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Nestle's boycott, pro and con, page 4
Lundquist anniversary chapel, page 3
Student Senate report, page 7
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Vol. 54
No. 20
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
April 27, 1979
Bethel nursing program faces final vote students, faculty, housing needs, compatible with Bethel's academ-and
academic space required. The is philosophy.
program would be entirely housed Not only does the committee
on the new campus. feel that a nursing program would
By coincidence, Mounds Mid- fit into the liberal arts program,
by Betty Logan
The instituting of a nursing pro-gram
at Bethel has been in the
forefront of discussions and emo-tions
for the past few weeks.
Dean Brushaber selected an ad
hgc committee to research the
possibility of a nursing program at
the beginning of the semester, and
their results were presented last
If the recommendations of the
committee are adopted, Bethel
will initiate a nursing program
beginning in the 1980-81 school
year with the actual nursing
courses starting in the fall of 1982.
The committee's research in-cluded
in-depth study of the nurs-ing
programs at St. Catherine's,
North Park in Chicago, and Wil-liam
Jewel College in Kansas City,
Missouri. Their aim was to report
on the advisability and the feasi-bility
of such a program here at
Members of the committee are
Tom Johnson, Paul Tavernier,
Lynn Fauth, Dave Sperry, and
Olaf Olsen.
If the program is introduced at
--Betbel,-it -will mean an increase in
way School of Nursing is phasing
its program out, so Bethel's pro-gram
could use the clinical sites of
Midway and Mounds hospitals
now used by that school.
The committee wants to empha-size
the coincidence of the
Mounds Midway program phas-ing
out, and Bethel program start-ing
because they would be two dis-tinct
programs. Mounds is a
diploma nursing program, while
Bethel would institute a bacca-laureate
Lynn Fauth, a member of the
ad hoc committee, explained that
this difference is evident in the
philosophy the two types of pro-grams
The diploma program, said
Fauth, is more service-oriented,
while the baccalaureate program
placed more emphasis on the edu-cation
of the nurse. This factor,
Claims the committee which has
been concerned with a nursing
program fitting into a liberal arts
setting, allows the program to be
but it sees ways in which it could
enhance the academic community
by providing a wider range of stu-dents
for interaction and opening
up some classes in the program to
other students.
Another factor the committee
dealt with was a nursing
program's advisability in view of
Bethel's Christian commitment.
The committee feels that the ser-vice
nurses could offer to society
is prominent.
If the program was implement-ed
at Bethel, it would mean 270
additional students, when fully in-stituted.
This would mean the ad-dition
of a nursing faculty staff of
12 and additional teacher in
various departments such as
biology, chemistry, and also in the
general arts.
To provide space for the pro-gram,
the science building com-pletion
would be required. Also,
the projected plan is to remodel
four townhouses for offices and
The final decision on the nurs-ing
program will be made on May
1, by a faculty vote.
Disney, "Fiddler," variety acts
enliven "magical" pops concert Conductors Olson, Mogck and Berglund warm up for the Pops Concert
River floods Jackson; VOC suffers minimal losses The Bethel College Concert
Band, directed by Charles Olson,
will present its annual Pops Con-cert
Friday, April 27, at 8 p.m., at
the college fieldhouse.
The concert will include
contemporary music from "Fid-dler
on the Roof" and "The Little
Horsemen." In addition, the
Bethel College Choir will join the
by Jay Russell
A survey conducted last month
by the communications board has
revealed 58 per cent of Bethel stu-dents
would like to hear Christian
music on Bethel's student-opera-ted
KABY radio station, but only
18 per cent of the students actually
listen to Christian music most of
the time.
Sixty students living on new
campus were chosen at random
and surveyed by telephone.
Survey results indicated that 18
per cent of Bethel students listen
to Christian music, 25 per cent
preferred easy listening, and 38
per cent, or 23 of the 60 students
surveyed preferred rock music.
The remaining 19 per cent pre-band
in concert finale, "The
Magic of Disney," a medley of
songs from Walt Disney classics.
Variety acts throughout the per-formance
will add to the magic of
the evening. Tickets are $2.50 for
reserved seats, $2 adult general
admission, and $1 student general
admission. For ticket informa-tion,
call 473-7230.
ferred disco, jazz or classical mu-sic.
However, when asked what
type of music they would like to
hear on KABY, 58 per cent said
they would like to hear Christian
music. Only 20 per cent wanted to
hear rock music on the station,
while 13 per cent preferred easy
Most students surveyed said
that they listen to the radio before
classes in the morning, between
6-10 a.m. The second most popu-lar
time was in the evenings be-tween
9 p.m. and midnight, while
the afternoon (12 to 7 p.m.) was
the time of day when fewest stu-dents
listen to the radio.
Most students surveyed said
they listen to the radio for two or
The recent flooding of the Pearl
River in Jackson, Miss. affected
the ministries of The Voice of
Calvary only minimally. In fact,
all VOC property is "high and
dry," according to Jackson State
more hours each day. Twenty-eight
per cent listen to the radio
less than one hour, 8 per cent
listen one hour, 37 per cent for
two hours, and 27 per cent listen
for three hours or more.
Of the students surveyed 43 per
cent said they would like to hear
the new hourly, while 40 per cent
preferred news every two hours.
The remaining 17 per cent said
they would like to hear the news
three times a day.
What would make students
want to listen to KABY? Thirty
per cent, or 18 students said Chris-tian
music or the Christian aspect
of the station would make them
want to listen to KABY. Good
Cont. on page 7
University student and VOC
worker Marlene Hardy.
With downtown Jackson under
water and under a sort of quar-antine,
many Bethel students were
concerned about the fate of VOC.
Junior Carolyn Olson contacted
VOC and Rev. Snell, area pastor,
and found that the churches, the
VOC buildings in both Jackson
and Mendenhall, as well as
Jackson State, were untouched by
the tragedy. Several families in
Rev. Snell's congregations,
however, suffered heavy losses,
some losing everything.
There is no expectation of fur-ther
flooding, and the fortune of
the VOC ministries is remarkable.
In Rankin county, for example,
the only highway left open after
the flooding was the one leading
to Mt. Pleasant Church, which
became quite crowded recently.
The American Red Cross
helped the Jackson area extensive-ly,
said Hardy, and since
transportation routes are slowed
or stopped Snell said there is little
that the communities could use
from the north.
For people wanting to help
stricken families, Olson suggests
sending money in care of Snell, or
getting in touch with her to con-tribute.
Survey uncovers KABY preferences
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Laws, legalism don't equal love
isi Amu% n CLARI
KABY bill vague,
not Senate's duty
A bill stating that Bethel radio KABY "should play Christian music
only" passed in the Student Senate meeting on Tuesday night.
Supporting clauses within the bill stated that Bethel is a "Christian
community," that we need a medium of "contemporary Christian
musci" and that other music is in adequate supply on commercial radio
The bill is to be enacted as of the 1979-80 school year, provided
KABY will still be in operation in the fall. It was not made effective im-mediately
because KABY is currently unable to purchase a sufficient
number of "Christian albums."
Question: what kind of album is KABY going to purchase? It seems
terribly ambiguous to differentiate "Christian music" from whatever
the alternative is.
The Senate's concern for our "Christian community" is valid, yet if
guidelines are offered to KABY they might as well be meaningful. That
will demand more specificity than is in the present bill.
Some proponents of the bill tried to define "Christian music" as
"music by Christian artists." Assuming they are referring to musicians
who are Christians, we won't argue about the meaning of "Christian ar-tist"
or whether all musicians deserve to be called artist s
However, the validity of this restriction is still questionable. Certainly
much religious music, sacred and gospel, is written or recorded by non-
Christians. An anthem or gospel tune should not be excluded on the
basis of the spirituality of its composer or performer.
Conversely, what of Christians who perform music on a secular
theme? Will we play their music only because they are professed Chris-tians?
Even if we define "Christian 'music" by the theme of its text, which
will still cause difficulties, we must question a blanket restriction on
KABY's selections.
Agreed, KABY should avoid music which harms the community or
expresses philosophies contrary to bilbical standards. Perhaps this
would be a more appropriate recommendation to give the radio staff.
Recommendation, yes. Restriction, no. The Senate must be cautious
of the extent of its control over student media.
It is granted that the media are funded through the Student Associa-tion
budget, that media heads are selected by the Communications
Board, and that Senate has the power to eliminate a student medium if it
seems necessary.
The alternative is for Senate to offer some guidelines to KABY con-cerning
what not to play. The Senate's concerns are worthy, but they
should be defined in meaningful terms if they are to have any effect.
Vol. 54 No. 20 Bethel College April 27, 1979
The Clarion is puoushed weekly by students of Bethel College. Letters to the editor should be
typed, signed and sent to PO 2381 by the Sunday before publication.
David Shelley, editor
Suzl Wells, news edifor
Greg Smith, feature editor
Paul Olsen, copy editor
Thangi Chhangte, copy editor
Debbie Bunger, production editor
Phoebe Morgan, production editor
Joy Banta, editorial assistant
Patti Backlund, business manager
Steve Erickson, sports editor
Carol Madison, sports editor
Betty Logan, arts editor
Shelly Nielsen, columnist
Rick Chapman columnist
Juan Ramos, cartoonist
Doug Berkey, photograph
To the editor:
What is Christianity to the
Bethel Community? After two
years of being "part" of the Bethel
Community I would have to
answer, to be a Christian you
must do this and you cannot do
A Christian is very legalistic and
lives by a guideline of do's and
don't's. These do's and don'ts ap-pear
to be mostly man made.
Ethics form the heart of Christ-ianity,
and it is here that most
controversy appears.
In the true sense of the word
At the first I was going to write
about something with great and
immediate pertinence. Springtime
at Bethel, shorts, T-shirts, jog-gers,
the pursuit of the golden
brown, over-toasted, or scorched
body look, the total abstinence
from books...graduation.
But no, I'd rather discuss
children. Why not? Remember,
that's what we all were before we
came to Bethel. Alas, that some of
us still are!
The apostle Paul mentioned this
on numerous occasion in' terms
such as "milk" and "babes in
Christ." It was Paul who also said
cept of Christianity would be
from what Christ actually expects
in a Christian.
According to the Bible, a Christ-ian
wants to live according to the
will of God. We do not have to
live a certain way first, and then
are allowed to become Christians.
I feel that I am close to the truth
when I say that after two years at
Bethel, I have heard the term
"lifestyle" 100 times to every time
I have heard the word "Jesus."
