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Ancient Faith Ministries has announced the launch of Orthodox Christian Ebooks. The collaborative website features Orthodox ebooks from multiple publishers, all in one place.
"We are excited about this new web site which will provide a convenient online destination for the best in Orthodox ebooks," said John Maddex, CEO of Ancient Faith. "It will especially be helpful to international readers who are often discouraged by high shipping costs from the U.S."
The music for the Byzantine Menaion Project by Basil Kazan is now being made available in the Department of Sacred Music's PDF Library. Additions have begun with January (PDF), and will continue to be uploaded from there. Each month includes the music for the major feasts and saints of the month, for Vespers and Matins, and occasionally for the changeable parts in the Divine Liturgy.
PDFs will be offered in the Sacred Music Library's section M, for Menaion. The music is type-set, properly accented and barred, with ison, and rubrics and instructions added in, along with special melodies noted. The music was previously out of print, but is now available here in PDF format. May it help us all in our chanting of the liturgical services, as we praise our God and glorify His holy Name, honor His saints, and celebrate the Feasts of the Holy Orthodox Church!
Chehade Zeidan Zeidan fell asleep in the Lord in Lebanon on Saturday, February 20, 2016. Beloved husband of Georgette Wakim Zeidan, he was also the cherished father of Dimitri (Susanne Saikaly) of Ottawa; Rafic (Maha) of Montreal; Pierre (Connie Saikaly) and Regina Hurd (Michael) all of Roanoke, Virginia; Gihad (Marlene) and Therese all of Lebanon. He was loving Jiddo of Katya, Krista, Marcus, Elias, Jessica Dib (Jamil), Jean Paul, Dylan, Michael, Angelina, Elias, Jane, Joanne, Stephanie and Serena, and great grandfather to Michael and Mia Dib.
Chehade, most tender of hearts, loved his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren so dearly. The Zeidan family will receive relatives and friends on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 1 and 2, 2016 between 6:00 and 9:00pm at their home, 7009 Aldergrove Way, Greely, Ontario, Canada K4P 1A4.
In Chehade's memory, a two week memorial service will be held on Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 10:00 am at St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral, 2975 Riverside Dr., Ottawa, Ontario.
Father Michael Shanbour, pastor of Three Hierarchs Orthodox Christian Mission in Wenatchee, WA, reports that their "small mission church in Wenatchee, WA is honored to offer a beautiful, new compilation containing Akathist Hymns to thirty beloved Orthodox saints, many published for the first time (see complete list below)." God is Wonderful in His Saints is a handsome 6" x 9" hard case volume with sewn binding printed by Thomson Shore (536 pages). Each Akathist is preceded by an icon and brief life of the saint. Instructions are also provided on how to pray an Akathist.
God is Wonderful in His Saints has the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph. Bishop Basil of the Diocese of Wichita has also recommended this "very fine publication" to his Clergy Brotherhood.
Order online; shipping is free!
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On Saturday, March 19, 2016, the second Annual NAC Teen SOYO Day of Service will be hosted by SOYO chapters across the United States and Canada.
In reverence to the fundamental virtue of love, NAC Teen SOYO has asked that its chapters across the country dedicate this common day to the service of their local communities. SOYO members are being encouraged to organize an event on this date that will enable you to show Christ-like charity to your neighbors.
We want to see what you are doing, so tag @NACSOYO and use the hashtag #SOYOservice in your posts on social media! Enter your local SOYO in a contest to win a beautiful icon by simply including your parish's name in one of your posts.
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Does your family homeschool? Are you considering homeschooling? If so, plan now to attend the St. Emmelia Orthodox Homeschooling Conference, scheduled for April 7-10, 2016 at the Antiochian Village Conference and Retreat Center outside Ligonier, Pennsylvania.
This year, keynote addresses will be delivered by Fr. Noah Bushelli, Pastor of St. Philip Orthodox Church in Souderton, PA, homeschooling dad, and Director of the Department of Homeschooling for the Antiochian Archdiocese of North America. Fr. Noah will present the topic of Homeschooling and the Marriage Relationship.
Costs are as follows:
Early Bird - Before March 15thSingle Adult/Married couple - $82 Each child 3 and over - $32
Regular Pricing - March 16 to 28Single Adult/Married Couple - $92 Each child 3 and over - $37
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Rooms and meals are separate - click here for pricing.
The conference offers workshops for both experienced and beginning homeschoolers alike, with simultaneous activity sessions for children ages 3 and up.
Our weekend is both educational and retreat-like, with many opportunities for worship and fellowship with other Orthodox homeschooling families. Workshops cover topics of interest to inquiring, beginning, veteran homeschoolers and supporting spouses. If your entire family cannot attend, we welcome solo attendees, as well!
The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese Publications Center & AV Bookstore is holding a sale on Lenten materials for our youth. Among the items on sale are:My Lenten JourneyAn interactive poster for kids! "My Lenten Journey" is a large full-color poster designed to help children understand how they can participate in Great Lent, with the opportunities to "do," "give," "give-up," or "think" each day during Lent as away of making his/her own offering. It's filled with fun and interesting tasks and projects, marking the way with colorful stickers.Lenten Lotto A matching game set of icons and other drawings on easy to use boards, this is for Grades K-3 . Good for use in class or at home, this Lotto game teaches the liturgical services of Great Lent and Holy Week with basic Biblical and historical events.
The Winter 2016 issue of DIAKONIA is now available online. This issue highlights the Diocese of New York, the Archdiocesan District and the Diocese of Charleston! The issue contains:
...and more! Download (PDF) here.
On Saturday, March 5, 2016, Dr. Bradley Nassif—Antiochian author, speaker, professor of Biblical and Theological Studies, and member of Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Christian Church in Warrenville, IL—will be moderating a new speaker's series titled, "Engaging Orthodoxy." Metropolitan Kallistos Ware is the keynote speaker for this first event, and the Very Rev. Dr. John Behr, dean of St. Vladimir's Seminary, along with other notable Orthodox leaders, will be the respondents.
The event will be streamed live on Ancient Faith Radio, and more information about the event is posted on the website of North Park University in Chicago, IL, the host of the conference.
Osama Khoury, 47, of Poughkeepsie, NY, passed away on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center. Osama was born on March 30, 1968 in Palestine to the V. Rev. Fr. Michael and Khourieh Amal Khoury of Taybeh, Ramallah. He was married to Rula El Kawaneh Khoury, on May 30, 1993.
Osama received a Bachelor of Science Degree at Long Island University and served as a pharmacist at CVS in Pleasant Valley, NY. A resident of the Hudson Valley for over 20 years, Osama was previously employed at Rite Aid Pharmacy. He had accomplished his goal of opening his own pharmacy in Gibsonia, PA, named Gibsonia Pharmacy and Health Center.
Osama loved the outdoors. He enjoyed camping and loved serving the community. He was an active member of Saint James Orthodox Church in Hyde Park, NY.
In addition to his mother, Khourieh Amal, Osama is survived by his loving wife Rula, his sons, Michael and Gabriel, as well as his daughter Amal, his brother Ibrahim (Rula) Khoury of Pittsburgh, PA, and his sisters Hannan (V. Rev Fr. Yacoub) Khoury, Ramallah Palestine and Iman (Issam) Muaddi.
His Grace Bishop Demetri, Osama's uncle, will preside at the funeral service at Saint James Orthodox Church in Hyde Park, NY, assisted with Fr. Hisham Nimri, pastor, and the local Orthodox clergy.
The viewing will be held at Saint James Church, 441 Violet avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY on Friday, February 26 at 5pm-8pm and Saturday, February 27 at 4pm-7pm. The Funeral Services will be on Sunday, February 28 at 4 o'clock.
His Grace Bishop Antoun with the newly-elevated Father SabaAlthough the actual elevation of a Priest to the dignity of Archpriest may take only a few minutes, the preparations for this sacred event begin far in advance. Ten years in advance. Once a seminarian is ordained to the Diaconate and later to the Priesthood, he then faithfully serves the Church as pastor, teacher, confessor, spiritual father, and other less notable yet equally important roles over the course of ten years before he can be considered for Elevation to the dignity of Archpriest. During each of these ten years, the Priest will lead his parish through the beautiful seasons of the Church calendar, cultivating a spirit of love and unity. There will be scores of homilies delivered during Sunday Liturgies, the joy of baptisms, the sorrow of memorials, countless hours of counsel, discovering a leak in the Church roof, discovering a second leak in the Church roof, fundraising to fix the leaking roof. Through all this the Priest will gain the love and respect of his parishioners. As an outpouring of gratitude and deepest appreciation, those parishioners will in turn voice to their Bishop the desire to have their Priest elevated to the dignity of Archpriest in recognition of his devotion to the Church and Her members.
February 23, 2016, Memory Eternal! + Kh. Jedonne Rhudy
Word has been received of the falling asleep in Christ this past weekend of Khouria Jedonne Rhudy, wife of F.r Stephen Rhudy, formerly of St John the Forerunner in Cedar Park, TX. Condolences may be sent to Fr. Stephen and family at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The first-ever complete guide to monasteries in the United States, Atlas of American Orthodox Christian Monasteries, has been released by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America. The Atlas can be purchased ($ 19.95) on Amazon.com or directly from the publisher, the Holy Cross Orthodox Press, and was made possible by a grant from the Virginia H. Farah Foundation and the Cottonwood Foundation.
