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Vol. XXIII —No. 10 BETHEL INSTITUTE, St. Paul, Minnesota
May 1, 1944
Sem Holds
First Banquet
Of Season
As an official opening to the
Bethel banqeuting season, the
Seminary seniors and - faculty
members will be the guests of the
underclassmen at the annual semi-formal
Seminary banquet to be
hedl at Hotel Leamington on May
Arrangements for the banquet
have been completed under the
leadership of Wesley Lindblom,
general banquet chairman. The
program committee has been head-ed
by Roger Younquist and Marie
Green is in charge of decorations.
The theme and program have
been appropriately planned in re-cognition
of world conditions with
special emphasis upon the respon-sibilities
of each Seminary student
as a soldier of the Cross.
The main speaker of the evening
will be the Rev. Walfred Daniel-son,
executive Secretary of the
Minnesota Baptist Convention and
former dean of Bethel Junior Col-lege.
Several vocal selections will
be given by Raymond Carlson,
noted blind tenor from Minn-eapolis.
Along with those routine mat-ters
which are traditional to ban-quets
and several lighter features,
the program will include special
recognition of all former Seminary
students who are now serving as
chaplains to the Armed Forces.
"Bells" Wing in
J. S. Banquet
Sponsored by the Freshmen
Class, the Annual all-college ban-quet
will take place in the College
Chapel, Friday evening, May 19th
at 6:30 P. M.
Choosing "Bells" for t'ieir theme
the various committees have made
elaborate preparation to insure an
evening of fun and fellowship.
Gretchen Clauson, Grace Bylund,
Jane Larson, and Mabel Anderson
have assumed the responsibilities
of the food and program commit-tees.
Anne Nelson and Ray Ash-man
are working together on the
decorations. The ticket sales are
managed by Lois Thomas and
Phyllis Johnson.
Every member of the Freshmen
Class has pledged to work and co-operate
to the best extent their
time and ability.
Alumni Features
Vaughn Shomaker
Plans have been completed by
the Alumni Executive Committee
of Bethel Institute for an Alumni
Banquet on Thursday, May 11, at
6:30 P. M. at the College Chapel.
Because of limited facilities, the
banquet ticket sales will be re-stricted
to 500. "It will be one of
the finest alumni get-to-gethers
we've ever had" says Mr. Malm-sten.
Rev. Martin Erikson, the Alumni
president, will be toastmaster.
The speaker is to be Vaughn Shoe-maker,
chief cartoonist of the
Chicago Daily News. Mr. Shoe-maker
is president of the Christ-ian
Business Men's Association of
Chicago, and active in Christian
circles. As a cartoonist, he won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his
cartoon, "The Way Back," and
was given a special medal for out-standing
work from the Head-liner's
Club last year.
Formal IS; W.A.
Tea, May it
As its last meeting of the school
year, the B. W. A. will hold a
formal tea on May 4. It will be
in honor of the graduating girls.
The tea will begin at 5 o'clock
with a buffet supper with dinner
music presented by Priscilla Grebe
on the marimba.
The new officers for next year
will also be presented at this
Minnehaha Singers
To Present
Sacred Concert
Under the auspices of the Soph-omore
Class of Bethel, the Minne-haha
Singers, directed by Prof.
Robert J. Pearson, will present an
evening's concert , at Bethel on
Monday, May 17 at 8 P. M. in the
College Chapel.
This organization consisting of
80 students from Minnehaha Acad-emy
in Minneapolis is widely
known throughout the Twin Cities
and vicinity, having sung in many
of the large churches. Recently
it was featured with Roland Hayes,
famous negro tenor.
Tickets for this concert are $.50
and will be sold at Bethel and
throughout the Twin City Baptist
Churches by Bethel representa-tives.
Proceeds will be used for a
Sophomore gift to the school.
Missionary Band
Tentative plans are being made
for the Missionary Band meeting
which will be held Wednesday,
May 10. It will be a time of fel-lowship
around the camp fire in-cluding
a singspiration, season of
testimonies, and prayer meeting.
In case of rain the meeting will
be held in the seminary boarding
Alexis Will
Discuss Etiquette
In order to help Bethel brush up
on its etiquette for the banquet
season, a group of Alexians will
present a short program on Thurs-day,
May 4th. It will show you
what to do and what not to do,
taking you from home to your
place of destination and back
home again.
Campus Calendar
May 4—B. W. A. Formal Tea
May —Alexis
May 6—Child Evangelism
May 8—Seminary Banquet
May 10—Missionary Band
May 11—Alumni Banquet
May 12-14—Missionary Confer-ence
May 17—Sophomore Concert
"Minnehaha Singers"
Missionary Conference
at Bethel
Annually the missionary-minded students of Augsburg College,
Minneapolis, St. Olaf's College, Northfield; Gustavus-Adolphus, St. Peter,
Mounds-Midway, St. Paul, St. Paul Bible Institute, and Bethel hold a
Students' Missionary Conference. This year the spring conference is
to be held at Bethel, Friday, May 12 through Sunday, May 14, with
students from Northwestern Bible School as special guests.
The speakers which have been secured for the conference are as
follows: Rev. Conrad, pastor off Trinity Lutheran, "the little home-like
church," Minneapolis, will be the Bible teacher, Dr. Sneed, Foreign
Secretary of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, will be the speaker
for the evening services, and Rev. Bengt Anderson will present the
missionary challenges. The messages will center around the Christian
Life and Missions, and there will be group discussions among delegates,
visitors, Bethelites, and all students.
The sessions will begin Friday morning at ten o'clock and the
afternoon meeting will be held at two-thirty, besides the evening
The schedule will be the same for Saturday with a luncheon served
before the evening service to provide food and fllowship for Bethelites
and visitors. There will be no Sunday morning service, but a mass meet-ing
at Simpson Memorial Church in the afternoon with the noted Dr.
Sneed speaking will close the Conference.
Delegates from all the schools will be housed in and around Bethel
during the Conference.
The 1944 graduates of Bethel
will be the guest of the Alumni,
"The rustle of formals, the odor but everyone, including the college
of beautifully scented corsages, students, are invited. Tickets are
and the interesting program in $1.25 and may be obtained from
store for you will make a very Miss Carlson in the office. The
pleasant evening for everyone," deadline for reservations is Mon-says
Gretchen Clauson, secretary. day, May 8.
A ralle for the Child Evangel-ism
teachers and hostesses of St.
Paul will be held on Saturday
Evening, May 6, at the Woman's
Another main feature on the
program will be the handing over
of four scholarships to President
Wingblade by the alumni treasur-er,
Stanley Paulson. Money to
cover the cost of the drapes in the
College Chapel will also be pre- A short program will follow the
sented to the school. supper. Some of the numbers on
the program will be: a reading or
talk by Miss E. Platts, a solo by
'Phyllis Anderson, and Miriam Nel-son
and Rose Challberg will sing
a duet.
Rally For Child Plans Campfire
For those who are missionary
minded and interested in spiritual
The speaker for the occasion growth it will be a time of heart
will be Miss Frances Bennett of warming fellowship, real inspira-
Chicago, an outstanding worker tion and quiet dev9tion with other
with children. Refreshments will Christians and our Saviour.
be served by Bethel girls, under
the supervision of Lois Thomas.
Miss Bennett will speak in Central
Presbyterian Church on Sunday for
the rally. It is said that about one
hundred teachers from St. Paul
will be attending.
Page 2 THE BETHEL CLARION
Meditation OUQ INQUICZING.
'if/4111111111r By Lily Johnson
1. To maintain and promote the Christian principles of Bethel
2. To promote scholarship.
3. To foster more school spirit.
4. To establish a better understanding among the students.
Editor-in-chief Barbara Edson
Associate Editor Carol Rexion
Feature Editor \Valfred Peterson
Sports Editor Robert Bergerud
Reporters Gloria Anderson, Dorothy Benson, Irene
Benson, Harold Carlson, Carlton Christenson,
Lucille Collin, Joyce Gilbert, Betty Hoff, Esther
Ingebretson, Marian Larsen, Hazel Nelson, F.
Robert Otto, Janet Rye, Kiyoo Shimatsu, Marianne
Schouweiler, Lorna Swanson, Evelyn Sundberg.
Circulation Norma Seaquist
Typist Dorothy Dahlman
Business Manager Philip Johnson
Editorial Advisor Miss Enid Platts
Business Advisor Dean Emery Johnson
Remember . . .
A school stands in one of the cities of India or China, a missionary
school. Our dollars have built its brick walls supplied its teachers, have
filled it with boys and girls, men and women, transformed from pagons
or savages to radiant Christians, eager to learn. iIts director, perhaps
is one of our own Bethel graduates.
Yes, there it stood in the past, friendly and thriving in its work of
the teaching of Christ, but there it stands now, a battered skeleton.
An enemy bomb has torn its roof. One of the sides has been biased
by shells, and under the ruins lie the mutilated bodies of the teachers.
Where are the rest?—fleeing for their lives in panic. They are confused,
wondering why these Christians whom they had learned to know and
trust have allowed this to happen to them, why something wasn't done
about it.
And why wasn't something done about it? This is an important
question. There might be any number of reasons. Perhaps there was
not ammunition enough for our soldiers to defend that territory, or not
enough outfitted soldiers to be sent there as protection. But why was
that?—we must ask if we are to find the source of the problem; there
was not money enough—from where?—from bonds sold in this country.
Maybe if an arbitrary number of say about 250 people had bought more
of their share of war bonds, the ammunition or man supply would have
been enough, for it might have taken just a little more to make enough.
Two hundred and fifty--why that is the enrollment of Bethel,—
that's our school! Yes, you see how one obligation must follow another.
We built the missionary school, yet we failed to defend it because we
did not buy our quota of war bonds.
Of course we do not know specifically of such a school, but is it
not probable, too probable for us to close our eyes to the possibility?
Let us buy war bonds to send and equip enough more soldiers to fight
where our schools and missionaries might be. Buy war stamps in the
booth that has been placed in the hall of the College building. You have
already purchased $45. Is this enough to do the job we want it to do?
Chapel Nuggets ocean who have never heard it."
3/30/44—Walter Olson
"You cannot improve a cold hard
world with an experience of a year
ago. It must be fresh—oven-fresh
with the Spirit of Christ."