Bethel students (myself includ-ed)
are so hung-up on arguing
against the Bethel code of life-styles
(and probably only because
it comes from authority figures),
that we leave the reason for
Christ's birth, life, death, and
resurrection in the background.
After attending four colleges, I
have finally come to the realiza-tion
that a college is only what its
members allow it to be.
What do we allow Bethel to be?
that we would not all be sleeping,
but we would all be changed.
Whatever the case, such a church
The members of Bethel have so
much potential not being put to
use. We waste our time on the
minor and least-important aspects
of Christianity.
Instead of fighting against
Bethel, we must support and be
proud of our college. We must
help build Bethel and allow it to
In order to do this, we must be
the kind of Christians that Jesus
wants us to be, not what we want
ourselves to be. We must not start
with the lives of others, but with
our own lives; and obey the words
of Jesus, "A new commandment I
give unto you, that you love one
another as I have loved you."
Let's quit making such a big
deal about the legalistic aspect of
Christianity and start making a
big deal out of "Jesus and His
David H. Gerholdt
would need an enormous nursery.
But Jesus was also interested in
children. One day when he was
with his disciples, some parents
escorted their children to the
teacher. This was too much for
Jesus' followers—what did Jesus
want with these dirty urchins?
He had better things to do.
They rebuked the visitors, but
Jesus overruled and called them to
his side. "Leave them alone, let
them come to me. God's kingdom
belongs to ones such as these."
Have you talked with a child
recently? Someone told me that a
Cont. on page 3
Until it comes to such a point, however, responsibility should be left in "Christianity," where does
the hands of the media staffs. Can Senate demand that the Clarion print Christ's love fit in at Bethel? I
only "Christian articles" or that Coeval print only "Christian poetry!" don't know. I don't deny that
Of course not. • Christ's love is present here, but I
would conclude that it is not the
heart of Christianity.
If a non-Christian stepped into
Bethel, wanting to learn how to
become a Christian, I wonder,
after four years, how far his con-
Zeke's Zetesis
Suffer the children: loving little people
page two
Dr. Carl Lundquist has served as Bethel's president for 25 years.
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Student ministry given boost
by Terri Sue Hanson
Senate introduced a new bill
that will encourage students to be-come
involved in volunteer minis-tries
around the Twin Cities. Cur-rently
only 200-300 students are
involved in such ministries.
The bill recognizes two reasons
why Bethel should improve its
campus ministries. Besides help-ing
students carry out their Chris-tian
responsibility, the poor in
surrounding areas are in need of
Therefore, the bill recommends
the following resolutions. First of
all, that the senate work with cam-pus
ministries in involving stu-dents
with local ministries. Se-cond,
that the senate make a re-commendation
to Dean Brushaber
that there should be at least one
full-time person working with stu-dents
in Christian Service.
Thirdly, that the senate ask the
Dean to consider buying a vehicle
for campus ministries. Lastly, the
senate recommends to the Dean
that academic credit should be
awarded to those who are invol-ved
in volunteer ministries.
The senate is also becoming
more involved through the Public
Action Committee (PAC). In the
past, PAC has dealt with inter-national
concerns. But is has ex-panded
in local areas this year at
Steve Hoswell and Sue Stone's
suggestions. PAC will be heading
drives for clothes and canned
in reaction to senates recent ac-tions,
Kathy Dennis, secretary in
Campus Ministries, commented,
"We are glad to see other people
doing things. But I think the
senate should strengthen campus
ministries instead of letting PAC
take over some of its responsibil-by
Joy Nannette Banta
If you have a hard time ima-gining
yourself as president some-day
because you never seen how a
president "used to be," your
dreams may come true at the
special chapel celebration on May
The twenty-fifth anniversary of
Carl Lundquist's presidency of
Bethel College and Seminary will
be celebrated with a unique chapel
service called, "Sure Enough,
Let's Do It!"
The party will feature the Presi-dent's
sense of optimism and his
visionary outlook.
There will be a special pictorial
presentation of President Lund-quist's
past—including his college
days, his wedding, and his child-hood—
with music by the
Seminary Ensemble and com-ments
and reflections of the Presi-dent's
past by individuals from
the college and seminary.
"People would approach cam-pus
ministries witfrthe wrong at-titudes
and motives if it was man-datory
or academically accredited.
Giving academic credit is like be-ing
a Girl Scout and getting
badges pinned on for doing good
"It will be a celebration that is
light and fun," said Florence
Johnson, member of the commit-tee
in charge of the 'party.'
"There will be cake and punch for
everyone, and the fieldhouse will
be decorated especially for the oc-casion,"
she added.
A tree will be planted at the col-lege
and the seminary to com-memorate
the President's anniver-sary.
The day of the commemoration
coincides with the annual visit of
the college and seminary's Board
of Associates.
All-school celebration
for Lundquists 25th year
Zeke, cont. from page 2
child is just a person, except a lit-tle
person. It's true. Jesus saw
something unique and special in a
child. He used them as examples
when he taught.
Two summers ago I was wat-ching
a group of four and five-year-
olds at camp. We did simple
things. I'd tell them stories and we
would play in the sand along the
Near the end of the week I gave
them all rides on my shoulder and
after that I walked back to the
main building with one of the
youngest clinging to my back. I
put her back on her feet. Then she
looked up at me and spoke softly
but clearly, "Thanks for playing
with us."
Those short words touched me
in their simple trust and sincerity.
Just a little person. I was humbled
and shamed—I was a big person
with so much to learn. Blessed are
the children!
On Easter Sunday, after the
worship service, I saw some
children on the sidewalk near the
church building. I walked toward
them and knelt to talk with one of
them. She told me her name was
Tristy. Her clothes were worn and
tattered. On the top of her head
were dark locks of gnarled hair.
Her face was in desperate need
of washing. She was without the
traditional bright clothing that so
many others had donned that
morning. She wasn't even in
church, but I knew she was the
kind of little person 'that Jesus
would embrace with his inviting
Tristy pointed to another child
nearby. "That's my cousin. I hate
him." For such strong words, her
tone was lacking in emotion. She
could not have been more than
Certainly she had to grow up,
but it grieved me to see the
dissipation of her child-likeness at
such an age. When I was
leaving,another of this girl's
friends came over and they smiled
with glowing faces and waved.
There was yet hope for these little
"Which of us is the greatest?"
the disciples wrangled among
themselves. Jesus responded by
placing a child before them—in-deed
the lowliest was truly the
greatest. "I tell you the truth,
anyone who will not enter the
kingdom of God like a little child
will never enter it."
Many a child has wandered up
to me from behind and reached
out to grasp the hand which
dangled by my side. Their trust
seems almost reckless. We must
grow up to maturity and corn-pleteness,
but we must also be as a
perpetual child.
"Blessed are the children, shel-tered
in warmth of Jesus' love,
precious in their trusting— they're
the sweet and simple poetry from
Our last big fling of the year
before All School Banquet is com-ing
up next Saturday, May 5.
Ephraim, Randy Mathews, and
the Sweet Comfort Band are join-ing
together for a big concert in
the gym.
First on stage at 4 p.m. will be
Ephraim. It'll be your last chance
to hear them as this will be their
final performance together. We'll
take a break about 5 p.m. for an
outdoor picnic to celebrate spring!
You can use your food cards or
cash to pay for the feast.
The doors will open again at
6:45 and Randy Mathews will per-form
at 7 p.m. Randy has a long-standing
reputation as one of
Christian music's best.
To top off the music fest, we
have the Sweet Comfort Band.
Their record, "Breakin' the Ice"
has been at the top of the Chris-tian
music charts for weeks. (Ask
any KABY D.J. just how good
they are!!!)
By now you're probably
wondering how much it's going to
cost you to hear all this fantastic
music. Well, you can hear it all for
the phenomenally low price of
Tickets are on sale in the CC of-fice,
or, if you wait until Satur-day,
you can get them at 6:30 p.m.
at the door. Come celebrate spring
with us!!
page three
Crunch Nestle's Quick?
PRO: Nestle's promotion attacked, boycott encouraged
Editor's note: Ronn Kreps worked
with INFACT before attending
by Ronn Kreps
The boycott against the Swiss-based
Nestle Corporation has
several bases for justification.
Consider the facts concerning
breast-feading, bottle-feeding,
and Nestle tactics,
Almost all medical authorities
regard breast feeding as ideally
suited to the health and well-being
of infants. Infant formulas are
unnecessary, even where mothers
are poorly nourished. In spite of
this, breast-feeding is declining in
developing nations.
Promotion of infant formula is
a major cause. In Singapore,
breast-feeding rates plummeted 66
per cent in 20 years. And this is
not a rare example, it is typical of
the trend throughout the Third
The result of this inferior
feeding is an estmated 10 million
cases of severe infant disease each
year! The diseases include and/or
result in retardation, malnutri-tion.
and death.
Economic and environmental
factors heavily contribute to the
")bottle baby" syndrome. Poor
mothers often do not have access
to clean water, sanitary prepa-ration
techniques, or refrigera-tors.
Formula to feed a single
baby can cost up to 40 per cent of
a family's income. Thus, mothers
dilute the formula, resulting in
malnourished babies. And Nestle
promotes this formula.
Nestle uses mass media, color-ful
posters, free samples, medical
gifts to hospitals, reported kick-backs
to doctors, and "milk
nurses" to make its profits. Nestle
recognizes the huge potential for
profit in the Third World, so it
puts a premium on promotion of
its formula in those countries.
"Milk nurses" are uniformed
nurses hired by companies to sell
their infant formula. Mothers
regard nurses as experts, so they
belive the nurses' message of
health and happiness as a result of
bottle feeding. The mothers do
not realize that they are endanger-ing
the lives of their own children.
Knowing these things about
Nestle and the formula it pro-motes,
let's apply our Christianity
to this situation.
The biblical writers spoke for
the welfare of the poor and the
oppressed. Certainly the New
Testament meaning of "love your
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deceive your neighbor, and do not
devote your efforts to something
which is detrimental to your
But our mandate is even
stronger than that. God calls us,
his special people, to champion
the cause of the poor, the defense-less.
The prophet Amos condemn-ed
Israel for oppressing the poor
and needy.
The Lord told Jeremiah that
by Thangi Chhangte
In -our eagerness to express our
"Christian • zeal and
commitment," we often miss the
boat. The Nestle boycott is a
prime example. Just because
someone tells us that Nestle is
responsible for the death of in-fants,
we rise up with righteous in-dignation
without really getting to
the root of the problem.
