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grace reign through
righteousness unto
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Vol. XXIX—No. 8
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, February 15, 1952
Founder's Week Brings Noted Bible Scholars
St. Paul Choral Club Sings
Sacred Concert Here Tonight
"Grace Alounding" Theme of loth
Annual Session; Workshop Featured
With theme "Grace Abounding", the tenth annual Bethel Founder's
Week commences next Monday and will continue throughout the entire
week. Dr. A. W. Tozer, pastor of the Alliance Church in south Chicago,
delivers the opening message at Monday's chapel service.
Besides Dr. Tozer, other speakers for the week include Dr. Wilbur
Smith, professor at Fuller Seminary, Dr. W. Robert Smith, visiting
professor of philosophy on campus, Rev. Earl Jensen, pastor of the
Central Baptist Church of Seattle, Rev. Curtis Akenson, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Dr. Virgil Olson of the seminary,
Dr. Ragnar Wall, alumnus, a Minneapolis physician, and Dr. Earl V.
Pierce, lecturer, Minneapolis. Members of the faculty and administra-tion
will also participate in sharing the rostrum.
Tonight at 8:00 in the college chapel, the Choral Club of St. Paul
Bible Institute, under the direction of J. Merril Tannehill, will present
a sacred concert. This talented group presents its music uniquely
through the mixed-voice choir, brass and stringed instruments, mar-imbas,
and organ. Tickets for this affair are on sale for $1.00. Accord-ing
to the committee on arrange-ments,
Jim Rehnberg, Herb Hage,
and Jay Ferniund, the proceeds
will go toward purchasing the new
Conference Gospel Hymnal for the
Included in the program which
the Choral Club will sing tonight
are Psalm 150 (Choral arrange-ment);
Go Down Moses (Voches-tra);
0 God Our Help in , Ages
Past (a capella with musical inter-ludes);
Jesus, Hold My Hand; and
0 For a Thousand Tongues (Soder-strom).
Following the concert a social
hour will be held in the dining
hall, Ruth Chisholm in charge.
This fellowship hour is being held
to provide a source of contact with
the students of St. Paul Bible In-stitute.
Kuehn and Palosaari Play Leads
In Jr. Class Drama, March 21-22
The junior class has selected March 21 and 22 as the dates for its
production of the drama "Melody" by Kent Prell.
Audrey Kuehn plays the feminine lead of Melody Merrill, a sensi-tive
young girl from an average middle-class Christian home. Her
desire in life is to become a successful concert pianist and as a result
of this, she comes in conflict with her disillusioned brother George,
a veteran who has recently returned from the war, played by Ronnie
Polisaari. To Melody music is "life ... even love" and the concert career
epitomizes this. But to her brother, the concert career is just a means
of pulling her away from her family, her values and even God.
Bonnie Wicklund appears as
Mrs. Merrill, Al Barth as Mr. Mer-rill.
The French music professor
is played by Kaljo Raid; Jimmie,
a friend of Melody's, Roger Mo-berg;
Laura, George's fiancee, Car-olyn
Friske; a group of Melody's
friends, Marlys Malmsten, Shirley
Daley, Fred Thomas and Ray
Brace. Harold Lindh plays the role
of Dr. Steinmetz; Don Bell, the
officer; Don Quarnstrom and Al
Christiansen, two ambulance atten-dants.
"An innovation in this play is
the prominent role of music.
Throughout the play the back-ground
music follows the pattern
of emotional conflicts while on
stage Melody practices for her de-but.
"In this drama Christianity is an
integral part of the action, never
something smoothed over the top.
Each action and conflict arises
from the individuals interpreta-tion
of Christianity or their lack
of it."—quoted from the program
printed for the initial presentation
of "Melody" at Calvin College,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Miss Susan Rusinko, instructor
in English, directs the play.
Arts Club Uses
Student Talent
Student participation will high-light
the February meeting of the
Bethel Arts Club, tomorrow even-ing,
February 16 at 8:00 p.m. in
the Seminary chapel.
Nancy Swanson, soprano, will
open the program with "Spirit
Flower" by Campbell-Tipton and
"Kashmiri Song" by Hope, accom-panied
by Ruth Warpula. The sec-ond
section of the program will
be an illustrated sketch of the
life of the artist, Van Gogh, by
Olga Shenning.
Pat Noland and Robert Hilton
will then act out scenes from
Shakespeare's "Macbeth", followed
by a fifteen minute period of in-strumental
music by the ensemble,
Anna Karcher, Carolyn Clark,
Nancy Schnorr, Audrey Kuehn and
Bailey Anderson, directed by V.
The speaker of the evening Val-deko
Kangro, instructor in music,
will discuss the subject, "The
Problem of Art in the Christian
Refreshments will be served
after the meeting for the price of
25 cents.
Dr. Wilbur Smith
Conference Press
Offers Book Values
Next Week!
Don't miss the excellent op-portunity
to get some good
book bargains at the Confer-ence
Press book tables to be
set up on campus all next week
in one of the college class
rooms, probably room 110.
Most of the books written by
Dr. Wilbur Smith and Dr. A.
W. Tozer, Founders Week
speakers, will be displayed.
The historical prize winning
novel "Greater Than All," tell-ing
the Conference story, writ-ten
by Rachael Borne, will be
available. According to C. Geo.
Ericson, bookstore manager,
this book has had an enthusias-tic
acceptance throughout the
During Founders Week, an-nouncements
will be made of
the publication of a history of
the Baptist General Conference
written by Professor Adolf Ol-son
of the seminary. The 650
page volume is now at the
printers and will be ready for
distribution by May 15 this
year. George Ericson says, "This
book is a monumental work,
such as is published only once
in a century.
Many book bargains will be
offered. We advise all CLAR-ION
readers to visit the book
room. In charge will be C. Geo.
Ericson with Rev. A. E. Appel-quist,
of Cokato, Minn., assist-ing.
Dr. A. W. Tozer
Banquet Climaxes
Week's Program
Climaxing the Founders Week
activities are a banquet and a final
service at the First Baptist Church,
Minneapolis, next Friday night.
Rev. Robert Klingberg of the
conference headquarter's staff in
Chicago will speak at the banquet
which starts at six o'clock in the
church's basement. Nels Stjern-strom,
director of the Bethel male
chorus, and the courrier quartet
will supply the special music. A
limited number of tickets are avail-able
for students at the price of
Dr. Wilbur Smith will bring the
message at the closing service
which starts at 7:30 p.m. in the
main auditorium of the church.
The Bethel Chapel Choir will fur-nish
the special music for the
Trio Plans March
Chamber Concert
Continuing the faculty concert
series, Miss Mildred Bisgrove, as-sistant
professor of music, Valdeko
Kangro, instructor in music and
Kaljo Raid, instructor in music,
will present their second chamber
music recital Friday evening,
March 7 in the college chapel at
8:30 p.m.
They plan to play the Trio in
D Minor by Vivaldi, Suite on Three
Estonian Folk Tunes for violin and
piano and Trio in Bb Major by
A new feature called the "Work-shop",
meeting the last hour of
every afternoon, will afford pas-tors
the opportunity to discuss and
hear planned discussion on such
conference problems as counsell-ing,
youth work, stewardship, and
federation with other evangelical
The daily schedule of meetings
includes two forenoon sessions fol-lowing
chapel, three afternoon
meetings, and two services at Twin
City churches in the evening.
The evening meetings, begin-ning
at 7:30 p.m. are scheduled
for Payne Ave. Baptist Church, St.
Paul, and Bethel Baptist Church,
Minneapolis. Music groups from
the school will provide the special
music for these services and fac-ulty
members will lead devotions.
One student testimony will be giv-en
each night at each church. The
main speakers for the week will
alternate between the churches. A
banquet at 6:00 p.m. and a service
starting at 7:30 p.m. will climax
the week of meetings on Friday,
both at the First Baptist Church,
A prayer forum under the dir-ection
of Dean Omark is scheduled
for every morning at 9 o'clock
when special prayer for all the
Founders Week activities will be
made. All pastors and students are
welcome to attend.
Founders Week honors J. Alexis
Edgren, brilliant scholar and man
of faith, who founded Bethel Sem-inary
in America in 1871, and
piloted it in its infancy until 1889
when health forced his retirement
—a man who had not yet reached
the age of fifty.
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February 16—Arts Club, Sem.
Chapel at 8:00 p.m.
February 18-22—Founders Week
February 25—Laker Preliminary
Basketball Game.
March 5, 6, 7—Spring Quarter
March 7—Chamber Music Recital,
8:30 p.m.
March 8—Arts Club
March 10-14—Exams
March 13—PDG, 8:00 p.m.
March 14—Freshman Tests and
March 17—Spanish Club
March 18—Classes Begin
March 21-22—Junior Class Play
March 24-28—Home Mission Week
March 27—BWA, 3:00 p.m.
PDG, 8:00 p.m.
Dr. W. Robert Smith
Rev. Curtis Akenson
Ilse %eat Rebtead
Br-ring! Br-ring! Flounderingly my arms
struck at the darkness and soon came in
contact with a button. In an instant the
horrid clanging miraculously ceased. 5:30
a.m. What a miserable hour. Suddenly re-membering
the occasion, I jumped out of
bed, flicked on the light switch, and hur-ridly
started packing my suitcase for soph-omore
Although a hazy beginning, the events
of the two days that followed made up for
it. Tobogganing, ice-skating, snow-ball
fights, hikes across broad expanses of
frozen water; all this plus feeling closer
to the Lord in the midst of His creations
make this a long to be remembered week-end.
