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Fe m ale Islam Se nior Me m be r Topic: Hassan A l - Basri Poste d: 04 April 2008 at 6:41pm
"Tell me Khalid about the Hassan of Basra. I think you know him best "May God keep the Prince ! I am the best to give you information about him. For I am his neighbour and friend , and I am the most knowledgeable person about him." "Then , tell me what you know ?' "He is a man whose outward is like his inside. whose words are like his actions. When he tells people to do something good, he is first to do it and when he advises others not to do something, he is first to shun it. He has renounced what people have , but they are always in need of him." "Enough have you said Khalid . No people would go astray while they have a man like him in their midst" This short dialogue between a well-known commander of Muslim armies and a friend of our hero summarized for us in a few words the personality of Hasan Basri., who is well known in Islamic history for his truthfulness , authority in matters of religion , words of wisdom, courage and asceticism. Now let us have a look at his life. Hassam-Al Basri was born in Madinah. His blessed mother was former bonds woman of Umm Salmaa {RA} {The Prophet's wife } and his father Yassar was a former bondsman to Zaid ibn Thabit. So his real name was Al-Hassan ibn Yassar { RA} but is better known in history by the name of Al-Hassan al-Basri or al-Hasan of Basra . Al-Basri was indeed a fortunate child . For though he was born after the death of Prophet Muhammad {SAWS} yet he was literally brought up in the Prophet's household, since he
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the guard of al-Hajjaj {full of surprise at the sudden turn of the events } asked Hassan Basri . then was still full of the former companions of Prophet {SAWS}. "When you entered and saw the sword ready you muttered a few words. Basra was then one of the major urban centres of culture in the Islamic Empire and it was full of the former companions of Prophet { SAWS} who taught the principles and practices of Islam to the thirsty students and masses. Abdullah bin Umar and whose personaly fluency left a special impression on his character. and he invited people to see it { to impress them}. So he ordered some of his soldiers to fetch our hero. he swore to kill Al-Hajjaj al-Basri. The masses crowded the place full of admiration of the palace. truth had to be said even in the face of tyrants. our hero had the golden oppurtunity to learn about Islam and its teaching directly from those great students of Muhammad {SAWS} including people like Ali RA. Al-Hajjaj was not very happy with our hero's doing. What did you say ?" . they needed constant reminders of the dangers of over-indulgence in worldy affairs and luxury. Suddenly the tyrant was awe-struck and almost unconsciously invited our hero to sit next with all humility and respect . Then he asked about some matters of the religion attentively listening to alHassan's answers . So upon leaving . Since Madinah. our hero's family moved to Basra in Iraq where he got the name of Al-Basri. For a man of God shud have no fear except of his Creator and Master. An example of our hero's daring personality is the incidence between him and Al-Hajjaj built himself a big palace at Waasit . Uthman RA. our hero walked with confidencr towards Al-Hajjaj muttering some prayers. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "All the descendants of Adam are sinners. while everyone sat in a state of astonishment . this was a golden oppurtunity to preach to people warning them of the dangers of tyranny and indulgence in worldy gains. Insha-Allah. To our hero. Our hero was one such a reminder. To him . hearing first hand reports about the Prophet. made full use of the oppurtunity spending all his time in the mosque in learning especially at the hands of the well-known companion of the Prophet Abdullah ibn Masood RA. Umm Salmah {RA} and in constant contact with the other wives of Prophet { SAWS} educated by there exemplar personalities and conduct. rulers and masses were greatly influenced by the new wealth and prosperity and practices that followed the expansion of the Muslim state east and westward. Upon entering ." IP Logge d seekshidayath Fe m ale Islam Se nior Me m be r Poste d: 08 April 2008 at 5:46am Joine d: 26 March 2006 Location: India O nline Status: O ffline Posts: 3337 Since many people . At the age of 14.spent his childhood with his mother's Mistress. and the best of sinners are those who repent. Naturally. Our hero Al-Hassan -al -Basri. the rest part of it shall be shared tomorrow.
but Yazeed cannot protect you from God. following are rough translations of Hassan Basri's advice "Ibn Hubaira . Ibn Hubaira . but only your wrong actions with which you disobeyed the Lord and Master of Yazeed . Remember that one shud never obey a creature whoever he might be in disobedience to the Creator. God will leave you to the mercy of Yazeed. God will leave you to the mercy of Yazeed in defiance of God's commandments. for there is no man more righteous than the Prophet. if you are with God . It is reported that ibn Hubaira used to recieve from Caliph in Damascus orders which smelt injustice. He will protect you from the wrath of Yazeed ibn Abdul Malik in this world and in the Hereafter. " O my Master and Protector reverse the rage of al-Hajjaj as You changed the fire into coolness for Abraham". Source : Gems and Jewels . for there is no place that is better than Paradise. So he invited two religious scholars including Hassan Basri to seek their opinion and advice.Darussalam : Saudi Arabia. yet the disbelievers and hypocrites did not benefit by simply knowing him. have fear of god in dealing with Yazeed { the caliph } . and our father. and the best of sinners are those who repent. will come to you taking you from your great and wide palace to the narrow grave . and fear not Yazeed in you dealings with God.Al-Hassan answered ." "A tough Angel. Do not deceive yourself into becoming too proud because you are in a good or righteous environment . Umar ibn Hubaira. where you will find no Yazeed . Here are few of his sayings HASAN BASRI advised some of his students admonishing them about the state of being proud. 3. Do not become proud merely because you worship often." It was with this type of words of wisdom that Hassan Basri spent his 80 years of pious and ascetic life teaching and preaching not only to rulers and masses of his time. " I prayed God . but also to all readers of his sayings at all times." IP Logge d . Adam experienced there what is known to all. But if you are with Yazeeed in defiance of God's commandments. 2. Do not think yourself great because you have met with righteous people. Among the many memorable occasions or pious advice offered by our Hassan Basri to rulers was his encounter with a great governor of Iraq and Persia. He said : 1. Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "All the descendants of Adam are sinners. who disobeys not God. for consider what happened to iblis { satan} after he spent a great deal of time worshipping. Remember that God can protect you from Yazeed .