Drawing on extensive research, as well as fascinating stories and "insider" anecdotes, the Atlas offers readers:·a scholarly introduction into traditions of Eastern Christian monasticism and a history of Orthodox monasteries in America,·a full and comprehensive directory of nearly 80 American Orthodox Christian monasteries, and·an enticing travel guide for those seeking to visit American monasteries and to "sample" monastic life.In addition, twenty-three featured monasteries share their "personal stories" and offer a glimpse in the surprising spiritual appeal of monastic life in 21st century America.
Edited by Alexei Krindatch, the book's 150 pages of text are accompanied by four sets of color maps and more than one hundred photographs depicting everyday lives of America's Orthodox monasteries. The Atlas is "album size," or 9 x 11.
Purchase the book:
Holy Cross Bookstore50 Goddard Avenue, Brookline, MA, 02445Phone: 1-800-245-0599Fax: 617-850-1430, orEmail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Memory eternal! Sherry Abraham Morrow, December 4, 1948 - February 17, 2016
Sherry was born on December 4, 1948 and raised in Woodward, Oklahoma. She graduated from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education. Shortly after graduation, she married Don Abraham and moved to Wichita, Kansas. They had two daughters, Candace and Ginger. Don and Sherry owned and operated Ali Baba Bakery for 19 years. The bakery specialized in pita bread, but eventually made over 100 different varieties. She worked full time at the bakery with Don until he was diagnosed with cancer in 1994, and they sold their business. Sherry worked on weekends at Abe's Steak House, a restaurant owned by Don's family. Don passed away on February 28, 1995.
In November 2003, Sherry married Mark Morrow. Their blended family consists of two sons, three daughters, two sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law, five granddaughters and four grandsons. Mark and Sherry split their time between Wichita and Oklahoma City and were active in the Antiochian Orthodox Christian churches in both communities – St. George Cathedral in Wichita and St. Elijah Church in Oklahoma City. At St. George Cathedral, Sherry served as the Chairman of the annual Lebanese dinner and was the Baklawa Chairman for many years, perfecting the process of making enough baklawa to serve more than 5,500 people!
"They grew up in Damascus in a time before Syria was a synonym in the Western mind for chaos and religious extremism. Reem Hoff and Rouba Heckenlively grew up a half-hour's walk from each other, both in families that practiced their Syrian Orthodox Christian faith openly among Muslims. Rouba's mother and Reem's aunt were friends. By coincidence, both women met American travelers who were visiting monasteries. Both women ended up living as American citizens in a suburb of Waco."
So begins a recent Waco Tribune-Herald article featuring the extraordinary story of two families from St. Andrew Orthodox Church, an Antiochian mission in Waco. In November 2015, investigative reporter J.B. Smith began contacting Syrians in Central Texas to get their take on the provocative words of a Texas state official, who had likened Syrians entering the U.S. to "rattlesnakes" ready to strike. Smith soon found there were a number of Syrian Christians in the area, a fact which defied the simplistic and false stereotype of all Middle East immigrants as "extremists" and "radicals" – this led him to contact St. Andrew parish priest Fr. John Ballard, who put the reporter in touch with the Hoff and Heckenlively families.
As we anticipate the start of the Lenten season in March, three of the senior statesmen in the ranks of Antiochian clergy have offered reflections for our spiritual edification: Archpriest George Shalhoub, Economos Antony Gabriel, and Archpriest Joseph Antypas.
Fr. George and Kh. Nourhad ShalhoubThe Gospel and the Orthodox Family: The Christian Meaning of Love
"As our nation celebrates the feast of love, Valentine's Day," writes Fr. George Shalhoub, pastor of The Basilica of St. Mary, Livonia, MI, "it brings with it the measures of marketing and the things that most of us have come to believe will make the wrong right, and the right better. Valentine's Day will be celebrated by the exchanging of love with flowers, candy, dinner or surprise trips. It has become one more thing to do because others are doing it, and many find it is easier to purchase something than act." Read more
Memory Eternal! Kh. Lukie Neustrom with the late Fr. ThomasMemory Eternal! Khouria Lucia "Lukie" Neustrom, retired from All Saints Orthodox Church, Salina, KS, peacefully fell asleep in Christ on February 12, 2016, at the age of 95. Condolences may be sent to Khouria Lukie's family via Fr. Daniel Griffith of All Saints in Salina, at firstname.lastname@example.com. Divine services for Khouria Lukie will be held at All Saints, and funeral arrangements are as follows: Visitation at All Saints, Tuesday, February 16, from 5:00-8:00PM with Trisagion Prayers of Mercy at 7:30PM, and the Funeral at All Saints on Wednesday, February 17, at 10:00AM.
February 11, 2016 (South Canaan, PA) — St. Tikhon's Orthodox Theological Seminary has announced the creation of three new scholarships for students who attend the seminary with the blessing of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
"It is a great joy to announce the creation of these three new full scholarships," His Eminence Archbishop Michael, Seminary Rector, said. "The scholarships will cover tuition, room, and board, allowing these seminarians to focus on their priestly formation and enter ministry in the Holy Orthodox Church without any debt."
The scholarships, named in honor of three current hierarchs in the Antiochian church, are: The Patriarch John X Scholarship, The Metropolitan Joseph Scholarship, and The Bishop Thomas Scholarship.
Over 80 clergy and lay youth and camp workers gathered in Dallas, TX for this year's Orthodox Camp and Youth Workers' Conference. This annual conference is sponsored by the Orthodox Christian Camp Association and the leaders of all the different jurisdiction's youth departments. The Orthodox Church in America hosted at their Saint Seraphim's Cathedral here in Dallas. There was a large delegation representing camping and youth ministry from the Antiochian Archdiocese led by His Grace Bishop Thomas.
Attached is the flyer for the Publications Center & AV Bookstore Pre-Lenten Sale that is running in February. The sale features the Little Compline / Akathist books, as well as the Presanctified Liturgy books. There is a considerable quantity discount on them, so parishes can get sufficient copies for their faithful. In addition, there are two books for good Lenten reading.
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Registration form and schedule for the 2016 West Coast Sacred Music Institute is now available! Make your arrangements today!
February 25-28, 2016, St. John the Evangelist, Orinda, CADownload Flyer (PDF)Download Registration Form (PDF)Download Schedule (PDF)
The February 2016 issue of The Word is now available and contains the following articles:
Our Vision of Leadership is Serviceby His Grace Bishop John
House of Studies 35th Anniversary
Metropolitan Joseph Addresses the Archdiocese Board of Trustees
Confession: A Mystery of the Churchby V. Rev. Paul O'Callagan
God Is Wonderful in His Saintsby Rev. Fr. Michael Shanbour
...and more!
On Sunday, January 31, 2016 in St. Vladimir's Seminary's Metropolitan Philip Auditorium, the Board of Trustees and Faculty will award a Doctor of Canon Law degree honoris causa to former St. Vladimir's Trustee and Antiochian Archdiocese Chancellor, Charles Richard Ajalat. The ceremony will be followed by the 33rd Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture, offered by the Reverend Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The academic convocation and lecture will begin at 7 p.m. on the St. Vladimir's Yonkers, NY campus.
Charles Ajalat was born into a pious Antiochian Orthodox family, and as a young man earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and then a doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
As an outstanding lay leader in the Antiochian Archdiocese, his influence has been felt throughout many Orthodox Christian communities in North America. Charles has been a key figure in many efforts, some of which are:
~the founding of the first conference of canonical Orthodox bishops of SCOBA, at Antiochian Village in Ligonier, PA, which together with its follow-up conferences are the predecessors to the Assembly of Canonical Bishops of the United States of America
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jeremiah 29:11)
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On December 20, 2015, by the Grace of God and the blessings of Sayidna Anthony (Michaels), bishop of Toledo and the Midwest, the parish community of St. Elias Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church in Sylvania (Toledo), Ohio came together in a "Double Celebration" event: the consecration of the new holy utensils for the altar and the consecration of the newly constructed St. Elias Little Miracles Montessori School. Archpriest Ayman Kfouf inaugurated both projects shortly after being assigned to St. Elias as the new pastor in November, 2013. Sayidna Anthony's visit thus represented the successful culmination of over two years of hard work by the people and pastor of St. Elias' Church.
His Grace Bishop Anthony presided over a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy. The parishioners with friends and families joined the divine services in praises and thanksgiving. During the sermon, Sayidna Anthony affirmed that God took on our humanity out of love for us and to redeem the fallen nature of our humanity and to raise us to new and everlasting life with Him, in communion with His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and by His Holy Spirit.
On Friday, January 8, 2016, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph hosted a dinner at the Archdiocesan Headquarters in Englewood, New Jersey in honor of His Excellency Antoine Chedid, Ambassador of Lebanon to the United States, on the occasion of his retirement. Ambassador Chedid has distinguished himself as a man of peace and positive action, and is well loved and respected by all who have come to work with him and know him.
The dinner was attended by many members of the clergy from various denominations, as well as members of the diplomatic corps. Metropolitan Joseph honored Ambassador Chedid by awarding him the Medal of the Order of St. Raphael, the highest award given by the Antiochian Archdiocese.
