-fresh-man
on the team, was edged 5-3 in
the 137-pound division. Davis,
wrestling at 157, lost 84.
Macalester scored a total of 15
points on pins. Norm Holmberg,
Wendell Plucker and Everette
Wilkinson were the victims.
Holmberg wrestles at 123,
Plucker in the 130-pound divis-ion
and Wilkinson in the 177-
pound pairings.
Hampered by a small turnout
and lack of experience, the mat-men
look for improvement as the
season progresses. Today they tra-vel
to St. Cloud State college for
a meet there tonight.
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Page 4 the CLARION Wednesday, December 11, 1963
Three Teams
Share Honors
Dog iiithioa
Bethel football activity was brought to an official close last Thurs-day
night with the annual football awards banquet, held this year at
the Picadilly Supper club. Bill Bonio, sports writer for the St. Paul
Pioneer Press, was speaker for the evening.
Jim Nelson walked away with the most valuable player award for
the fourth straight year. In addition to the formal award, his number
(number 30) was retired. It will not be used by any future Bethel
football team.
Announcement of next year's team captains found Duane Gibson,
Stan Miller and Larry Stair sharing the coveted position. Other awards
presented that night include best offensive blocker, Charlie Rogers;
best defensive player, Jerry Oas; Lion award (most aggressive), Lowell
Gause; and most improved, Don Strickler.
Dave Hansen was named the team comedian. Dubious honors went
to Don Peterson (tapeworm) and Gene Selander (goldbrick award).
Congratulations are in order not only for the award winners but
for each team member on a job well done.
Intramural basketball action con-tinued
last Wednesday night with
the Jesters, Faculty and Counts
continuing to lead the way as they
remained in the ranks of the un-beaten.
In the opening contest, the
Counts swamped the Dukes 80-62
behind the shooting of Ben Obin-ger
and Dike Ferris. They had 30
and 22 points respectively. Bob
Larson led the Dukes with 27
points and Gordy Peterson had 18.
Rampaging to their third straight
victory, the Jesters completely out-classed
the Knights 96-28. The
game was highlighted by some
comical horse-play on the part of
the Knights. Clint Stark and Don
McKelvy were high for the Jesters
with 26 and 18 points respectively
and Ron Nelson led the Knights
with 13.
Faculty also remained undefeat-ed
as they out-lasted the younger
Barons 64-58. Wee Lee Bajuniemi
led the Faculty attack with 26
points. Dave Cox had 21. Larry
Stair had 20 points to account for
most of the Baron scoring.
Seminary ran over the Peasants
84-54 in one of the other games.
Morrie Simons and Bob Clause
shared scoring honors for the Sem
with 23 points apiece. Rich Law-rence
and Don Land had 19 and
17 points respectively for the Pea-sants.
In the final game of the even-ing,
the Pages out-muscled the
Squires 64-50. Bruce Erickson, the
league's leading scorer, was held
to only 23 points but still managed
to be high scorer as he scored al-most
half of the Squire points.
Roger Price and Jim Nelson were
high with 17 and 14 respectively
for the Pages.
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were scored in the first half to
give Bethel a 39-20 halftime lead.
Allen Nelson led Sioux Falls
with ten points as a tough Royal
defense held the Brave's leading
scorer, Bob Pickert, to seven
Ed Peterman and Cabot Dow led
an early second half scoring
splurge which gave the Royals a
59-32 lead at the third quarter
mark. Fine rebounding and and a
45% shooting average gave the
Royals their 24 point victory.
Don Moore's 23 points led the
Royals as they were handed an
83-76 loss by Morris last Tuesday.
Poor rebounding and sloppy ball
handling gave Morris their seven
point victory.
Coach Healy is optimisitic over
this year's season after the spirit
which was shown in the last two
games. "Nolin's driving, Moore's
and Palke's rebounding and Bo-linder's
hustle has marked the
last two victories."
Last night the Royals beat the
Northwestern (Minn.) Eagles at
the Bethel fieldhouse 95-43. The
game was originally scheduled as
an away game but was played here
due to the flooded condition of
Northwestern's gym floor.
Saturday the team will take on
Northland at Ashland, Wisc. The
next home game will be Monday
against Eau Claire state college.
D 0 a.
