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PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS ("TERMS") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE WWW.BloomVC.COM WEBSITE ("SITE") OR THE SERVICE IT PROVIDES. BY USING THE SITE YOU ACKNOWLEGE THAT YOU
Please read these Terms carefully. By using BloomVC.com or signing up for an account, you're agreeing to these Terms. This is a legal agreement.
Bloom VC Limited is a company Registered in Scotland No SC395742. The registered office is 5th Floor, 125 Princes Street Edinburgh EH2 4AD
We'll start with the basics, including a few definitions that should help you understand this agreement. BloomVC.com ("BloomVC.com" or the "Service") is an online fundraising service offered through the URL www.BloomVC.com (we'll refer to it as the "Website") that allows you to create, publish, and manage projects (each message is called an "Project") for the purposes of crowdfunding. BloomVC.com is owned and operated by Bloom VC Limited, a company incorporated in Scotland ("Bloom", "we," or "us"). BloomVC.com has employees, independent contractors, and representatives ("our Team"). As a customer of the Service or a representative of an entity that's a customer of the Service, you're a "Member" according to this agreement (or "you").
These Terms of Use ("Terms," including our Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Brand Guidelines) define the terms and conditions under which you're allowed to use BloomVC.com and how we'll treat your account while you're a Member. If you have any questions about our terms, feel free to contact us.
1. Eligibility
In order to use BloomVC.com, you must:
- be at least fifteen (15) years old;
- complete the registration process;
- agree to the Terms; and
- provide true, complete, and up to date contact information.
By using BloomVC.com, you represent and warrant that you meet all the requirements listed above, and that you won't use BloomVC.com in a way that violates any laws or regulations. BloomVC.com may refuse service, close accounts of any users, and change eligibility requirements at any time.
Represent and Warrant
"Representing and warranting" is like making a legally enforceable promise.
2. Term
The Term begins when you sign up for BloomVC.com and continues as long as you use the Service. Clicking the button and entering your username means that you've officially "signed" the Terms. If you sign up for BloomVC.com on behalf of a company or other entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to accept these Terms on their behalf.
3. Closing Your Account
You or BloomVC.com may terminate this Agreement at any time and for any reason by giving Notice to the other party. We may suspend our Service to you at any time, with or without cause. We won't refund or reimburse you if there's cause, like a violation of these Terms or our Acceptable Use Policy. Once terminated, we may permanently delete your account and all the data associated with it, including your Projects from our Website. If you don't log in to your account for 12 or more months, we may treat your account as "inactive" and permanently delete the account and all the data associated with it.
In the event that a Project Owner wants to end the Project before the end of the Project it may do so on submission of 30 days notice, by emailing Eva{at}BloomVC.com with their clear instructions. The Project will be terminated and no more promises can be raised for it. However, Bloom reserves continuing rights to the Project information provided.
Project Owners who have reached their Project Targets in respect are committed to completing the Project as set out on the Site and to carry out those acts as promised to the Supporters. If for any reason this is not possible the Project Owner must immediately inform Bloom of in writing, and cooperate fully and in good faith with Bloom to address this situation in a way that is consistent with the interests of Bloom, the Project Owner, and involved Backers. In the event that the Project Owner does not intend to complete the Project it shall remunerate Bloom the total Project funds. For the avoidance of doubt, in no way is Bloom liable for any loss suffered by either Backers or Project Owners for the actions, omissions, or errors of the other.
Acceptable Use Policy
Our Acceptable Use Policy sets some rules that you have to follow as a BloomVC.com user. Some are dictated by the law, some are common sense (do unto others), and some are based on our experience delivering the Service.
4. Changes
We may change any of the Terms by posting revised Terms of Use on our Website and/or by sending an email to the last email address you gave us. Unless you terminate your account within ten (10) days, the new Terms will be effective immediately and apply to any continued or new use of BloomVC.com. We may change the Website, the Service, or any features of the Service at any time.
5. Account and Password
You're responsible for keeping your account name and password confidential. You're also responsible for any account that you have access to, whether or not you authorized the use. You'll immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your accounts. We're not responsible for any losses due to stolen or hacked passwords. We don't have access to your current password, and for security reasons, we may only reset your password.
6. Account Disputes
We don't know the inner workings of your organisation or the nature of your personal relationships, and we don't arbitrate disputes over who owns an account. You won't request access to or information about an account that's not yours, and you'll resolve any account-related disputes directly with the other party. We decide who owns an account based on the content of the Projects in that account, and if multiple people or entities are identified in the content, then we'll rely on the contact information listed for that account.
7. Payment of Promises
When, and only when, the Project Target has been reached or exceeded within the timeframe, PayPal shall transmit the money Promised by each Backer directly into that Paypal account elected by the Project Owner and specified on the Registration Form.
8. Fees & Charges
Paypal will deduct 5% from the total amount promised and transmit this to Bloom (the "Fee") via the Project Owner's account. PayPal's fees are paid by the Project Owner, including the fixed and transaction fee at the rate currently published by PayPal. Should the Project fail to reach the Promise Target, or if the date in which to raise funds for the Project expires without the Project Target being met, Bloom will neither deduct nor accept any payment previously Promised from any Backer. Each Promise and Project is a unique transaction. AT NO POINT WILL FUNDS IN EXCESS OF THE 5% FEE PASS INTO BLOOM'S ACCOUNT.
9. Additional services
Where additional services are provided in support of a project we may levy additional fees, which must be paid in full in advance of delivery.
10. Refunds
Bloom shall not be responsible for the nature or quality of the performance or any other obligations offered by the Project Owner, and the Project Owner will be wholly responsible for meeting any obligation or Reward as stated or implied on the Site in respect of the Project they create.
If the project target is met and PayPal has deducted funds from each of the backers' accounts, the backers are not entitled to any refunds for non-delivery of any rewards.
11. Changes
We may change our fees at any time by posting a new pricing structure to our Website and/or sending you a notification by email.
12. Proprietary Rights Owned by Us
You shall respect our proprietary rights in the Website and the software used to provide BloomVC.com (proprietary rights include patents, trademarks, service marks, design rights and copyrights). You may only use our brand assets according to our Brand Guidelines.
13. Grant of Licenses
You represent and warrant that you either own or have permission to use all of the material in your Projects. You retain ownership of the materials you upload to the Service. We may use or disclose your materials only as we describe in these Terms and our Privacy Policy.
When Project Owner submits Content to Bloom the Project Owner grants to Bloom:
(a) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free transferable license (with rights to sublicense) to use, reproduce, digitally distribute, display, and publicly perform the Contents (as well as any underlying musical compositions) created or contributed by the Project Owner as part of the Project via any means developed, owned, or controlled by Bloom or its partners solely for the purposes of promoting the Project Owner's Project or Bloom, part or all of the Service.
(b) a non-exclusive, worldwide license to:
(i) to reproduce, display and distribute any artwork, photographs supplied by the Project Owner, liner notes, metadata, track data lyrics and editorial content relating to the Project, and
(ii) to use the name (including professional name(s)), likeness, performances, photographs, and biographical material of each artist, performer, producer, and songwriter featured on a recording or in a Project, in connection with promoting the Project or Bloom. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Project Owner acknowledges and agrees that Bloom's business model may involve free promotional downloads and/or streams of recordings. Bloom also grants to each user of the Service, a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to access Project Owner's Content through the Service.
14. Privacy Policy
We may use and disclose your information according to our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy will be treated as part of these Terms.
15. Right to Review Project Campaigns
We may view, copy, and internally distribute content from your Projects and account to create algorithms and programs ("Tools") that help us spot problem accounts. We use these Tools to find Members who violate these Terms or laws.
We study data internally to make our service smarter and create better experiences for project owners and backers.
16. General Rules
You promise to follow these rules:
- You won't send Spam! By "spam," we mean the definition on the Spamhaus website.
- You won't use third party assets without permission and / or attribution.
- You won't violate our Acceptable Use Policy, which is part of this Agreement.
If you violate any of these rules, then we may suspend or terminate your account.
In short, spam means "unsolicited bulk Project." If you send people mass Project without their permission, you're spamming.
17. Reporting Abuse
If you think anyone is violating any of these Terms, please notify us immediately. If you received spam you think came from a BloomVC.com user, we want to hear about it. Please report it to our Abuse Report. If you think anyone has posted material that violates any copyrights, then you may notify us according to our Copyright Policy.
18. Bandwidth Abuse/Throttling
You may only use our bandwidth for your BloomVC.com Projects. We provide image hosting only for your Project campaigns, so you may not host images on our servers for anything other than your Project campaigns (like a website). We may throttle your sending or connection through our service at our discretion.
19. Compliance with Laws
You represent and warrant that your use of BloomVC.com will comply with all applicable laws and regulations. You're responsible for determining whether our Services are suitable for you to use in light of any regulations like HIPAA, GLB, EU Data Privacy Laws, or other laws. If you're subject to regulations (like HIPAA) and you use our Service, then we won't be liable if our Service doesn't meet those requirements. If you're located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or send to anyone in the EEA, you represent and warrant that in creating your Project distribution list, sending Projects via BloomVC.com, and collecting information as a result of sending Projects, you:
- Will clearly describe in writing how you plan to use any data collected, including for your use of BloomVC.com. You'll get express consent to transfer data to BloomVC.com as part of this process, and you'll otherwise comply with whatever privacy policy you have posted.
- Have complied, and will comply, with all regulations, as well as data protection, electronic communication, and privacy laws that apply to the countries where you're sending any form of communication through BloomVC.com.
- Have collected, stored, used, and transferred all data relating to any individual in compliance with all data protection laws and regulations. You have the necessary permission to allow BloomVC.com to receive and process data and send communications to that individual on your behalf.
European Economic Area
This applies to people who are sending to or from the European Economic Area. The EEA includes countries that are part of the European Union, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
20. Import Controls
Rewards may be subject to import controls at the country of destintion. Import laws are set up by the government to keep certain goods and services from reaching other countries, usually because of security concerns or trade agreements. You are responsible for determining whether or not your rewards are suitable for distribution.
21. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, you assume full responsibility for any loss that results from your use of the Website and the Services, including any downloads from the Website. We and our Team won't be liable for any indirect, punitive, special, or consequential damages under any circumstances, even if they're based on negligence or we've been advised of the possibility of those damages. Our total liability for all claims made about the Service in any month will be no more than what you paid us for the Service the month before.
22. No Warranties
To the maximum extent permitted by law, we provide the material on the Website and the Service as is. That means we don't provide warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
Warranties of Merchantability
Since people use BloomVC.com for a variety of reasons, we can't guarantee that it will meet your specific needs. But we hope it does!
23. Indemnity
As a Member you hereby warrant and represent that:
(a) You have the right and power to enter into and fully perform all of its obligations under this Agreement and has the authority and right to provide Bloom with the rights granted herein;
(b) Bloom's exercise of the rights granted herein will not infringe upon any copyright, trademark, right of publicity, moral right or other proprietary, intellectual property, contractual or other right of any person anywhere in the world;
(c) No content provided to Bloom by the Project Owner will breach any applicable laws or regulations, including, without limitation, defamation and obscenity laws;
(d) You have (and will continue to have during use of the Service) all necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions which are required to enable Bloom to use the Content for the purposes of the provision of the Service by Bloom, and otherwise to use your Content in the manner contemplated by the Service and these Terms.
(e) No agreement of any kind entered into by Project Owner does or will interfere in any manner with Bloom's complete performance of this Agreement, or with the rights granted to Bloom herein;
(f) Bloom shall not be required to make any payments to third parties in connection with exploitation of the Content hereunder.
You agree to indemnify and hold us and our Team harmless from any losses (including legal fees) that result from any with respect to any claim, demand, cause of action, or debt or liability brought by or claimed by any third party, including legal fees.
You also agree to indemnify and hold us harmless from any losses (including legal fees) that result from third-party claims to the extent that any such claim is based upon or arises out of a breach of any of project owner's representations, warranties, covenants, or obligations.
24. Attorney Fees
If we file an action against you claiming you breached these Terms and we prevail, we're entitled to recover reasonable attorney fees and any damages or other relief we may be awarded.
25. Liquidated Damages
For example, if someone were to get our IPs blacklisted or lower our deliverability by breaking spam laws, we may seek liquidated damages since it's hard to put a number on those losses.
28. Disclaimers
We and our Team aren't responsible for the behaviour of any advertisers, linked websites, or other Members.
30. Assignments
You may not assign any of your rights under this agreement to anyone else. We may assign our rights to any other individual or entity at our discretion.
31. Choice of Law
Scots Law will apply to any dispute related to these Terms or the Service. Each party will be subject to the jurisdiction of those courts.
32. Force Majeure
We won't be held liable for any delays or failure in performance of any part of the Service, from any cause beyond our control. This includes, but is not limited to, acts of God, changes to law or regulations, embargoes, war, terrorist acts, riots, fires, earthquakes, nuclear accidents, locust plagues, floods, strikes, power blackouts, volcanic action, unusually severe weather conditions, and acts of hackers or third-party internet service providers.
33. Survivability
Even if this Agreement is terminated, the following sections will continue to apply: Proprietary Rights Owned by Us, Proprietary Rights Owned by You, Compliance with Laws, Limitation of Liability, No Warranties, Indemnity, Choice of Law, Severability, and Entire Agreement.
34. Severability
If it turns out that a section of this Agreement isn't enforceable, then that section will be removed or edited as little as necessary, and the rest of the Terms will still be valid.
35. Interpretation
The headers and sidebar text are provided only to make this agreement easier to read and understand. The fact that we wrote these Terms won't affect the way this Agreement is interpreted.
36. Amendments and Waiver
Amendments or changes to these Terms won't be effective until we post revised Terms on the Website. That aside, additional terms may apply to certain features of the Service (the "Additional Terms"). The Additional Terms will be considered incorporated into these Terms when you activate the feature. Where there's a conflict between these Terms and the Additional Terms, the Additional Terms will control. If we don't immediately take action on a violation of these Terms, we're not giving up any rights under the Terms, and we may still take action at some point.
Because we have so many Members, we can't change these Terms for any one Member or group. If we did that, keeping up with the changes would be a logistical nightmare. So no changes, no exceptions.
37. Tax or other financial obligations
The Project Owner is fully responsible for any taxation or other financial obligations arising out of its participation in the service. If, for any reason, Bloom is required to pay any monies relating either directly or indirectly to a Project Owner's Project, Project Owner shall fully reimburse Bloom for those amounts within 21 days of being informed of these payments.
38. Further Actions
You'll provide all documents and take any actions necessary to meet your obligations under these Terms.
39. Notification of Security Breach
In the event of a security breach that may affect you or anyone on your Project distribution lists we'll notify you of the breach and provide a description of what happened. If we determine, and notify you, that you need to forward all or part of that information to anyone on your Lists, you'll promptly do it.
40. Notices
Any notice to you will be effective when we send it to the last Project or physical address you gave us or posted on our Website. Any notice to us will be effective when delivered to us along with a copy to our legal counsel: Bloom VC Limited, 5th Floor, 125 Princes Street Edinburgh EH2 4AD or any addresses as we may later post on the Website.
41. Entire Agreement
These Terms, our Privacy Policy, Acceptable Use Policy, (all of which are incorporated into these Terms by reference), and any Additional Terms you've agreed to make up the entire agreement and supersede all prior agreements, representations, and understandings.
You've reached the end! Thank you for taking the time to learn about BloomVC.com's policies.


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Designed for digital videographers in the broadcast, sports, wedding and event, and education industries, the FS-4Pro features a 40GB (3 hour) or 80GB (6 hour) internal disk drive, FOCUS Enhancements' DTE technology, and a field-ready, rugged enclosure. As compared to FOCUS Enhancements' FS-4 model, the FS-4Pro increases editing compatibility by adding Avid OMF and Pinnacle AVI support in addition to standard DTE Technology file formats. FS-4Pro also adds multiple retro-record modes, reels that allow clips to be categorized into pre-named folders on disk while shooting, and user definable time lapse and loop playback modes.
In March 2005, FOCUS Enhancements announced plans to support the High Definition (HD) standard with its new FS-4 HD and FS-4Pro HD models. The company is offering a special to customers purchasing the new FS-4 and FS-4Pro models by April 30, 2005, enabling them to upgrade to full HD functionality for only $99 (normally $299).
The FireStore FS-4Pro portable DTE recorders weigh less than one pound including the battery, and are only 1.5-inches thick. The low profile design allows videographers to mount the FS-4Pro to their camcorder using the optional hot-shoe clip-on adapter or attach it directly to their belt. FS-4Pro features a 6-pin FireWire connector for interface with camcorders, a 6-pin FireWire connector for interfacing with a computer for editing or file transfer, a backlit status LCD display and a comprehensive set of control buttons including a navigation pad. It supports RawDV, AVI Type 1, AVI Type 2, Matrox AVI, Canopus AVI, QuickTime, 24p QuickTime and 24p AVI Type 2. The FS-4Pro also includes up to ten seconds of retro-cache, retro disk, loop record, user definable folders for scene marking, and support for additional DV25 DTE technology file formats including Avid DV-OMF and Pinnacle AVI.
FireStore FS-4Pro 40GB and 80GB are available through the worldwide FOCUS Enhancements and Canon USA dealer and distributor networks for a US MSRP of $1,195 and $1,595, respectively. FireStore HD upgrades, FS-4 HD, and FS-4Pro HD are expected to be available in the Summer of 2005 through the worldwide FOCUS Enhancements dealer and distributor network.

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not too many budget brand kite owners on this thread !!!!!!.
Been on the ss one pump and loved it, crossed over to GK Sonic in 06 and really missed it, glad to see it is appearing on the 07 Sonics and TRIX. Tried the Nova 2 the other day and I must say their tilt on the one pump system is fantastic and safe as houses, well done takoon.


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HR Confidential: How to initiate a conversation about retaining women
Humans are complicated, but the resourcing of humans doesn't have to be. Looking for managerial or career advice? All sources will be kept confidential. Email your questions to Heather Krentler at firstname.lastname@example.com or call our advice line at 313-327-2209.
This week a listener raises a concern about how her company attracts and retains women. Whether it's an ongoing conversation you'd like to be a part of or one you feel needs to be raised, it can be scary to dive in. In this week's podcast, we talk about how to avoid putting people on the defensive and how best to offer your help in the diversity and inclusion mission.
Follow Heather on Twitter at @heatherkrentler, or connect with her on LinkedIn.


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Jose Bigio eagerly waited in line to enter the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts Saturday, wondering what awaited him inside this year's TEDxUF.
Jose Bigio eagerly waited in line to enter the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, wondering what awaited him inside this year's TEDxUF.
"I really don't know what to expect, but I hope it's worthwhile," said Bigio, a 20-year-old University of Florida economics student.
What awaited Bigio and some 2,000 others who attended TEDxUF could be reduced to one word: passion.
In fact, "Pursuing Passion" was the theme of this year's event, which showcased nine speakers from a wide range of fields and backgrounds as they shared their thoughts, knowledge and insight in hopes of inspiring and igniting passion.
"Each speaker is opening the conversation to get you thinking, to start a conversation so you leave TED inspired," said 21-year-old Alexa Carlin, a TEDxUF Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation ambassador.
TEDxUF is an independent program that branches out from the original TED, a nonprofit organization dedicated to "ideas worth spreading."
The idea for TED started as a conference in California in 1984 with the purpose of bringing people together from three areas: technology, entertainment and design.
This year's event began with UF's co-ed a capella group No Southern Accent providing some initial inspiration. The crowd cheered at the end of the group's rendition of "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers.
Among the long line of speakers, Gainesville-based Parisleaf's CEO Chad Paris talked about authenticity and how for a long time he couldn't find who he truly was.
He explained his journey and his decision to find passion in his life after some dark days that led him to experiment with drugs and alcohol. He ended his speech with a question for the audience
"Who are you?" Paris asked.
