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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) DeMarcus Ware boarded the plane for Denver on Wednesday morning, looked in the row across from him and saw a sleeping Aqib Talib.
Yep, the Broncos mean business.
Before Ware even had a chance to sit down with Broncos boss John Elway, he saw exactly how serious the team was about fixing its defense.
Ware became Denver's latest defensive addition in free agency, agreeing to a three-year, $30 million deal. That's $110 million – $60 million guaranteed – for Ware, safety T.J. Ward and Talib, the last two of whom signed Tuesday.
"They're trying to make a statement – a statement we're a team to be reckoned with," the 31-year-old Ware said. "Their mentality is a `now' mentality. Not looking forward to next season or the season after that, the time is now."
Out of work less than 24 hours, Ware wasn't fully intending to agree to a deal right away with Denver when he flew into town. But he was persuaded by Elway, the Hall of Fame quarterback turned executive who stressed to Ware the Broncos' commitment to defense even with a prolific offense led by Peyton Manning.
Elway got his man – again. He did so two years ago with Manning and last offseason with Wes Welker.
It's really no surprise the Broncos are concentrating on defense in the wake of a 43-8 loss to Seattle in the Super Bowl last month. Ward thinks the trio of new players brings not only leadership but a level of physicality to the field. Denver's defense surrendered nearly 25 points a game last season, which was 22nd in the league.
"I think you see with Seattle's defense last year – definitely defense wins championships," Ward said. "(Ware and Talib) are two great players. I'm eager to get to work with them. I don't know them personally yet, but I know what they do on the field. Those are two players I admire. I think we'll work well together."
Talib flew in from Dallas on the same flight as Ware, not even realizing it until halfway through the trip. He was ecstatic to later hear that Elway enticed Ware to join the Broncos.
"Every year you just want to better your team," Talib said. "Mr. Elway decided to better his team on defense this year, since the offense looks pretty good."
Ware was let go Tuesday by Dallas in a salary-cap move. He had a franchise-record 117 sacks for the Cowboys since being drafted in the first round in 2005. He had a career-low six sacks last season and missed games for the first time in his career because of a thigh injury. He underwent offseason surgery to fix his elbow.
Now that Ware's fully healthy again, he's "going to be able to get after the passer," Elway said.
No doubt, especially playing opposite Von Miller. This was a rough season for Miller, beginning with a six-game drug suspension and ending with a torn ACL on Dec. 22.
Ware said he has a good relationship with Miller and hopes to get the 2011 rookie of the year back on track by serving as a mentor.
"Von is one of those incredible athletes," Ware said. "If you can really hone in on what you do best, and make yourself not think as much when you're out there, he'll be an even better athlete."
Talib said there's no bad blood between him and the Broncos after he tweaked his knee early in the AFC championship game against Denver when he was bumped by Welker on a crossing route.
Maybe at first, but not anymore. Not after watching the replay "1,000 times."
"Wes is a good friend of mine," Talib said. "I can tell you he didn't do it on purpose."
Talib appreciated Patriots coach Bill Belichick sticking up for him after the game. Belichick called it "one of the worst plays" he'd seen in nearly four decades of coaching. The league's officiating chief later ruled it a legal hit by Welker.
"I told (Belichick) thank you and I respected what he did," Talib said.
As for Talib's balky hip, well, that's not an issue. Hasn't been since his days with Tampa Bay.
"The Patriots have their way of reporting stuff," Talib said. "The injury I had was actually a quad injury, reported as a hip injury. That's how they do things."
Talib said he received some interest from Washington, New Orleans, San Francisco and, of course, New England, but liked the fit with the Broncos.
"I think we all are guys who play with attitude on the field," Talib said.
Ware couldn't agree more, especially with the Super Bowl loss being a motivator.
"They're saying, `We're going to act right now and not let that happen again,"' Ware said.
AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner contributed.
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William Arthur Bell Jr., age 96, of Oak Ridge, passed away Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at Blount Memorial Medical Center in Maryville.
William Arthur Bell Jr., age 96, of Oak Ridge, passed away Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at Blount Memorial Medical Center in Maryville.
He was born Nov. 24, 1916, in Powell Station, the son of Nola (Hibbs) and William Arthur Bell Sr. We were blessed to be at the side of our father and hero, holding his hand, at the end. His very labored breathing stopped, his eyes opened very wide staring straight up towards heaven and his heart stopped. He was at peace and his suffering gone. He had fought the good fight and it was done.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brother, Lynn Bell and sister, Faye Korff.
He was the most loving and devoted husband of Anna Leece Williams Bell, father, mentor and role model to William Kenneth (Patty) Bell and Karen Kay Bell (Raymond) Hansen.
He was a patriot, serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. A brilliant scientist, he worked first for the U.S.F.D.A. both before and after W.W.II, and then for four decades for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Stable Isotope Separation Program as head of research and development, where he was responsible for numerous patents.
After retiring, he became the best Papaw in the world to William Andrew (Gillian) Bell, Timothy John Bell, Kenneth Christopher Bell and Phillip Michael (Tia) Bell; and finally, great-grandfather, Big Bill, to Wiley James Bell, Romany Nicola Bell and Elizabeth Rose Bell. He loved and was loved. He will be missed. Dad, we love you.
The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at Weatherford Mortuary. The funeral will follow at noon with the Rev. Jack Sills officiating. A private burial will be held at Bells Camp Ground Cemetery in Knox County.
An online guest book can be signed at www.weatherfordmortuary.com.

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Sunday, January 1, 2012
* Homemade Search and Find, Walter Wick Inspired I Spy Book
Well, Christmas is over and so is New Year's Eve
so in our house that means that it is time for Grandpa's Birthday.
My dad is tricky to shop for and having his birthday a week after Christmas
always makes it extra tricky! Fortunately, he loves homemade gifts
and he loves to do I Spy challenges and books with the girls.
So... we made him his own, homemade "I Spy" book this year!
I'm sorry the photos are so dark, it's been rainy and cloudy here all afternoon.
First, the girls set up some Walter Wick inspired
"I Spy" scenes with their toys in the playroom
and we took photographs.
I printed out 8" x 10" photos of each scene.
Then, "E" wrote out the poems and challenges for each photograph.
We slid the photographs and handwritten challenges into some
clear page protectors and tied the whole thing together with some rainbow yarn.
"C" made him a photo and page with all of her stuffed kitties
but I can't show the page because she wrote her name all over it!
Trust me, it's very pink, very kitty, and very cute.
Can't wait to surprise him tomorrow with his homemade book!
Thank you to everyone who left a comment on the Walter Wick, "I Spy"
book giveaway. I'll be contacting the two winners via email!
pink and green mama, MaryLea
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – Use Your Family Tree Program to Make a Calendar
by Sherry Stocking Kline
by January 30, 2010
The following is from Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings! It is our Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge! Don't forget to cue up the "Mission Impossible Music"
Hi SNGF fans – it's Saturday Night, time for some major Genealogy Fun!!!
Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to:
1) Open your genealogy software or family tree program of choice and make yourself the highlighted person.
2) Find out how to create a Calendar to show birthdays and/or anniversaries of yourself and all of your ancestors (or all relatives, or all persons – your choice!). The "Help" button is your friend here!!! It can be done in all of the current software programs.
3) Create your calendar. Pretty it up if you want. Save it. Can you show us a page from your calendar – say January 2010?
4) Which of your ancestors (or relatives, or descendants – your choice!), if any, were born on 30 January?
Have fun with this. How can you use this information during the coming year?
I have to confess it took me longer than 30 minutes, and that just for one program! I chose Legacy, though I do have Family Tree Maker 16, and also the free Roots Magic software. I've read great things about Legacy, and so wanted to try it out, and a cousin swears by RootsMagic, so downloaded the free software.
But I digress…
I just did one photo and one calendar page, and I've scanned the photo page and will post it here:
When I first began entering my family into my family tree programs, I did it in a way that I wish I hadn't.
I created a separate file for each surname. I know that I can combine them all into one comprehensive family tree and I plan to but I've not done it – yet.
Five or six years ago, I bought Broderbund's Calendar Creator and because I already have the birthdays of all family members (from all my trees!) and friends and neighbors that I would send cards to and it's very simple to create a new one each year by just adding new photos I may stick to using it.
However, if there is a way to have Broderbund's Calendar Creator tell me that today is Susie and Joe's 25th anniversary, or next month it's Kris's 50th birthday without me manually entering it, I'm not aware of it, (which doesn't mean it doesn't exist!) and that was a nice feature when I printed out the calendar from the Legacy software.