This was my first experience at toboggan-ing
and as I gazed down the long hill, I
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THE CLARION Friday, February 15, 1952
4%.1 g1,6310@g gin049v Shaud Roger Hedberg
Business Manager Jim Hubbard
News Editor Nad4ne Westin
Copy Editor Jean Hoskings
Feature Editor Ann Radunz
Sports Editor Cliff Smith
Circulation Manager Janis Smith
Subscriptions Lois Eliassen
Photographer Ralph Carlson
Advisor Dave Guston
Reporters Helen R. Petersen, Virginia
Larson, Nancy Schnorr, Carolyn Clark,
Jean Danielson, Lois Eliassen, Mary
Radunz, Bob Mantzke, Morrie Engstrom,
Harry Steinbron. Al Malmstrom.
Typists Eileen McLaren, Lois Johnson,
Carolyn Dahlquist.
after that long trip, i better see the BARBER.
no, i'm not married, i am a BATCHELDER.
he didn't exactly snub me, but is BERGERUD.
one thing nice about the campus is there is no SEVERIN around here.
are you here for today ORVILLE you stay the whole week.
with all these visitors around the CHURCHILL have good attendance.
i drove so fast to get here i was afraid I'd end up in the CLINK.
the CRAVENS of my heart are met this week.
ya, aye tink de DAVIES so short ven ye var here.
minnesota is much more DEWEY than in michigan.
when you first ENTNER the school you feel like a kid again.
i FINKE i would like to enroll here again, the subjects look so easy.
when i was in school i got FORBES and one A.
you know, the freshmen don't look so GREENE anymore.
that one speaker really had them ROLLAND in the aisles.
HABEGGAR come to my door and ask for some money yust before i left home.
say, i'm no spring chicken myself, but haven't you lost some HAIRE.
so what did i get to eat? that's right, pickled HARING.
after all this fellowship i guess still enjoy being back HOLM.
HUGO out the front door and i'll sneak out the back.
i'm JESSUP from nebraska.
this "boys' dorm" basement is just like an army KEMP.
i never LUNDH to much in school but don't tell my church members.
i love dogs but they wouldn't let me bring McCOLLEY along.
MEYER face hasn't picked up a wrinkle. must not have any worries.
talk about an obstinate church, they are always NIXON my suggestions.
i don't mind paying for the food but the RENTZ what gets me down.
the SELIN on the new fieldhouse seems to be too low.
the books have been SELLON bitter since i announced this close out sale.
SHODIN expect to see you here.
he's about the best SPRECHER i've ever heard.
when are they going to SURFACE the coffee.
that Valine music sounds like the first robin of spring.
WYMA having so much trouble remembering names?
WAHL guess this will be all for now.
yes sir, these names are but a few taken from the directory of our own conference
pastors. don't be too surprised if you hear many of them during founders week. and
what will i be doing. just crawling around listening to the above sentences as they
come from the tongues of the owners...
founders week at bethel brings many familiar names of conference enthusiasts, so
what's preventing a silverfish from catching these pastors names in the
is this AULT came from your church for founders week?
they ASP too many questions around this place.
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Editorial .. .
What Bethel is today proves that the
vision of its founders was true and clear;
one that encouraged zealous faith. The un-derlying
purpose of Bethel's existence is
still the development of the individual,
spiritually and intellectually, to produce
Christian character in society. This is fur-ther
proof that since its founding many
Baptists have prayed for Bethel and many
have contributed financially to Bethel, and
then have not forgotten to thank God for
the increase.
No doubt the one thing that students
are anticipating right now are the Foun-der's
Week meetings next week. What an
opportunity to receive instruction in the
truths of the Christian life. However, one
must not just sit and listen. He must not
limit his attention to note taking and
memorization of points. In every session
there will be a message for the individual
heart. He must endeavor to get something
out of the service for his own heart. Let
each one be sharp enough to catch the
thoughts and challenges that are for him
Founder's Week is only a very recent
addition to the activities of the school. It
was ten years ago that pastors and lay-men
from the Conference first gathered to
receive inspiration and blessing through
Bible teaching and preaching.
The commemoration of the founding of
Bethel has been observed much longer
than ten years. For many years a day or
two was set aside when aspects of the
present day observance took place on a
much smaller basis. Pastors gathered in
one of the local churches for a day of in-spiration
and a time of praise to God for
Bethel. Though smaller in number then, the
spirit was the same as it is today; praise
to God for his gift of a school, a growing
school, given because of the faith of men
who dared to be founders.
Alumni Vision crows
by Robert Nordstrom
The activities of "Bethel minded" folks
are not limited to the Bethel campus. The
organization of Bethel chapters all over our
Conference has shown this to be true. Re-cently,
two Bethel Alumni chapters came
into being on the West Coast with the
organization of a chapter in the Bay Area
of California and also in Los Angeles.
This adds two chapters to the beginning
made by the Twin Cities group which was
recently reported in this paper. The Alumni
Council has chosen this program as its
main work for the year of 1952, and its
labors are bearing fruit. This program was
born out of the sense of need of support
for Bethel among the Alumni that would
be more definitely organized and unified.
However, though this beginning is encour-aging,
the plan for a strong chapter organ-ization
of alumni is far from what it can
and should be.
The tentative officers selected by the
Bay Area are as follows: Chairman, Rev. C.
B. Sanders of San Jose and Secretary Ben-net
Carlson of Turlock. For the Los Angeles
chapter the officers are as follows: Chair-man
Allan Johnson of Los Angeles, Vice
Chairman is Rev. Harold Carlson of Long
Beach and the Secretary is Irma Peterson
of Pasadena.
For a strong Bethel we need to maintain
a strong faculty, a strong administration, a
strong student body and a strong support-ing
alumni. This combination steeped in
prayer and dedication will produce genuine
support for Christ's cause and Bethel.
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by President Wingblade
We extend a hearty welcome to all Foun-der's
Week visitors. We believe that every
session will prove a blessing to pastors, to
laymen and to Bethel personnel.
We call this, Founder's Week, and we do
remember the one who under God was
instrumental in founding our Seminary in
1871. Far above that, is the remembrance
of Him who is the author and finisher of
our faith—even Christ.
What a remarkable man was Dr. Edgren!
I think of three crisis experiences of his
life, as being associated each with fire—
symbolic, if we please, of the Holy Spirit.
The first was when as a sailor boy, he
was compelled by a dream to leap from
his bunk and rush on deck in a snowstorm
and cry to God for mercy and for salvation.
In the dream he had seen the serpentine
fire of an earthquake creeping toward him,
—so real it seemed that he felt the intense
heat on his body even after awakening.
The second, was when as a commander of
warships in the fires of the American
Civil War, he heard increasingly clearly
the call of the Holy Spirit to the Gospel
ministry. He turned from the high honors
of the American Navy to follow the lowly
The third, was when as pastor of a little
group of Swedish Baptists in Chicago, he
felt the call to start a seminary. About
that time the great Chicago fire broke out
and he escaped only "with his life as a
prey". The Chicago fire, if anything, crystal-ized
the call of the Holy Spirit to found
a Seminary.
Yes, we think much of Dr. Edgren, but
we think infinitely more of his Christ. May
He, be glorified in every session of Foun-der's
Week and may the . fires of the Holy
Spirit set every heart aglow.
Let us not forget the words of Peter—
"He gives His Holy Spirit to them that
obey Him."
Do Not Judge
by Mary Clements
Pray don't find fault with the man that
Or stumbles along the road,
Unless you have worn the shoes he wears,
Or struggled beneath his load.
There may be tacks in his shoes that hurt.
Tho' hidden way from view,
Or the burden he bears placed on your
Might cause you to stumble too.
Don't sneer at the man who's down
Unless you have felt the blows
That caused his fall—or felt the shame
That only the fallen knows.
You may be strong; but still the blows
That were his, if dealt to you
In the selfsame way at the selfsame time,
Might cause you to fall too.
For you know perhaps if the tempter's
Should whisper as softly to you
As it did to him when he went astray,
It might cause you to falter, too.
from The Christlife Magazine
Answer the Call
Last year, Red Cross aided more than
300,000 disaster victims in 45 states and
four insular possessions, and gave $18,-
036,700 in financial aid to disaster victims
for both emergency care and rehabilitation.
Almost $13,000,000 of this sum was spent
in flood relief aid in the Missouri-Kansas-
Oklahoma-Illinois flood area. In St. Paul
Chapter, Red Cross provided emergency
care for 374 families who were victims of
the April flood, at a cost of $7,027, and
gave rehabilitation assistance to 292 fami-lies
amounting to $24,454, which included
replacement and repair of furniture, food
and clothing, repair and building of homes,
medical bills and replacement of livestock.
Do your part to see that this work of mercy
is always ready—support the 1952 Red
Cross Fund campaign.
by Ann Radunz
became dreadfully terrified. It took all of
three people to drag me on board, so with
frantic screams and a death-like grip on
the little craft, I plunged to my death—
only it wasn't half as thrilling as I thought
it would be and I was sadly disappointed.
