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The show: "Stones in His Pocket" at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven.
What is it?: When a Hollywood film company descends on a rural Irish village and takes over the town, locals sign on as extras and get swept up in the movie-making dream machine. The twist here is that all the characters in the story are performed by two actors — here well-played by Euan MortonÖ and Fred ArsenaultÖ as Charlie and Jake. The two natives who see their proximity to celebrity as a lift — and possible escape — from their dead-end lives.
Sounds like fun: It is, to a point. But the idea of actors dazzling audiences by performing multiple, whimsical, gender-bending roles ("The Mystery of Irma Vep," "Greater Tuna") is hardly the freshest idea. Don't get me wrong. The actors here are terrific and Evan YionoulisÖ' staging is nimble. But the script is thin and trite. If you take away the acting duo's virtuosity and you were to cast additional actors for all the roles, the stark flaws of the play would even be more evident. The story is sentimental, the dialogue bland, the characters sketchy and the themes simplistic.
But the mix of phony Hollywood types and the salt-of-the-earth Irish seem like sure-fire culture clash comedy: There are laughs — the filmed series of "outtakes" in the faux film is especially good silly fun as is their "Riverdance" bit — but they mostly come from well-worn tropes: Hollywood send-ups, Irish blarney, drag.
The story takes a dark turn halfway through its long 100 minutes (including intermission). The sudden death of one of the locals is clumsily and cheaply done. Playwright Marie Jones awkwardly reaches for higher significance but there's little audience investment in the departed. Worse, cheap Hollywood bashing — the movies filled a young man's head with dashed dreams and drove him to suicide — is reductive to a fault (and an insult to the Irish).
But wasn't this a hit in other places?: Yes. The play was well-received in Belfast, Edinburgh Theatre festival, London and, in 2001, on Broadway where it had a six-month run. It's seen many productions at regional theaters, too. Fine comic acting covers a lot of a playwriting sins.
Morton makes us immediately like and care for the resilient, optimistic Charlie, who has a film script in his back pocket that he hopes will land in welcoming Hollywood hands. He is also amusing in a "Where's Charley?" way as the film's petulant star Caroline Giovanni, though it's hard to imagine her as a leading lady of a lush period melodrama, "The Quiet Valley," the kind that Hollywood hasn't made in years. Arsenault brings many colors to the prideful Jake, the man who went to America to find his dream, only to return home, and who now as movie star dreams of his own. He is also especially fine as crusty old Mickey, the last surviving extra on the John Wayne-Maureen O'Hara favorite, "The Quiet Man."
The overall production values are solid. Edward T. MorrisÖ' set fills the large Rep stage with a sense of cinematic sweep. Solomon WeisbardÖ's lighting design, Nikki DelhommeÖ's costumes and Matt OttoÖ's soundscape are also first-rate.
Who will like it?: Some Eire-philes, but not all.
Who won't?: Those who expect more playwriting craft.
For the kids?: Teens might enjoy watching the two actors take on multiple roles and their amazing pivots from character to character.
Twitter review in 140 characters or less: It takes two exceptional actors to make a village but it takes more than that to make a play.
Thoughts on leaving the parking lot?: One expects adventuresome programming on the Yale Rep stage. "Stones In His Pockets" is one of the slightest offerings in years.
The basics: The play runs through Feb. 16 at Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel St., New Haven. Running time is one hour and 40 minutes, including intermission. Tickets are $20 to $96. Information at 203-432-1234 and www.yalerep.org.


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Hacks hoodwinked by hoax Baltimore mayor's website
When The Wire and Midsomer Murders collide
A fake website linking cult US television show The Wire to not-so-cult Blighty TV drama Midsomer Murders has hoodwinked several newspapers into reporting what they believed were the reactionary views of Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon.
The Guardian and Independent were both caught out by the hoax planted by political blogger and sometime Labour Party fancier Alex Hilton AKA Recess Monkey.
It would appear that RM has been on his ollibobs in Maryland, Baltimore where he spent some time and effort pulling together a somewhat convincing spoof website that apes Mayor Dixon's online home.
And quite a few newspapers, including local rag The Baltimore Sun, swallowed the story without first checking their facts.
The Guardian breathlessly reported today that Mayor Dixon had "spoken out" against futile comments made by shadow home sectary Chris Grayling, who compared what the Tories describe as "Broken Britain" with Baltimore-set The Wire.
"To present a television show as the real Baltimore is to perpetuate a fiction that dishonours [clue one: UK English spelling] our city. It is as pointless as boasting that Baltimore has a per capita homicide rate a fraction of that in the popular UK television show Midsomer Murders," Dixon, with her cheeky smile and come-to-bed eyes, was quoted as saying.
Alas, none of it was true but merely a hoax dreamed up by RM.
If hacks at the Grauniad and elsewhere had checked their facts they might have noticed the site wasn't actually real. The joker was also kind enough to sign his name at the bottom of the press release page, for anyone who might've cared to look.
"Copyright R Monkee Esq," it helpfully reads.
The Guardian updated its story after eventually spotting the journalistic blunder.
"The following correction was due for publication in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 29 August 2009. The mayor of Baltimore did not make the statements attributed to her in the story below – we were caught out by a hoax," reads a tail-between-its-legs statement on the G's website.
The paper also wrote a comment piece confessing to having been duped.
"It was quite an elaborate hoax including not only a spoof website, but also a fake Twitter account and a fake YouTube channel showing beyond any doubt the the [sic] picturesque market town of Midsomer is far deadlier than Baltimore," spluttered the paper.
Aha, so that explains things, then. There was a Twitter account so it must've been true, right?
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
A group of Israeli rabbis has issued an open letter warning that US Secretary of State John Kerry's reckless peace efforts will if they come to fruition result in divine retribution against those involved.
Kerry's "incessant efforts to expropriate integral parts of our Holy Land and hand them over to Abbas's terrorist gang amount to a declaration of war against the Creator and Ruler of the universe," according to rabbis with SOS Israel and the Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel.
The rabbis said that Kerry risks going down in history associated with the likes of Nebuchadnezer and Roman Emporer Titus, "who, by Heavenly punishment, brought eventual disaster upon themselves" by implementing destructive policies toward Israel and the Jews.
The Obama Administration, in particular National Security Advisor Susan Rice, has over the past few days lashed out over what it terms "unacceptable" Israeli criticism of Kerry.
Apparently, the secretary of state's feelings have been hurt.
But certainly no more than the feelings of many Israelis who believe Kerry and the Obama Administration either don't know or don't care about their trials and tribulations, even as the Americans rush forward with establishing a Palestinian state.
In one recent example, Kerry told reporters in Germany that "not one Israeli was murdered by a Palestinian from the West Bank" in all of 2013. Were that true, it would provide a strong backdrop to Kerry's arguments that now is the time to put all the cards on the table and push for a final status peace deal. Unfortunately, it's simply not true.
Five Israelis were murdered by Palestinians from the so-called "West Bank" last year, and another two, both of them children, were critically wounded.
One of the 2013 murder victims was Evyatar Borovsky, a 31-year-old actor and father of five. His widow, Tsofia, spoke to the Washington Free Beacon in the wake of Kerry's apparent gaffe.
"I'm not sure they actually know, that the American government knows what's happening in Israel, that people are being murdered," she said. "The Americans are supposed to be our best friends, but are actually working against us and putting our backs to the wall."
The State Department did quick damage control by insisting that Kerry had actually meant to say no Israelis were killed by Palestinians from the "West Bank" in 2012. And, while that is true, six Israelis were killed by Palestinian terrorism emanating from Gaza that year, and over 1,500 rockets were fired into southern Israel.
Furthermore, all of this ignores the fact that Israel's security forces thwart a huge number of terrorist attacks every year. The Palestinian terror groups haven't stopped attacking, they've just been less successful.
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DBD::ODBC has had increasing support for unicode since version 1.16. However, unicode seems to be an issue that causes a lot of confusion and especially when it comes to DBI and DBDs. The mantra of just DWIM, is complicated because most DBDs were originally written with no unicode support.
