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Sometimes reality is better than fiction — and for Atletico Madrid players and fans, this soccer season has been a pure fairy tale.
On paper, Atletico shouldn't have reached the UEFA Champions League Final on Saturday, let alone have a decent chance of winning the coveted soccer trophy. The Madrid team is one of the most heavily in debt in Spanish sports, which means, for one thing, that it lacks the financial firepower to buy high-profile international players such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale of Real Madrid, which it\'ll meet in the final.
Last season, underdog Atletico pulled in 120 million euros ($163 million) in revenue, while Real had an impressive €519 million on the top line. When it comes to debt, Real\'s debt-to-equity ratio sits at 1.73 — seen as acceptable in the world of Spanish football, according to a report by University of Barcelona academic Jose Maria Gay. It\'s a different picture for Atletico, which is weighed down by debt that\'s more than 16 times its net worth.
\"Atletico has been a surprise this year, because they had to compete with a lower budget and less good players,\" said Jaume Llopis, a soccer finance expert from the IESE business school in Barcelona. \"But the financial situation for Atletico is extremely difficult. Even if they win the Champions League, it won\'t be enough to recover from its economic situation.\"
But where there\'s a will, there\'s a way. Everything fell into place — a motivational coach, hardworking players and dedicated fans — and now Atletico is closer to becoming the European champion than it\'s been in four decades. It won La Liga, the Spanish regular-season championship, this year for the first time in 18 years, beating Real Madrid and Barcelona — each, on paper, its vast superior.
Jose Carmona, 32, and Raul Reyes, 51, both work at Lalos, a meat vendor in a food market in Madrid's upscale Salamanca district. The area\'s more or less the home of Real Madrid, whose stadium is not far away. Neither they nor the bulk of their colleagues at the market live in the area, which they say is just too expensive.
But Reyes is a Real Madrid fan, while Carmona supports Atletico. Motioning to the fish vedor, the fruit stand and other stalls around him, Carmona says the majority of the workers support Atletico. There's lots of rivalry in the tiny space where the two men slice choice cuts of beef and Spanish hams, but they agree it's been a spectacular and amazing year for Atletico and that the tiny underdog has earned its shot at being champion.
"It's been 40 years since Atletico have made it to this point," said Carmona, referring to the last time his team reached the final of Europe's major club tournament, when it lost to Bayern Munich. "It's our time."
"Above all, it's been Atletico's coach," said Reyes, referring to Argentine-born Diego Simeone, the team's manager, also a former player. In a recent game he could be seen running along the sideline, leaping in the air for joy as his team scored. "He's encouraged them and gotten the best out of them," said Reyes.
For a football-mad city like Madrid, the matchup on Saturday is a bit of a dream come true. Spain often has a team in the Champions League final — but it\'s rare for two Spanish sides to meet. And two from the same city, in whatever country? Forget it. It\'s never happened before this year.
As for who\'ll win, Carmona says Atletico and Real Madrid have equal chances. But in a bar downstairs from the food market, a group of construction workers is unanimous in the belief that Real Madrid will steamroll Atletico and its fans\' Cinderella dreams.
Real Madrid is also the favorite according to betting website Paddy Power.
No matter who wins, the after-game celebrations will fill the streets of Madrid. But once the confetti is swept up, Atletico, even if victorious, will find itself no better off, believes Carmona.
"Atletico has a lot of debt. It could improve in some aspect economically — cut back on some debt — but they will have to sell players this year," he says.
So much for riding the fairy tale. IESE\'s Llopis estimates Atletico could make €180 million by selling its best players and pull in €50 million from UEFA, the European football organization, if it wins the Champions League final. Given that it\'s more than €500 million in debt, the transfer revenue and prize money cannot fund a complete financial comeback.
\"Even if the situation has improved now, the long-term situation is very difficult,\" Llopis said.
Like most other Spanish clubs, the underdog Madrid team owes money to the government — around €80 million, to be exact. All together, the 42 clubs in the top two divisions of Spanish soccer hold €3.2 billion in debt. Of that, €700 million is owed to Spain\'s Treasury. But, unlike many creditors, the Treasury is in no rush to claw back the money.
\"The government doesn\'t push the teams to pay back the debt. If the government makes them pay, the majority of the clubs would end in bankruptcy,and that would practically be the end of Spanish football,\" Llopis said.
\"Tomorrow, for the Champions League final, there are 6 million people without a job who will forget they don\'t have a job. Football is very popular.\"
The match is to be played in Lisbon on Saturday at 7:45 p.m. local time, or 2:45 p.m. in the U.S.\'s Eastern time zone.
— Sara Sjolin in London and Barbara Kollmeyer in Madrid
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Dear Dude on a Bike,
I probably sound entitled to you, Dude on a Bike, and I think I am to the extent that I should be able to get down the street most of the time without being forced to bend to the will of an ornery salaryman or a Vuitton-toting bitch. Tell your friends to cut me some slack and let's try to cooperate as we coexist on Tokyo's streets. That said, I'm sorry I told you that you should be on the other side of the sidewalk and that you're an idiot, most people don't deserve that. This is my second verbal confrontation with a stranger in Japan and while after the first, I felt smug for responding so appropriately, this time I wasn't provoked by your words, but by your actions, and I am shocked at how quickly those nasty words came shooting out of my mouth. You may be an asshole, but I should have refrained from calling you an idiot.
The other thing I wanted to tell you, was that I hope you don't make the mistake of thinking all foreigners are barbarians after your encounter with me, for there are gaijin much gentler than I. I'm also not that bad in the scheme of barbaric foreigners: I don't look at all-you-can-drink plans as a way to get my money's worth, or ride the train while exclaiming loudly as I make sweeping generalizations about Japanese people, or try to school other foreigners on the proper way to "navigate the intricacies of Japanese culture". I probably act meaner than I look, but I never claimed to be perfect. I know it's hard not to equate one irate foreigner with all of the others, I mean we all look alike, but just as I won't write off every Japanese guy as a bull-headed asshole, I hope you'll realize that my frustration and anger come not from being a foreigner, but from being a girl constantly shoved around. Deciding to say those nasty words to you probably does come from being a foreigner, though.
With any luck, you will have written me off as a slightly crazy whitie who has maybe reached the end of her rope. That's certainly what it feels like sometimes. So again, Dude on a Bike, I'm sorry for my words said in anger. Next time, maybe you can consider biking on what is generally considered the correct side and not threatening to collide with others.
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- Melon said...
It is shocking how difficult it can be to get down the street sometimes. And although I try to stay on the left, it feels like nearly half the time the person coming at me wants to go on the right. It all makes so little sense. I'm sorry for the unpleasantness of this encounter, but you are certainly not alone. Commute-bicycling can be quite a stressful experience.
- March 3, 2011 at 5:08 PM
The whole nonsense of riding bikes on, usually, not very wide sidewalks has always seemed like lunacy to me. That being said, I rather play chicken with another bike than an on-coming or bearing down on me auto.
- March 4, 2011 at 3:55 AM
- Japan Australia said...
Bikes can be a big hazzard in Japan and I have had several near misses with them!!
- March 4, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Sarahf said...
I get this every day, but my favourites are people who can't walk in a straight line. I always have to stop and wait for them to decide where they want to walk. Our city have put in cycle lanes, but everyone ignores them (except me) and cars park on them all the time.
- March 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM
Never apologize to those people!!! Seriously, I know the type you're speaking of, and I have watched them from behind as they switch sides of the sidewalk to walk on/ ride on, for no possible purpose other than to make oncoming traffic walk around them. It's like some sort of ego boost, or something.
I try my best to be a polite, respectable gaijin, but that sort of thing I can't forgive. Figure I spend most of my time here feeling huge and awkward and overweight, then by god I'm going to use that to my advantage against those pricks.
- March 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Green-Eyed Geisha said...
Melon: Riight! It feels so weird for me to be on the right now, even on foot.
Jeffrey: It is absurd. Unfortunately the law here considers bikes to be essentially vehicles in the category with cars, but there are all these weird exceptions to where bikes can techinally go (and of course no one pays them any heed). I bike on the street if the sidewalk is crowded but often it's impossible/scary/I don't go that fast.
Japan Australia: Indeed it is, there are a shitload of bike accidents.
Sarahf: Yes, thank you! I have so many times almost run into someone who at the last second decides to walk diagonally right into my path. Bike lanes are great, too bad they won't put them in here. There are some around the city on the sidewalks, which was such a waste of fucking money because the pedestrians are all over them.