It may be that Nestle and other
large corporations are responsible
for such an atrocious crime. But
we too have a part in the crime.
Our apathy and ignorance of
poverty in other countries is a
serious crime. In this day and age
of modern technology and effi-cient
communication metlods,
there is no reason why we should
not be aware of it. If we know so
much about other planets, we
should know much more about
our own planet.
Actually; we know what we
should do but we have shut our
eyes and ears because we want to
enjoy "what the Lord has given to
Instead of pointing our fingers
at Nestle, we should be hanging
our heads in shame. What Nestle
one reason Israel had to be judged
was their habit of getting rich off
the poor. God wants us to follow
His example in standing for the
defense of victimized people.
Imagine for a minute that you
are a mother in Guatemala who
has been led to believe that your
baby needs infant formula. So
you buy it, but you dilute it to
make sure your baby gets enough.
And the water you use to prepare
has done has exposed what we as
Christians have failed to do.
For instance, part of the accu-sation
printed by the Senate reads
that "many of the mothers are il-literate
and cannot read the direc-tions
and also on strict incomes
which causes them to dilute the
formula with contaminated water,
thus causing malnutrition and in-fection."
First of all, let us consider the
problem of illiteracy. (In his
book, "What Do You Say to a
Hungry World?" Stanley
Mooneyham, president of World
Vision International, offers some
insights on this subject and other
topics related to Third World
Blitieracy is one of the major
problems in Third World coun-tries.
Yet, what have we done to
it was drawn from the river, which
is contaminated with human and
animal waste.
Soon, your baby suffers from
diarrhea and weakness, then se-veremalnutrition
, and finally,
death. Guatemalan mother, don't
you wish someone would have
acted on your behalf, would have
tried to stop those who deceived
you? Realize Guatemalan mother,
some people are trying.
eradicate it? How many of us are
willing to teach in some remote
village, or would rather go to
"civilized" countries like Japan?
If only these people were taught
how to think for themselves,
taught the value of nutrition and
sanitation, they would not be so
easily exploited.
Next on the list is "strict in-comes,"
a euphemism for pover-ty.
Can we honestly say that we
are only "poor students" when
these people do not even have
what we throw away?
We know how to make the most
of what we have, but our reasons
for saving the money is not usual-ly
for the poor. We "chicken out"
when it comes to making sacrifices
but we love to shout "wolf" at
those who do something wrong.
Poverty is also directly linked
with malnutrition, disease and un-sanitary
conditions. They are the
number-one killers in underdevel-oped
countries. Yet the poor have
no choice but to live with them.
If Nestle's baby formula in-directly
causes malnutrition we
are no less guilty. We cause mal-nutrition
because we eat more
than we need to and waste what
we cannot eat. Ironically, a
We have to become more alert
to unethical practices in our
world. We should not hesitate in
opposing blatant "profits before
people" standards. The Biblical
injunction is clear.
If you wish to join the Nestle
boycott, write to them (The Nestle
Company, 100 Bloomingdale Rd.,
White Plains, NY 10605) and stay
informed on events concerning the
dieter's popular excuse for having
a big meal is, "but I'm starving!"
Another accusation is Nestle's
unethical use of its nurses and
nutritionists. Such a deplorable
act should not be allowed.
However, it also raises an embar-rassing
question. Why are Chris-tians
not providing honest, train-ed
nurses and nutritionists?
The answer is that there are very
few Christians willing to support
missionaries, much less go out
themselves. Apparently, we have
chosen to ignore Christ's com-mand
to "go into the world."
We can proudly state examples
of dedicated missionaries, slaving
under hot tropical suns and hostile
governments. We can also name
Christian organizations that are
making tremendous efforts to
help the poor.
But we cannot take credit for
what others do. We have to
honestly ask ourselves some im-portant
What have we done personally
to help the sick, hungry and
destitute? How often do we fast
for the sake of those who are star- .
ving? (Why support a Nestle
boycott fast, and then change the
date because it happens to coin-cide
with a $20 meal?)
We "sing and share" but do we
ever really "share" with those
who have nothing?
Are we more concerned about
the accusation that Nestle's for-mula
is a killer, or about the
poverty that thrives on our apathy
and selfishness?
If we cannot answer these ques-tions,
we cannot condemn Nestle.
They may have made a mistake
but we have betrayed Christ.
Poverty is the real killer in the
Third World, and we Christians
have neglected to fight it.
Boycotting Nestle may elimi-nate
one social evil but it will not
remove the poverty curtain. We
have to offer a more practical
solution: ourselves.
We may not accomplish much
as individuals but as a united body
of believers, we can change the
world. Let us not forget the exam-ple
Christ set in helping the poor.
Crunch Nestle's Quick?
CON: Nestle exposes Christians' apathy
page four
Rob Johnson has been named next year's Passages editor.
Rob accepts editorship, plans magazine
by Sari Winans
The face will be familiar, but
the job will be new. Rob Johnson,
outgoing campus co-ordinator,
has been selected to fill the posi-tion
of editor for the 1979-80 edi-tion
of Passages.
Passages is a soft-cover
magazine that was created four
years ago to replace a dying year-book.
"Its goal," says Rob, "is to
sum up the experience of students
attending a year at Bethel
Rob believes that Passages is
more than a yearbook in that it is
a record of events and their out-comes
during the year. He is con-cerned
specifically with the
1979-80 school year.
Passages attempts to express
feelings and emotions experienced
by people through the combina-tion
of high-quality literary and
artistic means.
Rob, who will be a senior next
fall, brings three years of experien-cing
events at Bethel to this job,
plus an art major with a graphics
specialization which will aid him
in this job. Working with Rob as
literary editor is Terri Sue Han-son.
She will be co-ordinating the
literary part of Passages.
Rob and Terri Sue want to
center the theme for next year's
edition of Passages around the
subject of "Passages Through
Time." Rob added, "I want to go
deeper than what occured. I'd like
to convey how the events affected
Rob and Terri Sue plan to place
a spiritual emphasis on Passages
and believe that this can be ac-complished
through poetry,
writings, illustrations, paintings,
and artistic graphic designs.
Rob says that he hopes for a
diversified range of student input.
He feels that this is necessary if
Passages is to reflect changes tak-ing
Contests for those wishing to
contribute to Passages will be held
at several different intervals
throughout next year. Rob says
that anyone who is interested is in-vited
to make a contribution.
Rob and Terri Sue are excited
about next year's edition of
Passages and hope to carry on the
"When I retire...I'm going to
winter in Hawaii...build a hide-away
cabin...read, write, travel
to..." Even before that, have you
thought of going to college?
Bethel is one of 19 Minnesota
colleges opening its doors again
this summer for Elderhostel—a
national continuing education
program for anyone over 60 who
desires to explore new ideas and
meet new people, young and old.
Offered July 8 to 14, Elder-hostel
is a total living/learning ex-perience.
Hostelers live in college
dormitories from Sunday through
Saturday morning, enroll in from
one to three courses, and enjoy
free-time and planned activities.
This year's specially designed
classes, taught by Bethel pro-by
Suzi Wells
Working often from 7:30 a.m.
until 3:30 or 4 p.m. and coming
home, preparing lessons and fall-ing
into bed are part of the daily
routine of a Bethel student
Life is much different for these
teachers, who feel that they are
now part of the working world,
than it is for other Bethel
students. "I feel like I'm done at
Bethel and have a job of ray
own," said Julie Ann Pilch.
Gretchen Kaiser said, "My con-tact
with Bethel is almost nill. I go
to school once a week if I'm
high-quality work done by former
editors and current editor Scott
He added that he is looking for-ward
to getting feedback from
students on this year's edition
after it comes out.
fessors, are: Poetry—a Game with
Words, Music and Moods, and
The Sermon on the Mount. There
are no exams, no grades, and no
homework although professors
may make outside reading sugges-tions.
Cost of the week's stay is $94
which covers room and board and
special activities. Government and
private sources provide grant
monies to pay for academic and
administrative expenses. Registra-tion
is open to all, with married
couples eligible even if only one is
For additional information,
contact Dr. Tricia Brownlee,
director of summer programs,
The teachers feel apart from
Bethel, but they also feel that stu-dent
teaching is "gradually wean-ing"
them from college life out in-to
the world.
"It's a nice way for a senior to
go out of college," Julie Wood ex-plained.
"It eases you out of col-lege,
and gives you something to
do that you'll be doing after
Not seeing friends at Bethel is
hard for the teachers, but they
have gained new friends. Wood is
impressed with the friendliness of
the full-time teachers and prin-cipals
of the schools she has work-ed
Pilch pointed out how much she
enjoyed working with the
children. "Each child is
different," she said. "They're all
individuals." She said that her
"heart just goes out to those
The other teachers said they en-joy
working with the children,
also. "They get a kick out of the
littlest things," Wood said.
"They've taught me a lot—and
their eagerness to learn is neat."
Gretchen Otto added that it is
exciting for her to see what the
children have learned from what
she's taught them. "All of a sud-den
you're an example," she said.
"You have an effect on the kids."
Preparing for classes every day
is different than studying for
classes. "I never realized how
much time teachers spent until I
had to plan a lesson," Wood con-fessed.
The daily plans include more
than just preparing a reading
lesson or arithmetic lesson for the
children. Student teachers must
also prepare bulletin boards,
make dittos, cut out letters, and
plan art and gym lessons.
Student teachers have the op-portunity
to be involved in SMEA
(Student Minnesota Education
Association). Otto is Bethel's
president of SMEA. "SMEA
helps supplement the education
we get at Bethel," Otto said.
It offers workshops and
seminars, and helps student
teachers with interviews and ap-plications
for future teaching
"Writing resumes and sending
out applications add to the
busywork that student teachers
must do," said Wood.
One thing that all the student
teachers have said is that Bethel
has a good education department
which has really prepared them
for teaching.
"Bethel has a good reputa-tion
," Kaiser said. "Dr.
Runbeck,professor of education,
has done a terrific job. She re-quires
a lot of her students and
she's very strict with us, but I
think that's what makes the Bethel
program so good."
"I just think Dr. Runbeck is the
greatest," Wood echoed. She's
been very supportive. And the
teachers in the schools have
nothing but good things to say
about her."
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Photo lab gets stat machine
Dale Johnson tries out the new photostat machine recently
donated to the art department.