I've heard people mention travis-ci but not really paid much attention to it, that is, until yesterday when I issued a pull request from my github account for a few minor fixes to DBI. I wondered if my pull request was applied and took a quick look at DBI on github to see my pull request was still pending. Clicking on my pull request I see a "All is well — The Travis CI build passed" and just clicked on it.
After being forced to drop the subversion repository used by DBD::ODBC as perl.org has dropped subversion I moved it to github. Then, my friends working on DBI related modules setup up perl5-dbi and Merijn (Tux) helpfully moved DBD::ODBC under that umbrealla for me - thanks Tux.
I spent a small amount of time debugging a problem in a script I was modifying this morning as a while loop with each seemed to loop forever:
I've just uploaded DBD::ODBC 1.44_1 to the CPAN. This is the first release since the enforced move away from subversion on perl.org (not that this is a complaint). Hopefully, with DBD::ODBC being on github now I might get a bit more in the way of contributions.
There are a couple of bugs fixed but unless you reported them I'd be surprised if you are affected by them but all testing is welcome.
This is a full release of all the 1.42_* development releases.
Minor fix to 10handler.t test suite which relied on a native error being true instead of defined.
Not all modules used in test code were specified in build_requires.
Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.42_2 December 17 2012
There is no need to upgrade to this version unless you are on a 64 bit platform where ints are 4 bytes and you update/delete/insert more than 2^31 rows and need the affected rows back.
Whilst at YAPC::EU 2012 (what a great conference BTW) a friend suggested I might change DBIx::Log4perl to DBIx::LogAny (where Log::Any did not exist when I wrote DBIx::Log4perl). DBIx::Log4perl came about when I was writing a large DBI based application and needed to know what was going on and realized the DBI tracing was far too detailed for us. DBIx::Log4perl logs at different levels DBI method calls and in particular everything it can find when an error occurs. Mostly all I needed was everything I could find when an error occurred but logging SQL passed to do and prepare and bound parameters etc was useful too.
I've just released Perl DBD::ODBC 1.42_0 development release.
There is no reason to upgrade unless you are using the MS Access ODBC Driver.
=head2 Changes in DBD::ODBC 1.42_0 November 28 2012
MS Access requires a longchar column to be bound using SQL_LONGVARCHAR.
However, MS Access does not support SQLDescribeParam and we default to
SQL_VARCHAR in this case. The point at which we switch to SQL_LONGVARCHAR
was defaulted to 4000 (for MS SQL Server). We now default to SQL_LONGVARCHAR
for MS Access when data is > 255. This means you can remove those
Whilst at YAPC::EU 2012 there was a talk which included Log::Any. I didn't attend that talk but a friend (Jens Rehsack) was and he wondered why DBIx::Log4perl wasn't DBIx::LogAny. The simple answer is that Log::Any did not exist when I wrote it and we were using Log::Log4perl.
I had plans for today but the weather was poor and so I thought I'd try a quick hack of DBIx::LogAny. You can find it here. There are 2 problems:


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Friday, September 16, 2011
Coffee protects brain from Alzheimer's
For years we've been told that was bad for us. It's unhealthy and addictive, doctors warned. But as vindication for all who stuck by their energizing elixir, a new study shows that coffee may actually be good for our brains. In fact, it may help keep Alzheimer disease away.
The study, which was published early online in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, was in mice whose DNA had been tweaked to contain a human Alzheimer's gene. Just like humans with familial Alzheimer's, these mice become increasingly forgetful as they age.
Amazingly, the equivalent of four to five cups of caffeinated coffee every few days led to much improved memories in the Alzheimer's mice, says study co-author Gary Arendash, a scientist at the Florida Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in Tampa.
Earlier research by Arendash and his colleagues showed that caffee could at least partially block the production of beta amyloid, the sticky protein that clogs the brains of Alzheimer's patients. They also found that a substance called granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, or GCSF, sparked the production of new axons, the communication cables that link nerve cells together, as well as new nerve cells themselves.
What's really interesting is that caffeinated coffee and decaffeinated coffee -help us to keep away Alzheimer disease.
For the new study, Arendash and his colleagues "treated" healthy mice and Alzheimer's mice with either caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee. Then the researchers ran a test to see if either beverage led to better memories.
The test they used mimics one that is given to humans to diagnose Alzheimer's. In that test, people are given a bag of objects to look through (we'll call that Bag A). And then they're shown another bag of objects (Bag B). Later on, they're asked to remember what was in Bag A.
Studies have shown that people with Alzheimer's have a tough time remembering what was in Bag A because the distraction of looking through the objects from Bag B gets in the way of storing the contents of A in their long term memories. That's generally not a problem for people with healthy brains.
The two part mouse test involved water mazes. The mice has to find -- and remember -- the location of a submerged platform in a tub of water that is deep enough that they need to swim till they find the platform.
After they find the platform in one tub, they're moved to another tub where they have to find yet another platform. Mice with Alzheimer's generally have a tough time remembering the location of the first platform when they're placed in the original tub. But in Arendash's study, Alzheimer's mice that got caffeinated coffee and decaffeinated coffee had memories that were just as good as those of normal mice.
Lest you dismiss this study because it's just in rodents, Arendash says he's got new data in humans. That data is still being analyzed, he says, but so far it looks like caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee has the same impact in people as it does in mice.
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How Technology Wires the Learning Brain by Tina Barseghian
Kids between the ages of 8 and 18 spend 11.5 hours a day using technology — whether that's computers, television, mobile phones, or video games – and usually more than one at a time. That's a big chunk of their 15 or 16 waking hours.
But does that spell doom for the next generation? Not necessarily, according to Dr. Gary Small, a neuroscientist and professor at UCLA, who spoke at the Learning & the Brain Conference last week.
"Young people are born into technology, and they're used to using it 24/7," Small said. "Their brains are wired to use it elegantly."
Video games, for example, aren't just about repetitive tasks – many of them have built-in social components that allow kids to communicate. Texting isn't about using a gadget — it's about connecting with someone else.
"Texting is an expression of what it means to be human," Small said. "We love being connected to other people. It's a very compelling emotional urge, and it's hard to give up moment to moment."
That's why one well-liked teacher Small knows gives her students a five-minute texting break in the middle of class. Educators also use texting in class as a means to gauge understanding of the subject and take instant polls, for example.
In a study called "Your Brain on Google," Small and his peers tested the brain activity of two groups — "Internet-naïve" (mostly 65 and older who had very little experience online) and "Internet smart"– while reading a book versus conducting a Google search.
In the "Internet savvy" group, there was twice as much brain activity in all parts of the brain while they were conducting a Google search than while they were reading a book. And in the "Internet-naïve" group, after a week of Googling subjects online, there was a significant burst in frontal lobe activity, which controls short-term memory and decision-making.
Small's conclusion? "Google is making us smart," he said. "Searching online is brain exercise."
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|Feb 17, 2013
Mussel-inspired 'glue' for surgical repair and cancer drug delivery
|(Nanowerk News) When it comes to sticking power under wet conditions, marine mussels are hard to beat. They can adhere to virtually all inorganic and organic surfaces, sustaining their tenacious bonds in saltwater, including turbulent tidal environments.
|Northwestern University's Phillip B. Messersmith will discuss his research in a talk titled "Mussel-Inspired Materials for Surgical Repair and Drug Delivery" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting in Boston. His presentation is part of the symposium "Translation of Mussel Adhesion to Beneficial New Concepts and Materials" to be held from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 16.
|Messersmith also will participate in a news briefing, titled "Mussel-Bound Adhesion," to be held at noon the same day.
|He has created new materials that mimic mussel adhesive proteins for three medical applications: sealants for fetal membrane repair, self-setting antibacterial hydrogels, and polymers for cancer drug delivery and thermal destruction of cancer cells.
|"Mussel adhesion is a remarkable process involving secretion of liquid protein glue that hardens rapidly into a solid, water-resistant adhesive," Messersmith said. "Several aspects of this process inspire our development of synthetic materials for practical applications. An unusually compelling opportunity for translation of mussel-adhesion concepts is in the repair or reconstruction of tissues in the human body, where water is ubiquitous and its presence represents a challenge for achieving desired outcomes."
|Messersmith is a professor of biomedical engineering at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
|The foot of the common mussel (Mytilus edulis) produces a sticky glue for adhering to rocks and other objects. Key to its adhesiveness is a family of unique proteins called mussel adhesive proteins, which contain a high concentration of the catecholic amino acid DOPA (dihydroxyphenylalanine).
|All of Messersmith's biomedical materials contain a synthetic form of DOPA. (He first developed a simple synthetic polymer containing DOPA in 2002.) In his AAAS talk, Messersmith will detail these three medical applications of his materials:
|Source: Northwestern University
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The lineup for this month's Bellator 73 event is set with 11 fights.