Dr. Virgil Olson brought out one point
in his talks on love, courtship, and mar-riage
that particularly interested me. He
emphasized the fact that the home should
really be a minature mission station and
should radiate the love of Christ in the
community to help bring ones neighbors
to the Lord. Isn't this a wonderful role for
the Christian home?
Although sophomore may mean "wise
fool," I am sure I came back a little more
wise and a little less foolish after such an
envigorating week-end.
Our Founder .. . by Dr. Virgil Olson
In the later part of the nineteenth century, an ancient manuscript was discovered
in Egypt by some English research scholars. The treasure of the manuscript remain-ed
hidden because there was much disagreement among the translators as to the
actual meaning of the hieroglyphics. Finally, it was suggested that a copy of the
manuscript be sent to an able scholar of Egyptology in America, namely John Alexis
Edgren. After careful study, Edgren submitted a translation which the English
scholars immediately approved; so much so, that the Archbishop of Canterbury
wrote a letter to Edgren commending him on his masterful translation. Edgren, the
founder of Bethel, was an intellectual giant. The son of this Conference Baptist
pioneer testifies that his father knew sixteen spoken and sixteen unspoken languages .
Edgren had a tremendous capacity for work. In the early days of the Seminary
history most of the subjects were taught by its leader. Beside the heavy teaching
program, Edgren found time and energy to be the pastor of the First Swedish Bap-tist
Church of Chicago, the editor of the first denominational paper of our Confer-ence;
and then he took courses in Greek and Hebrew, as well as a review of Higher
Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Edgren was a giant in zealous toil and
One morning Edgren came to his class at the Seminary and expressed deep
concern for the future of the school. Funds were desperately needed. That day studies
were laid aside, and prayer was made unto the living God to supply the needs.
The students became anxious over their teacher's condition and went to his home
and learned that their leader had received no salary for two months. Their first
impulse was to write to the people in the churches and tell of the needs, but Ed-gren
reminded them that they had prayed, and that was enough. The following day
the instructor appeared bright and happy. "Brethren," he said, "God has heard our
prayers, we now have received money." This was not an isolated incident, but a
daily experience. Bethel was born and nurtured in prayer. Edgren was a spiritual
giant of faith.
"There were giants in the earth in those days." One man with gigantic intellect-ual
and spiritual capacities laid the foundation of our school as a wise master build-er.
The words of the Apostle, consequently, are significant for the present genera-tion.
"Let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon."
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Council Plans Campus Tour,
The following information is Basketball Game and Concert
taken from a letter to the edi-tor
dated February 8, 1952,
from the Selective Service Ex-amining
Section of the Educa-tional
Testing Service, Prince-ton,
New Jersey.
All eligible students who in-tend
to take the Selective Ser-vice
College Qualification Test
in 1952 should file applications
at once for the April 24 ad-ministration,
Selective Service
National Headquarters advised
An application and a bulletin
of information may be obtained
at any Selective Service local
board. Following instructions in
the bulletin, the student should
fill out his application immed-iately
and mail it in the special
envelope provided. Applications
must be postmarked no later
than midnight, March 10, 1952.
Early filing will be greatly to
the student's advantage.
Results will be reported to
the student's Selective Service
local board of jurisdiction for
use in considering his defer-ment
as a student, according
to Educational Testing Service,
which prepares and administers
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A millionaire's home, with solid
mahogany furniture, gayly embroi-dered
tapestry, and massive can-delabrum
was the meeting place of
the Swedish Club Tuesday, Febru-ary
5. Mr. Turnblad, a Swedish
immigrant, built this home in So.
Minneapolis and since his death
the home has been converted into
a museum by the American Swed-ish
Institute. The many luxurious
rooms, marble-decked halls and
heavy carpeted floors are all a
reality of anyone's "castle in
Spain". Mrs. Sjordal, the club's
advisor, took the advantage and
used the mansion kitchen to pre-pare
lunch for the awe-stricken
but hungry group.
Secrets of the art of capturing
realistic scenes with a 35mm cam-era
were revealed by Eugene John-son
at the Camera Club meeting
Tuesday afternoon, February 5.
Those that were present were in-structed
on the make-up of 35mm
cameras. Johnson used Missionary
Nelson's slides of the Chin Hills,
Assam, to illustrate his talk.
Second year Spanish students
starred in "Perils for Papa", a
one-act play, at the Spanish Club
meeting Monday night. The newly
elected president, Senor Dave
Clark, presided over the meeting,
and Ea Anderson led in devotions.
Spanish games were played and
lunch was served at the close of
the evening.
Yesterday, Valentine's Day, the
B.W.A. had "the origin of Valen-tine's
Day" as the theme of their
meeting. Those members present
learned that February 14th was
originally observed in honor of
Saint Valentine, a Christian martyr
of the third century. It was point-ed
out that the sending of love-tokens
on this day has no connec-tion
with the saint. Miss Carol
Bessey was program chairman. The
dining hall was dressed in appro-p
r i a t e Valentine decorations.
Lunch was served before the pro-gram.
Financial Goal
Lacks $50.00
At Mid-quarter
The Religious Council is fifty
dollars short of its $3500 goal for
the first half of the school year.
This fifty dollars must be made
up apart from the regular weekly
offering of forty cents per student
necessary to meet the final goal of
$7000. Last Friday marked the
midway point of the school year.
Thus far specific contributions
have been sent for use in God's
Invasion Army, Alaska, and the
Opportunity Band through the
Home Mission Fund and to Ger-many
and Assam through the For-eign
Mission Fund.
Only forty cents weekly from
every Bethel student will: for the
student, lay up treasurer in Hea-ven;
for the Religious Council,
enable them to meet their goal;
and for the Godless millions,
spread the gospel to those who
might otherwise never hear of
Christ; if that forty cents is given
in the weekly missionary offering.
Investing in the Lord's work is a
true value transaction. Your week-ly
donation will not lie idle, but
will take wings through the Relig-ious
Council treasury.
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Choir Gives Two
February Concerts
Beginning its home season, the
Chapel Choir, under the direction
of C. Howard Smith, assistant pro-fessor
of music, will. sing a full
concert at the St. Louis Park Bap-tist
Church next Sunday evening,
February 17 at 7:45.
Among the thirteen numbers on
the program, they will present
"Thy Truth Within Us"—Sateren,
"Come, Thou Holy Spirit"—arr.
Tkach, "Dark Water" — James,
"Steal Away"—arr. Cain, and "The
Word Believing" — Sateren. The
Chapel Choir Trio will also give
a selection.
The choir plans to sing approxi-mately
the same program at the
Fourth Baptist Church in Minne-apolis
Sunday evening, February
24, and will provide the music at
three Founders' Week evening ser-vices,
Monday, February 18, at
Payne Avenue Baptist Church,
Wednesday, February 20 at Bethel
Baptist Church, and Friday, Feb-ruary
22, at the closing service
at First Baptist Church in Minne-apolis.
"B" Club Bars
Letter Sweaters
At their January 29 meeting,
members of the Bethel "B" Club
passed a resolution that reads, "No
letter awards from any school
other than Bethel shall be worn
on campus by any student." Ac-cording
to Phil Carlson, president
of the organization, many of the
colleges in the land have the same
ruling. He says, "I hope all stu-dents
will cooperate in this re-gard."
Recently, the club has sent to
the athletic committee of the
school a proposal for the revision
of the athletic award system. The
essence of the proposal is to
change the letter style, giving a
red letter with a white border on
a red background for major sports.
Acceptance of the proposal would
also eliminate all emblems on let-ters
except for captain and mana-ger
designations. The old style let-ter,
red with a white background,
would be awarded in minor sports.
The members also decided to
wear dark red wool jackets with
grey leather sleeves to designate
them as "B" Club members.
Students Elect Doten
As Council Treasurer
Frank Doten, seminary junior,
won last Friday's student election
for treasurer of the student coun-cil.
Frank replaces Floyd Meyers
who recently resigned the position.
Others on the ballot were Dorothy
Johnson, and Wilbur Madsen.
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Larpenteur and Snelling
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A highlight of the week-end is
Thursday night's Bethel varsity
basketball game at Minnehaha gym
against an old time rival, North-western
schools of Minneapolis.
These "investigators" will be
told what to expect academically
when they come to Bethel. The
financial problems of the student
will be discussed with them. They
will be told how dorm life goes
and what is expected as one of the
"family." Their opportunities in
Christian service will be pointed
out. The extra-cirriculars in
sports, publications, music, and
clubs will be presented to the
prospectives by students who have
long participated in these areas
of campus life.
A busy program is planned for
Friday night which will be divided
up into a sacred concert presented
by the Chapel Choir, a humorous
skit to portray true Bethel life,
and a singspiration and devotional
Jim Shugring, Council vice-pres-ident
and general chairman for
the activities has made the appeal
that "the cooperation of every
Bethel student, faculty member,
and member of the administration
and staff, is needed to impress the
prospective students with the high
academic, spiritual, and social
goals they can reach if they make
Bethel their choice of schools."
