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Injuries among many reasons why Sound Tigers are struggling
One player after another dropped, both for the New York Islanders and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers this winter.
Runs of injuries like that test a team's depth. The Islanders struggled early, but had a second half that makes it look as if their latest rebuilding project may come through.
For the Sound Tigers? The bounce-back didn't come until the season was lost.
The winless streaks piled up, three of the team's four longest streaks in 10 years. They had only three wins in 30 games at one point.
A whole lot of other numbers and reasons went into those streaks, though, such as the franchise's recent emphasis on developing young players over signing veteran AHL free agents. Also not helping the Sound Tigers is the Islanders' difficulty signing premier free agents, which has pushed young players into key NHL roles quickly rather than allowing them to develop in the AHL.
There is no shortage of reasons why the Sound Tigers went into the last weekend of the season fighting to get out of last place in the league.
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"It's obviously a lot of adversity we've faced," Islanders general manager Garth Snow said.
This season came from numbers that govern how many players a team can sign, how much a veteran player can make and still move up and down to the AHL, and probably most of all an ever-growing number over 900, representing their injuries.
Any AHL team exists to develop players for its parent, and that's especially true for an owned-and-operated affiliate like the Sound Tigers. Balancing winning and development is sometimes tricky, particularly when top players aren't healthy.
When training camp began on Long Island in mid-September, the Islanders' stated goal was a playoff berth.
Within a week, their best defenseman and one of their best forwards were on injured reserve with shoulder injuries. Forward Kyle Okposo didn't return until January. Mark Streit lost the whole season.
More InformationYES, THAT HURTS Players on the New York Islanders and Bridgeport Sound Tigers who have lost at least 20 games to injury (through Thursday): BRIDGEPORT (351 total man-games) Andy Hilbert, 77 (head) Jeremy Yablonski, 61 (knee) Dustin Kohn, 32 (knee) Anton Klementyev, 23 (ankle) Justin DiBenedetto, 22 (hand, head) Rob Hisey, 21 (leg, head) NEW YORK (564 total man-games) Mark Streit, 80 (shoulder) Doug Weight, 62 (back) Trent Hunter, 60 (foot, knee) Mike Mottau, 60 (eye, hip) Mark Eaton, 46 (groin, hip) Kyle Okposo, 44 (shoulder) Milan Jurcina, 35 (hamstring, groin) Kevin Poulin, 30 (hernia, knee) Rick DiPietro, 28 (knee, face) Andrew MacDonald, 20 (hand, hip) Source for Islanders figures: Wednesday's game notes -- MICHAEL FORNABAIO
Going into their final two games, the Islanders had lost 564 man-games to injury with another 18 guaranteed from players who had been ruled out for the year. AHL teams don't keep official lists, but the Connecticut Media Group's unofficial tally had the Sound Tigers at 355 man-games lost with 15 more ensured in the last three games.
That's over 950 man-games lost between the teams. That's kind of like losing an entire roster for 47 games, and that's also part of the reason why Bridgeport has used 61 players this year. Only four AHL teams in the past 15 years have used more.
"We've got 14 (NHL) contract defensemen, and at this point we have five healthy," Snow said last week. "It's an extraordinarily high number. It goes to show you can never have enough depth at any position, particularly on defense."
These weren't minor absences, and 16 of the Islanders' 46 signed players will miss at least 20 games.
Bridgeport began the season with two veterans on NHL contracts. Andy Hilbert never played with a head injury. Jeremy Yablonski has played just one game since November with a knee injury.
The Islanders' injured list has included goalie Rick DiPietro, captain Doug Weight and every defenseman except rookie Travis Hamonic.
"The silver lining is the opportunity for Travis Hamonic, to see what he could do at the NHL level, which surprised, I think, everybody," Snow said. "Andrew MacDonald, playing north of 24 minutes a game, seized the opportunity."
Sure, lose a few players, and a team can cope. "Absence creates opportunity" and all that. Lose key players up and down the roster of two teams? That tests your depth, and experience helps.
Veterans rule
Most veteran AHL players still want to play in the NHL. They may want one or two more big paydays. Signing them? Sometimes, that can cost extra.
Hershey, for instance, has complemented some excellent, deep Washington drafts with exceptional (and sometimes pricey) veterans like Keith Aucoin, Alexandre Giroux and Boyd Kane, and the Bears have won three of the past five Calder Cups.
Players like that sometimes demand one-way NHL contracts, which guarantee over $500,000, but many sign two-way contracts, which pay at a lower amount while the player is in the AHL. According to CapGeek.com, a Web site that tracks unofficial salary-cap and contract data, Aucoin is earning $300,000 this year to play for Hershey.
The Sound Tigers don't appear to have paid a veteran free agent more than $105,000 over the past several years, though Snow said he's not restrained by that number.
"It's always a fine line you walk when your primary goal is to develop players at the AHL level in Bridgeport," Snow said.
"In particular, you see a player like Rhett Rakhshani make the all-star game, getting off to a great start to his professional career. Travis Hamonic, there for a brief period, but he used his time in Bridgeport to become a solid pro."
Bridgeport's veterans this year were captain Mark Wotton, who is on an AHL contract; Jeremy Colliton, who returned after a year in Sweden; and enforcer Yablonski. Hilbert and Jon Sim were both expected to spend some time with the Sound Tigers, and both signed two-way deals for $105,000 in the AHL But Hilbert missed the whole season, and when the Islanders tried to send Sim down in January for the second time, he left to sign with a team in Switzerland.
"JC spent (much) of the year up top. Sim and Hilbert were gone," Sound Tigers president Howard Saffan said. "(Snow) is very cognizant of the need for leadership in the locker room, for veterans. We just had some bad luck this year."
Still, Scott Reynolds of The Copper & Blue, a Web site covering the Edmonton Oilers, estimated and added up salary data for every AHL team's Clear Day list, the 22 main players eligible to play in the last month of the season. Bridgeport's was the lowest in the league and would have needed a player earning NHL money even to make it to the middle of the pack.
Three key players from last season's Bridgeport team -- Greg Mauldin, Trevor Smith and Jeremy Reich -- got substantial raises beyond $105,000 when they signed with new teams, according to CapGeek.
But as Snow said, the Islanders wanted to leave room for their younger players. And there are a lot of them.
Feel a draft
Of 24 men, then, on Bridgeport's opening-night roster -- adding in late-arriving Jeremy Colliton but leaving off third goalie Joel Martin -- 14 were Islanders draft picks.
Two players were acquired in trades, though young Tony Romano turned pro as a Sound Tiger in 2009. Four could be termed veteran free agents. Four more were minor-league free agents when they arrived in Bridgeport for the first time.
To compare, when Bridgeport went to the Calder Cup Final in 2002, it did it with only seven Islanders draft picks on a 22-man roster, and one of them was a late-arriving seventh defenseman.
"For us, it's a great environment (for development)," Snow said.
It's not impossible to win with a mix heavy on draft picks: Manchester has a similar ratio, and the Monarchs have been first or second in the Atlantic Division all year. (The Monarchs have stayed healthy.) The draft has been particularly important to the Islanders because they haven't attracted premier NHL free agents.
According to reports, Snow has outbid other teams for free agents who have decided to go elsewhere. Ask a number of people, and you'll probably get that many explanations why the team lingered near the salary floor this season.
So if the Islanders are to find themselves a star, they may have to develop him themselves. Many recent first-round draft picks have been in the top 10 and have moved quickly to the NHL.
That usually leaves lower draft picks to Bridgeport, and picking the 18-year-old players who'll turn into 24-year-old standouts is at best a crap shoot.
Snow gave himself better odds in 2008, when he parlayed the fifth-overall pick into the ninth pick (Josh Bailey) and a slew of other selections. The Islanders had 13 picks in a seven-round draft.
"We have two fabulous draft picks, Aaron Ness and Matt Donovan, that have come here," Saffan said. "Hopefully they'll get to play a full season (next year)."
Six of those 2008 picks played in the NHL this year: Bailey, Hamonic, and even more remarkably, four players from the fifth and sixth rounds: Kevin Poulin, Justin DiBenedetto, Matt Martin, and Jared Spurgeon.
Spurgeon, though, did it with Minnesota after the Islanders chose not to give him an NHL contract. That illustrates one problem with acquiring all those draft picks: Eventually, you've got to sign them.
Over the limit
NHL teams are allowed 50 players under NHL contracts at a time. That may sound like a lot, given a 23-man roster, but there are no exemptions for injuries and few painless ways to clear space on the fly.
A team needs its prospects to make progress, to grow into full-time NHLers or at least serviceable replacement-level players. Pick the wrong prospect, and one of those 50 spots can hamper a team for up to three years.
