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The Bethel Clarion
Vol. XIX No. 4
BETHEL INSTITUTE (St. Paul, Minn.) November 22, 1939
ADMINISTRATION RELIGIOUS President Hagstrom
By Marvin Toews
Dr. Arvid G. Hagstrom, presi-dent,
left for the East last week to
attend a meeting of the American
Baptist Foreign Mission board in
New York city and a conference of
representatives from Baptist semi-naries
in the Northern area.
He was scheduled to speak
in the Swedish Baptist church
of Brooklyn, New York, last
Sunday, and this Sunday he
will appear in the First Swed-ish
Baptist church of New York
The Mission board met from
Monday through today. From there
he will go to Cleveland, Ohio, to
discuss problems of curricula, stu-dents,
and faculty with other semi-nary
The previous Sunday, Hag-strom
made a trip to three
churches: Bloomquist in the
morning; Lake Elizabeth, aft-ernoon;
and Wilmar, evening.
He was accompanied by Doris
Jane Eggleston and Elizabeth
Larson, who contributed in a
musical way to the meetings.
Dr. Hagstrom, also presided re-cently
at a Board of Managers
meeting of the Minnesota Baptist
Calendar Coordination
By Lloyd Shold
Coordination of school activities
on the calendar is under considera-tion
by the Student council, Roger
Goodman, president, said. The pur-pose
of such a plan is to prevent
too large a number of meetings tak-ing
place the same week.
Not only club activities, but also
gospel team meetings, will be dis-cussed
with the aim of making a
more efficient as well as more ef-fective
study and social life for our
Dean Emery Johnson recently at-tended
a meeting of the junior col-lege
deans of Minnesota at the Uni-versity
of Minnesota. This is an
annual conclave to discuss prob-lems
pertaining to their positions.
Missionary band, Seminary
chapel, 7:15 p. m.
Bethel Women's association,
Women's room, 2:30 p. m.
Thursday, November 30
Friday, December 1
Basketball, Gustavus Adolph-us,
Wednesday, December 6
College club.
Religious Council
According to reports from Her-schel
Rogers, the Religious Coun-cil
has begun work on a pledge
campaign to obtain funds to meet
their expenses. Rogers states that
certain individuals are assigned to
groups of students and faculty
members in order to talk to every-one
in school about making a
The main items of expense are
the maintenance of the gospel team
bus, insurance, tracts, and trans-portation
of gospel teams. He also
wishes to urge students and the
faculty to be liberal in making
these pledges.
Rogers also reports that the
council is concerned about the eb-bing
spiritual life of our school,
and they are considering measures
to remedy this present condition.
Boarding Club
By Archie Johnson
On Sunday Jack Bergeson in-tends
to go to churches at Cook
and Neander to hold services. He
expects to return on Monday with
a load of provisions, gifts of those
who wish to help support the
Boarding club.
On the first of November a
Penny-a-Meal box was placed
on each table in the dining hall.
They shall remain there
throughout the month, at the
end of which a prize will be
given to the table which has
the largest contribution per
The members of the basketball
team are soon to be assigned a
special table where they will be
served only those foods which will
make them better athletes. The
boys will have to sacrifice their
pie, but they are more than willing
to do this for the furtherance of
Bethel in the hoop championship
Christian Workers
By Dorothy Webster
The Christian worker's depart-ment
held their annual picnic (pow
wow) last Thursday afternoon, at
the Minnehaha park in Minneapo-lis.
"God in Nature" was the theme
of the afternoon program, and it
seemed that there was a Divine
Hand in providing such a beautiful
day for their picnic. Prof. A. J.
Wingblade was the speaker, and
Opal Palmquist played a trumpet
solo. It was an afternoon of spir-itual
uplift as well as fun.
Committee chairmen were as fol-lows:
Eats, Miss Esther Sabel;
Entertainment, Miss Palmquist;
Program, Vivian Fons.
By Dale Bjork
Among the various chapel speak-ers
of the last few weeks, we were
especially delighted by the pres-ence
of the Rev. Alvin J. Hause of
Kansas City, Missouri, at three
services. One of his messages was
a repeat of one which he gave here
last March. This heartsearching
message touched upon a subject
which is alive in the minds of
Christian young people, namely,
"Five Scriptural Tests Of Question-able
Amusements." The first test
is found in 1 Cor. 6:12, "All things
are lawful for me, but I will not be
brought under the power of any."
Do !certain amusements bring you
under its power or influence? 1
Cor. 10:23, ". . . all things are law-ful
for me, but all things edify
Does the amusement in ques-tion
build up your mind, body
and spirit? Does the pleasure
make me a stumbling block to
others? 1 Cor. 8:12 and 13,
"But when ye sin so against
the brethren, and wound their
weak conscience, ye sin against
Christ. Wherefore, if meat
make my brother to offend, I
will eat no flesh while the
world standeth, lest I make my
brother to offend."
Does the pleasure glorify God? 1
Cor. 10:31, "Whether therefore ye
eat, or drink do all to the glory of
God." If, after applying these tests,
one is still in doubt, the speaker
urged his !hearers to apply a verse
from Romans 14:23, "He that
doubted is damned if he eat be-cause
he eateth not of faith; for
whatsoever is not of faith is sin."
Nov. 14 we had as our speak.
er, Dr. H. 0. Lewis, secretary
of the Baptist World alliance.
He sopke on the ideologies of
European thinking, producing
the present conflict; racial, na-tional,
and class prejudices.
The students were inspired and
impressed by the testimony of blind
Dr. Walter Kallenbach. He threw
forth this challenging question, "If
God can use a blind man like my-self,
how much more can he make
use of you?" He presented two
standards for life: standard of
character — childlikeness; and
standard of conduct regenerated
Season's Opener
By Vernon Pearson
Friday evening, December 1,
Bethel's basketeers open their 1939-
40 campaign with a game against a
strong Gustavus Adolphus team at
St. Peter, Minn. Gustavus will be
real opposition for the Bethel five.
Last year they tied for top honors
in the Minnesota Intercollegiate
conference with Hamline univer-sity.
Coach Bill Adam expressed de-light
in securing such a stiff op-ponent
for the team. As Adam
says, "You might as well face the
hardest opposition at the beginning
instead of waiting for it at the end
of the schedule."
The starting lineup will be
composed largely of lettermen
from last year. Captain Don
Johnson is a sure starter at one
of the forward posts. His abil-ity
to fire the ball from either
hand and at any angle makes
him one of the most valuable
men on the team. At the other
forward post will be Stan Paul-son.
He has improved consid-erably
from last year and is
rapidly developing into a play-er
of worth.
At center will be Del Ray Peter-son,
high scorer and all-star center
of the conference last year. The
combination of Johnson and Peter-son
proved to be a big threat to the
conference last season, and with
their experience they should go a
long way.