Phil Bolinder, Jerry Moulton, George Palke, Don Moore and Ed
Peterman listen intently to coach Jerry Healy as he explains exactly
what he wants done during an afternoon practice session.
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Bethel scored two straight vis-tories
over Wahpeton and Sioux
Falls Friday and Saturday to give
them a 2-3 record after their first
five games. The Royals suffered
losses to LaCrosse (95-58), Aurora
(54-52) and Morris (83-76) in their
first three games.
George Palke and Don Moore,
with 11 and 13 points respectively,
led a well-balanced scoring attack
against a tough Wahpeton team.
Wahpeton had previously beaten
Morris which had handed the Roy-als
a 7 point defeat last Tuesday
Henry Holte led the Wahpeton
scoring attack with 14 points.
The Wildcats held a one to three
point lead until 18 minutes had
passed in the first half, but lay-ups
by Don Moore and Phil Bo-linder
gave Bethel a 30.27 half-time
lead which they never re-linquished.
Bethel's tough zone defense and
aggressive rebounding enabled the
Royals to control the second half.
Bob Nolin and Jerry Moulton
fought past a Wahpeton press and
gave the Royals their 15 point vic-tory.
Bob Nolin's 19 points led the
Royals • to a 78-54 victory over
Sioux Falls. Bethel opened up to
an early 14-4 lead in the first four
minutes and was never headed.
Moulton and Don Moore both
added ten points, most of which
Cross-country awards were presented Tuesday, Nov. 25 at a dinner
held for team members and their dates at coach Gene Glader's home.
Dale Rogers received the most valuable award, and Bill Carlson and
Dale Pearson were given third year letter awards. Every team member
received a letter.
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This weekend I installed Tein SS coilovers on my 2003 1.8T Quattro, and I thought I would share my knowledge with everyone.
"But Captain, all these pictures are from a B6!" you say? That's okay, the B6 and B7 have the same suspension, so everything you see outlined here will work for your B7 too.
*** NOTE: The procedures outlined here are the way that I did it. I did not use a Bentley/Chilton's manual to assist me. This being said, some of the things I did may not be the easiest or best way to do things. Also, since my car is a B6, there may be a few minor differences between what you see here and what you will actually encounter. ***
Today we will be installing these:
If everything goes smoothly, total install time should be 5-6 hours. But don't feel bad if it takes 8.
These are the measurements from the ground to the fender before tearing everything apart:
Driver Front: 25 ½ inches Passenger Front: 25 ¾
Driver Rear: 25 5/8 Passenger Rear: 25 5/8
Prior to starting, you will need the following tools and supplies:
Car jack (not the widow maker in your trunk)
Ratchet wrench and a long extension (10 inches or so)
Sockets: 10mm, 13mm, 14mm, 15mm, 16mm, 18mm, 5/8ths, and 13/16ths
Box-end wrenches to go with the sockets
Spring compressors
Half case of beer
Pry bars
Vice grips
First things first: Put the car on jackstands and remove the wheels. Now, open the hood and remove the battery tray cover. Not just the batter cover part, the whole thing. You will need to pull the rubber weather seal up first to pull it out. Unscrew the screw that holds the coolant overflow bottle and move that out of the way. No need to unhook anything, just swing it out of the way. Whew, this is hard work. Open a beer. Mmm.. beer.
The rear suspension is the most difficult (read: biggest pain in the ass and most aggravating) part, so we will do that first.
Here is the drivers side rear suspension as you will see it once the wheel is removed.
Remove the rear caliper. It is held on by two 13 bolts, but you will need a 15mm wrench for the backing bolt to keep it from turning. Tie the caliper out of the way with a piece of string or a zip tie.
On the drivers side, be sure to disconnect the headlight leveling sensor that is attached to the lower control arm with a 10mm bolt. Also disconnect the sway bar from the end link. It is a 16mm bolt.
Next, remove the two 14mm bolts holding the upper shock mount on. Pull away the fender lining and use a long extension to get up there.
Then, remove the 18mm bolt that holds the upper control arm to the rear hub. This is also the bolt that is used to adjust rear camber. After this, remove the lower bolt from the shock. This will take a 13/16ths socket and a 13/16ths backing wrench. After this, you should be able to compress the shock and pull it out. Unbolt the top bolt from the shock and put the new shock on the mount as per the instructions included with your coilovers.