Falcon Hairdressing
"Up at Larpenteur"
Pastors Are Guests
At Wednesday
Noon Luncheon
Bethel College is host to all pas-tors
visiting campus at a Wednes-day
noon luncheon in the dining
hall beginning at 1 o'clock. The
program will center around Beth-el's
progress through the years
and will also direct attention to
future plans for the school. This
, luncheon is for pastors only and
all students are requested to eat
at the regular period. '
"Operation Bethel" goes into full swing Thursday, February 28,
when as estimated 150 prospective students hit the campus to establish
a "beachhead" for three days: Thursday the 28th; Friday the 29th;
and Saturday, March 1st. Over 350 invitations for the big week-end
are in the hands of high-schoolers and college aspirants all through
the General Conference.
All activities for the week-end are aimed to give the prospective
as vivid a picture as possible of college life and of what Bethel offers
as a Christian college. To augment these purposes the high-schoolers
will take over dormitory rooms and have Bethel students as room-mates.
They will tour campus, visit classes, attend chapel, and sit in
on discussions of campus life and student personal problems.
Led by center Don Peterson with
28 points, Bethel knocked off a
tough Eveleth quint in the second
game of their two day northern
It was an uphill struggle for
Bethel as they trailed through
most of the contest. The taller
Tigers were using their height with
very outstanding success for the
first three quarters. However, the
Tiger team was showing its claws
too often, and with 6 minutes of
the third period yet to be played,
the Eveleth five lost its outstand-ing
rebounder on five personal
fouls. This was definitely the turn-ing
point in the contest for the
Bethel quint, as they forged ahead
shortly and stayed in the lead to
the end.
In the third period, fatal to
Eveleth, the Bethel crew outscored
the Tigers 23-13. Bud Pierce sizzled
to a red hot degree, dropping in
four straight decisive buckets.
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To arouse interest in Bethel sports, be radical! That seems to me
to be about the only way to create a stir of any sort in regard to the
sport program. In the last issue of the Clarion, I went radical and put
out my views about the quality of this years cagers and the team of
last year, stating my preference for the abilities of the 50-51 group.
Persons whom I had never thought even knew we had basketball here
at Bethel expressed their views on the matter, usually in opposition
to my views! It was good to see that there are yet a few persons inter-ested
in Bethel College sports. (To look at the crowds at the home
games, you wouldn't think so).
As far as the prognosticating scribe goes, my views still hold,
though I may find them shoved out the window before long. In to-night's
game, the Indians should win, but there is a strong element of
doubt. In the Monday game at Luther, I'm sticking my neck out again
to forecast a defeat. In the series with Northwestern, the Indians can
expect nothing better than a split, unless they play the kind of ball
they are capable of, but have not displayed for some time. Eveleth will
be too tough in the Laker prelim for Bethel on Feb. 25. However, this
will be probably the top attraction of the season. Be there and witness
a real battle!
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Eleven Wins In Row Is Cagers Aim Tonight
In the other game, Michigan-
Wisconsin will be out to improve
its 5-3 standing in an encounter
with West (2-4). If Michigan wins
and Iowa loses to Illinois, the two
teams will be reversed in the
standings, Michigan jumping into
The basketball season continues
in IM play throughout March, thus
leaving plenty of chance for Illin-ois
to be knocked out of the top
spot. In total points for the trophy,
Illinois and Iowa are deadlocked
with 35 apiece.
Illinois 6 1 30 35
Iowa 5 2 10 25
Mich.-Wis. 5 3 10 25
West 2 4 10 25
East 2 4 10 25
Mpls.-St.P. 1 3 5 7
Minn. 0 4 0 5
BP—Basketball points
TP—Trophy points
Cagers Run String to 10
Beat Bethany, 75 -67
Ten in a row! That was the ac-complishment
of the Bethel Col-lege
cage team after their victory
over Bethany of Mankato, 75-67.
It also brought the season record
to an impressive 11-2 figure.
Although taking and holding the
lead throughout the contest, the
Indians nonetheless had to fight to
bring in the win. Red-headed Ken
Radke almost managed to turn his
scoring efforts of the third period
into a victory for his mates. The
readhead was hot as he pumped
six shots in a row through the
nets in the period after the inter-mission.
However it was not enough as
the Indians finished strongly, out-scoring
their foe 19-15. Radke fin-ished
with 27 points, an outstand-ing
performance for the evening.
Bethel (75) Bethany (67)
fg it tp fg ft tp
Carlson, f 1 3 5 Roehl, f 4 1 9
Mess'er, f 2 2 6 Teskey, f 1 0 2
tinruh, f 5 4 14 Itadke, f 12 3 27
Nelson, f 1 0 2 Lee, f 0 0 0
Pet'son, c 8 3 19 Ylv'ker, c 6 0 12
Wood, g 4 3 11 Krenzke, g 3 5 11
Str'wall, g 0 0 0 Huso, g 2 2 6
Pierce, g 9 0 18
— — — Totals 28 11 67
Totals 30 15 751
Bethel Bookstore
• School Supplies
• Text Books
• Souvenirs
• Stationery
• Cards
Coffee Shop
• Lunches
• Sandwiches
• Coffee—Cake
• Candy
• Ice Cream
FG FT TP Ave
Unruh 76 62 214 16.5
Peterson 68 53 189 14.6
Pierce 73 19 165 12.7
Carlson 29 46 104 8.0
Wood 24 22 70 5.4
Laker Prelim
On February 25, Monday
night, the Eveleth Tigers rep-resenting
the Junior College at
Eveleth invade the Twin Cities
for an encounter with Bethel in
a preliminary to the Minne-apolis
Laker professioal basket-ball
This game promises to be one
of the toughest on the Bethel
schedule this year. In the last
part of January, the Indians
were victorious on the iron
range, defeating the Tigers on
their home court, 74-68. It was
a tough game, bitterly contest-ed
all the way by the two clubs.
This is a good opportunity for
Bethel College students to show
school spirit by being at this
game, cheering their team, and
then viewing (for the same
price) a Laker game.
Tickets will be made avail-able
by Athletic Director Del
Peterson very soon. Purchase
your tickets and plan to attend
this outstanding attraction, Feb-ruary
25. The game will be play-ed
in the Minneapolis Auditor-ium
with Bethel-Eveleth at 7
p.m. and the Lakers at 8:30.
Cagers Smash Comets
The cagers missed the school
record for most points in one game
by just one point on February 5,
when they mauled Concordia 88-
55. The game, played at Minne-haha,
was the ninth win in a row
for the Indians and their tenth of
the entire season against only two
Bob Carlson sparked a 28 point
third quarter splurge with eight
to help make him the high point
man of the evening with 17. He
was closely pursued by Don Peter-son
with 16.
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Bethel opened a successful two
day northern trip bounding Itasca
71-50 January 25. The Indians were
never in danger as they command-ed
a good lead all the way.
Guard Clarence Wood opened
the initial with his basket and Pete
Unruh added two fielders. Unruh
led the team throughout the rest
of the quarter with two more field
goals to pace the Indians to a 23-
12 margin. Ten of the Indians'
23 total goals came in this opening
Both teams battled through a
slow second quarter, each scoring
15 points. Bob Carlson with 4
points was high in this period.
Codute kept the Vikings in the
game this quarter with his 8
In the final half, the Indians
gradually increased their lead to
its final 21 point margin. All ten
Bethel players saw action in the
last 20 minutes of play. Carlson'
and Pierce led the way with 6
points each to pace the Indians to
their sixth straight win.
1. The Lumberjack's offense,
though not as potent as many the
Indians have faced this year, is
still one to consider dangerous
with the attack being built around
big center Les Howard. Howard is
a good rangy scorer. He has set
several school scoring records this
year. It will be up to Don Peterson
to stop this threat.
2. The Lumberjack's will have
the homecourt advantage. This is
always significant and figures to
give the Wisconsin team a few ad-ded
3. On the other side of the pic-ture,
the Indians have not been
playing the kind of ball they are
capable of playing, and they may
encounter trouble on this trip.
Over confidence has crept into the
team's spirit, too.
The team also will face three
other tough teams in the near fut-ure.
On Monday, the 18th, the
squad journeys to New Ulm to
face Luther. Earlier, the Indians
won by only a single point. On
February 23, Northwestern will
provide plenty of opposition for
the Bethel five in the NW gym.
Still another headliner is the
Laker preliminary on February 25
in the Minneapolis auditorium.
This will probably be the Indian's
toughest remaining game, for it is
with Eveleth who will be seeking
revenge for the loss handed them
by Bethel earlier sin the season.
Those interested in partici-pating
in spring sports are re-quested
to sign their names to
lists posted on the lower bulle-tin
board outside the gym, as
early as possible. These lists
will enable Coach Peterson to
determine the schedule of
spring sports.
Bethel Downs Rochester
Bethel downed Rochester J. C.
for the second time this season on
February 2 on the losers floor, 61-
52. Bud Pierce led the Indians
with 23 points.
Iowa, Illinois Scrap for IM Lead;
Michigan Tries for Second Position
In Intramural play this weekend, two top games are set, involving
the four top clubs. On Saturday, Iowa will take on the Illinois team
in an effort to gain a first place tie with the Illini. Illinois, with a 6-1
record rests on top of the pile at present, but Iowa will be able to
claim a part of the 'top position if it can improve on its present 5-2
record at the expense of Illinois.