And from the short time that I played with it, it looks like the calendar creator in Legacy is pretty similar to the one in Broderbund, and if I had spent a little more time, my Legacy calendar would have looked much nicer!
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Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 20, newly-crowned two-time ASP Women's World Champion, defeated Melanie Bartels (HAW), 26, to claim the her second consecutive Billabong Pro Maui in clean 1-metre waves, earning the young Australian her first Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Title.
The final event of the 2008 ASP Women's World Tour, the Billabong Pro Maui opted to relocate from Honolua Bay to Ho'okipa Beach Park in order take advantage of the swell on offer, and the action didn't disappoint.
Gilmore opened the final strong, posting a solid 7.33 out of a possible 10, but Bartels put her in the corner with two solid scores of her own. In an exciting exchange that saw the Hawaiian pull ahead on the first wave, Gilmore answered back with the highest score of the day, a 9.57 out of a possible 10 to retake the lead, immediately following it up with an 8.03 for a massive forehand turn combination. Bartels was unable to answer back.
"The tide and the conditions got really fun," Gilmore said. "Mel is one of my favorite surfers and I just go as hard as I can when I draw her in a heat. You can't put in a performance at half-speed and I saw her get a solid wave so I just went for broke on the next one and it paid off."
The win marks the first Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Title for the prodigious natural-footer, an accolade considered second only to the ASP Women's World Title. "It feels incredible to win the Vans Triple Crown Title," Gilmore said. "We had really fun waves at Haleiwa and then solid surf at Sunset Beach and we had a beautiful opening day of competition at Honolua Bay before finishing today at Ho'okipa. It's a real honor to be considered a good surfer in Hawaii and in such a variety of conditions."
Gilmore will now head home to Australia to rest and recharge for the 2009 ASP Women's World Tour, and with two ASP Women's World Titles, a Vans triple Crown Title and 11 elite tour victories under her belt (five in 2008 alone), the makings of an icon are well within place. "To win so much in my short career is incredible and it feels great, but I know there is so much more to accomplish," Gilmore said. "I had that head-to-head with Layne Beachley today, and to see what she's accomplished in her career makes me that much hungrier to continue to perform at my best. Next year is going to be incredible. We have so much talent on the tour and so many young girls who are really pushing the boundaries of surfing. I can't wait to get home and prepare for next season."
Bartels, whose runner-up finish sees the explosive Hawaiian rocket to No. 7 on the ASP Women's World Tour, put in a solid effort in the final, but her score wasn't quite enough to overcome Gilmore. "I have one of the most amazing shapers in the world who lives right up the beach and my boards today were going unbelievable," Bartels said. "I felt like I was surfing well all day, but just got out of rhythm in the final. Congratulations to Steph though. She was surfing amazing and deserved the win."
With a bevy of young guns joining the ASP Women's World Tour in 2009, Bartels will look to continue her momentum in the off-season in preparation for an ASP Women's World Title campaign next season.
"I'm going to train my butt off in the off-season," Bartels said. "The girls coming on tour surf amazingly well and I know that I need to be at my best if I want to make a dent. I beat Steph earlier this season in really good waves in Brazil and then finished second to her today so that's given me the confidence to believe in my ability. The next step is to ensure that I am putting 100% into the entire year."
Layne Beachley, former seven-time ASP Women's World Champion, has announced that 2008 will be her final season as a full-time ASP Dream Tour competitor. Despite a solid quarterfinal win over Rosanne Hodge, Beachley was unable to overcome eventual winner Gilmore in their hard-fought semifinal bout, going down 15.07 to Gilmore's 16.80.
"I think it was a great way to go out," Beachley said. "We all have to lose sometime and to go down to Steph, who I consider my protégé and the one I am passing the torch to, is probably the most fitting way."
Beachley's illustrious career has spanned 19 years and the renowned natural-footer has collected an unprecedented seven ASP Women's World Titles. While the Billabong Pro Maui marks Beachley's final event as a full-time ASP Women's World Tour competitor, the legendary Australian is confident in the new crop of surfers and may be back in 2009 surfing in events.
"It's difficult reflecting on something like this (retirement)," Beachley said. "Of course I would have liked to go out with a win and on-top, but I also feel like this past season and these past events haven't defined my career. I've won seven ASP Women's World Titles and have had an incredible journey of a career so I suppose the most rewarding part of this is that I'm leaving professional women's surfing in the hands of such capable and exciting young surfers. While it's my last year as a full time competitor, I'm planning on competing in a couple of events next season."
While the 2008 ASP Women's World Tour has come to a close, the best surfers in the world will be back next year for the 2009 installment of the ASP Dream Tour.
Returning surfers to the 2009 ASP Women's World Tour will be: reigning and two-time ASP Women's World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 20, Silvana Lima (BRA), 24, Sofia Mulanovich (PER), 25, Layne Beachley (AUS), 36, Amee Donohoe (AUS), 28, Samantha Cornish (AUS), 28, Melanie Bartels (HAW), 26, Rebecca Woods (AUS), 24, Jessi Miley-Dyer (AUS), 22, Jacqueline Silva (BRA), 29, and Rosanne Hodge (ZAF), 21 (via the ASP World Qualifying Series).
New faces to next year's ASP Women's World Tour will be: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS), 18, Bruna Schmitz (BRA), 18, Paige Hareb (NZL), 18, Alana Blanchard (HAW), 18, and Coco Ho (HAW), 17.
1 – Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 17.60
2 – Melanie Bartels (HAW) 14.80
SF 1: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 16.80 def. Layne Beachley (AUS) 15.07
SF 2: Melanie Bartels (HAW) 13.07 def. Silvana Lima (BRA) 11.07
QF 1: Layne Beachley (AUS) 11.07 def. Rosanne Hodge (ZAF) 9.67
QF 2: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 15.33 def. Rebecca Woods (AUS) 11.87
QF 3: Melanie Bartels (HAW) 14.66 def. Carissa Moore (HAW) 11.33
QF 4: Silvana Lima (BRA) 13.13 def. Megan Abubo (HAW) 10.23
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ON THE ANTHROPOMORPHISM OF "SALAFIS"Al-Khattabi on the Priority of Avoiding tashbih For Both the Salaf and the Khalaf
As we have shown in the excerpts of Nawawi and Subki [See posts: "Nawawi on ta'wil" and "Subkion ta'wil"] concerning the avoidance of and the recourse to figurative interpretation among both the Salaf and the Khalaf, the priority was to repel false understandings and prevent the pitfall of attributing to Allah the characteristics of creation. Again and again, the paradigm upon which is grounded the entire foundation for understanding Allah and His attributes is: "There is nothing like Him whatsoever." This paradigm becomes even more essential, if such a thing is possible, in times when the threat of heretical views becomes excessively felt. The great hafiz Abu Sulayman al-Khattabi (d. 386) addresses this absolute priority in clear and direct terms in his Commentary on Abu Dawud's Sunan:Abu `Ubayd (d. 222)1 used to say: "As for us we narrate those hadiths but we do not smear them with meanings." Abu Sulayman says: It is even more relevant for us not to be forward in that from which those who have more knowledge, antiquity, and seniority than us stood back.
However, the people of the time in which we live have joined two parties. The first [the Mu`tazila and Jahmiyya] altogether disavow this kind of hadith and declares them forged to begin with, which implies their giving the lie to the scholars who have narrated them, that is, the imams of our religion and the transmitters of the prophetic ways, and the intermediaries between us and Allah's Messenger. The second party [the Mushabbiha] gives its assent to the narrations and appplies their outward meanings literally in a way bordering anthropomorphism.
As for us we steer clear from both views, and accept neither as our school. It is therefore incumbent upon us to seek for these hadiths, when they are cited and established as authentic from the perspectives of transmission and attribution, an interpretation (ta'wil) extracted according to the known meanings of the foundations of the Religion and the schools of the scholars, without rejecting the narrations to begin with, as long as their chains are acceptable and narrators trustworthy.2 b) Al-`Izz ibn `Abd al-Salam on the Obligationof Resorting to ta'wil to Refute InnovationShaykh al-Islam `Izz al-Din `Abd al-`Aziz ibn `Abd al-Salam al-Sulami al-Shafi`i (578-660) gave the following fatwa concerning interpretation of the divine attributes:
Q. What is the meaning of the Prophet's saying: "The heart of the believer is between two fingers of the Merciful, He turns it over as He wishes"?3 Does one contravene his obligation if he says: "I do not say anything concerning the verses and the hadiths on the attributes. Rather I hold the same belief concerning them as the Pious Salaf held. To speak about them is an innovation (bid`a), and I let them pass according to their external sense," or is interpretation necessary?