The conference was divided into two speaker sessions with a lunch break in between. The last speaker of the first session, Rebecca Brown, was particularly moving and received a standing ovation.
Brown is the founder and director of Streetlight, a program that connects UF students in the health care and medical fields with adolescents who are living with a chronic or terminal illness.
Brown emphasized that Streetlight is about friendship and she credits the teenagers she has worked with in helping her find meaning in life.
Brown told touching stories of the young people she has encountered in more than 30 years of experiences. The auditorium fell so silent that you could hear the sniffling of attendees as they dabbed tears in their eyes.
Michael Misquith, an 18-year-old psychology student at UF, said he was moved and inspired by Brown's stories.
"I was crying my head off," Misquith said.
Other speakers included Barry Byrne, a doctor who discussed the use of gene therapy in curing rare diseases, and Ken Staab, whose passion was ignited when his family was blindsided by his nephew's diagnosis of dystonia, a rare disease characterized by involuntary muscle movements.
Staab now raises money through the foundation in his nephew's name, Tyler's Hope for a Dystonia Cure, which has funded research at Shands at UF. He reminded the audience to be fearless in all they do and enjoy their passions.
The conference included a student speaker, Cary Putnal, who explored the science of how certain microorganisms in waste can be turned into visible light. Putnal finds passion in merging biology and technology in order to become more sustainable.
In the second speaker session, August Shitama used sign language to communicate his love of reading as a voice recording of what he was signing filled the auditorium space. He explained how reading has helped him find a voice even though he can't speak.
"Reading isn't a task, it's my life for me," Shitama said.
The rest of the afternoon put on display other speakers' passions, including those of writer Anna Olcese and Stephan Athan, an engineer who seeks to expand career knowledge at an early age.
The purpose of TEDxUF in "pursuing passion" was also evident in speakers such as Phoebe Cade Miles, founder of the Cade Museum, who spoke of using creativity and the arts in education in order to enhance students' math and science abilities.
Buchholz High School student Minjia Zhong, 16, loved the conference and was intrigued by all the scientific topics discussed in relation to passion.
"I think it's also been really interesting to see how the speakers came upon their lives' passion," Zhong said.


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- 1/2 teaspoon salt
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- Grated zest of 1 orange (about 2 teaspoons)
- 3/4 cup sliced almonds
- Make the dough: In a mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar, almond extract, and salt until smooth. With mixer on low speed, add flour and orange zest; mix just until a dough forms.With a wooden spoon, rubber spatula, or your hands, gently mix in almonds.
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Showing our age and having no kids, that's all it is. I suppose if - like Jon - you had kids in the late 1990s/any 2000s, you would know about the impostor Mog through them. Or if you were an adult who just likes watching kids' TV, either way. I'm not surprised I didn't know, because I don't fall into either of those two groups.Ian Volante wrote:Me too. Never heard of the weird fat Mog. Scandalised.JimBentley wrote:Seriously, I had to look this up, I had no idea there was a rival Mog.Jon Corby wrote:Ah right, that's not Mog of "Meg & Mog" fame. I've never seen that impostor before.
You live and learn, eh?
Although I do think that Judith Kerr would be frantically rotating in her grave, if she was dead and could somehow read this thread from beyond the grave, which she isn't in. Yes.


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Raspberry refreshments ushered in the opening Monday evening of Raspberry Monday, Bethel's
student art exhibition.
Brice Russell and Ron Nelson went undefeated to first place in a
recent Twin Cities Forensic League debate tournament. Bethel
teams have taken first in all four such tournaments this year
(photo by Doug Barkey).
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Vol. 56 No. 15
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
Feb. 13, 1981
Raspberry awaits spring
by Leann M. Kicker
"Selecting recipients has
not always been easy...
this time we found it im-possible."
Those were the
words of George Robinson,
associate professor of art,
as he announced the post-ponement
of the annual
Raspberry Monday award.
Before the presentation,
Dale Johnson, associate pro-fessor
of art, said in pri-vate,
"No award will be
given. I know that will
upset some students. Ac-tually
this is a postpone-ment
until spring. We have
a standard; we don't feel it
was met. This was not an
easy decision to make, but
we feel it was the right
one." -
Robinson agreed that the
decision was hard to make
and announce. The gener-al
attitude of the art depart-ment
and the donors of the
award money, who prefer
to remain anonymous, was
one of disappointment.
One donor said, "We
were concerned for the stu-dents,
as far as the antici-pation
and the disappoint-ment.
Everyone was wait-ing,
and hoping."
The decision to donate
$250 as the Raspberry Mon-day
award resulted from
an incident that occurred
after picking Raspberries
on a Monday. Arrange=
ments were made for the
art faculty, who really
know the students, to set
up the criteria and make
the decision. The annual
Raspberry Monday group
exhibition has been held
in conjunction with the
The recipient of the
award: 1. must be a good
artist, 2. must have lead-ership
potential and poten-tial
as a future artist, 3. Be
a real part of the art depart-ment
and reflect its spirit.
In the group exhibition
only the pieces submitted
by the students are judged.
The art faculty jury the
selection, choosing only the
very best pieces. "We go
through the process three
times," said Johnson.
The exhibition was ra-ther
small; 1 large sculp-ture,
a large graphic piece
mounted on the ceiling,
and several smaller pieces
see page 2
by. Dan Wiley
In what was supposed
to be a rebuilding year,
Bethel's forensics pro-gram
continues to be a
strong contender in every
January 23 and 24 the
team of Brice Russell and
Ron Nelson participated
at the University of Wis-consin
- La Crosse Cross-
Examination Debate As-sociation
(CEDA) Debate
Invitational. Russell and
Nelson posted a 5-1 re-cord
in preliminary round,
beating teams from the
University of Minnesota,
Edgewood College of Mad-ison,
Wisc., the Univer-sity
of Wisconsin-
LaCrosse, and South Da-kota
Russell and Nelson
made the cut to semi-finals
where they dropped
to a team from Wheaton
This is the first year of
debate for Russell and
Nelson. Coach Butch Malt-by
credits their early
success to hard work and
January 27 Russell and
Nelson attended a Twin
Cities Forensic League de-bate
tournament where
they took first place with
an undefeated (3-0) re-cord.
Of the four CEDA
debate tournaments held
by the Twin Cities Foren-sic
League this year, Be-thel
has taken first in all
of them.
January 30 and 31 Be-thel
participated in the
First Annual Wheaton Col-lege
CEDA Debate Invita-tional.
Fourteen teams rep-resenting
six states, in-cluding
California, Illi-nois,
Indiana, Georgia,
Minnesota and Nebraska,
by Leann M. Kicker
Under the direction of
Sue Fahrenkamp, general
manager, KABY is now
transmitting at Bethel Col-lege.
With its electrical cur-rent
system called "Car-rier
Current," it is possible
to pick up KABY by plug-ging
into an electrical out-let
in a building with a
transmitter. If a transmit-ter
is broken or damaged
reception is impaired.
At this point many of
the transmitters on cam-pus
are damaged. So, many
students on campus can-not
pick up the signals.
Fahrenkamp said, regard-ing
the problem with trans-mission,
"damage has been
the biggest obstacle to over-come,
but things are going
well. It depresses us that
all can't hear, 'cause we are
trying to reach the com-munity.
Poeple call and
participated in the com-petition.
Debate teams of Mark
Publow and Rick Kreutz-feldt
and Russell and Nel-son
represented Bethel at
Wheaton. After the con-clusion
of preliminary
rounds both teams posted
identical records of 4-2.
Publow and Kreutzfeldt
made it to semi-final
ask why. To us that is a
sign that people are inter-ested."
Bruce Vogel, program-ming
director, said, "Parts
are ordered to repair the
present damage."
So far the station has
been lucky. This fall, when
Fahrenkamp took over the
station, the entire control
board was damaged as
well as the transmitters.
To repair the switchboard
alone seemed potentially a
very expensive project.
But repair proved relative-ly
inexpensive. "A lot of
people have volunteered
hours of their time and
their knowledge to help
fix the damage." said Fah-renkamp.
The station paid
for the parts, but the labor
was almost all free.
Despite problems the sta-tion
is on its way and
"basically revamped," said
Vogel. All the music is
rounds, losing a close de-cision
to Valdosta State
College from Georgia. Rus-sell
and Nelson failed to
make the semi-final round
due to insufficient points.
Maltby said, "We had
the best four-person team
as evidenced by the indi-vidual
Tankings." Russell
and Kreutzfeldt tied for
see page 5
being recatalogued and re-filed
more efficiently.
The station plays prim-arily
contemporary Chris-tian
music but may add
classical music. Plans for
the future include more
promotionals, tape-delayed
sports broadcasts and pos-sibly
radio drama on the
life of Christ, providing
there is enough interest
among students.
The news, written by
four or five writers, is
broadcast three times a
day. The broadcasts in-dude
international, na-tional,
local and campus
Both Vogel and Fahren-kamp
stress that the sta-tion
is making it a point to
work with the campus coor-dinators
and "trying to
reach out to the whole com-munity."
Bethel forensics forges success
Volunteer aid restores KABY
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Page 2
Call for conformity
masks surface only
Those young men who would normally roam these
scholarly halls in blue jeans and plaid flannel Shirts
find themselves searching the dark recesses of their
closets for their least favorite attire—the suit, replete
with vest, cuffed sleeves and necktie.
The female counterparts to these men face a similar
dilemma: no corduroys and sweaters or lacy blouses
and clinging skirts. They too must don the attire
appropriate for the business world—or at least for an
One might think that the best way to present one's
self would be to be one's self—let the "real you" shine
forth. But, no, conformity is the name of the game. Out
there—in the real world—relaxed fashions just don't fit.
If you want to play the game you have to dress for it.
And so the suits, ties, straight-cut skirts and tailored
blouses make their debut on the college scene. The
pressure from without has crept into the laid-back
atmosphere of an up-to-date campus.