4/21/44—Mervin Rosell
"Those in this country have all
had a chance to hear the Gospel;
it isn't right for us to stay here
when there are others across the
A little boy came into his
father's study. "What do you
want?" asked his father. "I just
wanted to be near you, Daddy." he
answered. A homely illustration
—yet, it made me think of our be-ing
satisfied in the presence of
One, Jehovah Shammah, "the Lord
is there."
That which causes a weary long-ing
soul to rest in peace is the
Lord. He can cause us to dwell in
calm delight and create for us
whatever we lack. "I am satis-fied
with Jesus in my heart."
With the feeling of satisfaction
comes a sense off security as the
knowledge of the Lord there takes
possession of us. "He is always
close beside me when the world
would bring distress."
The effect of knowing "the Lord
is there" will be felt also in the
living out of our Christian life in
service to the Lord. The presence
of only the disciples was not
enough in the feeding of the four
thousand, but the disciples recog-nized
the presence of Him to
whom they gave willing obedience.
So, apart from Christ, our feeble
efforts are not enough, but we
must see Jesus and know the
strength that His nearness gives.
Hudson Taylor said that the dis-ciples'
services were not dispensed
with, but were necessary, for He
bears no fruit apart from the
brances; yet, the carrying out of
His compassionate purpose was se-cured
through His presence.
Do we grow restless and dissat-isfied?
Do we feel insecure? May
we take courage for "The Lord
is there." Has God put a burden
upon you? "When God puts a
burden upon you, He puts His own
arm underneath you."
And in recognition of His pre-sence,
a task, otherwise burden-some
and tedious, is done with a
light heart and becomes a blessing.
Letter Excerpts from
Bethelite in Bremerton
P. O._ Box 245, Manette Station
Bremerton, Washington
April 17, 1944
Dear Bethel Friends,
How the time does fly! It just
doesn't seem possible that we
have been here for over two
months already, and then again it
seems as though we had been
here for years. So much has hap-pened
since we first arrived and
everything seems so different than
it was when we first got here. But
the Lord has been with us and
we have been richly blessed of
Him. The work is progressing very
nicely, and we are looking forward
to the opening of new avenues of
Yesterday we were very encour-aged
with the wonderful attend-ance
in our Sunday Schools, as
well as in church services. A
total of 572 attended S. S. Altho'
we haven't had the joy of seeing
many souls saved, a few have in-dicated
their desire to accept
By Marianne Schouweiler
Roland Gustafson: That which
makes you sleep in class.
Ray Ashman: High Blood Pres-sure!
Manager of Pete's Retreat: I see
a lot of examples.
Virginia Anderson: Not wanting
to study.
Bill Peterson: The feeling you
feel you're going to feel a feel-ing
you've never felt before—
except in spring.
Lloyd Sprecker: When laziness
localizes to occupy one's whole
Bob Bergarud: It hasn't hit me
this spring but maybe I've had
a prolonged case since fall."
Gloria Mitchell: You don't get it
any more when you get to be
my age.
Vi Carlson: When the temperature
goes up and your resistence goes
Dale Bjork: Too much vitamin A
(lma). . . (Editor's note)
Jane Larson: It's mostly wonder-ful.
Helen Wingblade: Due to the war
a time to continue my studies.
Bill Haring: I can't figure it out
Lois Carlson: When your heart
goes bumpety-bump.
B. Nyman and C. Anderson: Some-thing
we have all year around!
Reporter's Note: I'm looking
for a new roomate.
Peggy Applequist: She knows but
won't tell.
Gladys Biller: Oh man!
George Johnson: Call of nature, I
Margaret Swanson: The one thing
I got plenty of.
Knop Ericson: There's love and
there's Spring Fever. . . and
there's love and there's Spring
Fever. . . and there's love and—
Walley Henk: There are two
kinds: Wanderless and Wonder-ful
99979 ?
Christ, and we know that the
Gospel is being preached, and
many are being reached.
Miriam and I are beginning this
week to organize four more Bible
Hours. In this way we hope to
reach some of the boys and girls
who have not been touched as yet.
Last week we had the joy of min-istering
to 96 children by means
of these week day Bible clasges.
We were greatly encouraged when
after spending, about an hour and
a half in calling in homes right
around us Friday morning, we had
an increase of about twenty in our
Bible Hour that afternoon. We
(Continued on page 4)
4/26/44—Tory Johnson
"Our lives are a great opportun-ity—
a tremendous responsibility."
4/27/44—Dr. William Bias
"What we call gain is in God's
ledger on the lost side. What we
call loss, God calls gain. Your
garden must have a fence around
it—you can't be open to the com-mons."
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THE BETHEL CLARION Page 3
Night School Fern Snatches Is, JR HuNTINg /1 By Eunice Wood
By Marianne Schouweiler
"We tho't you'd dropped the
"Are you going to try again?"
Such are the greeting extended
to a lonely college freshman at-tending
night school amongst a
group of thirty working people.
These adults don't seem to under-stand
a student is to do as little
as possible, use as many cuts as
one is allowed, do the home work
occasionally, and never volunteer
an answer. They seem so eager to
put their sentences on the board,
stay after class to discuss some
verb structure, and do extra work
that it's positively unnatural. They
never seem to come with an un-prepared
lesson or without a $64
question ready to pop. Surely they
must work half the night on each
They seem to find such great
joy in answering "Muy bien' ?"
to the prof's query," Comoest'a
ud.?" And when a simple "yes"
or "no" will do the job up nicely,
they insist on a "three-quarter
page" paragraph.
And another drawback to gain-ing
book-knowledge during the
night is that you miss supper at
the dorm. No one would care if
Tuesday were "liver and bacon"
but instead it's "beef" night, and
no one can afford to miss that
When the disadvantages are
added, namely; missing supper,
being humiliated when the Prof.
discovers you're unprepared, and
trying to get two stories translat-ed
and three grammer lessons
done on a twenty minute street-car
ride, well--there's another
• By Mable Anderson
If you were in the Girl's Dorm
this past week, you would have
heard MISS JOHNSON hap-pily
talking about her recent visit
to Duluth. . . . ARLETH BRASK
and VIRGINIA ANDERSON vow-ing
to get up at 4:00 in the morn-ing
to hunt birds DORM
GIRLS singing hearty welcome to
RUTH ELAYNE ANDERSON who
spent a day and a half visiting old
Bethel pals GRETCHEN
CLAUSON all excited over a long
distance phone call from BOB. . . .
NORTH END GIRLS energetically
playing ping pong JEAN
and ELAINE BALLANTYNE ex-claiming
that "they just couldn't
get along without a radio"
MARGARET SWANSON using
some of that persuasive speaking
on joining the Marines
LORENE JANSSEN all smiles
over the beautiful corsage the
NORTH END GIRLS gave her for
her birthday DOROTHY
DAHLMAN convincing GRACE
BYLUND that "rain just does won-ders
for the hair" PEGGY
APPLEQUIST telling of her pleas-ant
trip to Chicago DORM
GIRLS wondering just who the
wedding bells will ring for this
spring and summer ALL
GALS getting out their formals
for coming events your re
porter running out of ideas
See you next issue!
Nature sleeps, we call it winter,
Nature wakes in brilliant spring.
Man sleeps, we call it death,
Death must be a lovely thing.
Oh tra la la la
Oh tra la la lee
I'm hunting birds
Happy am me.
(I had to use me to make it
As some of the brighter students
may have gathered by this time,
I am going to write about hunting
birds. For the benefit of the less
brighter or should I say lesser
bright or should it be lesser
brighter— what was I talking
about anyway Oh yes, birds.
Last Sunday afternoon I got into
a car and rode along and pretty
soon we were in the country. Fin-ally
after riding a long way, I
found myself in the bright open
spaces of a farmyard. Immediate-ly
I thought of birds. I had heard
that there were birds in the coun-try,
so I climbed out of the car
and started looking around. After
wandering around for ,fifteen min-utes,
I finally noticed a big red
animal. Thinking that it might
be a robin, I pulled out my hoyos-cope
and gazed through it at the
I studied it long and carefully,
but I could find no feathers or
wings. I was just about to walk
closed when a man yelled, "Be
careful kid, that bull is danger-ous!"
I heard him call it a bull
so I decided it must not be a robin.
It was quite a disappointment, but
I did not let it get me down. Our
teacher said that we would have
to search long and diligently.
I decided to try a different di-rection,
so I walked around a
pile of hay and much to my sur-prise
I saw an animal that looked
much like a robin. This animal
had red feathers and it also had
wings. I knew that a robin had
these two characteristics so im-mediately
I took out my notebook.
"kind of feet"—perching
"general color"—red
"field identification mark"—
large comb and cock-a-doodle-do
tone of voice.
I felt so happy about having at
last seen a robin that I hurried
to the car. I was just in time be-cause
the people I had come with
were leaving.
I felt elated all the rest of the
day. I could hardly wait for Mon-day
morning finally dawned. I
got up bright and early and brush-ed
my teeth and rushed over to the
"Kids," I cried, "the most ex-citing
thing happened to me yes-terday.
We were out in the coun-try
and I saw a robin!"
"You did?" they all breathed ex-citedly.
"Yes, and it had red feathers
and it said, 'cock-a-doodle-do."
I waited anxiously for them to
congratulate me, but no one said
a word. At last brave Marianne
spoke up, "That wasn't a robin,
that was a rooster."
Then I grew angry. I shouted at
them, I cried, and I kicked. "You
can't fool me," I cried, "I guess I
know a robin when I see one!"
Sem Snatches By Harold Carlson
A term paper is one of the most practical things done in college,
because it is very educational. The writer takes notes on little cards
and therefore he remembers all the information be gathered. 1
A term paper also teaches the importance of footnotes. The foot-note
can tell almost anything. Every good term paper has as many
footnotes as possible, because a long list of references is impressive
to the professor. Footnotes are also necessary because one must give
the credit to the person who had the bright idea. If this not done,
the writer is a plagarist. But since everyone reads footnotes carefully,2
they will see the real author's name and not think you a thief.