At the guard station will be
the reliable Gus Ferre, and Gor-die
Peterson. Ferre is without
a doubt the hardest fighter on
the squad, and should lend en-couragement
to his teammates,
especially when the going gets
tough. Gordie Peterson, al-though
ineligible for basketball
last year, promises to come
back stronger this season, than
(Continued on page 4)
This issue, the Clarion takes
a radical departure from its
usual style. It is being pub.
lished in Time.style now.
This type of editing is an ad-vanced
form of journalism, and
apparently a thing of the future.
It is also called "functionalism."
We follow the Time magazine in
presenting this edition.
Reporters are not limited by
the usual rules of journalistic
writing, but are urged to pre-sent
the background for their
news stories and allowed to edi-torialize,
give opinion. Depart-mentalization
of news is also a
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Thanks Be To God
Thanksgiving should have an added meaning
to us this year as we observe this traditional
holiday. In days of prosperity and peaceful
times, it is easy to attend church in a formal
manner and eat our dinner in an unthoughtful
mood. But this year, when international de-struction
is brooding and domestic trouble is
inclement, we should have a stream of thank-fulness
welling from our hearts.
Truly, the Lord is gracious to spare us from
an undue amount of trouble and turmoil. The
most of us live a rather secluded life here in
Bethel—we do not see degradation, want, and
strife. Do we appreciate our Father's bless-ings?
Our President and Governor have proclaimed
a day of thanks when we should remember the
Divine Ruler of this universe. As we partake
of it, may we do it in spirit and truth.
* * * *
Every student must be aware of the fact that
there seems to be an ebbing in the spiritual
life of Bethel, for which it was noted in pre-vious
years. Besides chapel reminders, this
has been impressed upon the editor by several
concerned students, and he wishes to make it
publicly known.
It is not that we would sanction a Pharasaic
pursuit of righteousness and sanctimonious
living. But seriously and unreservedly it ap-pears
that those who are willing to "let down
the bars" have not experienced a thorough re-generation.
We would not criticize or con-demn
anyone, but we know from experience.
There is the matter of questionable amuse-ments
of which much has been said. And then
we have been asked to say something about
the "slanguage" which is used in the Bethel
halls—not at all representative of Christians.
The Bible and standards of Christian living do
notdat all accommodate these things.
Of course, we pay tuition, and are privileged
to live as we choose. But Bethel is supported
to a larger extent by contributions than by
what we put into it. Because the administra-tion
and these supporters have set a standard,
should we not be willing to observe it? If
not, it is our duty to vacate.
Enough has been said. However, do not take
it lightly—it should be worthy of serious con-sideration.
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4204 Beitiwi 04 o4 Velae
My God
Oh, God, that madest heaven and earth,
Who orderest trees and flowers from dirt,
Who made those things that never were,
My Great Creator!
Who sent His Son to earth to die,
Who heard the dying sinners' cry,
And all my sins on Him now lie,
My Glorious Saviour!
Who brought me from the miry clay,
Who set my feet on rock to stay,
Who changed my life from night to day,
My Lord, Transformer!
Who helps me triumph over sin,
Who puts a joy and peace within,
Who gives, before I ask of Him,
My Great Provider!
To Thee, I would each day anew,
Give all myself, for Thee to use
In any way or place you choose,
My Heavenly Father!
Come on, some of the rest of you poets!
Let's see if you can produce anything like the
above. Our thanks to the contributor!
Public Pulse
November 13, 1939.
Dear Editor:
That Bethel's 1939 Homecoming was one of
the finest we've ever had is almost axiomatic
in student conversation. Yet I believe it also
goes without saying that future Homecomings
can be made finer yet. Next year marks our
10th annual Homeedvaing celebration at Bethel
—it began in 1931—and we ought to plan now
to make it the outstanding event of the school
year. To that end I would like to offer the
following suggestions to the student associa-tion
and its executive council:
First, that the date of Homecoming be set at
leash a week earlier, if not more, in order to
avoid both cold weather and mid-semester ex-aminations,
including the pre-test worry!
All classes and laboratories after the second
period should be dismissed for the day in order
to have a greater student participation and to
get more into the spirit of the occasion.
A huge bonfire should be held on the cam-pus
on the night before Homecoming with a
big pep rally and closing campfire devotional
I believe we also ought to have a Homecom-ing
Princess to reign over the day's activities.
She should be elected beforehand by the stu-dent
body, and her identity kept secret until
the Homecoming day chapel when she would
be properly inaugurated on a specially pre-pared
chapel platform.
I believe also that the office of general chair-man
of Homecoming should not be relegated
to the unimportant place of being an auto-matic
side-issue of the association vice-presi-dent.
He did his work well this year, it is true,
but an even better setup could be arranged for
him. A student should be elected in the
spring to the sole office of Homecoming day
chairman, making it a position of honor and a
greater opportunity to begin preparations for
the celebration.
Each organization on the campus could be
asked to make a specific contribution to the
Homecoming arrangements, such as an after-noon
play, gymnasium games, campus decora-tions,
or even conducting an all school barbe-que
at noon.
I would suggest that the student association
receive a percentage of the student activities
fee in order to finance Homecoming, all-school
parties, and other functions. The proper share
Spat:lucid qoaci
Thanksgiving Prayer
0 God, we thank Thee for this universe, our
great home; for its vastness and its riches, and
the manifoldness of the life which teems upon
it and of which we are a part. We praise Thee
for the arching sky and the blessed winds, for
the driving clouds and the constellations on
high. We praise Thee for the salt sea and the
running water, for the everlasting hills, for the
trees, and for the grass under our feet. We
thank Thee for our senses by which we can
see the splendor of the morning, and hear the
jubilant songs of love, and smell the breath of
the springtime. Grant us, we pray Thee, a
heart wide open to all this beauty, and save
our souls from being so steeped in care or so
darkened by passion that we pass heedless and
unseeing when even the thornbush by the way-side
is aflame with the glory of God. Amen.
(Walter Rauschenbusch.)
Splinf an Tura ollancbteci
By Squint and Squawk
Doris Molander has difficulty in keeping her
mind on the volleyball tournaments — when
that small blonde flash is in the gallery. Serv-ing
the ball high is no excuse for glancing up
Who of the freshmen Seminary women have
suddenly taken up the art of swinging on tree
branches and yelling, "Whe-e-e! ! I'm Tar-zan!
! ?"
If Mrs. Bill Adam were not such a good cof-fee-
maker, the Coach believes that Bert "Bish-op"
Friberg would cease to be his star boarder.
(Or, at Mr. Adam puts it—"Is it the coffee?")
VIVIAN FONS—How long does a five-min-ute
report have to be?
GRANT SAIVIUELSON (before an exam)—
Let's sing "Lead, Kindly Light."
BILL HAGSTROM—The right is dark be-cause
it isn't light. (You don't say so!)
CARL "PINKY" HOLMBERG—Anyone who
sits next to me doesn't know how privileged he
(or—she??) is.
This is under the cuff, kids- The second
year Duetsch class is wearing a puzzled brow.