The Islanders have many of their key NHL players locked up for next year. Saffan hoped that, if the Islanders continue to improve, it will leave players down in Bridgeport longer.
"That will have a trickle-down effect," Saffan said. "The Sound Tigers will get deeper as each year progresses."
The directions Snow takes in assembling next year's rosters may depend, in part, on which amateur players are ready to turn pro, which they sign, and which they let go.
"I'm always looking to get better," Snow said, "whether that's on the ice, in training, the way we prepare for the season. It's something we always analyze over the course of the offseason."
If next year's team doesn't lose 900 man-games to injury, it'll surely be a start.
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2018 Michigan Football Coach Jim Harbaugh takes questions from the media after Michigan's 26-19 loss to South Carolina in the Outback Bowl. Also, how many times will the media ask if he's leaving for the NFL.
Offensively, Michigan's inability to hit a few open and needed passes, the inability of the defense to protect against big pass plays, a spectacular special team lapse, and a stout South Carolina defense pasted another L on the Wolverine record books. Another what might have been loss.
The SEC's representative, the South Carolina Gamecocks, and the Big Ten's representative, the Michigan Wolverines, met at Tampa's Outback Bowl on January 1st, 2013, in a game both sides needed and coveted, but it was the Gamecocks who were ranked 10th in the nation, and the Wolverines that were ranked at a comparatively lowly 18th in the nation. SC owned 10 victories to M's 8. It looked beforehand that the Wolverines would have their claws full, with their struggling offense stymied by SC's great defensive front line. And in actuality, the Wolverines were hurt by that line, especially in critical bull rushes that got home. What was more unexpected was Michigan's lack of effective pass protection.
Both teams were very well motivated, but the Gamecocks came from the favored conference, the SEC, and a least one of their representatives was true to form, spouting speed, speed, speed, as strictly an SEC advantage. Under the tutelage of the self-proclaimed "Old Ball" Coach, well known Steve Spurrier, South Carolina has prospered as never before. He is a crafty, nifty, and shifty football thinker. The Gamecocks are an opponent that competing team's love to best, but have to be at their sharpest to accomplish that mission. The Wolverines were almost, but not quite, up to the task.
SEC footballers are no strangers to the Wolverines. An SEC team and the Wolverines have competed 32 times over the years with the Wolverines establishing a 23-8-1 all-time record against the SEC. They have 7 wins and 5 losses against SEC teams in bowl games.
SC was without the services of standout running back Marcus Lattimore, who suffered damage to three ligaments of a leg according to a published article of his surgeon. So this formidable weapon, just declaring for the pro draft, did not play in the game.
M's best running back Fitzgerald Toussaint is hurt and still healing. He had not produced this season like Lattimore had, or like he himself had the year before. M's most effective runner this season has been Denard Robinson. I couldn't see that changing now. Before this game he had charted 1,166-yards by rushing, also down from the year before.
South Carolina sports two Quarterbacks, Connor Shaw, and Dylan Thompson, as do the Wolverines in Denard Robinson and developing Devin Gardner. The starter at QB since the injury of Denard at Nebraska, Devin acquitted himself effectively except in the last half of the Ohio State game, where the offense struggled mightily, and by failing to score, lost the game. Even so, Devin remains a highly recruited QB, with a wealth of talent featuring a strong arm and decent mobility, and a great future at the position. He has good size at 6'2″ and some 200 pounds. He was 18 of 24 for 214-yards on New Year's Day. How good Devin will become is probably proportional to his work ethic.
Unfortunately, some Wolverines decided to tilt the field a little more in South Carolina's and the SEC's direction through their own actions, mistakes and otherwise, as Seniors CB Starter J.B. Floyd, and special teams contributor Brandon Hawthorne broke team rules and got tossed, ending their football careers at Michigan on a sour note. I heard rumors of excessive celebration at graduation parties, but who the Hoke knows, but Hoke?
That was harmful to them and to their team, especially with the best DB, on the team, Blake Countess still unavailable. Big passing plays hurt M's chances time and again. Whether Floyd's presence would have stopped that is not provable, but his absence obviously did hurt. Then there is that magnificent punter Will Hagerup, who is in the doghouse again, and will have to leave M's punting fortunes to Matt Wile. One national pundit looked at Matt's averages, which were perhaps around 32-yards per punt to Will's 42, and expressed concern. Wile's low average may be explained in part by the fact he was the pooch punter. Showing he is more than a punter Wile hit a fifty-two yard FG. Hagerup's immediate future is not being discussed by Coach Hoke. He did not play. Fullback Stephan Hopkins also chose to leave the team.
While the above was a concern, the intense pregame interest focused mainly on Denard Robinson. The state of his health, his utilization and positions. Could he now throw? Was he healthy enough to play multiple positions, like slot receiver, running back, punt or kick returner and or QB. Oops, I forgot CB. Denard played running back, receiver and quarterback but did not throw a pass completion. He ran for 100-yards on 23 carries.
There was little if any pregame concern in the media focused on whether M's defensive backfield could hold up, and whether its pass rush could happen, and it turned out that this was a prime area of concern. Spurrier's charges seriously exploited M's pass defense. It was big play heaven for SC's passing game. Still, the defense could have preserved a win at the end but couldn't. Not their finest hour. M's no effective pass rusher defense contributed as much as offensive's lack of pass protection. The need to blitz contributed to the big plays. Unfortunately offense, defense, and special teams contributed to this loss. The kind of team result you do not want.
Taylor Lewan's battle with J. Clowney drew attention. Lewan won some battles, but lost some. Lewan earned an occasional holding call, but can not be discredited with the turn-around play of the game, but the offensive line can be. Slightly into the 4th quarter, Michigan was ahead and had possession of the ball and a slight lead after an amazing 1st down spot favorable to the Wolverines was upheld by review. It had Spurrier going nuts, and the M crowd going wild. But on the next play, Clowney slipped Lewan and hit Vincent Smith at handoff, knocking Smith's helmet off, and the ball out and to the ground. I thought Smith got a blow to the head, but no foul was called. If this drive was completed, M could reasonably have held on for a win. It was a big play for the Gamecocks, a kick in the nether regions for the Wolverines. Outstanding play for Clowney. A thirty-yard SC TD pass resulted.
Seldom has a Michigan team,at this late date in a season, been in search of a running game, and searching for a scheme to get one of M's most prolific runners ever running effectively, while the aerial game is by another. Also, they ran two different systems. The read option parlayed by Denard (or by anybody else, or any other running scheme, for that matter) doesn't work as well as expected if it is known that the running capable QB, isn't passing capable. Reference the last half of the Ohio State game.
Michigan has not prospered offensively on significant occasions this season. No TDs two straight games, no TD the second half of the Ohio game. There was the ND game where Denard threw multiple interceptions, but was never benched for a breather to recover his poise. As much as I like and respect this coaching staff, those were not the offense's finest hours in critical games. Earlier criticized for lack of innovation, it was there today. They even ran an expanded pony, called a couple of fake punts plays, gambling on 4th down.
They employ the dual QB system, but there were not spectacular results. Devins' game was hurt by someThey did with some inconsistent results. Usually those results were the caused by two factors: inconsistent throws by Devin, and OL and/or RB's inability to manage the pass rush effectively. Although he ran well Denard was unable to manufacture a big play of any sort, something special out of his last hurrah in a Michigan helmet.
- Avoidance of stupid penalties. Actuality: Some holding calls hurt, for example Lewan's when he was working in Clowney control.
- Find adequate secondary replacements to replace Floyd. It was thought Avery would be the replacement. Acuality: Sometimes it was a safety that was out of position on a blitz. Actuality: M allowed 341 passing and 85-yards rushing.
- M has been sorting through the running backs. One or more of Rawls, Hayes, or Smith had to step up. Actuality: Justice Hayes played a little. No running back stepped up yardage wise. Norfleet has switched to DB.
- Would Denard find his magic wheels again, and/or his arm? The team needs a super human effort from him to win. Actuality: Little or no magic, but some nice runs for first downs. On this day M needed a Denard spectacular. SC's defense wouldn't allow it.
- Could Devin Gardner meet the challenges he faces in the biggest game of his budding QB career. Actuality: Devin's first half was rough, but his second half was very good. There is not yet perfection, but there is much promise.
- Would the newly reconstituted defensive backfield be able to preserve Michigan's place as one of the better pass defenses in college football? Actuality: The defense as a whole did not play good pass defense. Their lofty national pass defense standing turned out to be somewhat red herring, perhaps born of playing few good passing teams. They allowed big play after big play.