Officials recently announced the full card, which includes a previously announced featherweight title fight between champion Pat Curran (17-4 MMA, 7-1 BFC) and Patricio "Pitbull" Freire (17-1 MMA, 5-1 BFC), as well as two tournament finals.
Bellator 73 takes place Aug. 24 at Harrah's Tunica Hotel and Casino in Mississippi.
The night's main card airs on MTV2 (and in high-definition on EPIX) following prelims on Spike.com.
In addition to the title, the event's main card features a Season 6 bantamweight tournament final between Marcos Galvao (12-5-1 MMA, 3-2 BFC) and Luis Nogueira (14-2 MMA, 4-1 BFC), as well as a "Summer Series" light-heavyweight tournament final of Attila Vegh (27-4-2 MMA, 3-0 BFC) vs. Travis Wiuff (68-14 MMA, 4-0 BFC).
Rounding out the main card is a heavyweight bout between fast-rising heavyweight prospect Ryan Martinez (7-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) and Mike Wessel (11-4 MMA, 0-0 UFC), a onetime UFC fighter who's won three of his past four fights, all via knockout.
Preliminary-card bouts include lightweights Chris Coggins (6-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Zach Underwood (9-4 MMA, 0-0 BFC), lightweights Cosmo Alexander (2-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Harry Johnson (5-7 MMA, 0-0 BFC), Marcus "Lelo" Aurelio (6-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Amaechi Oselukwue (3-6 MMA, 1-0 BFC) at a catchweight, and heavyweights Chris Miller (1-2 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Maurice Jackson (2-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC).
Additionally, the prelims include welterweights Joe Williams (6-0 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Andy Uhrich (7-3 MMA, 0-0 BFC), light heavyweights Jacob Noe (7-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC) vs. Brian Albin (8-8 MMA, 0-1 BFC), and bantamweights Jay Black (0-1 MMA, 0-1 BFC) vs. Brian Hall (3-1 MMA, 0-0 BFC)
The full Bellator 73 card includes:
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Reviews are a touchy subject both on and off Destructoid, generating all sorts of discussion, controversy and outrage. In a somewhat fruitless effort to try and curb the endless bitching that surrounds reviews, my predecessor Aaron Linde published Destructoid's first review guide.
As handy as it is, Nick Chester and I got together and discussed updating the manual to reflect the needs of the modern woman. I hope to make this a little more concise and address a few recurring issues that I've noticed when it comes to our reviews. Most importantly of all, we are introducing a brand new scoring scale, offering greater differentiation between numbers and hopefully making scoring a little easier for the review team.
Without further ado, let us be off on our journey then. Please enjoy the brand new Destructoid Review Guide.
The Mission:
The mission is simple -- to use the full ten point scale and be as honest and critical as possible. It's really that easy. We have no hidden agenda, we have no plans to "get" anybody. Do we use personal bias? Of course we do -- a review written without personal bias is a review written by an android or a Vulcan, and we have neither on our staff ... yet. We all have preferences, we all have dislikes. As one of the most personality-led blogs in games media, we don't try and hide our partiality in our writing. This actually helps the reader understand where the writer is coming from.
We try and review games based on what we like or know about most so if, for example, Colette rates Chocobo Cloud Smiles 2: Chocobonkers a 2 out of 10, you know it's got to be bad. You can also look at what each reviewer likes and see how your own personal tastes match up to theirs. If you love indie and art games, then your tastes are probably in line with Reverend Anthony Burch's. You now know to trust his reviews above all else on staff.
That's our aim. Brutally honest reviews from people you know and trust. We're none of us Roger Ebert (thank Christ) -- we're simply gamers who are lucky enough to have a soap box to scream on. If you're on Destructoid, chances are you've gotten to know each of us well, so you know who on staff to trust and who on staff to ignore.
The Scale and how we score:
Introducing the new score legend. This is one of the most useful tools for the review crew, because it makes scoring so much easier. We don't just arbitrarily assign points here on Destructoid. Our scale clearly defines what type of game gets what number. The way we generally score is that we write our review, then simply look down the score sheet to find the definition that best summarizes what our review detailed. We merely then pick whatever number is attached.
Here's the new list:
10 -- Flawless Victory (10s are as close to perfect as you will get in a genre or on a platform. Pure, untarnished videogame ecstasy.)
9 -- Superb (9s are a hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage to what is a supreme title.)
8 -- Great (8s are impressive efforts with a few noticeable problems holding them back. Won't astound everyone, but is worth your time and cash.)
7 -- Good (7s are solid games that definitely have an audience. Might lack replay value, could be too short or there are some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.)
6 -- Alright (6s may be slightly above average or simply inoffensive. Fans of the genre should enjoy them a bit, but a fair few will be left unfulfilled.)
5 -- Mediocre (5s are an exercise in apathy, neither Solid nor Liquid. Not exactly bad, but not very good either. Just a bit "meh," really.)
4 -- Below Average (4s have some high points, but they soon give way to glaring faults. Not the worst games, but are difficult to recommend.)
3 -- Poor (3s went wrong somewhere along the line. The original idea might have promise, but in practice the game has failed. Threatens to be interesting sometimes, but rarely.)
2 -- Bad (2s are a disaster. Any good they might have had are quickly swallowed up by glitches, poor design choices or a plethora of other issues. The desperate or the gullible may find a glimmer of fun hidden somewhere in the pit.)
1 -- Epic Fail (1s are the lowest of the low. There is no potential, no skill, no depth and no talent. These games have nothing to offer the world, and will die lonely and forgotten.)
As you can see, the bracketed explanation now talks about all games that fall under that score, rather than speak as if it's a single game. This is because that, while including the score summary in our reviews has helped curbed bitching a little, it had the unpleasant side-effect of confusing Metacritic and industry folk who thought they were summaries of each individual review. Not good, so we decided to change that.
Why we use scores in the first place:
This one always comes up, and I want to address it as clearly as possible. There are a number of reasons why we use a score. The main one, of course, is that it's the system Metacritic uses and if we want our reviews to have any kind of influence on the games industry, staying in Metacritic is a good idea. We review for fun on Destructoid, but it would be also nice to think that maybe one day our critique will reach the steel, cold heart of an Ubisoft executive and that person will think "You know what? They're right, Princess Shitty's Big Shitty Wii Exploiting Adventure of Shit wasn't really a very good game at all!"
That will probably never happen, but it's a nice dream.
It's also a fact that scores are what people pay attention to. While you or I may believe that reading a review is the important part, scores do matter in the long run. If they are as unimportant to some of you as you claim, then by all means place a piece of duct tape in a thin strip along the screen so that it covers up the score when you scroll down. Simply ignore it and move on.
If you have any other queries about our scoring system, please go here.
The review crew and how we do bidbiz:
The core review staff consists of Nick Chester, Anthony Burch, Colette Bennett, Dale North, Brad Rice, Jonathan Holmes and Samit Sarkar, as well as myself. Each one is on the crew because they each have different tastes and can cover the vast majority of releases out there. While Dale North is very PS3 and PSP-oriented, for example, Jonathan Holmes is a total Nintendo fanboy who can review most Wii games. It's a staff that compliments each other well.
We have a document which I set up each month detailing the next few weeks of reviews. My core team has access to the document and are able to claim reviews for themselves and arrange our ever-popular multi-author reviews. Once the core team is assigned, we also get the rest of the staff on board. So far it's a system that's worked and should ensure that our coverage becomes more extensive and timely in the future.