But before I go farther, I should define a term paper. "Copying from
source--that's plagiarism, copying from several sources—that's a term
paper." 3
It is very important that there is a rather complete bibliography at
the end of the term paper. If the professor finds a statement he does
not like, he will turn to the bibliography and find the book and change
his opinion in favor of the student. 4 I might add that if the footnotes
are complete you need not turn to the bibliography for the book and
author. What's a bibliography for then? 5
A good set of footnotes contains abbreviations. Latin abbreviations
are customary because they are so profund looking. "Ibid" means, the
footnote you read now is the same as the footnote preceeding this
footnote. "Op. cit" means already fully cited in the paper. 6
Let us say in conclusion that as the teacher will tell you, "When you
really get into it, it is interesting." 7
1. Now you tell one.
2. Ibid.
3. Quoted from S. Paulson: boarding club: table C: April 19, '44.
4. Refer to footnote No. 2.
5. So your wondering too?
6. R. T. Daniel & Floy Barnard, Instructions for the Preparation of the
Term Papers (1942), P. 12
7. Refer to footnot No. 4.
*By Walfred Peterson
Elving Anderson, a former Sem
student, came trodding into the
dorm late one night wondering if
we could give him a evening's
lodging. We could not understand
why a fellow who has k car and
a nice room over in Minneapolis
should want to beg a bed here.
After much questioning (you see
we know he was holding some-thing
back) he finally confessed
that he and Carol Rexion were
riding through Como Park and had
run out of gas. .A very nice place
to run out of gas, isn't it, Carol?
It seems funny that just about a
year ago these two had a similar
experience only this time they
were out canoeing and Elving lost
the paddle so that they couldn't
get in.
Well, Clarence "Sibelius" Sahlin
went to Chicago last week-end to
get married—(pardon me, Sahlin)
I mean that he was the best man
or something at a wedding there.
I can just see him walking down
the aisle trying to do the "goose
Have you heard the latest?
Neither have I.
But here is some good news.
The various committees from the
Junior and Middlemen classes are
putting in several hours these
days to make the Seminary Ban-quet
the best one ever. In case
you have not heard, it's to be held
at the Leamington Hotel on May
You should have seen Eric Bor-geson
up in the dorm hall the
other night. He did a great imi-tation
of Hitler delivering one of
his speeches. With his hair matt-ed
down over one eye and using
part of a comb for a moustache
he really did a good impersonation.
The spectators were literally roll-ing
in the hall from laughter. Was
Eric surprised when a sudden
flash filled the corridor—his pic-ture
had been taken. With Eric's
permission probably it can go on
sale. What do you say Eric?
Don't forget the Missionary
Band Conference that will be held
here this year. It starts Friday
morning, May .12. How true Paul
Nagano prayed in Greek class re-cently,
"Lord, help us as we are
wandering through this wilderness
of preparation."
By Bergie
The girls are plenty ambitious—
did you see them out at nine
o'clock in the morning last week—
looking for arrows. Their original
purpose was to do a little "arch-ery-
"Spring is here, the grass is
ris. I wonder where them flowers
is?" Half a boy's gym class per-iod
was spent at raking %the base-ball
diamond. What a relief after
those calisthenics last winter. Too
bad that Sahlin and "Rog" Youn-quist
couldn't have been along the
other day. The Tribes-men might
have won over Augsburg.
It's our patriotic duty
to give your car
the best of service.
Drive in for a check-up
SNELLING and BREDA
"and Israel did eat manna
for forty years."
Exod. 16:35
Your schools favorite bakery
Como and Snelling
Even Sampson got his
hair cut. Why not you?
1182 Snelling
near Como
Sid Harris, Manager
Modern Equipment
20 Minute Battery Charges
Como and Snelling
The Anderson Press
4210 E. 34th St. DUpont 5495
Minneapolis, Minn.
LINCOLN 5C-Ioc $1 and up
Larpenteur and Snelling
Phillips 66 Gas & Greases
Ralph's Motor Clinic
1116 N. Snelling Ave.
St. Paul, Minn.
Midway 2464
Pittsburgh Coal
410 St. Peter St.
Cedar 1851
Hamline Hardware Co.
General Hardware
F. 0. Hagen J. W. Hagen
755 N. Snelling Ave., St. Paul
"Direct Your Feet to
Pete's Retreat"
—Where Students and
Faculty Meet Around
the Coffee Cup.
Ne. 9042
Visit Our Soda'and
Sandwich Grill
1545 W. Larpenteur at Snelling
Have Your Shoe Repairing
Done at
1560 W. Como at Snelling
Coal, Pkg. Fuel and Fuel Oil
1573 University Avenue Midway 9910
Meats at Fair Prices
Fruits and Vegetables
597 Snelling Avenue North Ne. 8621
Larpenteur and Snelling
Mr. Johnson, Manager
2.—Auto Repairing
3—Tire Repairing
5—Accessory Parts
Como and Snelling
Page 4 THE. BETHEL CLARION
Many of the "sem" students
were tempted to drop their studies
and go out and get into the kitten-ball
game that the "Cambridge"
girls were sponsoring a few nights
ago. They made a lot of voice any-way!
! When asked who won, Dor-othy
Dahlman says, "the other
Gym classes for the "ferns" is
a little different this year. More
-emphasis on tennis and golf.
Archery is taking on an increased
interest, too!
Seems good to see the "courts"
getting fixed up again. Go to it,
Eric! To continue fast year's idea
of cement courts, is a good idea.
We need some good courts at
The "Germans" were leading the
"Swedes" 5 to 1, when they got
rained out. It looked like a good
game tho—ought to be more of
those—Bet the "Greeks" could beat
either one of them!
Bill Peterson looked like he'd be
good at golf, when he "tee'd-off"
on one of Stromen's drops the
other day. Augsburg beat Bethel
6-4 in the practice game. Augsburg
should have one of the leading
teams in the Minnesota Confer-ence,
so "hats off to the Indians!"
Gunnar Hoglund beat out C. E.
in tho handball tornament. Dale
Bjork is one of the other quarter-finalists.
Who else is going- to
get up there. The shuffle-board
will soon be completed too!
How about a game. of "Round-
During the last month thirty-two
ping pong players in Bethel
have been fighting for the cham-pionship.
Walfred Peterson, the
favorite to win the crown, has
reached the final round with Ho-wie
Olson, a dark horse as his
opponent. Howie Olson whipped
Roland Gustafson in three straight
games in the semi-final while Wal-fred
Peterson won three out of
four games from Robert Bergerud.
The finals which are to be play-ed
in the near future are going to
be an interesting match as Howie
Olson hasn't lost a single game in
any of his sets. The public is in-vited
to see the match. The date
will be announced later.
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are going to make badges for all
children who attend regularly and
call it the SIGMA PHI CLUB, the
idea being, "Sending the 'Vit."
We are also anticipating great
opportunities in D.V.B.S. this sum-mer.
Pray especially for that
phase of our work. We long to see
many brought to Christ at that
We miss Bethel and are always
anxious to hear from the "kids"
back there. We are still waiting
for a CLARION. Otherwise we are
in fairly good health and happy.
Sorry there's no humor today, but
it's "Blue Monday" and I've been
keeping "under cover" most of the
day in an attempt to shake off a
cold. Maybe when Miriam writes
in the not too distant future she
can instill a little of that into her
letter via her ever present puns.
In His Service,
Helen Heitzman.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Esperanza Rising ~ Pam Muñoz Ryan Visit
I love my kids' school. It's a magical place. The teachers are incredible, and I couldn't imagine a more creative learning environment for my son and daughter. One of the things I love most about our great school is that our students learn about and value art in all its forms - visual, written, performance, and musical.
The fifth grade classes have been studying California. The history, culture, government, climate, landscape and the art. The teachers have been reading the glorious book, Esperanza Rising, and discussing Mexican farm labor, migrant workers, and the San Fernando agricultural area among other things. It is the perfect book to generate a rich and interesting dialogue.
The big drumroll moment came yesterday. Pam Muñoz Ryan, the author of Esperanza Rising, came to talk to our students about her life as an author and to answer questions about her work. She brought and autographed donated copies of her books for the school and generously agreed to read the last chapter of Esperanza's story. The kids were thrilled. The teachers were thrilled. It was magical.
In honor of the author's visit, I am re-sharing a previous blog post I wrote on Esperanza Rising. If you haven't read the book, please do. And share it with your favorite student studying California history. You won't be disappointed.
"Be patient and the fruit will fall into your hand." This quote is from Esperanza Rising, a middle grades book by Pam Muñoz Ryan. It is also the words the author wrote to my twelve year old niece, Lindsay, when she autographed the book for her in 2001. The story of Esperanza is one of hope and patience, and what it truly means to be rich.
I loved the story of Esperanza, the wealthy Mexican landowner's daughter who becomes a campesina living and working on a company farm in the San Fernando valley during the Great Depression. I thought that Muñoz Ryan did a lovely job of portraying the plight of the Mexican farm worker, accurately describing their struggles with a MG-age appropriate story.
I was worried when I first started the book that Esperanza was going to be a stereotypically spoiled rich girl who transforms into a hardworking farm worker and a union hero. Thankfully, she wasn't. Esperanza did come from a life a privilege and was accustom to nice things, but she did what she had to do to support her family.
Muñoz Ryan does make the distinction between migrant of the working/peasant class and those that came to the camps from wealthy backgrounds. The working class families endured the hard work and living conditions of field workers in San Fernando Valley with the hope of making a better life for themselves. They viewed the work they did as an opportunity to improve their lives. Their wealthy counterparts had fallen from positions of power and luxury. The prospects of hard work were daunting, but the emotional toll was even more difficult. In the minds of the formerly wealthy campesino, life was cruel and farm work was about survival, not self-improvement.
I loved the author's use of frutas y verduras as the chapter titles. Esperanza learns to mark the passage of time not by seasons or months, but by cosechas. The book also delves into the early efforts of migrant workers to unionize and strike for better living and working conditions and for fair wages. Valley Fever, an illness that still exists, is another of the risks that field workers of the San Fernando Valley faced as they strived to provide for their families.
Muñoz Ryan peppers her dialogue with spanish word and phrases and gives young readers a taste of life in Mexico and in Great Depression-era California. It's a great book for the classroom or the home.