Now comes the fun part! (Please note the extreme sarcasm)
Getting the springs out of the back is a holy nightmare, so be prepared. In preparation, I stockpiled a list of insults and curse words that would make even a grizzled pirate proud. You may want to consider opening another beer. I did.
Attach a spring compressor to the spring and crank it down as low as it will go. I have an impact wrench, and this helped speed the process a bit.
After the spring is compressed as much as possible, get out the pry bars. If you have someone helping you, have them stand on the rear hub to drop the suspension as much as possible. Keep at it, getting the springs out is hell.
Another --possibly easier-- way to get the spring out is the drop the rear subframe. The bolts that hold it in are very long and you should be able to back them out a couple inches and then get the spring out. You will want to have a jack under the frame to raise it back into place.
For most coilover setups, you will be re-using the upper spring bushing (the rubber thing on the top of the spring), so hold on to this. Assemble the spring perch as per the instructions.
Putting the spring back in is almost as much fun as getting them out, so get ready for a good time.
Also, be sure to have the spring mount adjusted to where you think you want it before you put it in, it is very difficult to adjust once the spring is in.
The rest is the reverse of removal. Use a jack underneath the rear hub to raise or lower everything as necessary to align bolt holes.
*** Be sure to have the suspension loaded when you tighten bolts that go through rubber bushings or you could severly shorten the life of said bushings! ***
Yay, the rear is done. Time to move on to the front.
This is the driver side front suspension. First, remove the sway bar from the end link. Use a jack underneath the hub to raise the suspension so the bolt does not have tension on it. As you unscrew the bolt, you will be able to see what I'm talking about. This trick will come in handy as you put everything back together too.
Next, unhook the steering end link. First, loosen the 5/8ths bolt (but don't remove it yet, it keeps the ball joint from spinning) and then remove the 13mm bolt from the top. Now remove the other bolt and move the end link out of the way.
Next, remove the three 14mm bolts that hold the upper strut mount in. These are found in the engine compartment. You will need to remove the black grommet on the strut tower to get to one of the bolts. You'll see what I'm talking about when you look in there. Hmm, look at the time... I think I'll have another beer.
Once the three upper strut mount bolts are removed, pull the mount down. This will take some effort, there is a retainer clip that holds it up. I stood on the caliper and hopped a little bit to pop it loose.
Once the mount is loose, rotate it a bit to get access to one of the upper control arm bolts. Remove it and then rotate the mount to remove the other bolt.
Now, remove the lower strut mount bolt (18mm). Once this is removed, finagle the whole strut assembly out.
It is now time to remove the shock from the mount. I used an impact wrench on this bolt (18mm) so it zipped right off, but if you don't have one, this can be a real pain. As a possible alternative, I suggest using a pair of vice grips on a socket and sticking an allen wrench through the hole to keep the shaft from spinning. If you don't care about the well-being of the old strut, you can clamp the vice grips onto the top of the shaft to keep from spinning. I don't recommend this method however.
SAFETY FIRST: The springs on front strut assemblies are usually under a lot of pressure, be sure to put spring compressors on the spring before removing the top nut. On cars with the factory sport suspension, they aren't necessary, but you may want to use them anyway to be on the safe side. Taking 5 minutes to put a spring compressor on is a lot easier than losing a tooth or an eyeball.
Once you have the mount off, reassemble everything according to the instructions. Like the rear, reassembly of the front is the reverse of removal.
*** Be sure to have the suspension loaded when you tighten bolts that go through rubber bushings or you could severly shorten the life of said bushings! ***
Once everything is put back together and properly tightened, put the wheels back on, lower the car off the jack stands and taker 'er for a test drive to check for creaks, squeaks and rattles. If the suspension is new, it will most likely settle an additional 1/8 to 1/4 (possibly more) over the next week or two, so drive on it for a little bit before you take the time to dial in the suspension to the exact height you want it at. Then get an alignment even if the car feels and drives like it doesn't need one, because it does.
HINT: If you plan on going fairly low with the suspension, remove the screw from the middle of the edge of the front fenderwells and cut off the tab to prevent rubbing.
Ahhh, MUCH better!
After measurements:
Driver Front: 24 1/2 Passenger Front: 24 3/8
Driver Rear: 24 5/8 Passenger Rear: 24 5/8
There, you're finished! Time to congratulate yourself for a job well done!