M deferred and kicked off. Three plays later the Gamecocks were in the end zone via 56-yard TD pass putting SC up 7. So much for a fast start. M responded with a 50-yard Gibbons field goal making it M-3, SC-7 with half the 1st quarter history. Next came a stunner, a sixty-three yard punt return and it was M-3, SC- 14. M may have missed the dismissed Brandon Hawthorne on this play, but they should have stopped it anyway.
In the second quarter, the Wolverines offense woke up and Gardner engineered an 11-play, 76-yard drive and they were back in it. His TD pass to Gallon for five yards was sort of a shot-put pass. Nice play by Gardner. It was unusual but effective. M- 10, SC- 14. The Gamecocks retaliated with a third down and long 70-yard TD pass to the 4. They scored on the next play. And it was M-10, SC-21. Jake Ryan recovered a forced fumble from a Mario Ojemudia hit. Then came some long awaited trickeration as Drew Dileo, FG holder faked the FG, and ran for a first down, just slipping over the line necessary for a first down. But the Wolverines were held to another Gibbons FG from forty yards out. At the half it was M-13, SC- 21. They got more TDs, we got more FGs. That is not the right recipe.
M received in the second half, stalled and then allowed a 64-yard pass play, but held SC to an FG attempt, which the Wolverines helped them miss. Gallon grabbed a 17-yarder, and Matt Wile hit a 52-yard FG. M-16, SC-21. A TD needed and an FG secured. Regardless it was a nice Wile effort.
Now well into the third quarter, M's defense held and Devin Gardner ran for 19-yards. On fourth and one from his own 44. On a later third and five he galloped for another first down, and then threw to Gallon for a TD. M-22, SC-21.
The Wolverines blocked a 42-yard FG attempt. At about the ten minute mark of the 4th, Michigan faked a punt and barely made the 1st down. Then fate favored the talent of the Gamecocks as Jadeveon Clowney slipped protection and hit Vincent Smith in the backfield, knocking off his helmet and dislodging the ball, which was recovered by the Gamecocks at the Michigan thirty. This was a definite turning point in fortunes. M gave up possession at a critical point in the game and soon afforded the opposition 7 points on a 30-yard TD pass. M-22, SC-27. SC missed the two point conversion. The Wolverines kept battling and went ahead again, with a little over three minutes left to tick away.
Gallon caught another from Gardner in the end zone after a 4-first down drive, and the Wolverines were slightly ahead again. M-28, SC-27.
M's defense could not hold the Gamecocks and they scored on a 32-yard pass to bring the final tally to M-28, SC-34.
Not surprisingly, the Wolverines could not score in the 11 seconds they had left
Jeremy Gallon had an outstanding game with 9 receptions for 145-yards and 2 TDs, and is my choice for offensive player of the game. Drew Dileo had 22- remarkable yards on fake punts.
It is doubtful there will ever be a replica of the athlete that is Denard Robinson. There has never been a QB anywhere with his running ability. M's Harmon, Howard, Woodson, Oosterbaan, Kramer, Edwards and more have all shared great athleticism, but remained unique, and Denard's running ability established him in their class: great, unique, and electrifying. They each had a common thread, and that was love of the University of Michigan, playing football, and being proud Michigan Men. Denard fits smoothly and deservedly into that group.
His affable personality was another positive. Kid wanted an autograph, Denard happily signed it. When the TV panned to the Maize Rage during basketball games, he was sometimes spotted with them and enjoying himself immensely. Consistently, he honored his teammates. While Michigan is going to be in very capable hands at QB in his absence, Robinson will be missed by everyone not an opposing defensive coordinator, or from Columbus, East Lansing, or Madison, etc. You know the list. A football weapon is moving on, naturally taking his great persona and skills with him. It will be our loss. I can't help wishing him the best in all his future endeavors. He has given more than he has taken.
While he didn't get all the wins he or his teams wanted, he has represented Michigan well while being no less than the very face of the Wolverine football program during trying program and coaching changes. He endured, all the while taking a terrific physical beating without a murmur, and while sometimes playing injured. He is a man who likes to play football, and executes in the most exciting way possible.
All I can say is well done, Denard, and thank you! You will be missed when long autumn shadows creep into Ann Arbor again next season. New Year's Day, at Raymond James Stadium, Denard ran for 100-yards, eclipsing Pat White the former record holder, with a total of 4,394-yards, making him the NCAA record holder for QBs.
Barnum, Mealer, Omaneh, V. Smith, Campbell, Roh, Demens, and Kovacs have exhausted their eligibility, among others. They have contributed much to Michigan Football, and all will be remembered for their contributions.
The team did not accomplish its major avowed goal, a B1G Championship and nothing can remedy that. The team did not win its bowl game and nothing can remedy that.
One reason fans were so disappointed by Team 133's failure to achieve a shot at the B1G Championship game in the just past season was that it was a year of unusual opportunity. M's prime competitor and probably the best team in the B1G was Ohio. As you know Ohio shot themselves in the foot or higher (where they might have destroyed a tattoo), during Tresslegate. While the B1G interestingly let Ohio gather in a Championship Trophy with its stained fingers, they were forbidden the championship game. A barrier was removed, but the Wolverines could not take advantage. Denard was knocked out of the Nebraska game in the first half, and that was all she wrote. A not yet ready for prime time Russell Bellomy was inserted at QB, and was overwhelmed. He did not get enough help from his team, or coaches. This highlights the question, should Devin Gardner have been moved to wide receiver, as there clearly was no understudy QB prepared? The Nebraska loss took the championship chase out of the Wolverines hands. There were other concerns. There were two straight games with no offensive TDs. No TD's in the last quarter of the OSU game. There were time management issues sometimes. And there was that perplexing Notre Dame game where errors engendered errors. Some second guessed that, wondering why Denard was not benched for a series to regain some poise in his passing game. But on New Year's day the offensive scheme was innovative.
Prior to New Year's Day, this was not the best year for the offensive coaches. Was it ten quarters without a TD? That says a lot. But this loss was truly a team effort, as defense and special teams also contributed heavily.
Because Michigan was in a prime position to challenge for the B1G title game, with Ohio barred from playing in it, it was very disappointing to fans to miss that boat. That ship has sailed, and it is time to move on to next season. That will present its own set of challenges.
This is a rising football team, notwithstanding the disappointments of the season just past and the Outback Bowl loss. It was predicted that the season just completed would be a major challenge and it was. I predicted 8 wins and 4 losses, and that did not make me the Lone Ranger, nearly everyone did. Prime games were away from home, and Michigan played AP's # one, two, and three teams in the country, Notre Dame, Alabama, and Ohio State. There was observable progress on the defensive side of the ball, and aspects of special teams were indeed special. There was the electrifying Denard Robinson show. Receivers sometimes made miracle catches. Offensively Devin Gardner is showing promise at the QB position again. Although Devin's performance was inconsistent (this was not his best passing day), he contributed a lot in this Bowl game including a magnificent toss for M's first TD, throwing two more TDs, and running for a 1st down on 3rd down and sneaking 19-yards for another on 4th down.
This team played sixty minutes, and they never gave up. They displayed team unity all season and were all in. Their 8 and 5 record was unwanted, but is nothing to be ashamed of.
The Wolverines still managed to become the first college team to accumulate a total of over 900 wins this season, in spite of losing to the three teams listed above, and Ohio. The level of team talent is improving rapidly. It is still not up to required standards for all position according to the coaches. Receivers and running backs and the OL are examples. They need a talent to be dedicated to pass rushing. There is still significant work to be done on many fronts. As many as 14 youngsters may contribute next year, some significantly, at positions of need, and that does not count freshman. Offensive Linemen Kalis, Bryant, Braden and agnuson may help. It seems Wide Receivers Darboh and Chesson, and NT Ondre Pipkins are on a fast track. Pipkins is going to give Q. Washington a run at the nose tackle. Then there will be the true freshman and there may be a competitive running back among them.
In spring and fall camp, we will get a better feel for these players and many others. Hopefully Fitz Toussaint comes back hale, hearty and bushy tailed.
I think that some young lineman of talent will step into the vacancies on the offensive line, and that may be as many as four. A prime question there is whether Taylor Lewan will return. However it is all is not grim. Recruiting has been good, and some younger players are coming on. The schedule is far more favorable with more home games. The offensive change of scheme and type of scheme problems should all be completely resolved, and in the past. Next year's offensive scheme's will be closer to those schemes that both Coaches Hoke and Coach Borges have envisioned.
Fans may be battered at times by losses, large crowds, seat license increases, unhandy parking, high gas prices, high concession prices, weather, goofy TV announcers, and those powerful stripes, but when that team hits the tunnel, Michigan Football is still the best legal excitement that you can get.