This book brought to mind other amazing stories of class, power, adversity and the struggle for equality. Here are a few that come to mind:
The Lemon Grove Incident (movie)
Me Llamo Rigoberta Menchu y Así Me Nació La Conciencia by Rigoberta Menchu
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Roots by Alex Haley
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Add to my list. I'd love to read your examples.
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The 2013 BRIT Awards will prove to be a big night for Taylor Swift! She will close out the Feb. 20 award show with a performance of one of her hit songs. No word on what T. Swizzle will perform yet, but with former fling, Harry Styles in attendance, the odds that she performs 'I Knew You Were Trouble' are high.
In addition to her performance, Swift is also up for the International Female BRIT Award against Rihanna, Alicia Keys, Cat Power and Lana Del Rey. We're gonna go out on a limb and say Taylor Swift is a shoe-in to win this award with the stellar year she's been having. Not to mention, the 'Never Ever' singer will probably be flaunting some major CBS-banned-type boobage as an affront to her former boo.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – Bobcat fans finally have an answer to the trivia question of "Who won the first postseason award in Georgia College volleyball history" as the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) held its annual year-end awards banquet recently, naming outside hitter Rachel Reynolds (Marietta, Ga.) the PBC Freshman of the Year.
Reynolds was the driving force behind the Bobcat offense all season long, finishing third in kills per set in the PBC at 3.38. The rookie also put down 352 total kills, good for ninth in the league. Her attack percentage of .241 was just outside the top-10 in 11th place.
"I am very proud of Rachel," said head coach Gretchen Krumdieck. "She, along with her teammates, have worked very hard this season and it has paid off. This is a great way to get this program started."
She had 18 matches with double-digit kills, including 20-plus twice. Reynolds scored 26 in a five-set win over the University of Montevallo and 20 more in a five-set loss at UNC Pembroke. She also posted eight individual matches with better than a .300 hitting percentage.
The inaugural season has come to a close for Bobcat volleyball, a 6-23 record overall with a 2-23 mark in the PBC, beating playoff participants Montevallo and UNCP.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Right off the bat you know I love Gucci. I loved the bags before Alessandro took over including theBamboo, Jackie Soft, and Lady Web and I've been on the edge of my seat with the new direction especially fond of the Dionysus. I wasn't sure until I laid my hands on a Dionysus just how amazing it really was. In pictures the bag is pretty and different but when you actually get to try it out, you may find yourself just as in love as I am.
Many more Gucci bags have come onto the scene and there are plenty that I love, but I haven't purchased a Dionysus yet and I can't seem to stop checking them out when I spot one. This version, the Gucci Dionysus GG Blooms Bag in blue, stopped me in my tracks and had me doing many double takes. While I haven't seen this exact version in person, I am really intrigued. While many of these bags do feature the GG supreme canvas print, this bag stands out because the GG's are in a deep blue. Typically you'll find them in classic Gucci brown which coincides with the tan canvas, but the blue is something different.
I ended up loving the Blooms Print Dionysus when we first photographed it, it really stood out in person. The cool thing is there's blue suede trim peeking out, hand-painted edges, and the blooms print on the front and back of the bag. Antiqued silver hardware doesn't distract and the chain strap can easily be doubled or worn longer, whichever you choose. On the inside you'll find suede lining and a center zip compartment, which allows for easy internal separation. Overall dimensions are 8″H x 12″W x 4″D and simply put this bag is just lovely. I've come back to the Dionysus so many times that I think I'm trying to tell myself something: pick one already and buy it.


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UC Santa Barbara women's basketball head coach Carlene Mitchell continues to garner national attention as she has been tabbed to speak at a national conference for coaches.
The first-year coach, who led the Gauchos to their 14th Big West Tournament title with a historic run this past season, will speak at the Villa 7 conference on the Nike Campus in Oregon on May 10. Mitchell will be a key member of the "Young Gun" panel speaking about success as a young coach.
Recently, Mitchell was one of three national nominees for the Maggie Dixon Rookie Coach of the Year Award.
As an assistant at Rutgers, Mitchell attended the annual event and credits The VCU Center for Sports Leadership and Nike for teaming up to help prepare herself and other coaches across the country for the transition from assistant coach to leading a program as a head coach.
"I'm extremely humbled to be asked to speak at this event, which is one of the elite gatherings in the nation," Mitchell said. "To top off the season we had with these postseason accolades speaks to the time, effort and energy that our team put in with a first-year coach and a first-year staff."
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The Next Generation
On page 62 of the Next Generation technical Manual, the use to which warp core output is put is described. The final paragraph on this page states : 'Taps for the electro plasma system (EPS) are located at three places along the PTC, at 5, 10, and 20 metres aft of the shear-plane joints. Taps for the EPS are available in three primary types, depending on their application. Type 1 accepts 0.1 capacity flow for high-energy systems. Type II accepts 0.01 input for experimental devices. Type III accepts relatively low power input for energy conversion applications.'
Presumably systems such as the phasers and shields would fall into the category of 'high energy systems', and therefore would take up 10% of overall warp core output. Based on the 1 x 106 TeraWatts figures calculated for total power output, this would give the phaser banks a power rating on the order of 1 x 105 TeraWatts.
In battle Federation Starships rarely fire more than one array at a time. This indicates that the entire output can be channelled through a single array if required.
In this episode the Enterprise-D must use a phaser array to tunnel its way through 1,600 metres of rock in order to allow the transporter to beam an away team to an underground facility. The drilling operation requires several hours of preparatory work on the phasers, but this is not stated to be done in order to allow them to fire at higher power than normal.
When the beam strikes the surface, a shaft is sunk into the surface. This shaft has a diameter eighteen times that of the phaser beam which is making it. From the scale diagrams in the Technical Manual, the phaser strips of a Type X array as installed in a Galaxy class Starship are approximately six metres in width. The beam is emitted by the whole width of the strip; assuming a beam of constant cross section, this indicates that the shaft is some 70 metres in diameter. Hence a total of 6,158,320 cubic metres is vaporized. The drilling operation takes thirteen seconds to complete.
Assuming a density for the rock of 2,300 kg/cubic metre, a boiling point of 2500 K, and a specific heat of 720 J/Kg/K, we can calculate the energy required to vaporize this volume of rock :
E = 6,158,320 x 2300 x 720 x (2500-293)
= 2.251x1016 Joules
The power rating would therefore be 1.731 x 103 TeraWatts.
Since the majority of the evidence indicates that the Type X can put out 100,000 TW, this indicates that the phasers where used on a setting of 1.73% during the drilling operation. This is a pretty reasonable assumption; we see the Enterprise fire into a Borg cube at near-maximum power in 'Q Who?' (see below) and it blasts a crater at least as wide as it is deep. Since the aim in 'Legacy' was to drill a deep, narrow shaft rather than blast a large area, a long and low powered burst would be exactly what was required. This is most especially true as the Enterprise was firing directly down onto a city containing a large civilian population.
Q Who?
During this episode the Enterprise-D confronts a Borg cube which initiates an attack with a tractor beam and cutting beam. The cube is unshielded. Captain Picard orders Lieutenant Worf to 'bring whatever force necessary to terminate that beam'. The Enterprise fires several shots at the cube, damaging it and terminating the tractor beam. Of the visible damage to the surface, one shot into a face of the cube has vaporized a roughly hemispherical volume who's diameter is close to that of the Enterprise Enterprise, i.e. about 600 metres.
We don't really know the composition of the Borg ship. For our first pass at the energy required accomplish this feat, I'll assume it is a solid cube of tritanium. From the tech manual, page 134, we know that vaporizing a 3 cubic metre block of tritanium takes 7.2 x 1012 Joules (see the 'materials' link on the left for further details). The volume of a 300 metre radius hemisphere would be greater than the 3 cubic metre block by a factor of :
F = (0.5 x 4/3 x pi x r3) / (3 x 2)
= 56,556,000 / 6
= 9,426,000 times larger.
The energy required is thus :
E = 9,426,000 x 7.2 x 1012
= 6.8 x 1019 Joules
Now of course, the Borg cube is not a solid block of Tritanium - in fact, from both the exterior views and what we have seen of the interior, much of a Borg cube is unoccupied. Say 50% of the cube is unused empty volume, and say that of the remaining 50%, only about 0.2% is actual walls and floor - the rest being corridors, crawlspaces and the like. Overall, the cube would be about 0.1% solid metal. So a more realistic value for the energy required to do the damage we see is around 6.8 x 1016 Joules.
The phaser blast lasted around 1 second, so this equates to a total power output of :
P = 6.8 x 1016 Watts, or :
= 68,000 TeraWatts
While not quite up to the 100,000 TW figure we get from the Tech Manual, it is well within an order of magnitude. The discrepancy is easily small enough to assume that Worf simply fired the phasers at a 68% power setting; his orders where specifically to bring 'necessary' force to terminate the beam, rather than to inflict maximum damage or destroy the cube.
Who Watches The Watchers?
At the opening of this episode the Enterprise-D is rushing a spare fusion reactor to a scientific station which has suffered a breakdown. Picard, Geordi and Riker are discussing the situation. Geordi reports that they have replicated all the parts they will need, but then says he doesn't understand why a three-man outpost would need a 4.2 GigaWatt reactor. The following dialogue ensues (quoted word for word) :
Riker 'Enough to power a small phaser bank, or a subspace relay station, or...'
Geordi : 'A hologram generator. Oh, a duck blind!'
So, from this we know that 4.2 GigaWatts is sufficient to power a SMALL phaser bank. This directly contradicts the page 123 reference that the Type X, 'the largest emitters available for starship use', have an output of only 1.02 GigaWatts.
TNG Technical Manual
According to page 123 of the technical manual, the large phaser arrays of the Galaxy class starship consist of two hundred emitter segments which are 'each capable of directing 5.1 Megawatts'. This would allow the whole array to 'direct' a total of 1,020 Megawatts - a power nearly one hundred million times less than the figure given on page 62! This directly contradicts the 'Who Watches the Watchers' reference which puts a single small phaser bank at 4.2 GigaWatts.
For this and other reasons, this simply cannot be what it seems. A simple calculation will show why. The photon torpedo page concludes that the warhead of these weapons releases energy approaching a maximum of 2.7 x 1017 Joules. Now of course this is a maximum, in that it assumes 100% efficiency of the warhead.