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The nationally-ranked no. 8 MIT men's track and field team used a solid overall performance to capture a tie for second place at the NCAA Division III New England Championship at the Shobrys and Aronson track on Saturday. Stephen Morton shattered the MIT record in the triple jump while taking first-place in the long jump for the Engineers
Morton reached the NCAA Automatic qualifying distance with his jump of 48-6.75 feet in the triple jump, besting his own Institute record by over seven inches. Morton also captured the individual title in the long jump with a jump of 22-7.75 feet. The junior All-American added a pair of top three finishes on the track to his impressive performances in the field. He took third in the 55-meter dash with a time of 6.56 seconds. Morton also finished just four one-hundredths of a second off the pace in the 200m, running one lap of the track in 22.41 for second place.
Paul Welle (8:48.58) led a group of three Engineers in the top 10 of the 3000 meters, finishing fourth overall. Hemagiri Arumugam came in seventh at 8:49.94 and Ben Mattocks' time of 8:52.29 was good for 10th. Bill Phipps (2:31.95) at 1000m, Yermie Cohen (4:19.72) in the mile and Matt Bieniosek (1:57.38) in the 800 meters all picked up third-place points for the host squad.
Greg Tao went over a foot better than his previous high with a vault 15-9.25 feet to win the pole vault. Travis Hery came in sixth in the event, clearing 14-0 feet for a new personal-record.
The Cardinal and Grey finished in a tie for second with nationally-ranked no. 4 Tufts with 104 points. The two teams followed overall winner Williams, which compiled 145 points.
MIT will compete in the New England Collegiate Indoor Championship next weekend at Boston University.

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Vol. XXVII—No. 12 Bethel College and Seminary January 14, 1948
St. Paul, Minnesota
Male Chorus to Present
Season's First Concert
WINTERTIME CAMPUS The Clarion
Frosh to Hold Sleigh
Ride as Class Mal
The freshmen sleigh ride party
will be held Saturday night, Jan-uary
24 at the Circle "S" Ranch.
Refreshments will be served in the
Boys' Dorm Recreation r o o m
following an hour and a half ride
through the woods, and Bob Mant-zke
will lead the singspiration
around a brazing fireplace. Fresh-men
may bring upper-classmen as
their guests. The event is not
strictly a date affair. Tickets are
65 cents each and only a limited
number are offered. They can be
purchased from Harlan Ostrom,
Frank Doten, Hazel Bondeson,
Marge Helgren.
Turning Over New Leaf
Theme of Bodien Meet
The members of the girls' dorm
met Wednesday evening, January
7, to discuss regulations concern-ing
the study hours and "lights-out"
deadline. The girls aired their
. opinions of the sytem in effect,
after which the council presented
a previously prepared list of new
Helen Franklin was elected as
the freshman represenative for the
dorm council.
Another dorm meeting is to be
held soon.
Malmsten Journeys
To the West Coast
Rev. and Mrs. Malmsten left St.
Paul January 5th to tour the
churches of the Columbia and
California Conferences. They are
presenting a piano-sermonette ser-ies
with pictures on the life of
Miss'y Band Holds
First Meet of 1948
Elving Anderson led the Mission-ary
Band in their first meeting
of the new year, January 9th. Cal-vin
Chao, head of the Intervarsity
Fellowship Movement in the colle-ges
and universities of China, as
speaker, provided much food for
thought and inspiration. Several
numbers were presented by file
Singing Uncles. A trio consisting
of Mrs. Bill Brice, Katherine
Nelson and Sara Jean Wallinder
also sang.
Vacation time at Bethel. Ah Yes!
The thoughts of the coming fes-tivities
gladdened the hearts of
those who were homeward bound.
First a group left on a bus, then
some by train, some by auto and
some by streetcar. That was the
sight that passed in review of
those who stayed on the campus.
By Monday most had left, and
now it was known who would stay
around over the vacation.
Those staying could have been
placed in three classes. The in-dustrious,
who were still working.
The lazy, who started hibernating
and catching up on their sleeping.
Last, but not least, were the ones
who were just tired and needed a
rest. Exciting isn't it!
Christmas Eve had a forecasting
of being slightly on the dead side.
How true this almost became.
About, eight in the evening, eleven
of the group piled into Gil Fors-line's
oar and went to the morgue,
where the group gathered around
the organ to sing carols. Later re-freshments
were served in the
Girls' Dorm by Mr. and Mrs. Law-son.
Various members of the group
attended the Christmas services at
Roy Nelson Delegate
To S. V. Conference
The site of the sixteenth Quad-rennial
assembly of the North
American Conference on Christian
frontiers, held December 27, 1947
to January 1, 1948, was the beauti-ful
University of Kansas campus
in Laurence, Kansas. Although
Bethel is not affiliated in any way
with this Conference, Roy Nelson,
chairman of the Missionary Band,
was sent as a delegate. He will
report shortly to the student body
on the impressions and informa-tion
gained there.