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Good luck to the men's basketball team. We all wondered if Coach Belein's system and recruiting would work at Michigan. The question has been answered positively already this season.
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Gas Odor Expected In Toms River For The Next Few Days
Routine maintenance work from New Jersey Natural Gas may cause a stench in the air. Company officials say there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
The utility company is conducting safety inspections and operations on a 20 inch transmission line. It is in the area along Route 70 from Whitesville Road to the Lakewood Cogeneration plant near Exit 88 off the Garden State Parkway. Spokesman Mike Kinney says continuing today through Friday, they will de-pressurize this line, which will safely expel natural gas into the atmosphere. Those in the immediate area may notice significant noise and odor.
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The ultra-low interest yields on U.S. Treasury bonds seem to suggest "not much." Some of this is because relative to the fiscal positions of other countries, the U.S. economy seems relatively more capable of supporting the public debt. But it may also be because the pricing of government bonds is less an efficient reflection of the inherent market riskiness of the bonds than it should be. According to a former Moody's analyst, bond rating agencies currently do not rate public bonds using the same kinds of objective measures used to rate private bonds, possibly understating the true risk in holding U.S. Treasury debt.
Bond markets appear to be pricing Treasury debt as if it is risk free. However, if fiscal imbalances are not resolved, bondholders face the risk of losing value due to inflation and could suffer an outright default. While these risks are minimal in the short term, 30-year Treasury bond investors receiving sub-3% yields are not being compensated for the risks they are shouldering. Meanwhile, U.S. policymakers are only encouraged to keep deficit financing additional spending and tax cuts, because deficit financing seems nearly "free" compared with the alternative of proposing offsets (revenue increases or spending cuts) which have obvious costs.
But deficit financing is not free, and under-valued risk via low interest rates is just as unsustainable as the path of rising debt. Unfortunately, the market signal of higher interest rates may come only too late and too suddenly -- via a "tipping point" -- to effectively guide our fiscal policy choices.
Just how safe does the U.S. national debt look under more objective measures of its riskiness? How would a bond rating agency evaluate Treasury bonds if they consulted the same types of analyses often used to rate private bonds? Former Moody's analyst Marc Joffe has developed a "Public Sector Credit Framework" designed to answer this question and raise public awareness of the national debt problem more generally. The Concord Coalition highlighted Marc's work in a July event on the Eurozone crisis and implications for the U.S. economy and fiscal outlook.
One measure of private credit market default risk used by rating agencies is the ratio of interest costs to income. Applying this standard to the U.S. federal government's financial situation, Marc simulated the paths of U.S. federal interest payments and federal revenues (based on Congressional Budget Office data) to illustrate the risk of a U.S. federal "fiscal crisis." Based on a "crisis point," defined as interest payments exceeding 30 percent of revenues, Marc found a greater than 50-50 chance of a U.S. fiscal crisis by 2040, although there is only a 10 percent chance the threshold will be crossed within the next 10 years -- as illustrated in the chart below.
Following the Eurozone event, Marc and I sat down to talk about his model and some of the perhaps surprising results of his applying the framework to the fiscal outlooks of other countries. You can watch our conversation in the video


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The number of job openings fell slightly in March, a fresh sign the labor market recovery has shifted into a lower gear, government data showed on Tuesday.
Job openings, a measure of labor demand, fell to 3.844 million during the month, just below the revised reading of 3.899 million for February, the Labor Department said in its monthly Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey.
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Hiring also slowed, with the hiring rate dropping to 3.2 percent from 3.3 percent.
The department said last week that employment growth picked up in April, although recent data has suggested the U.S. labor market recovery has lost momentum since the end of the first quarter.
The percentage of workers quitting their jobs fell to 1.6 percent in March from 1.7 percent in February, the Labor Department said in Tuesday's report, potentially a sign of faltering confidence in the labor market.
(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Andrea Ricci)


text: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:50:37PM +0000, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > I was asked by my employer to publish this a bit ago, so here it is: > > http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/~dstromberg/looper/ > > It's a multithreaded script for running n POSIX shell commands m at a > time with good error checking. It allows for things like stashing in ssh > $hostname or rsync $hostname in a convenient way. > > I hope someone finds it useful. I know I have. > <twocents> Can you add the GPL to the python script itself? Having the begats on an ephemeral web page or a disconnected posting is sort of a tangle. Also add your employer as they 'own' the code. Something like: """ Author: sounds like you... and credit where credit is due even if others just fixed a typo. Copyright: your employer, year... BSD or GPL Copyright and date placed under a public copyright if not equal to the above date. """ </twocents> -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what?


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Vol. XXVII — No. 2
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. September 24, 1947
Gospel Teams to Be Formed
Reaches All
Time High The Clarion
Miss'y Band Student Talent
Sets New Goal Survey Friday
In keeping with the times, Beth-el
has this year again reached a
new high in registration. From
every corner of the United States,
as well as in Canada and Alaska,
there are students at Bethel to
receive a part of their education.
Since Bethel is a Baptist school,
there are 354 students of the Bap-tist
faith enrolled. Baptist young
people are not only ones here
though, for there is a total of 17
different faiths represented in the
school body. The total enrollment
of 511 surpasses any previous re-gistration
in the history of the
school. The girls are again out-numbered
this year for there are
334 male students compared to the
total of 177 girls. The state of
Minnesota again leads in the num-ber
of representatives with a total
of 210. At least half of this total
have their homes in the Twin
Cities. Second place honors go to
Illinois with Michigan, Iowa, Neb-raska,
and California next in line.
In the college department there
are 427 students. Of these, 260 are
new students with sophomores and
the students for the new third year
making up the other 167. The vet-erans
again are well represented
this year in that there are 147 of
them taking courses in the college.
There are also three girls who
have previously been in the ser-vice.
The Seminary too has had an
increase over that of last year. The
enrollment in that department is
84 with 32 of these men being
veterans. There are 25 new stu-dents
taking theif first classes in
the Seminary to further prepare
themselves to carry on the work
that those who have gone before
have started.
New Members of
Faculty Welcomed
A reception for the faculty and
students was held on Tuesday
evening, September 16, in the col-lege
Chapel. The purpose of the
reception was to officially welcome
the new students, and to present
the new faculty members to the
student body.
The program was led by Harold
Christenson, last - year's Sophmore
president. He introduced the pres-idents
of the Religious Council and
the Student Council, Maynard John-son
and Byron Skalman respect-ively,
who extended the greetings
of their respective organizations.
This was followed by a violin solo
by Carol Landberg whereupon Roll-in
Reasoner, this year's Sophmore
president, and Harold Carlson
from the Seminary gave their wel-come.
Representing t h e faculty, brief
addresses were given by Deans
C. E. Carlson and Effie Nelson,
while President Wingblade offic-ially
presented the new faculty
(Continued on page 4)
Royal Bloom, B.S., M.A.
Let's turn our eyes this week to
another new member of our fac-ulty,
Mr. Royal Bloom, who is Dir-ector
of Personnel and instructor
in Psychology and Education.
Prof. Bloom is especially inter-ested
in statistics in the field of
Psychology having been research
assistant at the Uniiversity of
Minnesota, where he obtained his
B.S. and MA. degrees, and is now
working on a PhD. He has come to
us directly from the position as
Civilian Head of Classification in
the Navy Department, with duties
involving development of tests for
officer and enlisted personnel and
research on personnel selection
problems. He had served in this
same capacitty as a Lieutenant
Commander during the war. Before
this, he taught in rural schools two
years, attended St. Cloud Teachers
College for two years and was prin-cipal
of elementary schools three
Mr. Bloom was born in Cam-bridge,
Minnesota. His interest
other than teaching is travel. He
and Mrs. Bloom have travelled con-siderably
throughout most of the
U.S. Second to this he is interested
in sports. While attending St.
Cloud Teachers College he played
on the baseball team.
In the paint shop now is the
new Bethel gospel team bus. The
bus was obtained from army sur-plus
on the west coast through
Rev. W. R. Anderson, a former
army chaplin, of Poyallup, Wash.
It is an elongated 1942 Chev-
With the enlargement of the stu-dent
body as a precedent, Bethel's
Missionary Band has increased its
working budget to $2,000.00 for
the current school year. ouch was
the announcement of Bud Peterson,
treasurer, in a Missionary Band
chapel service held last Wednes-day.
The new budget is an increase
of $500.00 over last year's budget;
but, according to the Band treas-urer,
this would average only a $4
tithe to missions on the part of
each student. Every cent given to
missions will go directly into mis-sion
work, miscellaneous expenses
of the Band being defrayed by the
Religious Council Fund. The initial
mission offering taken last Wed-nesday
amounted to $165.00. Bud
Peterson states that the monthly
tithing should average $200.00 if
the budget is to be met.