A. The meaning of the Prophet's saying, "The heart of the believer is between two fingers of the Merciful" is that Allah exerts His custody of it with His power and determination as He wills, changing it from disbelief to belief and from obedience to disobedience or the reverse. It is like His saying: "Blessed is He in Whose hand is the sovereignty" (67:1) and: "O Prophet! Say unto those captives who are in your hands" (8:70). It is understood that the captives were not left in the physical hands of the Muslims but that they were subdued and conquered by them. The same applies to the expressions: "Specific and non-specific matters are in the hand of so-and-so," and "The slaves and the animals are in the hand of so-and-so." It is understood that all these mean that they are in his control (istila') and disposal and not in his physical hand. Similarly Allah's saying: "Or he agrees to forgo it in whose hand is the marriage tie" (2:237). The marriage tie is not in his physical hand, but the hand is only an expression of his empowerment and his ability to dispose of the matter.
For one to say: "I believe in this matter what the Salaf believed" is a lie. How does he believe what he has no idea about, and the meaning of which he does not know?
Nor is speaking about the meaning a reprehensible innovation, but rather an obligatory excellent innovation (bid`a hasana wajiba) whenever something dubious appears. The only reason the Salaf kept from such discourse is that in their time no-one construed the words of Allah and those of His Prophet to mean what it is not permissible to construe them to mean. If any such dubiousness had appeared in their time they would have shown it to be a lie and rejected it strenuously. Thus did the Companions and the Salaf refute the Qadariyya when the latter brought out their innovation, although they did not use to address such matters before the Qadariyya appeared on the scene. Nor did they reply to the individuals who mentioned them. Nor did any of the Companions relate any of it from the Prophet since there was no need for it. And Allah knows best."4
1 Abu `Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam.
2 Al-Khattabi, Ma`alim al-sanan `ala sunan Abi Dawud (Hims ed.)5:95. Cited in al-Buti, al-Salafiyya marhalatun zamaniyyatunmubarakatun la madhhabun islami (Damascus: dar al-fikr, 1408/1988) p. 140.
3 Muslim (#2654), Ahmad (2:168), Ajurri, Shari`a (p. 316).
4 al-`Izz ibn `Abd al-Salam, Fatawa, ed. `Abd al-Rahman ibn`Abd al-Fattah (Beirut: dar al-ma`rifa,1406/1986) 55-57.
Reproduced with permission from Shaykh M. Hisham Kabbani's
The Repudiation of "Salafi" Innovations (Kazi, 1996) p. 113-116.
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Bulldogs Slated to Challenge No. 28 Arizona State and No. 64 Brigham Young
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's tennis team continues its spring break trek westward this week with a pair of matches in Tempe, Ariz. The Bulldogs' destination will be the Whiteman Tennis Center, home of the Arizona State Sun Devils. At this venue, No. 50 Yale (4-5, 0-0 Ivy) will attempt to record its first win on the road this season when the squad takes on No. 28 Arizona State (11-2, 1-0 Pac Sun) on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. MST (4:30 p.m. EDT). Less than 24 hours after that encounter, the Bulldogs will return to the Whiteman Tennis Center for a match against No. 64 Brigham Young (4-4, 1-0 WCC) at 12:00 p.m. MST (3:00 p.m. EDT).
After dropping its match against No. 22 Texas on Sunday, Yale will aim to summon its best form for the doubleheader in Arizona. Through nine matches this season, the Bulldogs are 0-2 on the road. They will look to reverse this trend when they face the Sun Devils on Thursday. On neutral surfaces, the Bulldogs are an even 3-3; their match against Brigham Young will tilt this parity one way or the other.
Though they were unable to pull off the upset against Texas, one positive in that match was Yale's success in doubles. Yale's roster features the duo of sophomore Madeleine Hamilton and classmate Ree Ree Li, ranked No. 52 in the country. Anchoring the Bulldogs' doubles efforts at the No. 2 spot is the tandem of freshman Sherry Li and junior Hanna Yu.
In singles, the Bulldogs have two stalwarts, Hamilton and senior captain Annie Sullivan, at No's. 1 and 2 singles, respectively. Sullivan is 5-1 in singles so far this season, with her lone loss coming in a tight three-set tussle against Texas on Sunday. Yu looks to be in solid form going into the Arizona matches, as she was the only Bulldog to prevail in singles on Sunday. Rounding out Yale's singles lineup will be Ree Ree Li, Sherry Li and junior Amber Li.
The Bulldogs will have their work cut out for them against Arizona State on Thursday, as the Sun Devils enter the match on a rich vein of form. They have won their last five matches fairly comfortably, and have only dropped two matches overall this season. Brigham Young will also arrive in Tempe, Ariz., on a small winning streak, having won its last two matches.
Report by Robert Batista '15, Yale Sports Publicity


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This week the Open Ag Data Alliance got its start with charter partners that included two top cooperatives that work closely with farmers all the time - GROWMARK and Winfield. There is a lot of talk about data privacy and control of your information and that is important.
The challenge you face is making the most of your information. In our February cover feature we started that conversation about key issues regarding the cloud and it's future...this latest information continues that conversation.
OADA is going to be a hub or clearing house for data sharing standards, with an eye toward protecting your data and setting standards about how your data can be used. The key is control and who has that control.
Essentially you collected that information so at the end of the day that raw information is hours. The challenge is not to hold onto it so tightly that you're reviewing your information in a vacuum. Allowing your information to be aggregated for benchmarking and trend analysis can provide you valuable information for helping to build yields.
Does spoon feeding nitrogen make a difference? We think it does, we know anecdotally that farmers have seen better yields, but how would we know. What if you could scrape just that piece of information from across corn country and analyze it without putting a name, face or actual direct field to the discussion.
That's aggregation, and it can be a powerful tool for determining what works and what doesn't. During the media announcement for OADA this week, Aaron Ault, an Indiana farmer who is heading up the newly formed organization, talked about cover crops on hie farm, saying he didn't have enough information to know if there was a payback.
Looking at the cover crop data layer, along with crop yield and other information across a range of farms could net Ault that information, but he would still want to control his farm data. The key is creating a data-sharing system where key information can be shared yet you retain ownership of ask you collect, or have collected, on your farm.
I'm hopeful that OADA will be able to create the standards and systems the industry needs, the early players in the new organization represent a wide range of agriculture and understand the data challenge. Going forward I expect a lot more conversation on this score.
And it would help as well if other major players are part of the effort. An industry-wide approach to farm data management and security will be important.
Going forward, while OADA gets rolling, you should spend some time with the privacy policies of the companies you work with and understand what they are saying about your data. Of course you always have your raw data in hand (and backing that up is critical), but how you share it with others is important.
And the value proposition for your farm is important too. What companies can do with your information may have a payoff for you too, just understand the benefits you get in return.
Got a question or comment, just drop it in the comment area and I'll work to find an answer.
Learn more about OADA at their website - oada.io.


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Bachelor's degree in English communications, Ft. Lewis College.
Professional background:
Eric was born in Ft. Collins and grew up in Colorado Springs. His family has been farming and ranching in eastern El Paso County for more than 100 years. Eric got his start in radio at KDUR, the student-community station at his alma mater, Ft. Lewis College in Durango. From there he moved to KOTO in Telluride. He then took a job at the regional High Plains News Service in Billings, Montana. A series of fellowships supported Eric's work after that and allowed him to follow his interest in health topics. The Kaiser Family Foundation helped him report on mental health in the United States and infectious disease in southern and east Africa. The Knight Foundation allowed him to spend four months studying epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The Crime, Communities and Culture Felloship from the Open Society Institute sent Eric to report on prisons in the western U.S. Eric spent most of 2003 living in and reporting from Cape Town, South Africa, as a freelancer before becoming the news director at KRCC in Colorado Springs, a position he held for three years before moving to Colorado Public Radio.
Colorado Broadcasters Association: Best Sports or Special Events Coverage for Telluride Hang Gliding Festival - 1994; Scripps Howard Foundation: National Journalism Award for Industrial Hog Farm on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation - 1999; National Federation of Community Broadcasters: Golden Reel Award - 2000; Silver Reel Award - 2000 and Golden Reel Award - 2001, for National News/Public Affairs Programming for Staying Healthy and Surviving: Native American Health in the New Century; Silver Reel Award for National News and Commentaries for Western Stampede: The Rush for Coalbed Methane - 2001; Colorado Healthcare Communicators Media Representative of the Year - 2010.