For underclassmen the scenario of interviews, job
hunts, resumes, skills assessment and a Vogue appear-ance
seems distant and far-removed. For the several
hundred graduating seniors that picture is all too uivid
and clear.
Conformity, the cause underlying the seniors' tension
and nervousness, confronts us all. Not one of us has
gone through life without being cornered into going
along with the crowd—even if that meant conforming
to a crowd of non-conformists. We are plagued with the
"need" to fit in. The world beckons us to be a part of the
It's frustrating. We frequently succumb to the pres-sure.
More often than that we get mad. We scream at
ourselves for giving in, realizing that there must be a
better way, but yet are unwilling to subject ourselves to
criticism, bitter laughter and ridicule.
Stop. Look at what should be our guide. Listen to
wise counsel: "And be not conformed to this world: but
be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you
may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and per-fect
will God." (Rom;. 12:12).
Sounds pretty good. It also sounds like a tough act to
live up to. But it's good—it's very good. And the business
world doesn't have a chance at knocking us down if we
live what is good.
Finely tailored attire may get us the job, but it's
something beneath that will help us keep it.
Dear Editor:
The hostages are home!
They are now returned
Americans or former hos-tages.
It was great to see a
nation so concerned about
the welfare of political pri-soners.
We remained in-formed,
made outward dis-plays
of our interest and
prayed for their release:
how wonderful!
Are we going to kid(
this away now that they
are home? Unfortunately
they were not the only po-litical
prisoners in the world
and they deserved no spe-cial
favor from God be-cause
of their nationality.
Raspberry, from - page 1
including oil and water
paintings, photographs,
collages and a few ceram-ics.
Bryan Anderson, 1977
Bethel alumnus and for-mer
Raspberry Monday
award winner said, "I've
noticed a growing conser-vatism
in the viewers. This
reflects a lack of educa-tion
in art appreciation and
of a person's creative en-deavors.
A person is enti-tled
to his opinion, but it
shows a narrowness to
come out and lambast some-thing."
Lorelei Markson, a cur-rent
Bethel student, said
she "expected a greater num-
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• Special report: Interim '81 review
My sincere hope is that
Our' concern for the impri:-
sonment, punishment and
murder of innocent people
will continue.
We will be hearing much
about the former hostages'
experiences. Is this•an oc-casion
for name-calling
and other•displayS• Of an-no
comment. by Doug Barkey
Hostage return only the beginning
ber of pieces. expect-ed
more variety of size. As
far as the works them-selves
go, they are good,
but the- presentation in
some cases might have
been better."
Dr. Carl Lundquist, pres-ident
of the college and
seminary, had positive com-ments:
"I am impressed by
the ingenuity of our young
people. I can see why the
committee had a hard time;
there are a number of very
good things here. Student
artists are not bound by
convention. They seem to
go beyond their experience.
I'm proud of them all."
ger? I think not; how soon
welorget the cause of this
unhappy event. Let us in-stead
strive withOur whole
beings - to free this world
from the tyranny of injus-tice,
fear, hatred, violence
and the consequences of
Brent Friesen
Hand-made Bethel bricks come from special mold
by Leann M. Kicker
Bethel is bricks. That
statement is almost a
cliche with Bethel perpet-ually
under construction.
Although Bethel is al-ways
expanding the exter-nal
appearance of the struc-ture
is uniform. That uni-formity
is because of the
Bethel brick.
Bethel brick is a colo-nial
style brick produced
by the Galena Shale Tile
and Brick Company near
Columbus, Ohio. Each
brick is made by hand
pressing soft clay into
wooden mold. The bricks
are then dried for 48 -72
hours at 250 degrees Fah-renheit,
then coal-fired at
1900 degrees Fahrenheit
for 9-10 days.
The hand-forming pro-duces
the irregular shapes
unique to Bethel bricks.
The coal firing provides
the variation in color, due
to temperature variation
within the kiln. Bricks near-est
the fire come out dark-est.
Bethel brick was chosen
in the 1960s by Hugh Pea-cock,
architect for Bethel
Seminary Arden Hills cam-pus.
He thought it would
enhance the natural beau-ty
of the campus and be a
continuous theme in fu-ture
The tradition continues
as brick-layers build the
walls for the new science
Page 3
Burton commutes to new job
by Karen Cavaleri
Commuting students
have a new advocate on
Bethel Campus since the
end of January. A sopho-more
at the college, Bar-bara
(Barb) Burton said
she "slid right in" to her
new position as Commu-ter
Resident Assistant, a
job prevously held by
Brad Falk.
Traveling to classes
each day from her family
home in St. Paul, Burton
is personally aware of the
problems faced by stu-dents
commuting to a col-lege
where the emphasis
is on campus residence.
Her new job, under the
auspices of 'the Depart-ment
of Student Affairs,
allows her to help fellow
commuters get involved
at Bethel.
As commuter resident
assistant, Barb informs
by Ginny Olson
Located in the far corner
of the student senate of-fice,
The Spire editors are
busy trying to meet dead-lines.
Because the year-book
will come out in Sep-tember,
deadlines are corn-ing
up this month.
According to Dona
Amann, assistant editor,
the color sections are now
due. "There will be sixteen
pages of four-color pic-tures,"
she said.
One familiar section in
approximately 328 corn-muting
students about
campus activities through
"On the Road," a semi-monthly
newsletter for
commuters. She will also
be establishing certain
hours at the campus coor-dinator's
office. There she
will be available to help
with questions or prob-blems
that commuters
might have, such as trans-portation.
Looking ahead,
she plans some breakfast
get-togethers, perhaps a
lunch; Bible studies are
another possibility.
Commuters who want
to contact Burton can
leave a message in PO
Although she can keep
commuting students in-formed
about what is hap-pening
on campus, Burton
insisted, "They have the
primary responsiblity."
The Spire will be "Pas-sages."
Sandi Covert, edi-tor,
said she is trying to
find a literary director to
take over that section. She
has a few ideas on who
that person will be and
will make a decision in the
near future. Once the liter-ary
director is chosen, s/he
will decide the winner of
the "Passages" contest,
which took place this fall.
The reason The Spire
isn't coming out until this
September is so that it can
cover spring sports. "For
those students who aren't
here this fall, they will be
mailed copies," said Covert.
Amann added that they
may have to charge sen-iors
and transfers a dollar
to cover mailing expenses.
Hand in hand with dead-lines
come pressures, es-pecially
with a beginning
project like The Spire. "It's
hard, this being the first
year," sighed Covert. "We
don't know what to ex-pect.
We have to get pho-tographers
to be where
they're supposed to be and
try to get people together
for meetings."
"Everything is slow be-cause
everything is new,"
said Amann. "This year
we're trying to lay a foun-dation
so that The Spire
will keep on going. I'd like
to build a revolving staff
for the future, one that is
made up of people from
different years."
The process of getting a
staff for next year begins
in February.
Both commuters and those
in Bethel housing need to
make the effort to extend
themselves to other stu-dents,
she said. "Commu-ter
or not," she declared,
"it's imperative to reach
out and get involved!"
Interest in
by Mary Swisher
Bethel has strong ties
with Sweden because it
was founded by Swedish
immigrants. The school
was originally intended
for teaching Swedish-speak-ing
immigrants. The inter-est
in the language and
heritage of the Scandina-vian
countries is on the
rise again at Bethel, be-cause
of student and alum-ni
Rune Engebreten, assis-tant
professor of German,
put together a Scandina-vian
studies program pro-posal.
Approval depends
on whether proper finan-cial
support can be found
from outside sources.
The study program, said
Engebretsen, will be inter-disciplinary.
This would
be accomplished by tak-ing
advantage of courses
already existing and link-ing
them with the pro-posed
Scandinavian study
The primary focus
would be language corn-petence,
but students
would be encouraged to
explore the intellectual, so-cial,
political and econo-mic
developments of Scan-dinavian
countries past
and present. Other com-ponents
offered in the pro-posed
program include a
Scandinavian semester
abroad and Scandinavian-focused
interim and sum-mer
workshops. These op-portunities
will be availa-ble
for students, faculty
and alumni.
According to the pro-posal,
the courses offered
will "seek to provide a
synoptic view" of Scandi-navian
life and culture with
reference to a liberal arts
education. Its purpose is
"to promote and improve
the learning of the lan-guage,
literature and cul-ture
of Scandinavian coun-tries."
Barb Burton will assume Brad Falk's responsibilities of commuter R.A. (photo by Doug Barkey).
I.S.A. banquet planned for Feb. 19
by Tim Wilbee
The International Stu-dent
Association stages its
annual banquet next week.
President Gabrielle Pratt
promises that it will be as
festive as ever. The dinner
will feature international
fares and a, short after-dinner
show, Thursday,
February 19th, in the din-ing
center's Royal Oak
Room. The banquet i.s a
school event, not exclusive-ly
for I.S.A. members. It
was originally planned for
March, but rescheduled
due to scheduled campus
coordinator events and the
availability of the kitchen.
Pratt, a junior from the
Bahamas, along with sen-ior
Lori Olson (Ecuador)
have been largely respon-
Bible for organizing the
event. Moving the date up
made it difficult to plan on
time. Pratt, who was in
Mexico over interim, com-mended
Olson and I.S.A.
Vice President Jane Al-bright
for their work.
"Last year all 200 tick-ets
were sold and everyone
really enjoyed themselves,"
said Pratt. "This year it
will also be a success be-cause
we are putting in
the time and effort neces-sary
to make it go." She
expressed the need to make
this year's banquet unique.
The after-dinner show will
he short and have a musi-cal
I.S.A. is designed to help
international students here
at Bethel, "They help peo-ple
adjust, help them feel
at home, help them make
friends," said Connie Lar-son,
a sophomore from Mex-ico.
It includes all students
from abroad, including chil-dren
of missionaries. Char-lie
Retts, faculty adviser,
helps students with the
practical end of their stay
here, with paperwork, talk-ing
to officials and getting
Tickets for the banquet
went on sale this week by
the post office and cost
$3.75 for members of the
Bethel community (stu-dents,
faculty, and staff)
and $4.00 for everyone
else. Food cards are ac-cepted.