David: I switch around sometimes when foot traffic makes it impossible to go in a straight line but when I come head to head with people who are out to make me go around rather than cooperate, I usually do as you say and use my body to my advantage. I wish I could let it go sometimes but I can't bear the thought of yielding to some people...
- March 4, 2011 at 3:43 PM
- Generic Jen B said...
Do you remember that crazy jogger lady who screamed at us to move over so she wouldn't have to slow down? Unrelated but I just remembered it and it made me snort. Ladies don't snort do they. Chuckle then. Which is what middled-aged folks with rosy cheeks and red noses do. I give up.
- March 5, 2011 at 6:40 PM
- TheOctopus said...
Reminds me of the old guy I encountered cycling towards me on in the wrong direction on the inside lane of a busy three lane road.
I was buggered if I was going to veer out into whatever traffic was potentially coming from behind me just for the old fart's convenience so we had a nonverbal standoff until he got the message.
- March 6, 2011 at 12:09 PM

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A few highlights and personal notes from my press trip to Mexico to see Olmeca Altos tequila being distilled.
Monday, March 24:
Got up at 5:30am to meet a car outside the apartment at 6:15 to head to LaGuardia. After getting through security, I grabbed breakfast and settled in to wait for boarding. After I ate, I checked in with Jen. She told me the boy missed me, so I talked to him via FaceTime. It was my first trip away from the kids, so it was hard.
Landed at Houston Intercontinental. Named for a painter who was a third-rate despot, or maybe for his father. Not sure. Had a long layover here, so I wound up at Third Bar, in Terminal B. Decent fried-oyster po-boy. Microbrew from some local place, pretty good. Outlets underneath the bar for recharging phones and laptops? Brilliant. Good work, Third Bar. Have no idea when I'll ever fly through Houston again, but I'll look you up. I got yer digits.
Guadalajara. Flew in over mountains, lush valleys, massive lakes. Could tell just from the air that it was going to be a geographically stunning place. The airport is Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport, named for a leader of the Mexican War for Independence. Seems they know how to name an airport. We had an airport named for a leader of the American War for Independence. We renamed it for an actor who was a third-rate despot. So much for patriotism.
Nicely modern airport, more so than, ohhhhhhhhhh, LaGuardia. Customs and Immigration was smooth, quick, and friendly. Swapped dollars for pesos, grabbed my luggage, and met my group. We took a van ride to Arandas, home to the Pernod facility that makes Olmec Altos tequila, checked into the hotel, got cleaned up, had a couple of drinks, and went to dinner.
Tuesday, March 25:
Breakfast, and then van ride to distillery. I had seen something in a very early email from the trip organizers, mentioning something about a quad-bike trip to the agave fields. I assumed we'd bike a short distance to a nearby field. Nope. We took a two-hour scenic trip through Jalisco, across paved roads, gravel, cobblestone, dirt, dust, and mud. At one point, the convoy slowed because two guys up front nearly hit a cow who crossed the road. Dogs, most of them friendly, chased us a few times. We biked past a couple of fires burning in the brush right alongside the road. I took a turn without enough caution and nearly crashed into a tree. The worst, though, was near the end, when the wind kicked up hard enough to drive white dust into our eyes, blinding us even though we all wore safety goggles.
Lunch in the agave fields: tacos, grilled meats and cactus, chicarones, enchiladas. And Palomas, lots of Palomas. All done up in the Mexican way. In America, you ask for a Paloma and you get tequila, grapefruit juice (squeezed in front of you!), lime, sugar, a hint of salt, club soda. In Mexico, they use Squirt, tequila, a splash of lime, and pinch of salt. I like that version better, and not just because grapefruit fucks up my statins.
Back to distillery, and then to hotel for a long shower to scrub off the road dust. Then dinner. Place is called Taqueria Don Chepe. Inside two garage bays, nondescript, full of local families sharing platters of food. Amazing tacos, just stunning.
Wednesday, March 26:
Distillery tour. I've already written it up here. Lunch out, and then depart Arandas to return to Guadalajara. Long afternoon of resting, and then dinner and drinks.
Thursday, March 27:
Walking tour of Tlaquepaque, with a chill, charming open-air shopping plaza full of antique stores, boutiques, and galleries. The area is known for pottery and blown glass, but I got Jen a beautiful silver necklace, and for Mirabelle I bought a lovely hand-sewn shirt and skirt. (Julian got a toy-airplane set from the airport.)
We also toured a farmer's market inside an old parking garage, where Altos's brand ambassador, Daniel Warrilow, bought produce for a cocktail seminar later that afternoon. We left Tlaquepaque and went to a separate hotel, where the organizers had rented out the pool bar for the afternoon, so we could learn to make cocktails. I'll have more on those cocktails in a later post.
Our last dinner in Mexico was at a place called i Latina Restaurante, serving Thai-Mexican fusion. Good lord. I mean, you might think that fusion is played out, and I might think that fusion is played out, but there's nothing about i Latina that's played out. The food was phenomenal, possibly the best of the trip. I had a Tuna and Scallop Tartare that was just amazing. On a very meat-heavy trip, to have such delicate seafood was a treat.
Friday, March 28:
Homeward. Bittersweet.


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South Dakota Senate Endorses Concealed Weapons Permit Bill
PIERRE - The South Dakota Senate has approved a plan to make concealed weapons permits valid for five years, up from the current four years.
Senators voted unanimously Wednesday to send the bill to the House for further debate.
The measure's main sponsor, Sen. Larry Rhoden of Union Center, says he had hoped to use the bill to make other changes in state laws dealing with firearms. But he says additional study is needed before those changes can be made.
Rhoden says one future change would provide that once people get South Dakota concealed weapons permits, they would not have to undergo separate background checks every time they bought a gun. He says that would require issuing concealed weapons permits based on the same federal database used to approve gun sales.
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Title text: They laugh now, but within 10 years the city's entire criminal class will have quit to work on space research.
Carl Sagan was an advocate for science, space and SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence). He wrote the book Contact, which was later made into the movie by the same name. While Sagan did not emit anomalous radiation in his lifetime [citation needed], he did receive acclaim in the field of radiology, namely for using radiation to synthesize amino acids from simpler chemicals.
This comic is parodying Spider-Man, in which Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider to become Spider-Man. In this comic "a radioactive Carl Sagan" turns the person into "Sagan-Man". Apparently, Sagan-Man is able to stop thieves in their tracks by blowing their minds with inspiring scientific facts.
The title text implies that Sagan-Man's vivid imagery inspires the entire "criminal class" to give up their anti-social ways and turn to space research.
- [Bitten by a radioactive Carl Sagan in 1995, Sagan-Man possesses the powers and abilities of Carl Sagan.]
- Victim, off-panel: Help! Thief!
- [Sagan-Man spins around. A blue cape appears on his back.]
- [Sagan-Man runs towards the direction of the shout.]
- [He encounters the thief, holding a purse.]
- Sagan-Man: Hey, you!
- Thief: What?
- Sagan-Man: Do you realize just how crazy it is that we've BEEN TO THE MOON?
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According to Wikipedia, Carl Sagan died at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, on December 20, 1996, of pneumonia, after suffering from myelodysplasia, which is similar to leukemia and treated with bone marrow transplants. It is thus entirely plausible that he was radioactive at some point in the year 1995.--188.8.131.52 02:49, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
Why exactly is it crazy that we've been to the moon? Just the general wonder that space travel is possible at all? Or that it was so long ago, or...? --Seanybabes (talk) 12:17, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
- It's crazy in the same way that humans can build something like the Burj Khalifa, or when you think about the number of D-cell batteries in all the retail stores in the world at any given moment. Blows your mind, man... --BD (talk) 01:43, 20 November 2014 (UTC)


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zimmah wrote:agentcom wrote:I am completely confused about what a "submitted suggestion" is. In my naivety, I assumed that it was for suggestions that had proven themselves to have more merit than many of the suggestions posted in the "suggestions" forum. But now that I've taken the time to read through some of them, like this joke of an idea, I am baffled. For some reason, suggestions that are popular and technologically able to be implemented seem to be split between this forum, the stickies in the suggestions forum and the non-stickied suggestions forum. Is there any method to this madness.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Josh Campoverde, Tristan Kooistra and James Zorich all scored second half goals and Tom Caldwell picked up his first shut out of the season on Monday afternoon, as MIT (4-7-0) defeated Wentworth Institute of Technology (7-2-1), 3-0. The Engineers continued their run of success against the Leopards, now holding a 9-3 record in the overall series.