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When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu. You can imagine how slowly it boots, even with Linux installed, and GNOME runs so slowly that it's quite irritating. I didn't want to reformat and install a lightweight Linux distribution like Fluxbuntu because the mini PC doesn't have a CD-ROM drive, and I already had 10GB of data that would have taken a long time to back up. Instead, I found and installed some lightweight software to improve her computing experience.
The problem with speeding up your desktop is that you have to make certain usability compromises. I had to make my girlfriend's desktop fast, yet as user-friendly as the GNOME environment she uses on her own Ubuntu-based computer at home.
I installed iDesk to give her icons on the desktop on top of the Fluxbox desktop environment. The icons are defined through .lnk files located in ~/.idesktop for each application you want to appear on the desktop. For example, to create a shortcut to Firefox, you would create a file with
touch ~/.idesktop/firefox.lnk with the following contents:
Caption: Firefox
Command: /usr/bin/firefox
Icon: /usr/share/pixmaps/mozilla-firefox.png
Width: 48
Height: 48
Caption line defines the name of the shortcut as it appears on the screen. Below that, write the full path to the binary and specify an icon (in PNG or XPM format) with a given width and height.
X and
Y represent the position of the item on the screen. You can leave it as it is, because once started, iDesk allows you to reposition the icons with your mouse and remembers their positions the next time you start the program.
To further configure iDesk, copy a configuration file in your home's root directory with
cp /usr/share/idesk/dot.ideskrc ~/.ideskrc. Edit it to change the font type, size, and color, and set transparency, shadow, or a background for the icons.
To make PCManFM and other GTK applications use the Tango icon theme, I created a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in the home directory that contained only the line
To provide more of a GNOME look, I installed fbpanel from the Ubuntu repositories. It provides a start menu, launch bar, task bar, and system tray. To use it, create a folder called .fbpanel within your home directory and in it place an empty file called default. Paste the contents of the default configuration file into the newly created file and modify it to match your taste. In the
Global section of the file change
edge = bottom to
edge = top if you want a panel similar to the one in GNOME.
Fast apps
I spent several hours looking for fast applications. They also had to look good and have almost the same functions as their default GNOME counterparts. As a file manager I settled for the latest version of PCManFM (0.3.6.1). It has everything a novice user might need, including thumbnail view, tree view, and detailed view modes. When used with the Tango icon theme it resembles Nautilus. PCManFM also has tab support, and it can load a directory with a thousand MP3 files in the blink of an eye.
For image viewing I was ready to go with GPicView. It has a small memory footprint and offers the same functionality as EoG. But then I found Mirage, which consumes approximatively 1% more RAM than GPicView but offers many more options. It's based on PyGTK, has support for thumbnail view (unlike GPicView), can resize and crop images, has a slideshow mode, and provides support for custom actions. You can even define keyboard shortcuts for various actions such as archiving and thumbnail creation.
For video playing I used the default MPlayer with no GUI and set file associations for AVI and MPG files from within PCManFM.
Midori was my first choice for a browser. Firefox works OK, but since I started looking for lightweight applications I wanted to strip down memory usage as much as I could. Midori beat Flock at the memory consumption test, but unfortunately, Midori had no Flash support. Flock is based on Firefox, runs smoothly, and supports extensions. To keep its startup as fast as possible, I installed only the AdBlock Plus extension.
Next came Decibel Audio Player. Decibel is a limited audio player for Linux, based on GTK. It lacks cover preview and doesn't fetch song lyrics from online sites, but it runs fast and plays audio files well. Its major downside is that it doesn't provide a volume button. I solved that problem by installing gvtray, which provides an easy way of controlling the master volume. I also considered using Sonata and Music Player Daemon running in the background.
For BitTorrent download I installed Deluge. It's low on resources, can be accessed through a Web interface, and can manage download speeds. As a PDF viewer I replaced Acrobat Reader with ePDFView. It loads files quickly, allows you to search through text and zoom in and out, and has a simple interface.
Finally, I wanted to make some of these applications autostart upon entering Fluxbox. To do that, edit the ~/.fluxbox/startup file and add commands followed by an
& sign. You can also display wallpaper from here. A stripped-down version of the startup file would look something like this:
fbsetbg -f ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/wallpaper.jpg
# Turn off beeps:
xset -b
# autostart applications
idesk &
fbpanel &
gvtray &
pidgin &
# start Fluxbox and keep a log
exec /usr/bin/fluxbox -log ~/.fluxbox/log
There you have it: an Ubuntu distribution with a fast and easy-to-use desktop, thanks to Fluxbox and a bunch of lightweight applications. There are other software packages you can install instead of the resource-hungry applications you may be used to: Claws as an email client, Abiword to edit and read .DOC files, Gnumeric for spreadsheets, Kazehakase as an even lighter Web browser, and Graveman for burning CDs and DVDs.


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Volume XLII—No. 17
Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, February 29, 1968
UP, UP, AND AWAY . . . Basketball ace Ron Pederson scores again and again to total 39 points in Bethel's
rout of Northwestern of Iowa.
CAMPUS VISITORS chat with students, examine anti-war literature
during Founders Week. The table was set up in the coffee shop.
Johnson Calls For Student Aid;
Asks Cutback In Building Funds
Cagers Roll To Impressive Win
As Pederson Paces Royal Attack
by Jerry Loomis
Last Thursday afternoon, before
a packed house of cheering fans,
the Bethel Royals went "hogwild"
as they scored a 99-69 victory
over Northwestern of Iowa. The
game was never in doubt, as an
inspired squad of "basketeers"
shot their way to Bethel's four-teenth
Founder's Week victory in
fifteen attempts.
The Royals got off to a fan-tastic
start and ran up a total
of 55 points in the first half
to grab a 55-37 lead. As a team,
Bethel shot 50% from the field
(23 for 46) in the first twenty
minutes. Ron Pederson, who
amazed the Founders with his
incredible jump shooting abili-ty,
had 24 points at half-time.
positive lines, with its basic goal
being to inform.
Administration response to stu-dent
activity has chiefly met the
approval of involved students. The
policy of the administration has
endorsed the free expression of
student views on issues, provided
that participants do not interfere
with the right of other individuals.
Students Respond To Current Issues;
Speak Views On Viet Nam Situation
WASHINGTON (BPA) — Presi-dent
Johnson's new education mes-sage
to Congress calls for more
aid for college students and for
less spending on construction and
equipment on college campuses
over the next five years. Some
new education programs are re-quested
and the funding of old
ones continued to especially aid
disadvantaged students.
The main thrust of the omnibus
education bill submitted to Con-gress
is to remove all economic
and racial barriers so that every
qualified young person can have
"all the education he wants and
can absorb."
Current student aid programs
will be strengthened and ex-panded
at the expense of build-ings
and books. Under the pro-posed
bill, for example, college
construction a n d equipment
spending would go down from
$817 million this year to about
$300 million next year.
Significant cuts are requested
also for Title II of the Elementary,
and Secondary Education Act and
Title III of the National Defense
Education Act. Title 11 of ESEA
provides library resources, text-books
and instructional materials
for private as well as public
schools. Under Title DI of the ND-EA
private schools can get loans
for minor remodeling and for
other expenses. Johnson's budget
recommendations call for $50 mil-lion
to be cut from each of these
"We must carefully set our prior-ities,"
the President said in sub-mitting
his proposals. He told the
Congress that ;several programs
had ,to be reduced or deferred in
order to meet urgent needs with-in
a "stringent overall budget."
"We can reduce expenditures
on construction of facilities and
the purchase of equipment. But,
many of our urgent education
programs which directly affect
Slowly growing action is being
generated on campus by the con-cern
of some students over cur-rent
political and societal issues. It
has taken shape in the form of
tables of "dissent" literaure, and
has even been reflected by the ac-tion
of the student senate.
The senate has requested that
a week's notice be given regard-ing
the presence of recruiters on
campus. The actual presence of re-cruiters
on campus, and the Her-shey
Letter itself, have been items
of prolonged debate in recent ses-sions.
The Hershey letter, which makes
protest activities into criteria for
draft classification, was discussed
at length. The ;senate then framed
a statement 'expressing disapprov-al
of the letter, but allowing re-cruiters
on campus.
Dissatisfaction with draft prece-dures
and the Viet Nam war were
prime factors in the formation of
an active political club, Students
for McCarthy. Club members have
been among the participants in
the tables recently appearing in
the coffee shop area during stra-tegic
Tables were set up twice dur-ing
Founders Week, and once dur-ing
the previous week when re-cruiters
were on campus. The ta-bles
were not sponsored by any
the young people of America
cannot be deferred. For the cost
—the human cost—of delay is
intolerable," Johnson said.