He was also responsible for
leading northern militiamen
across war lines which lead to the
eventual surprise attack and death
of many of his towns "best young
Although the action is tense,
and often seems to be taking the
audience nowhere, the acting is
generally good, and the characters
prices, to the ruin of his fellow
With this type of tension in the
immediate background, the Hub-bard
family must deal with an
angiy town, and the anger and
distrust each of them has toward
the other. The family's children
also seem to have inherited their
father's unexplained vileness, and
together the audience can enjoy
an evening of watching a family
go to pieces.
by Debbie Bunger
Disassembling a huge photostat
machine, taking it, piece-by-piece,
through narrow hallways and out
to a busy streen on the Chicago
loop is not an easy job, but was
tackled in order to bring the stat
machine to its new home in
Bethel's photo lab.
Henry Robertz of Robertz De-sign,
Chicago donated the stat
machine to the art department in
March. "Robertz has felt suppor-tive
of the art program here at
Bethel, particularly in the graphic
design area, and negotiated the
Chappaqua, N.Y. (CCNS) —
An essay contest offering a total
of $2,000 in prizes for the best
short essay written by Christian
undergraduate students on "How
Did You Choose Your College?"
has been announced by Christian
Herald magazine.
Winning essays will be publish-ed
in the October 1979 issue,
which features the magazine's an-very
convincing. Especially
noteworthy is the daughter,
played by Carol Mabbott, and the
eldest son played by Laurence
A familiarity with "The Little
Foxes" would help any theatre
patron to enjoy this work more
fully, but even then, "Forest" is a
shadow of what once was for Miss
Three acts later, an audience
may feel that it has missed
something. Because the play lacks
anything substantial, it creates an
unentertaining atmosphere and
fosters complacency.
"Elijah," Felix Mendelssohn's
last major oratorio, will be pre-sented
by the Festival Choir and
orchestra as this year's Spring
Music Festival and a major event
of Bethel's fine arts emphasis
The performance will be Fri-day,
May 4, at 8 p.m. in the gym-nasium.
The choir, conducted by Oliver
Mogck, and orchestra, conducted
by Charles Olson, will be joined
by soloists Lorie Vincent, so-prano,
Jennifer Younger, alto,
Reuben Dahiquist, tenor, and
Brian Mulder, bass (the part of
Janis Robertson will sing the
part of the youth and Tim Sawyer
will sing Obadiah and Ahab.
gift on his own," stated Dale
Johnson, professor of art.
Johnson was talking to Robertz
on the phone at the beginning of
the semester when Robertz men-tioned
the purchase of a new stat
machine by the company to re-place
the old machine. Soon after-ward,
Robertz donated the old
machine to Bethel along with
chemicals, an initial paper supply,
two print dryers, and a film pro-cessor.
The addition of the stat ma-chine
to the art department will
strengthen the building of the gra-phic
design area. "Graphic design
nual Directory of Christian Col-leges.
Entries must be received by
the magazine on or before June
Essays should be 500 words or
less. They will be judged on their
"freshness and their potential
helpfulness to Christian young
people in high school who desire
to follow God's leading as they
select their college," said John
Kenyon, associate editor.
"Winning entries will combine
qualities of interest with
usefulness," he continued. "They
will answer questions such as:
What happened when you prayed
about your choice? Who influenc-ed
your decision? Why did a cer-tain
college seem preferable to
others? How did high school ac-tivities
and studies influence your
choice? How did career goals
figure in?"
The first prize winner will
receive a cash award of $1,000.
The second prize is $500, the third
$100, and eight honorable men-tion
prizes of $50 each will also be
Winners will be announced in
the magazine in September.
Further information is available
by writing: Editor, Student Essay
Contest, Christian Herald, 40
Overlook Drive, Chappaqua,
Instrumental music for the ora-torio,
which deals with the life and
preaching of the prophet Elijah,
was made available by a grant
from the Recording Companies of
the United States and Canada
through Music Performance Trust
Other events in the fine arts em-phasis
include senior art exhibits
in the Bethel art gallery, Anton
Chekhov's play "The Three Sis-ters,"
directed by Doug Briggs,
and a week of chapels concerning
the fine arts.
Chapel speakers will include
Don Postema on Christians and
fine arts, Briggs on theatre, Stu
Luckman on the visual arts and
Mogck and Dana Olson on "Eli-jah."
means design for printing," John-son
Another gift of a hand printing
press along with several fonts of
type, paper stock, and ink was do-nated
by David Lissner, director
of campus development, last
spring. "Gifts here and there have
helped to make teaching graphic
design more feasible," said John-son.
The stat machine has the poten-tial
for doing both color and black
and white reductions and enlarge-ments
from both photographs as
well as original art work. Al-though
the machine will be used
mainly as a teaching tool for
graphic design students, it is
available for the use by other de-partments
for preparing art,
posters, and typography. Rates
and scheduling will be arranged
through the art department.
"We have no estimate on the
equipment," Johnson said, "but
new, the equipment would cost
somewhere around $10,000. It is
sizeable gift for which we are very
'79 Passages
colorful, new,
coming in May
by Shelly Nielsen
It's almost May! In just a few
brief weeks, traditional Minne-sota-
spring events will make head-lines
at Bethel: cars will again be
starting in the morning, balmy
gusts off Lake Valentine will restle
the trunks of Sem. Hill oaks, and
some time in the first two weeks of
the month, the student-publica-tion
"Passages" will be placed in
the hands of the "public."
The 60 page color/black and
white magazine represents student
body talent. Yes, the essays, pho-tographs,
poems, and paintings
decorating these pages are the
works of those very people with
whom you eat cabbage rolls in the
A fall competition chose the li-terary
and visual creations best
capturing some aspect of Bethel or
the inner self of a specific Bethel-ite.
When was the last time you
saw the innards of a friend?
Disappointment with past Pas-sages
may be a result of misunder-standing
the magazine's purpose.
Though called a "Spire replace-ment,"
Passages does not attempt
to catalog the year in photographs
the way a yearbook would. In-stead,
students themselves con-struct
"Passages," submitting
their artistic expressions and por-traying
their own subjective view-points.
The '79 "Passages" diverges
from the usual format of past
magazines. Editor Scott Barsuhn
reported that the publication will
incorporate "both full color art
reproductions along with more
color pages than ever before."
These never! before! used! ele-ments
will complement unique
The magazine is free to all
Bethel students and interested
members of the community.
by Scott Barsuhn
"Another Part of the Forest"
opened this past weekend at the
Theatre In the Round in Min-neapolis.
Written by Lillian
Hellman of "The Little Foxes"
fame, the play deals with an old
southern family in the post Civil
War South.
The entire work takes place
over a three-day period, almost 20
years before the events depicted in
"The Little Foxes," but deals
with the same family and is a
preamble to that work.
Marcus Hubbard, played by
Charles Torrey, is the scheming
father who made his fortune by
selling and transporting goods
through enemy lines during the
War. The things he sold were
often sold at high and unfair
Play presents tension, lacks certainty
Essay contest opens,
focus on college choice
Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' on May 4
headlines Fine Arts Emphasis Week
page six
John Bergeson is Bethel's new comptroller.
John W. Ivance Company
1618 Pioneer Bldg.
St. Paul, MN 55101
John W. Ivance, Sr.
John W. Ivance, Jr.
John G. Chisholm
Russel Akre
Patrick J. Repp
Comptroller's experience includes variety
by Patti Backfund
John Bergeson, the new comp-troller
in the business office, has
been a tailor, machinist, and
hospital orderly before becoming
an accountant. He is now in
charge of all of Bethel's accoun-ting.
Bergeson went to Bethel for two
non-consecutive years. He now
has a degree in business ad-ministration
from the U of M,
where he later completed his work
in accounting.
While attending school,
Bergeson held a variety of job
positions. He took a course in
tailoring at Minneapolis Voca-tional
School, and then worked at
Dayton's, altering men's suits.
Bergeson also worked as a
machinist making plastic injection
Senate action
The bill that would have recom-mended
opening the new student
center during chapel hours failed,
and legislation requiring KABY to
play only music by Christian ar-tists
passed with an amendment to
highlight senate action on Tues-day.
The amendment tacked on to
the KABY bill delays implementa-tion
of the rule until next school
year. KABY has reportedly de-pleted
its budget for the year and
cannot afford to purchase any al-bums
at this time.
The senate also passed the bill
supporting the Nestle boycott.
After heated discussion, the vote
to support the action, first pro-posed
at the American Associa-tion
of Evangelical Students' na-tional
conference, passed 11-3.
The bills improving the Bethel
ID and supporting Christian ser-vice
were also passed. The -propo-sition
to allow academic credit for
Christian service work was deleted
from the approved Christian ser-vice
Bills to be voted on next week
include adding a transfer senator
position in senate, purchasing an
IBM Selectric typewriter for stu-dent
use, much as those in the li-brary
now, and donating $150 to
support the Philippine orphanage
begun by Paul Healy.
Meanwhile, President Steven
Hoswell and Vice-president Susan
Stone remain enthusiastic and op-timistic
about the new senate.
molds and doing experimental
design work.
His most unique experience was
as a hospital orderly. Bergeson
worked in the lab and in the
morgue, where he assisted in
"After a few months, I
transferred to physical therapy
because I liked working with the
living more than with the dead,"
said Bergeson.
Bergeson did some accounting
work for clients of an attorney
before coming to Bethel in 1977.
He first worked as an accountant
in the business office, and then
became acting comptroller. He
was named comptroller on April
He manages student accounts,
the banking service, payroll, and
accounts payable. Other general
"I'm really impressed with the
senate," said Stone, "we've pass-ed
11 bills already this year, which
is fantastic."
in the mile and fourth in the 880.
Wendy Norberg placed third in
the 2-mile.
First-place finishes also went to
Shelli Rauma in the 440 at 1:04.8,
and Lynn Severson in the 220 with
a record time of 26:14, which also
qualified her for regionals.
accounting duties include manag-ing
checking accounts, the
building project, bond issues,
loans and scholarships.
Bergeson is anticipating the
busiest time of the year at the end
Greg Stip was the standout of
the meet as he set a school record
and qualified for nationals in the
pole vault with a vault of 15'3",
outdoing his opponents by over
two feet. Stipe also won the
of May, when books are closed
and the budget is analyzed for the
This summer he will be working
with CPA's (Certified Public Ac-countants),
who will audit
Sara Barker placed first in the
shot and discus with throws of 35'
8" and 122' 4.5". JoAnn
Griffin's distance of 33' 1" took
second place in the shot. In other
field events, Rauma finished se-cond
in the long jump, Barker
took third in the javelin.
javelin with a throw of 183'2",
outdistancing his closest opponent
by six feet.