Why are reviews late and why do you bother?
Reviews are often "late," and that can be for a variety of reasons. Sometimes I'm reviewing a game and, while currently in England, have to deal with a later release date. We don't always get review copies either, so our reviewers sometimes pay out of pocket on the day of release.
While we're always working to improve that, it can have its benefits -- getting free releases is nice, but it's not something we've found we need. Our reviews have remained popular in spite of swiftness, and that means we don't need review copies. Since they are not a total necessity, we are under no obligation to appease publishers. We don't sign clandestine contracts to ensure we have the "first" review. I know of one publisher who was unsatisfied with a Dtoid review and decided to take its ball and go home -- that's fine. We got on just fine without that company's support beforehand, and we can continue to succeed without it now.
Another benefit is that we don't rush our reviews. When asked, I only have one answer to the question "when do you want this review done?" The answer simply is "when it's done." While I don't feel total completion of a videogame is either necessary or always practical, I do feel that the reviewer must be completely comfortable in their knowledge of a game before committing digital pen to digital paper. If that means a review has to be out by a week, two weeks or even a month, that's fine.
Quickfire FAQ:
Why did you bother writing this review? It's weeks late!
A very simple answer to this: We did it because we wanted to. We love talking about games, we love being critical about games, and we love people discussing our thoughts about games. What more reason could you really need? Besides which, I have often found reviews of old games helpful in getting an idea of what a title I may have missed is about. Hopefully, when we get a reviews database up and running, we can be just as helpful to latecomers.
You gave Too Human a 2 and Pirates vs. Ninjas a 3. Why?!?!?!?
Games can be very difficult to compare to each other, and I don't think it's wise to do so. My predecessor stated that our reviews are not meant to be directly compared to each other. I think that in terms of games of a similar genre, our reviews can be comparable. However, if you're trying to compare the score of a big-budget retail game to a small-time downloadable title, I think your sense of perspective is off.
I disagree with your reviews. Why are you so bad at writing reviews?
Thank you. Please refer to this picture of a California sea lion for all further issues you have regarding our reviews:
I hope that helps!
BioShock got a high score during a BioShock ad campaign, and Castle Crashers got a high score with Dtoid staff names in the credits. Are you dirty sellouts?
Mr. Destructoid was in Eternity's Child and its creator, Luc Bernard, is a friend of mine. We all saw what happened there.
No, we're not dirty sellouts. I have never agreed to anything with a publisher concerning the content of my reviews, and if anybody on the review crew had done so, they wouldn't be writing reviews again. To reiterate an earlier point -- Destructoid became as big as it did without help from industry folk. We're not terrified of losing support if we piss somebody off. They'll just have to suck it up, won't they?
Do you deliberately assign low scores for controversy's sake?
Secret tip: We don't like talking shit about videogames, really. Okay, maybe sometimes if a game is absolutely awful, it can be cathartic and satisfying to critically maul it, but honestly, we'd rather be able to talk about how a game is awesomebiscuits and strawberry kisses instead. As already stated, we have a scoring system in place that makes the body of the review the deciding factor in the number we use -- it's not arbitrary.
We don't need controversy. It can be fun when it happens, but it's not something we require, and accusing us of courting it on purpose with low scores is a very immature charge. We really don't find it all that rewarding to read a hundred poorly-written run-on sentences describing about how we "suck at reviews" and "can't write for shit" because we dared to give a game you like a low score, so no. No we don't do it on purpose. We have better things to do than upset five people at N4G.
Do you like me? Yes/No.
And that should be everything. We may periodically update this page, and shall be linking to it in all reviews as usual. If you have any further questions or suggestions, by all means share them with the class. I hope this is helpful, or at least entertaining, to those who have an interest in our reviews.
Now, I'm off to deliberately give a game a 1/10 for pageviews LOLZORZ!
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BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.)
April 1, 1941
Chapel Chorus
Offers Cantata
Sem Seniors Sponsor
Newest Organization
Bethel's newest organization, the
Bethel Chapel Choir, will be spon-sored
by the S. S. C. in singing the
"Seven Last Words of Christ" at
8:15 P. M. in the College Chapel
on the evening of Tuesday, April 8.
The program will be under the di-rection
of J. Gordon Peterson, di-rector
of the choir.
Four individuals, Dorothy Nel-son,
Ethel Tederman, Ruth Lund-quist,
and Mary Anne Liljenstrom,
will take the soprano solos, and
five men, Maurice Valine, Virgil
Olson, Roger Youngquist, Truman
Halvorsen, and John Valine will
sing the tenor and baritone solos.
The cantata, a composition by
Theodore Dubois, is built about the
scene of the crucifixion.
The introduction, "All Ye Peo-ple,"
is a soprano solo. Baritone
and tenor soloists together with
the choir sing the first word, "Fa-ther,
Forgive Them," and this is
followed by a tenor and baritone
duet, "Today Shalt Thou Be," with
a choral background. The third
word, "Woman, Behold Thy Son,"
is sung by soprano, tenor, and bari-tone
soloists, also with a choral
"My God, My God, Why Hast
Thou Forsaken Me?" the fourth
word, is a baritone solo, and the
fifth word, "I Thirst," will be sung
by tenor and bariton, supported
again by the chorus. The sixth
word, "Father, Into Thy Hands I
Commend My 'Spirit," a tenor solo
with the chorus, leads up to the
climatic "It Is Finished" with a
choral background for soprano,
tenor, and baritone solos. The
grand finale in the form of a pray-er,
"Thee We Adore, 0 Christ" in
its majesty, brings out all the joy
of victory over death and the
Through its renditions every
Wednesday morning in the com-bined
Chapel, and by singing at
special services in the Central Bap-tist
Church, the Choir under Mr.
Peterson's capable direction, has
gained 'a reputation for fine choral
work. It will sing amidst a beau-tiful
Easter setting and at this
program will display for the first
time its new robes, donated by the
Women's Federation.
Clarence Olson, former Bethel
student, will play the accompani-ment.
Committees in the Senior Class
are working hard to make this one
of the outstanding programs of the
year. In charge of decorations is
Virgil. Olson; ticket sales are in
charge of Alrik Bloomquist, and
John Valine • is in charge .of adver-tising.
Although this is the newest or-ganization
in the school, it has al-.
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Fever Germs
Again on Loose
Stop that bug! That which Dr.
Concentration feared all winter
long has happened! The fearful
pestilence has loosed its mischief
upon the peoples of the world. The
earth is fraught with danger. Any
corner that you turn may prove
you are at the mercy of the ter-ror!
Don't let anyone sneeze in your
direction. Bugs! Don't eat with
anyone's spoon—Bugs ! Serum is
being rushed in by Dr. (Dean)
Johnson and his colleagues, Facul-ty.
It is hoped that the panic may
be checked before the danger is,
too widespread.
The department of Public Mo-rale
has issued strict instructions
to be on the lookout for the bac-teria
that has caused so much
A report has just been released
that Professor Fridolph Nelson has
succumbed. Here is an account of
the experience in his own words:
"Spring is coming. How I have
missed that rosebush which blooms
three hundred and sixty-five days
a year in front of my Berkeley,
California, home! They say Spring
here in Minnesota, is unusual. How
I anticipate it!"
Oh, happy, glorious, joyous
spring fever!
ready made a name for itself, and
has proved itself to be deserving
of complete support by the entire
student body and faculty. Admis-sion
will be twenty-five cents to
all students in any school, and
thirty-five cents to all adults. Pro-ceeds
from the concert will be used
to buy a suitable gift for the
school from the graduating class of
the Seminary.