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The Right Stick
- December 1, 2007 |
- By Larry Olmsted
For the first time in two decades, Robert Pedrero addresses the golf ball with complete confidence. Surprisingly, it was never his swing that worried him, since Pedrero, who flirts with a single-digit handicap, has as fluid a swing as you could expect for someone who plays intermittently and rarely practices. Nor does he fret his choice of venues, since he has traveled the world's best courses (Pedrero serves as a golf poll panelist for Cigar Aficionado) and belongs to Mayacama and U.S. Open venue Olympic Club, two of the Nation's Top 100. So what has bothered the admittedly anal golfer for over two decades? His equipment. "With so many brands, and new models coming out all the time, and hundreds of shafts, it always seemed to me that the chance I had the best clubs for me was statistically remote. You can't possibly try them all, especially in real world settings. Going to demo days didn't help, because there is often a love affair with a new club, where it can do no wrong for a day or two, but then a few hundred dollars later it's the same old story. The way we, as avid golfers, buy clubs, has always bothered me, because something about it just doesn't make sense."
That all changed last year when Pedrero discovered Hot Stix Golf, a Scottsdale, Arizona—based company that does nothing but offer intensive, high-tech club fitting sessions that span every major equipment manufacturer's offerings. He eagerly flew to Scottsdale just for the half-day program. "I was always a proponent of custom fitting. I got Pings back when they were the first to push fittings, and since then all my clubs have been fitted, but there is a big difference between having clubs that fit you and clubs that perform well for you. You might be able to adjust the seat and mirrors in a Hyundai so it fits, but it's still a Hyundai. I wanted a Ferrari. I know my swing could always improve, but Hot Stix convinced me that at least I have the absolute best clubs for my game that I could have—at any price."
No PGA Tour golfer plays off-the-rack clubs, so why should you? Club fittings for amateurs have become much more popular in recent years, but it is time for the fervid golfer to step up from mere fittings to a focus on equipment selection, which is exactly what a handful of cutting-edge programs do. Few PGA Tour pros play stock shafts, and many have different shafts for their irons, wedges, fairway woods and driver. Likewise, even many sponsored pros don't just play a single brand: their optimum setup includes a driver from one manufacturer, fairways woods from another, irons from someone else, and ditto for wedges and putters. When Mark Wilson won The Honda Classic this year, he carried not only a slightly unusual configuration of driver, one fairway wood, one hybrid and three wedges, but a fairway wood from Cleveland and a driver from Ping, plus a mix of steel and graphite shafts from four different manufacturers. Amateurs often have every club in their bag from a single company, while pros often carry clubs from three to six different manufacturers, in order to have the best gear possible for their game. Shouldn't you?
My first foray into the world of next-generation club fitting comes from TaylorMade, the No. 1 woods brand on the PGA Tour. Like all top manufacturers, TaylorMade has a special tour fitting center at its headquarters, in Carlsbad, California, where sponsored pros like Retief Goosen and Sergio Garcia come to be perfectly fitted for custom clubs. Whereas you or I might go to our local club pro and have him break out a tape measure and impact tape and watch a few shots, Garcia puts on a suit covered with computer sensors and hits balls with sensor-equipped clubs in front of a multimillion-dollar array of nine high-speed cameras and several computers that map his every move, in addition to all aspects of his ball flight. Unlike almost all other computerized swing analyzers, which tend to focus on ball velocity, spin and launch angle, TaylorMade's proprietary system measures the golfer's full body motion from address to impact in real time, including total duration of the swing, which when measured over a series of swings, equates to rhythm. Clubface angle to the tenth of a degree is measured continuously, as is the amount of shoulder turn, club path, arm angles and much more. The system gathers nearly one million data points during a typical 24-swing series, and by going through this process, I learn more about my swing and the golf swing in general in a couple of hours than I have from weeks of lessons over the course of my lifetime, many with the world's top instructors. "It's a phenomenal way to testÉ. It allows the operator to see and demonstrate exactly what happens in the swing," says Charles McLendon III, master fitting professional and the manager of the TaylorMade Performance Lab at the Reynolds Plantation golf resort in Greensboro, Georgia.
The system is so good, TaylorMade decided it could no longer limit it to its tour pros and licensed the technology to Performance Golf Labs Inc., operator of TaylorMade Performance Labs worldwide. In addition to the facility at Reynolds Plantation, there are two other resort-based Performance Labs in the United States: at the Four Seasons Aviara, in Carlsbad, and, as of June, at the Grand Cypress Resort in Orlando, Florida. Interestingly, the resort version improved on the original: the factory system was only for woods, irons and putters, whereas McLendon helped develop software for wedge fitting, making the Georgia lab true one-stop shopping. Even PGA Tour pro Kenny Perry popped into Reynolds Plantation in late 2005 when he was struggling with his putter, and found the tiny flaw in his path. "Guys on Tour had been telling me that I was pushing my putts a bit the past few weeks, but I had no way to verify other than by feel. This really showed me something." The Performance Lab's analysis quickly paid off for Perry—to the tune of six figures—when he won the Franklin Templeton Shootout a week later and continued to putt better, soon climbing into the world's Top 10 in career money earners. The lab can't sell you Perry's swing, but you can get the same experience: fitting sessions run about three hours, starting with a pre-fit interview and questionnaire covering your ball flight, goals and current equipment, which at any of these next-generation fitting operations you should absolutely bring with you. After being fitted with sensors, you hit shots with various clubs, then the computer and Performance Lab staffers, all of whom are top-notch teaching professionals, work their magic.
The TaylorMade Performance Lab is unique in that it offers a mix of part-lesson, part-fitting. Some golfers who have already been fitted come back solely for instruction. Besides getting specs for custom-made clubs, you learn an enormous amount about your swing, and can compare yourself to other golfers by handicap. One of the keys to the system's success is the incredible database that TaylorMade has assembled during years of testing, so it knows specifically what the average swing speed, ball flight and other results are for golfers of every ability. This allows a client to identify the part of his game that is substandard compared to his peer group, so he can work on this weakness.
In the world of high-tech club fitting, data is king, and Hot Stix Golf took another approach to the information issue. The company tested every major clubhead on the market, and thousands of shafts, to see exactly how each performed under different circumstances. By using a mind-boggling array of computerized testing equipment like something out of a science fiction movie, technicians built a database that helps them match a player's swing with the best equipment for that particular swing. Their brand neutrality, with no ties to any manufacturer, is what gives Hot Stix credibility with demanding and skeptical customers like Robert Pedrero. "We are the world's largest independent tester of driver heads, fairway heads, hybrids and so on," said Hot Stix chairman Tom Graunke. "We've tested every major brand, most second-tier brands and over 2,700 shafts. Our process is so in-depth, we call it 'getting the club's DNA.' We then offer a fitting experience that gets the player's DNA and matches them up."
Graunke himself came to Hot Stix as an avid golfer in need of better gear and became such a fan, that much like Victor Kiam in the old Remington shaver commercials, he bought the company. "I went from 12 to a 7 handicap after my fitting. I found that shocking. I have played golf all my life, took lessons regularly, hit balls at least once a week, did all the things you are supposed to do, but had stopped improving. When I came to Hot Stix, I hit the ball low with a low spin rate and had trouble holding greens, even with mid-irons. Now I hit a high fade, not from lessons or changes but simply from playing the right equipment. The question you have to ask yourself is, do you want the very best equipment to improve your game, or do you want clubs from Brand X, which is how many golfers have traditionally made their decisions. Before I came in, I never thought I was a Mizuno guy, didn't think I was good enough for those blades, but boy was I wrong. Most people are shocked with what we recommend, because we are brand agnostic. All major manufacturers are making very good clubs these days, but they have different characteristics. Everyone asks, 'What's the best equipment?' There is no best, but there is a best for you."
I quickly learn how Graunke felt about Mizuno. While Hot Stix likes the TaylorMade irons the Performance Lab selected for me, my master fitter, Chris Ferguson, thinks he can do much better on the driver, even though I have been happily playing TaylorMade drivers for years. After reviewing data, he hands me a 905R from Titleist, a brand I have long avoided because of its reputation for "player's clubs"; these are marketed to the best recreational players, of whom I am not one. But the computer does not lie: I hit the Titleist consistently straighter—and nearly 20 yards longer. Pedrero had a similar surprise when he was told to toss his Callaway driver and switch to a Cleveland Launcher, a brand he had never considered buying, and now loves.
"Your driver is Hot Stix in a nutshell," says my fitter, Ferguson. "Your swing does not generate a lot of spin, which you need to get and keep the ball airborne, so you clearly need a high-spin driver. But you also draw the ball, so you don't want a draw head, and most high-spin drivers promote a draw. Since we know how every single driver performs, I check your swing against our database, and I am not guessing when I hand you the 905R. Our numbers say trade in your r7 for the 905R—with a Fujikura ZCOM TW64 shaft—and the results will be more fairways hit, more height, more distance." Neither Ferguson nor I can imagine the golfer who doesn't want all of the above. This includes the very best: while Hot Stix sponsors exactly zero players, Graunke says that it counts among its customers such Tour pros as this year's FBR Open Champ Aaron Baddeley, Billy Mayfair, Tom Lehman and Hale Irwin. "We don't pay them a thing. They come by choice to improve their game and equipment."