The students are wondering how Miss Effie
Nelson gets all that inside dope. "I see," Miss
Nelson said, "that this class certainly has no
trouble in getting dates!" But don't be alarm-ed,
all you others. She was referring to the
dates in lesson 6!
You don't know it, girls, but you are about
to lose your hearts. Casanova Jerry Cornelius
says that he has a way with women. But of
course, that's all a matter of opinion, doncha-no!
Let it never be said that we will not acknowl-edge
our errors. The last issue of the Clarion
contained several—our apologies are proffered:
to Lowell Marquardt, who should have been
included in a story on the Minnesota B.Y.P.U.
cabinet as its vice-president; and to several
student pastors, whose churches we identified
inaccurately. We ask that you bear with us.
of this could be allocated to the Homecoming
day chairman, and he could see that each of
the committees received its part.
These are just some of the possibilities. Let's
talk them up and make definite decisions be-fore
the end of the year. We have the oppor-tunity
of beginning real tradition for Bethel's
Homecoming, and I hope we take advantage of
it to the fullest degree.
Yours for a great Homecoming in 1940!
—Carl H. Lundquist.
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By Dalphy Fagerstrom
"When The Chimes Rang" will
be presented by the Alexis Literary
' society Wednesday, Dec. 13. The
play is a religious dramatization,
and will be in harmony with the
Christmas season. Although the
cast has not been revealed, there is
much dramatic talent available and
an excellent performance may well
be expected.
At the last Alexis gathering the
"Bethel Baptist church" annual
business meeting was held with a
packed Seminary chapel. Carl
Holmberg served as pastor, and the
members vigorously attacked
church problems. Questions con-cerning
the pastor's vacation and
the calling of a woman evangelist
were discussed.
Practice in parliamentary pro-cedture
and in public speaking is an
object of the Alexis society, and an
opportunity is afforded members to
develop along these lines in the
annual "church business meeting."
Missionary Band
Borneo will be shown through the
eye of a camera tonight at an 8
o'clock meeting of the Missionary
band in the Seminary chapel. The
Rev. V. D. Stroh, president of the
St. Paul Bible institute will pre-sent
this feature. A study group at
7:15 o'clock will precede this.
Results of a questionaire distrib-recently
show that a number of
them are in favor of monthly or
semi-monthly study meetings. Spe-cial
emphasis would be placed on
fields with which members are un-acquainted.
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"Who's Who?"
One of five students of Sioux
Falls college selected for recogni-tion
in the book, "Who's Who
Among Students In American Col-leges
And Universities" for 1939-40
is Pierre Tangent, outstanding
Bethel graduate. Other students
at the Baptist college chosen for
the honor are three seniors: Rol-land
Rueb, Deadwood; Ruth O'Con-nor
and Merle Dunn, Sioux Falls;
and one junior, Jean Park, Sioux
Tangent was selected on the
basis of superior scholarship
and participation in many cam-pus
activities. He is senior
class president, as well as pres.
ident of the campus Y.M.C.A.
His other activities include
membership on the student
council, in Pi Kappa Delta, the
Ministerial association, the de.
bate team, and in dramatic ef-forts
of the school.
While at Bethel, Tangent was an
active student, chiefly steward of
the Boarding club. He has also
done much denominational and
B.Y.P.U. work in this state.
Many of the Seminary students
have planned special activities for
Thanksgiving vacation next week.
Some of those who indicated their
plans are as follows:
Vernon Pearson will cele-brate
two Thanksgivings. He
is leaving today for his home
in Chicago Heights, Illinois,
where the holiday is being ob-served
tomorrow. After re-maining
for Sunday services,
he will return to have special
meetings in his pastoral field at
Bertil Friberg will assist the Rev.
Clayton Bolinder of Mankato in
special services by leading songs
in a campaign with the Rev. Mar-vin
Special meetings are being
planned by E. Gordon Larson
for his church in Hasty with
students assisting as well as
the Rev. Axel Lindgren of Co.
Voclav Voita will travel to Max,
North Dakota, for evangelistic
services over the holidays.
Meetings for his churches at
Brunswick and Grasston are plan-ned
by Vern Slater. Earl Sherman
will assist Sydney Larsen with
meetings in his field from Tuesday
through Sunday of next week.
Choir Election
By Gene Nyman
Three new officers were elected
at a meeting of the A cappella
choir on Nov. 16, according to Alrik
Bloomquist, who presided. They
are: Ethel Tederman, president;
Dean Nordell, vice-president; and
Gladys Hanson, secretary.
Officers returning from last
year include: Bloomquist,
treasurer; Joyce Johnson, li-brarian;
and Ruth Olson, stu-dent
council representative.
At present, the choir is working
on "Lost In The Night" by F. Me-lius
Christiansen. Gordon Peter-son
is assistant director.
By Dorothy Webster
Snakes have some characteristics
of man, it was learned last Wednes-day
evening when the Johnson
brothers appeared at the second
Chatauquan program. One died of
a broken heart after his mate died
from pneumonia, but another, King
Oscar, swallowed his fellow snake,
King Lut.
The naturalists told a number of
amusing and informing stories of
accidents resulting from fear of
snakes and spiders, gave instruc-tions
as to securing and caring for
pet snakes and spiders, and ex-plained
how to detect a poisonous
The highlight of the evening
came when Bethel's "snake
charmers" proudly showed
their soothing influences upon
the specimen and attempted to
appear nonchalant while their
amazing necklaces entwined
alarmingly around their shoul-ders.
The parting admonition of Mr.
Johnson to his audience was to be
kind to our friends, the snakes.
Prof. C. E. Carlson has been
teaching a Sunday-sohool teachers'
Bible class at the Temple Baptist
church, Minneapolis, for the last
five weeks. They are studying the
gospel of Matthew. He reports a
good attendance.
H. Wyman Malmsten left last
week for the Colorado and Nebras-ka
churches. He was scheduled to
appear in Denver last Sunday and
will work back, coming home for
By Muriel Petersen
NOVEMBER 9, Thursday
Wearing the left shoe on the
right foot and the right shoe on the
left foot was only part of the fun
had by the Christian Workers when
they met at Prof. A. J. Wingblade's
home. The evening was spent
playing games, giving stunts, and
singing songs, after which a deli-cious
lunch, was served.
NOVEMBER 19, Friday
It was a cold, brisk evening and
was made even more autumn-like
by a brilliant fire burning in a fire-place
at Como park. Roasting wei-ners
and eating them with buns
and catsup was the main activity
of these eight Bethelite "pow-wowers."
NOVEMBER 20, Monday
Bert Friberg: "I don't want
go because I haven't got a girl."
Bob Perrin: "I don't want to go
because I've got one."
Such were comments made by
these and certain other students of
the band who went on a Hayride at
Eaton's stable.
By Lem Petersen
"Youth's Return To Faith" by
Norman W. Cox. 1938. The Judson
press, Philadelphia. 194 pages.