Campus Calendar
When What
April 8 Sr. Sem. Program
April 9 Alexis
April 10 Easter Vacation
April 21 Classes Resumed
Planned For Easter
Prof. Norstrom to Accompany
Group to S. Dakota, Iowa
In accordance with present plans,
a Gospel Team sponsored by the
Religious Council will visit several
Swedish Baptist churches in Iowa,
South Dakota, and Minnesota dur-ing
the week of April 14 through
On the team will be: Bill Hag-strom
and Gunnar Hoglund, who
will preach; Roger Youngquist,
Ethel Tederman, Harriet Ander-son,
Howard Olson, and Gerald
Larson, who will drive. Professor
Norstrom will accompany the
The first service will be held in
the Lake Sarah, Minnesota, church
on Monday evening, April 14. From
there the team will travel to Ar-thur,
Iowa; Kiron, Iowa; Sioux
City, Iowa; Big Springs, South Da-kota;
Alcester, South Dakota;
Worthington, Minnesota; returning
the following Sunday afternoon.
The team will present a varied
program of music and testimony
in each of these churches. The
group will travel in the Bethel Gos-pel
Team bus.
Building Committee Meets
Saturday noon, March 22, the
special building committee for the
Women's Dormitory met with the
architect, Howard Skoglund, to
discuss plans for the building.
The various officers for the com-mittee
were chosen. Dr. C. G. Bur-ton
was chosen chairman; Thor
Knutson, vice-chairman, and Mrs.
H. Johnson, secretary.
They decided to meet twice a
week to keep in contact with the
building progress at all times.
At this meeting they definitely
decided on the size of the rooms
and the corridors. They also
changed the plans to include a full
Soph Program Is Success
The Minneapolis A Capella Choir,
featured by the Junior College
Sophomores last Friday evening,
drew a crowd which listened at-tentively
as the choir progressed
through its repertoire of choral se-lections.
A privilege to listen to, the choir
brought a 'concert similar to that
given in its annual musicale re-cently.
Prof. George Hultgren di-rects
this well known and acclaim-ed
Use of Prayer Towers Urged
Reuben Nelson Is Speaker
This year as we approach the
Easter season, students here at
Bethel are turning their attention
toward the Religious Emphasis
week to be held April 7 through
10. This week is intended to be a
time of reconsideration of the value
of Christ's death and resurrection.
More than that it is intended to
be a time of spiritual refreshing
and of reconsecration to His serv-ice.
The activities of the week will
be centered about the daily chapel
services at which Rev. Reuben
Nelson, secretary of the Minnesota
Baptist Convention, will be the
guest speaker. The Seminary and
the Junior College students will
join in these services.
An important part of the week
will be the daily, prayer meetings
and the prayer towers. Bethel has
been founded on prayer and has
often shown the power of prayer
in the lives of students. This week
should therefore be a week of con-tinued
and earnest prayer. Already
students have begun to pray for
this week that it might be a time
of real spiritual blessing to every-one.
This will be the first year that
the week has been designated as
Religious Emphasis Week al-though
pre Easter consecration has
been a main issue. In thus setting
aside such a week, Bethel is join-ing
with many other colleges which
have similarly provided a period
for deeper consideration of spirit-ual
Harry Abrahamson is chairman
of the committee which is arrang-ing
the programs for the chapel
services. Working with him are
Martha McMillen, Hazelle Fossum,
and William Hagstrom.
With the prayers of students be-hind
it, this Religious Emphasis
Week will be a mountain-top ex-perience
in the lives of all Bethel-ites.
Use the Clarion box! It has been
placed in the mail square for your
convenience. Place all and sundry
contributions to the editor in it.
The Clarion box pleads: "Feed
Religious Emphasis Stress Is
Major Message of Easter Week
Gospel Team Trip Consecrated Life Is Goal
A bi-weekly campus newspaper.
1480 North Snelling Ave., St. Paul, Minn.
Published by students every other Tuesday
except In July and August.
Alice Scliouweiler Editor in Chief
Paul Anderson Associate Editor
Gene Nyman Sports Editor
Herb Johnson Copy Editor
Rodger Renclahl Research Editor
Elving Anderson, Betty Anderson, Gunnar Hoglund, Dave Moberg, Jeanette
Peterson, Sara Swenson, Arlene Johnson, Maurice Valine, Muriel
Salmonson Reporters
Dallas West Daily News Service
Miss Enid Platts Adviser
Archie Johnson Business Manager
Gerald Larson Advertising Assistant
Hazel Fossum, Doris Johnson Circulation Assistants
Dean Emery Johnson Adviser
Printed by the Anderson Press
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Entered as second-class matter October 9, 1935. at the postoffice of St. Paul,
Minnesota, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
By Ray Appelquist
The great English artist, Turn-er,
has painted some very delicate
shadows in one of his masterpiec-es.
Two men were looking at this
particular painting and one re-marked
to the other, "Aren't those
shadows along the fence marvel-lous
"I don't see any shadows," the
other rather cynically replied.
The first man asked quietly,
"Don't you wish you could?"
We who have found and followed
Christ have had a new and differ-ent
world of appreciation opened
to us. When first we yielded to the
Master, we found "evidence of
things not seen." That which was
revealed to Paul "constrained"
him to go out and lead others to
the light.
The vision should have the same
effect in our lives, but quite often
we underestimate the privilege of
having spiritual sight, and more
often we hesitate to assume the
duty which it demands. Successful
Christian service depends upon the
proper evaluation of our privilege
and the glad assumption of our
"I was not disobedient unto the
heavenly vision." Acts 26:19.
Can These Things
—Be True?
A church statistician says that
five per cent of all church mem-bers
do not exist; ten per cent of
them cannot be found; twenty-five
per cent never go to church; fifty
per cent never contribute a cent
to the work of the church; seven-ty-
five per cent never attend the
mid-week prayer service; ninety
per cent do not have family wor-ship
in their homes; and ninety-five
per cent never try to win a
lost soul to Christ. If the state-ment
is true, it is startling.—The
Watchman Examiner.
The Ram's Tale
Not most of us, but too many of
us, have put too much reliance on
the ram of the Golden Fleece. As
in the Greek myth of old we look
for the ram to appear, to rescue us
from a cruel stepmother of our
own designing.
The fact that we ourselves de-signed
the pitfall is the most pite-ous
aspect - of all.
How often you and I put off in-significant
but inevitable tasks of
small fame in favor of some deed
that absolutely must be done, here
in school for instance.
It is no uncommon thing to let
written work slide by in order to
better prepare an oral talk; or to
do the written work to the exclu-sion
of the reading assignment. If
such and such a task "puts us on
the spot," so to speak, we invaria-bly
get it in.
There is definitely a problem
concerned with this situation. Do
we fail ourselves, and discredit our
honor personally by skipping that
which we feel will never be miss-ed?
But, did I say "never be miss-ed"?
Common experience has
proved that the "never be missed"
is missed, about four times a
school year, and those who have
slipped through, in sinking despair,
scan the sky for the glint of Gold-en
Always the ram fails us as com-pletely
and miserably as it rescued
Phrixus and his sister Helle. We
turn to face doom.
Is the immediate result of our
negligence and procrastination the
only evil? Has the ripple of our
supposedly insignificant splash
ceased after the first widening
There are those who say no.
There are some who go so far as
to say that a part of our moral in-tegrity
has been destroyed. To say
that we have robbed and cheated
Phrixus and Helle were lifted
through the air while pleasant
breezes brushed away the dark
cobwebs of sadness. We feel the
heavy stigma of a brand descend
upon us.
You think we're gonna write hu-mor—
That today the joke will be
rule—You think we'll spout forth
with—Well .... APRIL FOOL!
On this day especially dedicated
to us, and you, and you, we're
gonna pull an April Fool and be
serious. (Did we hear someone say
we never were very funny?)
Well, to get on. Did you know?
1) That C. E. Carlson once failed
in history? (There's hope for
all of us.)
2) That Fridolph Nelson once
caught a bank robber—while
working in a bank in Cali-fornia?
3) That Bill Adam once broke
the U. S. record in pole vault.
4) That Miss Johnson was ex-pelled
from a high school for
sassing the teacher?
(ha! ha! April Fool)
Ah me! What to talk about?
Tests are over, we don't know yet
whether March will go out like a
lion or a lamb. Bev Jones and Nel-ton
F. haven't made any more
claims to immortality, all the them
students have been so busy tear-ing
their hair over experiments,
etc.—and you and you and you
haven't done anything worthy of
note—but anyway here goes.