Hot Stix sits in a Scottsdale corporate park, looking more like a doctor's office than a golf shop. As you enter, the entire left wall is filled with color-coded manila folders labeled like hospital charts, reflecting the "DNA" of nearly 20,000 customers, many of whom come back regularly to see if the latest clubs can help their games. Just before I arrived, a foursome came in a private jet from Japan just for a fitting. Staffers wear white lab coats, and the Tour-quality custom shop sits prominently behind a glass wall, like a trendy restaurant's open kitchen, so visitors can see clubs assembled. From unique color finishes on wedges to custom sole grinds to drilled tungsten inserts for weighting, no amount of customization is too much for Hot Stix.
In back are fitting bays, where launch monitors help club fitters optimize customers' swings against the database. To begin each fitting, staffers put your existing clubs on machines and double-check loft, lie and shaft flex. Pedrero was shocked with the results: "I had the same steel shafts in all my irons, labeled stiff, but when tested, some were stiff, some were normal and one rated a women's regular in flex. Likewise, the gaps in loft between my irons were uneven. I had no idea how imprecise off-the-rack clubs are." A fitting results in several recommendations, often for two to three optimum heads from different brands for drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges and putters. To Hot Stix, set composition is also important and, depending on a golfer's swing data, the staff might recommend long irons, hybrids or lofted fairway woods. "Everyone needs a putter and a driver. I help them find the 12 clubs in between," said Ferguson.
The company's newest offering is the Hot Stix Performance Center, an indoor/outdoor testing facility that opened March 1 at Scottsdale's Legend Trail Golf Club. This 10-acre compound includes a 2,000-square-foot building with indoor bays, but the main advantage is being able to try clubs under more situations and observing actual ball flight. The center consists of six Game Fitting "experiences," to address every club in the bag. Accompanied by their personal fitter, visitors rotate through the stations, leaving no club untouched. Ferguson notes that the wedge evaluation is much better under real conditions, where the fitter can see flop and sand shots and make recommendations for bounce. The Performance Center books only four guests per day, and each fitting takes three to four hours. Graunke, who plans to roll out additional Performance Centers nationwide, says, "This is the elite of the elite, a new level of fitting that incorporates all the same technology and database of our indoor facility. This is the equipment fitting experience Tiger Woods gets when he visits Nike."
Besides the fitting process, Hot Stix offers recommendations for golf balls, something most golfers know surprisingly little about. Hot Stix is so serious about this that it keeps balls in a lab-quality incubator at 77 degrees Fahrenheit to test accurately. "Balls are very misunderstood," said Graunke. "People think the top models from top manufacturers are comparable, but they're not. If you and I both play off of seven and we both hit a Pro V1, we will get very different results, very different spin, based on our golf DNA." J. P. Lincoln, spokesman for Hot Stix competitor Max Out Golf, which has an entire Web site, golfballtest.com, devoted to proper ball selection, agrees: "You pick up a box of balls and it says super long, soft and mid or high trajectory, and that's all. There's no way to tell the difference." Lincoln notes that all balls make essentially the same claims, and all have to conform to United States Golf Association rules, yet many of the buying decisions that fuel an $800 million annual ball industry are uninformed, which is why Max Out recently performed robotic testing of every major ball with several different clubs. "For my swing," says Lincoln, "a mid-priced ball like the Maxfli Noodle actually outperformed more expensive balls like the Pro V1. How would I know that?"
Balls are mysterious, but no segment of the golf gear industry is as confusing to the average player as shafts. While top equipment manufacturers like Titleist and Callaway are household names, shaft specialists such as Grafalloy, Graphite Design International, Fujikura, True Temper, United Sports Technologies and Aldila are not. Each of these companies, and dozens more, makes an endless array of models, and this is one of the key reasons Pedrero went to Hot Stix in the first place. "I'd look at the pros and none are playing stock shafts, but if I took my driver to a retail shop and asked what would be a good shaft, I never got any inkling that they knew what they were talking about. The odds of picking the right shaft from hundreds are, well, one in hundreds, and some of these shafts cost hundreds of dollars each." Consider the case of Titleist, which offers more than 60 different driver shafts from nearly a dozen manufacturers just in its direct semi-custom sales program.
According to Hot Stix's Graunke, "Shafts are the single least understood component of all golf gear, but also the most important, offering the single biggest opportunity for improvement. If you have a limited budget and need to decide between new clubs and re-shafting, re-shaft every time, as long as you can get shaft-fitted by a competent place. The shaft is the engine of the golf club, but everyone thinks it is the head. I can take any brand of five-year-old heads and put them on the exact right custom shaft for you, and I guarantee they will absolutely outperform any brand new club you have." In fact, after Pedrero was fitted by Hot Stix, the company recommended that rather than buy clubs, he pull his old Ping irons out of the closet, re-shaft them, and have the heads bent to new angles, to replace his newer and more expensive set.
Max Out Golf puts so much importance on shaft fitting that much of the company's process is based on its patented Shaft Max technology, in which sensors attached to a test shaft measure the load your individual swing puts on the shaft and at what points. "Our system for fitting is unique, and as a result we were just granted several U.S. patents," says Max Out founder Mitch Voges. "The very first thing we do is look for the right shaft for you. The right weight and bend profile is all based upon how you load the shaft, which has nothing to do with how far you hit the ball. Grabbing any old shaft is like needing glasses and buying a random pair without a prescription."
Shaft Max data helps Voges's staff pick the perfect shaft for you from well over 100 different models the company stocks from various manufacturers. "There is a reason why we carry so many, because of their unique performance features," says Voges. "We measure them and I can even tell you exactly how much effective loft a particular shaft will add to your club. It used to be they would wheel a cart with 25 5-irons with different shafts out to the range and you ended up buying whichever one you hit better at that moment. The industry has missed the boat, and they are all based on marketing and hype. Heads, shafts and balls are all unique products, and we measure them all rather than accepting manufacturer claims. We have no preconceived notions, we are vendor-neutral and we start the fitting process with a blank canvas."
Voges, the 1991 U.S. Amateur champion and a former Walker Cup player, started the company in 1996 in Sherman Oaks, California, and will soon have more than a dozen locations worldwide. When he was playing competitively, Voges was fascinated with club building, and constantly tweaked his own equipment, then started Max Out due to the mystery and the public ignorance surrounding golf equipment.
"We have fit several thousand golfers, and I probably have the happiest customer base of any company," says Voges. "We have no inventory to push, no commissions, and no one comes in here and feels hustled. John Public is used to buying the clubs they see on TV. Almost no one who comes in here has ever had a putter fitting, or maybe even heard of a putter fitting. Do they want their shafts counterbalanced? They don't know when they come in, but by the time the fitting is over, they don't want to leave. They are like a kid in a candy store. And not everybody needs new clubs. We get people who come in and their clubs are pretty close to ideal. Some just need adjustments in lie, loft or shafts. Others are 180 degrees from the right equipment for them. Some need entirely new sets. But they all leave here understanding why."
Max Out's Performance Analysis includes shaft analysis, swing analysis using the company's patented Launch Max launch monitor, equipment recommendations, lie and loft analysis and, if needed, adjustment of your existing clubs. You can add a putter fitting and order custom clubs.
Like TaylorMade, other top manufacturers have precision club fitting and swing analysis for their sponsored players, but almost none makes these available to the public. The Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) is the minor exception. The package is mainly aimed at small corporate groups of six and can be booked only through your local Titleist PGA golf pro. The appeal of TPI is that it emulates the true tour fitting experience offered to Titleist players, and includes a three-dimensional body motion analysis of your swing, along with a complete physical examination and personalized exercise routine that were designed by Dr. Greg Rose, president and founder of Clubgolf Fitness Center, the largest golf-specific health club in the United States. Then there is a swing analysis, putter analysis and custom putter fitting by Dave Phillips, a Golf Magazine Top 100 teacher. After fittings and recommendations are made for driver, irons, wedges and balls, a complete set of custom-fitted Titleist clubs is given to each participant. The package also includes a mental golf analysis, nutritional consultation and even a custom FootJoy golf shoe fitting. Attending TPI gives you a glimpse into the world of a top professional golfer.
Golfers of all abilities will greatly benefit from equipment that is precisely customized for fit and with the right shaft and performance characteristics, and any of these next-generation fitting sessions will improve your game. Which one is best for you depends on whether you want just an equipment fitting or you also want to learn more about your swing, as is the case at TaylorMade Performance Labs. If you want a whole gamut of golf-related health and strategy advice, there is the Titleist Performance Institute. No matter where you go, the fitting cost itself may be irrelevant when compared with the new gear you will want. These companies are happy to give you printed club specs to take to any retailer, but due to the high level of customization and particular shaft recommendations, it is easier just to order them directly after the fitting. Graunke estimates that 90 percent of Hot Stix visitors buy some or all new clubs. Performance Labs's McLendon says, "For most people who come through the lab and then test out our recommended clubs, the immediate performance gains are so substantial that the money issue goes out the window and the question is, 'How fast can I get them made?'"
Some golfers dread that a detailed club fitting will improve their game and thus change their swing, making the gear obsolete, but the truth is the worse gear you already have will become obsolete equally quickly, and chances are that initial changes will be minor enough so that your new equipment can be tweaked as you progress. All of the specialty fitters cited a preponderance of high handicappers as among their best customers. "The Hot Stix client is the avid, affluent golfer," says Graunke, "but that doesn't mean scratch. We get plenty of 20 to 25 handicaps." In most cases high handicappers benefit more from club fitting than better players, who have less room for improvement. McLendon agrees: "Many people are concerned about getting fitted without reaching maximum improvement first, but you can't think that way. If you look at the percentage of improvement, the players who benefit the most are the players who aren't that good. Since we opened, our average customer has had an index of 20. We get scratch players, but while people think that is the lab's target customer, it is actually a small percentage."