Paul Otto added firsts in the
100 and 200 meter dashes. He won
the 200 by on .03 seconds over
UMD. Ross Erickson placed first
in the shot put and the 400 meter
Bethel's accounting books.
In the near future, Bergeson •
plans to take a CPA review class
and then the CPA exam.
His wife, Diane, is a secretary in
Bethel's P.E. department.
and the 4x440 and 4x480 relay
teams placed second.
Coach Dawson expects the team
to do well at the private college in-vitational
tomorrow at Macal-ester.
"It will be like a small college
state meet without the larger state
schools," she added.
The meet starts at 10:30 a.m.
with preliminaries, and finals will
follow at 1:30 p.m.
relay team also won with a time of
Bethel's only other second place
finish was by Keith Johnson in the
400, and he also finished third in
the 100.
Bob Holt in the 800, Bruce Case
in the 400 meter hurdles, Kevin
Walton in the high jump, and
Paul Rasmussen in the pole vault
all took third place finishes.
KABY to be limited
by Carol Madison "I was amazed that Lynn ran place finish of 5' 1" and also plac-that
fast a 220 on a cinder track," ed fourth in the 100.
Despite taking nine first out of said Coach Dawson. "Normally,
15 events, the women's track team times on cinder tracks are much
couldn't accumulate quite enough slower. I'm anxious to see how she
points to place first in the Gusta- does in her next race on a regular
vus Cinder Open. track."
The Royals finished second out Another school record was set
of five teams with 158 points, fol- in the javelin by Deb Sension with
lowing Gustavus, which finished a throw of 102 feet. She broke her
with 175. The third place team, own record of 86' 2", set in a meet
College of St. Theresa, scored on- two weeks earlier. She tied the • Bethel's 880 medley and 4x100
ly 81 points. high jump record with her second- medley relay teams finished first,
"The second place finish was a
disappointment," said Coach
Shirley Dawson. "The other
teams didn't score well, so it was
actually a dual meet between Gus-pttoalaovc
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Denise Egge continued her sea- Duluth by two points to win the
son long dothinance of the mile Bethel Invitational. Superior-and
880 by placing first in both Wisconsin and Northwestern Col- Stripe continued to score points
events with times of 5:27.2 and lege also competed. as he placed first in the long jump
2:24. Brenda Harris placed sixth and second in the triple jump.
Track finishes second, takes nine firsts
Stipe stars as men sieze Invitational
Roster boss applications available Tomorrow the Royals host the
Bethel Relays, which startsat 12:30
pm on Mounds View's track.
The student senate is searching
for a media chief to head the
1979-80 edition of the Roster,
Bethel's student directory and
mug sheet.
Applications for the job are
available in the Senate office.
Senate Vice-President Sue Stone
asked that applications be submit-ted
by May 1. They can be turned
in to the senate office or to Stone
Stone emphasized that there are
benefits to the job besides the re-sponsibilities,
but the Communi-cations
board, which selects the
editor, is-looking for a hard work-ef
with a knowledge of printing
and photography.
"It is not necessary to be a pho-tographer,
but the applicant
should know the business," said
KABY, cont. from page 1
music and quality programming
were tied for the next highest re-sponse,
receiving 15 per cent each.
The student senate passed a bill
last Tuesday evening that was
partly based on the KABY survey.
The bill would permit KABY
radio to play Christian music on-ly.
page seven
Sophomore Lynn Severson set a new Bethel track record and qualified for the regionals in the
220 at the Gustavus Cinder Open.
IM out of bounds
Probes, 15-0, capture "A" championship
Monday Don Postema
Tuesday Fine Arts—Drama
Wednesday Fine Arts—Arts
Thursday Fine Arts—Music
Friday "Sure Enough, Let's
Do it,"
President's Recognition
—25 years
Royal softballteam at 5-3 after .500 week
The women's softball team
played .500 softball last week as
they won three and lost three
games in a full schedule, raising
their season record to 5-3.
The Royals started out the week
by defeating Normandale 17-3
with winning pitcher Vicki Wright
giving up only two walks and five
"It was their first game of the
season," said Coach Karyl Frye,
"so their pitcher had problems.
They gave us 17 walks which ac-counted
for most of our runs."
Wright went two for three at
bat, and both Cindi Ramm and
Robyn Erbst went one for three.
The team then lost a close game
to Carleton, 3-1, on four hits.
Carleton had only three hits, but
they scored their runs on three
crucial errors by Bethel.
Tammy Miller was one for two
at the plate, and Wright and Erbst
followed at one for three. Linda
Johnson was eight for eight in
Bethel lost their second game of
the day to St. Olaf 12-1. Miller led
the hitting and fielding by getting
two hits and going three for three
in the field.
"They had eight hits, including
two doubles and two triples," said
Frye. "The combination of those
hits and the five crucial errors we
had is the story of the game."
The Royal's third loss in a row
was to a strong reserve team from
the University of Minnesota. U of
M scored seven runs on seven hits
in the second inning to defeat
Bethel 9-3.
"We had the first two batters
out in that inning, but then four
errors allowed them to score the
seven runs," said Frye. "After
that inning they only got two runs
on a home run and a triple."
Bethel gathered six hits, with
Miller and Wright going one for
The team won their final two
games over Gustavus and Concor-dia
St. Paul, 13-7 and 18-7.
Wright gave up five hits and ten
walks to Gustavus, but Bethel was
able to contain the Gusties
strongest hitters. Miller again lead
hitting by going three for three
with three RBI's.
Bethel overwhelmed Concordia
18-7 in five innings. Concordia
walked in 14 of Royal's runs in the
fourth inning.
Bethel collected six hits, but
continued to be plagued by errors.
"Our hitting was a little
better," said Frye, "but our
fielding was poor. Six errors is just
too many."
The Royals will participate in
an invitational tournnament at the
University of Minnesota today
and tomorow, with the first game
at 1 p.m., followed by games at 3
and 5 p.m.
They will play again on Satur-day
at 11 a.m., with possible
games to follow depending on
their success in earlier games.
The final home game is May 1
with Augsburg at 3:30 p.m. at the
King's Court diamond in
Royal batsmen scrap for runs
in twinball split with Tommies
by Steve Erickson
The Royal baseball team seem to
be making a habit of splitting
doubleheaders. Tuesday the
batsmen divided a twinbill with
St. Thomas losing 11-2 and win-ning
5-2, to raise their season
record to 4-5.
The Tommies scored runs in all
but one inning to ruin pitcher
Tom Weko's bid for the win.
Single runs were scored by St.
Thomas in the first and second to
take a 2-1 lead. But in the third
and fourth they `widened the gap
Three singles and double, sand-wiched
around a twobase error,
put across two runs in the third.
The following inning two runs
scored on a double and a pair of
run-scoring singles.
Bethel could only manage one
run after that as the Tommie pit-cher
kept Royal batters off
balance by mixing up his pitches
well. The run came as a result of a
wild pitch, scoring Mark Forsline
who had reached on a error.
The second game started out as
a pitcher's duel. Amid a steady
drizzle, the Tommie hurler held
Bethel to no hits and only one
base runner, Bob Griddings who
walked in the second, through
four innings. The Royals' Jeff
Wilson was nearly as perfect,
allowing only a triple through
But in the fifth, the Royals ruin-page
ed the shutout. Greg Smith led off
the inning by getting hit in the arm
by a fastball. He advanced to
third on a wild pitch and a passed
ball. After Giddings flew out,
Weko walked. Mark Barton
followed with Bethel's first hit, a
two run sing-le to center. A wild
pitch moved pinch winner Mitch
Duininck to third.
One out later, Dan Fauth ap-peared
to knock in another run
but St. Thomas appealed and
Duininck was called out at third.
Only one Royal was ejected in the
ensuing argument.
Wilson got out of a jam, allow-ing
only one run in the bottom of
the inning, before the Royals
scored three more in the seventh.
Two walks and a error loaded the
bases for Bethel. Cal LauWers
scored on a wild pitch and Duinin-ck
walked to load them up again.
Wilson sent the final two runs
home with a sharp single to left
Wilson walked in one run in the
bottom of the seventh but came
from behind to strike out two bat-ters.
He forced the last batter to
ground out, saving his win on a
three hitter.
In earlier games, Bethel split
with Augsburg, winning 4-0 and
losing 6-1. Weko pitched a fine
game in the opener. Greg Thom
and Wilson scored in the first as
Paul Lindberg singled. Wilson
also pounded a home run in the
by Rob Haglund
The IM open league basketball
season came to its exciting conclu-sion
with the Eastbound Express
knocking off the Swedish Fly
Girls to win the B league crown
and Probes disposing of the Old
Men to take A league honors.
The B league title was a close,
exciting game that saw Peter Sauf-ferer,
Steve Brown and company
prove to be too much for the Fly
Girls. The Express finished in
third place in the regular season
but went undefeated through the
double elimination tournament to
claim the crown.
The outcome of the A league
championship game was neither as
close or as unexpected as the B
league game. For the second time
in the tournament Probes
defeated the Old Men, this time by
a score of 68-49. Brian Larson led
the winners with 19 points (just as
he led the earlier win with 22
points in a 86-66 decision), his
slippery, double pumping drives
wreaking havoc as they had done
all year.
The game though, was actually
closer than the final score might
indicate. Despite the sorely-missed
absence of Mack Nettleton, the
faculty jumped out to a 12-2 lead
which was cut to 31-29 by
halftime. George Palke and Dan
(Twine-Tingling) Taylor were
playing their usual solid game
however, and it looked like the
game might be close throughout.
It did in fact stay close until late
in the game when, with the Old
Men leading 47-45, Probes ran off
a 23-2 scoring spree that put the
"nursing home five" to rest for
Dave Hepburn, who tossed in
14 points (one below his regular
season average), assessed the game
very succinctly, "They were hot in
the beginning and we weren't.
Even though we were down 12-2
we didn't worry because we were
getting open shots." He
acknowledged that the absence of
Nettleton was an important factor
but still felt that Probes was the
better team.
"We've played together and we
complement each other," he said,
"We all know what we're going to
do. And with the exception of
Tom Klitzke's team (the Com-municables)
there was no one that
could really run with us."