These meetings began in 1886
under the influence of John R.
Mott who became its first presi-dent
and has continued in active
service and contact even until the
present time. Sponsors of the as-semblies
are the Student Volun-teers
Movement, t h e Student
Christian Movement of Canada and
the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.
midnight and five in the the morn-ing.
The following days were for the
most part spent in sleeping and
eating. Mostly sleeping. Games,
both vigorous and otherwise, were
enthusiastically indulged in by
most of the group, especially parlor
games. Work on the campus was
almost at a minimum. The skating
rink was started and plowed out.
A few of the offices received a
New Look and the gym floor was
refinished. Have you noticed?
One evening was spent in skat-ing
and sliding after which re-freshments
were served. The fire-places
of both dorms were kept
burning most of the time. The
favorite pastime was lounging in
front of them.
On New Year's Eve everyone
went to various churches and took
part in the Watch night services.
The New Year was welcomed with
new hope and a desire to do better
in all things. So from us that
stayed and kept the lights burning,
we want to welcome you all back
and also wish you a Happy New
Bill Lindroth
Milaca, Minn. Jan. 27;
Eastern Trip Probable
The Bethel M a 1 e Chorus is
scheduled to appear in its lirst
public concert of the season in
Milaca, Minnesota on January 27.
The Chorus has appeared several
times in and around school, but
this will be the first full-dress con-cert
since rehearsals began in
The Male Chorus is about thirty
strong this year. Special talent
which will be in forthcoming con-certs
includes such well known
campus personalities as Bob Mant-zke
and Bert Anderson.
Plans for the annual spring con-cert
tour are now in an advance
state of preparation. It is probable
that the tour will be of two weeks'
duration and will cover as much of
the Eastern Seaboard as possible
Several concerts will be given in
Chicago as well.
Student Council Moves
To Construct Ice Rink
As soon as colder weather moves
in, the new ice skating rink on
Bethel's campus will be completed.
The student council appropiated
$300.00 from their funds for the
construction of the rink. Vernon
Anderson was in charge of the
project and was assisted by
student help. Otto Ashbach and
Sons, Contractors, donated t h e
work of their bull dozer for clear-ing
away the snow, prepartory
to the erection of the side boards.
The rink is regulation size and will
be used for both pleasure skating
and for hockey.
Swedish Club to Meet
Movies Feature Program
The second regular meeting of
the newly organized Swedish Club
will be held this coming Monday
evening, January 19 at 8 o'clock
P.M. in the lounge of the Men's
Dorm. Highlighting the interesting
program to be presented will be
several films depicting Sweden, its
beauty and its people. Refresh-ments
will be served afterwards.
Vacation Days on Campus
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Assistant Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Managing Editor Rudy W. Forsman
Assistant Managing Editor John Sonesori
News Editor Marwin Lindstedt
Feature Editor David Carlson
Sports Editor David Osterberg
Reporters Audrey Carlson, Harold Christen-sen,
Carl Appelquist, Doris Olson, Bill Lind-roth,
Ed Stayton, John Leggett, Al Olsson,
Pat Calboin, Adelle Bavin, Pat Pope, Virginia
Hanson, Milt Regier, Lois Leaf, Paul Ander-son,
Bernice Madsen.
Typists Jean Butler, Carolyn Hedberg,
Roy Dalton
Art Editor Ted Hamlin
Photographers .... Byron Skalman Harry Paney
Business Manager Bob Hamlett
Circulation Manager Kenneth Skov
Faculty Adviser V. Elving Anderson
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except vacations.
Subscription price $1.50 per year
Class Membership
Sometimes the expansion and growth of an
institution render policies of long standing
quite impractical. In some matters it has been
possible at Bethel to conduct business with no
definite policy at all. However, the absence of
a clearly defined ruling has created major
problems of late in attempts to determine the
constituency of the college classes.
The difficulties of classifying students, al-ready
aggravated by the increased size of the
student body, have been made even more
serious this year by the installation of a
junior class. It is becoming clear now that
to maintain the identity of the classes definite
requirements for membership are imperative.
Futhermore, under the present lawless set-up
the Spire's task of arranging student pictures
according to classes is almost a hopeless one.
Recognizing the need of specific legislation,
the members of the faculty this fall passed a
ruling under which they regard as sophomores
all students who have earned more than forty
quarter credits of college work, and as juniors
all who have earned at least ninety-five such
credits with an honor point ratio of 1.0. The
ruling was introduced in the expectation that
similar academic requirements for membership
would be provided by -the classes themselves.
This has not been done, with the result that
students who, following the only standards
established, are classified as freshmen, attend
sophomore class meetings. The small junior
class, where the condition is most noticeable,
has been attempting for the last three months
to ascertain its true membership, to the
neglect of other activities.
The problem, it would seem, comes under the
jurisdiction of the student council. If that
body, however, declines from taking any ac-tion,
it is necessary for the classes of the
college and seminary to fix specific require.
ments for membership. Perhaps the faculty's
uling should be followed with an added pro-vision
to permit a student who will complete
the required work at the end of the fall
quarter to enter the class in September.
Membership in a class loses its significance
when requirements for entrance to the class
are absent. Although some students will be
offended by such standards, it is clear that
to remove uncertainty an irrefragable - policy
must be established.
It's nice to remember that winter always
drops in for a few short visits before coming
to stay.