"Thinking Youth's Greatest
Need" by Dan Gilbert. 1937. The
Danielle publishers, San Diego. 154
pages. $1.
The ,world is looking to the youth
of today for the solution of its
problems. Present conditions have
become so degraded by evil forces,
that there is need for new blood.
In the hands of such as Bethel stu-dents
lies the hope or dissolution
of our order.
This prospect for youth was the
greatest impression received from
reading these books, written by
two men who have seen the world,
have experienced its effects, but
who also see light for the world in
what youth can offer.
The first book is written mainly
for Christian youth leaders (but it
would be valuable to any reader),
and the latter is the testimony of
one who has been out of school
only a few years.
Mr. Cox' book is by far the most
valuable. It is well worth the read-ing
of any who would expect to un-derstand
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Men's Gym
By Bernard Hammerbeck
Coach Bill Adams reports that
recent drills on ball handling, court
rules, and basketball fundamentals
have evolved his gym team aspir-ants
into definite potentialities. At
present, the men are engaged in
Definite prospects from the
sophomore squad include: Roy
Lundquist, Dallas West, Am-brose
Collins, Sidney Carlson,
Dalphy Fagerstrom, Francis
Otto, Gordon Anderson, Grant
Samuelson, Dean Nordell, and
Olaf Nelson. Frosh prospects
are: Gerald Larson, Dean Ber.
ry, Mike Shendel, Glen Soule,
and Gunnar Hoglund.
Several games have been sched-uled
for the squad, and in addition
to the regular gym squad several
varsity reserves may be used. Re-serves
include: Kenneth Norquist,
Rodney Nelson, Herschel Rogers,
and Harold Mickelson. These re-serves,
receiving added experience
and actual competition, may devel-op
into definite varsity threats.
Monday, Dec. 4, a gym squad
will engage the Central Baptist
quintet in a court struggle, and
on Wednesday, Dec. 13, they
will battle the Prospect Park
church team. These games
will be played in the local gym,
and there will be no admission
Friday, Dec. 8, the squad battles
the Farm School "B's" in a prelimi-nary
contest before the varsity
struggle, and on Wednesday, Dec.
20, they will encounter the Con-cordia
"B's" prior to a Bethel-Con-cordia
varsity game.
Women's Gym
The women's gymnasium classes
have decreased since the basket-eers
have been excused. Coach
Bill Adam has been drilling the
classes in handling a basketball. He
will also teach them offensive and
defensive fundamentals of the
Recently, the coed classes fin-ished
a volleyball tournament in
which a sophomore team, captained
by Olga "Billie" Anderson, was vic-torious.
In a later game against an all-star
aggregation, this team was de-feated.
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two years ago. His height will
be a decided factor in getting
the ball from the backboard.
Coach Adam is well pleased with
this group for the opening whistle.
He has what every Coach wants,
height in the front and back lines,
and plenty of speed in the front
Right behind these five, the
Coach has several who should give
a good account of themselves. Rob-ert
Hovinen, although handicapped
in height, has speed to burn. He
is one of the most alert men on the
squad. When asked where Hovin-en
would fit into this machine,
Coach Adam remarked with a twin-kle
in his eye, "I'm going to use
"Hovie" as a spot man. He plays
any position and can play against
any kind of opposition with suc-cess.
He is our number one man
in the reserves."
Others who will undoubtedly
see much action are Wilber
"Lappa" Ogren, who with a lit:
tle more polish and experience
should develop into a valuable
man for the team. Gene Ny-man,
who started off with a
bang, received an injury that
has slowed him up consider-ably
for the time being. Har-old
Mickleson, with plenty of
height and speed, should devel.
op into a good player with a
little more seasoning and ex.
perience. Bernard Hammer-back,
a fine left-handed cager,
is out working hard at every
practice and will see a great
deal of action before the season
is ended.
The Coach expressed pleat satis-faction
in the progress made by the
team thus far. Many have been ex-pressing
the idea that Bethel should
not be defeated. That is a won-derful
plan, but the Coach must
warn the players over and over
again that each game must be
played as it appears on the sched-ule,
and not before the season's
campaign gets under way.
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A group of Bethel football en-thusiasts
engaged the Minnehaha
football team in a six-man football
contest with Bethel banging out a
13-0 victory.
The Bethel squad was poorly
organized as compared to the
Minnehaha team, and the Beth-elites
had no equipment. The
boys fought hard, however, and
touchdowns were scored by
Lowell Marquardt and Dalphy
Fagerstrom with Wilbur "Lap-pa"
Ogren adding an extra
point on a pass play.
Bethel pugilists were: Ogren, Ny-man,
Marquardt, Robert "Dynamic"
Perrin, John Lindquist, Rodney
Nelson, Mike Shendel, Warren
Dahlstrom, Fagerstrom, Truman
Halvorson, and Bernard Hammer-beck.
They were coached by Bill
"B" Club
Dick Siebert, present coach at
Concordia, an arch-rival of Beth-el's,
was the principal speaker at a
meeting of the "B" club last Fri-day
evening. Mr. Siebert is a
member of the Philadelphia Ath-letic
club of the American league
during summer months, and last
year was the regular first base-man
for Connie Mack's gang. Mr.
Siebert spoke on baseball and gave
an interesting story of life in the
dugout, baseball tricks, and his ex-periences.
The meeting was held in the form
of a "Monday morning quarterback
session." Coach William Adam
was the "man on the spot," and
questions concerning basketball
and this year's prospects were fired
at the popular coach.
By Elna Finstrom
We hear certain fellows: saying,
"I wouldn't take her out if she was
the last woman on earth!"
We agree, my friend! You'd be
killed in the rush.
Scrimmage games have begun,
and the feminine basketeers are
rapidly learning to coordinate the
knowledge they've gained concern-ing
their passing, guarding, and
With 18 out for practice ev-ery
Tuesday and Thursday aft-ernoons,
there are some real
workouts in preparation for the
first game, Dec. 9 at 7:00 P.M.,
when they will play the alum-nae.
Audrey "Little" Martin,
Marie Dahlberg, Ethel Ahl-quist,
Jeanne Tretsven, and
Carol Johnson will play for the
alumnae. Both Audrey and
Marie have worked out with
the team.
The squad of 18 will not be cut
to 15 until after Christmas. There
will be at least four games played
before then. Two games are sched-uled
with the Minnesota Farm
school women. The dates are not
definite, because the Minnesota
"Aggies" have just begun practice.
The season's schedule still remains
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A Puncher's Chance? Breaking Down the Teams Driving the 2013 SEC TournamentPosted by Christian D'Andrea on March 11th, 2013
Christian D'Andrea is a SEC Microsite contributor and an editor at Anchor of Gold and Nashville Sports Hub. You can reach him on Twitter @TrainIsland.