Bethel Food Ser-vice
Manager Wayne Erick-son
will cater the event.
Spire slowly rising
to meet deadlines
Keep your hat: avoid arrows
Few people know the
true beginnings of what
we now call St. Valen-tine's
Day. Actually, Val-entine
was no saint, but
that's rushing ahead. The
story comes out of what is
now called Hungary, be-fore
written history. Re-cent
archeological excava-tions
have uncovered the
true, untold story of the
day's history.
Dadvinkin Schnider, a
local shepherd in a small
Hungarian town, had been
watching Valentina Tind-hovski
for weeks. Unable
to express his love ver-bally
(King David was the
exception when it came
to articulate shepherds),
Dadvinkin turned to his
friend, Cupivskolovski Jo-hanoval
(Cupid to his old
Cupid had a strange
sense of humor and
thought that shooting an
arrow, complete with
note, at the young maiden
would catch her attention.
Dadvinkin, not trusting
his own marksmanship
asked Cupid to shoot the
love-lettered arrow.
Happy to help a friend,
Cupid did just that. Un-fortunately,
the lass was
not impressed. She didn't
think shooting arrows at
her was an appropriate
sign of affection. In fact,
she was downright fur-ious
when the arrow
ruined her best hat.
Desperate to apologize,
Dadvinkin sent her flow-ers
(via Cupid) and beg-ged
her forgiveness in,
you guessed it, a note. She
ignored them. He sent her
candy with Wes carved
in it, he wrote her poems,
he did everything he could
think of. Cupid was a
great help in delivering
these things, but Valenti-na's
heart could not be
On February 14, Valen-tina
and Cupid were mar-ried
and Dadvinkin died
of a broken heart. (Some
historians insist it was
whooping cough, but most
romantics reject this
Since that day, annual
celebrations pay tribute
to the faithful lover,
though Cupid's part has
changed over the years.
For those who would like
a new and unique way to
celebrate the occassion, a
special list has been
drawn up by the Remem-ber
Valentina's Day corn-mittee
at Bethel.
1. Make a six-foot Val-entine
and leave it next to
your friend's PO.
2.Give free coupons for
kisses to friends—keep
chocolate variety with
you at all times.
3. Stage a candlelit din-ner
in the Crystal Court at
the IDS tower.
4. Give a gift certificate
for one heart transplant
from the MAYO clinic.
(We suggest you date it
for the near future and
make sure your friend is
in good health or you may
find yourself in trouble.)
5. Buy your friend an
orchid plant. The flower
shop at St. Anthony Main
has one on sale for
6. Have a midnight pic-nic
on Lake Valentine.
7. Stomp a message in
the snow and take a photo
of it from the air—friends
in the aviation class may
be able to help you with
8. Make up a mnemonic
poem from the word Val-entine.
9. Make up a limerick
as a personalized card.
Make the last line not
rhyme as an extra sur-prise.
10. Use your. imagina-tion,
but stay away from
shooting love-lettered ar-rows
at friends. No one
likes to ruin a good hat.
The Third World Today
—a series of convocation addresses on third world country issues
Ebenezer Sikakane, minister, teacher, editor, inter-preter,
musician and theologian, opens the series of six
addresses February 16 and 17 during chapel. He will
speak on "The Nature and Results of Apartheid (govern-mental
policies for racial segregation)" and "The
Church's Response to Apartheid."
Sikakane is married and the father of five children,
one of whom is a Bethel student—Rosemary Sikakane,
a senior.
Topics of address for the series:
—Racial policies in South Africa���Apartheid
—Economic problems faced by third world countries
—Islam and Christianity; interaction of two beliefs in
—Revolutions in third world countries, particularly as
relating to Ethiopia
Ebenezer Sikakane —Refugees from the third world
Note daily chapel schedule for dates of upcoming addresses.
Page 4
From Our
compiled by Jay Russell
Bob monopolizes,
tuition rises,
letter criticizes
Chapel Schedule
16 Ebenezer Sikakane
17 Ebenezer Sikakane
18 Lee Eliason: Worship
19 Hymnal Chapel with
Oliver Mogc k
20 Rev. Art Erickson: Give
a Helping Heart
From the February 3, 1974
Monopoly tournament.
The Second Annual Be-thel
College Monopoly
Tournament took place
during interim, with 19
participants competing.
Student Bob Bergerud mo-nopolized
the tournament,
defeating defending cham-pion
Steve Larson.
The 19 players were split
into five groups, each of
which played a game in
the first round. The lop
two people in each game
then advanced to the next
At one point during the
final game Larson seem-ed
to have his second
championship- wrapped
up, "but the money mani-pulation
and dice dexter-ity
exhibited by Bob Ber-gerud
overpowered the
mighty magnate Steve
Larson. ...The Monopoly
Tournament is now on its
way to being established
as a tradition at Bethel
Tuition increase.
The college announced
a four per cent rise in the
cost of tuition, bringing
the cost of nine courses up
to $1,980, $72 above the
previous year's cost. The
four per cent increase was
lower than the annual in-flation
rate in 1973.
Students were required
to purchase a minimum of
$225 in food cards per
semester. Old campus re-sidents
were required to
_purchase $100 in food
Room and. board costs
were raised to $475 and
$525, respectively, from a
cost of $450 each the year
before. Total costs for
room, board and tuition'
for the '74-'75 school year
were raised to $2,980
from $2,808 the previous
Joint commencement.
Bruce Wray's letter to
the editor applauded an
article in the previous is-sue
of the .Clarion, titled,
"The Necessity of Separ-ate
Graduation." Wray
notes, "During my four
years here at Bethel I have
searched in vain for a log-ical,
legitimate reason for
the College and Seminary
to graduate together."
Wray said the article
cited two views held in
favor of one commence- -
ment policy: "1) that fu-ture
ministers are given
the opportunity to view
their future congregations,
and 2): that joint com-mencement
promotes uni-ty
and aids in public -re-lations."
"The first argument
hardly deserves a re-sponse,"
Wray said. "Why
not have all Seminary
seniors go to a North
Stars hockey game and
observe the people there?
Maybe .some of t he spec-tators
will be in their fu
lure congregations."
Wray continues, "The
second a rgumen t presup-poses
that unit y between
the two institutions is de-sirable,
Something I do
not believe is true. How
can Iwo schools with ex-pressly
different purposes
and whose students have
little or no contact (except
for a couple of hours on a
Iune afternoon) even pre-
-some to talk about unity?
It is both hypocritical and
Applications Available
Applications are now available for the media
chief positions — Clarion, Roster, KABY and
Spire—in the student senate office. Deadline for
applications: March 11, 1981.
Campus Coordinator applications are also
available in the student affairs office.
Page 5
Bethel must pay the fiddler now
by Ted Lewis
Drug fix: "I gotta get a shot of heroin or I'll go crazy,
man. Wonder how I can lift enough dough to buy some."
Alcohol fix: "I hate myself, and what's more , I hate
self-pity. A bottle tonight and I'll forget about life all
over again. One more tonight."
Food fix: "Say, Sid. Mind if I pull up to Mac's and fill
up my stomach'? Just gonna catch a bite before church
this evening. Guess there's a cake-thingy after the ser-vice.
Ya going."
Caffeine fix: "Oh ... 1:30. This late night studying is
for the birds—owls, that is. Wish I could get more coffee
or tea, cocoa, heck—anything to keep me going."
TV fix: "Honey, I'm home ... Work? Draining as usual
...No, hon. Rather stay and watch the tube this evening. I
need to unwind."
Night-life fix: "Thank God it's Friday! Can't wait for
Peggy's party tonight. Good-bye, last week. So long,
Sexual fantasy fix: "I'm lonely on my bed. My room-mate
is probably out parkin' with some blonde again.
Why—why do I always have to have sex inside my
head all the time? And the porno mags between my
ma t tresses—I hate them, and yet I need them."
Devotional fix: "1111 m, here we are. Gala lions chapter
four. Hope some verse this morning really speaks home
to me. I need a good boost for the .day."
Music fix: "I can't handle this silence when I drive
alone. Let's see—KSTP���ah, Bruce Spri ngsteen—ya-ough
la loosen me up before class."
Sermon fix: "Wow! Convict ion City. If that message
doesn't get this church in motion, nothin' will. Preach it,
b ro t he r!"
Book fix: "Sure wish my life was more colorful and
adventurous. Seems so mundane. Think I'll jump into
Tolkien again. Reading The Lord of the Rings adds so
much intrigue and freshness to my life." (Columnist's
by Ginger Hope
The other courses he
Music is more than a teaches this semester are
hobby for David Murchie,
new assistant professor of "ttihoenosl oogfy " iIn" taronddu tcwtioo sne cto-
Biblical studies at Bethel. Biblical studies."
For about 15 years, it was Next semester he will
Murchie's profession—as teach social ethics, an area
a violinist in the Denver of deep personal concern
to Murchie. In fact, if he
Symphony Orchestra.
What made him decide had the chance to talk with
to teach rather than play odnaey B("ibNliecxalt ctoha trhaect eLro trod-violin
for a living? "I didn't
dislike the music busi- himself, of course," he in-ness,"
Murchie said, "but I terjected with a smile), he
saw other needs in the would pick Amos. Murchie
world." He believes that would discuss such situa-the
Lord worked through tions as world poverty,
circumstances and-through rich Christians and the Cam-his
interests to lead him to bodian situation with the
his present position. prophet. Amos, he said,
Murchie has by no "had a great sense of social
means deserted the world justice, which we urgently
of music. Every summer need in this technological
he returns to Colorado to age."
play in an opera orchestra, Murchie's impression of
and at Christmas he plays Bethel has been pleasant.
for a ballet in an other musi- He smiled (smiling, incid-cal
event in Denver. He entally, is something that
plans to do free-lance work Murchie does a lot of) as
in the Twin Cities, and he said, "I don't mean to
teaches violin and string say the same thing eve-pedagogy
at Bethel. rybody says, but I do see a
Spending fix. Debate fix. Smoking fix. Attention fix.