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Former NFL defensive tackle and current NFL Network analyst Warren Sapp has had a few misadventures on radio lately. Most recently, he has sparked a back and forth with Bears receiver Brandon Marshall by calling Marshall a "retard."
"These kids that play the game today have no relevance for the past, have no conscious of what it is," Sapp said on Friday's edition of The Dan Patrick Show. "I mean, Brandon Marshall talking about Shannon Sharpe, who is he to talk? He's the first 100-catch receiver, back-to-back, retard. What you just did in Denver for three years. You don't know this? No, of course he doesn't, because it's not about Brandon Marshall . . . it ain't about the past, it's about me. It's about personal success, pay me, and now I'll think about being a team guy."
Marshall responded through a video he uploaded on Twitter Monday morning. Via the Chicago Tribune, here's what Marshall said: "I got a very disturbing heads up on something Warren Sapp said. He called me 'retarded.' That's really disappointing to hear that from an NFL legend, but I'm going to take this as a lesson. And I think we all can learn from this. Be very careful who you take advice from. You want to surround yourself with good people, Godly people. When I look at Warren Sapp, I can't go to him and talk about finances because he filed for bankruptcy. I can't go to him and talk about my marriage because he filed for divorce. I can't go to him and talk about being a great father, because one day I'm going to have children, because he's not active in his children's life. The lesson that we all should learn here is surround yourself with good people and be careful who you take counsel from. I'm not saying he's been there on my side giving me counsel. But that's not a guy that I can go to."
Marshall then posted another video, roughly 15 minutes later.
"It's one thing to give constructive criticism but when you talk down to someone, you're rude to someone, you think you're better than someone, that says a lot about who you are – not as far as outwardly, but deep in your soul," Marshall said. "So, it seems like it's a bigger issue, and all we can do is try to encourage him to be better but at the same time, we're going to hold you accountable, Warren. Just like I'm held accountable. I've made my share of mistakes, and I'm going to continue to make my mistakes, but I'm never going to put myself on a platform or a podium where I think I'm invisible or untouchable."
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How do things look ? Any different from the Bethel you know of
your former school days or former visits ? Some changes you will
readily notice, others are not so obvious.
To see the more obvious changes, we invite you to make your way
down below the student center to the old Bethel gym floor. You won't
recognize it! Formerly a dark dismal storage space, it is now well
lighted and has six attractively decorated rooms: a wood-panelled
faculty lounge, CLARION, Spire, and Student Senate offices, a sem-inar
room, and a music room.
Another big change on our campus concerns student enrollment.
You will soon find this out when you find yourself outside waiting in
the "chow" line. The freshman class alone totals nearly 230 students,
and all new students comprise more than half of the student body.
Bethel's growing pains are a good sign. We are looking forward to
seeing the dorm additions under construction very soon; these will be
completed next fall.
We trust that you have found Bethel the same as far as upholding
its name: the house of God.
We extend to you alumni and friends a hardy welcome and sin-cerely
hope that you find your part in this weekend of activities. May
we share together the fun and spiritual blessings of this your home-coming.
Glenn Ogren, Student Senate President
Committees Prepare
For Missions Week
President Lundquist takes Bethel alumni Arnold
old gymnasium.
Wicklund and Rev. Warren Magnuson on tour of their
the CLARION
Vol. XXXIV—No. 4
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Friday, October 19, 1956
"Press Toward
the Mark"
Next Issue
Oct. 30
Spotlight Centers On
Coronation Tonight
Seven students have been named
to head committees for the an-nual
Missions week to be held
October 29 through November 2.
Bryan Harris is in charge of the
program; Janet Lindquist, arran-gements;
Ken Albright, lounge
display; Rita Balzarine, chapel dis-play;
Harvey Clark, publicity;
Suzanne Starkey, prayer; and Gor-don
Olson, technician.
Dr. Clyde Taylor, of the Nation-al
Association of Evangelicals, and
the Rev. William Tapper, execu-tive
secretary for the General Con-ference,
will be key speakers dur-
Dr. Taylor
Anderson Announces
Workshop Program
Elving Anderson, dean of stu-dents,
announced that the Christ-ian
Service workshops, which will
be held in the college chapel Octo-ber
22-25 at 7 p.m. are for all
interested students.
Public relations of students to
church groups will be the empha-sis
of Nels Stjernstrom at the
workshop Monday night. The work-shop
on Tuesday night will be on
music. Wednesday night Dean
Omark will discuss speaking, and
Dr. Larson, Christian education.
Dr. Conrad will speak at Thurs-day's
workshop on personal evan-gelism.
ing the week. Also present will
be missionaries from the main con-ference
fields, who will also be
available for conferences with stu-dents.
$500 Scholarship
Given By Western Auto
Western Auto career scholar-ships
which provide $500 in tui-tion
and fees each year, for two
years will be available to several
Bethel students next year, Elving
Anderson, dean of students, an-nounced
The scholarship plan is open to
male students of at least 18 years
of age who have completed two
years of college and are enrolled
in courses leading to careers in
merchandising. Each students
school program must permit him
to spend approximately 250 hours
per semester in part-time employ-ment
and he must be available for
full-time work during the summers
preceding the junior and senior
years. He must also meet the
minimum requirements of the
school, scholastically.
The selection will be based on
the applicants management poten-tial
in the field of distribution.
It is estimated that each student
will earn approximately $3,600 as
a part-time summer employee at
regular rates of pay in addition
to the scholarship. At the student's
option, a two week vacation will
be allowed each summer.
Those interested in this scholar-ship
should inquire in the student
affairs office for details.
Donation Ups
Loan Fund
A gift of $2,000 for the Hag-strom
Memorial loan fund has
been received recently, according
to Edith Larson of the adminis-trative
The donor is Dr. Martin Ericson
of Cedar Falls, Iowa; the gift is a
memorial for his son, Roger, who
was killed in an automobile acci-dent
a year ago.
9:50 a.m.—Chapel; Dr. Curtis
Akenson, speaker
5:30 p.m.—Dorm decoration
8:00 p.m.—Coronation and
Homecoming variety pro-gram;
immediately follow-ing,
bonfire pep fest
11:00 a.m.Parade forms
Alumni luncheon
1:00 p.m.—Parade starts
2:00 p.m.—Game — Bethel vs.
Northland, Hamline stad-ium
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.—Open house in
all residences
6:30 p.m.—Banquet; Rev. Gor-den
Johnson, speaker
Elaine Johnson
Named Sweetheart
Edith Elaine Johnson is the 1956
"freshman sweetheart" as a result
of the freshman election Oct. 10.
Elaine, as she is known to her
classmates, is from Poplar, Wis-consin.
She was chosen through a
process of elimination. Ten girls
were nominated by the freshman
class, and a vote was taken to
determine the highest three: El-aine,
Carolyn Henckel, and Carol
Carolyn is from Kennewich,
Washington, and Carol is from
Forest City, Iowa. Both of these
girls extend their hearty congratu-lations
to the freshman sweet-heart,
who will be figuring prom-inently
in the Homecoming parade
Sophomore Badge
Wins 1956 Contest
The sophomore class homecom-ing
badge design was selected from
entries of each of the four college
classes, in the first annual badge
contest at Bethel.
The freshman class is establish-ing
its individuality by attaching
a ribbon saying "class of 60" to
its badges.
A top secret will be revealed
tonight when the 1956 Homecom-ing
king and queen are crowned.
The coronation ceremony will be
part of a program beginning at
8 o'clock sharp in the fieldhouse.
Withholding the names of the
king and queen from the student
body and from the candidates
themselves is a first in this year's
Homecoming program. The ballot-ing
was done Monday in chapel.
Candidates for queen were Ardith
Rust and Bev Magnuson, seniors,
and Barbara Hartman and Elaine
Nelson, juniors. Bill Conrad and
Lowell Gardner, seniors, and John
Anderson and Bill MacKinney, jun-iors
were candidates for king.
Paul Berg and Dave Seaquist,
Rev. G. Johnson
Addresses Banquet
The Rev. Gordon Johnson of Chi-cago
will give the main address at
the annual Homecoming banquet
on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 6:30 p.m.
in the fieldhouse.
There will be no charge to stu-dents
with meal tickets, but a
charge of $1.75 will be made to
all other persons attending. The
menu features turkey.
Mr. Nels Stjernstrom will act as
master of ceremonies. The pro-gram
will consist of the Alumni
welcome, greetings by king and
queen, numbers by the college
choir and introduction of the Bethel
Edgren Defends
Decoration Record
by Karen Christensen
"Top secret is the word at Ed-gren
this week—at least as far
as Homecoming decorations go,"
says Jim Dinsmore, Ed-gren
residence president.