Vice president of the Missionary
Band, Ralph Larson, stressed the
Band's aim....one of helping every
student to have the mission inter-est
that he should have in the for-eign,
home and Sunday school
fields. To create and maintain this
interest on the campus, the vice
president states that the Mission-ary
Band is going to advance its
program in three-fold manner. The
program will be centered around
passionate prayer, which will be
followed up with interest revealed
in the regular Band meetings dis-closing
the realities of missions.
Thirdly, the program proposes to
aid every student in finding his
place in missions.
B. W. A. Meets
The Bethel Women's Association
met for the first time this school
year Thurslay afternoon Sept 18,
1947, for the annual installation of
officers. The faculty wives were
hostesses for the occasion. Faculty
members and wives were intro-duced.
Newly elected officers were
welcomed by last year's B. W. A.
officers with an impressive candle
rolet model which carries 15 pass-engers.
Several Bethel students
from the West drove it here as
they returned to Bethel this fall.
It is reported to be in excellent
condition and just what is needed
for gospel team work.
Bethelites interested in Gospel
Team work will have an opportun-ity
to so signify in a survey which
will be held during the Chapel
period Friday, Sept. 26. Mel Sone-son,
vice president of the Religious
Council, has announced a well
planned program, including tract
distribution, personal evangelism,
church services, mission work,
young peoples meetings and street
meetings. An advisory committee
of Myrtle Rhenberg, Dale Arent-son,
and George Johnson are assist-ing
in the organizing of teams and
issuing of assignments. Prof. Antgn
Pearson will act as faculty advisor.
Students will organize into duets,
trios, and quartets before the sur-vey
is made, and then will be able
to sign with whom they would best
be able to serve. The survey sheets
will then be used to organize the
teams for the year. Team captains
will be selected for each team.
Last year over twenty teams
went out from school to proclaim
God's mesage in song and word.
A gospel team must have Christ-ians
sincerely interested in the
Lord's work, and eager to win
the lost to Christ. Souls will be
saved and Christians drawn closer
to our Savior through this work
only as the servants are yielded to
the Master.
Sacred Musical
Held in Chapel
A musical program was present-ed
Wednesday evening, September
17. The Bethel male quartet sang
two groups of numbers, including
"Shall I Crucify My Savior?" and
"Only the Touch of Thy Hand,
Dear Lord." Devotions were given
by Morrie Engstrom with the read-ing
of the 100th Psalm. Helen
Hoffman and Bert Anderson pre-sented
two piano numbers, the
first of which was a classical
selection and the second, a vari-ation
of hynins and choruses.
Dr. Widen spoke on Christian
fellowship. Using his experiences
while in the Navy, he pointed out
the blessings of fellowship with
other Christians in a large group,
small groups, and even when a-lone;
for that is when we have
fellowship with Jesus Christ who
is the foundation for all Christian
Tecata qed .2iinomAine
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The Clarion
Editor-in-Chief Perry Hedberg
Assistant Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Managing Editor Rudy W. Forsman
Assistant Managing Editor John Soneson
News Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Feature Editor David Carlson
Sports Editor David Osterberg
Reporters Audrey Carlson, Harold Christen-sen,
Carl Appelquist, Doris Olson, Bill Lind-roth,
Ed Stayton, John Leggett, Al Olsson,
Pat Calbom, Adelle Bavin, Pat Pope, Virginia
Hanson, Milt Regier, Lois Leaf, Paul Ander-son,
Bernice Madsen.
Typists Jean Butler, Carolyn Hedberg,
Roy Dalton
Art Editor Ted Hamlin
Photographers .... Byron Skalman, Harry Paney
Business Manager Bob Hamlett
Circulation Manager Kenneth Skov
Faculty Adviser V. Elving Anderson
Issued weekly during the school year,
except vacations.
Subscription price $1.50 per year
Missionary Goal
Once again Missionary Band has anounceu
a very worthy goal which the corporate stu-dent
body will strive to achieve by the time
for Commencement next year.... ,2,000.00 for
Foreign Missions. This is a large goal, the
largest yet, for Bethel students to meet, but
it is indicative of the Foreign Missions inter-est
on the campus. Last year a $1,500.00 goal
was placed and successfully reached.
Two hasty thoughts often come to the stu-dent
when such a campaign is begun. "Why
are students asked to make a money contri-bution
when student costs are high?" Or, "Why
am I obligated to give when I'm preparing for
full-time Christian service?" It seems that if
such attitudes are permitted to linger the stu-dent
may succumb to the permanent temp-tation
of not helping to the best of his ability.
Could this be immature Christian thinking?
Rather, as students who are already begin-ning
a life given task of Christian service,
whether or not this service becomes profess-ional
in nature later, we are interested in the
evangelical problems of the world. There is
a desire to help share in meeting world evan-gelical
needs now.
The small $.45 per student per month
amount will meet the $2,000.00 goal.
We students at Bethel, especially the newer
ones, have been regaled in the past few
weeks with much in the way of welcome. Phis
has taken various forms, at times sincere and
at times in the spirit of fun. This is, of
course to be expected, and it is an integral
part of geting settled in any school. However,
at about this time comes the great test of
the many expressed sentiments. About now,
the newer students begin to find themselves
left pretty much to their own devices in many
school activities. With a few exceptions, upper-classmen
maintain a strict code of isolation.
Although a large part of this cliquing is un-doubtedly
unintentional, it is very definitely
here. Anyone at Bethel can easily pick out
several of these cliques.
We don't propose to condemn this pratice at
all. It is merely the fact that its existence as
such tends to create a certain amount of
hard feeling now and then. This should not
be and it can easily be avoided. Happily, no
reason for a complaint such as this has arisen
as yet, and it would create a pleasant pre-cedence
if it would never happen at all. This
then, in essence, is the purpose of this piece.
Let's see to it that we include a few newer
students in some of our activities. Let's see
to it that no one will ever have to say of his
years at Bethel that he felt alone or friendless
because he couldn't break down the walls
built up by groups that had been at school
Greetings and hallucinations ! By now I sup-pose
that all the sunburned noses are back
very close to the grindstone and that every
foot that strayed on Broken-Bottle Beach is
well healed. We've .all settled happily into
the stimulating, rigorous Bethel routine and
become accustomed to our comfortable quart-ers.
Say, while we're on this subject, is it
true as John Finstrom says, that "the school
board found the beds for the mens' dorm in
Andersonville, the Civil War prison"?
Recently I've been doing some research in
connection with an award. Every nite I've
had coffee in a different room (in Edgren Hall,
'natch) ; and after three weeks and 109 cups
I'm convinced that Phil Johnson still has the
title. Beyond the shadow of any possible doubt,
during last year Phil made the most abomin-able
coffee on the campus. And so far, no one
this year has been able to outdo him. Until
someone examines his grounds and his laun-dry
techniques (and it may be Gus Lundberg
who is reputed to be searching the nation for
a new recipe) 'til that day arrives Phil John-son
is King.
"Many a man who prides himself on being
level-headed doesn't know how low the level
is.". Boy, what Poor Richard wouldn't have
done with a copy of the Robbinsdale "Bugle".
In the minds of our more serious campus-ites
we sometimes detect the presence of a
deep question, a problem. Here in the coffee
By Dave Carlson
Nov that the freshman are formally initia-ted,
the new teachers semiformally received
and the new school nurse informally receiving
patients in the dispensary, 'Bethel is again
"in the swing" I know because I have
already heard of students studying Spanish in
psych. class. That may be a revolting idea to
you noble freshmen but that's what actually
happens when you become one of the Soph-more
or Junior "intelligentsia" (moron, in
other words).
In reply to numerous requests for a look
at my notorious harp, it is with great pleasure
that I announce an underground movement to
place this discordant instrument on permanent
display possibly in the incinerator where it
can be easily disposed of when rigor mortis
sets in. Watch this space for further announce-ment
of the stupendous "unveiling".
FLASH....Ben Sherman has offered his
services to any and all Seminary girls who
fear that they might have lost one of their
Christian graces....being able to "take it".
Leona Larm, I understand, is the first enrollee
after a session of teasing by the Sem. "big
bad wolves" in the library the other day.
CAMPUS CHAFF...If you doubt that "great
minds run in the same channels", ask the Pope
twins, Patty and Peggy, "What is your sister
like?" You will more than likely get the same
answer from both of them..."Ornery."....I
hope the competition among the three dry
cleaner representatives on campus gives us
some good service...speaking of business,
there is a good chance for someone with a
big mouth (listening, Morrie?) to sell peanuts,
ice cream, etc at the home football games. Of
course, you will probably have competition
there, too, in the form of Gus Lundberg and
Co. but I'd sure like to see a good "price war".