Theme song of every stu-dent
after mid-semesters—"It
all comes back to me now."
. Speaking of mid-semesters,
one brilliant wag was heard to
remark after the mod. world
It all started with a task whose
completion was entrusted to our
sense of honor. A task that never
was completed. Sure, we failed in
a test, but also we failed in a major
battle with our better being.
Everything links with the old
saying, "Little acorns into mighty
oak-trees grows." What kind of
oak-trees will grow from your
acorns; the straight and mighty
oak or a pitiful gnarled specimen
of frustrated growth?
Gazing on moonlit fields last night
That rippled in changing shades of
It seemed each wheat head of it-self
Glowed with a strange unearthly
And out of the silence I heard one
"Who eats of this bread shall know
Hunger—until his heart is clay!"
Then in a vision I saw a room
In a quiet home and a table spread,
Where One with pale hands broke
the bread.
Whose words of truth shattered
life's gloom
And made each listener hold his
"This is my body; who eats of it,
No more shall hunger, nor taste of
—John Richard Moreland.
history ORDEAL —"Napoleon
and me—We both met our Wa-terloo
in European history."
And then there is Herr
Jorgenson, who flipped a coin
to determine whether he'd try
"die" or "der" in the German
Some paragraphic thots for all
guys and gals what have an early
case of Spring fever—
"Love may make the world go
'round but some people are dizzy
even before it." (Not mentioning
any names.)
"They say absence makes the
heart grow fonder—but we think
it's presents does the trick."
"Marriage is an institution of
learning where one loses his Bach-elor's
degree and acquires a Mas-ter's."
Some people think they're
smart! Forinstance. Vic 0.
talking about the job he's go-ing
to get. We forget—was it
100,000 or $200,000 a year you
are going to make?
Roger Y. and his definitely
puny puns that never fail to
produce a satisfied smile at
least on him You—you
know who you are—who said
you got thru the Hist test with-out
opening your book
All of which leads us very nat-urally
to our concluding poem—
Dude out west,
Fell by chance
On a cactus—
Smarty Pants!
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Pierre Tangent. '38, is getting his
Master's degree in sociology at the
University of South Dakota. He is
still maintaining his pastorate at
Viborg, S. Dak.
Rudy Gustafson, C.W.C. '37, has
received a six months deferment
from the army, so that he can
build a house. He and Maxine
Luhmen, '38, are to be married
April 12, after which the army gets
Eddie Nelson, '39, and Wilbur
Sorley, '39, have been holding a
series of Sunday School efficiency
conferences throughout the state.
Herman and Mrs. Tegenfeldt, '40,
send the following note from Sing-apore:
"Singapore is surely some
place. You can see all colors of
skin, behold all types of dress, and
smell all kinds of odors. Eddie has
gotten a light case of measles, but
is getting over it. Tomorrow we
leave for Penang, where we wait
about ten days and leave for
Rangoon, getting there about Feb.
Rev. E. E. Hall, '09, pastor of
the Lakeview Baptist church, Chi-cago.
Ill., has been on the campus
both as a speaker in the college
and in the seminary.
Thu the Trance-urn
• • •
THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Heitzman Takes
Speech Honors
Two Newcomers, Veteran
Place In Home Meet
Eleven hopeful aspirants, all
women, competed for the laurels
in the Interpretive Reading Con-test,
Wednesday, March 26, in the
seminary chapel.
There were three divisions in the
contest: ten girls took part in
Poetry, four in Prose, and two in
The winners in the poetry divi-sion
were the following: First,
Helen Heitzman, who read "The
Barrel Organ" by Alfred Noyes;
second, Betty Anderson, who in-terpreted
"Patterns" by Amy Low-ell;
and third, Ruth Lundquist,
who gave "Jazz Fantasia" by Carl
In prose, the first honor was giv-en
to La Verne Berglund, who read
"Later" by Michael Foster, and
second to Helen Heitzman, who
read "They Grind Exceeding Small"
by Ben Ames Williams.
The first place in drama was
won by Joyce Johnson, who read a
scene from "The Fool" by Chan-ning
Pollock, and the second by
Ruth Lundquist, who read a scene
from "The Taming of the Shrew"
by William Shakespeare.
The critic was Miss Hazel Hog-lund,
instructor of English in Ano-ka
High School. Along with the
rendering of the decisions, she
gave constructive criticisms of the
interpretations of each contestant.
The program was as follows:
Poetry -
"Chicago" Carl Sandburg
Miriam Johanson
"Lilacs" Amy Lowell
Violet Carlson
"Patterns" Amy Lowell
Betty Anderson
"The Blindman" Harvey Allen
Olga Anderson
"The Barrel Organ" Alfred Noyes
Helen Heitzman
"Eruption in Utopia"
Genevieve Taggard
Joyce Johnson
"Four Preludes on Playthings of
the Wind" Carl Sandburg
Jeanette Peterson
"To a Contemporary Bunk-shooter"
Carl Sandburg
Betty White
"A Musical Instrument"
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Phyllis Karlson
"Jazz Fantasia" Carl Sandburg
Ruth Lundquist
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Bethel Men Hold
Festivity Night
Laying aside their duties for an
evening, the men of Bethel met to-gether
in the J. C. Chapel for an
evening of fun and entertainment.
Mr. Harry Brownlee presented a
magically illustrated sermonette.
After a couple of cuts of apple
pie a la mode, the group was
shown a sound film dealing with
training of pilots for the U. S.
Army Air Corps. This feature was
especially interesting to the young
men, because of the extensive
training being given at the present
time. The film started out with
the greenhorn pilot, who had just
enlisted to train in a civilian fly-ing
school. After a period of train-ing
in fundamentals of airplane
flight, the pilot was transferred to
Randolph Field, "West Point of
the Air." Three months were
spent here training in basic com-bat
training planes. An advanced
course in formation flying, aero-nautical
engineering principles,
airplane mechanics, and related
courses was given in an additional
three months visit to Kelly Field,
the main training field of fighter
pilots. The pilot not only learned
of combat in the sky, but was also
drilled in ground drills and tac-tics.
Dean Emery Johnson was mas-ter
of ceremonies at the party.
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By Dave Moberg
March 21 Professor Norstrom
spoke on the subject "Christian
Service through Natural Sciences."
Many problems and many voca-tions,
such as medicine, crime, and
armies and navies, have arisen be-cause
man fell into sin. God has a
definite relation to every vocation
in the world today. God has said
many things pertaining to science
in the Bible, but it took a long
time for many of them to sink into
the minds and experience of man.
Goodyear, McCormick, Jessep,
Faraday, Baldwin, and countless
other famous Christian scientists
and business men have been will-ing
to sacrifice and suffer so that
others can reap the benefits of
their work.
We should always remember the
first commandment, "Lay all forms
of life under your dominion," and
that means we should begin by
making our own body the type of
machine that will serve us in years
to come. A second thing we should
remember is that we should meet
the problems of our day; they are
the same as those in the days of
pioneers, but they're clothed in
different garments. Above all, we,
as Americans, have a big job, to
make America strong physically,
nationally, and spiritually.
* * * *
On March 28 Professor Carlson
led a class discussion on the sub-ject,
"What Constitutes a Divine
Call in Life and How Does It
1. Realization of a need.
2. The ability to fill the need.
3. A desire to fill the need.
4. Opportunity to do the work.
5. A feeling of satisfaction re-sulting
from the decision.
6. Messages from the Scriptures.
7. A still, small, inner voice.
8. Signs (this category would in-clude
all other groups, and would
also include the closing or opening
of opportunities to service).
In closing Professor Carlson
again stressed the fact that there
is no one procedure which we can
lay down and say that this is the
way in which God calls men.
Gospel Groups Visit
Cambridge and Isle
Appelquist, Hoglund,
Johnson Are Speaker
Two gospel teams went out from
Bethel last Sunday to present the
Word in song and speech.
One went to Cambridge where
Ray Appelquist brought the mes-sage
in the morning and Gunnar
Hoglund presented the evening
service. The trio, Dorothy Nelson,
Mary Ann Liljenstrom, and Ann
Marie Wallberg, sang. Francis
McOlash gave an instrumental se-lection.