Winners in the competition for the
last five years, the Edgren resi-dents
are planning to chalk up
another victory this year.
Over at Bodien, however, Bev
Voldseth, who is in charge of the
decorations has enlisted the girls
in an all-out fight to win. Huge
figures and a slogan "Let's fell
(continued on page 6)
co-captains of the football team,
will crown the elected royalty in
the formal coronation ceremony
which will highlight tonight's pro-gram.
Other entertainment featured
for the evening will be skits pre-sented
by each class portraying,
in some fashion, life at Bethel.
Music will be provided by the band
and the male chorus. There will
also be an introduction of the foot-ball
The final event of the Homecom-ing
festivities tonight will be a
bonfire pep fest sponsored by the
freshman class. A huge bonfire
will be built outside the fieldhouse
and everyone will gather around
it joining the cheers for the Bethel
"We are trying to make this the
best bonfire pep fest Bethel has
ever seen, and we have a very un-usual
program planned. We dare
anyone to burn the bonfire early,"
commented Denny Johnson, presi-dent
of the freshman class.
John Sword and his committee
are in charge of the program.
Royal Parade
Routed Via Larp.
Bethel's annual Homecoming
parade has been extensively re-routed
this year. Instead of just
traveling down to the Hamline
field, this year the parade will
move up Snelling to Larpenteur,
Larpenteur to Hamline, Hamline
to Como, Como to Snelling, and
Snelling down to Norton field.
In Saturday's parade, floats
from each class, from the lang-uage
clubs, and from the B-club
will compete for top honors — a
trophy which will be presented at
half time of the Homecoming foot-ball
game. These floats represent
weeks of advanced planning and
work on the part of many of the
students of each class and club.
Also, in the parade will be the
cars containing the king and
queen, the Court, the sophomore
advisor, the cheerleaders and
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David Strand, sports editor
Betty Mattson, layout editor
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Junior Class
Announces Play
"Physician Inspite of Himself,"
a comedy by Moliere, and a "Boy
With a Cart," a religious play by
Christopher Fry, have been select-ed
by the junior class for presen-tation
on December 1.
These one act plays will be un-der
the faculty directorship of Dr.
Curtis, junior class adviser. Stu-dent
director for Moliere's play is
Betty Mattson. Betty Ohlin will
be student director of "Boy With
a Cart." Castings are underway
and rehearsals will begin shortly.
Other committees have not yet
been named.
These one-act plays are the
first of two productions planned
by the junior class. The other will
be a three-act play scheduled for
some time in March.
Scialheita .forric
—A couple of chuckles from the
LSU Daily Reveille:
A weather - beaten old - timer
slapped down a 20-dollar bill and
challenged any cowboy present to
recite the Lord's Prayer. The
money was matched and a man
started reciting, "Now I lay me
down to sleep, I pray the Lord
my soul to keep . . ." Then the
old-timer out him short. "You win,"
he said. "I didn't think you knew
And then there is the story of
the professor at Texas Christian
University who sighted one of his
more haughty associates crossing
the campus and growled "There,
but for the grace of God, goes
The same story, we might add,
has been attributed to Winston
Churchill, who made the remark
in reference to a political oppon-ent.
Page 2 the CLARION
Friday, October 19, 1956
Campaign Lesson Republican sentiment on campus received a slight jolt last Friday
when one of the better Democrats in the state discussed the political
picture with an excuse for a politician representing the GOP.
Assuming that the applause for the clearly incompetent candidate
represents a pro-Republican attitude on campus, we apparently needed
to be shown that the GOP has glaring shortcomings and that the Demo-crats
are not without good leadership. Neither party has a monopoly on
truth and, although Slettedahl felt otherwise, neither is more God-fearing
than the other.
We must, therefore, realize that no matter how strongly we sup-port
a particular party, there are times when we should protest against
its actions or individuals.
This type of independence is also necessary in the religious sphere.
We (reluctantly to be sure) must admit that we have religious leaders
similar to Slettedahl as well as men of Eisenhower's ability and sin-cerity.
It may be even harder to admit that denominations radically
different from ours may have clergymen superior to many of our
But when we can realize that the politicians of the party we
oppose are also gentlemen and that the non-protestant clergy are usually
men of good will, we have approached more closely to truth.
Active Mission
Interest Needed
Next week 10 missionaries are
coming to the campus. They are
not coming to give travelogues or
to exhibit their skill at picture-taking
or even to educate us in
native methods of making shell
And it's a good thing. We're too
busy for that.
These missionaries are coming
to help us to imagine what it's
like to a heathen. They're helping
this mental picture will push us
to go and to help others go.
But a group of missionaries
can't talk up a vision. It will come
only to those who want it, only to
those who expect God to speak,
only to those who ask.
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Unplanned Program?
I entered the chapel prepared to sing a hymn and listen to some-body
or other speak. But when chapel began I discovered this was
"an hour of meditation"—a whole period of organ music.
I was immediately up-in-arms. Another unplanned program! The
least the planning committee could do was to print a list of the songs
being played or have some vocal numbers for variety, I said to my-self.
Even though other heads were bowed, I sat looking stubbornly
straight ahead.
Thoughts do come to a relatively unfull head and I began to think.
There was really nothing wrong with the program! It was I that was
"wrong." I was mentally set to criticize any meditation program be-cause
I didn't want to spend any time talking with God. Meditation
seemed to be one of my habits which was constantly growing weaker.
"Blessed is the man who sitteth . . . not in the seat of the scornful.
For his delight is in the law of the Lord and in his law doth he medi-tate
day and night," from the first Psalm showed me that what I
had just realized about criticism and meditation, David had found
true thousands of years ago.
Meditation with God is a precious thing. For, as David said, the
man who meditates day and night is blessed. It isn't a ,simple matter
to discover what is keeping you from fellowship with God. In my case
it wasn't only scoffing. I was so busy with studies, extra-curricular
activities, and the opposite sex that I didn't take special time out
for meditation or even consider Him in my fleeting thoughts. Also,
I was getting to the point where I thought that I ought to tell God
what I should do in my life. My ego was so inflated that it didn't even
need a pin to break it. I knew the best way. God couldn't tell me any-thing,
therefore I didn't need to stop to talk to Him.
As I sat and thought about why I didn't want to spend time in
meditation, I realized that I was meditating. What a lesson I learned
from that "unplanned" chapel.
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A hush fell across the auditorium chest. He eyed the audience square-and
one wondered how such ex- ly and gave them his well-practic-citement
could be held in such a ed winning smile.
quiet container. Homecoming was
"Friends, fellow honor students,
on at Conventional College. faculty, alumni, and all others
All eyes turned to the front. The which I am speaking with. I feel
royalty were present. A tremen- very humble at the thought of the
dous applause had greeted their honor you have bestowed upon me
introduction and had given way to and my first reaction is on un-the
now strained silence. The king, worthiness. My only consolation is
realizing as we all do, the neces- my explicit trust in the judgment
sity of the man taking the com- of my fellow students of good old
manding hand in the world, polite- C. C."
ly bowed across the path of the
At the sound of their beloved
queen and stepped to the rostrum. school's name of affection, a great
He made a amiable figure as he roar goes up from the audience.
stood there before the vact collec- The king feels a boast of assur-tion
of humanity, his broad shoul- ance by the sign of approval.
ders slightly rounded in humility, "I realize what a difficult deci-which
gave a unique effect as they sion it must have been for you
knocked against his out-thrown in trying to decide among the
Will you dare to prepare for
Missions Week — in private and
group prayer?
You Can Lead A Horse To H 2 0•.• by Betty Mattson
"You are dismissed."
By the time the last "d" of the word is uttered, 3/4 of Bethel's
student body has left the convocation and is galloping toward the
dining hall. Perhaps the speaker has been left in a state of wonder.
He probably wonders if Bethel is a high school or a college.
He has great reason to wonder. Many occasions last year, and
this year as well, have exhibited the impoliteness and juvenility of
many of Bethel's students. I do not think that we should be "forced"
to be courteous because "it's the Christian thing to do." Young people
of the age and mental capacity of our students should realize how to
conduct themselves in different situations—it's the adult thing to
do; it's part of our education.
Football and basketball games are no time to sit perfectly still
and let the band make the noise. However, there is no excuse for
anyone becoming a pest and spoiling the game for others.