PLATFORM FOR TODAY: More of the
honor system and less of the spy system. I
think it is more becoming to a Christian
school, don't you?
utbance rogrant
Some prefer to think of all education as
"guidance". This would be particularly appro-riate
in a school such as our own in which
our whole program is definitely student-cent-ered.
From this viewpoint all of our efforts
on the campus can be called "personnel work".
There is, however, a more specific or more
limited use of these terms. This places its
emphasis upon certain aspects of the work
and upon certain techniques. Such problems
as efficiency of study habits, interest and ap-titude
analysis, and the planning of courses
of study and vocational careers are brought
into the foreground in this emphasis.
The decisions of life cannot be made by one
person for another. We must each live our
own lives in the terms of our personal re-sponsibility
before God. Yet we can be of
help to one another in analysing the situation
and the factors involved. The need for enlarg-ing
our facilities for this work has been ap-parent
with the growth of our schol.
Accordingly, we were pleased to announce
the appointment of Mr. Royal Bloom to the
position of Director of Personnel. He is now
on hand ready to give the students the assis-tance
which they desire in these matters. Mr.
Bloom is a specialist in Educational Psych-ology
and has a wide background of study,
research, and experience.
As Christians we often challenge each other
to give "our best" in the Lord's service. This
must include the planning and the carrying
out of our school work in the most effective
manner possible.
—C. E. Carlson
shop the other day one of these great, dis-turbing
perplexities was aired by the Baron,
Ole Lindstedt, when he inquired thusly: "How
does Ev Johnson maintain that effortless,
easy, casual, man-of-milk-distinction "look"
about himself? What could be his secret? Is
it the Yardley stench, or a tweed scivy shirt,
or is it a slab of knotty pine in his shoulder
padding? Or does he room with a dog and old
shot-gun? What is it?" The solution was vent-ured
by a chap named Rehnberg (James, I
believe it is) who bent over the table and con-fided
in low tones with cupped hand: "By way
of the Bodien Residence I can state without
fear of contradiction that his whole secret
lies in the fact that Ev Johnson has hired
Bud Weber to sleep in his suits!"
So long for a while.
C. A. Appleqbist
THE CLARION Page 3
Indians Lose Hard-Fought Game 14-0
The second quarter found the
Indians playing even with Roches-ter,
each team making two first
downs. A surprise 35 yd. pass was
completed to Osterberg, Olson do-ing
the passing, just as the half
Rochester received the openinb
kick-off again as the second half
began. The Yellow-jackets com-manded
the ball most of the quart-er,
and began to threatetn late in
the period. As the quarter ended
Rochester had the ball on Bethel's
13 yd. line. Charging hard from
the T-formation they fought down
to the 4 yd. marker where the
Indians stopped them just short
of a first down. The Indians kick-ed
out to about the 30 yd. line
where the Gold and Blue started
to roll again; They pushed to the
10 yd. line before being thrown
for an eight yd. loss. Then came
the touchdown pass on the fourth
down from McDonough to Kleint.
The extra point was good, and
Rochester took the lead 7-0.
The Indians took the ball on the
kick-off and after a couple line
plays lost the ball on a fumble.
Taking advantage of this break
Rochester smashed to the goal
line where they were stopped by
a 15 yd. penalty. Coming back with
a fast charge against a weary In-dian
forward wall they moved in-side
the 10 yard line. A quick bas-ketball
pass over the goal line to
Kleise brought the second touch-down.
The kick was good making
the score 14-0 in favor of the Yel-low-
Rochester kicked-off again with
Brunko returning it to the 35 yard
line. On the second play Bethel
lost the ball on a pass interception.
The ball exchanged hands a couple
of times with the ball in the In-dian's
possession on their 35 yard
line as the game ended.
Red and White gridders trudged
wearily into the locker room, but
none of them were discouraged.
This was just a warm-up game,
and all the boys are pointing to-ward
October 3rd when they play
a night game with Rochester on
their home field. This will give
them a chance for revenge and a
conference victory.
In its first year of competition
the Bethel football team will be
aided greatly by the services of
Bob Brunko, a nineteen year old
lad from Iron Mountain, Michigan.
Bob gained a lot of football exper-ience
at Kingsford High School in
Michigan where he played full-back
for four years. He weighs
185 pounds and is 6' 1" tall. Bob
has a lot of drive when hitting
that line, and is almost certain to
be called on to fill the full back
position a great deal of the time.
He runs fast and blocks hard, and
should prove quite a headache to
the opposition this year.
Bob's home church :s the Im-manuel
Baptist church of Ironwood
which is a member of the General
Baptist Conference. This is his
first year at Bethel, and the course
of study he is following is in prep-aration
for the ministry.
Practice Notes
On Wednesday, two days before
their opening game, the Indians
were given a rough workout a-gainst
the Washington High School
eleven. Though a high school team,
the Washington boys were evenly
matched in size and weight with
the Indians. Although neither team
proved very impressive on the off-ense,
the defensive play was
marked by some hard tackling, and
bumps and bruises were plentiful.
Unfortunately, M e 1 Soneson, one
of the Indian's backfield men, suf-fered
a badly sprained ankle and
was unable to be in the game with
Rochester on Friday. The scrim-mage
was rough but the Indians
learned a lot.
Rochester Bethel
Fahrman RE Osterberg
Bohlman RT Palmquist
Fuche RG R. Nelson
Cochran C Garvey
Schneider LG Anderson
Berman LT Manske
Gove LE Sandberg
Meany Q Starr
Grim RH R. Johnson
Shandlui LH Skoog
Larson F Brunko
First downs Roch. 12, Beth. 4; yds.
rush. Roch. 197, Beth. 80; pass. a,tt.
Roch. 11, Beth. 6; pass. corn. Roch.
5, Beth. 1; yds. pass. Roch. 54, Beth.
35_; fumbles Roch. 5, Beth. 2; pen.
Roch. 4-30 yds., Beth. 5-35; punts
Roch. 2 ay. 30 yds., Beth. 4 ay. 38
yds.—Ref. Marty Rossini, Ump. "Tub-by"
Holman, H-Line Willis Kunze.
NAS Goes Over
$20,000 Mark
The latest report from the Col-lege
office reveals that the pledges
for NAS total $21,388.83. Though
this amount represents just a good
start on the proposed goal of $100,
000, it is encouraging to know that
Bethel friends recognize the need
and are giving as they can despite
the fact that many of the confer:
ence churches are in the midst of
building programs themselves.
For the benefit of the new stu-dents,
NAS stands for New Ath-letic
Stadium. This fund is spon-sored
by the Bethel Student Council
and all contributions and pledges
are to be used in the construction
of a new field house which is nec-essary
to accomodate the school's
ever growing athletic ,program.
During the year efforts will be
made to further acquaint the stu-dents
with the plans and progress
of the fund and to give each stu-dent
an opportunity to share in
the future of Bethel.
Tentative Plans
For Roch. Trip
Word has been making the
rounds of the campus concerning
the possibility for a large student
cheering section to follow our Beth-el
Indians to Rochester when a re-turn
game is played with the Yel-low-
jackets Friday night, October
3rd. A bus, or buses, would be
chartered to keep transportation
cost to the student at a minimum.
Further announcements will be
made as soon as approval and ar-rangements
are secured — Watch
the Indians play as the student
body cheers!
Perhaps some new student on
the campus wonders what to do
with his spare time (if there is
such a thing). This article is de-signed
to meet that need. You will
find that studies, or not, Bethel stu-dents
must have some recreation
(athletic, that is), and the most
conspicuous form of it can be
found down in the gymnasium.
Though the football season has
barely begun, many of the fellows
can be found sharpening up the
'ole shootin' eye for the basket-ball
season. The game of "Horse"
which Eric and some of the boys
popularized last year has once a-gain
taken a prominent place on
the basketball court. Anytime dur-ing
the day except Chapel hour
you can get up a game very read-ily.
Just in passing, judging from
a casual observation of some of
the giants around the campus these
days, Bethel should have a good
sized bucketball team this season.
Student Rally
'Round Bon-Fire
"Stand up and cheer, ye loyal
friends and students of our Bethel
College". These strains of sweet
music drifted across Bethel Cam-pus
last Thursday evening as two
hundred students gathered around
a bonfire for a pep meeting. Bib
Nelson, assisted by Ruth Smith
and Zella McFarlan, led the crowd
in several new cheers and a snake
parade around the gridiron. Coach
Skalbeck was called upon for a
short talk, and he had a good word
of praise for the team. Quoting
the coach; "We are a green team
and have been handicapped by a
very short practice period. We've
only had time to cover the essen-tial
fundamentals of the game, but
I know that the boys are willing
to fight hard and so the best that
they can, and I'm sure that you
will be proud of them whether we
win or not." The cheerleaders then
led in a cheer for the coach. School
spirit ran high among the students
aid gave evidence that this year
the Bethel Indians will receive
more enthusiastic support from the
student body than ever before.