So let's cut it down some : Say only 10% of the atoms of matter and antimatter in the warhead ever actually get to collide, and say that only 10% of the mass of those that do collide is converted to energy. Up to one half of this should hit the shields, but let's say that the warhead is a kind of reverse shape charge which directs most energy away from the shields; we'll say that only 10% of this energy released actually hits the shielding.
Okay, then we get a total energy into the shields of 2.7 x 1014 Joules. So, at 1.02 GW how long a phaser blast does it take to equal a single photon warhead?
2.7 x 1014 / 1.02 x 109 = 2.65 x 105 seconds.
That's three days of continual, maximum power phaser firing to equal even a massively weak estimate of the energy of a photon warhead. Use more realistic figures - 99% of all matter interacting, 50% of mass turned to energy, and 40% of radiated energy incident on the shields - and a phaser would need to fire for 1.66 years to equal a single warhead!
Now of course, photon torpedoes may be vastly weaker than they appear to be - maybe only one atom in a million interacts with an antimatter counterpart. Then again, phaser energy may impact shields - and solid matter also - in some peculiar technobabble process that makes it have the effect of many Terawatts with only 1 Gigawatt of power. Trek does love a good bit of technobabble when things get tricky, after all! Then again, the TNG TM's figure for phaser output may be in error.
Overall, I think it unlikely that photons can be so weak. Even at sixty megatons or so they're within spitting distance of the largest thermonuclear weapons Humanity has ever built - we're talking about taking them down to well below one kiloton in yield, less than a tenth the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. If matter/antimatter weapons were that ineffective there would simply be no point in using them - just use nukes instead.
The technobabble road is an interesting one - there is the mysterious Nuclear Disruption Force mentioned in the TNG TM. It seems unlikely that phasers actually do disrupt all the atomic nuclei in their targets - it takes an amount of energy so high that you don't even want to think about it. The TM hints that the NDF energy sends the the target off into another continuum while it's being vaporized, but we know little more than that. It does seem rather odd that 'nuclear disruption' could affect shields that are composed of some form of energy, rather than an actual material with atoms that have nuclei in them.
Not being a huge fan of technobabble, I tend to go for the last option on the basis that the simplest explanation tends to be the truth (odd word to use in this context!). While technobabble can get you out of pretty much any problem if you twist it enough, it does put you on pretty shaky ground in that it's all basically made up as you go along. And it has little impact on the fact that whatever the ship may put out, those on the other end get the equivalent of much more than 1.02 Gigawatts.
If you want a Trek explanation for the discrepancy, the best I can think of is that 'directing 5.1 Megawatts' is somehow different from 'firing 5.1 Megawatts'. That's pretty lame, I know, but it's the best I can think of without spewing some meaningless technobabble at you.
Much of the data concerning phaser power is reasonably consistent; by far the biggest flies in the ointment are the TNG's 1.02 GW figure for the maximum output of the Type 10 phaser It seems to me that the bulk of the evidence is certainly against these sort of extremely low or high values; certainly the former looks ridiculous when compared to the conclusions drawn concerning the power output of the TOS Type 2 phaser.
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Visiting http://www.genunix.org/ to download the iso file, I snatched the file which was significantly more than 700MB, so I had to burn that to DVD. The opensolaros 2008.11 iso is both a Live DVD that is also installable. That is sweet, as I can run opensolaris now directly from the live DVD and install latter if I want. Starting the DVD was easy, just pop it in, BIOS boots chooses DVD. Afterwards you stare at a GRUB screen, I simply chose the default option and let it boot the GUI environment. You get asked for keyboard layout and language, I just hit "enter" for the defaults (US/English). More than a minute later (booting is slow since it's using an optical drive), you get the GUI desktop. It's basically a Gnome envrionment.
Let's make sure we're really on opensolaris :)
jack@opensolaris:~$ cat /etc/release
OpenSolaris 2008.11 snv_100a X86
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 24 October 2008
jack@opensolaris:~$ uname -a
SunOS opensolaris 5.11 snv_100 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
Other nice touches as well, is the laptop's screen automatically started in the native 1280x800 mode, and was using the native (closed) nvidia driver
As you can see, life is not full of roses, the volume while works fine and audio generally is ok, however, it seems the volume bar can only control the "master" volume mixer! My Fedora10 rawhide shows a zillion volume bars for all of my hardware features (line in/out, headphones, pcm, ... etc). In general I felt the audio stack needed some work on opensolaris. I wish they'd put in an alsa compatibility layer, that should probably help porting applications. Another issue, was connecting to my WPA2 home network. At first the network applet was very stubborn and would not connect to my network. After a lot of clicking here and there and displaying dialogs which were asking for (username?!) and password for the wireless network, it somehow got connected. After that the connection seemed pretty stable.
Being on the Internet, I started Firefox 3.0.1, pretty solid and fast as usual. Gotta love open-source portable apps ;) Now is the time to put this OS to the test. Let's see if it's gonna let me on youtube.com! It becomes quickly apparent that flash player is not installed by default. A quick visit to adobe, I download a tar file, uncompress it. There were no READMEs of any sort, just a couple of binary files. However creating a "plugins" directory under ~/.mozilla and copying those 2 files under it, seemed to have done the trick. I can now play youtube videos with no problems. Actually the whole video playback experience, and generally firefox seems faster and more responsive than under fedora. All in all, I'm very happy with the browsing experience.
Now I decided to go ahead and take a shot at
S3-support enable
And then enter:
pfexec /usr/sbin/pmconfig
Afterwards, I could not find any GUI elements or commands to initiate a suspend! I hit the power button, and Gnome popped up a dialog asking what I wanted to do, I chose "Suspend" and a couple of seconds later, the laptop was suspended, with the power led blinking. I thought "sweet" .. It was pretty late, so I went to sleep, and thought I'll see if it wakes up (usually much harder) tomorrow. The next day, I open the lid, and boom, it starts back where it were! A fully successful (Hurraaay!) suspend/resume cycle, well I really did not expect that from opensolaris! Here is the relevant log part from /var/adm/messages
Nov 6 19:25:42 opensolaris genunix: [ID 535284 kern.notice] System is being suspended
Nov 6 19:25:44 opensolaris nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: RmPowerManagement: 4
Nov 6 19:25:44 opensolaris acpica: [ID 530733 kern.notice] NOTICE: acpica_ddi_setwake: could not evaluate _PRW
Nov 7 15:13:34 opensolaris last message repeated 9 times
Nov 7 15:13:34 opensolaris pcihp: [ID 709949 kern.notice] NOTICE: pcihp (pcie_pci0): card is inserted in the slot pcie1 (pci dev 0)
Nov 7 15:13:34 opensolaris genunix: [ID 358043 kern.warning] WARNING: ieee80211_crypto_enmic failed.
Nov 7 15:13:34 opensolaris mac: [ID 486395 kern.info] NOTICE: iwk0 link down
Nov 7 15:13:34 opensolaris acpica: [ID 530733 kern.notice] NOTICE: acpica_ddi_setwake: could not evaluate _PRW
Nov 7 15:13:34 opensolaris last message repeated 1 time
Nov 7 15:13:36 opensolaris nvidia: [ID 702911 kern.notice] NOTICE: NVRM: RmPowerManagement: 5
Nov 7 15:13:36 opensolaris gnome-session[756]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] WARNING: Could not ask power manager to suspend: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Nov 7 15:13:36 opensolaris in.routed[474]: [ID 238047 daemon.warning] interface iwk0 to 192.168.11.3 turned off
Nov 7 15:13:38 opensolaris /sbin/dhcpagent[2275]: [ID 967406 daemon.warning] refreshing state on iwk0
Nov 7 15:13:39 opensolaris genunix: [ID 583038 kern.notice] System has been resumed.
My conclusion at this point, is that opensolaris is now much more user friendly than it once was, it had no problems detecting my hardware and using it, most of the same applications I use on Linux are there for opensolaris as well. Support for laptops and suspend/resume is not that bad it seems (or I'm extremely lucky!). However, more work needs to be put into improving the audio stack, and other niceties like bluetooth. I suspect more hardware support is also necessary. All in all, using opensolaris as a desktop seems viable if you're coming from a Linux background at least. I still prefer Linux of course for the convenience and for knowing I can almost get anything done with it. However, I will keep a close eye on opensolaris. Overall, I am impressed not only with the current state of the system, but more so with the rate of progress that has been made!


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The new "Dancing With the Stars" lineup has been announced. Its life for its upcoming 16th season will include some reality vets--"American Idol" alum Kellie Picker and "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Lisa Vanderpump--some athletes, and Andy Dick. The two-hour season premiere will air March 18 at 8 p.m.
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Is This The DUMBEST iPhone Cover EVER?!
A passenger was stopped at Stansted Airport last week for carrying one of the most inappropriate phone covers we've ever seen.
Considering all that is going on in the world at the moment with gun violence and taking into account how difficult the job of a security officer is at an airport you'd have hoped this passenger would have known better.
But no, Stansted Security discovered a gun-like phone cover on the man and quickly confiscated it.
You have a split second decision to make ... #WhatWouldYouDo #joblikenoother #AirportCops pic.twitter.com/qxiq7OxXjQ— Essex Police STN (@EssexPoliceSTN) 6 July 2016
Turns out THIS is what was in the man's back pocket. How irresponsible was this??
This is what was in the back pocket ... An #iPhone case. Someone decided to put themselves in such a situation today pic.twitter.com/Lu66Et1bdg— Essex Police STN (@EssexPoliceSTN) 6 July 2016
The passenger could be facing charges relating to a public order offence or potentially Possession of Imitation Firearm in a Public Place.
An Essex Police spokeswoman said: "Essex Police was informed by Stansted Airport security staff that they had dealt with this incident during the routine screening of a passenger's carry-on bag and possessions."
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Herb Greenberg is a partner at Pacific Square Research, an independent research firm.
Greenberg has been a financial journalist for more than 40 years, working most recently as a commentator at TheStreet.com, senior stocks commentator on CNBC's Business Day programming and on CNBC.com. Earlier, he was co-president of Greenberg Meritz Research & Analytics, and he is a former weekend investor columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a former senior columnist for MarketWatch.
Prior to joining MarketWatch, Greenberg was senior columnist for TheStreet.com. He previously spent 10 years as the Business Insider columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and nearly seven years as Fortune magazine's monthly Against the Grain columnist.