A worshipful attitude -should be evident in chapel and chapel-type
convocations. The moments before the service begins might well
be spent in meditation rather than "happy chatter." Unusual convo-cations,
such as the political rally of last Friday, should be treated
as common sense would dictate. Applause, before, after, and during
the speeches would have been perfectly in order. (The speakers were
not sacred hymns.) Even if the speaker is poor, there is no excuse for
students conversing out loud or leaving in the middle of the convoca-tion.
Just because you are hungry you don't have to abruptly retreat
from the auditorium at the end of the convocation. Applause would
say thanks to the speakers for being there.
If you were at a formal concert would you act like you would at
a basketball game? Some Bethel students have. At a concert given
last year by Suzanne Bloch during the Renaissance Festival, some
of the students came into the chapel after the intermission making
noise and eating Cheerios. The dress of the evening was bobby socks,
baggy sweaters and levis when it should have been heels and suits.
Some schools even favor the wearing of furs to concerts of this type.
I don't think we have many furs on campus, but I do hope we have
well-dressed, well-behaved students.
Our Homecoming banquet is bound to test our manners. Many of
the alumni will be back watching us to see if we're better or worse
than the class of '32, '42, or '52. We will impress them. Everything
we do, our dress, our table manners, our conversation, will make evi-dent
the quality of students that Bethel will again turn out this year.
I think that a word to the wise is sufficient; sufficient for proving
that we are men and women of good taste as well as men and women
of Christian ideals.
Uriah Heep
many other able candidates. But you have found represented in your
by this struggle, I know that if selection and with these and this
we will all unite with the leader- united effort, we can not fail.
ship abilities your votes of confi- Conventional College is slated for
dence has revealed in me, and history and we shall put it there."
stand behind the team tomorrow; The crowd goes wild. The king
that our Tritans will bring glory exuberant, the queen neglected.
to our beloved school. Our hero throws himself off of
Again a roar of support meets the platform. Two football players
the mention of the vine-covered near the front, stirred with that
institution. With this shout, our certain feeling found in all ani-king
is beside himself, and with mals, of preservation of kind,
his attributes, this makes a ter- reach out their support. The king,
rific pair. They both begin again finding himself suspended above
with increased vigor. the crowd, throws up his arms, his
"You have before you the man hands clasped in victory, and the
you selected, though of course, I players are obliged to carry him
feel unworthy. But I cast this through the cheering crowd. We
handicap aside and exert my whole leave our hero here, following the
self to the task. You must all call advice of the old sage: "quit while
forth the abilities in yourself that you're ahead."
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"Arms and the Man" (part of
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No. 1, The starting football team: Backs: Thomas, Seaquist, Brunzell, Erickson; Linemen: Nerstad, Luckman, P. Berg, J. Berg, Nylund, Carlson, and Rekstad. No. 2, Making
porn pours: Lois Larson, Donelda Hoover, and Gloria Johnson. No. 3, Freshmen sweethearts: attendant Carol Kline, Queen Elaine Johnson, and attendant Carol Henckel. No. 4,
Preparing for open house is Joel Stolte. No. 5, Art Erickson pins the traditional mum on Donnalyn Anderson. No. 6, Eric Borgeson, Beverly Voldseth, Maureen Bronstein, and Ro-berta
Youngberg work on decorations for Bodien residence. No. 7, Featured on Saturday night's program is the Bethel College Choir.
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In the space opposite the word "FIRST" write the number
of the article you think will be the most popular of all.
Opposite the word "SECOND" write the number of the
article you think will rank second in popularity. List in this
way the numbers of the six top articles in the order of their
popularity. (Note:Use only the numbers of articles you choose.
Do not write the title of any article.) Clip and paste this cou-pon
on a Government post card.
Name -Address
Which six articles will readers
of the October Digest like best ?
I. Norfolk's friend to troubled teen-agers. Story of the ar-thritic
cripple to whom youngsters flock for advice.
2. The great Piltdown hoax. How this famed "missing link"
in human evolution has been proved a fraud from the start.
3. How to sharpen your judgment. Famed author Bertrand
Russell offers six rules to help you form sounder opinions.
4. My most unforgettable character. Fond memories of Con-nie
Mack-who led the Athletics for 50 years.
5. How to make peace at the Pentagon. Steps to end ruin-ous
rivalry between our Army, Navy and Air Force.
6. Book condensation: "High, Wide and Lonesome." Ha I
Borland's exciting story of his adventurous boyhood on a
Colorado prairie.
7. Medicine's animal pioneers. How medical researchers
learn from animals new ways to save human lives.
8. What the mess in Moscow means. Evidence that the
Communist system is as unworkable as it is unnatural.
9. Master bridge builder. Introducing David Steinman,
world leader in bridge design and construction.
10. College two years sooner. Here's how extensive experi-ments
proved a bright 10th-grader is ready for college.
11. Laughter the best medicine. Amusing experiences from
everyday life.
12. What happens when we pray for others? Too often we
pray only for ourselves. Here's how we gain true rewards
of prayer when we pray for others.
13. European vs. U. S. beauties. Why European women are
more glamorous to men.
14. Trading stamps-bonus or bunkum? How much of their
cost is included in the price you pay?
15. Living memorials instead of flowers. A way to honor the
dead by serving the living.
16. It pays to increase your word power. An entertaining
quiz to build your vocabulary.
17. Are we too soft on young criminals? Why the best way
to cure juvenile delinquency is to punish first offenders.
18. Medicine man on the Amazon. How two devoted mis-sionaries
bring medical aid to jungle natives.
19. Creatures in the night. The fascinating drama of nature
that is enacted between dusk and dawn.
20. What your sense of humor tells about you. What the
jokes you like, the way you laugh reveal about you.
21. The sub that wouldn't stay down. Stirring saga of the
U.S.S. Squalus' rescue from a depth of 40 fathoms.
22. Madame Butterfly in bobby sox. How new freedoms have
changed life for Japanese women; what the men think.
23. Doctors should tell patients the truth. When the doctor
operated, exactly what did he do? Why a written record
of your medical history may someday save your life.
24. "How wonderful you are ... " Here's why affection
and admiration aren't much good unless expressed; why
locked-up emotions eventually wither.
25. Harry Holt and a heartful of children. Story of a farmer
who singlehandedly finds homes for hundreds of Korean
war orphans.
26. Our tax laws make us dishonest. How unfair tax laws
are causing a serious moral deterioration.
27. Venereal disease now a threat to youth. How V.D. is
spreading among teen-agers-and sane advice to victims.
28. Secy. Benson's faith in the American farmer. Why he
feels farmers, left alone, can often solve their own prob-lems
better than Washington.
29. Your brain's unrealized powers. Seven new findings to
help you use your brain more efficiently.
30. Britain's indestructible "Old Man." What Sir Winston
Churchill is doing in retirement.
31. Are juries giving away too much money? Fantastic
awards juries hand out because they confuse compassion
with common sense.
32. My last best days on earth. In her own words a young
mother, learning she had cancer, tells how she decided to
make this the "best year of her life."
33. Foreign-aid mania. How the billions we've given have
brought mainly disappointment and higher taxes.
34. Out where jet planes are born. Story of Edward Air
Force Base, where 10,000 men battle wind, sand and speed
barriers to keep us supreme in the sky.
35. Life in these United States. Humorous anecdotes reveal-ing
quirks of human nature.
36. Man's most playful friend: the Land Otter. Interesting
facts about this amusing animal.
37. Why not a foreign - service career? How our State De-partment
is making foreign service attractive to young men.
38. A new deal In the old firehouse. How one town got
lower taxes, greater protection combining fire and police.
39. Crazy man on Crazy Horse. Meet the man whose
statue of an Indian will be the largest in history.
40. Their business Is dynamite. How the manufacture of
this explosive has been made one of the safest industries.
41. His best customers are babies. How a kitchen strainer
and a pint of mashed peas became the Gerber Products Co.
42. Smoky Mountain magic. Why this, our most ancient
mountain range, has more visitors than any other.
43. Call for Mr. Emergency. Meet the Emergency Police,
who get 8 million New Yorkers out of trouble.
44. Beauty by the mile. How landscape engineers prove
roadside planting is lifesaving as well as beautiful.
45. Humor In uniform. True stories of the funny side of
life in our Armed Forces.
46. Seven economic fallacies. The American Economic
Foundation explodes misconceptions about our economy.
47. Admiral of the Greek Oil Fleet. Story of Stavros Niar-chos,
who has won a fortune betting on-and carrying-oil.