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47 sec to download .5Mb thats the speed labels provide.
That download bar is not someone downloading via a pirate website. Its a loyal customer downloading via a labels websites. It represents all the loyal fans who buy the latest tech the laptops, the tablets, the HD TV's and eagerly waiting for the labels to release the songs while the labels treat them as outcasts insulting them and being afraid that they download from a pirate site.
Eventually the tech will win and the labels will be thrown out.
So the US government want to form a consumer privacy bill rights and the H.R.1981 how exactly will these both work together.
One demands the ISP keep track of everything the other demands they keep as little information as possible
Photographers now are compelled by law to take only nude pics.
After all the copyrights of the designers have to be protected.
Let us sue Record labels for promoting songs about sex, guns, drugs which lead to an increase in teens experimenting with them and hence breaking the law. Movies showing thefts, murderers and assassins as cool hence teaching kids money can be made by breaking the law... this is a clear case of Secondary Liability these industries are making money by by seducing the innocent public into a lifestyle of crime.


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I cased Harriet's CUUUUUTE clean and simple New Home card seen here. I fell in love with her felt homes! We are required to change one or two things so that it is not an exact case of the artist's original card. As you can see, I used stamps for my houses, which are popped up on dimensionals, and I used different colors, going with a monochromatic theme thanks to my Copic markers. I also added trees.
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Hope College installed its 12th president Dr. John C. Knapp on Friday (Oct. 4) in a ceremony marked by educational pageantry and a look to the future of the 147-year-old college.
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Knapp was led into the chapel by an honor procession of Hope faculty and faculty representatives dressed in their academic robes from more than 50 U.S. universities and colleges or learned and professional societies. Hope international students carrying flags from their home countries led the group.
The institutions represented at the 2 p.m. presidential installation hailed from 13 states and four foreign nations, including India, Japan, Mexico and the United Kingdom, with founding dates ranging from 1636 to 1987.
Addressing the 1,000 invited guests in the historic Dimnent Memorial Chapel where presidents from the last 82 years have been inaugurated, Knapp said among the imperatives for the future of Hope College success is letting the rest of the world know about Hope's outstanding academic and research reputation and graduate success.
"In too many of our conversations, Hope is spoken of as a regional Great Lakes college, indicating to me that we may not fully embrace our true identity as a national liberal arts college of the first order," Knapp said. "We have earned a reputation that we have yet to claim in the national consciousness."
He said that 94 percent of the members of last year's graduating class had jobs or were in graduate school pursuing advanced degrees. The college also has a national reputation for its collaborative student-faculty scholarship and research.
"Hope College must be better known nationally and internationally as a destination well worth the trip," he said.
Knapp called for the college to extend the collaborative-learning model even further, and to place even greater emphasis on interdisciplinary and inter-professional learning as well. He also emphasized the need for even greater international engagement—building on a long tradition. Hope enrolled its first international students in the 1870s, less than a decade after the college was founded.
"Dr. Isaac Wyckoff declared in his 1866 inaugural charge to Hope College's first president, Philip Phelps, 'This is a shrinking world, and we must learn to be at home in it.' How much more true this is in 2013," Knapp said. "We must design and carry out a strategy that once again sets Hope College apart as a leader in global education."
Praising the college's 40 consecutive years of balanced fiscal budgets, Knapp said the administration will work at keeping Hope College as affordable as possible for students.
Knapp also reflected on challenges to Hope College's Christ-centered educational tradition and its liberal arts curriculum in a world where critics mistakenly feel the value of education is measured solely on earnings from a degree.
"All the smaller liberal arts colleges are under fire today. It is the Christian college that is facing the greatest onslaught," said Knapp reading excerpts from the 1931 inaugural speech of Hope College President Wynand Wichers.
"These words might well have appeared in this morning's newspaper. The relevancy of faith-based, liberal arts colleges like Hope are being seen today as quaint relics of a past age," Knapp said.
"They have lost sight of the worth of an education that builds character, develops faith, broadens perspective and gives meaning to life and work," he said. "Perhaps much of our society has forgotten that higher education is a public good, preparing adults for responsible citizenship in a democratic society, and not simply a private benefit for the degreed individual."