Johnson, who has often said that
he would like to be known as "the
education President," told Con-gress
that federal investment in
education has almost tripled in
four years to a total now of nearly
$12 billion annually. Under cur-rent
aid programs, 1 1/4 million col-lege
students are being assisted.
About 30 per cent of these are
freshmen. Under new program pro-posals
1 1/2 million students are
expected to benefit.
The administration's new om-nibus
education bill includes:
* Enactment of the Educational
Opportunity Act of 1968 to give
equality of opportunity to any
student who wants an education
regardless of income or race.
This program will help a mil-lion
and a half students attend
college next year through the
full range of student aid pro-grams.
*Strengthening the Guaranteed
Loan Program with the federal
government paying administrative
costs of the banks making the
Fifteen million dollars for new
programs of tutoring, counseling
and special services to disadvan
taged students entering college.
* A Network for Knowledge
Act of 1968 to pool resources of
stronger schools to help weaker
New help for graduate schools
to meet the cost of educating stu-dents
with graduate fellowships.
*A new program to strengthen
those graduate schools "with clear
potential for higher quality."
* An increase in government-sponsored
research in universi-ties.
cont'd page 2
organization. Students; with differ-ent
perspectives, but united by op-position
to the Viet Nam situa,
tion in particular, manned the ta-bles.
Student concern has been ex-pressed
actively on campus in in-creasing
proportios since the for-um
on student power in Novem-ber.
Dissent has primarily followed
After the intermission, the var-sity
got off to a slow start, • but
still managed to maintain a fifteen
point lead through the initial ten
minutes. The boys then caught fires
again and finished with a flurry of
buckets which widened the gap to
the final thirty point spread.
The final statistics showed
Bethel hitting on 42 of 92 shots
from the field for 45.7%. North-western
scored on 28 of 74 at-tempts,
for an overall 37.8%.
Each of Bethel's three high scor-ers
shot 50% or bettter from the
field. Freshman guard Dan Lar-son
dropped 8 of 16 for an even
50%, and forward Dick Robertson
cont'd page 4
De Luca Heads
Missions Group
World Missions Fellowship held
a joint meeting with the Pre-Sem
Club on Thursday, Feb. 15. Rev.
Dale Bjork discussed the call to
missions and the need for mission-aries.
Students discussed the ques-tion,
"How does one find God's
The purpose of the organiza-tion
according to WMF's presi-dent,
Sheldon DeLuca, is "to pro-mote
on Bethel's campus the
cause of and interest in mis-sions."
Other officers include
Ken Collins, vice-president; and
Joan Youngquist, secretary-treas-urer.
Miss Lillian Ryberg advises
the group.
World Missions Fellowship meets
approximately every three weeks.
The meetings, usually on Friday or
Saturday evenings, begin with din-ner
at 5:30 p.m. This provides a re-laxed
atmosphere in which stu-dents
have an opportunity to con-verse
with the missionary before
he begins speaking.
The meeting itself begins at
6:15 p.m. at which time students
not on the mean plan usually
join the group. WMF opens all
meetings to all interested stu-dents.
One of the major goals of WMF
this year involves starting prayer
band's to promote interest in mis-sions
on various continents. Some
students in Edgren have organized
a South America prayer band this
year. WMF will also sponsor an
annual retreat the first weekend
in May.
Bethel Prof
Tenth Birthday
Professor Gerald Healy is 10
years old today! Of course, his
birthday means more to this preco-cious
and, at six-foot-eight, a bit
overgrown ten-year-old than to the
average ten-year-old.
While it has afforded him a gra-cious
way to grow old, Bethel's
upstanding English prof and for-mer
basketball coach admits his
February 29 birthday has a few
drawbacks. Consequently he cele-brates
three or four days every
time his birthday rolls around to
make up for the lean years in-between.
Professor Healy is always four
times as excited when birthday
time comes than he would be
if he had a regular one, and
confesses that he is somewhat
disappointed that nobody is hav-ing
a party for him this year.
He indicated however, that if
anyone would like to have a
quiet, unobstrusive celebration
befitting a dignified ten-year-old
. . . well . . .
And what does professor Healy
want for his birthday? An electric
train? Perhaps a new baseball
glove? Or maybe an electric gui-tar?
"Oh, just something modest—
something every ten-year-old
would want," Mr. Healy ven-tured,
his voice tinged with ex-citement.
"A new set of golf
clubs! Or maybe a trip to Ha-waii!"
Although he'll have to wait until
1972 for his eleventh birthday, Pro-fessor
Healy isn't too downcast
over the long wait. "It just comes
and goes every four years," he re-marked.
"It's a nice way to grow
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March 4-8
Monday—Pre-Seminary Club
Dr. Lewis
Tuesday—Class Meetings with
Wednesday—Dr. Donald Larson
Sister Ann Ware
Friday—Dr. William Hulme
Professor of counseling at
Luther Theological Seminary
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Prevai mg Attitudes . Fail
To Value Role Of Dissent
Page 2 the CLARION Thursday, February 29, 1968 Educational System Fosters Dissent
Responsible For Societal Unrest
Dissent must be one of the most highly revered rights in
a free society. The narrow vision and impaired perception which
stem from its absence threaten the very values that underlie
educational goals and, more generally, the structure of Ameri-can
society and government as a whole.
In today's society, the function of dissent is both denied
and obscured, often under the guise of attacks upon the dis-senters.
Prevailing attitudes discourage expression of dissatis-faction
or the challenging of "authority."
The Hershey Letter aims to stifle dissent by essentially
punitive measures, protest activities are generally accorded un-fair
coverage by news media, and the public, as a whole, dis-misses
protesters without giving real attention to what they say.
These things are admissions of weakness, and consti-tute
a self-indictment. Those who fail to recognize and face
the protests that rise from societal, political, or other is-sues
jeopardize the honesty of dissent, and endanger the via-bility
society needs if it is to adapt to the demands which
constantly confront it.
Dissent implies dissatisfaction with existing conditions or
current policies or attitudes. When it raises its voice in society.
it is too often reacted to as "left-wing." However much of the
criticism aimed at it is unfair, and a fresh look at protest move-ments
is needed.
Even a rather superficial look at the grounds upon which
dissenting groups are frequently criticized is revealing. Ex-amination
suggests that perhaps the criticism is leveled at
the wrong party.
First of all, why do the most vocal critics of the "left-wing"
blatantly ignore the far right? This seems most incon-sistent
if, indeed, they intend to guard against extremist posi-tions.
Secondly, most criticism is not based upon philosophical
grounds, but essentially is a reaction to externals. Picketing
and long hair draw disapproval, while the humanitarian per-spective
of those criticized is disregarded. There ARE wrongs
and injustices existing throughout society, but even "Chris-tian"
citizens are apparently too callused to try correcting
When society reaches a state of perfection where protest
no longer can serve an important function, dissent will wither
away and die of itself without any outside help. Until that
day, the role of dissent must be recognized; it adds a necessary
dimension to what otherwise would be a stilted and inade-quate
perspective. L.B.
by Ron Stone
Last Sunday, February 25, Dem-4
ocratic Congressman Donald Fraser
of Minnesota spoke at St. Law-rence
Church-School. He demon-strated
qualities of insight and per-ceptibility
which in part account
for his selection by the New York
Times as one of six outstanding
men in the House of Representa-tives.
Having recently returned from
a tour of Pakistan, India, Thailand,
and Viet Nam, Fraser defended
his anti-war position in light of
food and political crises of under-developed
countries such as Afri-ca,
Pakistan, and India. He point-ed
out that while the United States
has poured well over $100 billion
into military efforts in Viet Nam
since World War II, we have giv-en
only $50 billion in economic aid
to these developing countries.
Fraser considers such a policy
ridiculous. He feels that if a
government cannot overcome in-surgencies
with our economic
aid, our military aid is useless
and wasted. Because the Viet
Nam crisis is political in its ori-gins,
Fraser feels that the only
solution is political. He stated
that any peace negotiations must
include the National Liberation
Front—the only strongly nation-alistic
movement in Viet Nam
Congressman Fraser is quite
concerned with the credibility gap.
He urges us to believe the top
rank journalists acquainted inti-mately
with and writing from Viet
Nam in preference to the admin-istration.
These journalists are reliable,
says Fraser, not only because
of their access to information
from both military powers, but
also because of their freedom
from institutional commitment.