He also was the New York financial correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a financial reporter in its Chicago newsroom. Greenberg has held various positions at other media outlets including Crain's Chicago Business and the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Greenberg holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Miami.
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It's been less than twenty-four hours since we received word that Stephanie and Christian were in an airplane crash. We met together as siblings today and had a family prayer. Blessings were given and energies renewed. We're focused on the children and the healing of our darling sister and her husband.
We know that Heavenly Father knows us. We know he has a plan for each of us, that includes the sweet moments and the tragedies. We know that Jesus Christ is the center of that plan. That through his atonement we can be perfected. We are blessed to know that through the restoration of the gospel we are a forever family. This is the truth.
Your thoughts and prayers are so much appreciated. I'll do my best to keep everyone updated on the recovery. We have hope that Nie will be back to her lovely life, making her famous chocolate chip cookies and laughing at her adorable children.
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Cleverly-named SeeSaw is a new catch-up TV service with content from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Five. While much of the content is already available on the respective broadcasters' own on-demand services, it's nice to have everything in one place.
The site boasts a slick user interface that's a pleasure to use, and I found the picture quality to be very good with no buffering problems to speak of.
Clearly the site has to make money somehow, and in SeeSaw's case it's through video advertisements embedded into the programmes you watch, something that commercial TV viewers are used to seeing.
SeeSaw have future plans to licence programmes from a wider range of broadcasters, which will enhance the service's appeal.
Interestingly a TV licence is not required to use on-demand services such as SeeSaw – you are only legally obliged to buy a TV licence if you watch broadcast TV.


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In what may signify that a coverup remains worse than the crime, Lakers guard Nick Young considered it "disrespectful" Clippers coach Doc Rivers instructed the organization to feature posters of his players draped over the Lakers' championship banners and retired jerseys any time they have a home game at Staples Center.
"We got to talk to Doc," Young said. "He can't have that. We have to do something about that."
The Clippers began that practice in their home game Friday against the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Center, the same venue the Lakers have shared for the past 13 seasons. The Lakers have 12 championship banners, including Minneapolis' five titles on one of them, and 10 retired jerseys.
"That's a lot of pull ya'll are giving Doc," Young said. "He shouldn't come and have that much pull. He should come and earn his keep."
Rivers won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics, which beat the Lakers in the 2008 Finals.
"But he didn't win no title in L.A," Young said. "Look at all these banners in here. You can't shadow those up."
No one else on the Lakers expressed much outrage.
"I understand they can't be overshadowed too much by what's happened in the past in the history of our franchise," Lakers forward Pau Gasol said. "Maybe that's distracting to them. So that's fine as long as (the banners) stay there where they belong."
In other words, don't expect the Lakers to highlight the Clippers' gesture as bulletin board material.
"If you were in the Clippers organization, you'd probably want to do that too," Lakers guard Steve Nash said. "It's their arena on those nights. I would try to make it feel like home."
Home sweet home
The Lakers reported back from their nine-day trip to China with various signs of fatigue.
After landing around 10:30 p.m. Friday night, both Gasol and Young admitted struggling with sleep because of the 15-hour time difference between Los Angeles and China. Chris Kaman missed Sunday's practice because of a stomach virus, while Nash skipped the end of the session because of stomach discomfort. Despite having the day off on Saturday, Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni also cut Sunday's practice shorter than planned.
"They were tired," D'Antoni said. "During film session I think a couple of them nodded off. Of course, that could be normal, too."
Waiting game
Despite shooting and sprinting in pregame warmups of the Lakers' preseason loss to Golden State on Friday in Shanghai, Kobe Bryant didn't participate in Sunday's practice. Instead, he opted for treatment on his torn left Achilles tendon.
With the Lakers' season opener 10 days away, when will Bryant begin practicing?
Said D'Antoni: "I have no idea."
He said it
On what Young learned about Bryant as a teammate: "I didn't know he had a sense of humor, too. I thought he was a robot."


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Installing Renderosity purchases into poser
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 8 / System Requirements: Poser 11
This brief tutorial will guide you thru the process of getting your products that you bought here on Renderosity into your Poser Program.
Copy Morphs
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 148 / System Requirements: Poser Pro 2014 +
Sometimes you use morphs in your figures which aren't present in the clothing products. With Poser Pro 2014 (or higher) you can copy these morphs easily!
IDLE Part3 - Update for Poser 2010 and Poser 2014
Skill Level: Regular / Views: 104 / System Requirements: Poser2010 / PoserPro2010 / Poser 2014 / Poser Pro 2014
This Tutorial explains how to prepare / setup the usage of "IDLE - The Pyhton Debugger" inside Poser 2010 and Poser 2014. With this PoserVersions there is no more need to download other PythonPackages. You can use the IDLE Version of your Poser Installations Python Package !
DIY Poser Dynamic Jewellery
Skill Level: Intermediate / Views: 174 / System Requirements: A Modeling application; Poser 6+
Can you make your own jewellery mesh in a modelling application? Can you use Poser's Cloth Room? If you answered yes to both of those - did you realize that a small addition when you're modelling the jewellery will allow it to be used in the Cloth Room? Dynamic Poser jewellery is unbelievably simple to create! The key to this is shown in the promo image - for a bit more information check the rest of this brief guide. (Thanks to klausdbg on ShareCG for the inspirational conforming jewellery that started me on this quest, and to Stegy, ParrotDolphin and WhimsySmiles who posted dynamic jewellery freebies in Renderosity FreeStuff which allowed me to work out how to do it.)
Play with Lights Experimental Fun!
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 663 / System Requirements: Poser and Photoshop (or anything with Layer effects)
I'm here to show you how I experiment with lighting to get some cool lighting effects without hurting your brain.
Using Marvelous Designer with Poser
Skill Level: Intermediate / Views: 1623 / System Requirements: Poser 9+, Marvelous Designer 2+
This tutorial is designed to get your avatar out of Poser and into Marvelous Designer, show you how to repose your figure in Marvelous Designer, then export your finished clothing out of Marvelous Designer and into Poser for rendering.Pandarr on 12:03PM Tue, 06 August 2013
Beginner Level: How I save dialed characters to Poser library
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 637 / System Requirements: Poser
A step by step process of how to save a dialed character into the poser library to apply to future creations. This is for beginners only and works well for me.
How to fit V4 hair to toon characters
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 1027 / System Requirements: Poser
Fitting V4 Hair to othere characters
How to Set Up and Export an Poser Outdoor Scene to LuxRender using Pose2Lux
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 252 / System Requirements: Poser, Pose2Lux, LuxRender
This tutorial will show you how to set up an outdoor / exterior scene and how to use Pose2Lux to export the scene for rendering in LuxRender.
Bloodsong's Quick Pose Tutorial
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 389 / System Requirements: Poser - Any Version
___ This is a quick tips and demonstration for new folks who are having difficulty posing in Poser (made for some folks on devArt).3 Basic Tips for Better posing:* Turn off IK* Use Limits* Use dials, not toolsKeyboard Shortcuts:* Moving up & down the heirarchy* Camera SwitchingMenu Items:* Figure Memorize & Restore* Figure Symmetry___ Includes a demonstration of technique, posing M3 into a target pose.Hopefully, this will help people who say it takes them hours and hours of screaming to get a figure into a pose.Enjoy!bloodsong on 9:38AM Sun, 12 August 2012
Make Poser dynamic dress using Blender
Skill Level: Intermediate / Views: 1027 / System Requirements: Poser and Blender (recent versions)
This tutorial shows how to get a model from Poser into Blender. Create a simple dress in Blender and get it back into Poser as a dynamic dress. (My first tutorial. Lemme knowwhat I might have forgotten)SailorJPS on 10:26AM Sun, 15 April 2012
Creating a Super-conforming clothing item
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 871 / System Requirements: any modeling software, Morcloth
As a clothing creator, I cant count the number of times Ive created a piece of clothing only to find it doesnt fit anything but the original geometries of V4 or any model I useThen I learned about Morcloth This program helps to place the proper morph channels in your original clothingIm sure there are many ways to accomplish this and I by no means believe mine is the best, its just what works for meIf it helps one person, then this tutorial has accomplished what it was designed to do
Poser Dynamic Clothing Tutorial: How to Create and Save a Dynamic Gown
Skill Level: Intermediate / Views: 740 / System Requirements: Poser
This tutorial shows the steps I take once I created a mesh of a piece of clothing in a separate 3D modelling application and imported it into Poser.
Poser Dynamic Clothing Tutorial: Create a Dynamic Shirt and Skirt Set with Belt Constraint
Skill Level: Intermediate / Views: 723 / System Requirements: Poser
This tutorial shows you how to run dynamic cloth simulations on two pieces of clothing each with different cloth settings. It shows you how to ensure that the shirt remained tucked-in within the belt during the simulation. You can preview the finished result at the end of the tutorial.
How to use dynamics clothes
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 560 / System Requirements: Poser
Here is a tutorial that will help you understand how to use clothes dynamics, including their superpositions.
CLOTHER Hybrid Noir User Guide
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 167 / System Requirements: CLOTHER Hybrid Noir for V4
User Guide with step by step tutorial for "CLOTHER Hybrid Noir for V4". You need to have Acrobat Reader for read this file.
How made a seamless chainmail texture with Blender and PPro2010?
Skill Level: Advanced / Views: 963 / System Requirements: Blender, Poser Pro 2010 and Photoshop
In this tutorial, I explain own made your own seamless chainmail texture with Blender, Poser Pro 2010 and Photoshop.
Compositing 3D Figures With Photo Backgrounds # 1: Molly the Coffee Fae
Skill Level: Intermediate / Views: 627 / System Requirements: Poser, Photoshop (Gimp, PSP)
This is the first of 4 planned tutorials on my methods for blending 3D figures with photo (or other) backgrounds. This tutorial demonstrates blending into an indoor scene with soft lighting. PDF format, 11.7 MB.
How to repare deltas data in the cr2 file using CR2Builder.