School Yells
Our team is red hot! (clapp, clapp)
Our team is red hot! (clapp, clapp)
Our team is red hot! (clapp, clapp)
With an Ish-bittaly oughten dotten
Bo-doaten, deaten dotten
Wah-dotten, ssss-
Chicka lacka, chicka lacka, chicka
• lacka, chow
Booma lacka, booma lacka, booma
lacka, bow.
Chicka lacka , booma lacka, sis-boom-
Rah! Rah! Rah!
Then there is football. Not the
bruising type (I know!) that is
displayed by the boys with the
over-stuffed sweat shirts, but the
touch variety played anytime four
or more fellows with a football and
a little time get together on our
new gridiron. This is engaged in
by the more fortunate fellows who,
because of work or studies, are un-able
to get a daily beating on the
grunt and groan squad.
If you care to get up in the
middle of the night (6 a.m.), you
will have little difficulty in finding
some hearty soul willing to , pro-vide
the opposition in a set or two
of tennis. Many, though, prefer to
battle it out in a tough game of
checkers or ping-pong down in the
recreation rooms of the campus.
People with hands as big as pad-dles
and tough as leather can par-ticipate
in the rugged game called
Rochester Passes to Victory
In Last Six Minutes of Game
Hampered by a lack of experience and training time, a valiant Bethel
team battled hard in the sweltering heat for almost three and a half
quarters of the game before falling to a fast Yellow-jacket passing at-tack
that netted two touchdowns in five minutes.
Before a crowd of 300 cheering students and friends the Indians kick-ed
off to Rochester to open the game. Grim took the ball on the 30
yd. line and returned it 10 yards before being hit by an Indian. The
Yellow-jackets smashed through for three successive first downs before
the Indian line tightened up and held. Taking over on their own 25 yd.
line the Indians elected to test Rochester's forward wall. Skoog, Indian
right-half, hit the line for 7 yards, and then Nelson booted a perfect
quick-punt that rolled to the 10 yard marker where the Yellow-jacket's
safety-man was downed. Rochester came back fighting again only to
be stopped. The first quarter ended scoreless.
I Wonder?? I Wonder??
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Quick Freeze Service
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Meats at Fair Prices
Johnson & Barnes
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Fruits and Vegetables
597 Snelling Avenue North Ne. 8621
Bethel's Laundry
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Page 4 THE CLARION
Confession of our sins often is
superficial, it ought to be a true
Self-dedication marks the cul-mination
of worship.
Edwin Omark
Training Institute
Meets Here
Again this fall, as in the past,
the churches of the Twin Cities
area are sponsoring a leadership
training institute. It is being held
in the Bethel College Chapel for
five successive Monday evenings,
starting September 22. There will
be two sessions each evening: the
first from 7:30 to 8:15, and the
second from 8:45 to 9:30.
Topics to be studied range from
studies in the Bible to the manage-ment
of church work. The teach-ers,
including several of the mem-bers
of the Bethel faculty, are:
Prof. Anton Pearson, Prof. Reuben
Omark, Rev. Lloyd Sprecher, Mrs.
Muriel Paulson, Prof. Adolph Olsen
and Rev. Andrew Simko.
The courses are intended to give
training to present and prospective
workers in the churches who would
not otherwise be able to obtain
such training. All courses are in-cluded
in the General Conference
Education Program and credit will
be given for all work taken.
Changes Made In
Kitchen Help
The kitchen staff this year has
been completely changed, Mrs.
Enoch Lindblom from Moorehead,
Minn. acting as chief cook. Her
helpers so far tthis year have been
few and varied. Att the present
time, however, Mrs. Hannah Nelson
of Luck, Wis. and Mrs. Minnie
Phillips from Ashland, Wis. are re-placing
Alice and Melita of last
year. Both Mrs. Nelson and Mrs.
Phillips are cooks at our Bethel
Bible Camp at Wood Lake, Wis.
during the summer months. Mrs.
Allan Johnson of the Married
Couples dorm also helps out when
she is needed
Have you noticed how much
quieter the school has been this
year during classes? I suppose
you've been wondering if the stu-dents
were naturally quieter or if
they were finally deciding to study
in their spare time. IIIt isn't that
at all, but rather a new improve-ment
has been made in the coffee
In order to keep most of the
noise down in the coffee shop,
sound proofing was put on the ceil-ing
a few wekks ago. This insula-tion
keeps the noise out of the rest
of the building so that the profess-ors
may now teach their classes
without so much disturbance.
The noise is not only kept out of
the rest of the building, but the
coffeee shop is made much uieer.
How suer insulation can absorb
and do away with so much noise is
a marvel, yet it is still a fact that
the noise is somewhat deadened so
Girls' Dormitory Has
First Meeting
Miss Effie V. Nelson, Dean of
Women, led the first girls' dorm-iitory
meeting of this year on Mon-day
evening, September 15, in the
lounge of the dormitory. After the
girls sang in unison the hymn "I
Am Thine, 0 Lord," Mrs. Lawson,
Dorm Mother, led in the devotions.
Clara Leggett, Grace Johnson, and
Mary Martin composing a girls'
trio rendered a medley of several
songs. "Living the Christtian Life",
a brief challenge to the dorm res-idents,
was given by Miss Nelson.
Dr. Wingblade spoke and closed
the service with a prayer of dedi-cation.
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members. Mrs. Wyman Malmsten,
on behalf of the administration,
presented each of the wives of
the new professors as well as the
new women members of the fac-ulty
with beautiful corsages.
Rounding out the program was
Bill Wright, who sang a tenor solo,
and the Singing Uncles quartet.
After the close of the program,
refreshments were served in the
Dining Hall.
one can actually hear himself
think (if he can think). Now, you
don't even have to yell at the ttop
of your voice to make the person
across the table hear you. One can
talk naturally for a change.
This new improvement is greatly
appreciated not only by the pro-fessors
and their classes but also
by the few ambitious people in the
school who try to study down there.
Such may be a rare sight, but it can
be seen once in a whiile.
Another improvement which has
been made is the addition of much
needed shelves to hold supplies and
books handled by the coffee shop.
The show case had to be moved
out some to make room for these
These improvements make the
coffee shop a much better and
more efficient place—not that it
wasn't before—but now it is better.
Look Vets!
Just a word to remind you about
a certain form that must be filled
out and turned into the Dean's off-ice
or the Veterans Administration
as soon as possible; otherwise,
you may find yourself taking up
that last notch in your belt. Be-fore
your subsistence check can
be issued by the Veterans Admin-istration
they must have this
report of your expected monthly
income. You have been given the
necessary blank to complete, so be
sure to get it out of the way at
your earliest convenience. This
will be to your advantage.
Men Train In
Will the young ladies of our
school realize the wonderful source
of future domesticated husbands
we have here under our roof? The
men of the dorm have been dis-playing
their skill in washing clo-thes
and cleaning rooms. It is
true that some of the clothes are
a bit on the tattle-tale gray side,
but the men are still proud of their
handiwork. Upon a closer survey
of the washline, we find that some
of the clothes have slight red, blue
Or yellow tint. Could it be that
one enterprising young man wash-ed
his colored socks and his other
laundry together? Be sure to ask
the next fellow you see wearing a
shirt with an off tint to it. At
least it shows that he tried.
There has been quite a rapid
turnover of help here. Recently
Olof Lindstedt relinquished his
post as captain to another soph-more.
We are justly proud of our
captains and hope they will keep
up their good work. Who knows
what higher positions lie ahead.
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& Coffee Shop ,
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Meet Around the Coffee Cup
Morning, afternoon and evening
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2013: Scored in four of UMBC's six competitions as a freshman… Placed 13th overall at the America East Pre-Conference Meet at Binghamton with a 5k time of 19:16.8… Scored the next week as well, finishing 20th at the Salty Dog Invitational at Navy with a 6k mark of 22:11.12… Her time ranks as the eighth-fastest at that distance in program history… Also scored at the Princeton Invitational, completing the 6k West Windsor Field course in a time of 22:53… Finished off the season by scoring at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regionals with a 6k time of 22:19 on Lehigh's Goodman Course.
Background: Led Boonsboro High to a sweep of the 1A Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track state championships in 2012-13... Qualified for the 2013 Outdoor Track Nationals in the 3200m run... Washington County (Md.) record holder for the 3,200m... Named the Herald Mail Runner of the Year three times from 2010-2012... Also selected as the Herald Mail Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2011 and 2012... Chosen as the Inside Sports Cross Country Runner of the Year 2011... Named the WHAG/Hagerstown Ford Student-Athlete of the Month for December 2012.