Golf is ultimately a game most of us play for fun, but there is no doubt that the better you play, the more fun it is. Many avid golfers buy new drivers, putters or even entire sets every season, spending hundreds or thousands of dollars in pursuit of better scores, when less money could go a lot further toward lasting improvement through proper club selection. I am truly more excited to play than I have been in years, thanks directly to my high-tech fitting experiences, and while golf is not a cheap sport, just the feeling of elation my new clubs have given me is priceless.
Larry Olmsted is a Cigar Aficionado contributing editor.
Illustration by Hadley Hooper

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Vol a XL—No. 8 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Wednesday, November 11, 1964
`Vocation with a Vision' Relates
Majors to Christian Missions
Cumberland folk trio entertains diners at Captain's Cabin amid
atmospheric fish nets and colored candles. The supper club must ob-tain
approval from Student Senate or disband.
Campus To Air
Rights Problems
work centering in Santiago and
Veracruz, Chile.
Interviews can be arranged with
Rev. Franklin Nelson, Executive
Secretary for the Board of Foreign
Missions and Rev. Dale Bjork, Ad-ministrative
Assistant for the
Board of Foreign Missions, on both
Thursday and Friday.
Films will be presented Monday
through Wednesday evening at 7
p.m., in the college auditorium.
Telling the story of John Ross,
"Manganga" vividly describes med-ical
missions in Africa. "Conflicto
De Carlos" portrays Conference
work in Argentina.
"Missions in Crisis" put out by
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
concerns the Urbana Missionary
Conference for college students
held every fourth Christmas season
on the campus of the University
of Illinois.
The official status of the Cap-tain's
Cabin was left undetermined
Monday night as the Student Sen-ate
went into its third week of
World Missions Week at Bethel
begins next Monday. Underlying
the events of the week is the theme
"Vocation with a Vision" which
emerged to meet the need of learn-
Campus Thefts
Reach New Peak
Recently, there has been an out-break
of thefts on Bethel's cam-pus.
Stolen items range in value
from $60 to $220. Some of these
include clothing, books, purses
and many personal belongings.
In one case, a coed had her
shoes taken from her closet. In
another case, one Student Senate
secretary had her purse stolen
from the Senate office.
The administration feels that
much of this is done by Bethel
students. In an interview with
Dean Muck, he stated, "Some of
these thefts have to be inside
jobs. I am sure of this from my
own acquaintance with the pro-cedures
used. I am also sure
that there is some sneak thiev-ery
Complaints of thefts reached a
peak in late September and early
October. Since then they have tap-ered
off somewhat, until just re-cently
they were again brought to
our attention.
"Thefts on campus are virtually
impossible to trace. The police do
check the pawn shops regularly
for identifiable items."
Muck also gave some ideas
for the prevention of these bur-glaries.
First, students must be
careful not to leave anything
which might be a tempta-tion
to otheri. The dean also
stated that students must be con-stantly
"We have a lot of people drift-ing
through our campus. We
should pay attention to strangers
as well as our own students."
To conclude the interview, Dean
Muck said that thefts should be
reported immediately. This is
necessary to heighten chances for
recovery of the stolen goods.
The Religious Committee is
sponsoring a special subscription
rate for His magazine, the pub-lication
of Inter-Varsity Chris-tian
Fellowship. The first fifty
students to sign up will receive
the magazine for $1.75. The regu-lar
subscription rate is $3.00 a
year. The sign-up sheet will be
posted in the book store.
ing how majors offered at Bethel
can be used in missionary service.
The week has been set aside for
emphasis on the global implica-tions
of Christ's Great Commission.
Although nearly twenty centuries
have passed since Christ urged His
disciples to "go into all the world
and preach the gospel," people are
forced to admit that the task of
world-wide evangelism is far from
Main speaker Rev. Vincent
Brushwyler, D.D., former General
Director of the Conservative Bap-tist
Foreign Missionary Society,
urges Christians to face their re-sponsibility
as Christians of sur-veying
the needs of today's world.
Rev. Brushwyler has traveled a-round
the world twice, visiting the
CBFMS mission fields. Presently,
he is occupied as an itinerant min-ister.
Other Missions Week partici-pants
include Rev. and Mrs. Roy
Nelson who do educational evan-gelism
at the Bago Bible School of
Cebu, Philippine Islands; Rev. and
Mrs. James Patterson teaching in
the Osaka Bible Seminary of Japan
and Rev. and Mrs. Cory Grotheim
who are engaged in missionary
Skalman Films
Student Actors
It has been the experience of
most Bethel students to be trou-bled
by bright lights and strange
scenes in the coffee shop this
past week.
Byron Skalman has been film-ing
one of a series of films on
foreign mission fields. This one is
on the Philippines. The movie
starts on the Bethel campus and
through interviews with a CLAR-ION
reporter three missionaries
describe the Philippine mission
field in a series of flashbacks.
The three missionaries appear-ing
in the film, Roy Nelson, An-drew
Nelson and Bill Chesbro are
home for World Missions Week.
Other films done by Skalman
for the Conference are on the mis-sions
in Assam, India, Argentina,
Ethiopia, Brazil and Japan.
Skalman started as a photo-grapher
for an aircraft company
and as the company grew he gain-ed
experience. After serving as a
Navy photographer he worked at
Moody Institute of Science before
attending Bethel Jr. College. He
left the college to teach at Moody
and then went into his present
field of filming world missions.
"Negro Thought on Civil Rights
—1964" will be discussed by Cal-vin
Walton, Executive Director of
the Minnesota Governor's Commis ,
sion on Human Rights, in tomor-row's
civil rights convocation, the
second of the series of three be-ing
held this week.
Dr. Harold Chase, professor of
political science at the University
of Minnesota, started the series to-day
with a lecture on the Civil
Rights law and its implications.
Walton, himself a Negro, re-ceived
his B.S. degree from Ten-nessee
Agricultural and Industrial
State U with a major in political
science and a minor in history.
He received his M.A. in political
science from Ohio State U in 1959,
Prior to his present position
with the State, Walton spent
four years wih the Urban Lea-gue.
His duties with the League
consisted of working to improve
employment and training for
Negro citizens.
Rev. Will Campbell from Nash-ville,
Tenn., will speak on the
"Christian and Human Rights" in
the convocation Friday and will
continue this theme in an evening
convocation at 8.
Campbell has had a wide and
varied involvement with the racial
issue in the south. After his resig-nation
as Chaplain of Ole Miss, he
became actively involved in the
National Council of Churches. He
is currently involved as full time
staff member of the Council of
Southern Churchmen. This organi-zation,
founded by Campbell, re-flects
his convictions that the
church should meet the race prob-lem
with the Christian Gospel
rather than a humanistic approach.
A noon luncheon will be held
in the President's Dining hall
tomorrow with WaiTon, and on
Friday with Campbell. Students
are encouraged to bring any
questions they have on the is-sues
for the lecturers to discuss.
The Convocation committee has
arranged for this series of three
debate on the proposed Bethel
supper club.
Rejecting the group's original
constitution by a 12-3 vote with
civil rights convocations in order
to make an impact on the student
body concerning the problems of
civil rights in society today.
Bodien Council
Clarifies Rules;
Stiffens Policy
Last Thursday the Bodien Dorm
Council decided to "crack down"
on the rule which "normally ex-pects"
freshmen girls to be in
their rooms by 11 p.m. on week
days. Freshmen girls are now re-quired
to be in their rooms at 11
p.m. in Bodien Dormitory.
Because a greater percentage of
upper class women live in Hag-strom
and each room has its own
washroom facilities, the inforce-ment
in Hagstrom will remain as
liberal as it has in the past.
During the Bodien meeting, the
dorm president was reported to
have explained, "Dorm council
doesn't want to lose face. The
CLARION said we were inconsist-ant."
She later qualified this statement
by pointing out, ". . . we meant,
we haven't been strictly enforcing
it because it isn't fitting to both
dormitories . . . There is incon-sistancy.
This rule is not plain;
therefore we are clarifying it."
When asked if this new enforce-ment
would require a change in
the freshmen girls' handbook, Bo-dien's
president answered, "No,
according to the handbook it (11
p.m. rule) could go either way.
So, we are going to enforce the
This change in the enforcement
policy of the rule will not affect
the upper class women living in
Bodien. Study hours will be from
2-5 p.m. and from 7-10 p.m. The
hour from 10-11 p.m. will be des-ignated
"washroom hour."
two abstaining in the previous
Monday's meet.
The matter went into delib-eration
last Wednesday night as
Bill Madsen and his committee
gathered with Joe Marcea, J.
David Patterson and Dennis
Rossi to work on the Senate ob-jections
to the standing consti-tution.
Five issues were taken into con-sideration,
chief among them be-ing
the question of closed mem-bership.
Patterson defended the
Cabin's position on the grounds
that membership would be closed
due to inadequate space. Clarify-ing
his stand, Patterson noted that
Captain's Cabin would only be
closed after all reservations had
been made for the next event.