Skill Level: Regular / Views: 490 / System Requirements: WindowsXP/Vista/7 and Poser5/6/7/8
If you have not licence to distribute the poser file,we could not distribute original poser file with deltas data.So then make the deltas data less file to distribute.(you need get the licence to destribute cr2 file from owner of copyright. )we repare the distribute files. ( it are added original deltas data from original file. )when we get it and use it.kim99 on 3:20AM Wed, 18 May 2011
How to make deltas data less cr2 file using CR2Builder.
Skill Level: Regular / Views: 307 / System Requirements: WindowsXP/Vista/7 and Poser5/6/7/8
Morph data is copyright. Morph is deltas tree node data.The poser file do not has deltas node data in order to be free form copyright. (you need get the licence to destribute cr2 file from owner of copyright. )kim99 on 3:03AM Wed, 18 May 2011
EYER Hybrid User Guide
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 188 / System Requirements: EYER Hybrid for V4/M4
User Guide with step by step tutorial for "EYER Hybrid for V4/M4". You need to have Acrobat Reader for read this file.
The best way to use SUPER-LIGHTS
Skill Level: Regular / Views: 490 / System Requirements: POSER 7 or 8
This tutorial will help you to sublimate your scenes, with my product : "Super-Lights" !Every questions you can asked about "Super-Lights", have their answer in this tutorial.
Look at me
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 651 / System Requirements: poser
A little skill about 'point at'venincomix on 10:57AM Wed, 09 February 2011
How to make a B&W portrait
Skill Level: Beginner / Views: 1116 / System Requirements: Poser
This is a tutorial which will show you how to make a simple B&W portrait.You can download the head-texture for this tutorial from my RS-Homepage http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.php?page=2&userid=13356
Running Out of Memory?
Skill Level: Regular / Views: 699 / System Requirements: Windows 32-bit
Enough physical RAM for all your simultaneous programs, and enough user memory for one single program, really are separate things.Solving one will not solve the other.This tutorial leads the way for those who experience out-of-memory problems when rendering 3D, video or music in a 32-bit environment.


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The UK's Most Talked About Ladies Night !
Saturday, 13th October 2018
at 6:30pm
– Doors open at 6:30pm
Spearmint Rhino
Due to public demand… Chocolate City UK presents The Chocolate Men London Residency
The Chocolate Men Autumn / Winter Tour is proudly sponsored by Luc Bellare (Premium Prosecco)
For those who love their coffee with no milk… The Chocolate Men have an exciting new London residency at the World Famous Spearmint Rhino, Tottenham Court Road, London. Come and experience the most talked about ladies night out in the glamorous club surroundings each and every Saturday evening
Spearmint Rhino is the world leader in adult premier entertainment, winning International club of the year 2016. The London club offers a huge venue with two bars, fours stage shows, with champagne booths, VIP area, celebrity lounge and restaurant. They pride themselves on outstanding customer service from bar staff and waitresses, and their beautiful entertainers. The Chocolate Men are now extremely proud to be part of the Spearmint Rhino experience.
Ladies make The Chocolate Men at Spearmint Rhino your choice for an amazing girl's night out, the place to celebrate your birthday or hen night in style, trust us it will be a memorable one!
Our tickets start at just £15 for general admission, but if you fancy 'doing it 'in even more style, we have various luxury booths which include specially selected drinks for you and your party.
Buy a Meet and Greet ticket and you will get a chance to chat to our dancers prior to their performances, and grab some photographs in the amazing surroundings with your favourite Chocolate Men to show off to your friends!
For those who want that bit more up close and personal time with The Chocolate Men, and to continue your night in their company, you now have the option to buy FANTASY BUS tickets. You will be picked up directly outside Spearmint Rhino, Tottenham Court Road, London, after the close of The Chocolate Men show.
Tickets are very limited and are on a first come first served basis:
General information:
Dress to impress – strictly no sportswear, blue jeans, trainers or caps
Spearmint Rhino Show Times: Doors 6:30pm | Show Starts 7:30pm | Show End 9:45pm
Please note that this event has no affiliation with the film of the same name
Saturday, October 13th 2018
at 6:30pm
Doors open: 6:30pm
Ends: 10:00pm
Timezone: Europe/London
Bookings close: October 13th 2018
This event is organized by The Chocolate Men.
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Good riddance. He's the reason I went with Naish. I had the pleasure to 'deal' with him a couple years ago - maybe three? He had the mindset of a car dealer. I think he's with Switch now (Good luck with that). If he was a SoCal rep, I think his map must have run out north of Oceanside. I've never seen him on any of the relevant spots where the deals are brokered.Like a number of other brands team riders do. I.e., "screwfootsc" used to be a rep for Caution, until he found a better deal from another company... We had no bad feelings, actually were good friends, and thought we had parted on good terms. But reading his posts, obviously there is more to selling kites then just making a good product.
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I received a disturbing letter today from the NFL league offices. While I was thrilled that the NFL would bother to correspond with me, a small time fan and amateur Bills sportswriter, I was floored by the content of the letter.
Dear Mr. Bogyo:
It has come to our attention that you have been writing a weekly sports column for Bills Daily about NFL football. Upon review of your recent writings, we have determined that you have used written accounts of our games in violation of NFL rules and policies. Specifically, your writings do not contain sufficient content glorifying the New England Patriots, their owner, coach, players and organization.
This letter serves to notify you of your violation and to request your immediate cooperation in including sufficient and flattering New England Patriots content in your writings, in line with that of the national media. We understand that you have chosen to write about the Buffalo Bills, but feel this subject, as NFL property, affords you generous opportunities to write positively about the league's best team, the New England Patriots using terms such as "undefeated", "champions" and "dynasty".
We appreciate your cooperation as a member of the greater NFL media and remind you that failure to comply with league policies may result in loss of your right to watch NFL football games, create written accounts of such games, buy NFL merchandise, discuss football with friends and family or live in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In extreme cases the league may also be authorized to kill you. We hope you understand the importance of this matter and that you will alter your writings accordingly.
Commissioner Roger Goodell
P.S. – Go Pats!
No football? Forced to move? Death? You have my attention, Mr. Commish – you have my attention. No need to get rough – I'll make sure I pay homage to New England in this article.
So the Bills have now won 3 straight games and have reached the .500 mark at 4-4. If you're a Bills fan life is pretty good – you'd have to go back to 2004 to find such a wining streak.
Patriots Fun Fact: When the Patriots go undefeated this season they will be the first team to do so since the 1972 Miami Dolphins, except they will have gone 19-0, two games better and obviously far superior to their earlier counterparts.
Not only did the Bills defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 33-21, they were exciting to watch as they put on an offensive showcase. The Bills amassed 479 yards of total offense and scored 3 offensive touchdowns. They also kicked four field goals, making them 7 for 7 in the red zone on the day. Marshawn Lynch broke the 100 yard mark for the first time in his career, rushing for 153 yards and a touchdown (he also threw for a score, the first Bills back to do that since 1981). Lee Evans, the forgotten man of the Trent Edwards offense, exploded for 165 yards receiving with a touchdown.
Patriots Fun Fact: The Chinese used the term "dynasty" before the Patriots. While the Chinese used it to denote the rule of a great imperial family for centuries, the Patriots use it to denote their utter dominance of the NFL in the last 7 years, thus proving the Chinese were incredible wusses who knew nothing about how to rule.
By far the man of the day was quarterback J.P. Losman. In one of the best games of his career, Losman threw for 295 yards and a score and kept the offense on the field (the Bills held the ball for over 10 minutes longer than their opponent). Back was the downfield passing game that kept the Bengals on their feet all afternoon and opened up the running game later in the game. Losman was obviously a man playing to regain what was once his – the job of starting signal caller. It was fun to watch – lots of big plays and exciting gains.
Patriots Fun Fact: Tom Brady isn't just the best quarterback in NFL history, he's also a dreamboat. In addition to being Super Bowl MVP, he has also received prestigious awards from the readers of GQ, Ladies Home Journal, Metrosexual Monthly and has been named Tiger Beat Magazine's Hunk of the Year for the past 5 years in a row.
A few short weeks ago it appeared that the Losman era was over in Buffalo and that the team had decided to go in a new direction and start to develop a new rookie quarterback. In was Edwards and a conservative game plan designed to help the rookie move the ball and gain confidence. Out was the deep passing game and the big play. It worked and many were ready to turn the page on Losman. But injury (and irony) struck and Edwards was hurt, forcing Losman back under center.
Patriots Fun Fact: The Patriots gained no advantage when they happened to catch the Jets play calling signals on tape, something they believed to be fully legal under their interpretation of league rules. The Jets are such whining nancys.
Certainly Losman has earned another start and probably the job for the remainder of the season. Quite simply he gives the Bills a more dynamic offense and a better chance to win than his rookie counterpart. From the perspective of a fan it's also more exciting to watch when Losman drops back in the pocket and throws down the field. With defenses having to respect the deep ball they also can't stack the line and bottle up Lynch so the running game can also get a boost. The Bills would be making a mistake to once again yank Losman from the starting lineup in favor of a rookie.
Patriots Fun Fact: Up 38-0 with 11 minutes left in the Washington game the Patriots were right to go for it with Tom Brady on 4th and 1 rather than kick the field goal. It's not running up the score to do this when you're only up by 6 scores. That anyone who would question this proves the entire world is against the Patriots.
And so the Bills head into the Miami game this weekend, a rivalry that isn't what it used to be. The Dolphins have yet to win a game and the Bills are on a roll, but they must take this contest seriously and not look ahead to their primetime matchup the following week. The Bills winning ways may be cut short when they return to tougher opponents, but for now life is good – and hey, the Patriots are coming to town! I hope I can get tickets and sit close enough to see Tom Brady…


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Norway Funds-In-Trust
The Norwegian Government supports many initiatives vital for UNESCO's mandate. Norway participation in UNESCO's activities is broad and diversified.
As the fourth largest donor to UNESCO in terms of extra-budgetary contributions as of 2005, the Norwegian development cooperation embraces such initiatives as Education for All, and support for quality assurance in higher education and culture.
Norway's contributions and support is further focused on cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, World Heritage Sites under threat, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, cultural rights, cultural industries and copyright.