Gossip fix. The list goes on.
Fixes: things we need which transfer us from a state
of restlessness to a state of feeling good. We take fixes
because they really do keep us going. Like aspirin, they
grant us temporary relief from our present condition.
When we hear the word 'addiction' we usually think
of chemical dependency . Yet all fixes hold the potential
to make us dependent upon them.
For example, I became a TV addict during my last
years of high school. Every night I compulsively
watched one of the late movies. And I had no freedom
not to. Every night.
To understand why we depend on certain fixes can
be very important. Basically , we turn to them for secur-ity.
They shield us from facing reality and dealing with
it firsthand. So when we feel lonely, or afraid of how
others may think of us, or insecure about our identity,
future or just daily pressures, fixes help us to cover up
such reality. All people have safety valves to vent
tense emotions. And to the extent that they hold a
balance, fixes. are often helpful. The more we lean on
them, however, the more they control us. We turn to
them for freedom and pleasure, and they subtly enslave
us in return.
Sometimes when we habitually seek good feelings
away from reality, we grow numb to feel reality as it
truly is. Our fixes add layers and layers of skin which
cover Our real emotions, and we pretend those feelings
don't exist. Over time, such repression makes us with-draw
from a real world of tension and escape into an
illusionary world of fulfullment. Honesty about our
weaknesses is the only medicine that allows us to live
in a world of tension and still be free to grow.
In the next "Wild Honey and Camel Hair," we'll dis-cuss
religious and spiritual fixes of American Chris-tianity,
as well as Biblical perspectives which help us
deal openly with our weaknesses. Until then, notice the -
things you're hooked on, and call a spade a spade.
real sense of community
Murchie has studied at
the University of Colora-do,
the University of Den-
He commented that most ver, and at the University
students seem genuinely of California (Berkeley),
serious about what they're where he earned an A.B. in
doing. Murchie doesn't economics. He received his
find cynicism as predom- M.Div. from the Conser-inant
here as at other vative Baptist Theological
schools; this makes the Be- Seminary, Denver, and his
thel atmosphere "quite re- Ph.D. from Drew Univer-freshing"
to him. sity in New Jersey.
Music will never play second fiddle for David Murchie, new
assistant professor of Biblical studies. He came here from the
Denver Symphony Orchestra.
Debate, 8. So. Utah State
from page 1
ally in the tournament.
ranked . debator individu-southern
debate team in the coun-
7th speaker overall and
ville, Ark., for a major
ranked as the '16th CEDA
Publow was the second-travels
to Fayette-
Currently Bethel is
This weekend Bethel 9. U. of S. California
11. Humboldt St. U.
13. U. of Florida
20. U. of So. Colorado
10. U. of Wyoming
12. San Francisco St. U.
14. Trinity U.
15. U. of Oregon
16. Bethel
17. Wingate College
18. West. Washington U.
19. New Mexico Junior
Bethel's best national
rating so far this season
The program in indivi-was
as high as 11th. Ac- dual events continues to
cording to Maltby, "With progress.
a good showing at the
January 10 and '11, Peg-tournaments
this spring it gy Hardie competed at
is not without reason to Anoka Ramsey Commun-hope
for a final top ten ity College in oral inter-showing
when the season pretation and just missed
ends in April." making the final rounds,
The top twenty teams with ranks of first, first,
in the nation based on all and fourth in - the prelimi-tournaments
from Septem- nary competition.
ber, 1980 through January
Maltby said, "There is
24, 1981 are as follows: still an opportunity for
anyone interested to come
2. CSU-Northridge out for the debate and for-
3. Wheaton College ensics team. With virtu-
4. Brigham Young Univer- ally all members being un-sit
derclassmen, next year
5. USAF Academy promises to be the finest in
6. UC-Berkeley the history of Bethel foren-
7. U. of San Francisco sics."
liWildHoney and Camel Hair,
How do you spell relief? F-I-X-E-S
INFACT, the Nestle boycott organization, initiated a boycott
against all Nestle products in 1977. Over 60 national, civic and
religious organizations have endorsed the boycott.
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Women's B-B, from
Leslie Smith was the
high scorer with 12 points.
Bethel had three other
players who scored in the
double figures. Kim Chris-tenson
shot in 16 points.
page 7
Duehn and Griffin added
14 and 11 points.
The Royals have three
regular season games left.
Feb. 26-28 they compete
in the state tournament.
Apartment Director (AD) and
Resident Assistant (RA)
February 16, 1980 7 p.m.
Information session and panel discussion, FA 313
February 17, 1980
Applications available in Student Affairs office
February 27, 1980
Applications due
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Nestle Co. accused of slanting truth
by Becky Dye
The Nestle boycott or-ganization,
INFACT, has
recently been confronted
with a highly-organized
effort attempting to count-er
its influence. This ef-fort,
discovered early in
January and reported by
the Washington Post Jan-uary
4, was planned by
Nestle Corporation top
executives, in secret, to
undermine boycott sup-porters.
The strategy to be used
was for Nestle to asso-ciate
themselves with the
"New Right" and other
organizations with simi-lar
political leanings. At-tempts
were being made
to label the National Coun-cil
of Churches and other
religious supporters as
"Marxists marching tin-der
the banner of Christ."
Nestle has organized an
expensive public relations
program to discredit the
boycotters' efforts.
The most recent at-tempt
by Nestle included
the use of influence on the
media, in particular the
Washington editor of For-tune
magazine, Mr. Her-man
Rev. William Howard,
president of the National
Council of Churches, an
active endorser of the boy-cott,
wrote Nestle's chief
executive officer, "You
have undermined the ven-erable
American tradi-tions
of objective scholar-ship
and journalism by
collaborating with an or-ganization
which is an
obvidusly biased research
center and by consulting
with a journalist who pur-ports
to he an indepen-dent
importantly, you have
sought to divert attention
from the need of signifi-cant
changes in Nestle's
infant formula practices."
INFACT initiated the
boycott against all Nestle
products in 1977, to force
the giant Swiss conglome-rate
to stop its unethical
promotion of infant for-mula
in developing na-lions.
Under conditions of
poverty, the unsafe use of
infant formula leads to
malnutrition, disease and
death. The National Coun-cil
of Churches and over
60 national, civic and re-ligious
bodies have en-dorsed
the boycot t.
"We are shocked by the
callousness of this docu-ment,"
commented Doug-las
Johnson, national chair-person
of INFACT. "Nes-tle
is willing to spend
enormous sums to protect
their reputation when
they ought to be investing
in changes of marketing
practices that will safe-guard
infant lives." John-son
added, "The revela-tion
of this material has
given us renewed commit-ment
to increase the boy-cott's
economic impact On
the company. It is evident
that money is the only
language to which Nestle
will respond."
by Judy Helman
Assistant Director in Food Service
College life brings a variety of experiences into our
daily existence. To those who venture out from the
dorms, a major encounter is apartment living—especial-ly
survival in the kitchen! Here it is, Bethel. By now
you have most likely had your fill of chicken pot pies
and Kraft Macaroni Dinners, and Mom's supply of food
brought back from Christmas is dwindling danger-ously
low. You need to start looking for other avenues
for consumption in order to make it through to Spring
In this column you will find help for the mealtime
dilemma. Besides just providing recipes simple enough
for even the real novice, there will be information on the
whats and whys of nutrition. We can't save you from
schoolwork, but maybe we can keep you from hitting
the "mid-term slump" by making you aware that your
body is revolting from a subsistence of Coke and pop-corn
and needs a balance of protein, vitamins and such
to maintain the type of lifestyle in which you are
This week we have a
recipe for you to try. It's
simple and most of the
ingredients are already in
your cupboard. Try it and
Shrimp 'N Dumpling Creole
101/2 oz. can of tomato soup,
4 oz. can mushroom stem and pieces, drained
4 1/2 oz. can tiny shrimp, drained
1/2 green pepper, thinly sliced
1 med. onion, sliced
1/4 c. water
1 tsp. Worchestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. salt
Oven temp. 350 degrees. 4-6 servings.
Combine soup, mushrooms, shrimp, onion, green
pepper, water, W. sauce and salt in 1 1/2 qt. casserole.
Cover. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Remove from
oven. Drop Cheese Dumplings by rounded teas-poonfuls
onto hot mixture. Cover and bake for 20
Cheese Dumplings
3/4 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. cubed (1h" sq.) Cheddar cheese
1/3 c. milk
1 tbsp. cooking oil
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Women break records,
place second in meet
Bethel B-B
team effort
by Wendy Norberg
Bethel's women's track
team finished in second
place in their first indoor
tri-meet of the season last
weekend. The women beat
Michigan Tech, but were
outnumbered by a large
University of Minnesota-
Duluth squad. Numerous
records and first places
showed that Bethel's team
is again characterized by
few yet good quality
In the field events jun-ior
Sarah Barker won the
shot put with a 36'2"
throw; sophomore Carrie
Severson finished fourth.
High-jumper Tammy Ruck
went 4'6" for second place.
Captain Lynn Severson
broke two of her own
school records, finishing
first in both the 55-meter
dash with a time of 7.4
and the 200-meter dash
with 27.0. Teammate Da-nette
Burgess finished
third in the same two
events. Severson and Bur
gess also combined their
efforts with Jenny Bur-gess
and Sherri Lindquist
to win the 4 x 176-yard
relay, setting a school re-cord
at 1:28.3. Jenny Bur-gess
later set a school
record in the 33", 55-meter
hurdles at 9.5 for a second-place
finish. Lindquist
placed third in the 400-
meter dash with 1:06.1.
In the middle distance
events Brenda Harris took
fourth and fifth in the 800-
and 1500-meter runs, re-spectively.
Distance run-ners
Ellie Abbott and Wen-dy
Norberg took second
and third places in the
3,000-meter run with
times of 11:13 and 11:23.