Great things have been happening during
the Christmas vacation. The first crop of
diamonds was harvested, romance has been
running rampant—especially in the mess hall,
Edwards Memorial Field has become Edwards
Memorial Pond, the President has discovered
that "new look" in our own Bethel office,
and Dean Carlson, not to be outdone, decided
to give his office that "new look" too (sure
is a pretty shade of grey). Well, it's like I say,
you can never tell what the second cup of
coffee will do to you.
Here's a toast to the fellows who are doing
such a wonderful job (in spite of old man
weather) of making the new skating rink.
Here's sincere thanks to Vernon Anderson and
his gang for a lot of hard work so that we
Bethelites can have a lot of fun.
Now that my coffee's almost gone, I'd like
to turn to something a bit more serious.
Several weeks ago the debate squad was down
at Iowa State to a debate tournament. Previous
to the actual debates, discussion groups were
held considering the basic cause of world
unrest. It was actually an airing of the think-ing
of the top collegiate- professors through
the medium of their students who were par-ticipating.
After considerable discussion the
conclusion was reached that the basic cause
of world unrest was the element of fear that
is in the world today. How unfortunate that
all of the world's learning has not solved this
problem; yet, the answer was given some two
thousand years ago when the Lord said, "Fear
not, for I am with thee."
By Dave Carlson
The year 1948 is already two weeks old and
it may seem like an afterthought to wish you
Happy New Year but there it is whether you
like it or not. I hope that all your 1947 joys
are doubled and your sorrows are halved and
that this year will be the most successful
you have ever had. In that connection, I hope
you eligible bachelors have taken note of the
gleam in some of the girls' eyes now that
Leap Year has made its appearance. What a
diamond harvest we should have this year!
VACATION VIGNETTES • After two
weeks at home and after a major operation to
uncross her fingers following Santa Claus'
disappointing visit, Hazel Bondeson's patience
has rewarded her when her "ship came in" the
other day.. ..... .June Edman solved the food
situation on her trip East by carrying chicken
sandwiches and sleeping pills in her saddle
bag which she claims was her purse As the
man said when the apartment house exploded,
"rumors were flying" regarding several of the
couples on campus but that's all they were.
Let's watch how we spread news during 1948,
huh?........Greetings to the future Bethelites of
the class of 1946 who made their appearances
either during vacation or in the wake of the
the little New Year. Proud parents are: the
Reuben Dahls, the Paul Andersons and the
Douglas Garveys Congrats to Herb Johnson
and Betty Lindblom on their betrothal!
Bethel is continually advancing to the stage
where it is worthy of senior college standing.
Evidence..of this fact is the policy of granting
sabbatical leaves to the faculty for futher
study and the consideration of the formation
of cultural societies on campus. The desire
for change is always a sign of forward pro-gress
so let's do our bit toward improving
the school and let the school know that we are
interested in what happens on campus.
There is still an area on this crowded
campus that is not being utilized to its fullest
advantage. We are referring to the volleyball
and handball courts in the basement of
Edgren Residence. These recreation rooms
stood idle most of the time last year. This
school-term the continued disuse of them is
rapidly becoming an abuse of the purpose for
which they were intended.
Strangely enough this indoor recreational
area is not often used. The problem involved
seems to resolve itself into two reasons. First,
as recreation areas, the rooms have not been
completed. That is, they need a coat of deck
paint to cover the entire floor surface, and
then the regulation boundry lines for various
games must be placed. Second, the equipment
for the games to be played is lacking. (It
is possible for volleyball, handball, badminton,
and schuffleboard to serve team competition
in these rooms, and individual exercises such
as wrestling, weight lifting, and the parallel
bars could be enjoyed also.)
The girls have not used these rooms. Per-haps
the women residents were unaware of
the fact that they have the exclusive use of
these recreation rooms on Monday evenings.
The fellows have not used these rooms very
often either for game competition or-individual
. So far we have witnessed a lack of initiative
and the apparent lack of authority to go ahead
with the development and use of these rooms.
The Boy's Dormitory Organization, which has
jurisdiction over this campus residence, is at
a temporary stalemate. The Girl's Dormitory
Council has been largely unaware of the girl's
privileges for these rooms to see that neces-sary
action was taken.—Perhaps a joint com-mittee
from the two Dormitory Councils should
assume responsibility. Or should the Physical
Education Department take charge of this
recreation area and use it to supplement the
present gym facilities?
Calvin Edlund, of another opinion, has al-ready
begun a campaign to activate this rec-reational
area. He is the first to initiate such
action so we pledge our support to his efforts
in this program.
"Get In there Homer, and remember,
Don't Get EXCITED!"
PLATFORM FOR TODAY: "0 wad some
power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as
ithers see us." Robt. Burns.
THE CLARION Page 3
Founders' Week Bethel Wins Third League Tilt
February 16-22
Bethel's annual Founder's Week
will be held from Monday noon,
February 16 to Friday evening,
February 20. The day sessions will
be held in the college chapel and
the evening meetings will be held
in the Bethlehem Baptist Church
in Minneapolis.
The speakers of this year's con-ference
are; Dr. H. A. Ironsides of
the Moody Church in Chicago, a
well-known Bible expositor; Dr.
Walter L. Wilson of Kansas City,
well known as a personal soul
winner; and Dr. Richard Ellsworth
Day of California, author of best
selling biographys of Moody, Fin-ney,
and Spurgeon.