Partnerships / Activities (1)
Events (2)
- 2nd UNESCO Sub-Regional Workshop on Serial Nomination for Rock Art Sites in Central Asia 06-Sep-2010-10-Sep-2010
- UNESCO Sub-regional Workshop on the Serial World Heritage Nomination of the Silk Roads 18-May-2009-24-May-2009


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WASHINGTON — Orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods recorded their biggest drop in nearly a year in July and a gauge of planned business spending on capital goods tumbled, casting a shadow over the economy early in the third quarter.
The Commerce Department said on Monday durable goods orders dropped 7.3% as demand for goods ranging from aircraft to computers and defence equipment fell. That was the biggest decline since last August and snapped three consecutive months of gains
Orders for these goods, which range from toasters to aircraft, had increased 3.9% in June.
Economists polled by Reuters had expected durable goods orders to fall 4.0%.
Non-defence capital goods orders excluding aircraft, a closely watched proxy for business spending plans, fell 3.3%, breaking four straight months of gains. It was the biggest fall since February.
Orders for these so-called core capital goods increased by a revised 1.3% in June.
Economists had expected this category to increase 0.5% after a previously reported 0.9% gain in June.
The decline in orders for both durable and capital goods suggested manufacturing will probably not bounce back as quickly as many economists had expected after hitting a speed bump early in the year.
That, combined with a slowdown in residential construction and new home sales, implies the economy might not accelerate much from the second quarter's 1.7% annual pace.
Last month, durable goods orders were held down by a 19.4% plunge in bookings for transportation equipment. That reflected a 52.3% drop in orders for civilian aircraft.
Boeing received orders for 90 aircraft in July, down from 287 aircraft the prior month, according to information posted on its website. Orders for motor vehicles gained 0.5% after rising 0.2% the prior month.
Even excluding transportation, demand for long-lasting manufactured goods was weak almost across the board. Orders excluding transportation fell 0.6%.
There were declines in orders for computers and electronic products, and electrical equipment, appliances and components fell. Orders for machinery and primary metals were flat. Orders for defense capital goods plummeted 21.7% in July after hefty gains in the prior months.
© Thomson Reuters 2013


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Next Week, Adobe Developers and Designers are coming together in Los Angeles for Adobe MAX. This year, is incredibly exciting with the recent addition of Leonard Nimoy (yes, Mr. Spock will be at MAX).
We've assembled the best and the most innovative speaker roster ever – and we have over 24 hours of content specifically for Adobe Flash Media Server, OSMF, Adobe Flash Access, P2P, Multicast and much more. I thought I'd give you a guide for those of you joining us next week.
FMS4 was just released last month, and we have lots of sessions that will help you learn more about P2P, Multicast and how to deploy securely within your network. Here is a list of the sessions, and their speakers
Enterprise Live Video with Multicast and P2P
TUESDAY at 3-4pm
Speakers: David Hassoun and Jun Heider from Real Eyes, LLC.
Secure Enterprise Video Streaming with Flash Media Server and P2P
MONDAY at 5-6pm
Speakers: Asa Whillock and Seth Hodgson – Adobe Flash Media Server Engineering team
Video Delivery Roadmap for the Flash Platform
TUESDAY at 4:30pm & WEDNESDAY at 3:30pm
Speaker: Kevin Towes – Product Manager for Flash Media Server
(LAB) Building Scalable Applications with P2P and RTMFP SOLD OUT
TUESDAY AT 1:00PM & WEDNESDAY at 1:30pm
Speaker: Michael Thornburgh and Brad Outlaw – Adobe Flash Media Server Engineering team
Building P2P Multiplayer Games (don't miss this one!)
TUESDAY at 3:00pm
Speaker: Tom Krcha – world wide Adobe Evangelist
MAX UnAwards widget uncovered: developing personalized video apps on the web
WEDNESDAY at 9:30am
Speaker: Serge Jespers – world wide Adobe Evangelist
OSMF is a video player development framework -these labs and sessions will provide you with the knowledge how to deploy video even if you don't know anything about coding, and if you do know something about coding, you will learn how to tweak and customize the framework for your business.
(LAB) Designing Custom Video Players SOLD OUT
TUESDAY at 1:00pm & WEDNESDAY at 1:30pm
Speaker: R Blank – AlmerBlank training
(LAB) Robust Video Player Development with Open Source Media Framework
MONDAY at 12:45pm & TUESDAY at 3:30pm
Speaker: Greg Hamer – world wide guru on Flash video development
Making Video Pay with Advertising and Analytics
WEDNESDAY at 11:00am
Speaker: Brian Riggs – Adobe Engineering for OSMF
Video on Flash Player 10.1 Mobile Devices DON'T MISS!
TUESDAY at 3:00pm
Speaker: Jens Loeffler – Adobe Evangelist for Media and Entertainment
With the release of Flash Media Server 4 and Flash PLayer 10.1, you can now deliver video using HTTP technologies. This means wider scale, and reach to the largest possible audience.
HD Streaming with HTTP Dynamic Streaming
WEDNESDAY at 9:30am
Speaker: Will Law – World famous Flash Video player developer working for Akamai
H.264 Encoding Strategies for All Screens DON'T MISS!
WEDNESDAY at 8:00am
Speaker – Fabio Sonnati – Back by popular demand – the world wide encoding specialist
Technical Tips and Best Practices for Getting Content on the Akamai HD Network
MONDAY at 2:00pm
Speaker: Adam Greenbaum – Akamai Networks
I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again at another MAX show. Please do not be a stranger if we cross paths!
– Live long and Prosper.


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(L to R: Barbara Burton, Frances Blount, Shannon Blount)
2012 Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon
On Thursday, December 8, Birmingham Botanical Gardens hosted its annual Volunteer Appreciaton Luncheon, recognizing some of its most gracious individuals that have given time to The Gardens in the last year that has allowed prosperity. A crowd of nearly 150 gathered in the Ruth B. Strange Auditorium for a potluck luncheon. Entertainment was provided by The Crestwood Trio, featuring Melanie Rodgers, Chris Griffin and Niamh Clarke. Director of Education Henry Hughes presented Kathy Rostand with the Educator of the Year award. Special Events Coordinator Shelly McCarty presented Carol Beard with the Plantsperson of the Year award. Executive Director Fred Spicer presented the Herb Army with the Volunteer Partner of the Year award. Director of Library Services Hope Long presented Virginia McLean with the A. Brand Walton, Jr. Volunteer of the Year award, and Director of Development Olivia Alison presented Frances Blount with the Ida C. Burns Volunteer of the Year award. Blount served The Gardens as honorary chair for Antiques at The Gardens in 2011, raising over $390,000 to fund educational programs like Discovery Field Trips, the flagship program that has served over 85,000 students in the metro Birmingham area at no cost.
Educator of the Year: Kathy Rostand
Plantsperson of the Year: Carol Beard
Volunteer Partner of the Year: The Herb Army (L to R: Marian Van Voast, Donna Taylor, Chris Boles, Joyce Dean, Maria Kearny, Donna Musgrave, Ann Garrett, Mimi Boston, Robin George, Winyss Shepard, Suzanne Hovater)
A. Brand Walton, Jr. Volunteer of the Year: Virginia McLean


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You are now playing The Game.
Here are the rules of The Game:
1) To know of The Game is to play the game.
2) To think of The Game is to lose the game.
3) Loss must be announced in this thread.
The Game is a zero-sum game. When you lose, you lose 1 point. All other players gain 1/(n-1) points, n being the total number of players.
Those of you who go to our recently renamed sports section are screwed.
For the record: I just lost the game.


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by Jennifer Katz
On August 31, Marcus Hayes will mark his one-year anniversary as a security guard at Chestnut Hill College. It might have been something to celebrate, but instead, his August milestone will likely be overshadowed by his eyewitness account of Professor Rudolf Alexandrov's suicide on Wednesday, Aug. 3.
Hayes was the first respondent after a fellow staff member called in that a man was standing on the wrong side of the balcony in St. Joseph's Hall at 5:15 p.m.
The man was Alexandrov, 71, an adjunct professor with the college of continuing and professional studies since 2007. He taught evening math courses to undergraduate adult students. On Wednesday, his class was scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m.
Although there were scheduled classes, St. Joseph's Hall was relatively quiet. Fall classes are weeks from starting, and staff offices were closed at 4:30 p.m.
"There is not a lot of activity at that time of day," said college spokesperson Kathleen Spigelmyer.
Alexandrov had arrived several minutes before his class. His wife Olga, also an adjunct professor of mathematics, was in the building teaching her probability and statistics class, while her husband prepared for his class.
"His routine was to sit in the rotunda, gather his thoughts, papers before class," Spigelmyer said.
Several witnesses said they saw him there, sitting a table, just after 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Minutes later, he was spotted on the "wrong side" of the second floor balcony ledge.
"When I got there another woman was talking to him," Hayes said.
"I asked him how he was," Hayes said. I asked him to come over to the safer side of the balcony. I asked him if he had things on his mind. I asked him if he wanted to talk about it."
Each question, Hayes said, was met with a listless "Yeah" from Alexandrov.
Another woman, Hayes said, was begging, pleading with the professor, but could not provoke more from the man.
"It was the only answer he gave either one of us," he said. "There was no expression on his face. It was like the lights were on but no one was home. He just had this blank look about his eyes and facial expression."
Hayes said he looked away as Alexandrov dove from the ledge, head first, arms at his side, 30-40 feet to the floor of the rotunda. Afterwards he looked over the banister.
"I didn't watch him," he said. "I looked over once I heard him make impact."
Several witnesses screamed as the professor fell to his death, drawing the attention of others in the building including Alexandrov's wife.
"She knew it was him," said Spigelmyer.
Spigelmyer said the college was not aware of any emotional or mental issues Alexandrov experienced.
The college is making counseling services available to staff, faculty and students who may have seen Alexandrov's suicide or the scene on the rotunda floor, as well as any member of its community affected by this tragedy.
"We will do whatever we can," said Spigelmyer. "People are really shook up around here."
Hayes, who had "never witnessed anything like that before," said there are certain images from that day he cannot get out of his mind.
"It was a gruesome sight," he said.
According to the college, this is the first on-campus suicide in its history.
A memorial service will be held for adjunct professor Rudolf Alexandrov on Tuesday, Aug. 9, at 7 p.m., at the Bryn Athyn Cathedral, 900 Cathedral Road, Bryn Athyn, PA 19009.