George Palke, chairman of the
Athletic Committee, voiced his
objection to the supper club be-cause
it would interfere with
all-school events. Cabin repre-sentatives
objected to a specific
adjournment time but agreed to
keep all-school activities in mind
when planning an entertainment
Opinions on the controversial
Captain's Cabin were widely var-ied
as Dr. Roy Dalton, professor
of history, vowed to "fight it all
the way to the president's office,"
on the grounds that the type of
programs and general purpose of
the Cabin are contrary to Bethel's
purpose as a Christian college.
Cabin's Status Remains Nebulous;
Senate Takes Issue with Purpose
Page 2
the CLARION Wednesday, November 11, 1964
Republicans Give Voters
No Choice But Johnson
"Let conservatives give the people a choice," claimed
Goldwater Republicans before the Republican National Con-vention.
Conservatives won at the Convention and they gave
the American people a choice in the 1964 presidential election.
They chose to give Lyndon B. Johnson the greatest popu-lar
vote margin in United States history with over 61% of the
record 70 million votes cast. And they chose to elect a more
liberal Congress. This lopsided victory of Democratic candidates
appears to be a "mandate, loud and clear," as Time magazine
puts it, for Johnson and his "Great Society."
But not all things are what they appear to be. It is very
possible that the American people's choice was not so much
a mandate for Johnson as it was a rejection of Goldwater
and his conservatism.
If people had not been voting against Goldwater, why
would former Republican strongholds in New England and the
Midwest have reversed their past history of party alignments
to vote for Johnson? Small Protestant towns across New Eng-land,
which have long been known for conservative voting,
went consistantly for Johnson, making almost a complete a-bout
face from the way they voted in the 1960 election between
moderate Republican Nixon and liberal Democrat Kennedy.
Rural Midwestern states like Iowa, Nebraska, downstate
Illinois and rural Wisconsin, which have voted Republican
down the line for years, went with unprecedented margins for
Johnson. Why? Because people do not see the need for a
drastic shift in direction. In the past the American people
have not chosen to make extreme changes unless the times—
a great depression or war—called for change.
Although many people would rather have voted for a
man more moderate than the New Dealing Johnson, they
could not because the Republican party gave them a choice
that called for drastic change when the people saw and felt
no need for it. The Republian party made a political blunder
when it forgot to consider the mood of the people and of-fered
them a choice that left them no choice . . . except to
vote for Johnson.
With the benefit of hindsight it is easy to agree with
New York's Governor Rockefeller that Goldwater took the
party out of the mainstream of American political history. In
taking it out of the mainstream he grounded the party ship
taking several good Republican politicians like Keating of New
York, Taft of Ohio and Percy of Illinois down with him.
If the American people issued a mandate in the 1964
presidential election, it was not just a mandate for Johnson.
It was also a mandate for moderate Republicans to recover
control of the Republican party so that the two party system
can continue.
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Letters to the Editor:
Wells: 'Rule Insults Maturity'
by John Halvorson
Sino - Soviet Relations .. .
The Chinese and Soviets may
talk peace. Communist middlemen
are trying to arrange Sino-Soviet
peace talks, attempting to get the
feuding Red giants together at the
conference table. However, the
Soviets have re-iterated their "no
back down" idealogical position.
U.S. - Soviet Relations .. .
Following a policy of alternating
civilian friendship and military
toughness, the Soviet defense min-ister
accused the United States De-fense
Secretary, Robert S. Mc-
Namara, of threatening to destroy
his country "at any moment." He
then added, "Any enemy attempt
to destroy the Soviet Union will,
be answered in a suitable manner."
Saudi Arabia .. .
In Saudi Arabia, King Saud was
dethroned and his brother, Crown
Prince and Prime Minister, Faisal
proclaimed King. The Cabinet Min-isters
and Religious Consultive
Council approved the dethrone-ment.
Faisal has been the real
ruler since ailing King Saud was
forced from power in 1962.
Viet-Nam ...
Vietnamese Major General Ngu-yen
Khanh advised the United
States to take the war to Commun-ist
North Vietnam and Red China.
He claims the balance of power in
Asia will swing in favor of Com-munist
China unless the United
States takes more positive action.
Humphrey Successor . . .
Hubert Humphrey advised Gov-ernor
Karl Rolvaag to designate
the vice-president's successor in
the Senate "promptly and as soon
as possible." Speculation gives
Walter F. Mondale, a Minneapolis
attorney, the nod.
Polls . . .
Elections were the big news on
the national scene. The polls prov-ed
correct in their analysis of
election results. The long-establish-ed
Gallop Poll picked Johnson -
Humphrey by 61%. Their actual
Republicanism .. .
The GOP must now regather and
conciliate its forces. Unity is a
real problem. The Conservative,
Moderate and Liberal factions are,
all fighting for control. Goldwater
says he won't surrender the party
leadership. Meanwhile, Nixon call-ed
Rockefeller a "spoil-sport." The
reply came back that Nixon was
by Ron Clutter
(Though it is felt that parallels
can be drawn in the following
analogy, it is necessary to state
that the writer has made no at-tempt
to establish a relationship
between the personalities and
qualities of persons mentioned and
those of contemporary leaders. It
is urged that the reader also re-frain
from drawing any such as-sociations.)
It is election day in Jerusalem,
April 7, 30 A.D. The people are
about to make a choice. Before
the crowd stands Pontius Pilate
with Jesus, the Nazarene, in his
custody. Pilate has offered the
people a choice. Will they choose
Dear Editor:
In preface to my remarks about
the dorm rules at Bethel, I would
like to state that in any organiza-tion,
rules are necessary. But in
Bethel's dorms some of the rules
in practice are unreasonable. This
situation causes more problems
than it solves.
The "11 p.m. in the room" rule
is an unreasonable rule. It places
restrictions on maturity; it insults
the basic idea of personal disci-pline.
The motive of the ruling is
probably to make the dorm quiet
for sleeping but most students
study after this hour in their
rooms anyway.
It would be advantageous if we
were allowed freedom of move-ment
from room-to-room. Then we
could study and discuss assign-ments
with friends and borrow
materials. As it stands now we
can be campused for doing the
things that would be helpful in
our studying.
Another rule that is unrea-sonable
is the campus system.
Under this a girl may be "im-prisoned"
in her room for minor-trivia
such as using the toilet
after hours (at least in Bodien).
Using this system a girl may be
expelled from college for no
more than being caught in the
bathroom five times after hours.
I don't propose that we let the
student engage in activities such
as showers that could disturb oth-ers.
I do propose that we be allow-ed
to have freedom to move in
and out of our rooms without fear
of being campused.
There is the problem, too, of the
value of offenses for which we can
Jesus or the other man that has,
been offered, Barabbas?
What about this Jesus of Nazar-eth
whom the people have misun-derstood?
He has been traveling
throughout the country for the last
few years preaching and teaching
ideas which are foreign to the pre-sent
generation yet many of His
concepts are those that were held
at the beginning of this nation's
He attacks those who are in
high places. He condemns them
for hypocrisy and corruption.
The few who follow this Jesus
are fanatical in their devotion
to Him. Accusations, many of
be campused. Would anyone dare,
to propose that being out of our
rooms after hours is as serious an
offense as coming in late? Again
under the campus system there is
unjust punishment for minor, tri-vial
Idealy, in a Christian atmos-phere
there should not be writ-ten
laws. Common courtesies
should be observed without a
"legalistic" system. Such can be
the case at Bethel.
It follows that after condemn-ing
one system that one should
propose an alternate, more work-able
solution. I present for appro-val
a system of demerits. Under
this system there would be a value
placed on each offense. The more
flagrant violations could be dealt
with more severely than the minor,
trivial discourtesies.
Also, I propose that the "11 p.m.
in the room" rule be removed and
instead a more mature approach
to control be used.
These are my views. I hope they
will be considered carefully; keep-ing
in mind that no society can
be perfectly static and without
need for changes.
Respectfully submitted,
Mary Ellen Wells
Several Agree
Dear Editor,
As residents of Bodien, a num-ber
of us were especially interest-ed
in the article in last week's
CLARION concerning Bodien's "11
p.m. rule." There are, of course,
conflicting views regarding this
matter, but those of us who op-which
are false, have been hurl-ed
against Him.
When answering questions He is
quick and forthright to present His
ideas. He is a radical and His
ideas do not fit in the great so-ciety
of this new frontier.
Now He stands before the peo-ple.
They have to make a choice.
What will their decision be?
"Give us Barabbas!", they shout,
"We want Barabbas!"
The vote is taken. It is Barabbas
by a landslide. This Jesus is being
led away. He has been defeated:
His ideas and the ideas of His fol-.
lowers have been rejected. THE
pose the rule feel we have some
valid reasons for our opinion.
We are not contending that all
restraints should be removed, but
we do feel we should be free to
make some decisions for ourselves.
If we cannot do this in college,
when will we learn to decide what
is right or wrong, good or bad?
Those of us who thoughtlessly
disturb others by being noisy
would perhaps learn a lesson in
courtesy by being campused. It
seems rather absurd, however, to
be campused for brushing our
teeth if we are disturbing no one
else. And is there any harm in
talking quietly to someone if no
one else is being disturbed?
Maybe we will lose a little sleep,
but we feel this is our decision
to make. We will have to make
many decisions in the course of
life and we feel that now is the
time to begin.
Barbara Fryar
Phyllis McGuire
Garda Holmstrom
Priscilla Anderson
Diane McDougal
Editor's note : The CLARION
received other letters this week
pertaining to dormitory rules
and library noise, but they are
not included here because they
were unsigned.