The SEC Tournament is upon us, and thanks to the league's new 14-team format, fans get a whole extra day of win-or-go-home basketball in the south. The 2012-13 season hasn't been particularly kind to the SEC. The conference suffered through a plague of upset losses and a dearth of quality wins which led to speculation that Florida would be the league's only representative at the NCAA Tournament.
That course has been corrected over the final three weeks of the season thanks to some big wins across the conference's second tier, but there are still plenty of teams battling for postseason slots. Tennessee and Kentucky will be looking to one-up each other as they duel for what might the last at-large invitation to the Big Dance. Alabama and Ole Miss will look to re-enter the postseason conversation with legitimizing wins. Arkansas, Texas A&M, and Vanderbilt will try to rally hard and extend their seasons one day at a time.
With that in mind, let's take a look at the 14 teams that will be competing for conference honors when Wednesday rolls around.
The Prohibitive Favorite: Florida
Billy Donovan's team hasn't been perfect against a downtrodden conference, and that has cost the Gators a shot at a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Their best recourse for that will be to put together a dominant run in Nashville, and an easy Friday match-up against LSU or Georgia will give them the opportunity to get off on the right foot. Much like the rest of the season, this will be a high-risk, low-reward endeavor for Florida. They won't face a top-50 opponent until a theoretical Sunday match-up in the title game. They'll have to hold court and prove that they can reclaim the dominance that led them to a string of double-digit wins to open league play.
The Savvy Bet: Missouri
Mizzou may have the richest depth of any team in the SEC, but Frank Haith's squad has been vulnerable against the conference's good and mid-level teams in 2013. The Tigers have struggled to play well as a team despite the wealth of experience on their roster, but they've been able to regroup (4-2 in their last six games) as the SEC Tournament approaches. Mizzou has the scoring, ball movement, and rebounding to push any opponent to the limit. Players like Alex Oriakhi, Laurence Bowers, and Phil Pressey can create mismatches against any team they face. Can they ratchet up the defense and come together as a cohesive unit when the pressure is on? The Tigers are just a #6 seed in the SEC bracket, but they have the potential to do so much more — especially with a relatively weak draw on the road to the conference championship game.
The At-Large Brawlers: Tennessee, Kentucky
Tennessee and Kentucky represent the conference's best candidates for a third and possibly fourth NCAA Tournament bid, but it may be a case of one-or-the-other when it comes to the selection committee's final bracket. Both of these teams proved that they can beat Florida over the past two weeks, but their victories came with the help of home court advantage. Now, they'll have to prove that they can travel to a neutral court and roll that momentum into a season-sustaining run through the SEC Tournament. The Volunteers and Wildcats will be pitting their resumes against each other for a chance to make it to the Big Dance, and while either team can make a case for inclusion based on their regular season performances, another significant win would all but ensure their spot in one of the NCAA's four regions.
The only way these two would meet in Nashville is in the SEC title game, and both teams would be likely locks for the 68-team filed at that point. Kentucky has the better collection of talent, but no team has been hotter over the past month than Tennessee. The Volunteers are at the tail end of an 8-1 run that rallied the team from CBI territory and on to the happy side of the bubble. However, they may have been pushed down to NIT status after Saturday's UK win over the Gators and Middle Tennessee State's surprising Sun Belt Tournament loss. Is there room for both of these teams in the NCAA bracket?
The Forgotten Bubble Contenders: Ole Miss, Alabama
Ole Miss and 'Bama belonged in the previous group until late-season slumps effectively tanked their seasons. For the Rebels, February and March represented a precipitous fall from grace. Marshall Henderson and his teammates plummeted from a potential five-seed or better all the way off the NCAA Tournament bubble with a 6-6 record down the stretch that included losses to South Carolina and Mississippi State. Still, Henderson, Murphy Holloway, and Reginald Buckner could lead the third-seeded Rebels to a big weekend if they can regain their early-season magic.
The Crimson Tide didn't have a bad spring, they just failed to produce any resume-defining wins. Anthony Grant's team is solid across the court and strong enough to hang with the SEC's best teams, but they've been unable to lock down an impressive top-50 victory in 2013. This rebuilding Alabama squad has the pieces in place for a big 2014 run, but they might not have the gas this week to get to the SEC title game and back to the bright side of the bubble.
Puncher's Chances: Vanderbilt, Texas A&M, Arkansas, Georgia, LSU
The SEC Tournament occasionally fails to follow rhyme, reason, or tradition. Some years, a tornado hits the host arena and wills a 4-12 Georgia team to the Big Dance. In others, a Vanderbilt team that hadn't known much beyond abject failure in the conference bracket wins their first postseason title since 1950. Five teams at the lower end of the Southeastern spectrum could end up adding to that legacy in 2013.
Vanderbilt, thanks in part to the emergence of freshman Sheldon Jeter, is finishing its season better than they started it. A team that can shoot from three-point range and play hard-nosed defense on the perimeter is always dangerous in tournament play, and that will give Kevin Stallings' team a shot. Same goes for Texas A&M, a squad that could ride Elston Turner Jr.'s hot hand to a marquee match-up on Sunday.
Arkansas, with wins over Kentucky, Florida, and Missouri, may have the best resume of the group when it comes to the league's third tier and a high-paced style that could wreak havoc in a four-day tournament setting. Georgia has been streaky all year and could be an upset of Florida away from an easy path to the SEC title game. Finally, LSU has been wholly unpredictable in 2013 and that volatility could result in a surprising run to a weekend match-up or a Thursday exit at the hands of Georgia.
Saving Money on Costly Weekend Hotels in Nashville: Mississippi State, Auburn, South Carolina
Frank Martin's team has some young talent, but doesn't have a path to a Friday game unless Bruce Ellington or Michael Carrera catch fire for the Gamecocks. Even with a big, slightly inexplicable win over Ole Miss, Mississippi State is still a rebuilding team with just seven scholarship players to count on in Nashville. Auburn held Alabama to just 37 points once and also beat Florida State this season, but that's about it for bright spots in a season that's ending on a 1-14 skid.


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December 2016: The Department of Biology is very pleased to welcome new tenure-track faculty member Dr. Lisa Patrick Bentley. Dr. Bentley's research focuses on plant physiological ecology and addresses questions related to the environmental controls on carbon and water flux in ecosystems and the evolution of plant form and function. Welcome Dr. Bentley!
October 2016: Congratulations to Dr. Mackenzie Zippay for her participation on a recently published paper on the findings of intertidal mussels, spanning 18 years of research! Publication of the paper was also celebrated this week in the New York Times!
September 2016: Biology professor Dr. Sean Place is the happy recipient an NSF grant to study the effects of climate change on Antarctic fish. Read more about it here on the main SSU Website. Congratulations, Dr. Place!
August 2016: Biology professor Dr. Michael Cohen's current research project has been featured in the latest edition of Sonoma State Insights - way to go, Dr. Cohen!