Bethel Quint Faces Northland
Final Four Games Rough Tests
Seeking their eleventh straight win, the Bethel cagers go to north-ern
Wisconsin tonight to play Northland College at Ashland. Bethel
defeated Northland earlier in the season at Minnehaha, 69-47.
Although this earlier win was very decisive, the Indians still have
several factors to consider before putting this one down as a vctiory.
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EFA Global Monitoring Report 2011 - The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education
Language: English
The 2011 Global Monitoring Report will examines the damaging consequences of conflict for the Education for All goals. It sets out an agenda for protecting the right to education during conflict, strengthening provision for children, youth and adults affected by conflict, and rebuilding education systems in countries emerging from conflict. The Report also explores the role of inappropriate education policies in creating conditions for violent conflict. Drawing on experience from a range of countries, it identifies problems and sets out solutions that can help make education a force for peace, social cohesion and human dignity.
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|Artichokes and a creamy sauce make this pasta pure comfort food.
Dairy-Free Creamy Goodness
Until I added the bacon.
Non-carnivores, I'm sorry. I couldn't resist. I was standing there (quite innocent!) in my humble little kitchen stirring this velvety dairy-free cream sauce (that I'd just improvised with some leftover sweet potato) listening to my pick-me-up when I'm draggin' 80's playist (Phil Collins, The Church, Suzanne Vega, Tears For Fears, Wham! and Simple Minds) when I remembered the smoky gluten-free and casein-free Sunday bacon Steve had cooked earlier.
|Creamy gluten-free sauce on brown rice pasta.
A Creamy- Non-Dairy- Sauced Pasta with Artichokes and Bacon
Put on a large pot of salted water to boil. Cook the pasta until it is al dente.
For the Creamy No-Dairy Sweet Potato Sauce you'll need:
1/2 cup cooked sweet potato puree
2 1/2 cups unsweetened plain hemp milk (or rice milk- but it's thinner, less creamy)
4 rounded tablespoons good tasting nutritional yeast- I use KAL brand
1 rounded tablespoon of sesame tahini- may omit if allergic
A good dash or two of Simply Organic Garlic Powder, to taste
A good dash or two of Simply Organic Minced Onion, to taste
1 tablespoon cider vinegar or lemon juice- to taste
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Pinch of cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon paprika (for orange) or turmeric (for yellow) color- may omit
1/4 cup white wine, to taste (Frey Organic is vegan/egg-free)
In a saucepan, heat the olive oil over low-medium heat, and stir in the sweet potato (I like to use a whisk to do this). Slowly add in the hemp milk, whisking to blend the sweet potato and hemp milk.


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By Ryan McGreal
Published July 27, 2009
Author's note: this essay is simply a personal musing into a recent experience, so please don't feel obliged to read it, particularly if you come to RTH for urbanism as such. However, for RTH readers who are technically inclined, it may provide some food for thought.
Aaron Swartz is a young, sensitive, fiercely intelligent writer and web developer known for amazing achievements at an early age.
Aaron is a classic wunderkind. He established notoriety (at least in Nerdistan) at a tremendously young age for co-authoring the specification for RSS web page syndication - at age 14. As a teenager, he also worked with Lawrence Lessig on the Creative Commons project.
Soon after, he launched a startup (one of the first to receive VC funding from Paul Graham's Y Combinator fund) that allows users to create and edit websites easily through the browser. He later refined the idea into jottit, a website for posting quick notes.
In 2006, Aaron created web.py, a simple, lightweight web application development framework for the Python programming language. He became involved in the nascent social networking site reddit when its developers decided to re-write it in Python and use web.py.
He ended up being asked to leave the company after it was bought by Conde Nast Publications (the publisher that owns Wired) when the transition from running a startup to working in an office proved too hard for him to bear.
Since then, he has worked on the Open Library project as its technical director, is involved with Watchdog, a project promoting open, accountable government, and has written several influential and widely-read essays on his blog.
Aaron has accomplished more in the years between 14 and 23 than most people do in a lifetime. I think part of what fascinates me about him is that he seems to be so much more productive than I can even imagine, let alone manage - and I expect I'm already past my productivity peak in terms of creating content. Yet he has always (to borrow a phrase from Stephen King) seemed like a powerful compass swinging back and forth, trying to find a direction.
Reading his essays and following his career, it's hard not to detect a simmering frustration, loneliness and dissatisfaction running beneath Aaron's ongoing contributions, projects and journalism. So I wasn't particularly surprised, earlier this year, when he announced his intention to spend the month of June offline to try and find himself.
The Internet has kept me connected to people - as a child, all my best friends were online; as an adult, all my coworkers are. My jobs do not take place in an office; they take place over email, where time and place do not matter. The upside is that I can go anywhere and still do them. The downside is I cannot get away from them.
I need to take a break. My life has become entangled with technology and pressure that I hardly know any other way of life.
He concluded: "I want to be human again."
I read this with interest, but of course the mad rush of data pouring out of my internet connection blew it away before I could do anything with this information. It was only by chance that I happened across his follow-up essay, published on July 24:
I used to think of myself as just an unhappy person: a misanthrope, prone to mood swings and eating binges, who spends his days moping around the house in his pajamas, too shy and sad to step outside. But that's not how I was offline. I loved people - everyone from the counter clerk to the old friends I bumped into on the street.
And I loved to go for walks and exercise in the gym and - even though there was no one around to see me - groom. Yes, groom: shower and shave and put on nice clothes and comb my hair and clean up my nails and so on, all things a month ago I would have said went against my very nature, things I never did before voluntarily.
But most of all, I felt not just happy, but firmly happy - solid, is the best way I can put it. I felt like I was in control of my life instead of the other way around, like its challenges just bounced off me as I kept doing what I wanted. Normally I feel buffeted by events, a thousand tiny distractions nagging at the back of my head at all times. Offline, I felt in control of my own destiny. I felt, yes, serene.
The essay was infuriatingly short on details about how he spent his offline time, but Swartz focused instead on his growing awareness of how unhappy his hyper-connected online life had made him, an awareness that only crystallized with the benefit of sharp contrast to whatever it is he did once he unplugged.
I suppose I was particularly receptive to his message because I had also recently returned from a period spent offline, albeit shorter, less dramatic and incidental rather than deliberate. Earlier this month I spent a little over a week at a cottage up in the Muskokas with my family and close friends. The cottage has no phone, let alone internet, and the closest newspaper vendor was at the convenience store a kilometre or two up the road. (On a couple of occasions someone brought a newspaper back to the cottage, but I couldn't bring myself to read it.)
It was by no means low-tech - we mastered the art of the the frozen margarita, the mp3 player played a seemingly endless collection of grime and baile funk through the cottage stereo, and we had at least two laptops on hand (no wifi) - but the cottage wasn't connected to any information/communication networks.
It was bliss.
I especially noticed a curious experience of the passage of time. The common assumption about time is that it passes quickly when you're having fun and drags when you're bored or frustrated. In this case, time passed slowly in a happy drift of relaxation.
It was uncanny: we would spend what felt like several hours jamming with available instruments (two guitars and a flute), only to discover that it was still mid-afternoon - with plenty of time for a leisurely swim off the dock - rather than deep into dinner time.
Over a period of a few days, I read a 900 page book and still managed to find time for extended, in-depth conversations, dog walking, a long bike ride into town, two trips to a local farm, and so on.
What happened when I got back for a second week of day trips around our house is interesting: I just couldn't muster up any enthusiasm for my usual online haunts. Why read the news aggregator du jour when I could dig into the next book? Why update my Twitter profile when I would take a stroll down by the waterfront? Why bother catching up on over 300 emails when my son was eager to hear the next chapter of The Hobbit?
It was a few nagging responsibilities that got me back into the online swing. As I reluctantly reconnected, time seemed to speed up again to the usual blur of disconnected images and themes to which I was clearly accustomed before going away. I'm back to doing my usual activities, but like Aaron, I find it all feels strangely hollow - even this essay.
If I don't take some kind of tangible lifestyle decision out of this experience and the slow epiphany that ran through it, I fear it will have been for nothing.
I don't think it would be practical or even beneficial for me to turn off. There are just too many things I really want to accomplish - including my involvement with RTH, which I find deeply gratifying - for me to turn my back on computing and the internet.
However, I think I need to get better at somehow reducing my exposure to the sheer, full-spectrum flow of stuff - particularly the trivialities - that consumes so much of my time and leaves the rest of my time feeling cramped and rushed.
I'm not sure about the best way to do that, whether through some combination of technology (ha-ha) and lifestyle choice or some other approach, but I don't want to lose all track of the delightful calm that I managed to experience during our media fast at the cottage. Technology has a logic and a will of its own, and I worry about the long-term effects of bending my own habits and thinking processes to accommodate the technology with which I have surrounded myself.
By jason (registered) | Posted July 27, 2009 at 17:08:04
I'm totally with you man. Our week at a cottage up in Quebec was amazing. I look forward to it every year, knowing that there is no cell phone service, no internet. Heck, no regular phone.
I too have the same feeling upon returning home with little interest to be online.
I think it's vital that people give themselves a break from the web to do more useful things with their time. I used to watch too much TV several years ago. Getting rid of cable was one of the best things I've ever done. I rarely watch TV now, and am not missing a thing.