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Can't be blamed for harboring
I know one hound that laughed all
At a porcupine that sat on a
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Civil Rights Inventory. Harold Chase. 10
a.m. Convocation.
Thursday, November 12
Inventory. Calvin Walton. 10 a.m. Convo-cation.
Mid-semester reports due.
Friday, November 13
Inventory. W. H. Campbell. 10 a.m. Con-vocation.
St. Benedict's play. St. John's University.
Departure 4 p.m.
Forum. Campbell. 8 p.m. College auditor-ium.
Saturday, November 14
Senior class party. 7 p.m. Rose Bowl Lanes.
Junior class party. 8:30 p.m. Hemline pool.
Sophomore class party. Eaton's. Departure
6:45 p.m.
Monday - Wednesday,
November 16 - 18
World Missions Week. 10 a.m. Chapel.
Missions film. 7 p.m. College auditorium.
Monday, November 16
Student Senate. 7 p.m. College auditorium.
WMF. 9 p.m. Seminary chapel.
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worked with this woman's tribe, realized this summer the necessity for working through the patterns of
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"The tribe I taught thought
Americans kill all short people
because we (missionaries) are all
tall, they think," exclaimed Judy
Anderson, one of seven students
Bethel sent on missionary pro-jects
in North and South America
last summer.
The objective of the project was
to have the students help mission-aries,
observe the mission fields
and bring back impressions of
their summer experiences.
Carol Brisson considered her
most difficult problem the pres-sure
"to conform to the people;
it was harder than I thought.
In everything I did I had to be
careful because the people were
constantly watching me." Carol
spent her summer in St. Criox,
Virgin Islands with Nancy Dean.
Alice Tagenfelt and Judy Ander-son
found a desire for the familiar
most bothersome. They both work-ed
as secretaries for the first few
weeks and then separated to two
tribes, working as translators.
Bert Heep, who worked with a
tribe in Oaxaca, Mexico replied,
"The hardest thing for me was
cultural shock. It's quite an ad-justment
to eat with your fingers,
watch people spitting on the floors
and see women taking a bath in the
middle of the village."
Nancy found that the low
moral standards of the people
bothered her. "I often wondered
if I wanted to be exposed to the
type of attitude as a mission-ary."
Personal attitude, not environ-ment,
proved to be the most diffi-cult
aspect of Sam Bolet's exper-ience.
"It was my own life that
was hard to discipline—it's im-portant
to have a real burden for
people." Sam worked with a
church in Brooklyn, New York.
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pel." Nancy, however, thought the field." "I know now I'll feel a
people were quite content to main- lot of discouragement when peo-tain
the status quo. pie don't outwardly respond,"
Judy answered, "You have to Nancy mused. "But I know that
work through the patterns of the if it's God's will it will be won-people;
it's a long process but derful."
the people do accept the gospel." "There are so many that haven't
Sam was amazed at the recept- been touched," Alice responded,
iveness of the people, "I expected "that it's amazing to see their re-half
answers and disinterest on action. I plan to go to the Univer-the
visitations I made but these sity of Washington to start my
people are interested." training this summer."
Jim Kiem, who worked with the
Indians in Nett Lake, Minnesota
answered, "They are receptive yet
they are still uncertain about the
white-man's religion."
Most of the students returned
with a somewhat tarnished version
of the idealistic concept of mis-sions
with which they departed
last spring. Judy and Alice, how-ever,
retained their original pic-ture.
"It was exciting. I wish I
could talk to everyone about this
summer," was Judy's enthusiastic
Alice commented, "Their per-sonalities
reminded me of people
I knew in the states. They are
intelligent individuals with ter-rific
The students unanimously agreed
that the mission projects are worth-while.
The summer's experience
crystallized plans for several.
Carol asserted, "My concept of
missions is more realistic and I'm
willing to accept it if God wants
me as a missionary."
Contrary to what he expected,
Bert commented, "This summer
didn't 'make me or break me.' I'm
still undecided." Jim was more
certain, "I know I'll go into Chris-tian
service, but it's still a decision
between missions and a pastorate.
Judy is planning on the mission
field and hopes to specialize in
Sam reflected that, "I felt in-volved
and compelled in a dir-
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Kent Lundholm, former Bethel student, appears with the Norman
Luboff Choir as they perform in Northrop Auditorium in the Uni-versity
Artist Series.
Every Friday evening, the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, un-der
the direction of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, performs. Usually they
feature a guest soloist.
This Friday finds violinist Charles Traeger playing the famous
"Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major" by Mozart. Also included on the
program are compositions by Ravel, "Le Tonbeaun de Conperin,"
Mennin's "Symphony No. 7," and Richard Strauss "Dance of the
Seven Veils" from "Salome."
Paul Fetler, University professor of musical composition directs
the Symphony Nov. 20 in the world premier of his own composition
"Cantus Tristus" dedicated to the late President John F. Kennedy.
"Bruckner Symphony No. 9" in D Minor (unfinished) and a Proko-fieff
piano concerto with guest pianist Byron Janis will also be on
the program.
The octagonal stage of the Guthrie Theatre houses the Minnea-polis
Symphony String Quartet as they give the first concert of a
four concert series, Nov. 18 at 8:30 p.m.
University Theatre now has a play by Walter Kerr, a folk musical
entitled "Sing Out Sweet Land" in performance at the Scott Hall
Auditorium. St. Paul's newly opened repetory theatre now has two of
the 10 productions in performance: "The Lady's Not for Burning" and
"Mother Courage."
Do not forget the showing of the new film version of the play
"My Fair Lady." Starring Rex Harrison, the original Professor Higgens
and Audrey Hepburn. It opens next week at the Century Theatre
in Minneapolis.
Art lovers, arise and support your cause. Several galleries through
the greater metropolitan area contain paintings and sculptures repre-sentative
of all periods and media.
Windsor Gallery at 5017 France Ave., Edina, has a superb
display of art coming out of the expressionistic period. German ex-pressionists
have captured a variety of subjects in all types of art
forms and media.
Another definite type of art can be seen at the Minneapolis
Institute of Art. Spanish subjects are treated in the highly individual-istic
manner of Goya. A showing of selections from Goya's Capricios
graces the walls of the Institute until Nov. 29.
Walker Art Center opens a new section of display—a collection
of "Jose Guadalupe Pasada: Graphics." This display opens Nov. 15,
Sunday afternoon. Another new showing opens Friday at the Kilbride-
Bradley Gallery, 68 S. 10th St. in Minneapolis. Paintings and prints
by Mr. Kilbride are on display.
the total project goal is $28,000.
The first $3,000 will be used to
send Bethel students to mission
fields next summer.
Keim hopes that 10 students
will be able to participate in the
summer project. Selection of stu-dent
missionaries and mission
fields should be final by Easter
Remainder of the funds will go
toward the world missions class-room.
Missionary project offering
will be taken every Friday during
the chapel service to meet the
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Seminary for this year, students
have decided to provide the funds
for a world missions classroom in
the seminary complex on the new
This classroom will be one of
five major classrooms in the build,
ing. According to Dwight Jessup
of the Public Affairs Office, mis-sionaries
are going to send decora-tions
and furnishings that will be
incorporated into the basic struc-ture
of the room to give a mission-ary
The student Religious Commit-tee
decided that in this way, the
environment of the classroom
would serve to stimulate the mis-sionary
thrust, but would not
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Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, made an
impression on the American people in 1863 that continues to
influence our lives. No beginning American History student can read
the Gettysburg Address and remain unimpressed by the wisdom and
magnitude of these famous words.
Miss VanDyke, this year's Miss America, impressed the Christian
world as she maintained her Christian testimony in a most crucial
moment—a moment when the Miss America crown was at stake.
I am impressed by the people who so happily perform their daily
tasks on campus which are often taken for granted: by the smiling
ladies who work in the coffee shop, by the warm custodians who
maintain our school, by the friendly ladies who toil each day in the
various offices, by The kind people who put the mail in the P.O.
Yet, I am most impressed by the students who serve as managers,
or trainers, or statisiticians on our various athletic teams. The reason
for this stems from the fact that they are the ones with whom I am
in closest contact.
If you have never had occasion to be in a locker room after prac-tice
or after a game, and witness the great pomp and ceremony with
which tape is strewn about, uniforms heaved into a huge pile and the
training room all but obliterated—you just haven't lived! It makes
your dorm room, during final exam week, look commonplace.
Long after the team has departed and the shambled locker room
is all but forgotten, one may peek around the entrance door and see
Bob MacDonald, the football manager, Jerry Wahlstrom, the student
trainer, quietly sorting the subterfuge and preparing it for the wash.
The managers and student trainers of course have other tasks, such
as bandaging and taping athletes "owies." But their job is never done.
Perhaps John Milton expresses the sentiments stated here when
he says "They also serve who only stand and wait."
I speak for the entire football team when I express the team's
gratitude to Bob MacDonald, Jerry Wahlstrom, Ken Bell, Doug Gordh,
Steve Hoffman and Bill Jackson for making this great season an even
greater one.
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yards and a 4.1 average per
In individual passing, Nolin con-nected
for 46 out of 96 attempts
for 51 percent and 12 touchdowns.
His net yardage was 555.