Professor Norstrom represented
the faculty on the trip, and also
taught the men's Bible class, in
the morning.
A second team traveled to Op-stead
for Sunday morning services,
and to Isle for an evening service.
Gordon Johnson was speaker for
this group. Assisting him in song
were Ruth Elaine Lundquist, Ruth
Johnson, and Leona Smith. Jack
Bergeson drove the bus which
transported both teams, leaving the
first at Cambridge on the way
Sable Speaks at Program
Ably holding the attention of the
Missionary Band members, Miss
Sabel presented an illustrated talk
on the work being done for the
lepers throughout the world.
"This field was once neglected,"
said Miss Sabel, "but at the pres-ent
time at least two denomina-tions
are working in this field."
Following Miss Sabel's talk, Le-ona
Pearson read excerpts from
some recently received missionary
letters. Irene Nelson and Esther
Osby played and sang two songs.
Sara Mae Srwensson and LaVerne
Berglund arranged an interesting
table for the serving of the re-freshments.
After the refresh-ments,
the group enjoyed a fellow-ship
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Adam Is Given
Radio by Teams
Gift Is Token of Esteem
Players Feel for Coach
The members of the men's and
women's basketball squads met in
the college Coffee Shoppe on Fri-day,
March 28, to honor Coach Bill
Adam. An RCA mantel type radio
was presented him by the players,
managers, and others connected
with the teams as a ,token of ap-preciation
for his endless hours of
painstaking effort on the basket-ball
In the short time Adam has been
here he has turned out some pow-erful
teams in both the men's and
women's departments. The entire
sports setup has been revolution-ized
under the Adam regime to
give everyone a part in the school's
athletic program.
The presentation of this gift is
merely exemplary of the high es-teem
in which Coach Adam is held
by those who work with him daily.
Baseball Practice Begins
Men Start Workout
In Gym
Baseball practice started official-ly
on Monday, March 24, when
thirteen candidates reported for
the initial workout of the season.
Coach Adam stated that he intend-ed
putting the men through a se-ries
of daily calisthenics and ex-ercises
to loosen up arm muscles
stiff from disuse. Outdoor prac-tice
will be scheduled as soon as
the weather permits.
Prospects for a strong team look
fairly bright as there are seven re-turning
lettermen and plenty of
competition for the open spots re-maining.
Those reporting from last
year's squad are Francis McOlash,
Warren Johnson, Gordon Peterson,
Truman Halvorsen, Red Mar-quardt,
Val Hauk, and Ole Nelson.
New candidates are Herschel Rog-ers,
Conrad Tedlund, Roland Gus-tafson,
Ed Nelson, Elwood Ander-son,
and Vic Osterman.
Last year's outfield returned in-tact
with Johnson in left field,
Marquardt in center, and Halvor-sen
in right. McOlash, Hauk, and
Tedlund will probably get the hurl-ing
assignments while the catch-ing
positiin is still anybody's spot.
Peterson will probably again get
the nod at the initial sack while
the other three infield spots re-main
to be filled. If these posi-tions
can be successfully assigned,
a better than average season can
be expected.
Coach Adam stated that some
work would be done during Easter
vacation to put the diamond in
shape for play. The first contest
of a ten game schedule will be
slated for the first week in May.
Reverend Carl Nelson, pastor of
the Evangelical Free Church of St.
Paul, will be the chapel speaker
tomorrow, April 1.
Plugs Defeat Gophers
Twice To Enter
Gym Class Finals
After suffering a close defeat at
the hands of the Gophers, the
Plugs, of the freshmen gym class,
came back to capture the class ti-tle
by virtue of two straight vic-tories.
The first game was the
Plug's all the way. They were
leading 13 to 2 at the half, and fin-ished
on the long end of a 27 to 11
score. Wessman led the Plugs
with 14 tallies, while Paul Ander-son
gathered five to pace the los-ers.
In the second game, the Gophers
started out with fire in their eyes.
They were on the long end of a
14 to 11 score at the half, but in
the deciding second half, couldn't
stave off the determined attack of
the Plugs, and succumbed to a 25-
20 defeat. This game gave the
Plugs the freshman class cham-pionship
team of the sophomore
In the first game, the Plugs
'swamped the sophs 42-12. Wess-man
got twenty-one points to lead
the Plugs. Hoglund, captain of the
sophomore team, garnered seven
tallies for the losers. The series
will continue this afternoon, with
the winner of two out of three
games claiming the all-school
Men's !Recreation Clu6
Will Be Reorganized
At the Bethel men's meeting
sponsored by the faculty on Mon-day,
March 24, it was decided to
reorganize the men's recreation
club for the school year of 1941-42.
A committee of four members was
named to consider possible plans
for revitalizing the club. The com-mittee
members in the order
named, are: Bob Dischinger, Carl
Lundquist, Dury Miller, and Bob
The club room on the third floor
of the college building is available
but some refurnishing is necessary.
Ping pong tournaments, horseshoe
tourneys, checker and chess con-tests,
and swimming meets would
be sponsored by the ,club. Inci-dentally,
Dean Emery Johnson has
already challenged all corners for a
chess series.
The club was first organized in
1936 and has functioned every year
since but this one. The' biggest
obstacle to overcome is the lack of
an active membership.
A volleyball team representing
the seminary class of middlemen
defeated the seniors in two games
of three by scores of 21 to 14, 20 to
22,, and 21 to 16. The series was
played on Wednesday, March 26, in
the seminary gym.
* *
Then there was the girl who
thought she was the village
belle until she was told.
* * * *
Francis McOlash came back
strong to take the third set of his
series with Gus Ferre for the all-school
handball championship.
Every point was hotly contested
with Mickey copping the first and
third games by scores of 21 to 12
and 21 to 19. Ferre won the sec-ond
by 21 to 11.
* * * *
Woman waits for man to pop
the question and question her
* * * *
Joe Louis' meeting with Abe Si-mon
in Detroit, Michigan, was his
fifteenth successful defense of the
heavyweight championship of the
world. No other man has ever be-fore
turned back so many contend-ers
for the title, but many of them
definitely belong to the "bum a
month" class with which the Bomb-er
is cavorting at present.
* * *
A woman had two sons. One
went to sea; the other became
vice president of the United
Coach Adam stated that intra-mural
softball would be introduced
in all the gym classes immediately
after classes are resumed follow-ing
the spring vacation. Everyone
is required to report for gym ex-cept
those excused for baseball
practice. An interclass tournament
will probably be arranged later in
the spring.
Worthy of Christian Support
Blaje Theodoroff, Prop.
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Marshall at Cleveland
States and was never heard
from again either.
The basketball team from the St.
Paul Central Baptist church, twin
city B.Y.P.U. champs, defeated a
fast team from the Bethel Baptist
church of Duluth by a score of 50
to S5. High score honors went to
Bill Adam, who caged twenty-four
points. The visitors stayed at the
school overnight and spent Sunday
here in St. Paul.
Life's like baseball. You're
often advanced to second or
third, but getting to first is
your own job.
"Did You Know" Dept
Lester Praire, smallest town in
the state to send a team to this
year's state basketball tournament,
has a population of only 450. Re-markable
is the fact that twenty-seven
of the thirty-five boys in the
school turned out for the squad at
the beginning of the present sea-son.
A man who watches the
clock generally remains just
one of the hands.
Coach Adam announced a pro-gram
of calisthenics for the wom-en's
gym classes and they decided
not to appear for their regular gym
period. Seems they are of the
opinion that no improvement is
necessary, "figuratively" speaking.
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In the NBA that familiar line from the holiday classic "It's A Wonderful Life" has a different twist.
Every time the bell rings a head coach gets his walking papers and a handful of others start looking over their shoulders.
It's a tenuous life.
Of course, this season has already been quite unusual with Mike Brown fired by the Lakers after just five games. But now that the schedule has reached the one-third mark and claimed Avery Johnson, it's time to look at some others down around the bottom of the standings.