Too many non-essentials vie for our attention in this world. The most important things are sitting right under our noses - family, friends, hobbies, the outdoors, reading etc......
By JonC (registered) | Posted July 27, 2009 at 17:35:32
Time limits. Only be online 9-5 or 12-2 or whatever you need. Especially in the summer, assuming that happens sometime this year.
By Brandon (registered) | Posted July 27, 2009 at 20:45:29
I'm sorry to hear that you're twittering!
By UrbanRenaissance (registered) | Posted July 28, 2009 at 07:36:46
Hear Hear!
My vacation starts next week and I look forward to not spending most of my waking time staring at a glowing rectangles.
By synxer (registered) | Posted July 28, 2009 at 09:29:03
It's nice to read from a very successful person in our beehive that isn't constantly telling us how amazing they are by blogging about every single tiny user enhancement.
Sorry. That last bit was aimed at Jason Fried.
Seriously, though. Good post, Ryan.
That last bit was aimed at Jason Fried.
Obligatory related link:
And knowing that link is why I need to balance my online activities. :(
By synxer (registered) | Posted July 28, 2009 at 10:34:32
VERY funny.
Second obligatory related link:
Guess the compound word used to describe this image: http://www.loudthinking.com/images/heads...
Guess the compound word used to describe this image
I'm going to guess that the two roots of the compound word you have in mind are either "R" and "S" or "D" and "B", depending on how invective you're feeling just now.
By synxer (registered) | Posted July 28, 2009 at 10:49:11
What does the R and S stand for? :)
By Yeahbut (anonymous) | Posted August 12, 2009 at 13:18:26
It's the golden age of communications and that's cool, but communicating about stuff isn't the same as doing stuff.
By highwater (registered) | Posted August 17, 2009 at 12:47:38
Thanks, highwater, for a fascinating link. IMHO this was far superior to the insipid Atlantic article ("Is Google Making Us Stupid?") linked therein, which I read when it was published and again over the weekend (on a link from someone else) with a measure of disgust at its sheer speculative curmudgeonry.
This piece, by contrast, seems far more solidly grounded in plausible empirical research rather than mere intuition (intuition is invaluable, but as a cue to start researching, not a self-confirming end in itself).
It also resonates with me at a more personal level than the Atlantic piece.
Here's why: I've long suspected I may have a mild (i.e. manageable) form of bipolar disorder, in that I go through two- and three-week bouts of manic productive output fueled by only a few hours' sleep a night, followed by a kind of funk in which I'm not actually depressed, but just tired and hugely unmotivated.
(Careful observers of this site may even notice a cyclical rise and fall in the number of articles and blog entries I post here.)
Anyway, last week I was in cottage country again, and I noticed two things:
Though I left in the midst of what I'll call a hypomanic phase, as soon as I unplugged and left, my hypomania seemed to dissipate almost instantly. Indeed, I was astonished at just how much I slept when I was away - drifting off to sleep at 10:00 PM and waking up nice and refreshed at 8:00 AM the next morning.
My fervent craving to consume information and produce stuff (articles, software applications, revised programming code) just collapsed. I was perfectly content to enjoy a relaxed ad hoc schedule of walking and cycling, fishing off the dock, cruising around the lake, sitting in the shade and trying without much success to master the pentatonic blues scale on my guitar.
This made me start to wonder if my bipolar cycle is strictly internal in origin or is actually in some way triggered by my cognitive environment, with the crash following the high as a function of sheer exhaustion - like that rats that would keep pressing the lever "until they collapsed" - followed by a renewed high once I catch up on rest.
Could my supposed hypomania actually be a repeated instance of insatiable "seeking" behaviour? When I actually "catch" what I'm seeking - a surprising discovery, a new essay, a new software function - it doesn't satiate my craving for more but actually increases it through the promise of still more serendipitous rewards.
As the article puts it:
"Actually all our electronic communication devices - email, Facebook feeds, texts, Twitter - are feeding the same drive as our searches. Since we're restless, easily bored creatures, our gadgets give us in abundance qualities the seeking/wanting system finds particularly exciting. Novelty is one. Panksepp says the dopamine system is activated by finding something unexpected or by the anticipation of something new. If the rewards come unpredictably - as email, texts, updates do - we get even more carried away."
I live, in large part, for the discovery of unexpected information - surprises that challenge my assumptions about how the world works. Here I use "surprise" in the same sense that Paul Graham used it in a recent essay on essay writing:
"Surprises are things that you not only didn't know, but that contradict things you thought you knew. And so they're the most valuable sort of fact you can get. They're like a food that's not merely healthy, but counteracts the unhealthy effects of things you've already eaten."
To a certain extent I've tried to cultivate this as a countervail against the human inclination toward confirmation bias (only paying attention to information that further confirms what one already believes), but the fact is that I love surprising information.
It's like when I was a kid and would come home from Hallowe'en with a bag of treats that I would then sort and categorize and then resort and recategorize along as many different dimensions as I could come up with. When I discover new information, I get to go back and resort and recategorize my existing information (or as Keynes famously put it, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?").
This insatiable drive for novelty - which I try to leverage into an insatiable drive for new and better information, even (or especially) if it's surprising - may well be at the root of my apparent hypomania.
The question is: what, if anything, should I do about it?
By joejoe (anonymous) | Posted August 17, 2009 at 15:50:44
"what, if anything, should I do about it?"
Buy a cottage :)
Buy a cottage
Arrgh! Between the financial burden and the obligation to drive 3+ hours at regular intervals to "enjoy it" (read: maintain it), the thought of owning a cottage sends chills down my spine.
Now a sailboat, on the other hand...
By Balance-beam (anonymous) | Posted August 17, 2009 at 15:59:56
@Ryan it's all about balance. You need to train your brain not to keep chasing the dopamine stimulus over and over again without a break. Try meditation - it's a great way to discipline your mind not to run away on you.
By highwater (registered) | Posted August 17, 2009 at 16:52:36
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Sean Kingston was talking about his hit song "Fire Burning" when his cell phone suddenly started to ring. The device blasted a familiar tune.
Sean Kingston has one of the summer's hottest hits with "Fire Burning."
She's fire burning, fire burning on the dance floor.
Wait a minute. His own song is his ringtone?
"I've got to support it, man," said Kingston, 19, with a cheeky smile. "It goes right back in my pocket, but hey."
There had better be plenty of room in those pockets. "Fire Burning" is shaping up to be one of the summer's hottest tracks, with more than a million downloads sold, and is the second best-selling song on iTunes this week. For mainstream radio listeners and nightclub goers, the reggae-trance track is inescapable.
Even for Kingston. Watch how Kingston sets the dance floor ablaze »
"Three days ago I was in an elevator," he said. "A lady came in and she had her iPod and she was playing my song. She didn't know who she was standing next to. That was kind of funny."
But hearing his music in public doesn't mean he's allowed to get too cocky, he said.
"It actually motivates me to make even more music, because that's kind of big. Coming from where I'm from -- coming from nothing -- it's just amazing to hear people react to my music like they do."
The Miami-born artist, whose real name is Kisean Anderson -- he changed his name to Kingston to reflect his Jamaican heritage -- got a taste for the big time in 2007 when his debut song "Beautiful Girls" became a No. 1 hit in the United States.
His sophomore album, called "Tomorrow," comes out September 22. Kingston just wrapped filming in Los Angeles for the music video for its second single, "Face Drop."
Kingston dropped by CNN to share his thoughts on his abilities on the dance floor and the leading ladies of pop. The following is an edited version of the interview.
CNN: How much time do you actually spend on the dance floor?
Sean Kingston: I spend a lot of time on the dance floor, [though] ... I'm more the type of dude to sit back and pose and act cool. But I had to make a song for it because there's a lot of stuff that's going on in the world today ... people want to dance. People want to let loose and "Fire Burning" is a song that you can do that to.
CNN: You were born in Miami. You grew up in Kingston. Then you moved to L.A. Where do you feel most at home?
Sean Kingston: I feel really at home, I can't even lie, in Miami. Because it's just like I know a lot of people, my friends that are there. That's where I started doing music when I was in Miami.
CNN: Why call your sophomore album "Tomorrow"?
Kingston: Because I feel like it's so futuristic. I felt like my last album was yesterday. Nobody's going to be able to expect what Sean Kingston is bringing on this new album.
CNN: The first track that came off the new album was a collaboration with Lil' Wayne. It didn't take off like your previous hits. Why do you think that is?
Kingston: We never sent it to radio. That record got leaked. It got leaked from the Internet and we just kept it going. But it never really got that push from the label.
But I mean it did good. I mean 4 million plays on YouTube, 3 million on MySpace. Sometimes you've got to give free music to get people to pay attention and to build a buzz. So I basically gave my fans free music.
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Kingston: Yeah. Benji and Joel [Madden], man! Those guys are hilarious. They're talented and geniuses. ...
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Kingston: I definitely think that's my own style. I definitely think I came in the game and I got my own blend. I've got something that I call hip-pop, not hip-hop. And a lot of people are starting to use that now but I feel like it was my fusion.
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In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court made history by striking down the Defense of Marriage Act in the Windsor v. United States case, ruling it unconstitutional on equal protection grounds. The majority opinion was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito were in dissent.