They are not strongly tied to
from page 1
The President also asked Con-gress
to extend and strengthen the
National Defense Education Act
of 1958 which has helped two
million students go to college and
graduate school; the Higher Ed-ucation
Facilities Act of 1963
which has helped nearly 1,400.
schools; and the Higher Education
Act of 1965 which, in addition to
student aid, has strengthened col-lege
libraries and helped 450 de-veloping
Sharp debate is expedted in Con-gress
and some has ,already begun,
over the proposals to cut con-struction
costs in order to finance
other programs. Rep. Albert H.
Quie (R., Minn.), a member of the
education subcommittee, ques-tioned
the wisdom of these reduc-tions
on the opening day of hear-ings.
On the Senate side, Sen.
Wayne Morse (D., Ore.) who is
strongly opposed to the war in
by Robert Holyer
Education, at its best, is an in-herently
liberal force; "liberal"
not in the sense of theological or
political liberalism, (but "liberal"
in the sense that it is the source
of change: social, political, ethical,
and religious.
The value implicit in modern ed-ucation,
individualism, free inqui-ry,
and rationality force man to
face-saving reports as are our
men in the State Department.
Fraser's consistent message was
that America's greatest power is
the power to offer economic aid.
Military forces are ineffectual at
present and severely limit our abil-ity
to give to needy peoples of the
world—including those of our own
Vietnam, said he found it diffi-cult
to reconcile the estimates
for education with the $79.8 bil-lion
recommended for defense.
He said a saving could be made
in the areas of defense rather
than at the expense of school chil-dren
in America. "What are we
thinking of," he asked, "if we in-tend
to meet the needs of Ameri-ca's
boys and girls? In my judg-ment,"
the Senator continued, "the
first priority is the education of
our children."
Morse concluded his speech to
the Senate by calling for a speedy
passage of the administration's
Higher Education Amendments of
1968, but without the recommend-ed
cuts in appropriations. However
pessimism regarding the budget
outlook for education is common
as many feel the rising costs of
the Vietnam war will engender a
fiscally conservative mood in Con-gress,
resulting in cutbacks in the
administration's requests.
seek new perspectives and new
solutions to old problems. Because
education is well schooled in the
details of past and present pro-grams,
it is eager to try new solu-tions
for the existing problems.
Indeed, all of life must come
before the tribunal of modern
education to receive its valida-tion.
Tradition in and of itself
is not an adequate criterion;
The Clarion regrets that
the name of Mr. Gil Oker-strom
was incorrectly spelled
because of a typographical
error in last week's edition,
February 22. Mr. Okerstrom
was pictured with President
Lundquist on the Clarion's
front page with his name in-advertently
misspelled in the
by Terry Carlson
According to certain concerned
athletes in the Bethel community,
now is the time of reckoning in
dealing wilth the question of ath-letic
scholarships. The topic of dis-cussion
was placed before the Sen-ate
this past week by L. Ray Sam-mons,
Ed Soule, and Ken Brown.
The formal statement of the
resolution called for "a fresh
look (to) be taken by all people
involved regarding the granting
of financial aids to those men
who are actively engaged in ath-letics
at Bethel College. .." Sup-porting
assertions validating the
call for action, or at least eval-uation,
were summed up in sev-eral
Athletic scholarships should be
offered at Bethel because athletics
is a field of public relations and
would consequently bring advan-tages
to Bethel if a more success-ful
program were conducted. Sec-ondly,
a private, liberal arts edu-cation
is, cost-wise, often prohibi-tively
high to athletes,. Many times
work schedules which conflict with
athletic participation are necessi-tated
by financial needs.
Finally, the authors of this res-olution
feel that the benefits
modern education demands that
the programs and institutions of
society be functional, effective,
and efficient. Thus when educa-tion
is doing its job it is the
avant garde of society.
Established society, on the other
hand, is inherently conservative.
In the on-going of everyday life,
social institutions and policies re-ceive
their validation by their abil-ity
to provide a secure social or-der
in which man can fulfill his
basic needs.
The old is revered because man
has adjusted to it and become se-cure
within its framework. When
these institutions persist, they ac-quire
an intrinsic value apart from
any function they may perform,
and society regards them as abso-lute.
When man finds the estab-lished
order threatened, he sees
his whole way of life as being in
jeopardy. Thus all change is
regarded as destructive and
therefore bad.
With this in mind it is easy to
see why there exists a natural,
tension between education and the
society as a whole. Education on
one hand seeks more functional
and consistent methods whereas
society prefers the traditional and
While education is the liberal
force, society is the conservative
check. Thus there seems to exist
a natural social balance between
education and society.
The problem arises when soci-ety
fails to see the beneficial na-ture
of this tension. When soci-ety
does not acknowledge the
temporal and functional nature
of its institutions dissent of any
type becomes both threatening
and inevitable. When man abso-lutizes
cultural institutions and
silences or disregards dissent,
society will inevitably stagnate.
Indeed the future of society lies
in its ability to meet new situa-tions
and changing conditions with
adequate solutions. When institu-tions
function more effectively so-ciety
as a whole will benefit. When
dissent goes unanswered society
has lost its key to the future and
in fact exposes its own malady.
received through athletics are
stimulated directly by the de-gree
of athletic success, and that
athletic success is largely de-pendent
on outstanding, highly
competitive athletes.
Questions implied by the state-ment
of this resolutions are:
Where do funds come from to of-fer
athletic scholarships? Does the
announced proposal harmonize with
existing statements of purpose as
purported by Bethel College?
—Terry Carlson
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Royals Unleash Offensive Show; Lose Final Game
Overcome Northwestern Quintet
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also shot 50% from the field, mak-ing
7 of 14. Pederson "canned" 17
fielders in 31 tries for 54.8%, and
finished with 39 points. In addi-tion
to his point production, Ron
pulled down 28 rebounds.
Northwestern was led in scor-ing
by guard Lawrence Butler.
Larry was undoubtedly the best
man on the court for the Iowans.
He had an excellent shooting
"touch," and finished with 19
Many of those who watched the
game commented that he should
have shot more.
Marlin Broek, with 15, and Ber-nie
VanRoekel, with 12, were the
other leading scorers for North-western.
All in all, it was an exciting vic-tory
for Bethel, and put the needed
finishing touches on what proved
to be another notable Founder's
Week at Bethel College.
Name F.G. F.T. F.
Pederson 17 5 3
Robertson 7 5 3
Feldman 2 1 3
Larson 8 2 3
Richardson 1 2 2
Weko 3 1 1
Malyon 1 0 2
Johnson 1 1 3
Lundgren 1 0 0
Wellberg 1 0 0
Totals 42 15 20
Name F.G. F.T. F.
VanderPol 3 1 2
VanEss 2 4 0
Janssen 1 0 3
Broek 6 3 2
Butler 9 1 2
Van Roekel 4 3 2
Cheaton 2 1 3
Cleveringa 1 0 0
Dykeshorn 0 0 1
Boerighter 0 0 1
Totals 28 13 16
The Bethel Royals closed out
their 1967-68 basketball season this
past Saturday night by losing to
Winona State, 94-74. The referees
called the game very closely and
both teams played rather ragged-ly
in this final contest.
Bethel was able to keep close
in the first half, as the score
stood at 41-34 Winona at the
break. However, several of Beth-el's
players were in foul trou-ble,
and after just three min-utes
had elapsed in the second
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Later on in the half, Tim Weko
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The Royals also had a very cold
night shooting. They connected on
only 21 of 64 attempts for 32.8%.
On the other hand, Winona shot
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of 73 for 45.2%.
Bill Malyon, who sank 11 of
14 from the free throw line, led
the Royal's scoring attack with
17 points. Dick Robertson chip-ped
in with 15, and Pederson had
Gene Schultz's outside shooting
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victory. Gene score on 16 of his
shots from the field, and with his
5 from the free-throw line, totaled
37 points. Mark Wilke had 12
counters, while Jack Gibbs and
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After splitting their final two meets, the Bethel wrestlers
have finished a relatively successful season. In fact, this year's
team has made a fantastic improvement over last year's record.
The 1967-1968 squad compiled an 8-10 record in comparison
to a meager two victories a year ago.
Last week, St. Thomas defeated the Royals by a count
of 22-11. Scoring points for the Royals were Bob Olson (a pin),
and Barry and Dave Anderson (decisions). Dave held on to
win his match after sustaining a knee injury.
Last Friday, the guys humbled St. Paul Bible College,
28-10. Bethel scored their points on 3 pins, 2 decisions, 1 tie,
and 1 forfeit. Point-getters were Bob Olson, Dale Berry, Bar-ry
Anderson, Greg Ekbom, Dale Pearson, "Frosty" Peterson,
and newcomer, Pete Wicklund.