Other members of the conference
and Bethel's faculty wrio will also
speak are; Adolf Olson who will
lead the morning prayer discussion,
Anton Pearson who will head the
Bible lectures in afternoon, Ay-mond
Anderson, William Backlund,
Samuel Schultz, Robert Wells, and
Floyd Ankerberg.
Governor Frank Carlson of Kan-sas
will be featured as banquet
speaker Friday evening.,
Nels Sjernstrom will be in charge
of music during the conference
Others who will lead the singing
in the afternoon are Dave Daniel-son,
Roger Younguist, Willard
Samuelson, and Ned Holgren. Vari-ous
groups from Bethel will be
presented during the conference.
Guest speakers will alternate
with messages in chapel.
Founder's Week, which is held
in memory of Dr. Alexis I. Edgren,
who founded Bethel in 1871, has
always been a great source of
blessing to laymen and pastors.
Convocation Promotes
Scenic America
"The American We Defend", a
picture travel talk on scenic and
historic America was given to
Bethel students on Tuesday, Jan-uary
6, by Dr. J. Richard Olson
from the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Olson, lecturer, traveler, and
newspaperman presented scores of
varied views in natural colors of
outstanding portions of ten national
parks throughout the United States.
Frosh Plan "J.S."
The second meeting of the Fresh-man
Class was brought to order by
Mr. Edwards, the class advisor.
Several committees were elected to
wor on the Junior-Senior Banquet.
A special committee was elected
for a sleighride to be had in the
near future. It is composed of
Margaret Helgren and Hazel Bon-deson,
co-chairmen, Frank Doten,
and Harlan Olstrom.
as Friday nite
returned to the basketball wars and
copped a rough and tumble battle
from the Concordia Comets, 48-42.
After losing their two non-confer-ence
games just before the
holidays, Coach Edwards' boys
started the new year right by win-ning
their third straight conference
title to remain in first place in the
Southern Minnesota Junior Col-lege
The Comets, who defeated the
Indians twice last season, put up
a good fight all the way and fell
behind only i n the last four
minutes when Bethel pulled away
to a 9 point lead.
Led by Peterson and Greenman
with 14 points each, the Indians
played h a r d, aggressive ba 11
throughout the game. Greenman
opened the scoring with a swish
shot to give Bethel the lead. The
Comets then forged ahead, lost the
lead, and fought back to a 11-11
count at the quarter.
The second quarter proved to be
a repitition of the first quarter
with Bethel pushing ahead, losing
the lead momentarily, and then
pulling away again. With a few
minutes remaining in the half,
Bich, Comet forward, cut loose with
a couple of buckets to trim the
Indians' 6-point lead and leave the
half time count at Bethel 25, Con-cordia
The third quarter started slowly
with little scoring until late in
the period. The lead changed hands
once again, but Greenman found
the range for two goals to give
Bethel a precious 3-point lead at
the quarter, score 33-30.
The Comets came back in the
fourth period to take the lead for
the fourth and last time. However,
two buckets by Peterson and one
by Eklof put the Indians in com-mand
once again. They piled up to
a nine-point lead and held off the
Comets for the remaining few
minutes—final score, Bethel 48,
Concordia- 42.
At a glance: An exciting but
rather rough game! At times there
was a trail of sprawled players
from the middle of the court to
the end lines. The Indians showed
some improvement, especially in
rebounding. Porcella looked good;
Dischinger seemed allergic to
shooting, Peterson found his shoot-ing
eye, Sandberg improved con-siderably,
Greenman played h i s
usual fine game.
Bethel FG FT. PF TP
Peterson f 6 2 1 14
Hamlin f 0 0 1 0
Sandberg f 3 0 2 6
Rentz f 0 0 0 0
Eklof c 3 0 4 6
Porcella c 2 0 3 4
Greenman g 5 4 2 14
Borgeson g 1 0 0 2
Dlschinger g 0 0 5 0
Nelson g 0 2 1 2
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Totals 20 8 19 48
Concordia FG FT PF TP
Beck f 2 1 0 5
Bich f 2 0 2 4
Braem 1 8 1 2 11
Alpers c 2 2 2 6
Wroze g 3 3 3 9
Myho g 3 1 4 7
Cloeter g 0 0 0 0
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Totals 17 8 13 42
Interest Grows
In I.B.L. Games
Team Name Won Lost
#6 Unknowns 3 0
#7 Goldbricks 3 0
#4 Grubbers 2 1
#2 Cold-shots 2 1
#8 Undertakers 1 2
#3 Whiz-Kids 1 2
#1 Rebels 0 3
#5 Angels 0 3
T h e Intra - Mural Basketball
League got under way last Friday
with the usual eight teams in
action. Each was playing its third
game and several new faces, and
figures, appeared on the floor.
In the first game, team #6, now
offically named the Unknowns, con-tinued
on their winning ways to
trouce under-manned #1, now the
Rebels, by a 44-14 score. Bob
(Smokey) Hails of the victors led
the attack with 11 points, with
Nels Nelson and Cliff Anderson
getting 9 and 8 points respectively.
Roy Johnson, fresh from the
Varsity, placed team #3 to their
first victory of the year as the
Whiz-Kids beat team #8, the
Undertakers, 24-17. Roy was high
scorer with 14 points, while Palm-quist
scored 8 for the losers.
In the third game of the after-noon,
team #2, the Cold-shots,
took team #5, the Angels, by a
26-18 score. This was a wild and
wooly affair with 28 personal fouls
being called. Bob Daley led the
victors with 11 points and Bill
Wright placed the losers with 6.