Abbott set a new indoor
record. . _
Coach Cindy Book was
impressed with the per-formances
of each indivi-dual
and expects to see a
lot of improvement as the
season progresses. The
team travels to St. Olaf
next Saturday for a 1:00
p.m meet.
goals to tie the game. Dave
Eklund scored, assisted
by Scott Dahlstrom and
Dick Smith to make the
score 2-3. Keith Nord tied
up the game with a goal
assisted by Smith and Ek-lund.
The third period evi-denced
Bethel's building
confidence. Rick Reese
fired a score, assisted by
Captain Steve Kettle-kamp,
to move ahead 4-3.
Smith secured the victory
with a goal, with Dahl-strom
and Captain Scott
Johnson assisting. The
Johnnies scored a final
goal in vain, with 2:25 left to
play. They were unable to
make any more of a come-back.
Robbie Laden goal-tended,
making 30 saves.
Coach Dahl commented
on the victory, "We put it
all together and out-played
a team that is at
about our same level and
by Ellie Abbott
The women's basket-ball
team put forth a fine
team effort to defeat St.
Benedict's last Friday,
80-59. This victory put
the Royals 2-2 in the divi-sion.
Coach Marcia LaRock
described the win as "a
real team game. "She add-ed,
"Our last two games
we have won have been
real team efforts. We have
shot almost 50 per cent in
the last two games, and
our turnovers have been
Beth Karsjens paved the
way for the Royals with
24 points. JoAnn Griffin
scored 19, while freshman
guard Sue Duehn added
Griffin was the leading
rebounder for Bethel with
thirteen rebounds, and
Karsjens had nine.
The junior varsity also
trampled St. Benedict's,
56-33. Freshman guard
Jane Anderstrom "had an
excellent game scoring 22
points," commented La-
The highlight of the
women's trip to Wheaton,
Ill., was defeating Whit-worth
College, 82-70. Shei-la
Kroon and Keri DeBoer
were out with injuries,
but the Royals compen-sated
well. "Everyone on
the team played in the
varsity game and we had
a fine team effort," said
Coach La Rock.
see page 6
The Royal hockey team broke an eight game losing streak last Friday night by defeating St. John's
Hockey team snaps losing streak
by Becky Dye
The Bethel Royals will
take on St. Thomas to-night
at 7:45 at. Columbia
Ice Arena. "We will be
looking to avenge an 8-3
loss earlier in the season,"
said Coach Craig Dahl.
The Royals snapped an
eight-game loosing streak
last Friday by defeating
St. John's, 5-4 at Colum-bia
Ice Arena.
The Royals started out
slowly but built enough
momentum to finish the
game on top. They were
down 3-1 at the end of the
first period. Dave Johnson
scored, assisted by Peter
Dahl and Tomm Berquist.
The Bethel pucksters
came out in the second
period and displayed con-fidence
by dominating the
play and scorino twn mnro
Jason Velgersdyk jumps to score against the Scots, but Macales-ter
won, 65-62.
Mike Anderson tackles an opponent at Bethel's last home wrestling match. Injuries took a heavy
toll on the Royals.
Royal tracksters dominate meet
Page 8
by Rob Haglund
Just when it seemed as
though the Bethel basket-ball
team was going to get
back into the MIAC chase,
the Macalester Scots stole
the show, and the Royals
let a golden opportunity
slip through their hands.
The Royals showed last
Saturday that they were
not the same team that
was embarrassed by Mac
a month ago. The cagers,
inspired by a large crowd
led by an enthusiastic
football team, stormed
back from a 12-point sec-ond
half deficit to take a
five point lead late in the
second session.
Bethel still had a one-point
lead and the ball
by Rob Haglund
The Bethel wrestling
team ended the season on
a disappointing note, los-ing
to Concordia before
topping St. Mary's in a
"triangular" meet last
week. The meet was pri-marily
a dual, because St.
Mary's only brought three
In the first match Con-cordia
edged St. Mary's
44-6. The second match,
between Concordia and
Bethel, was the main event
of the evening, but that
proved to be unfortunate
for the Royals.
Concordia, according to
Coach Finn Grinaker,
wrestled their best match
of the year.
When Greg Widmer and
Rich Reynolds both lost to
what appeared to be infe-rior
opponents, the lower
weights, it appeared that
the home team might have
a long night. Wayne
Reeves and Ben McEach-ern
both lost close
matches and suddenly
what had been labeled as
an even contest was turn-ing
into a rout. Steve
Bont, at 190, was the only
Royal to win; he defeated
when Dion Wolter re-bounded
a missed free
throw with less than a
minute to play. The Roy-als
brought the ball into
the forecourt and called
time out with 29 seconds
Plans went haywire on
the ensuing inbounds
play, however, when
Mike Hanley was trapped
in the backcourt with no
one to receive a pass. The
resulting steal and basket
gave Macalester a 63-62
lead and set the stage for a
dramatic ending.
The Royals again
brought the ball upcourt
and called time out. Ele-ven
seconds showed on
the clock, and visions of
victory on a last-second
the Cobbers' Craig Aus-tinson.
After taking on Con-cordia,
the Royals disposed
of St. Mary's, 48- 11.
Injuries really started to
take their toll in this, the
second of two home
matches. In addition, the
team lost McEachern to a
dislocated kneecap and
Reeves to an elbow inju-ry,
both probably for the
Assistant Coach Bruce
Barringer admitted he
was disappointed by the
outcome of the Concordia
match: "Last year we lost
to them by one point, and
the year before that we
had a close match also,"
he said.
One bright spot for the
Royals was the perfor-mance
of sophomore Doug
Johnson, wrestling at 167.
He pinned Tim Anderson
of St. Mary's and wrestled
well in losing to Murdich
Mccleod of Concordia.
"Doug's coming off a sea-son-
long battle with in-juries,
and he's looked
very good recently," Bar-ringer
Tomorrow the Royals
participate in the MIAC
conference meet at Ham-line,
starting at 9 a.m.
basket formulated in the
mids of the fans.
But the Scots stole the
ball. Two free throws
with four seconds left
made for the 65-62 final.
Macalester's Dave Buti-na,
former and potential
conference scoring champ,
tossed in 32 points.
Dwayne Nordstrom led
the Royals with 14.
The win moved Maca-lester
into a three-way tie
for second place in the
balanced conference. Be-thel
dropped into a three-way
tie for seventh.
The Royals will be home
again tomorrow night,
hosting conference power-house
Augsburg. Junior
varsity begins at 5:15 and
varsity at 7:30.
by Wendy Norberg
With a tremendous team
effort resulting in many
new school and freshman
indoor records, the Bethel
men's track team easily
captured first place in
its first meet of the in-door
season. University
of Minnesota-Duluth host-ed
last weekend's meet,
finishing second ahead of
Michigan Tech, and Be-midji,
Bethel did well in the
field events, with the pole
vaulters creating the most
excitement. Senior Greg
Stipe won with a vault of
14'. His freshman team-mate
Jay Constable took
second, setting a new
freshman record at 13'6".
This vault was also his
personal best by 11/2 feet.
Bethel also dominated
the triple jump with Phil
Asay placing first at 47'7".
Stipe was second with
45'1 1/2". Stipe also finished
second in the long jump
and shot put and took
third in the high jump.
In the hurdles Asay set
two new school records
taking first in the 36"
hurdle 55-meter race with
a time of 7.4, and second
in the 42" hurdle 55-meter
race with 7.7. Constable
set two new freshman re-cords
in the same events
with a 7.9 and 8.4, respec-tively.
In the 400-meter dash
Pa-ul Otto took first place
at 52.1 and Dave Jorgen-son
took second at 52.2,
setting a freshman record.
Jorgenson also set a fresh-man
mark in the 800-meter
with 2:03.7, taking third
place. 'Teammate Jay Van
Loon was right behind
him in fourth place.
In the 500-meter dash
Tom Plocker set a school
record at 1:09 and Tim
Snyder set the freshman
record at 1:11.0.
Captain Otto won the
300 - meter and lowered
the school record to 0:36.4.
Earlier he secured third
place in a very close 55-
meter dash with a time of
0:06.6. Otto also anchored
the first-place mile relay
team consisting of Plock-er,
Jorgenson, and Snyder,
where Bethel came out on
top by a tenth of a second
wtih 3:34.2.
Coaches Dave Ander-son
and Howie Kellogg
agreed that the team mem-bers'
highlighted the meet.
The next meet is Satur-day,
Feb: 14 at St. Olaf at
1:00 p.m.
Sports Spirit by Ortiz
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Mac slips by men's B-B team
Johnson wins match,
leads wrestling team
Sports Events
Men's and Women's Track-Feb. 14- St. Olaf" Away,
Men's Basketball- Feb. 14- Augsburg, Home JV-5:30,
Feb. 18- St. Mary's, Home JV- 5:30. V-7:30
Women's Basketball- Feb. 14- N. Dakota State
University, Away
Feb. 18- Hamline Away, 7:00
Wrestling-Feb. 14- M.I.A.C. at Hamline U. All Day.
Hockey- Feb. 17- Augsburg, Home 8:00
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Plans to bring two small pickups to the U.S. have been put on hold again by the manufacturer. Mahindra & Mahindra, an Indian company that already builds small pickups in India with exports to Australia, announced plans back in 2009 to bring the trucks to the U.S. in its efforts to become a global company.
At the time, Mahindra struck a deal with Global Vehicles USA, a Georgia-based company set up to distribute the trucks here. Global Vehicles said it arranged over 300 dealers to sell the trucks and announced a launch date of early 2010. That time has since passed and arrival of the pickups does not appear imminent.
The relationship between Global Vehicle and Mahindra has, for all intent and purposes, dissolved into a legal battle that continues to delay the vehicles.
Global Vehicles claims Mahindra is responsible for delaying the introduction of the trucks. The company's chief executive officer John Perez did not mince words in a press release, accusing Mahindra officials of not being truthful.
"Nearly 350 dealers have been ready to sell Mahindra trucks for more than three years," said Perez. "If Mahindra executives were being truthful when they said that the trucks would be on sale by the end of the year, they should honor that commitment so dealers can start earning back the tens of millions of dollars they have invested in the brand.