The outlook for next season is bright, with all of this
year's squad members returning. Congratulations to Coach
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improved record!
Bethel's varsity basketball squad also finished their sea-son
this last week by splitting their final two games. Of
course, the big win was the Founder's Week game over
Northwestern of Iowa.
In Saturday's loss to Winona State, one Royal, Senior
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Royal's defensive game. He provided the Royal's with the
needed depth at the guard position, and against Winona scored,
2 points.
The boys now put their gear away, an as the old slogan
goes, "Wait Til Next Year." With nearly every one return-ing,
and the experience of this year to aid them, things point
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I stopped collecting baseball cards after my senior year of high school in 1983. I had bought them one-pack-at-a-time from 1973-1977 before discovering that you could mail order the entire set at once in 1978. From '78-'83, my interest waned considerably, but I still sent off for the Topps set each spring until 1983. It was then that I began to look forward to college, and sought to put the things of my childhood to rest.
In the spring of 1989, for whatever reason, I was looking through some of those old cards when I came across the 1979 (I think) Topps set, still in the box, with a note scribbled on a piece of paper lying on the top. That note indicated that the Bump Wills card was missing from the set.
As part of the baseball card boom of the late 80s, a baseball card shop had sprung up in my town, just as they had all over the country. Hoping to make things right with that card set, I wandered into that shop seeking a Bump Wills card. As I waited for the shopkeeper to dig the card out of his commons bin, I begain to browse the store, and in a matter of minutes, I got myself caught up in the baseball card frenzy that caught up so many fans and collectors in the late 80s and early 90s.
In the months that followed, I visited that store (and many others) countless times, seeking to complete those sets from 1972-1977. I went back and bought all the Topps sets from 1984-1989, just so I'd have the complete run. It was fun, and I spend a lot of money much more than I should have.
But it was also at that time that I noticed that the hobby had become something that it was never meant to be. Not all baseball card dealers and collectors were baseball fans. I doubt some of them had ever even sat down and watched a game. They were into it for one reason and one reason only: the money. It was this love of financial gain, rather than a passion for the game, that was driving people to buy up 100 or more of the same exact card, in the hopes that it would someday be worth as much as a Mickey Mantle rookie card was worth at that time. It was that love of financial gain that made people buy boxes and boxes of cards, only to stuff them away in a closet without ever breaking the seal. Is that what these things were for? Were they meant to never be touched by human hands, never seen by human eyes?
As much as I disliked what the hobby had become, I finally relented and got caught up in the investment frenzy, although to a lesser extent than the majority of collectors. I have four sets of 1989 Fleer Factory sets in a closet that I paid $25 apiece for in the summer of 1989. Those had the Ken Griffey, Jr. rookie card in them, and were sure to be worth hundreds of dollars as the years passed. To this day, the cellophane wrap has never been broken on any of the four. I checked this set on ebay yesterday and found that it sells for less than $10, and thats in the unopened condition that mine are in. Fortunately, Im better off than a guy I knew at that time, who sunk several thousand dollars into unopened sets, boxes, and cases, only to discover that they can now be had on ebay for pennies on the 1990 dollar.
I continued to buy cards and collect until 1991. It was about that time that things got really crazy and out-of-hand. Not only were there several brands of cards, there were several sets and issues within each brand. This made the hobby very confusing as far as I was concerned, and I finally abandoned it out of frustration. Things only got worse as the years passed. I think I read a few years ago that there were something like 125 different cards issued of Ichiro during his rookie season. Thats a far cry from 1975, when there was one primary card issued of each player, it was issued by Topps, and the only way to get one was to fork over your lawn mowing money for as many packs as you could afford and hope for the best. Ive rambled on-and-on these past few minutes to set up the following article about the demise of the baseball card industry. (I had intended for this to be a one- or two-paragraph intro to the article, but couldnt stop once I started reminiscing. ) Anyway, I'm sure there are many whose story is very similar to mine? Did the card companies cater too much to the investor mindset and shoot themselves in the foot in the process? I think they did, and I think their bag of tricks (sliced up game-used bats, jerseys, etc. inserted into the cards, etc.) is about empty. Perhaps now the industry can and will get back to what it originally was? Or perhaps, in this age of the Internet and instantly-available and instantly-updated statistics, the baseball card industry may become completely obsolete?
Baseball cards in a slump
Card collecting has waned in popularity, with sales sliding nearly 80 percent since their peak in 1991.
By Justin Fenton
Sun Staff
Originally published July 15, 2005
The crash of the American baseball card industry became official yesterday in a lawyer's office in New Jersey.
Twenty-five years after breaking the Topps Co. Inc.'s monopoly on the industry, Fleer Corp. - bankrupt and $33 million in debt to a list of creditors, including $12,800 to Cal Ripken Jr. - was expected to be sold at auction last night, the most visible casualty of a pastime that has suffered sharp declines and a significant demographic shift over the past decade.
What was once a hobby for boys, who stuck cards in the spokes of their bikes or flipped them on neighborhood playgrounds, has become an exclusive marketplace for adults. Grownups are swapping high-priced cards that contain everything from holograms to pieces of autographed bats, jerseys and balls - a far cry from the cardboard bubble-gum packs of the past.
This year, sales of new cards, of which baseball remains the principal sport, will reach $260 million, according to Scott Kelnhofer, editor of Card Trade, an industry trade journal. That's down 35 percent since 1999, and nearly 80 percent off its $1.2 billion peak in 1991.
Despite a potential record-setting year in attendance, Major League Baseball and the Players Association see the pricing out of a generation of young fans who have nothing but their weekly allowances to spend, and there are plans to announce in the next few months - possibly the next few days - a scaling back of product lines in an effort to stabilize the market.
Jordan Stern of Havre de Grace remembers walking to the corner store 40 years ago as a child to buy a 50-cent pack of cards. But most packs now cost about $4, and some are as much as $20, $50, $100 and even $500. "Kids just can't participate in this hobby anymore," said Stern, 46, who owned a Bel Air card store for 16 years. "They're priced right out of the market now."
The collapse of the market has made those corner stores harder to find for young fans such as Jordan Brody, a 10-year-old receiving hitting instruction at the Rich Jenkins Baseball Camp in Ellicott City.
"I would collect them, but I don't know where to get them," he said. "The places near us, they don't sell them anymore."
Area card stores have been closing or sharply cutting back hours, and Internet auction sites such as eBay have provided less costly channels to peddle merchandise.
Sports trading cards became hot in the late 1980s, as older generations of fans dusted off their childhood collections and revisited hobby shops, suddenly making thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, a new generation started their own collections, figuring they, too, could someday make mini-fortunes if they took better care of the cards than their fathers did.
The card industry took notice and began mass producing. More than a dozen new companies entered the marketplace, and card shops sprouted up around the country. Mike Tanner said four new stores opened within a quarter-mile of his Eastern Avenue store, the Baseball Card Outlet. And at discount stores such as Kmart, fans snapped up cheap boxes of baseball cards that were stacked 6-feet-high in aisles.
The backlash of that prosperity has seen the demise of most of the startup companies. But yesterday's liquidation of Fleer gives the decline a sense of finality, according to those in the card industry. There are just three companies left: Donruss Playoff LP of Texas, the Upper Deck Co. of California and New York-based Topps.
Meanwhile, cards from the 1980s and '90s, preserved in plastic cases and binders under collectors' beds, are worth next to nothing, according to some card vendors.
"You can bring someone a binder of those cards and they wouldn't touch them," Stern said. "There were so many of those cards produced, and there's millions around."
The market is largely driven by older collectors' thirst for memorabilia, Kelnhofer said. The high-priced packs guarantee players' autographs or dime-sized slices of bats, jerseys and stadium seats, built into the cards. The companies pay fees to current and retired athletes for signatures and jerseys, which can be sliced up and packaged into 1,000 cards.
Meanwhile, younger children have gravitated towards fantasy card games such as Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, while teens spend their time playing video games - a $7.3 billion industry, according to researcher NPD Group Inc.
Annapolis resident Chris Smith, 34, remembers collecting baseball cards as a child for two reasons: the Orioles and the gum.
Like many young collectors, Smith set a goal of getting all the cards of his favorite player and building team sets, something that's virtually impossible today. According to the Beckett Price Guide, five different kinds of Ripken cards were produced in 1986, which could be purchased today for $20.
These days, collectors such as 12-year-old Jake Weyer would have to do more than mow his family's lawn to raise enough money to buy all of the 50 different cards that the retired shortstop appears on in 2005; Beckett lists the Ironman's 2005 cards as being worth a total of $3,840, ranging from $6 to $300 each.