"With higher education and the world itself changing at an ever-accelerating rate, Hope College's time-honored, holistic student experience has never been more relevant," Knapp said. "Our mission calls us to prepare students for leadership and service in a global society, to give them the knowledge, and the perspectives of a superb liberal arts education and to do so in the context of the historic Christian faith. This is not only a commitment to our students; it's an expectation we create with everyone we serve—families, employers, graduate institutions, the church and society itself."
Knapp's selection as Hope's 12th president was announced in March and he took office on July 1.
Former Hope College Presidents Dr. Gordon J. Van Wylen, ninth president from 1972 to 1987, and Dr. James E. Bultman, 11th president from 1999 until retiring at the end of June, performed the installation of the new president. Knapp also received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hope as part of the ceremony.
Student Congress President Ashley Fraley said from her chips-and-salsa back-porch discussions with President Knapp, "he is intentional, caring and brings a flair to our campus," noting that he also engages students in thinking deeply about their own role in the Hope experience.
"He poses questions to allow us to reflect on the type of community we hare supposed to be fostering based on the Hope College mission statement and his own desire to insure we are living into it," said Fraley, a senior from Wellston. "And what I have come to realize from my own experience and the reflections within Student Congress is that these questions help us grow exponentially."
She praised Knapp for connecting with students from day one.
"How many college students can say that their president tweets with them, or after first being hired invites all the students to send him an e-mail about absolutely anything," Fraley said.
College Board of Trustees Chairperson Mary Bauman said the new Hope President is a person who will "inspire excellence in others" while creating a caring community for all students.
Present at the ceremony were members of Knapp's family including his wife Kelly and their five children Amanda, Tracy, Charlie, Mary and Ronnie, his son-in-law, Brian, his mother Grace and a new granddaughter, Sophia.
Knapp's leadership experience includes higher education and business, and his scholarship includes multiple books and articles on leadership ethics, issues in higher education, and the intersection of faith and work. Immediately prior to coming to Hope, he had served since 2008 at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., where he was founding director of the Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership and the University Professor and Mann Family Professor of Ethics and Leadership.
The inauguration ceremony at Dimnent Memorial Chapel was carried on a live television feed of the event to overflow crowds at Winants Auditorium in Graves Hall next door.
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The results of the 20th Annual Study of Logistics and Transportation Trends (Masters of Logistics)
These results reveal three specific issues in current logistics and transportation management that have the potential for disastrous results on operations if not properly addressed.
A "Bermuda Triangle" of logistics management issues that are interconnected at the strategic level, and if not properly addressed will have disastrous results – and get practical advice on how to navigate through these issues: Available On-Demand, 24/7
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Navigating transportation's Bermuda Triangle (Read the Feature Article).
Based on the feedback of more than 760 shippers, our research team found a lack of planning for the impact of rising fuel prices; distribution networks that are incapable of flexing when uncertainty occurs; and a myopic, internal focus that limits the ability to achieve the desired performance results—a "Bermuda Triangle" of logistics management issues that our team says are interconnected at the strategic level.
In this exclusive Webcast, Mary Collins Holcomb, Ph.D., of the University of Tennessee, and Karl B. Manrodt, Ph.D, of Georgia Southern University, reveal all of the findings of our annual study and offer shippers practical advice for navigating through these challenges before it's too late.
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Pakistani Taliban free dozens of terrorist convicts in daring jail break
Pakistani Taliban insurgents freed as many as 200 terrorist convicts from a fortress-like prison in the northwest city of Dera Ismail Khan early Tuesday in a raid marked by two hours of automatic weapons fire and about 60 grenade explosions.
Army troops who had surrounded the prison moved into the facility shortly before 5 a.m. after three hours had passed with no fire coming from inside to find that the estimated 100 militants involved in the raid were gone, along with 100 to 200 terrorist convicts, according to initial estimates by prison officials.
The assault was audaciously claimed by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) while the raid was ongoing. It said some 300 militants had been freed during the raid, an apparently inflated claim because officials said the jail housed only 250 convicted terrorists.
Local police who had attempted to fight the raiders had been overwhelmed by the superior weaponry of the militants, who destroyed a police vehicle with a grenade, and set an armored personnel carrier on fire, killing five officers and wounding nine others. Three civilians died after being hit in the crossfire.