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Dr. Sarah Myhill is a UK-based physician with a special interest in fatigue and nutrition. Her pioneering research ("Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Mitochondrial Dysfunction") suggests the cells' energy generating mitochondria are dysfunctional in ME/CFS – a situation that can produce various symptom clusters, including: a) blood flow/vascular abnormalities such as orthostatic intolerance, b) the widespread pain and sensitization most typical of fibromyalgia syndrome, and c) fatigue, exhaustion & brain fog. This information is excerpted with kind permission from (DrMyhill.co.uk).*
Fibromyalgia – Possible Causes and Implications for Treatment
The word 'fibromyalgia' just refers to a symptom – it means pain in the muscles. It occurs very commonly with chronic fatigue syndrome [ME/CFS] because I suspect the underlying causes are similar.
How Energy is Produced in Cells
All cells require energy in order to work. There are two ways that they can get their energy.
Energy Production Using Oxygen. Normally, energy is supplied to cells by mitochondria (little organelles within cells) which supply energy in the form of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) via a process called Oxidative Phosphorylation. This process requires oxygen, is extremely efficient, and is the way in which the vast majority of energy is produced the vast majority of the time. You might enjoy watching a very interesting presentation on oxidative phosphorylation (which starts with NADH and Ubiquinol CoQ-10) – published on the website of Purdue University, Indiana.
Energy Production Using Sugar. The second way in which cells can get energy is through Glycolysis. From an evolutionary point of view this is a very much more primitive way of supplying energy. It does not require oxygen, it just needs sugar. It is extremely inefficient and the result of glycolysis is the production of large amounts of lactic acid.
All athletes recognize the moment when they switch from aerobic metabolism (requiring oxygen) via mitochondria to anaerobic metabolism (glycolysis) resulting in a build up of lactic acid. It is this build up of lactic acid that causes the pain, heaviness, feeling exhaustion, deadened muscles, and muscles will not work or go any faster sensation.
I am also interested in this idea because in horses there is a condition known as azoturia (tying up), which does not have an obvious human parallel. I suspect, however, that this parallel is fibromyalgia. This condition occurs in some susceptible horses when there is a huge build up of lactic acid in their muscles which causes extremely severe muscle damage, massive amounts of pain and distress and in severe acute cases the horse can die from it.
So What Goes Wrong in Fibromyalgia?
I suspect that in fibromyalgia there is an inappropriate switch from aerobic mitochondrial production of energy (via oxidative phosphorylation) to glycolysis (very inefficient anaerobic production of energy, not requiring oxygen, but with a large build up of lactic acid).
Lactic acid in the short term causes immediate muscle pain. Normally this is remedied by the person slowing down or stopping because of that pain, cells switch back into aerobic metabolism and the lactic acid is quickly cleared away and got rid of. All athletes know that when they stop running the horrible painful sensation in their legs will be gone within a few seconds or minutes.
This does not happen in fibromyalgia because:
• The sufferer can't make ATP quick enough to shunt lactic acid back to acetate (via the Cori Cycle, aka Lactic Acid Cycle; more on this below).
• And the sufferer is completely pole axed by ongoing lactic acid burn with inability to move,
• And possibly secondary damage from lactic acid which, for example, is good at breaking down the collagen matrix which holds cells together. That is to say, the lactic acid may cause microscopic muscle tears, which would present as local areas of soreness and would trigger a process of healing and repair by the immune system.
There would also be excessive release of free radicals as the immune system repairs. This may well cause further muscle damage and – in people with poor antioxidant system – this is a disease amplifying process. Some sufferers find vitamin B-12 helpful, possibly because it is acting as a scavenger of free radicals.
1. The most obvious reason for this of course is mitochondrial failure, which I believe is a major cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.
If mitochondria cannot supply sufficient energy to cells, cells will switch into glycolysis with a resultant build up of lactic acid. In the heart, this switch into anaerobic metabolism because of mitochondrial failure will present with angina (chest pain). There are many causes of mitochondrial failure (see handout – causes of CFS, mitochondrial failure and mitochondrial function test) such as:
• Lack of nutrients for mitochondria to work (D-ribose, magnesium, vitamin B3 (niacin), co-enzyme Q10 and acetyl L-carnitine). [Note: A trial due to start in early 2012 at Columbia University will test the ability of selected nutraceuticals to help manage lactate levels and other aspects of mitochondrial dysfunction in ME/CFS.]
• Toxic stress (which is blocking oxidative phosphorylation, or blocking translocator protein function),
• Poor antioxidant status (so mitochondria are damaged by biochemical activity),
• Poor hormonal control (poor levels of thyroid or adrenal hormones) and so on.
2. Lack of oxygen to muscles may be another reason for the switch to glycolysis.
A fascinating paper in the Lancet by John Yudkin explains how a high carbohydrate diet could cause high blood pressure. [As a long-time professor of nutrition and dietetics at the University of London, he was an early advocate of low carb Atkins-type diets]. Dr. Yudkin demonstrated that high levels of sugar in the blood were very damaging to muscles, and the body compensates for this by shutting down the blood supply to muscles when blood sugar levels are running too high.
Whilst this protects muscles from damage by sugar, it restricts oxygen supply to that muscle. One can see how if that muscle were asked to suddenly work quite hard, it would rapidly switch into glycolysis with production of lactic acid.
Therefore I suspect high carbohydrate or high sugar diets are a risk factor for fibromyalgia. In horses with azoturia, a high carbohydrate diet is a known risk factor.
3. Exercise – too much or too little!
Muscles are extremely dynamic organs. Blood is obviously supplied to them by the heart. However, for blood to come out of muscles requires the muscle itself to contract.
Thanks to a serious of valves within veins, when muscles contract they squeeze the blood out of themselves; then as they relax, the muscles fill with blood from the heart; and then as they contract, the blood is pumped out of them again.
Indeed, during exercise, it is this alternate muscle contraction and relaxation that is largely responsible for the circulation of blood through the muscle. That is to say, the muscles like being worked – it is essential for good blood supply and it is essential to move out and excrete toxins (such as lactic acid), which inevitably build up in muscles when they are being used.
The problem for people with fatigue syndromes is that they do not have sufficient energy to exercise their muscles and therefore bring an adequate blood supply to their muscles, and this alone causes muscle problems.
This is compounded in severe CFS where cardiac output is poor because of mitochondrial failure in heart muscle! For example, if there is too much build up of toxins in muscle, the reflex response of that muscle is to go into spasm. If that muscle goes into spasm and remains in spasm (i.e., a cramp), then the circulation is further impaired and there is sudden and quick build up of toxic metabolites, which causes more pain and spasm.
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This is exactly what happens in horses with azoturia (hence its other name 'tying up'). There is so much muscle spasm and pain that the horse is literally unable to move and there is a huge amount of tissue damage going on.
Obviously humans do not push themselves to the extremes that horses do and so we do not see this same acute clinical picture, but I suspect the underlying biochemistry is the same.
4. The Cori Cycle (aka Lactic Acid Cycle)
• In converting glucose to lactic acid, 2 molecules of ATP are produced.