In court papers, Fleer Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Chris Tobia said the major leagues and the players association have recently discussed limiting the number of licenses and products, and card makers say upcoming measures will attempt to rein in the industry.
"Collectors are understanding [that] too much of anything is not a good deal," said Rich Klein, an analyst for Beckett.
To achieve those limits, the majors and the players association would first have to scale back licensing fees, said Jim Barrett, an analyst for C.L. King & Associates who follows Topps, the only publicly traded sports card manufacturer. Card companies have been paying retired and current athletes for memorabilia, and they have been selling high-priced products to meet quotas still on the level of the 1990s boom.
"If you have a big royalty payment to make to Major League Baseball and the Players Association, you're not going to sacrifice yourself and make less cards, sell less cards because you want to altruistically build the category," said Barrett.
Topps recently reported a 78 percent decline in profits for its first fiscal quarter, blamed primarily on the sales of sports cards. Rumors are swirling that the company could be sold to a larger confectionary business.
Spokesman Clay Luraschi said Topps is aware of the need to keep children engaged in collecting, and companies have taken strides to keep the hobby accessible. Topps offers four different kinds of cards between $0.99 and $1.99 a pack. An Upper Deck official said his company sponsors weekly card wrapper redemptions for Little League baseball equipment and trips to meet sports stars.
"We look to build lifelong collectors," Topps' Luraschi said. "It goes hand in hand with the game and is one of the many facets that makes the game so special."


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There might come a time when you or your loved one needs additional help with daily tasks. Assisted Living offers personal care and balances independence, so residents can enjoy life with confidence. For those who need some help in their daily lives but do not require the medical care provided by a hospital, we are the perfect solution.
Our community is a long-term senior care option providing personal care and support from trusted and loving caregivers, for services with medication management, daily living activities and amenities such as housekeeping, linen services, transportation and recreations. Customized care offers an ideal blend of convenience and support with respect for individual lifestyles.
Personalized Assessment Plan
A personalized assessment evaluates your individual needs and preferences, and then we customize a service plan to meet those needs with respect for personal care. We listen to our residents so that we understand how to establish clinical, dining and program support that works for them in a meaningful way.
Your plan is based upon the amount of time it takes to provide quality services, and we recognize and can adjust services easily. Whether it's a unique snack, the celebration of a favorite season or a lifelong interest, we value the privilege of knowing our residents and building relationships with them to create a truly personalized living experience.
Assisted Living Services
Customized service plans are reviewed regularly by caregivers to ensure we meet the changing needs of residents. Our trained staff is there to assist with personal needs like bathing or showering, selection of clothing, dressing assistance, grooming, hygiene, mobility and dining assistance, 24-hours a day.
With an exclusive personal service system, you can live your life the way you want, with the right care at the right time, delivered by trusted relationships from our nurturing staff. Through years of experience serving seniors, we have developed a process that allows us to customize personal care for our Assisted Living residents.
Your Solution
At Brookdale, we provide care that balances independence with assistance and delivers service with compassion, understanding and respect. With comfortable, elegant accommodations and an impressive line of features and amenities, our residents enjoy life with the confidence of knowing we are here, partnering with you and your family, to provide solutions that support your needs.
For many seniors, Assisted Living gives just the level of care needed to flourish and triumph in their new phase of life. After all, the Golden years should be enjoyable, and our community provides more options than ever before to make this possible.
Learn More About North Augusta's Assisted Living
We invite you to learn more about Assisted Living and the services Brookdale offers. Please call us today to schedule a private tour or fill out the online form and we will be in touch.


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I Love Winston Wu Cause He's A Rebel
Maybe it's because I'm a young man who is the leader of a power metal band, but I love rebels and free spirits, I really do. And that's why I like Wu so much.
There are so many people who turn into depressed potatoes in the USA. They just sit there and get more and more depressed. And if you don't fit in, they just label you a "loser".
Wu didn't just sit down and take that. Wu rebelled against that.
I rebel against that too in many ways, with my band, and with going to Poland, and with other stuff.
But now I want to go to the Philippines just like Wu. Yeah!
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Well said. Now you see "the light". There are many depressed couch potatoes in the states who don't know that they can have it better elsewhere. That's why I want this site to get out to them, so they can see all that I've experienced and be inspired to go somewhere where they will be happy too!
As I said on my welcome page, the US media will NEVER tell these folks about going abroad. Only folks like me will, through the internet.
Re: I Love Wu Cause He's A Rebel
Hey, and I love You 'cause you're an idiot and not afraid to show it!
And a very successful band too, right?
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Uh oh Stefan, you just never learn. I believe Wu wrote that if you flamed outside of the flamer board, you would be immediately banned. Looks like you're gettin' banned, boy.
What really matters is that you're a moron.
The reason why they are still here is because Wu's headache/fever that kept him off from before probably unfortunately came back, and that's why Wu hasn't been able to get back on here in order to ban those guys.
That's the only reason I can think of, because he seemed pretty intent before on throwing them off.
Actually Lukey it's because Wienie loves the attention.
As Dr Atuw, Chemist, Koholznik & myself will testify, Wu thrives on the attention. He is an egomaniac and it doesn't matter whether someone is singing his praises or trashing him, he loves the attention. Its his Me Me Me NPD mental condition. Frankly speaking, Wu is likely a bit of a masochistic. After all, women like beating him, including his new squeeze. If all he ever got was praise on his list he would bore fast with it. He needs the bashers. We are an integral part of his life. You and your fellow Wushippers are just going to have to come to terms with this.
Out of all the "Wu-Bashers", you and Chemist are the ones who are at least logical and reasonable, or at least you have been when I have seen you here.
But Chemist is a snob, and not helpful at all. You have been reasonable and even somewhat helpful.
And actually Fuller, if there was a way to kick all the other bashers off but leave you on, I'd go for that, because I actually like you and you have been helpful in understanding stuff.
On the side though, the funny thing is that on your Woo Weasel group, you sound nothing like you do when you talk to me. This is what you sound like on your Woo Weasel group:
"ROTFLMFAO!!! WEASEL!!! Weasel the Welcher!! You lost that bet Weasel!! And you're not Weaseling your way out this time!!! Now you're going to have to pay up or else you will wear the letter of shame and humiliation of Bet Welcher for the rest of your entire life!!! You'll be so humiliated that you'll be an outcast forever!!!!"
As for Stefan, he totally turned me off. I don't like Stefan at all.
The WebelWU.................
Hmmmm, is 'least logical/reasonable' just a cover for saying that Chemist/Fuller have considerable knowledge about Wu?? How about having some rather damning evidence that Self-Appointed Legend In His Own Mind Winston would not like to see aired further??
OJ Simpson got away with murder, but he couldn't outrun KARMA.................
Oh, grow the f**k up, kid? You and the other shithead, gmm567, don't want 'help' - all you want are stories about Wu's hooker conquests and to bitch about how American women won't have anything to do with you. Neither one of you has asked ONE question worth an intelligent, learned response - so don't expect me, or anyone else, to waste our time trying to educate a total moron on the ways of the world.
Do the USA a favor - go to the Phillipines, emulate your faggoty little hero and watch what happens next? If you're as big of a masochist as Wu, you'll enjoy every minute of living like a pauper, whiling away the hours at the VD clinic, and constantly whining on the Internet about how everybody treats you like shit. Live the dream, idiot - from what I can see, you both deserve it.
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FACE Television launches this Friday
The fact that Triangle TV has managed to morph into FACE Television is a small miracle. The Government have not put aside any channels on Freeview for any of the regional TV stations post the switch off this year, meaning the entire regional TV station market is about to be wiped out in a single move.
This Government don't really care about broadcasting and I suspect the demise of regional TV is about as important to Cabinet priorities as funding for a 20 foot statue of Helen Clark.
Having watched TVNZ7 get killed off, it's bloody gratifying to have FACE Television launch this Friday on Auckland UHF 41, 42, 52 and Sky 89. The station will continue to broadcast in Auckland for free on UHF until the Government cut off the signal sometime at the end of this year.
FACE TV will screen the best public service news programs made here and overseas. Euromaxx, DW Journal, Aljazeera News Hour and PBS Newshour will join local shows In conversation, Pacific Viewpoint, Beatson Interview, Know Your Rights and Citizen A.
Why watch Seven Sharp when you can watch something sharp at seven? As critical media and intelligent get degraded to lite entertainment on the mainstream media, it's more important than ever to gave a counter weight of opinion and FACE can provide that.
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