Match their running offense
with an aggressive defense (second
toughest in the league) and their
unblemished 15-0 record is
understandable. No one particular
player carried them through the
season. At one point or another
everyone—Larson, Hepburn,
Greg Nelson, Brad Nauman, Dave
Bratt, Craig Hanson and Paul
Lindberg—played an important
The closest they came to defeat
was their 70-65 win over the Com-municables
while they defeated a
maligned version of the Old Men
102-60 during the regular season
for their widest margin of victory.
Ironically, their closest game of
the tourney was their 19-point win
in the championship game.
As soon as the championship
game had ended, Probes was
issued a challenge by the B league
champions for a playoff game. It
is beyond this writer why the Ex-press
(even though they are a good
team) would want to go through
the embarrassment of a match-up
against Probes.
And so the legend of Probes
goes on—or does it? Having com-piled
a 49-2 record over the past
three years, and with the
memories of players like Dave
Foley, Ron Nilsson, Scott
Whitlock, Gary Leafblad and
Paul (Chumley) Harrison who
have come and gone, the question
was asked—Will they be back?
"We're not sure" was the answer.
But undoubtedly there are 11
teams waiting in the wings who
hope not.
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- Late for 7am morning meeting... but only by 10 minutes, that's not so bad.
- First patient on my operating list is delayed by half an hour, which means I'm going to be late and can't finish operating at one hospital and I have to be somewhere else to operate at 1pm
- I decided to do something stupid for fun a few days ago and found that I have something wrong with my eye which initially I thought I would need an operation for because it could end up making my eye pop out, but it turned out ok in the end because it's just a benign tumour type thing in my eye socket instead... well shit, doesn't that make me feel better. Why do I do stupid things like have an MRI of my head for fun.
- First child on my operating list has a complicated recovery related to her snorey sleeping resulting in an emergency call, a blue/purple child, a stressed out parent but it all works out, but boy did that wake me up
- Long operating list this afternoon which means a late finish and I have to pick up the kids and I bet I'll be done at about 9pm here and then I have an hour's drive home WITH the kids... they better be asleep. If they're not that will make it even MORE dandy and I'll be late to raid..
- Decide to fix up my blogroll and accidentally ended up DELETING my "Other Great WoW blog reads" widgit F*** F*** F*** F***
Thursday, October 25, 2012
As if my day couldn't get any worse...
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Hang in there, Navi! Tomorrow will be better.ReplyDelete
Hope your eye gets better, too. At least it's benign.
Take care and have a great tomorrow!
My 2 yen,
Thank you Akiosama! It's tomorrow now, I can reply all my comments and it's a lovely start to the day!Delete
Stop. Have a cup of tea. Breathe.ReplyDelete
Lots of love and hugs and hoping that the rest of the day goes a bit more smoothly.
Seph xxx
PS If you lost me I won't be mortally wounded. Nobody reads me anyway since I barely get time (or energy) to write any more.Replies
I read you! I am putting it back on now :) That blogroll will get back to it's awesome self in no time hopefully!Delete
A cup of tea at the time would have been nice. I had a hot chocolate instead. No cake though :(
Hoping tomorrow looks a lot better for you. Glad to hear it wasn't more serious with your eye too.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Cym and for the ingame tells too :) It's great to have friends like you at the other end of the phone or the keyboard if I need you to just go BLAAAAAH to (though in the end there was nothing to BLAAAAH about)Delete
Hope at least the kids slept through the drive. At least it's a post I can comment on, lol. Bad days I can relate to, raid posts I can read but I have no idea what's going on although I find them exciting! Vicarious thrills!ReplyDeleteReplies
I was horrified turning up at the nanny's house and the kids were surprisingly still awake at 9pm. They love playing at her house so it isn't that surprising, especially since she had to take them to with her to her daughter's drama class from 7pm-8pm. I bet if she hadn't had to take them out they would have fallen asleep because they normally do coz they play so hard there. But even though they chatted to me in the car and cried over dropped biscuits, my son dozed off after 20 minutes and my daughter fell asleep 5 mins before we got home. One of the 3 good things that happened to me yesterday! I'll write about the other things in some posts :)Delete
Calm down Navizor or your eyes will pop out for reals!ReplyDeleteReplies
Now if I had as many holidays as you Arv, I think I'd have a much happier life /grinDelete
I had a meltdown last Friday --sometimes--you just gotta punch a wall. Not for real, of course, then you'd hurt your gamer hands. Big hug my sweet friend - if you're having one of those days just imagine your big Yank friend sending you love, sleep, and raiding! (In that order)ReplyDeleteReplies
LOL Matty, I was just thinking I can't punch the wall with my mouse hand! Or my keyboard hand for that matter - wait that leaves no hands for wall punching! LMAO!!! /hugs back to my beautiful american draenei friend! And the order is love, raiding and sleep! /gigglesDelete
/cast TranquilityReplyDelete
That's a realy long, LONG day, for sure, especially with an hour commute back home. I hope you don't have to do that *every* day. And if you do, and raid on top of it all, well, I can only say... wow, you GO girl.Replies
Ahhhh.... a nice tranquility is just what I needed ty Kam :) yes it was a super long day and no that's not every day but it does happen once or twice a fortnight. LOL, I did raid when I came home, and it was well worth the late start IMO, but more on that later! Lucky for me I don't need much sleep but a good game of WoW always makes my day.Delete
I hope today is better. *BUG HUGS* <3ReplyDelete
(And your blogroll still has me. Just saying.) :)
~ EffyReplies
<3 Effy! Now was that supposed to be Bug hugs or BIG hugs? I'm assuming Big hugs :) And yes you're still there in two spots! Phew!Delete
We all know it COULD get worse. I'm very glad it didn't and have hopes it'll be better tomorrow.ReplyDelete
I'm with Tome, even if it means the occasional vicarious frustration.Replies
Aha! Someone to add back to my blogroll! Why didn't you poke me to put you back on with this comment :)Delete
I know I should be grateful it wasn't worse. Like I found I had a real tumour or my little child died (that is NEVER going to happen on MY WATCH!) or I deleted my BLOG instead... but I was being a whinger and self centred and pouty >< but after a good night's sleep and raiding I feel a million bucks. I never knew you read my raid posts Kallixta. Of my non raiding friends I only thought Tome did! JD tells me he skips them and I totally understand but I have to write them somewhere, right? :)
There will be some raid posts I skip and many I don't give the same careful attention I do other posts, but they allow me to pretend... "Well, maybe someday it'll be important that I read it."Delete
After all, if I didn't, I wouldn't know you like Chili Eggplant, would I?
I'm morally offended my rarely updated blog seems to no longer be on your list! I...um...very angry! Rawr? Aww, heck with it, it takes too much energy to be offended. *hugs*ReplyDeleteReplies
I might even be mortally offended, versus morally. Point is, I'm offended gosh darn!Delete
Morally offended!!! Oh my goodness I must add you back straight away! You see I need people to tell me these things! I think it's much worse if people are stewing quietly behind their keyboard thinking "That Navi, she took me off her blogroll and didn't remember to put me back!" /hugs EndymeDelete
You could never offend me... :DReplyDelete
I know what its like to have horrible stressy days like this, I would prescribe a long sit down, something alcoholic AND CAKE.
Hope everything settles down soon!Replies
Alcohol... unfortunately no, not when I have to raid. Or work! /hugs GodmotherDelete
And.. never say Never because even though I would try not to offend anyone and I am super careful what I write, one day I may have a lobectomy and write from my ass in that dreadful uninhibited way.
Every so often Life apparently needs to give us a good quick kick in the shins just to remind us how much our shins haven't been hurting… *glares at Life* Here's hoping today is treating you better! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Aha! Another person who is missing! /rushes off to fix blogrollDelete
Today is a wonderful new day and has started off great, so I'm happy! Though my blogroll feeds never works for your blog for some reason...
My blog is a ninja! *solemn nod* But yeah, sometimes WordPress does odd things with the RSS feed.Delete
The Perish Twice posts have their own feed on feedburner, so you could try: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Marthanet3PerishTwice or in theory http://www.martha.net/category/perish-twice/rss should work. *pokes Wordpress* Lemme know if they don't! :)
- AnonymousOctober 26, 2012 at 8:59 AM
I may or may not have been on your blog roll. Since I don't remember (I know I've gotten referrals, but it may have been post links, not your blog roll), I certainly can't be offended by not being there now.ReplyDelete
But what a crappy day. :(
(Shoryl, who is having trouble posting with her wordpress name. :/ )Replies
You're already there Shoryl, but phew, thank you for reminding me in case I forgot :)Delete
/hugs Shoryl for the support
I think I was there too, because I so rarely post comments, but more then half of views I get come from here. I'm not or wouldn't be offended if I wasn't though.ReplyDelete
Hopefully though you have better days.Replies
Thank you obscurefox, readded! :)Delete
I think every day so far has been better /grin
Maybe its a tumour? (You're meant to respond "Its not a tumour" in your best Arnie voice :(ReplyDelete
Sorry Navi, you know I just had to :)
Love ya!Replies
"It's not a too-moor!"Delete
LOL, don't worry, I am pretty sure it's not...

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Forums: Index > The Wizengamot > Doesn't Harry breaking the Elder Wand make Dumbledore's death pointless?
I realize it's been a while since the movie came out, but the reason Dumbledore planned his death was to make the Elder Wand lose it's power. Harry just breaks it in half. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 22.214.171.124 (talk • contribs).