Name of college
Dave's Strands
Just a note to those who feel we have an overfed football squad.
The writer of the little tirade on the question of some extra food
should have considered a couple of things before he voiced his opinion.
First of all, the fellows hadn't eaten since ten a.m. on the day in
question. After playing four quarters of football, there was a legitimate
reason for something more than the ordinary meal of that evening.
Incidentally, the athletic department paid for the now famous roast
A second thing is that after a full day of school work, the fellows
spend something like two and one-half hours on the practice field.
This type of exertion calls for something extra. The most exercise
that the rest of us get is a walk across campus.
Whether it is feasible for some to admit or not, the fellows are
doing the school a real service. Let's give them some moral boosting
Instead of criticizing the fellows. Memo: For roast beef come out for
The veterans of last year's basketball squad can well echo the
words of that old song, "Those Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That
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the second quarter a Wahpeton
punt was launched into the wind
and was driven back to the line
of scrimmage, then bounced for-ward
for a gain of six yards. As
Bethel took charge of the ball,
they lost 6 and 9 yards on succes-sive
attempted pass plays, but
gained 23 yards on an aerial from
Shold to Rekstad. However, a
fourth pass play failed to gain
the necessary first down.
Half time score, Wahpeton 2,
Bethel 0.
Bruce Erickson again foiled the
opponent's passing game as he
picked off an aerial on his own
35 yard line and raced to Wahpe-ton's
Punts and fumbles character-ized
the second half. With four
minutes remaining in the game,
Wahpeton recovered the pigskin
on the Royal 13 after another punt-ing
mishap, and then swept right
end for a touchdown. The place
kick was true, giving Wahpeton
a 9-0 lead and eventually a victory.
Halftime entertainment was put
on by mother nature as tremen
dous bolts of lightning and boom-ing
thunderclaps raced about the
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Morning Service —
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Evening Service —
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— 9:30 a.m.
— 9:30 a.m.
— 7:00 p.m.
— 8:15 p.m.
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Payne and Sims Avenues — St. Paul
Our Church Bus will leave Girls Dormitory
every Sunday at 9:15 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor Lloyd Cumings, Youth Director
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Royals Set
for Contest
With Northland
Leading the Bethel team in their
homecoming clash with Northland
will be four fourth year veterans.
Paul and John Berg, twin stal-warts
in the line and Ed Brunzell
and Dave Seaquist, backfield main-stays,
will round out their fourth
year of Homecoming competition.
Hank Pederson is participating in
his third homecoming clash.
Although the Royals unquestion-ably
have more player depth than
last year, they have been plagued
with injuries this past week. Rex
Warden is not in top physical
shape, and Paul Berg has an in-jured
neck that kept him out of
last week's tilt with Wahpeton
and may curtail future action as
far as he is concerned. In addi-tion,
a third regular, Jack Ny-lund,
has dropped out of school.
On the brighter side, the defen-sive
play of the team in last week's
game was encouraging. The line
played great ball. Howie Rekstad
and John Berg showed up espec-ially
The backfield has been somewhat
of a question; there has been ex-cessive
fumbling and poor passing.
If, however, they play one of their
better games, our Homecoming
should be a success, as our last
year's 7-6 victory over Worthing-ton
proved to be.
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Deposits insured to $10,000 by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
by Chuck Elven
Wahpeton eked out a 9-0 deci-sion
over Bethel on the Royals'
home field, October 13. Poor exe-cution
of punts by the Royals deep
in their own territory enabled Wah-peton
to engineer their lone touch-down
late in the fourth quarter.
After an exchange of the ball at
the outset of the first quarter,
Bethel, with their backs to the
end zone, attempted a punt. The
snap from center was above the
kicker's reach, and the pigskin
bounced crazily near the Royal
goal line, then was batted out
of bounds beyond the goal posts.
Wahpeton was accredited with two
points on the safety.
Both teams faced a terrific ha-zard
as they took turns facing a
strong headwind at each change
of the quarter. Midway through
Time Banned
Everyone knows about the 24
different time bands, or zones, that
divide the world. Not so many,
though, know the story of how
this happened.
The man who devised the plan
was a nineteenth-century Norwe-gian
scientist named Andersrag,
Alex Andersrag.
He, of course, became very fam-ous
as a result of his work. In
fact, you still hear people talk
about the Alex Andersrag Time
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Welcome, Bethel Students to the
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Eric N. Lindholm, Pastor
Cliff V. Anderson, Youth Director
Dr. W. F. Widen, Bible School Supt.
8th Street and 13th Avenue South
Minneapolis 4, Minnesota
The Church With a Heart for Youth
Bible School — 9 :45 Study Groups — 5 :30
Worship Service — 10 :50 Evening Service — 7 :00
Senior Youth C Y F — 8:30
Bus every Sundy-9:15 a.m., 6:15 p.m.
Participating in the first convocation of the year were Rep. Eugene
McCarthy, Mr. Walfred Peterson, and Mr. Edward Slettedahl. Mr. Mc-
Carthy, running for re-election in Minnesota's fourth congressional dis-trict,
and Mr. Slettedahl, his opponent, discussed the political implica-tions
of the campaign. Mr. Peterson was the moderator.
Halloween Party
Planned by F. S.
Home of the Charburger
Larpenteur and Snelling Avenues Open 6 am till 2 a.m.
Central Baptist Church
Cordially invites you to share God's rich blessings and join in
worship, praise and fellowship with Christians who love and care.
8:30 a.m. — Morning Worship
9:45 a.m. — Bible School
11:00 a.m. — Morning Worship
5:30 p.m.— C Y F
7:15 p.m. — Gospel Service
8:15 p.m. — "After Glow"
Warren Magnuson, Pastor
Bud Lee, Youth Director
I Block South and I Block West of University and Snelling. Ride the
Bus to Central Sundays, 9:15 a.m. and 5:10 p.m.
Tailor Made Suits,
Slacks, and Topcoats
J. C. Fields and Sons
Contact: Gene Glader
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Falcon Heights
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At a new and modern
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Page 6 the CLARION Friday, October 19, 1956
the Semate and Volt
by Al Glenn
Do you want a fall semi-formal all-school banquet? I wonder
how many students are concerned about the Student Senate. The two
go hand in hand you know. If you aren't concerned, then please don't
ask why your co-curricular life here at school is not just what you
expected. The posted minutes of the last Senate meeting report a
discontinuation of the fall banquet this year. When spring quarter
rolls around, next year, some reflective students are going to com-plain
that the social life around here has been sad. But listen, it's
your own fault!
If you don't care about the Senate, the Senate may not give you
what you want. Two years ago, the student body, led by a few con-cerned
students, demanded a fall social. The Senate reacted in favor
of student interest. "Twilight and Tinsel" established a tradition that
could be perpetuated this year. It was a unique semi-formal banquet
held just before Christmas vacation. It was a beautiful banquet, with
Dicken's "Christmas Carol" and a superb group of carolers. But no
"Twilight and Tinsel" this year. The Senate says no! What do you
say ?
What will the Senate say to this ? An adequate co-curricular pro-gram
is the result of not only individual student initiative and interest,
but effective Senate interest as well. I think lack of student interest
so far this year is mostly the Senate's fault. We do not care about
the Senate; we don't know what the Senate is or does because the
Senate has not told us! Public relations between student and Senate
has been pratically nil. This is perhaps the most trenchant criticism
of our government.
Well, if student government exists for the student, will he get
what he wants ? It sounds like nonsense when the minutes report that
the Senate is "all hopped up" about beautifying the dining hall dish
room window.
So far this year the Senate has provided an adequate co-curricular
program and has planned for an intramural program that looks like
the best yet. But after Homecoming, what next? It is a long time
between October 20 and December 14.
To acquaint Bethel students
more fully with foreign students
and their cultures, the Interna-tional
Smorgasbord dinner will be
held Saturday, November 10, at
7 p.m. in the dining hall.
Dishes typical of such countries
as India, Japan and Latin America
will be served at this Swedish-type
The Foreign Missions fellow-ship,
which is sponsoring the din-ner,
hopes to have at least 25 for-eign
students on campus for the
Plan Future Now
Stretch your imagination to
such a point, that you can visualize
a man, after eating a good meal,
investing the money for the next
meal in a security, because he feels
no "hunger pangs" at the mo-ment.
Students have had Life In-surance
salesman show them a
contract that created a profit at
an older age, if they only had the
quality of thrift that the contract
shown demands. Of course, depos-its
must begin immediately, and
it appears that if he is ever to
have the qualities of thrift and
a good "business head," he must
start the plan tolday. This is non-sense!