Sandy Nelson led the Goldbricks,
team #7, in a clean 24-19 win over
the stubborn Grubbers, team #4.
Nelson was high scorer with 8
points. With this win, the Gold-bricks
remain in a first place tie
with the Unknowns.
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#1 4 8 10 14
1 2 3 4
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1 2 3 4
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Worthington J:C. Here
On Friday nite the Bethel Indi-ans
will be shooting for their
fourth conference win in a game
with Worthington Junior College.
Last season the Indians dealt
Worthington the only loss suffer-ed
by any of their athletic teams,
thus insuring a good game Friday
for Worthington will be out for
In the preliminary game Coach
Skalbeck's "B" squad will tangle
with a team from the Savage Boys
Club of St. Paul. The games will be
played in our gymnasium.
Superior Trips
Indians 64-42
Just before the holiday vacation
the Indians traveled up to Super-ior,
Wisconsin for a non-conference
game with Superior State Teachers
College. It was a long, cold ride,
but they were rewarded for their
efforts by a warm reception as the
Teachers put on a hot display of
basketball in taking both ends of
the twin bill by scores of 47-24 and
In the "B" game it was a case
of "too much, too often" as the
Teachers kept putting a fresh team
on the floor every five minutes
against a weary bunch of IIndians.
Final score, Teachers 47, Indians
The varsity game proved to be
of the "fire-wagon" variety with
the Teachers making good use of
long football passes to score fast
and often. Trailing by eighteen
points at the half the Indians came
back strong in the last half 'but
couldn't quite match the speed and
drive of the Teachers, going down
by a final count of 64 to 42. Kenny
Greenman led the scoring once
again 'by chalking up 15 points
before leaving the game on fouls.
Sports Sketch
For our first personality of 1948
we have chosen John Dischinger.
John, who is now a sophomore,
spent two years in the army in
Germany before coming to Bethel.
He is 25 years of age, married,
and has one child, a boy.
John is a graduate of Tilden
High school in Chicago. While he
was there he didn't participate in
any sports, so all of his basketball
experience has been gained through
the YMCA or on church teams.
Nevertheless, without any high
school experience, John won a
place on last year's squad, knd is
back again this year. As a guard
last year, he had the dubious dis-tinction
of averaging four fouls a
Some may remember John's
brother, Bob who graduated from
the Seminary last year, and who
now has a church in Burlington,
Iowa. John himself is a member of
the Emerald Avenue Baptist church
of Chicago. He is now planning to
enter the Lord's service on the
foreign field as a missionary.
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Silence echoed through the halls
of Bodien Residence during the
holidays, but now the usual cackle
is back! Welcomes screeched all
day Monday and lasted until Tues-day
afternoon when the East coast
gang came back. Everyone has
been bubbling over with excite-ment
and the walls of our dorm
are literally vibrating.
The quietness of the dorm was
disturbed briefly on New Year's
eve when Sherlock Ev Johnson
bravely "caught" the burglar in
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Next time turn your light out
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By now the unpacking is done
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As the stenographer with the
new look would say, Hippy New
Year! Hope 1948 will bring as much
action as 1947 did. Do any of you
keep a Scrap Book? If not, here's
something with which to get stdrt-ed.
Did you know that during 1947
there were at least 47 Bethelite
couples engaged. That's 94 people.
I doubt if any of you readers could
list half of them. If you have
enough energy to ask for a copy of
them it could be furnished.
Guess life is just one crazy thing
after another—love is just two
crazy things after each other.
Was I disgusted! picked up the
last issue of the Clarion to read my
article and found out I hadn't
written any. So I had to read that
corny article by Dave Harps. Hope
he does better this year.
Maybe Bob Sandin got that black
eye from a Burp. More scoops!
Wally Berke and "Erick" Erickson
are now living at the Y.W.C.A.
And it's leap year too. I've already
seen several girls wearing an imi-tation
engagement ring as a hint
that they are ready to attack.
Belated Christmas Letter
Dear Santa,
Will you please send me two
back wheels for a 1931 model A,
just like the ones my car had
before vacation? Or please tell me
who took the ones I had.
Thank You Morrie
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The British filmmaker, whose credits also include "Shame" and "Hunger," is developing an untitled drama for HBO that centers on the experience of a young African American man, whose past may not be what it seems, and his initiation into New York high society, the network confirmed to Show Tracker. Deadline was first to report the news of the project, which HBO is dubbing a "provocative exploration."
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McQueen is taking a hands-on approach to the venture. In addition to serving as director, he will co-write the project with Matthe Michael Carnahan ("World War Z").
Joining McQueen and Carnahan as executive producers are Rusell Simmons, Iain Canning and Emile Sherman. Canning and Sherman both served as producers on "The King's Speech" and "Shame."
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The Canadiens' sellout streak will continue at the Bell Centre even though Game 7 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Bruins will be played in Boston Wednesday night (7 p.m., CBC, RDS, TSN Radio 690).
The Canadiens decided to open up the Bell Centre for fans who wanted to watch Game 7 on the arena's giant screens, selling tickets for $10 with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Montreal Canadiens Children's Foundation. It was announced after 6 p.m. on Tuesday that the Bell Centre was sold out with more than 20,000 fans expected. There will also be a pregame Fan Jam outside the Bell Centre starting at 5:30 p.m., and fans inside the arena will be treated to the same pre-game show as when the Canadiens play at home. The Canadiens have a sellout streak of 406 consecutive games at the Bell Centre, dating back to Jan. 8, 2004.