The Supreme Court also dismissed Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case around California's Proposition 8, on standing.
Why the Court Brought Down DOMA
In Windsor, Justice Kennedy writes that the Defense of Marriage Act:
...imposes a disability on the class by refusing to acknowledge a status the State finds to be dignified and proper. DOMA instructs all federal officials, and indeed all persons with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others.
The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the State, by its marriage laws, sought to protect in personhood and dignity. By seeking to displace this protection and treating those persons as living in marriages less respected than others.
Kennedy writes that "Under DOMA, same-sex married couples have their lives burdened, by reasons of government decree, in visible and public ways."
Kennedy then goes on to list the ways "from the mundane to the profound" that DOMA impacts same sex couples. They can't share government health care benefits, can't file taxes jointly, for instance. The justice also makes reference to the changing nature of the military, writing "it prohibits them from being buried together in veterans' cemeteries."
What the Dissenters Had to Say
In his dissent, Justice Scalia criticizes the court for excessive activism, saying "we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation." He is not too pleased that the Court took the case at all:
...the plaintiff and the Gov- ernment agree entirely on what should happen in this lawsuit. They agree that the court below got it right; and they agreed in the court below that the court below that one got it right as well. What, then, are we doing here?
He doesn't hold much back in his disapproval of the Court's majority, saying "It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race."
Chief Justice Roberts is decidedly less heated in his dissent. He wrote that the high court should not have ruled on this case, citing congressional action:
Interests in uniformity and stability amply justified Congress's decision to retain the definition of marriage that, at that point, had been adopted by every State in our Nation, and every nation in the world.
Roberts also criticizes the majority's logic behind its case, putting further emphasis on the rights of states to determine marital statuses:
The majority sees a more sinister motive, pointing out that the Federal Government has generally (though not uniformly) deferred to state definitions of marriage in the past. That is true, of course, but none of those prior state-by-state variations had involved differences over something—as the majority puts it—"thought of by most people as essential to the very definition of [marriage] and to its role and function throughout the history of civilization.
In another seperate dissent, Justice Samuel Alito argues that the federal government did not violate the Constitution by defining marriage. "It leaves the choice to the people, acting through their elected representatives at both the federal and state levels," he writes. Taking a strict view of the Constitution, he continues, "the Constitution does not guarantee the right to enter into a same-sex marriage. Indeed, no provision of the Constitution speaks to the issue."
Alito also writes that the issue of same-sex marriage is so new to the country, there is no knowing of the broader implications of allowing such an institution, citing the "ancient and universal human institution" of family." The justice made a similiar point during oral arguments for the case in March.
"At present, no one—including social scientists, philosophers, and historians—can predict with any certainty what the long-term ramifications of widespread acceptance of same-sex marriage will be. And judges are certainly not equipped to make such an assessment."
What About Proposition 8?
In his majority opinion for the Court in Hollingsworth, Chief Justice Roberts explains why the decision to dismiss the case:
For there to be such a case or controversy, it is not enough that the party invoking the power of the court have a keen interest in the issue. That party must also have "standing," which requires, among other things, that it have suffered a concrete and particularized injury. Because we find that petitioners do not have standing, we have no authority to decide this case on the merits, and neither did the Ninth Circuit.
Once Proposition 8, which limited marriage in California to heterosexual couples, was approved by the voters, the measure became "a duly enacted constitutional amendment or statute." Petitioners have no role—special or otherwise—in the enforcement of Proposition 8. They therefore have no "personal stake" in defending its enforcement that is distinguishable from the general interest of every citizen of California.
In his dissent, Justice Kennedy argues that the high court did have enough standing to make a ruling in this case.
The Court today unsettles its longtime understanding of the basis for jurisdiction in representative-party litigation, leaving the law unclear and the District Court's judgment, and its accompanying statewide injunction, effectively immune from appellate review.
Kennedy also goes after state officials for opposing Prop 8 in the manner in which it did:
In the end, what the Court fails to grasp or accept is the basic premise of the initiative process. And it is this. The essence of democracy is that the right to make law rests in the people and flows to the government, not the other way around. Freedom resides first in the people without need of a grant from government. The California initiative process embodies these principles and has done so for over a century.
The New State of Gay Marriage in America
Here's what the map of states allowing same-sex marriage now looks like, from the New Yorker:
How the Historic Cases Came To Be
The Defense of Marriage Act is at the heart of the United States v. Windsor case. The Act, signed by Bill Clinton in 1996, restricts federal benefits and recognition of marriage to heterosexual couples. The Windsor case particularly challenged Section 3 of the law as violating the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection. Section 3 defines "marriage" as the union between one man and one woman and "spouse" as "a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife."
Edith Windsor in her New York apartment by a photo of Thea Spyer, December 12, 2012.
The story behind the case is something of an epic love story. The case was brought by 84-year-old New Yorker Edie Windsor. Windsor married her partner of over 40 years, Thea Spyer, in Toronto in 2007 after Spyer—who was suffering from multiple sclerosis—was told she had less than a year to live. The marriage was recognized in their home state of New York, but not by the federal government. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor had to pay the federal government more than $363,000 in estate tax on Spyer's estate, as the government didn't grant Windsor benefits accorded to heterosexual couples. Windsor sued the federal government over that payment in 2010, and after a winding trail that case made it to the Supreme Court. "The fact is, marriage is this magic thing," Windsor told NPR earlier this year. Now she is leading the fight to make it universal. And on Wednesday she was handed a massive victory.
The Hollingsworth v. Perry case is focused on California's Proposition 8. Proposition 8 was a 2008 California ballot initiative that changed the state's constitution to limit marriage to heterosexual couples. The initiative, which passed, was found to violate the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the constitution by United States District Court Judge Vaughn Walker in 2010. That ruling was affirmed by a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel in February, 2012. The appeals process then brought the case to the Supreme Court.
But Hollingsworth isn't just about same-sex marriage. It's also a matter of whether or not the case's petitioners had the legal right to bring the case. During March's oral arguments, several justices took issue with the whether or not proponents of a ballot initiative have the legal right to defend the initiative in court (seeing how once the initiative passed, their legal interest in it becomes questionable). As Justice Roberts said during the argument, if the case had been brought by a state official who did not want to perform same-sex marriage, standing wouldn't be an issue. This opinion won out in the end.
The Statement From the President
In full, emphasis is ours.
I applaud the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal – and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.
This ruling is a victory for couples who have long fought for equal treatment under the law; for children whose parents' marriages will now be recognized, rightly, as legitimate; for families that, at long last, will get the respect and protection they deserve; and for friends and supporters who have wanted nothing more than to see their loved ones treated fairly and have worked hard to persuade their nation to change for the better.
So we welcome today's decision, and I've directed the Attorney General to work with other members of my Cabinet to review all relevant federal statutes to ensure this decision, including its implications for Federal benefits and obligations, is implemented swiftly and smoothly.
On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, maintaining our nation's commitment to religious freedom is also vital. How religious institutions define and consecrate marriage has always been up to those institutions. Nothing about this decision – which applies only to civil marriages – changes that.
The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free.
And here's video curtosies of the New York Times' Brian Stelter of President Obama calling the plantiffs in the Proposition 8 case, live on MSNBC:
Reactions From Twitter
Mentions of DOMA and Proposition 8 peaked in the 10-11 o'clock hour.
As Ryan Lizza notes, the Windsor decision has a big impact on immigration reform:
DOMA ruling has direct impact on immigration. Married same-sex couples can now sponsor foreign partners. No need for Leahy amendment, right?— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) June 26, 2013
And Obamacare:
DOMA repeal matters for Obamacare: Means same-sex spouses will be seen as dependents in calculating tax subsidies.— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) June 26, 2013
And Edie Windsor responds to her victory:
Edie Windsor: "I wanna go to Stonewall right now!" http://t.co/3x8wWVxKei— WNYC (@WNYC) June 26, 2013
The New Yorker has incredible photos of Edie Windsor learning of her victory at the Court over DOMA. At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Windsor said her "immediate reaction was just tears."
Here are some reactions on Twitter from elected officials:
Congratulations, #California! #SCOTUS ruling on #Prop8 has cleared the way for #marriageequality to return to #CA! #LGBT— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) June 26, 2013
What a great day for equality! #DOMA— Debbie Stabenow (@stabenow) June 26, 2013
Huge victories today, but more work to be done to ensure #MarriageEquality for all Americans. #SCOTUS— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) June 26, 2013
It just got better.— Senator Chris Coons (@ChrisCoons) June 26, 2013
This is progress in the truest sense of the word. A great, historic day for equality! pic.twitter.com/CCGuHowy4e— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) June 26, 2013
Pleased #SCOTUS struck down #DOMA. This was always about individuals being treated equally. Discrimination is discrimination.— Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (@SenatorHeitkamp) June 26, 2013
Republican members, meanwhile, spent the moments following the decisions largely talking about anything else:
61% of independent voters disapprove of Obama's job performance http://t.co/xJuY9MM9lf— Rep. Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) June 26, 2013
RT @GOPoversight: MICA on #IRS: "I think we've lost great confidence and probably for a good reason"— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) June 26, 2013
Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) was seemingly the first Republican member of Congress to mention the Court decisions on Twitter, at 11:15 AM:
We must work maximize the chances of a child being raised by a married mother and father. #tcot#pjnet— Jim Bridenstine (@RepJBridenstine) June 26, 2013
And from one of the three Republican senators who supports same sex marriage, Alaska's Sen. Lisa Murkowski:
Sen. Murkowski (GOPer who backs #SSM): "I welcome today's [SCOTUS] decision...represents victories for states' rights and equal treatment"— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) June 26, 2013
In a statement, Rep. Michele Bachmann said: "Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted. What the Court has done will undermine the best interest of children and the best interests of the United States."