• To get rid of lactic acid, it has to be converted back to glucose, but this requires 6 molecules of ATP.
• When energy in the form of ATP is in such short supply, lactic acid hangs around much longer and is more damaging.
Implications for Treatment
1. Treatment of mitochondrial failure as per handout.
My experience so far is that:
• This works reliably well, though it takes months to respond, not weeks.
• But improvement is sustained month on month.
• What gets in the way is allergy – that is to say, tolerating the supplements.
2. Eat a low carbohydrate, low sugar diet.
Most calories should come from protein, fat and complex carbohydrates requiring gut fermentation by probiotics – these ferment carbohydrates into short chain fatty acids, which are the desirable fuel for mitochondria.
3. The muscle problem.
There is a fine balance to be judged here! When the muscle is in acute spasm and in pain, the worst thing you can possibly do is to exercise it because it will simply make everything much worse. However, the muscle does require blood circulation in order to heal and repair, and this can be encouraged by:
• Muscle relaxants (such as diazepam),
• Improving trace mineral status (imbalance of magnesium, calcium, sodium and potassium can cause a tendency to cramp and muscle spasm),
• Heat (to improve blood supply),
• And ideally massage or toning tables. The idea here is that the muscle is gently and rhythmically squashed, which therefore improves the circulation of the muscle, but without the muscle having to do any work.
• Painkillers may be helpful because the body's response to pain is muscle spasm.
However, if the muscle feels completely fine and is not painful at all, then it should be exercised gently on a daily basis. Obviously, the more exercise one can tolerate the better, but as soon as it switches into pain, you must stop or you simply make the situation much worse.
Gentle daily use of the muscles, therefore, improves the circulation and helps the muscle to clear toxic metabolites which trigger the above problems. This may be why yoga or Pilates exercises are often helpful in fibromyalgia.
However, do not use painkillers to allow exercise – this may make things much worse!
4. Improve antioxidant status.
As soon as muscle starts to become painful and release toxic metabolites, there is secondary muscle damage by free radicals. Having good antioxidant status helps protect against this secondary damage. The obvious antioxidants to measure which I check on a regular basis are: Co-enzyme Q10, glutathione peroxidase, and superoxide dismutase. [See "A Primer on Antioxidants and Free Radicals."]
There is one antioxidant which has been trialed in horses with good results called astaxanthin, and the dose for humans would be 4mg daily. [See "Astaxanthin – A little-known but power-packed nutrient."]
5. Iodine deficiency.
This may present with fibromyalgia. [See "Iodine – What is the correct daily dose?"]
See Also
"Muscle Stiffness: When it Hurts to Move too Quickly"
"Dr Sarah Myhill on Coenzyme Q10 in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS)"
"Arthritis: Nutritional and Other Self-Care Basics for Pain in the Joints"
"Managing Inflammation: The Body's Potent Jekyll & Hyde"
* This article is reproduced with kind permission from Dr. Sarah Myhill's educational website (DrMyhill.co.uk)® Sarah Myhill Limited, Registered in England and Wales: Reg. No. 4545198.
Note: This information has not been reviewed by the FDA. It is for general information purposes only; is not meant to replace the personal attention of a medical doctor; and is not intended to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure any condition, illness or disease. It is very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it in collaboration with your professional healthcare team.


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WORCESTER — First came the harrowing slide on unseen ice. Then the crunch of sheet metal. Then the jarring impact from behind as the next car plowed into the pack.
Now cue the paperwork and potentially higher car insurance premiums for years to come.
The good news for dozens of drivers involved in last Sunday morning's pileup on an icy stretch of Interstate 290 is that state police say they won't issue any traffic citations as a result of the mega-crash.
But that doesn't mean some insurance companies won't try to hit involved drivers with surcharges that could add thousands of dollars to their annual insurance premiums for the next six years.
"If you had collision insurance, your insurance company is going to pay for the damage subject to your deductible. Who's at fault, though, that's another issue," said Francis P. Shea, a principal of The Sullivan Group, an insurance agency based in Worcester. "You've got 65-odd cars and vehicles all piled up. Who started it all? Is it the guy in front? The rear? I don't know how they're going to sort all that out."
Two people suffered serious injuries and 35 people suffered minor injuries in the crashes along a 1,500-foot-long swath of the highway, Massachusetts State Police said. Included in the 65-vehicle pileup were two tractor-trailer units and two six-wheel commercial vehicles.
The prospect of investigating and writing some five dozen separate accident reports prompted state police to take the rare step of preparing a single accident report, said spokeswoman Trooper Nicole Morrell. The report has yet to be released.
"There will be no charges, criminal or civil, from state police," Trooper Morrell said. "The cause of the crash will be listed as 'weather and road conditions,' and we're assuming insurance companies will abide by that for surcharge reasons."
That remains to be seen.
But if the assumption proves to be in error, drivers would have a good shot at winning a surcharge appeal before the state Division of Insurance's Board of Appeal, industry observers said.
The Sullivan Group's Mr. Shea said auto insurance companies in Massachusetts typically surcharge customers as a result of any crash in which the company has to pay out a claim of $500 or more. If another driver had been at fault, that person's insurance company would have to pay for the damage, he noted.
The whole idea of a surcharge is that if you've had an accident, you represent a higher risk and therefore you should be charged more, explained Frank O'Brien of the Property Casualty Insurer Association of America, a trade group that represents a number of automobile insurance companies that do business in Massachusetts.
But figuring out who is the risk and who just got hit isn't so easy in a pileup accident resulting in a jumble of mangled vehicles.
"Individual companies will make their own decisions on whether they want to try to impose a surcharge or not, but given the publicity around this incident as well as the state police issuing a single accident report and not citing anybody, I think there will be a fair amount of understanding on the part of insurance companies," Mr. O'Brien said.
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A state Division of Insurance spokeswoman said the agency would take the state police accident report's findings into consideration in deciding any insurance surcharge appeals related to the Worcester crash.
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South African Journal of Surgery
On-line version ISSN 2078-5151
Print version ISSN 0038-2361
S. Afr. j. surg. vol.49 n.2 Cape Town Apr. 2011
Pancreatic injuries after blunt abdominal trauma: An analysis of 110 patients treated at a level 1 trauma centre
J. E. J. KrigeI; M. HameedII; A. J. NicolIII; P. H. NavsariaIII
IM.B. Ch.B., M.Sc., F.R.C.S. (ed.), F.A.C.S., F.C.S. (S.A.) U. K. Kotze, R.N., R.M., Chn., B.A. Cur.; Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, and Surgical Gastroenterology Unit, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
IIM.B. Ch.B., F.C.S. (S.A.); Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town
IIIM.B. Ch.B., F.C.S. (S.A.) P. H. Navsaria, M.B. Ch.B., F.C.S. (S.A.); Department of Surgery, University of Cape Town, and Trauma Centre, Groote Schuur Hospital
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Injuries to the pancreas are uncommon, but may result in considerable morbidity and mortality. This study evaluated the management of blunt pancreatic injuries using a previously defined protocol to determine which factors predicted morbidity and mortality.