- I assume it was meant to be symbolic to the more casual viewer that Harry is making sure that no one would ever use the wand again. It works fine to say that in print, but something more visual is required for the screen. And wasn't Dumbledore's plan more to have someone who wouldn't be affected as much by his death (Snape) kill him instead of a purer soul (Malfoy)? I mean, he was going to die at the end of the year anyway. 1337star 22:07, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
- The breaking of the Elder wand is not canonical. I don't believe that Harry could have broken it. When it would be so easy, why hasn't Dumbledore done it himself shortly before he died or begged Snape to do it after his death? That it is more impressive in the film to break the wand - Yes, that it is. Why should JKR let Harry say: When I am once dead without being defeated the power is broken, when he can do it with only breaking the wand? That's only for the film for a greater impression. Harry granger 22:18, October 22, 2011 (UTC)
- The breaking of the elder wand is canon in the movie canon, and movie canon is clearly what the original question was about. Even in the book canon though, where was it even remotely suggested that the elder wand was unbreakable? It is just a piece of wood. Yes, it is the most powerful wand in the world, but that does not change the fact that it is just a wooden stick with some thestral hair in it. Dumbledore didn't know when he was going to die, and he still needed a wand. Asking Snape to break his wand would have been a weird request, and he assumed the wand would lose its power when Snape killed him anyway. The idea also wasn't that Malfoy had a purer soul than Malfoy. Snape has probably had plenty of time to feel remorse for the crimes he committed while working for Voldemort. He certainly felt plenty when Lily died. Snape, however, knew that Dumbledore wanted to die and would die anyway. Snape was essentially committing Euthanasia, which did harm his sould in the way that murder would have. Dumbledore's death was still necessary because he was going to die anyway, and he wanted Snape to remain an effective spy. If Snape hadn't killed him than Malfoy would have, ripping his own soul, or one of the death eaters would have, and Snape would have been found out.
- Dumbledore knew that Voldemort would at some point find out about the twin cores between his and Harrys wand. He would then seek a more powerful wand to overcome this connection - the Elder Wand. Since Dumledore had it already, he wanted to break its power by not being defeated. By asking Snape to kill him, by planning this, Dumbledore intended that he - as the Wands owner - would not be defeated, so the Elder Wand should have lost its power. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs).
- No no everyone here is a little mistaken. So the plan Dumbledore concieved was never to destroy the wand merely to ensure the dark lord would not have an easy time finding it. When Dumbledore found out about the horcruxes(cruxi? or like "sheep"??) and their respective locations he came in contact with Marvalo Gaunt's ring. In his humbris he could not resist the urge to put it on and thus fell right into the ring's booby trap ie its death curse. The powerful magic of the ring was such that any who came into contact with it who put it on would be poisoned magically like with the cursed necklace. Sadly Dumbledore disregarded this warning and was cursed to the extent that not even he and Snape combined were able to do anything more than to contain the curse's spread throughout his body prolonging his death long enough to sort out his final affairs. So Dumbledore knew he was dying soon, he also knew Voldemort would have wanted the elder wand and since the wand has no real additional power unless it is won in a duel he knew eventually Riddle would come knocking. The idea was that the dark lord couldn't win it from him if he was already dead......at least mostly.......since Voldemort eventually did find that out he needed to duel the wand's owner by having Snape kill him it would make it seem that Severus had possession of the wand's allegiance and would not have suspected that poor incompetent Draco was the real owner. 18.104.22.168 09:13, June 21, 2012 (UTC)
- I think that the movie does get it wrong when it comes to the breaking of the wand, partly because it keeps an event such as Snape killing Dumbledore the same and that makes it so that a later event such as the breaking of the elder wand does not make sense. in the book Harry fixes his own wand and throws the other wand away so, if he dies a natural death the wands power is broken. i agree with Harry granger that the elder wand was probably unbreakable or else Dumbledore would have done it. in the book though Harry does not break it. Also, i disagree with 184.108.40.206 that Dumbledore's plan was to make the elder wand just hard to find. i think that his plan was to break the power of the wand. however i do think that brilliant as Dumbledore was, he too can make mistakes and that he thought, as Voldemort thought, that you had to kill the owner in order to defeat them and that a mere disarming spell would not do it. in short it was the movie that made the mistake and his breaking of the wand was very pointless.Master harry potter fan 20:06, June 21, 2012 (UTC)
- Very late answer, but you are all wrong. Dumbledore never broke the Elder Wand because he knew it would have to be used to kill Voldemort. Remember how Harry's wand acted of it's own accord against Voldemort even when Voldemort was using Lucius' wand, a wand that was not the brother of Harry's? That's because, regardless of whichever wand Voldemort used, a part of him was in Harry (a piece of his soul) and a part of Harry was in Voldemort (he took Harry's blood in the Goblet of Fire to fully come back to life). That means that no matter what wand was EVER used, they wouldn't be able to kill each other. True, it's makes it safer for Harry, but it also means that Harry would never be able to kill Voldemort in return. Not unless there was an even more powerful wand.. The Elder Wand.
- Dumbledore also allowed Draco to disarm him of the Elder Wand so that it's allegiance would be transfered to him, not Snape as Voldermort assumes. They both planned this in advance as an added precaution so that Voldemort using the wand wouldn't be as powerful as he thought it would be. Dumbledore didn't want the wand to ever lose it's power, at least not until Harry had been rid of the piece of Voldemort's soul that lived inside him.
- In regards to Snape killing Dumbledore, he did so because Dumbledore was going to linger and suffer before the curse finally killed him. Snape killing him quickly was a mercy. But Dumbledore also wanted his death to mean something and to help the cause. The Elder Wand losing power, like the people above assume, is not what he intended but to place Snape firmly in Voldemort's trust of which there was still some lingering doubts. What is the greatest show of loyalty anyone could do? Killing the most powerful wizard and greatest threat and opposition to Voldemort (after Harry), of course. This act showed Voldemort that there could be no lingering doubts about Snape's allegiance and allowed him to continue acting as a spy.
- Back to the wand, after the defeat of Voldemort is when the Elder Wand can finally be broken and it's power can be lost. This ensures that Harry can finally live the normal, peaceful life he always wanted without having to worry about power-hungry wizards seeking him out and also insures that no one, good or bad, will ever be able to weild the sort of power the Elder Wand is capable of again.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Family, friends and complete strangers came together to remember a young woman who was shot and killed two weeks ago.
No arrest has been made in the murder of 22-year-old Amber Bass.
A group marched through Bass' neighborhood Friday night in her honor, bringing awareness to the community to help find justice for Bass.
"I just miss her so much, it really hasn't hit me at all," said Bass' sister, Robin Lescanzo. "I haven't had my time grieve and seeing all these people take the time out of their day to come out and support it's just overwhelming."
The pain is overwhelming for Lescanzo. Bass was gunned down in the street at the home they shared together.
"People are out all the time and no one saw or heard anything? It makes me very afraid to come home at night," said Lescanzo. "It makes me afraid right now, I feel like I'm being watched, like they are looking out for their next victim."
"Face what you did," said Bass' brother-in-law, Manuel Lescanzo. "You did it wrong and you need to pay for what you did."
Bass' family is hoping for answers and still holding out hope for answers.
"It's just very unfair that this happened, I want to find out who did it, and I want to know why," said Lescanzo.
Police are still looking for a light colored sedan, which they said is connected to the crime. Anyone with information is being asked to call Crime Stoppers 1-866-845-TIPS.
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I would like to work directly with a CMS that was build exactly for this kind of tasks specific to a news / media portal. It doesn't matter if the CMS is commercial (however, I don't want to pay a monthly fee) or free, but I need to be able to use it on my own server / hosting and I need to be able to access it's source code (not to modify it, but to integrate it with future plugins / modules).
If you know any CMS that qualifies for this job, please let me know. In the last few days I was all over Google but I couldn't anything worth mentioning.
You can try Drupal, it a little bit hard to lean but very flexible and powerful.
If you're narrowing down tools for Plan B, I'd suggest you skip ahead and just go with whichever you choose. It will save you a great deal of needless pain and suffering if you go with a simple Plan A and then have to move everything over to a more capable Plan B platform.
My 2-bits is use Drupal OpenPublish. I am a huge Drupal nerd and for something like a news portal it wouldn't even be a question for me. There are lots of case studies about newspapers, magazines, e-zines that are running on OpenPublish so I would get busy reading up on what others have done (challenges/successes). If you aren't familiar with Drupal get a decent book like Using Drupal (O'reilly). It's a decent starter and then get something like Pro Drupal Development for more advanced stuff.
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If you are not good at PHP, I suggest you adopt Wordpress, there are many themes for news portals.
is joomla better then wordpress???
That's a question that can't be answered. Some people like Joomla, others like Drupal, others like Wordpress. It depends largely on what you're comfortable with and what will do the job. Most developers use Drupal or Joomla for very complex websites and use Wordpress for fast out of the box not so complex sites.
I am sure that both Drupal and WP are great, and it's just the matter of what you prefer. WP is easier to use and set up the site from scratch, and Drupal is a bit more complicated if you've got not enough skills, but it may give you more possibilities, so still, it all comes down to your personal choice.
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Here it comes! Some are dreading it; some are looking forward to it; some are pretending it's not going to happen this year ... I'm, of course, talking about the holiday season.
While on vacation last week, I noticed the sneaky bits of evidence pop up that gave away its swift return. The season is moving in at high speed.
Suddenly, newspaper ads began displaying Christmas trees, snowmen, wreaths and Santa decor, while others displayed "the best food deals" on stuffing, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes and turkeys.
During a trip to Walmart in the middle of the week, I noticed the store's front section, which had just days before held the last remains of Halloween costumes and large candy bags, had then been ripped apart and put together again with glowing red and green decor.
Shoppers can once again purchase candle scents like snow flake, pine tree and sugar cookie. They can buy Frosty the Snowman lawn decorations and outdoor lights for their home. They can purchase tree ornaments, holly leaves and even small stocking stuffers.
In the check-out lane, I stood behind a shopper who was already purchasing her Thanksgiving turkey. I watched her proudly pluck it from the check-out belt and place it into her cart as if she had picked a winner.
While coming home from dinner one evening, I noticed homes that were once lit with purple and orange spider lights, suddenly had made the change to green, red and white icicles lights.
During a trip to the mall, I watched workers lift and hang large Christmas garland complete with large silver bulbs and gold trumpets from the ceiling. While I listened hard, I could not yet make out any holiday music, which in some way surprised me ... but maybe that's getting too far ahead. Perhaps that's next on the list after hanging the mall garland.
I walked through the doors at a Lowe's Home Improvement store and was greeted by a long line of various-sized snow blowers. Each of them exhibited how far they could throw snow.
Also, the employees at the local video store have already combed through the shelves of DVDs and pulled all the holiday movies to create their own special holiday genre section, where families can easily select their annual favorites near the popcorn stand.
Every year it amazes me how fast the holidays slip in. There just never seems to be any time between Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I have to admit, however, while I'm noticing this evidence popping up all around me, I can't help but fall in line. Just today I made plans to help my roommate assemble our first Christmas tree together. I've dusted off my winter coat for the season and ready to book my first ice skating adventure at the rink.
As of last week, my Halloween decor is safe and sound in its bin back in the closet, and I'm proudly displaying my miniature Charlie Brown Christmas tree on the corner shelf in my living room. I've hung onto that little tree since my first year in college.