And Sen. Rand Paul said that "I would tell people who are for traditional marriage: the battle is lost at the federal level; concentrate on your state."
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who came out in favor of same-sex marriage earlier this year, said he would have preferred if Congress had repealed DOMA, but said he "agrees with" the high court's ruling to leave marriage to the states, reports NBC News' Matt O'Brien.
And from the speaker of the House:
Boehner on DOMA: "While I am obviously disappointed in the ruling, it is always critical that we protect our system of checks and balances."— Mike O'Brien (@mpoindc) June 26, 2013
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee went all in:
My thoughts on the SCOTUS ruling that determined that same sex marriage is okay: "Jesus wept."— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 26, 2013
Analysis of the Cases From Around the Web
At Balkinization, Indiana University Law Professor Gerard Magliocca writes:
Justice Scalia's dissent in Windsor is a tour de force on two points: (1) there was no standing in the case; and (2) the Court's rationale for why the holding applies only to DOMA is nonsensical...
With respect to the merits, I find Justice Kennedy's opinion hard to understand. He says it's not a federalism decision, though he talks a lot about states'-rights and marriage. He says that it is a Fifth Amendment decision, but does not explain why that Due Process Clause should be read differently from the identical provision in the Fourteenth Amendment.
And the eponymous Jack Balkin of Yale:
The dissents try to inoculate themselves from what they see coming. They expect that soon gay marriage will be overwhelmingly supported by the public, and they want to head off the charge that they are being bigoted or mean spirited by deferring to Congress and its fact finding abilities (unlike in Shelby County, decided the previous day!). Whatever you call Congress, the President, and us, they say, don't you dare call us prejudiced or bigots. Because we are not. We are reasonable people who believe in the democratic process (except, of course, when we don't).
The problem is, no judge-- whether in the majority or the dissent-- will be able to forestall history's judgment.


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In this paper we employ enriched category theory to construct a convenient model for several stable homotopy categories. This is achieved in a three-step process by introducing the pointwise, homotopy functor and stable model category structures for enriched functors. The general setup is shown to describe equivariant stable homotopy theory, and we recover Lydakis' model category of simplicial functors as a special case. Other examples -- including motivic homotopy theory -- will be treated in subsequent papers.
2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 55P42, 55U35, 18D20, 55P91
Keywords and Phrases: model structures for enriched functor categories, stable homotopy theory, equivariant stable homotopy theory
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You wouldn't know it by looking at the skin-tight Catwoman costume that she wore in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, but apparently Anne Hathaway has low self-esteem... or at least she will in the new film The Low Self-Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie.
THR, which reported the casting, says that the script was co-written by The Office scribes Mindy Kaling and Brent Forrester is a romantic comedy who only dates losers because of her lack of faith in herself. This begins to change "when she is pursued by the hottest guy ever." The screenplay was previously featured on the Black List, which is an annual list of the most popular unproduced scripts in Hollywood. The trade says that Kaling will likely take on a supporting role in the feature, but doesn't specify character details. John Malkovich will be an executive producer on the film through his Mr. Mudd Productions banner, as will Nathan Kahane and Joe Drake of Good Universe.
The film will be the feature debuts for both Kaling and Forrester as writers, as all of their previous experience has been on television. Kaling's new show The Mindy Project, which she also stars in, debuted on September 25th. The Low Self-Esteem of Lizzie Gillespie is still in the development stages and is actively looking for a director.
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CBS Local– As reports of a shooting taking place in the early morning hours at a baseball field involving government officials came in, most were naturally first concerned with the well-being of those involved.
Once it was revealed that none of the participants suffered life-threatening injuries, the second thought many had was, 'what in the world were congressmen doing on a baseball field at 7 a.m. ET?'
The answer is preparing for the Congressional Baseball Game, of course.
The game is a tradition started in 1909 that pits Democratic and Republican members of Congress against one another in an effort to raise money for charity. Last year, more than $500,000 was raised.
This year the game is on June 15 at 7:30 p.m. ET. Participants aren't given uniforms, instead they wear jerseys local to the areas they represent.
The Democratic team has dominated in recent times, having won seven straight games before tasting defeat last year against the Republicans. The all-time series is tied at 39-39, with one tie.
In 1958, the game had temporarily been put to a halt because it had become "too physical," so clearly the game can mimic the floor of congress from time to time.
Fans show up to the event typically to the tune of 10,000 at Nationals Park. Tickets can be purchased for $10 through MLB.
Last year, President Barack Obama attended the game for a few innings, but made sure not to seem partial towards one party or the other by spending time in both dugouts.


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Monday, 27 June 2011
Summer Rolls Recipe aka Goi Cuon - Vietnam (Channel 4 Food)
I've never been a fan of spring rolls. I'm fairly sure this is as a result of early exposure at school dinners to a comestible dubbed a pancake roll - a huge, solid, brown rectangle dripping with grease and flabby beansprouts.
But summer rolls are an entirely different matter. Fresh, light, stuffed with herbs and lettuce and other stuff so deliciously good for you that it's practically a salad, without the hair-shirt.
A traditional Vietnamese snack, summer rolls aka gỏi cuốn need at least one specialist ingredient (the rice paper wrappers), but it's worth schlepping out and stocking up.
Classic fillings are thin rice noodles, lettuce, pork and prawns. You can leave out the pork to make it meat-free or substitute fried tofu. I like to use diced roast pork belly (ok, so the claim to health food becomes wobbly here) or sometimes chunks of roast duck. You could use leftovers from a roast.
Lettuce-wise, you want to use butter, Boston or Bibb - the round, velvety type - as the fat leaves holds everything together nicely.
As for herbs, you can play with the mix to some extent. The best combo uses chives and coriander but also slightly esoteric herbs like perilla, cockscomb mint, and Thai basil, which give unexpected, citrussy, almost spicy notes.
You can get away with just chives, coriander, and mint however, and that will give the rolls just enough leafy pep.
Sometimes I add crispy dried shallots. That's veering into bánh cuốn territory, but as Vietnamese food expert Uyen Luu of Leluu Supperclub says, "You can add whatever you like to these rolls and make them your own".
They're a little tricky to make first time around but no cooking required, and with a bit of practice, you'll be making these as quickly as a sandwich - and as far as I'm concerned, they're much nicer than a sarnie in a packed lunch, or even a picnic ...
My Vietnamese Summer Rolls recipe on Channel 4 Food
(originally written to accompany Gordon's Great Escape to Vietnam)
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I love fresh rolls (haven't had them since visiting Vietnam last year) and this is a very timely post as they're perfect for hot weather. Have been wanting new ideas to replace salads and sarnies in m'girlfriend's packed lunches, and summer rolls might be just the ticket.ReplyDelete
Roast leftovers are a good idea too, and it might be a nice way to use up barbecue leftovers as well, provided I don't incinerate the meat! Reckon these'll taste very good with rice noodles and a pork cooked bun cha style if I can nail that.
oh I love these... I like them with shredded carrot and ginger in them too..ReplyDelete
and I've made them sort of like California Roll sushi with avocado and crab sticks, really good :)
I learned how to make them at Leluu's cooking class and I was amazed how easy they are. (if you manage to get all the ingredients of course, this might be more the challenge). Fresh summer rolls are one of the best dishes for me and I fully agree with you on spring rolls. Hate them, yuck.ReplyDelete
@Alex - Barbecue leftovers would be brilliant!ReplyDelete
@Josordoni - Ha, love a crabstick!
@Ute @HungryinLondon - As soon as I can, I will try to book Leluu's cooking class - your review sounded amazing.
I should not read this at 10.44 am when I have not yet had coffee or tea let alone breakfast.ReplyDelete
I LOVE these, haven't made any in ages and the timing's perfect - thank you - I need something fresh and crisp on this heavy day. Great call with the crispy shallots too, and lovely pics :)ReplyDelete
A great post; those photos are breathtakingly good. Food porn at its best! And agreed too, re spring rolls; every five years ago I buy some and then after a bite question my sanity.ReplyDelete
@Kavey - Ha, sorry!ReplyDelete
@BSG - Thank you - yeah, thought they'd be good for this weather :)
@chumbles - Think we're in the minority re spring rolls!
Such beautiful photos. My absolute favourites have mint, prawns and a touch of lemongrass. Nb, to me they're perfect hangover food too.ReplyDelete
These look lovely- am off to scour Mill Rd for the wrappers!ReplyDelete
@tori - Ha, good idea, though I'm not sure I'd be capable of making them whilst hungover.ReplyDelete
@TheFastestIndian - They are sooo nice. Am sure one of the stores will have them.
They look bootiful! I can eat about a million summer rolls in one sitting.ReplyDelete


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Deer: White-tailed deer are usually present in fair numbers.
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Fishing Opportunities:
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