The Canadiens held an optional practice Tuesday morning in Brossard before flying to Boston with Alex Galchenyuk skating with his teammates for the first time since suffering a lower-body injury on April 9 during a game in Chicago.
"He's progressing really well," coach Michel Therrien told reporters in Brossard about Galchenyuk. "(Obviously) he's not going to play tomorrow."
Goaltenders Carey Price and Peter Budaj also took part in the optional practice along with Ryan White, George Parros, Michael Bournival, Travis Moen, Douglas Murray, Nathan Beaulieu, Jarred Tinordi and Francis Bouillon. Assistant coach Gerard Gallant ran the practice.
When asked about getting ready for a Game 7, Therrien said: "It's all about preparation … it's all about attitude. Tomorrow won't be any different for us than yesterday."
Therrien said his team played "a helluva game" in Game 6, beating the Bruins 4-0 to force Game 7.
"The only thing that we got to do now is reset the focus and make sure we get another good game tomorrow," the coach added.
Therrien was asked about his team turning the other cheek at the end of Game 6 when the Bruins started getting physical with Zdeno Chara taking slashing and roughing penalties against Mike Weaver and Jarome Iginla taking a roughing and misconduct penalty against Brian Gionta. Weaver also received a slashing and misconduct penalty.
"This is playoff hockey, you know," Therrien said. "It's going to be physical at times. We're ready to compete."
The coach added: "I don't like to talk about the other team. I'm focusing on my players, on my team. Yesterday it was a huge challenge for us. We got the right attitude and we responded the right way. Tomorrow is another huge challenge and we need to have the right attitude again."
Canadiens captain Gionta said his team has felt confident all series against the Bruins.
"We know we can bring it to them when there's no tomorrow," Gionta said. "There's nothing to be afraid of.
"(Game 7s are) fun, you have to go out there and enjoy the moment," he added. "Every kid dreams of it. They're special to be a part of. It's win or go home. If you're a competitive person, and you're not in this profession if you aren't, then that's what you look for."
(Photo by John Mahoney/The Gazette)
The stage is set for Game 7, by The Gazette's Dave Stubbs
Hockey is the real winner in Habs vs. Bruins series, by Jack Todd for The Gazette
Habs need to stick to their game, by The Gazette's Pat Hickey
'Black Ace' Beaulieu gets the call for Habs, by The Gazette's Brenda Branswell
Therrien impressed with Beaulieu's playoff debut, montrealgazette.com
Share your Habs rituals, montrealgazette.com
Bruins, Habs set for ninth Game 7 in storied rivalry, NHL.com
Price shutout sends Habs to Game 7, by Pat Hickey
Price leads a Habs team possessed, by Dave Stubbs
'That's the best I've seen this team play – ever,' Pacioretty says, by Pat Hickey
Game 6 photo gallery, montrealgazette.com
Subban eager for Game 7, NHL.com
Subban the NHL's modern-day Ric Flair, The Hockey News
Beaulieu solid in playoff debut, NHL.com
Bruins quickly shifting focus to Game 7, NHL.com
Heart of a lion, canadiens.com
'Go home and get the job done,' Bruins Bergeron says, bostonbruins.com
Game 7 the only way to end Bruins-Canadiens, Boston Globe
Bruins squirt with disaster by allowing Habs to force Game 7, Boston Herald
Bruins could use Tyler Seguin right now, The Hockey News
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NFL Network continues to drive a wedge between the Steelers and quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. And Roethlisberger continues to reiterate his desire to stay in Pittsburgh — and to express frustration at the reports regarding the existence of reports that tend to drive a wedge between the Steelers and Roethlisberger.
Roethlisberger joined WDVE radio on Friday morning, following the latest barrage from NFLN, which among other things suggested that Roethlisberger needs to spend more working on his craft while away from the team's facility.
"First and foremost, I don't want to go anywhere," Roethlisberger said. "I want to be in Pittsburgh. I hope that's very clear to everybody that I want to stay, my family wants to stay. We do not want to ask for a trade, we don't want to go anywhere. I want to finish my career here. I've always said that, and I still feel firmly that way."
While Roethlisberger suggested at times that the reports are fabricated, he acknowledged the possibility that someone in the building is talking out of turn, even though he doesn't think that's happening.
"When someone is a source and they're unnamed, they have an agenda," Roethlisberger said. "And their agenda is not winning football games and not helping this team. Whoever that agenda is coming from, they're not helping us, they're hurting us."
Even if it's coming from within the walls of the organization, Roethlisberger scoffed at the idea that he's not working hard away from the facility.
"First of all, how does anybody know what I'm doing at home," he said, "when I'm watching film or I'm looking through my playbook at home, unless someone someone's got cameras set up in my house and they're spying on me? But then they'd see the truth that I am doing that stuff."
He makes a good point, but it could be that folks in the building are concluding that he's not doing anything at home based on where his level of preparation is, or isn't, after a day or night off.
As to the far more relevant question regarding Roethlisberger's next contract, given that his $17 million-plus cap number for 2014 can't be reduced without an extension, Roethlisberger again avoided the question.
"I'm still ignorant to how all these cap things works and contracts," Roethlisberger said. "Honestly, if they come to me and say hey we want to restructure a deal or we want to do [a deal], whatever, I want to help the team out. But all I can focus on right now is this season and this game. Because that's all that matters to me. I don't look for the future or the long term. What's gonna happen next year? When's my contract up? These kind of things. For me, it's about how can I win this game, this week?"