Randy Wittman, Wizards (3-23) — No, he hasn't had John Wall all season. Yes, he's had to play at times without Nene and Trevor Ariza and Bradley Beal. But the Wizards are the only group in Washington that makes Congress look competent by comparison. After a recent 100-68 thumping by the almost-as-hapless Pistons, even Wittman seemed to have enough. "That was an embarrassment, and I apologize to our ownership and to our fans," he said. "I especially apologize to anyone who watched that entire game. I would have turned it off after the first five minutes." It would seem to be a matter of when, not if.
Monty Williams, Hornets (6-22) — It's hard to see the Hornets turning right around and cutting Williams loose just months after giving him a four-year contract extension. There has been the matter of Eric Gordon's injury and the fact that No. 1 draft pick Anthony Davis was on the shelf for 13 games. But there are rumblings in New Orleans about his constantly changing rotations and collapse of his defense, which ranks 29th.
Byron Scott, Cavaliers (7-23) — The Cavs are likely headed to their third straight trip to the lottery under Scott, but that doesn't mean that he's headed to the exit. The key to his previous success at New Jersey and New Orleans was having a top-notch point guard and Scott has an excellent relationship with maybe the next great thing in Kyrie Irving. This was always a long, heavy lift from the moment LeBron James bolted and that has not changed.
Mike Dunlap, Bobcats (7-21) — What a difference a month makes. After beating the Wizards on Nov. 24, the Bobcats were 7-5, had matched their win total from last season and their rookie coach was getting praised. Now 16 straight losses later, Dunlap is preaching patience with his young core of Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Kemba Walker, Byron Mullens and Jeffery Taylor. He has earned that. A dozen of Charlotte's 21 losses have come by 10 points or less, a dramatic change from the historically horrible last season when the Bobcats were rolled in one-third of their games by 20 points or more.
Lawrence Frank, Pistons (9-22) — Frank insists that his Pistons are a better team than they were a year ago. The record — identical then and now — does not back that up. He says that his club now is more competitive, but just doesn't know how to finish games. Some of the players have grumbled that there is also a failure of coach to make the right calls and adjustments when games get late. When push comes to shove, it's the coach that gets nudged out the door.
Dwane Casey, Raptors (9-20)— Another one of those seasons when the Raptors were supposed to turn things around and make a push for the playoffs in the lesser Eastern Conference has gone south. Injuries to Andrea Bargnani, Kyle Lowry and Linas Kleiza. Amir Johnson gets suspended for throwing his mouthguard at a referee. G.M. Bryan Colangelo says the talent is there, but the Raptors lack focus and attention to detail. The Raps' offense is mediocre (ranked 17th) and their defense just bad (27th). Even in Canada during the winter, that all puts Casey on thin ice.
Keith Smart, Kings (9-19) — Smart got the job to replace Paul Westphal specifically because of what was perceived as an ability to work with the mercurial DeMarcus Cousins. So he turned Cousins loose last season, let him do just about anything he pleased and got enough results to earn a contract extension. Now that Cousins has abused his free-rein relationship with his coach and another season is sinking fast, it would be easy to just blame Smart, which the Kings eventually will do. But this is a bad team with a knucklehead as its centerpiece and ownership that can't tell you where they'll be playing in two years.
Alvin Gentry, Suns (11-18) — It was at the end of a seven-game losing streak when Suns owner Robert Sarver told ESPN.com that Gentry's job was safe. "We've got confidence in our coaching staff and we're not considering making changes," he said. Of course, that usually means start packing your bags. It was all about starting over in this first season post-Nash in the desert. He's changed lineups more than his ties and the result is usually the same. Gentry is a good bet to last out the season, but it's probably going to take a big finishing kick to return next year.


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Recent advances in cotton futures prices of 20 cents to 25 cents are being supported by an improving general economy, a weaker dollar and a tighter balance sheet for cotton fundamentals, according to Gary Adams, vice president of economics and policy analysis for the National Cotton Council.
Adams, speaking at the 2010 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans, noted USDA is projecting 2009-10 global production at 102.7 million bales, which is down by almost 5 million bales from a year ago. Much of that comes from China, which is down roughly 5 million bales.
"Another key number is global mill use," Adams said. "Right now, it's pegged at 114.5 million bales, up about 3.4 million bales from a year earlier. We are starting to see mill use estimates become more optimistic. So hopefully, we've weathered the worst of a global contraction in use, and we'll see that turn around."
Adams said the combination of a smaller crop and recovering mill use "is one of the key factors to watch as we go through this marketing year. Will we see an expected decline in ending stocks of approximately 9 million bales? That would be the largest decline since the 2000 marketing year."
The continued improvement of the global economy is also an important factor for the cotton market, noted Adams. "Projections from the International Monetary Fund are for a recovery and growth of approximately 3 percent. There are concerns. Consumer confidence is not very high, and unemployment is continuing to run at high levels. This could put a lid on consumer spending to some degree, which could temper the growth in front of us."
The cotton balance sheet for the United States is also tighter, noted Adams. "The current estimate for 2009 production is 12.6 million bales, from a planted area of 9.1 million acres. As you all know we had some weather problems in the Southeast and Mid-South with excessive rainfall and the effects of devastating drought in south Texas."
According to USDA's latest figures, roughly 10.9 million bales of the 2009 crop have been classed so far.
Domestically, "we're continuing to see pressure on U.S. mill use for the current marketing year, 3.4 million bales looks to be a fairly good estimate. That's down slightly from 2008. Hopefully, we're seeing some stabilization in U.S. mill use, which could provide some support."
Adams says a key for support of U.S. prices are exports. "We know that roughly three-fourths of the U.S. crop will find its way into the export channel. The export estimate is about 11 million bales. We are going to be down from the previous two crop years. Part of that is due to the fact that we have fewer exportable supplies going into the 2009 marketing year.
"We have seen some good data coming out in recent weeks on sales and shipments. We still have some work to do to get 11 million bales, but it does appear attainable."
U.S. ending stocks are also expected to decline, Adams said. "It's quite a different picture from where we sat a few years ago, with ending stocks of 10 million bales. We have a good chance of seeing that number go under 5 million bales."
One primary export customer, China, accounts for roughly 30 percent of U.S. exports. "A key to where our exports go depends largely on what happens in China. We know they control their market closely through both the release of reserve stocks of cotton and the allocation of import quotas in a manner to maintain domestic prices above world prices."
Adams said a smaller cotton crop in China combined with a recovery in mill use means China "will be in position to import more cotton in the 2009 marketing year. We've already seen announcements for 2010 of approximately 8.5 million bales."
Another big competitor for the United States export market, India, "has seen tremendous expansion in its production. India has also seen growth in mill use, but it has not kept pace with production. A big development in India over the last 12 months is the increase in the minimum support price to a level that was well above where the world market was trading.
"The net effect of that was to make India uncompetitive in the world market, and they had a contraction in exports in 2008. But as we come into 2009, they are in a position with their crop and their stocks to be more aggressive in the export markets. We expect exports to increase out of India."
A big challenge for the United States, according to Adams, "is to maintain mill demand at these prices levels. Hopefully, the economy and the recovery will allow us to do that. But we have to realize that there will be some resistance at these higher prices in the form of competition from man-made fibers. That reiterates the importance of the promotion work done by Cotton Incorporated and Cotton Council International."
The decline in U.S. stocks "sets up a more supportive balance sheet for prices. Another factor is the competition for cotton acres in the United States and abroad. When we look at where the A-Index is currently, and compare that to where it has been historically, we typically see other countries respond (with more acres).
"We are as competitive as we've been since 2006," Adams said, "We're also looking at input costs that are similar to what they were a year ago."
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Both the actors were contenders on Big CBS Prime's show "India's Prime Icon". While Aamir is out of the race, Big B is among the top three icons along with politician Narendra Modi and master blaster Sachin Tendulkar.
"I don't even feel I am on the same platform as him (Amitabh), I am not even anywhere close. I can't compete with him because I hold him in such high esteem," Aamir said in a statement.
The two actors, who share a mutual admiration for each other, haven't yet worked together in a film.