The individual punting title
went to John Dickau as he booted
16 times for 555 yards and a 34.7
average. Larry Stair trailed with
20 points for 671 yards and a 33.6
In the pass receiving department
Gibson was the leader, compiling
398 yards for seven touchdowns.
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Sunday School-9:45 a.m. College Class
Morning Service—I 1:00 a.m.
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30 p.m.
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, Pastor
Mr. Norman McLean, Ass't. Pastor
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Evening Service, 7 p.m.
College-age Fellowship After Evening Service
Albert Windham Bruce Anderson
Pastor Youth Director
(Bus leaves Bodien at 9:30 a.m. — cars at 6 :45 p.m.)
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With the intramural football
program drawing to a climax, the
teams which do not have a chance
of placing high in the standings
can turn their eyes toward basket-ball
which begins tonight.
Unique to this year's program
is a two league arrangement. Each
participant will have two teams,
one in an "A" league, the other
in a "B" league. First place in
"A" competition will be rewarded
with 100 points while 50 points
will be given to the "B" champ-ion.
Games in the "A" league will
be played on Wednesday even-ings
at 7:15, 8:15 and 9:15. "B"
league action will take place on
Thursdays at the same times.
Carl Linden, co-ordinator of the
basketball tourney, states that the
purpose of the two leagues is to
allow more men to take part. The
"A" teams will carry eight men,
apiece with the "B" squads un-limited.
Unbeaten, untied and unscored
upon, the Seminary has gained at
least a tie for the football champ-,
ionship. Their last two games have
been won by forfeit and the game
this Saturday has been conceded
to them by the same means.
All of the other teams have
lost at least once with two games
remaining for most squads. The
final week pits the Seminary a-gainst
the Jesters, which will
determine whether the current
leaders will win the champion-ship
or be forced to share it.
Tomorrow night at Hamline Uni-
The Bethel Royals football team
has long since departed from the
gridiron but their team and indi-vidual
statistics are still making
The total offensive rushing yard-age,
1,758, added to 599 yards in
passing, added up to a Gargantuan
2,357 yards. This was the total
yardage for eight games, making
an average of 294.6 yards per
The Royals limited their op-ponents
to a combined total of
1,670 yards for a total game
average of 201.3.
Bob Nolin was the leader in
individual scoring with 50 points
over the eight game span. Follow-ing
close behind were Stan Miller
and Duane Gibson with 43 points
In individual rushing, Nolin
carried the ball for 116 plays
for 511 yards and a 4.6 average
per carry. Stan Miller lugged
the pigskin 126 plays for 511
versity pool, the swimming and
diving meet will be held. This is
a one night event and will include
individual and relay swimming
plus diving competition.
The standings for completed
sports shows the Jesters leading
with 50 points followed by the
Barons, with 33, and the Knights,
who have 17. All other partici-pants
have been blanked thus far.
Cocking, arMand looking for a receiver is seminary quarterback
Dave Kastelein. He spots Bruce Erickson and completes pass for long
yardage. The scene is typical of intramural action, and particularly the
Seminary, as they are still undefeated.
Intramural Cagers To Begin,
As Gridders Conclude Season
Bethel Grid Statistics
Rate Nan Top Scorer
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Column: Piers Morgan points to a bigger issue
For all the complaints about the leftward tilt in American journalism, it's nothing compared to news operations around the globe.
America is splintered by another policy crisis -- the role of guns in society. CNN host Piers Morgan leads a crusade for gun control, describing gun supporters as "dangerous" and wanting to ban "assault weapons." Morgan, who CBS called "an imported TV personality," believes as many British do, that gun ownership should be restricted.
That anti-gun position has cascaded through the global media. The Guardian UK featured both British and American columnists calling for "the fierce urgency of now" on gun control. Russia Today claimed pro-gun supporters say they can "freely carry military-grade assault weapons." A Sydney Morning Herald columnist wrote he won't even let his boys "play with toy guns."
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Before the rise of the Internet, the United States was mostly on its own for media. Fortress America spent far more time influencing the rest of the world than the reverse. That has changed, big time.
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- Islands are mostly flat and well paved (ideal for scooter rentals).
- Cruise ship crowds on many resort beaches in Nassau and Lucaya
- Cars drive on the left; bad for U.S. drivers (but, obviously, good for visitors from the U.K.).
- Erratic public bus
- Temperatures can be quite cool (60 to 70 degrees) in December to March, i.e. too cold for swimming or other water pursuits.
Hurricane Irma severely affected the Bahamas in September 2017. Many businesses, including hotels and resorts, are currently in the process of recovery and rebuilding. We will update our travel guide as soon as we have more information, and in the meantime, please make travel plans accordingly.
What It's Like
An English-speaking archipelago that begins about 50 miles off the south coast of Florida, the 29 islands, 661 cays, and a few thousand rocks that make up the Bahamas differ dramatically from one to the next -- from bustling, modern business centers in Nassau, to flashy casinos packed with thousands of docked cruise ship passengers, to Americanized shopping centers that house a McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, Tony Roma's, and five-star outposts from Food Network denizens like Bobby Flay, Nobu Matsuhisa, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten (all at Atlantis), to entirely isolated beaches far removed from an airport, a bank, a grocery store, or anything else. But, uniformly, you'll find a pleasantly infectious culture focused on conch, beer, and slow-paced good times.
Where to Stay
The great majority of hotels and resorts are concentrated in Nassau (on the island of New Providence) and on Grand Bahama Island, which also have the two most prominent international airports.
In Nassau, the hotels here tend to be grouped in two areas, either on Cable Beach (where there's the Melia Nassau Beach Resortand Sandals Royal Bahamian Spa Resort) about 1.5 miles west of historic downtown Nassau, or across the port from downtown on resort-saturated Paradise Island, a small enclave that feels a bit like a giant golf community and includes one of the largest, more elaborate mega-resorts in the world, Atlantis, which has, among other features, a world-class casino, a dolphin habitat, a massive water park, couture designer shops, high-profile concert venue, and some 40 bars and restaurants.
On Grand Bahama, most hotels are concentrated in the Port Lucaya area, a bustling shopping and dining area that's popular among cruise ship passengers for its gorgeous beaches. The largest and nicest is the Grand Lucayan Hotel, which has more than 1,300 rooms, four pools, a handful of upscale restaurants, and the popular Isle of Capri Casino. For a little more remote luxury, and a lot more quiet relaxation, there's also Old Bahama Bay, about a 45-minute drive from the airport on the western tip of the island.)


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So you're constantly checking your Amazon rankings, and you Google yourself daily to see if anyone in cyberspace has mentioned you.
Welcome to professional writing.
But there's actually MORE you can do to drive yourself nuts.
Here are some new ways to obsess over your public appearance (or lack thereof). Simply search for your name, in quotes (i.e. "JA Konrath") and let the results roll in.
www.technorati.com will show you how much you are blogged about. So does www.blogsearchengine.com.
www.news.google.com will let you know how 'in print' you are.
www.bn.com proves that people do critique beyond Amazon. If you write mysteries, also visit www.booksnbytes.com.
www.dogpile.com will give you Internet saturation beyond Google. Also try www.mamma.com.
www.marketleap.com will show you how well your website is doing (and how well your peers are doing) with three different search criteria.
www.groups.google.com will let you know who is talking about you in newsgroups.
www.froogle.google.com will show you who is selling your stuff, and for how much.
Still not enough about you? Visit www.ebay.com will give you an accurate appraisal of how much your books (and signature) are really worth. Also try www.half.com, www.abe.com, and www.alibris.com.
I'm still waiting for www.jakonrath.google.com, so I can search my memories for where the hell I lost my keys back in '97.
If anyone has any other cyberspace mirrors (ways to see yourself) that you use, please post them. God knows I don't spend enough time each day dwelling on my career...
Added: Melanie Lynne Hauser has just informed me that you can check if your book is stocked in libraries by visiting http://www.oclc.org/worldcatdownloads/#top and downloading a toolbar.
I played with this for a while, and it works great.
Added: Melanie's husband just forwarded more time wasters to me, this one let's you track your Amazon rank: http://www.titlez.com/welcome.aspx also showing high, low, and average.
This one searches more blogs for you: http://talkdigger.com
Saturday, November 26, 2005
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Decision : CONF 001B V.A.2
Examination of requests for International Assistance - Natural Heritage - Requests for which the Bureau formulated a recommendation to the Committee
Komodo National Park (Indonesia): The Bureau recommended that the Committee approve a sum of US$40,000 of the US$63,400 requested by the Indonesian authorities for the purchase of a patrol boat and the procurement and installation of a GIS-GPS system. The Bureau recommended that the Indonesian authorities limit the costs of the GIS-GPS system to a maximum of US$19,000 by calling for competitive bids for the supply and installation of this system for the Komodo National Park.
Ujung Kulon National Park (Indonesia): The Bureau recommended that the Committee approve a sum of US$40,000 as a contribution to buffer sone development activities to provide water facilities for local people. An agreement for cessation of resource extraction inside the Park is under discussion. The objective of this project is to demonstrate operational links between the conservation of Unjung Kulon National Park and benefits to local people.


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Sat, 30 April 2011
A talk from An Lac Temple in Ventura, California. A brief talk on Brad's recent activities interviewing Nina Hartley and giving a talk on Dogen at SFZC, followed by lots of questions and answers on a wide variety of topics.
Direct download: hczp010.mp3
Category:Q&A -- posted at: 1:37am EDT


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