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Basic Image Scaling in GIMP2
And once again, another tutorial on how to use GIMP. Grasp the quick-n-easy way of downsizing your image to a smaller resolution, using the completely free, open source GNU Image Manipulation program.
Working at Sheetz now. Just finished day 8 of work. It's going well – there's a lot to learn and get the knack of doing (Sheetz Bro's Coffee mixes, including mochas, cappuccino, smoothies, the Red Alert, and so forth. Then there's all the sandwich making, and of course sweeping, mopping, swiping, washing, taking out the garbage… but on the bright side, you get free self-serve coffee! …Yipee!)
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I love the internet. You can virtually meet so many fascinating artists, writers, musicians and other creative folks there. Some of the people I learn the most from—on the so-called reg—live in Poland, Canada and Mexico. But many of my boss e-acquaintances are stateside.
One of those pals, Laurel Barickman, is the co-founder and lead designer of RECSPEC, an Austin-based design studio. She and her husband, David Milner, are prime movers of Austin's nightlife eye-candy contingent. They do visuals, deejay and create rad flyers. This holiday season, the savvy couple transformed their office space into a Twin Peaks-themed wonderland. We're talking detail here, y'all. Glastonbury Grove-recreatin', Bob-faced and Log Lady-offering ornaments adorn a big, majestic tree. Beneath the One-Eyed Jack's-topped fir, a cherry pie awaits Coop. Leland's getting a golf club. Who'll stumble onto the errant copy of Flesh World? With this level of fantastically weird in the picture, it's not surprising that Barickman grew up in Las Cruces. Check out my fave photos of their psychodramatic Pacific Northwest teevee homage below. Keep on scrollin' to listen to RECSPEC's damn good Twin Peaks/Xmas mix.


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i know right im trying then i got school and shit
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Whoa, we have the same last name. Maybe we have relatives in common? I live in Omaha, NE, but the surname comes from the southern side of the family.
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Rob Adamson earned a BFA from the University of Utah and an MFA from Brigham Young University. He is known for his cityscapes of New York and Salt Lake and landscapes of the intermountain west. He also accepts commissions. Member of the Plein-air Painters of Utah, Oil Painters of America and American Impressionist Society. Be sure to click on "older posts" when you scroll to the bottom of the page. Contact Information—email: firstname.lastname@example.com Telepphone: 801-467-8300.


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The Dems' pork bill is bad in just about every possible way. One feature of the bill that hasn't received a lot of attention (here, anyway) is the "buy America" provision. But the Europeans have noticed, and they say it may lead to a trade war. From England's Telegraph:
The EU trade commissioner vowed to fight back after the bill passed in the House of Representatives late on Wednesday included a ban on most purchases of foreign steel and iron used in infrastructure projects.
The Senate's version of the legislation, which will be debated early next week, goes even further, requiring that any projects related to the stimulus use only American-made equipment and goods.
The inclusion of protectionist measures has quickly raised hackles in Europe.
Catherine Ashton, the EU trade commissioner, said: "We are looking at the situation. The one thing we can be absolutely certain about, is if a bill is passed which prohibits the sale or purchase of European goods on American territory, that is something we will not stand idly by and ignore." …
Countries in Europe and Asia are planning major injections of cash into infrastructure to boost their economies, and US firms don't want to be left out of potentially lucrative contracts.
The director of public affairs for Caterpillar tried to explain the facts of life to Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi:
He said: "We are the first to recognise that if the US embraces Buy American then the whole notion of buying national will mestastasize and limit our ability to take part in overseas projects.
"We are students of history. A major reason a very deep recession turned into the Great Depression was the fact that countries turned inward."
Then, of course, there is the matter of whether the Dems' "buy America" provisions would "contravene US obligations reached in various World Trade Organisation agreements."
Once again, we see the Obama administration thrashing around like a bull in a china shop, apparently oblivious to the consequences of its actions overseas. This is rapidly becoming a pattern.
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Review of the "Professional Paths and Income in Genealogy" course from the 2011 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).
Guest author: Ron Cannon
Note from Angela: I will be featuring reviews from several guest authors as they have experience taking genealogy education courses that I have not had the opportunity to take yet. I appreciate their willingness share their reviews.
The Coordinator for this SLIG course was Kory Meyerink, MLS, AG, FUGA. He was an excellent choice to coordinate and teach this course as he has been earning a living one way or another in this field for over thirty years. While many may have been drawn to the course by the "income" part in the title (myself included), the professional paths aspect was at least equally, and probably more, beneficial.
While all genealogists consider themselves primarily researchers (and generally thrive in that activity), the business aspects of the industry are often our greatest weaknesses. That is certainly the case with me. Having completed the ProGen on line study course this last year, Kory's course served to reinforce many of the principles learned there. Indeed, this SLIG course and ProGen are quite complementary in that regard. Sections on marketing, setting rates, billable time management, report writing (all taught by Kory), task management (Elissa Scalise Powell), vendor and client relations (George Ott), and, not least, making a profit (Craig Scott), were thorough and, for some us, eye-opening.
Other sections dealt with different career paths to be found in genealogy. For me this was perhaps the most interesting aspect of the course. Paula Start-Warren explored on-site research: earning a living as you travel to various repositories. Rosemary Cundiff of the Utah State Archives gave us an insiders look at working in archives or historical societies. Leland Meitzler discussed the ups and downs of book selling as a career path and Craig Scott gave us a candid view of the publishing business. Finally, Jim Ericson of FamilySearch explained what corporations are looking for in
genealogists as employees.
The rest of the course was rounded out with sections on teaching and writing for pay (Kory) and lecturing (Elissa). Kory also offered a couple of unscheduled round table discussions to help answer questions we might have concerning specific issues or topics. These were very enlightening.
The class experienced an epiphany when Kory announced that "genealogists are cats: they do what they want to do, when they want to do it." This course gave us much to think about exactly what we do want to do in this great field of genealogy.
While I have not taken the Professional Genealogy course at Samford (offered this year and coordinated by Elissa Scalise Powell), this SLIG offering seems to compare quite favorably. As with each course I have taken at SLIG, Kory Meyerink's "Professional Paths and Income in Genealogy" was for me the right course at the right time.
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Who decided that sewing boxes and baskets required embroidered flowers or frolicking kittens? If you prefer something a bit more modern, consider an On the Button Sewing Box. The streamlined, handsomely designed piece may become the chicest box in your home. I would love to fill it with intensely colourful thread and make it a coffee table conversation piece. I guess that would require a frolicking kitten basket to remain as my real sewing centre?
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Forum Post: My OWS child just turned one
Posted 5 years ago on Aug. 28, 2013, 1:58 p.m. EST by papaOWS
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My OWS child just turned one. He was conceived in a tent during the heydays of OWS with a beautiful anarchist I met a year prior. Her name is Anne, so we called are son Archie. My name's John which doesn't really fit with Anne Archie.
We want to head down to NYC for the second year anniversary. Anyone going? We're from Maine, close to Vermont.
I remember so much positive energy from the early days. It was the greatest times of our lives. The friendships were amazing. So many good people with so many good ideas. I miss those early days.
Let me know if you're heading to NYC for the 17th. Take care.


text: Hello? On Dec 9, 2007 10:16 PM, Devin Heitmueller <devin.heitmueller at gmail.com> wrote: > I was doing some work trying to figure out the format for the firmware > fed into tuner-xc2028.c, and caused a panic when I gave it some > malformed input. > > The size field can be some obscenely large number which causes an > integer wraparound when comparing it to the end pointer (p + size < > endp test passes when size is large enough to wrap around). > > The attached patch against the trunk just tweaks the math for the > calculation to avoid the wraparound bug. > > Could somebody please provide any information regarding the format of > the expected firmware file? I have been playing around with > v4l_experimental/xc3028/convert.c as well as > v4l2-apps/util/xc3028-firmware/firmware-tool.c and it's not clear what > is the expected input. Better yet, if somebody could point me to a > sample firmware file that works, I'm sure I can work backwards from > there (in my case I'm trying to get the HVR-950 working). > > On a sidenote, is v4l/xc3028.c actually used for anything? I spent > some time digging around in the firmware loading code there before I > realized that the actual code being used was in tuner-xc2028.c. If it > is dead code, can it be dropped from the repository? > > Thanks, > > -- > Devin J. Heitmueller > http://www.devinheitmueller.com > AIM: devinheitmueller > -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com AIM: devinheitmueller


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