I am thinking, of course,
of the student without family res-ponsibilities.
If this is a choice
you are deciding, remember this—
that you are making the largest
investment possible to make, by
your very presence here at Bethel.
A student is investing in his fut-ure—
what could be more import-ant?
Certainly, your Life Insurance
program should be planned, just
as you plan other necessary future
expenditures. This can be done
without the loss of much time, and
without the fear of the burden of
heavy premiums, during the bal-ance
of your school term. May I
prove this to you? LEO M. LIND-BERG,
Ohio National Life Insur-ance
Students interested in entering
Federal government work upon
graduation will have the oppor-tunity
to take the Federal Service
Entrance Examination (FSEE)
November 10, 1956, or January 12,
1957. Applications for these tests
must be filed by October 25, 1956,
or December 27, 1956, respectively.
Many positions will be filled
from this examination as to one's
college major. To insure accept-able
offers however, applicants
will be encouraged to indicate
their choices of agencies in which
they especially desire to work, and
preferences as to type of work.
Applicants are also urged to file
early, in order to take full ad-vantage
of consideration for ap-pointment.
Positions filled from the FSEE
will be at the $3,760 - $4,525 an-nual
salary level.
The Federal government fills
vacancies in more than 125 dif-ferent
types of positions all over
the world, in work on programs
of national and international im-portance.
There are opportunities
for advancement, and the chance
to develop new ideas, methods, and
procedures for improvements of
the administration and operation
of the Federal service.
For additional information, stu-dents
should inquire at the stu-dent
affairs office.
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The freshman-sophomore Hal-loween
party will be held on Fri-day,
October 26, at 7 p.m. This is
to be a costume affair and a prize
will be given for the most original
costume. The place for the party
is unannounced, but everyone is
to meet at Bodien residence. Tran-sportation
will be provided.
Style Show Sponsored
by B.W.A. October 25
A style show featuring ten
Bethel models will be presented at
the next meeting of the Bethel
Women's association on Thursday,
October 25 at 3 p.m. in the dining
hall of Bodien residence.
All of the latest styles in wo-men's
clothing, ranging from
sports-wear to semi-formal ap-parel,
will be presented. The girls
modeling the clothing, furnished
by Easton's, Inc., will be: Gretchen
Burgess, Roberta Wall, Donnalyn
Anderson, Barbara Hartman, Carol
Martinson and Sylvia Jackson.
Also included on the program
will be selections by a girl's trio
composed of Hope Steffens, Lil
Boyer, and Phyllis Engberg. The
B.W.A. extends an invitation to
all Bethel girls, student wives, and
faculty wives.
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Mi 4-1017 Mi 4-6270
("Secret" conc.)
the lumberjacks" are to play a
major part in the battle.
To increase the competition,
Hagstrom residence is planning
some decorations for the first time.
All three residences are using
mops, brooms, and elbow grease
in preparation for open house
which will be held at 4 p.m. Sat-urday.
Salk Vaccine
to be Available
Two Salk polio vaccine shots
will be made available soon by
the state health department, free
of charge, to all students who
have not yet reached their twen-tieth
birthday. Other students who
request the shots will be able to
obtain them at a small charge.
The shots will be administered
by the health service.
Open evenings
till 10:00
1556 Como Ave. MI 6-9295
Bethel Host to
C.Y.F. Conference
This weekend, in addition to
Homecoming activities, a group of
young people from many parts of
the United States and Canada will
be meeting on our campus for the
annual Congress of the Conference
Youth Fellowship.
Gene Sprinkel, a Bethel alumnus
and Minnesota C.Y.F. president,
is official host for the congress,
and the Rev. Gunnar Hog-land,
another Bethel alumnus and
National Youth Director for the
conference, is in charge of the
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text: On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 at 8:24pm, Joe Landman wrote > David Mathog wrote: >> If any of you have an LTO Ultrium-3 drive what kind of speeds are you >> observing? On one Linux system here (kernel 2.6.24-19) we have an >> HP Ultrium-3 attached to an Adaptec ASC-29320ALP U320 controller. ISTR hearing some rumblings at some point about some LTO tape drives not liking Adapted SCSI. Mine run on LSI boards, and run quite nicely. >> There is nothing else on that SCSI bus, termination and cable seem good. >> Getting into scsi-select from the BIOS shows everything set to 320. >> No error messages or warnings are appearing. Yet: >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=8192 count=10000 >> >> only moves 21.3MB/sec. The HP documentation indicates 432GB/hour, >> (compressed) which is 120 Mb/sec, so we're off by 6X (or maybe 3X for >> 2:1 compression, either way, a lot). The system's CPU and memory >> aren't rate limiting as >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=8192 count=10000 >> >> moves 6.9GB/sec. >> Any thoughts where the bottleneck might be? > > Have you adjusted the block size up? maybe try > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=8M count=1000 A very good suggestion. In my testing, 32KB blocks (the default for amanda) yielded only about 27MB/s (in line with your 8KB blocks above) while 2M blocks got me to 60MB/s (all testing done with tar and a very fast disk system). Note that I couldn't go much bigger than 2M or I started getting errors like "/dev/nst1: Cannot write: Value too large for defined data type". > this is about 8 GB, so it hopefully shouldn't take too long. At 21 MB/s, > this is about 50 seconds per gigabyte, so if this takes 400 seconds, you may > have a problem. > > This said, the tape drive numbers we see quoted are "best case" scenarios, > with optimal block sizes, a strong wind at the tapes back, and no monopole > flux nearby. Burning incense may or may not help the speed, YMMV... In addition, 2x hardware compression is almost always a lovely fairly tale with absolutely no basis in reality. That said, the LTO hardware compression is rather nice, in that it recognizes uncompressible data and doesn't try to further compress it. And, as always, be sure you used the proper color goat in your ceremonies. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF


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For me Eyeshadow Primers are a must unless I am in a horrid rush.
I had a quickie make over at Too Faced and was tempted to buy a primer called First Base. I had a slight recollection of buying it many many moons ago, when the packaging was square and not round, but what the hey, you have to buy something when you get a makeover, don't you?
Now I'll review them later…but a bit about Primers.
They really make all the difference to eyeshadow lasting all day, and there are quite a few to choose from these days. Some are utterly hopeless (like No. 7's) – normally something creamy that dries is a good choice, as opposed to something super oily…(I know someone who uses Vaseline as a base?! as a base?!?! You are begging for creasing, no?!).
As an alternative to a actual primer, I also use liquid eyeshadow, or a cream eyeshadow, or a sticky concealer. Here are the things I use in my collection before applying eyeshadow.
1. Primers
– Urban Decay Primer Potion (The classic primer I guess, I love it, but I do find it makes colours hard to blend once it has dried)
– Art Deco Base (Perfect stuff, since it has the lasting power of UDPP, but is creamy and does not make it as hard to blend).
– Too Faced First Base
2. Concealer
– RMK (tis a very tacky concealer which makes things stick).
3. Cream Eyeshadow
– NARS (I like the opaqueness of Nars cream shadows. They are utterly useless on their own for creasing, but Zardoz (black) and Lilli Marlene (Dark grey) are fab bases for making colours pop).
4. Liquid Eyeshadows
– Lavushca (The Jelly eyes are super super shimmery, and if applying shadow when still slightly damp, I find it will stick on for longer).
– Shiseido Hydro Power (Also shimmery as a base but also very gorgeous. Some shades like Lemon, Glistening Sands are great as nude bases).
– Visee Aqua Eyes (The colours are so nice that you dont need to necessarly powder on top, but if you do, it makes it last for longer).
– Anna Sui (This liquid eyeshadow is thick, and takes a bit longer to dry, so its a good product to tap the powder shadow on top of).
Here are the primers I own that are specific to the job:
Art Deco is a creamy beige:
Art Deco is a pale sheer beige. Urban Decay is a whiter hue and First Base as a gold tinge:
Here is a test using the Too Faced Eyeshadow, Shooting Star.
On its own the colour is fainter. With Art Deco the colour is lightened somewhat – with Urban Decay, the colour is darker and stronger. With First Base, the colour is really highlighted with the goldish undertone. Gorgeous!
Here is First Base close up:
Now I do absolutely love the glow that this primer gives – its a very fine light gold base with shine. The texture of the base is creamy and smooth, and it really adds life to dark eyeshadows.
I went to work and checked my eyeshadow at 12 (so my eyeshadow had only been on for four hours) and I got this:
Creasy city! I get absolutely none of this with Art Deco and Urban Decay.