The attackers occupied a girl's college, several homes and a private hospital, on three sides of the prison, killing the hospital's security guard before opening fire with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. The fire provided cover to a small party of attackers who scaled two sections of the prison's two-yard-thick outer wall and planted explosives powerful enough to blow holes in it. Three bomb-laden vehicles were also driven into other sections of the jail's walls and entrance by suicide attackers and, amid the chaos, eight militants wearing police uniforms walked in the front gate virtually unopposed.
The militants headed straight for the prison's top-security wing, where they killed four death-row inmates, before freeing jailed members of the TTP and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Pakistani al Qaida affiliate, and escaping through the breaches in the prison walls.
In all, 13 people died in the attack, while the terrorist raiders' fatalities were limited to the five suicide bombers.
To prevent hot-pursuit by army troops called in to support the police, the raiders left three booby-trapped vehicles on the prison premises, each containing improvised devices containing 52 pounds of explosives, and left another in the office of the warden. Similar devices were planted in the town hall opposite the prison, while police discovered 15 bombs in an abandoned car at a nearby road junction.
A curfew was declared in Dera Ismail Khan and the neighboring district of Tank as the authorities tried to stop the militant raiders and the freed prisoners from reaching the nearby tribal area of South Waziristan, mountainous parts of which serve as the TTP's headquarters.
The attack apparently caught prison authorities ill-prepared, despite a warning Saturday from security agencies of an impending attack and rioting by militant inmates on Sunday. Officials at the jail had met earlier Monday to discuss security arrangements but made no changes.
The Taliban staged a similar assault on a jail in the nearby town of Bannu in April 2012, freeing some 400 prisoners, including a notorious bomb-maker.


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Everyone knows that once you are on malicious or fraudulent websites, your PC can easily become infected, especially if your computer or mobile device does not have anti-virus software installed. But could this be avoided? Yes, and it's as simple as this: if a website looks suspicious, you check it on this web page before clicking on the unknown link.
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Some Internet websites are cracked by hackers whose goal is to get into mobile devices. When entering a website from your usual PC, you'll get to a harmless online resource, but if exploring it from a smartphone, you'll be stealthily redirected to a site containing an unpleasant "surprise". With the help of compromised websites, cybercriminals can spread various malware programs, the most "popular" being various modifications of Android.SmsSend. A victim's losses depend on what type of Trojan family has penetrated their mobile device, i.e., the type of malicious payload it carries. Read about the details of this phenomenon in our news column.
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Install Dr.Web for Android which comes with a component called an URL Filter. This cloud filter will restrict access to inadvisable and potentially dangerous sites that fall into several categories; this is especially important for protecting children from inappropriate Internet content.
URL-Filter, is included only in the full version of Dr.Web for Android (this program is not included in Dr.Web Light for Android). Buyers of Dr.Web Security Space and Dr.Web Anti-virus can use Dr.Web for Android free of charge.
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Why Every Small Business Should Have Inventory Management Software
Mar 8 2012
Following is a guest post by a writer for Ordoro, a company I used to work with while I was at the Austin Technology Incubator. When she reached out to me to see if I would accept a guest post, I chuckled and thought what a small world it was. I like the team at Ordoro. They are doing great things and making a difference for small businesses.
Carolyn is a guest post writer on the subjects of small business management, small business tools, and inventory control. She believes that the right software is an essential part of what it takes for startups to succeed.
Why Every Small Business Should Have Inventory Management Software
Inventory will hog all of your company's cash if you allow it to do so. Think about it. You pay your suppliers, and you wait for them to ship goods to you. Then you wait for your employees to turn those goods into finished products you can sell. Once the products are ready to sell, you have to wait for customers to buy them. As you may have noticed, turning inventory into cash involves a lot of waiting. That's why it's essential that you do everything you can to increase your inventory turnover rate as much as possible. When it comes to inventory control, one of the most effective tools a small business owner can take advantage of is inventory management software. Here's what inventory management software can do for your small business:
- Inventory control software helps you identify what you need to order from suppliers at any given time. This kind of software gives you a clear picture of your inventory levels. If your bestselling product is almost sold out, it's probably crucial that you order more of it as soon as possible. If you aren't using software that allows you to monitor your inventory levels easily, it's much more difficult to order what you need when you need it.
- Small business inventory software helps you identify slow-moving products. If you analyze the data provided by inventory management software, it will be more simple and efficient for you to identify products that are slow-moving. Once you know what isn't selling, you can order less of it from your suppliers and ultimately have more cash freed up to purchase other inventory that is selling well.