METHODS: The study design was a retrospective chart review of all adult patients with blunt pancreatic injuries treated at a level 1 trauma centre between March 1981 and June 2009.
RESULTS: One hundred and ten patients (92 men, 18 women; mean age 30 years, range 13 - 68 years) were treated during the study period. Forty-six patients had American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) grade 1 or 2 pancreatic injuries and 64 had AAST grade 3, 4 or 5 pancreatic injuries. Injuries involved the head (N=21), neck (N=15), body (N=48) and tail (N=26) of the pancreas. The mean number of organs injured was 2.7 per patient (range 1 - 4). One hundred and one patients underwent a total of 123 operations, including drainage ofthe pancreatic injury (N=73), distal pancreatectomy (N=39) and Whipple resection (N=5). The overall complication rate was 74.5% and the mortality rate 16.4%. Only 2 of the 18 deaths were attributable to the pancreatic injury. Shock on presentation was highly predictive of death; 17 of 39 patients with shock died, compared with 1 of 71 patients who were not shocked (p<0.0001). Fourteen of 46 patients with grade 1 and 2 pancreatic injuries died compared with 4 of 64 patients with grades 3, 4 and 5 injuries (p<0.001). Mortality increased exponentially as the number of associated injuries increased. Two of 57 patients with injury to the pancreas only or one associated injury died, compared with 16 of 53 with two or more associated injuries (p<0.0013).
CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrated a significant correlation between the AAST grade of injury and pancreas-specific morbidity and between shock on admission, the number of associated injuries and death, in patients with blunt pancreatic injuries. Although morbidity and mortality rates after blunt pancreatic trauma are high, death was usually the result of major associated injuries and not related to the pancreatic injury.
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Given what is taking place in the world today, do we have any indications that to follow Christ will become more and more comfortable? The Bible Belt, long the cultural bastion of "biblical values," has long been heading toward the spiritual ruins of post-Christendom. Cultural Christianity is wasting away. And the outside world is becoming more and more hostile to the things of faith. Even some professing Christians are becoming hostile to those who will not move according to the shifting winds of the culture. And if God is doing anything in ordaining these cultural shifts to come to pass, it may be this: We are finding out who the real Christians are. (Even today, some are announcing in anger and embarrassment that they will never again call themselves evangelical, to which we must respond with all sincerity and soberness, "Thank you.")
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We live in a day where there is greater access to Christian resources than ever before. Long gone are the days where monks would hand copy a single book that was reserved for the wealthiest landowner in the county. Websites will deliver books at low cost right to your door. You can immediately download sermons from preachers across the globe, and seminaries have made excellent content freely available online.
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10 Lessons I Learned From My Mistakes in Preaching
Kevin DeYoung shares 10 lessons he's learned in a lecture at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary:
- Beware of preaching all your battles from seminary.
- Be careful with offhanded comments.
- Be yourself.
- Remember there are different kinds of people listening.
- Don't let personal conflict creep into your message.
- Make sure your best stuff is from the text.
- Be a pastor for the whole church, not just part of it.
- Don't give them the whole elephant.
- Root for others and don't compare.
- Tell your congregation you love them and are glad to be their pastor.
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Building Your Family's Healthy Habits
Boost your family fitness with these tips to develop and stick with healthy habits.
Reviewed by Daniel S. Kirschenbaum, PhD
WebMD Archive
It's easy to say, "Eat right and get more exercise." But successfully changing behavior -- your own or your children's -- takes planning, persistence, and patience. If it were easy, we'd all be fit, trim, never smoke, and rarely drink.
Yet it's within your reach to build healthy habits to prevent or tackle adult and childhood obesity, especially if you understand how to get your mind engaged and set yourself up for success.
8 Ways to Help You Develop Healthy Habits
- Know why you're doing it. When you're ready to eat better or get fit, set yourself up for success by understanding why you're trying to make behavior change happen, suggests Eileen Stone, a child and adolescent psychologist at Sanford Health in Fargo, N.D. Do you want to have more energy to play with your kids? Do you dream of finishing a 5K walk or run? Do you simply want to breathe better? Identifying a meaningful, personal reason -- something of real value to you -- will help motivate you.
- Know both the benefits and the costs of pursuing your new goal. Most people find it easy to identify the benefits of trying to reach a healthy goal. You may want to feel better and look better, for example. Research on decision-making shows some advantages to thinking about the costs of such efforts, as well. For example, it can cost both time and money to increase your fitness, as well as effort and sometimes pain and frustration. By reviewing these costs, you'll be better prepared when potential barriers pop up as you go after your goals. Being realistic and prepared will help you stay on track and "keep your eyes on the prize."
- Plan it out. How will you do it? Map out your goals and then break them down into mini-goals that you can achieve. What steps will you take to reach them? "The more concrete the steps are, the more manageable your goals will be," Stone tells WebMD. Write down your goal and the answer to your "why" question on bright sticky notes, and post them in visible places around your house. Keep a journal or a spreadsheet to help you track your progress.
- Think patience, not perfection. Most of us want to shed pounds now or feel better today. "We think we have to do it all right away, and we have to do it perfectly," says Shelly Hoefs, a certified health behavior coach at Sanford Health in Sioux Falls, S.D. But that mindset can undermine the best intentions. The habits and behaviors that got you where you are took shape over time. That means it'll take time to build healthier habits, too. When you get frustrated, remind yourself: It doesn't have to happen all at once. Even small changes can make a difference.
- Build on other successes. What are you good at right now? Use those skills to mix healthy change into your life, Hoefs suggests. Are you organized? Use that characteristic to plan out healthy meals a week in advance. Or maybe you like routines? Try committing to a before-dinner walk with your neighbor at the same time, twice a week.
- Don't dwell on failure. We all have bad days with our jobs, spouses, or kids. We get through them by looking at the big picture -- reminding ourselves that all days aren't bad and thinking of all of the good days that surround them. Do the same when you're trying to adopt healthy new habits. For example, if you've been doing great with walking and then you skip a few days, don't dwell on it. "Focus on all those other days of success," Stone says, "and let that motivate you to get back on track."
- Recognize success. Behavior change isn't easy, so when you succeed, give yourself credit. The next time you go for that walk or skip that dessert, give yourself a pat on the back. Celebrate the small and large successes.
- Evaluate your efforts weekly. If you are not willing to take honest and frequent looks at your efforts, setbacks and results, your efforts to change are doomed from the start. Don't give up for the day because you went to the breakfast buffet with your friends and overdid it. Make a healthier choice for lunch. The road to healthy habits is not straight. You will encounter bumps along the road, but keeping the big picture in mind and your goals in sight will help you drive right over them. Taking stock every week will allow you to make the adjustments that will help you succeed.


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Proof that Men aren't Valued as Much as Women
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