Tut tut tut. What good is a pretty base that doesn't prevent creasing? Unfortuantely, it is not that easy to return make up in the UK, otherwise I would take this back. It will have to stay as a brow highlighter.
Lasting Power: 2/10
Blendability: 6/10
Effect: 8/10
Urban Decay Primer Potion in my opinion gives the nicest, strongest colour and has perfect lasting power. However – once UD begins to dry it can make shadows hard to blend and its hard to change it once you have applied the colour
Lasting Power: 9/10
Blendability: 4/10
Effect: 7/10
Art Deco has the missing link – it offers fantastic lasting powers but creamyness so colours are still easy to blend. The colours remain true and strong and it is non drying (UDPP left my eyelids a little dry).
Lasting Power: 9/10
Blendability: 8/10
Effect: 7/10
The winner is………..Art deco Eyeshadow Primer!
Failing that, Shiseido Hydro Power is an excellent cream eyeshadow base 🙂


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Forget about paying their fair share. It looks like the nation's wealthiest families are paying that and more.
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A new analysis from the Tax Policy Center finds the richest American families are paying the highest federal tax levels in decades. In 2013, families with incomes in the top 20% of the country are paying an average of 27.2% of their income in federal taxes. The top 1% of American households, with average incomes of $1.4 million, will pay an average of 35.5% in federal taxes, the Tax Policy Center reports.
These tax rates include income, payroll, corporate and estate taxes and are reportedly among the highest levels since 1979, when the Congressional Budget Office began tracking this data.
The Tax Policy Center reports families with incomes in the bottom 20% of American households don't pay any federal taxes, because of credits from the government, including the payroll tax.
Even though the report calls attention to the uneven tax burden, David Selig, founder of TrueTaxHelp.com, says it's unlikely Washington will backpedal on hiking rates higher.
"I feel a very unfair shift of the tax burden has been put on people who are perceived as not paying their fair share." He adds that many taxpayers are over-paying in hopes to get their extra cash back at year's end in the form of returns.
Scott Weiner, senior tax analyst at Thomson Reuters, says that while it's unclear whether this report will have any impact on lawmakers as they consider raising taxes as a way to rein in the deficit, which currently tops $1 trillion.
"It's something Republicans will see as a pawn," Weiner says of the report, "they are saying taxes are already high enough and are getting higher."


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Region: Central Virginia
Located in Madison, Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Early Mountain Vineyards comprises more than 300 acres of the historic Monticello Wine Trail. With its warm and inviting tasting room, picturesque outdoor spaces and breathtaking views, guests are welcomed to Early Mountain to enjoy the wines and linger for a palate pleasing experience. Owned by Jean and Steve Case, former America Online (AOL) executives, Early Mountain is committed to showcasing the "Best of Virginia" through our partnership with award-winning wineries throughout the state and our "eat local" offerings served each day in our market. Learn more at www.earlymountain.com.


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Students who leave the College for one or more semesters, including those who leave mid-term, must apply for readmission.
To apply for readmission, one must do the following:
The College reserves the right to deny readmission to former students. Reasons for denial of readmission requests include, but are not limited to lack of residence hall space; unresolved financial obligations; academic deficiencies; unresolved disciplinary action; charges or convictions related to criminal activity. Students will be informed in writing about the decision regarding readmission.
To confirm readmission, students must send a deposit of $300 to the Office of the Registrar. Students who intend to live in the residence halls must complete the appropriate forms in the Office of Residential Life.


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Hi, I sell things like wax tarts, wig shampoo, mask/fursuit head disinfectant (all handmade) with custom and anime/video game themed scents. This is my first time trying to negotiate a live event.
I know the AA FAQ says no chemicals, is my stuff considered chemical and therefore unsellable in the Artists Alley? If so, is it still fair game for the Dealers Hall or no? If it is okay, is there a Dealers Hall FAQ/Forum I can access? Thank you in advance!
Would my business be allowed at AB?
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Re: Would my business be allowed at AB?
We'd probably need a list of everything that's in it if it's not something that's like a packaged, labeled, regulated thing. We could run that past the facility. Hit up the 'contact us' link at the bottom of the page and look for either 'exhibits director' or 'artists' alley manager'. I'll get the message either way.
Christian Daly, Director, Exhibits Division, Anime Boston
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38 Years Ago: Robert Plant Badly Injured in Car Accident
On Aug. 4, 1975, Robert Plant and his family were vacationing in Rhodes, Greece, when the car he was driving spun off the road and crashed. It was the first in a string of bad luck for the Led Zeppelin singer.
The band was on a short break and in between tour dates when Plant, along with his wife and children, took a trip to the Greek island of Rhodes. They rented a car, which Plant lost control of and crashed. The accident left Plant and his wife Maureen injured; his kids escaped with just a few bruises.
It took some time for the couple to recover. Plant broke an ankle and elbow, which wouldn't fully heal for another two years. He spent time in a wheelchair. And the down time seriously crippled Led Zeppelin's upcoming plans, including finishing the tour dates in support of the recently released 'Physical Graffiti.'
The rest of the tour -- including North American dates -- was canceled, and Plant's slow recovery halted work on the band's follow-up album, 'Presence,' which finally came the following year after several delays.
Two years later, tragedy struck Plant again, when his five-year-old son Karac died of a stomach infection while Led Zeppelin were on tour in the U.S. The news hit Plant hard, who requested privacy and retreated to mourn with his family. During the downtime, he thought about pulling the plug on the group.
Led Zeppelin finally regrouped in 1978 to work on their final album, 'In Through the Out Door,' which included Plant's tribute to his late son, 'All My Love.' He was clearly a changed man by this point. The past several years of tragedy began taking its toll. The accident that occurred 38 years ago was merely the start.


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I spent the first two weeks of Lent in Antigua, Guatemala, where during the "Cuaresma" (Lent) everything changes.
Purple banners hang on the outside of churches, shops and even homes. On Fridays, the people flock from all over to fill the churches eager to see the venerations, the beautiful "alfombras" (carpets) made of flowers, fruits and colored sawdust — artistic creations whose impermanence remind us of our own.
This Lenten journey is a microcosm of life — for Jesus it ends on a cross in Jerusalem, but we know that we too cannot escape death. Our task, therefore, is to live life with beauty and intention to transform this earth into a better place before we, too, wilt and die.
On Sundays in Antigua, the purple that throughout the week is scattered throughout the city, highlighting the change in seasons, becomes a sea and everyone is enveloped in it!
Purple-robed men and their children fill the streets on their way to join a procession that will snake through and around the city for hours on end, a reverent parade of the faithful.
Women dressed in black foreshadow the grief we feel on Good Friday, as we mourn the crucifixion of the Christ. The haunting music creeps into the deepest parts of our souls, the crevices of our skin, burrowing inside our chest until our whole body trembles with the grief we all share.
For Guatemalans, it seems the Cuaresma focuses nearly entirely on the pain and suffering of Holy Week. Everything builds up to the day Jesus is killed on the cross. Six weeks of mourning precede the death of Jesus. By the time Easter comes, people are aching to celebrate!
We American Christians, even the Catholics among us, seem to focus less and less on the mourning and more on the celebration (or worse, the Easter sales — when did Easter become a season of sales?).
I don't like glorifying Jesus' death. Nor do I like turning Jesus into the sacrificial lamb, but we cannot experience Easter if we do not recognize the difficult and painful journey Jesus took to get there. When we skip out on Lent and Holy Week, we miss out on the grief and struggle and go straight to the party.
How very American of us!
But how can we celebrate resurrection if nothing in us has died? If we have not suffered alongside Christ, from what are we redeemed? If we have not walked his walk, the humble walk that faced injustice head on and died at its hands, why are we overjoyed on Easter day?
We must face the injustices of our day and time. We must acknowledge our suffering. We even have to examine our own hands for the blood and our culpability.
Who have we sacrificed in our society?
The immigrant? The gay person? Perhaps our own families? All for what? Have we walked with Jesus to the cross?
If not, why?
For the Christian Resurrection comes when we walk the difficult road with Jesus, when we let him transform our lives. It comes when we boldly stare injustice in the face and no matter what the cost we come out the other side. Easter is the other side.
Jesus wins. Justice wins. Love wins. Life overcomes death. It did in the first century. It does in Guatemala. And it will even here, today, in 21st century Orange County.
The Rev. Dr. SARAH HALVERSON is a pastor at Fairview Community Church in Costa Mesa,