Because of a limited budget this year, I have plans for most of my holiday gifts to be homemade. Lately, I've been going home at night and making initial preparations for each gift. This will be my first year of sewing, painting and knitting gifts, but we will see what happens. I'll be the first to admit, each gift plan gets me more and more into the Christmas spirit. Most likely by next week, I'll be sewing to the tune of Christmas music.
Whether we like it or not, we can't avoid the vivid season rolling in. We might as well embrace it ... just as we have the bitter snow forecast that's already approached our area.
BCR Staff Writer Goldie Currie can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Vietnamese Cuisine for Urban Dwellers
de Francine Tran
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This book will take you on a visual tour of the author's culinary world, safely guiding you every step of the way. You may recognize familiar dishes (albeit with an Asian flare), alongside more traditional Vietnamese food items.
You will no longer need to leave your house to experience the unique flavors of South East Asia, with its wondrous spices and herbs.
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I am currently a lady of leisure, trying to find my life calling. Cooking has always been my passion and one of my goals has been to leave a legacy of my culinary endeavors. My idea of life, and the pursuit of its calling, is a journey filled with love, excitement and a belly filled with happiness. In my book I will attempt to recreate the food that my soul (as well as belly) craves, and in the process I hope to awaken your desire to cook. Long live fish sauce!
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LevelK takes on international sales for The Rocket
Danish sales company LevelK has struck a deal with Red Lamp Films to handle international sales of The Rocket, which will world premiere at the Berlinale.
The story follows a boy who thinks he has bad luck trying to travel across Laos to build a giant rocket to win a competition. The film was shot in Laos and Thailand. Sitthiphon "Ki" Disamoe leads the cast.
The film is written and directed by first time feature film director Kim Mordaunt. Producers are Sylvia Wilczynski for Red Lamp Films Australia with Laos-based associate producer Pauline Phayvanh Phoumindr.
The Rocket is supported by Screen Australia, Screen New South Wales and Curious Film, who will handle local distribution.
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The euro weakened and oil slid after the European Central Bank cut its growth forecasts for the region, while US stocks fluctuated and Treasuries gained as investors weighed prospects for a budget deal in Washington.
The euro declined against all 16 major peers after ECB President Mario Draghi said economic weakness will persist into next year and there was a "wide discussion" on interest rates. Oil plunged as much as 2.5 per cent to $US85.68 a barrel and led commodities lower. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index swung between gains and losses near the 1,409 level, while 10-year Treasury yields lost two basis points to 1.57 per cent.
The ECB now forecasts the economy will shrink 0.5 per cent this year, more than the 0.4 per cent contraction it predicted in September, and it cut its 2013 forecast to a contraction of 0.3 per cent. A few dozen Republicans joined a bipartisan push to break an impasse between President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner over taxes for the highest-earning Americans, signing a letter calling for openness to "all options."
Reports today showed the euro area's economy shrank in the third quarter while fewer American filed for jobless claims last week.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.2 per cent yesterday, halting a two- day drop. Technology and consumer shares led gains among the 10 main industry groups today, while industrial, energy and utility companies fell the most. Apple Inc., the biggest company by market value, rebounded 1.4 per cent today after slumping 6.4 per cent yesterday amid concern about competition in the smartphone and tablet markets.
Market Movers
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. dropped 3.6 per cent after being cut at BMO Capital Markets. Garmin Ltd., a maker of mobile navigation systems, rallied 4.5 per cent after S&P said the company will replace R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. in the S&P 500. Sirius XM Radio Inc., the largest US satellite-radio company, climbed 1.8 per cent after announcing a $US2 billion share buyback and a 5-cent a share special dividend.
Jobless claims decreased by 25,000 to 370,000 in the week ended Dec. 1, Labor Department figures showed. The median forecast of 52 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a drop to 380,000. Data tomorrow is forecast to show US payrolls rose by 86,000 workers last month, the smallest gain since June, according to the median forecast of economists.
European Markets
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index advanced 0.7 per cent as two shares gained for each that fell, with chemical, commodity and retail companies led gains. European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. climbed 8.2 per cent after the company said Germany will join France and Spain as a government shareholder in the largest revamp of ownership since the creation of EADS 12 years ago.
GDF Suez SA plunged 11 per cent, the most in four years, after Europe's largest utility by market value said earnings will drop next year because of a "challenging" economy. Saipem SpA tumbled 6.7 per cent, the biggest decline in more than a year on a closing basis, as Chief Executive Officer Pietro Franco Tali resigned amid an Italian probe into Algeria contracts awarded to the oil contractor.
Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc slid 3.1 per cent, the most in six months. Europe's largest maker of commercial aircraft and ship engines said it unearthed possible wrongdoing in overseas business dealings and is under scrutiny by the U.K. Serious Fraud Office.
Euro, Italy
The euro retreated 0.8 per cent against the dollar and 1 per cent versus the yen as Draghi's remarks stoked speculation that the ECB may consider interest-rate cuts.
The yield on Italy's 10-year bond jumped 13 basis points to 4.57 per cent. While Prime Minister Mario Monti's government survived a confidence vote on a growth package in the upper house, the majority of lawmakers with Silvio Berlusconi's People of Liberty party didn't take part in the vote or abstained.
The yield on 10-year Spanish notes rose seven basis points to 5.47 per cent. The yield on Germany's 10-year bond fell five basis points to 1.30 per cent.
Crude oil slumped 2.2 per cent to $US85.99 a barrel to lead declines in 17 of 24 commodities tracked by the S&P GSCI Index.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index advanced 0.4 per cent to a seven-month high. Russia's Micex Index rose 0.3 per cent and India's Sensex advanced 0.5 per cent.


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Position breakdown: O-line
Published: Sunday, July 7, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, July 6, 2013 at 8:37 p.m.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third in a series breaking down the Florida football roster. Next Sunday, we'll look at the defensive line.
70-D.J. Humphries
63-Trip Thurman
-- Trenton Brown
76-Max Garcia
64-Kyle Koehne
--Octavius Jackson
72-Jonotthan Harrison
64-Kyle Koehne
67-Jon Halapio
77-Ian Silberman
-- Cameron Dillard
73-Tyler Moore
75-Chaz Green
79-Quinteze Williams
-- Roderick Johnson
To be a successful downhill running team, it certainly helps to be strong and experienced in the middle of the offensive line — and that's what the Gators should be. Center Jonotthan Harrison and right guard Jon Halapio have combined to start 60 games and both are proven players in the rugged SEC. Left guard Max Garcia sat out last season per NCAA transfer rules, but started 12 games at left tackle for Maryland in 2011 before deciding to relocate to Florida. The Halapio-Harrison-Garcia combination gives the Gators experience and an imposing look in the middle of their offensive front. Garcia isn't the only key transfer who could start on the offensive line. Tyler Moore will enter fall camp listed as the starter at right tackle, a position he held throughout the spring while last year's starter, Chaz Green, was recovering from offseason ankle surgery. Moore was a highly rated prospect coming out of Clearwater Countryside who signed with Nebraska and started four games for the Cornhuskers in 2011, the most by a true freshman offensive lineman in school history. Moore is a big, physical player who can play guard or tackle and also might see some reps at center. Perhaps the Florida lineman with the biggest upside is true sophomore D.J. Humphries, a five-star prospect who started three games and saw considerable playing time last season. Humphries is still a bit undersized at 280, but he's quick and athletic and has the ability to cope with the speed rushers that left tackles consistently face in the SEC. Redshirt senior Kyle Koehne has played a lot of football for the Gators and he's a key player because of his ability to play all five positions.
As it has been over the past several seasons, lack of depth up front continues to be an issue. It didn't help that a potential starter, guard Jessamen Dunker, was arrested this past winter and charged with driving a stolen scooter on campus. The charge was recently dropped, but Dunker and Will Muschamp had already made the decision that Dunker would be better off continuing his career elsewhere. Depth is such a concern that redshirt freshman Quinteze Williams was moved from defensive tackle to offensive tackle in the spring. Depth in the fall will have to come from four incoming freshmen, a little bit of a scary proposition in the SEC, especially when one, Roderick Johnson, is still trying to become academically eligible for the fall.
True freshman Trenton Brown has the size to possibly have an impact at left tackle, but an even better candidate to do that is redshirt sophomore Trip Thurman, a somewhat forgotten Urban Meyer recruit who missed the spring after undergoing shoulder surgery. Muschamp said Thurman was impressive in practice last fall and has a chance to be a very good SEC lineman. If he stays healthy, Thurman could be a factor at both tackle and guard, providing much-needed depth.
1. Tennessee
2. Georgia
3. Alabama
4. Florida
6. Texas A&M
7. South Carolina
8. Mississippi State
9. Ole Miss
10. Auburn
11. Missouri
12. Vanderbilt
13. Arkansas
14. Kentucky
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Park-n-Ride service begins Monday at new Walmart
Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 5:31 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 5:31 p.m.
Gainesville's Regional Transit System will open its first official Park-n-Ride facility on Monday at the new Walmart Supercenter off Northwest 34th Street, just south of U.S. 441.
Starting Monday, commuters may park their vehicles in the designated park-n-ride area within the Walmart parking lot and ride RTS Route 8 to the University of Florida and Shands at UF. There are 43 parking spaces available, and there is no charge for using the spaces.
"RTS receives a number of calls requesting Park-n-Ride facilities each year," said Chip Skinner, RTS spokesperson. "We are excited to offer this service to those commuting into Gainesville for work and recreation."
Visit the RTS website www.go-rts.com or call 334-2600 for Route 8 schedule information.
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Aminco Inc. Spinning Keychain
Made of 100% Metal
Price: $7.99
Never lose your keys again. Keychain features the team logo on either side of this spinning keychain. Made by Aminco.
- Style: 20541535
- Color: Silver/Blue
- Made of 100% Metal
- Auto Accessories
Reviewed by 3 customers
Comments about Chicago Bears Spinning Keychain:
Nice keychain
- Was this a gift?:
- Yes
- Stylish
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Comments about Minnesota Vikings Spinning Keychain:
Shows I love my team and that they're # 1 in my heart.
- Sizing:
- Feels true to size
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- Stylish
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Comments about Toronto Blue Jays Spinning Keychain:
Had this keychain for only two days before the "axis" broke and the spinning logo fell off.
Had no problem getting a refund at the local Lids store.
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