"Binding arbitration will decide if Mahindra lied to Global Vehicles and our dealers about the status of the trucks and whether they broke the law when they attempted to arbitrarily terminate our distribution contract," Perez added. "In the meantime, Mahindra is legally – and morally – obligated to conduct business as usual."
According to Global Vehicles, Mahindra used an escape clause in the contract that allowed it to walk away from the contract if the vehicles had not achieved U.S. safety and emissions standards by June 11, 2010. Mahindra announced in August the vehicles had passed and could be sold in the U.S.
Global Vehicles invoked an arbitration clause in the distribution contract on June 11, claiming the clause forced both companies to continue to honor the agreement while any dispute – in this case the lack of EPA approval – is resolved. Once Mahindra tried to get out of the deal, a federal lawsuit was filed by Global Vehicles.
"Any suggestion that the arbitration process or the federal lawsuit we were forced to file to protect our rights are responsible for the delay in bringing trucks to the United States is patently not true," Perez said. "If Mahindra's trucks are ready to sell, they should continue performing their obligations under the distributor agreement just like we have. If dealers start to doubt Mahindra's integrity, they don't stand a chance of earning the trust of American consumers."
Mahindra has only issued a brief statement saying, "the contract with Global Vehicles has expired. In light of this fact, Mahindra will be contacting U.S. dealers to make other arrangements for distribution."
Based on an Australian model, Mahindra said the truck has a 2,633-lb. payload rating. It will be offered in 2- and 4-door versions, both powered by a 140-hp., 2.2L 4-cyl. diesel mated to a 6-spd. automatic transmission. WardsAuto.com reported a projected combined city-highway fuel economy of 30 mpg, and says the truck will be offered in 2- and 4-wheel drive.
According to Global Vehicles, it has nearly 350 dealers lined up in 49 states with more than $120 million already invested and millions more set aside to purchase inventory. In statements to the Associated Press, Perez hinted at the fact that Mahindra thought it could only sell "maybe 5,000 to 6,000 vehicles a year" in the U.S. With so many dealers lined up, he implied Mahindra is not interested in working with a third party.
A Mahindra spokesperson told the Associated Press the company is "still interested in getting into the U.S. We don't want to turn this into a war of words."
I guess we'll have to wait until the court case for a conclusion, but I wouldn't count on seeing the Indian pickups anytime soon, if ever at all.


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KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered his forces to take control of Bagram prison, accusing U.S. officials of violating an agreement on control of the facility.
The decision came Monday after what Karzai described as the end of a two-month grace period he and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to for completing the full transfer of the prison's control to Afghan forces, The New York Times reported.
Karzai met Sunday with top officials for a status meeting and issued a statement that said the U.S. breached a memorandum of understanding on handling prisoners.
"The meeting began by hearing reports by the attorney general and the military police commander [which said] that even prisoners who were presumed innocent by the court are still being held," the statement said.
U.S. forces also violated earlier agreements by housing newly captured prisoners at the Parwan detention center, the American-built detention center at Bagram Air Base, it said.
U.S. officials have said the memorandum of understanding left the handling of new prisoners captured by U.S. forces open to negotiations.
Talks stalled because of disputes about the release of some prisoners American forces have refused to let go, the Times said.
The status quo was "a serious breach of the memorandum of understanding," Karzai said in the statement, urging Afghan officials to take "urgent measures to ensure a full Afghanization of the prison affairs and a complete transfer of its authority."
A U.S. official told the Times the matter is an "issue of sovereignty" for Afghanistan and "a matter of security" of the coalition troops for U.S. Gen. George Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan now in Washington, D.C., after a scandal erupted over emails he sent to a Florida woman .
"[You] can't just bring these guys in and let them go," the official said.


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The next time you deliver a PowerPoint presentation that matters—a product launch, investor pitch, new client meeting— take a cue from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and ditch the bullet points. When Bezos unveiled the all-new new Kindle Fire HD this week, his presentation slides were light on text and heavy on images. This style of delivering presentations is fresh, engaging, and ultimately far more effective than slide after slide of wordy bullet points.
Since I wrote The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, I've noticed that many business leaders around the world are adopting the image-rich style including very famous CEO's such as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and even Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. The style works for any leader, in any industry. Ford CEO Alan Mulally even called me personally to thank me for revealing the techniques. Note—Steve Jobs used Apple Keynote software for his presentations, as do current Apple executives. However, since most people use PowerPoint, I use "PowerPoint" as a synonym for presentations. While there are differences between Keynote and PowerPoint, effective storytelling techniques apply equally to both. And no, Steve Jobs did not invent the style. He just happened to use it very effectively.
Now back to Bezos. The typical PowerPoint slide has forty words. It was nearly impossible to find forty words on ten slides of the Amazon presentation. Bezos told the story behind the new products in images and text. I've discussed this technique before in more detail but in short, it's called Picture Superiority. It simply means that the brain processes information more effectively when the information is presented in pictures and words instead of words alone. Neuroscientists have also found that when a slide (or advertisement) contains pictures and words, it's best to have the picture on the left side of the page or slide and words on the right. This is exactly what Bezos did for a majority of his slides.
For example, Bezos introduced the new Kindle Fire HD with a series of slides that just showed images of the products features and services (movies, games, photos). He also played a new video ad (most people don't use enough multimedia in their presentations. Video clips are engaging and memorable. Just keep them short). On the final slide where Bezos revealed the price, he included a picture of the device on the left side of the slide and these words on the right:
Kindle Fire HD
Earlier in the presentation, Bezos unveiled the Kindle Paperwhite, an e-reader with a higher resolution display and patented built-in light. Bezos said the battery lasts eight weeks. Most presenters would have added "8 weeks battery life" to a long list of bullet points/features on one slide. Instead Bezos showed a picture of a calendar with the months September and October. September 6—the day of the presentation—was highlighted in red and Bezos told the audience that the battery would last until the end of October. That's memorable. People will recall the text—8 weeks battery life—much more easily because it was connected with the image of the calendar. I know I will. That's picture superiority—a little text and a lot of pictures.
I know what some of you are thinking—it works for Bezos because he's revealing products that people can see and touch. Let me be clear—picture superiority works in any presentation, even for the most complex ideas. I recently gave a presentation on the topic of communication and storytelling to scientists at one of America's largest nuclear labs. One person implemented the techniques immediately and sent me an email, saying it helped him deliver one of the most persuasive presentations of his career.
In no way am I advocating that you ditch PowerPoint. I am recommending that you ditch PowerPoint as we know it—dull, wordy, and overloaded with bullet points. Image-rich presentations work effectively because pictures appeal to the right hemisphere of the brain—the emotional side. You can have great ideas backed up by data and logic, but if you don't connect with people emotionally, it doesn't matter.
Carmine Gallo is the communications coach for the world's most admired brands. He is a popular keynote speaker and author of several books, including the international bestsellers The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs. His new book, The Apple Experience: Secrets to Building Insanely Great Customer Loyalty is the first book to reveal the secrets behind the stunning success of the Apple Retail Store. Carmine has recently launched an eLearning course titled, The New Rules of Persuasive Presentations. Follow Carmine on Facebook or Twitter.
Read more:
Why So Many "Experts" Are Terrible Speakers: Top 5 Public Speaking Mistakes
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Season Finale Goes To Brown 2-1
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Juliann Jeffrey scored in her final career game, but it wasn't enough to lead the Yale women's soccer team to victory. The Bulldogs dropped a 2-1 decision at Brown in the season finale for both teams.
Jeffrey's goal came with just 1:20 left in the second half. It cut Brown's lead in half, but the Bulldogs were not able to get the equalizer.
Yale fired 22 shots at the Brown goal but only the one found the back of the net.
The Bulldogs end the season with a 7-8-1 overall record.
Today was a non-conference game. The teams played the one that counted in the Ivy League standings on Friday in New Haven, and the Bears managed a 3-1 win.
Yale outshot Brown 13-7 in the first half, but Brown got the only goal when Chloe Cross headed in Annie Gillen's corner kick at 21:24.
It stayed 1-0 until late in the second half. Kiersten Berg got what turned out to be the game-winning goal at 86:25.
Goalkeepers Elise Wilcox and Rachel Ames combined to make five saves.
Melissa Gavin was credited with an assist of Jeffrey's goal. She finished the season as Yale's leading scorer with 11 goals, four assists and 26 points.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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For operating systems where no binary is provided or if you want the latest development version, you will have to build it from source. The code should be compilable on any system with ISO C89 compilers, though we use a smattering of C99 like double slash comments. It's tested on Linux, Mac OS/X, and Windows cross compilers. Less frequently, someone will build on MSVC, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, UnixWare, OpenServer, etc. It's also exercised on a variety of processors and compilers.
You can grab a release from the GPSBabel download page, but if you're going to be doing any development, you'll find that working from the GPSBabel SVN tree is easier.
For most cases, an anonymous checkout of the trunk is really all you need. That can be done easily with the single command:
svn checkout http://gpsbabel.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/gpsbabel
In most cases, the code is as simple to build as running:
./configure && make
Expat is strongly recommended for source builds as it is required for reading all the XML formats such as GPX. Fedora users may need to 'yum install expat-devel'. Ubuntu users may need to 'apt-get install expat libexpat-dev'.
libusb is recommended for OS/X and Linux if you want to use a USB Garmin. Fedora users may need to 'yum install libusb-devel'. Ubuntu users may need to 'apt-get install libusb-dev'.
There are additional flags that can be passed to configure to customize your build of GPSBabel.
./configure --help
lists all the supported options, but of interest we have:
--disable-shapefile Excludes the shapefile support.
--disable-pdb Excludes the Palm database support and all formats that rely on it.
--disable-csv Excludes all support for our something-separated formats.
--disable-filters Excludes all filter support.
--enable-efence Activate debugging mode for gpsbabel-debug.
dir Specifies that the doc should be created and installed in
--without-libusb Disables use of libusb, even it's it's available.
--with-zlib=(included)|system|no By default, we use our own version of zlib. If you specify
system the system zlib is used. A value of
no (or --without-zlib) disables zlib.