- Tracking inventory shipments from multiple suppliers can be difficult, and inventory management software can help. It's crucial that you know when inventory is going to arrive, so you can plan your sales efforts accordingly. Inventory management software is probably the best tool to use if you want to track your orders and shipments from different suppliers.
- If you're an e-commerce merchant, inventory management software like the software offered by Ordoro will help you keep track of your inventory across multiple webstores. It's no small feat to keep track of what's being sold where and what's in stock overall as a result. That's why it's generally a good idea for e-commerce merchants to enlist the help of some quality software, especially if they're trying to run a small business without much help from anyone else.
Inventory management software is hardly ever expensive, especially when you consider the ROI. With this type of software, you'll be able to increase your inventory turnover rate by ordering what you need, halting orders of what you don't need, getting the most out of your relationships with suppliers, and staying organized no matter how many stores or webstores you own. So, why make things harder on yourself without this integral software tool?
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Colorado State athletic director Paul Kowalczyk tops a list of athletic directors in the state in salary, according to numbers released by USA Today today.
The Rams athletic director makes $284,875, according to the newspaper, more than CU's Mike Bohn ($253,500) and Air Force's Hans Mueh ($165,300). Bohn's salary is last in the Pac-12, which is topped by UCLA's Dan Guerrero at $686,296.
Kowalczyk, who has been at Colorado State since 2006, ranks fourth in the Mountain West. New Mexico's Paul Krebs leads the way in the MWC at $409,391.
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Ten fully equipped laboratories for biomedical engineering research are available to students and faculty. These are for general biomedical engineering, computers, polymer synthesis, sensory and motor function, automated drug infusion, stent and vascular graft fabrication, and gait analysis. In addition, students may use laboratory facilities and equipment of other departments and programs within the College of Engineering, such as the Materials Science Department.
Engineering laboratories of importance to BE students include microwaves and antennas, integrated circuit development, work physiology, human performance, biofeedback, computer development/simulation, materials science, stress analysis, turbulent flow, and heat transfer. Significant computational facilities are available at UTA and UTSW, and both also have full electronics and machine shops.
Students also have complete access to a complete range of analytical instrumentation in the Department of Chemistry. Of interest to BE students are ESCA, Fourier transform surface IR, atomic force microscopy, laser-induced matrix desorption mass spectroscopy, solid- and liquid-phase NMR, and analytical gel permeation chromatography.


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At the Lawrence Conservatory of Music, we believe that to achieve one's full musical potential, a musician needs to go beyond the practice room and nurture the intellectual growth offered through the breadth and depth of a liberal arts education.
In this exciting, ever-changing world we live in, consummate core musicianship needs to be paired with intellectual agility, cross-disciplinary problem solving, bold creativity, and an entrepreneurial mindset. As a world-class conservatory within a world-class liberal arts university, we are uniquely positioned to deliver the holistic music education required for the 21st century.
Redefining a 21st Century Conservatory
Want to find out more about how Lawrence is redefining musicianship for today's fast changing world? Check out what Lawrence's 21st Century Musicianship is all about. Want to find out more about other cutting edge initiatives like our holistic approach to health and wellness, or how a Lawrence Conservatory education just might set you up for unexpected careers beyond music? Check out The Dean's Desk, a series of blogs from Dean Pertl, that will give you a deeper view of our conservatory's unique personality.
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What's an artifact? What kinds of artifacts can I put in my ICC portfolio?
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text: > > Anyway, recovery seems to be faster without fine-tuning, at least with > > my Nexus, higher symbol rates and a good signal... > > Hmm, weird, I added the enhanced code because thats what hauppauge appeared to > be doing, and I thought it seemed to work better at the time.... however > looks like that isn't the case. I've no problem if you want to rip it out. Actually I did some further testing and the use of derotator has a very bad side effect - it reduces the available SNR. The higher is derotator_freq, the lower is SNR. In my setup, when derotator is set for > 9 MHz, I can't get the lock anymore (of course I have properly shifted the tuning frequency). It's far better to perform normal tuning, which does not reduce the SNR. Thus I'd suggest to remove the enhanced tuning section and use standard tuning for zigzags. With kind regards, M.