Did you see what he did there? In one breath, he says he never wants to leave the Steelers, but then he later says he's not focused on the future. If the last part is true, how can he say he never wants to leave, since that necessarily requires a focus on the future?
Initially, we suspected the Steelers were leaking these stories to generate a viable Plan B in the event that they can't persuade Roethlisberger to insist on less than $20 million or more per year. If so, it worked — because teams definitely will be inquiring about Roethlisberger in the offseason.
But the bigger goal seems to be helping the Steelers nail down Plan A: Getting Ben to take less in order to stay in Pittsburgh.
While it appears at times that Plan A is working (especially when he angrily insists he never wants to leave), Ben continues to stop short of saying anything that would suggest he'd take less money than what he thinks he's worth in order to stay in Pittsburgh.
Once he says that — once he declares that he'll do whatever deal is necessary to stay with the Steelers — Plan A will be deemed successful. So far, however, he has yet to take the bait.


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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with how much a Texas man who possessed child pornography must pay one of the victims.
Doyle Paroline, who is from East Texas, was arrested in 2008 with 280 images of child pornography and spent 22 months in jail. Two photographs detailed the abuse of Amy, who was eight years old at the time she was raped and photographed by her uncle.
Amy's lawyers said Paroline should pay Amy for her suffering. They said she needs $3.4 million, mostly to cover lost future income and counseling fees. They also say he should be able to sue other offenders to help contribute to that sum.
Paroline's lawyers disagree. Because a district court ruled that the government could not directly calculate his contribution to her losses, they argue he should not be held responsible
In court Wednesday, several justices agreed that Amy, a pseudonym used to protect the true victim's identity, was harmed by all of those involved in the distribution and consumption of her images. But they remained skeptical that Paroline should be liable for her entire losses, as he played a relatively small part in her saga.


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Palo Alto senior Kevin Anderson tops the list, literally, of 19 recruits who signed national letters Wednesday to play for the Stanford football team beginning in the fall.
Listed alphabetically, the 6-4, 245-pound defensive end, a member of the Vikings' state championship team, is the first one named, just ahead of offensive lineman Brendon Austin out of Colorado who is considered the 14th best prep lineman.
Of Stanford's 19 recruits, seven were named PrepStar All-Americans or were listed as four-star recruits by either Scout or Rivals.com. Anderson is the lone Bay Area representative.
Stanford signed one of the top linebacker prospects in the nation in James Vaughters of Georgia. He's listed as the fourth-best linebacker in the nation by Rivals.com and 44th on ESPNU's Top 150 recruits. A three-year varsity player, he recorded 95 tackles and four sacks among his 18 tackles-for-loss as a senior at Tucker High.
Vaughters is also one of three Stanford recruits, along with Wayne Lyons (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Remound Wright Fort Wayne, IN), who are finalists for the Franklin D. Watkins Award, which honors the top African-American scholar-athlete in the nation.
This is the first time in the history of the award that one school has had three Watkins Award finalists in the same recruiting class. Stanford has more Watkins Award winners (4) and finalists (16) than any other school in the country.
"This signing class is one that will play a big role in the success of Stanford football," Cardinal coach David Shaw said. "Our coaches and staff have worked a lot of long hours over the last year or more with most of these young men, and they fill a lot of voids for our football team. We wanted to get faster and more athletic. At the same time, we wanted to bring in players who demonstrate a certain level of toughness that has been established throughout our program. I feel we have successfully met all of our goals with this recruiting class."
Lyons, a defensive back, is a PrepStar All-American who is listed as the sixth-best safety prospect in the nation by Rivals.com. He is also listed as the 16th top recruit in the nation according to MaxPreps and CBS College Sports recruiting analyst Tom Lemming.
Wright is listed as the 16th-best running back prospect in the nation and top recruit in the state of Indiana by Rivals.com after he rushed for 2,100 yards and 34 touchdowns for Bishop Dwenger in the fall.
Atlanta's Ronnie Harris, Georgia's Ra'Chard Pippins and Folsom's Jordan Richards complete the list of signed defensive backs. Kelsey Young (Norco), who attended the same high school that produced 2009 Heisman Trophy runner up Toby Gerhart, is listed as the 12th-best running back in the nation and 21st top recruit in California by Rivals.com. He rushed for 2,008 yards and 30 touchdowns as a senior.
Prep All-American Charlie Hopkins (Spokane, WA), ranked the 15th-best strong side defensive end in the country by Rivals.com and 31st overall defensive line prospect in the nation by SuperPrep, is another of the five defensive linemen signed by Stanford.
Baton Rouge's Lance Callihan, Brooklyn's Anthony Hayes and Newport Beach's J.B. Salem were also signed as defensive linemen.
Prep All-Americans Evan Crower of San Diego and Virginia's Kevin Hogan were signed as quarterbacks. Crower, the 23rd-best quarterback in the nation by Scout.com, threw for 2,232 yards and 32 touchdowns as a senior at St. Augustine. Hogan, rated the 13th-best overall quarterback prospect in the nation by Scout.com, passed for 1,820 yards and 14 touchdowns as a senior at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.
Devon Cajuste of Seaford, NY and Dallas' Ty Montgomery signed as wide receivers for Stanford. Cajuste, the fourth-best overall recruit in New York by SuperPrep, caught 47 passes for 864 yards and nine touchdowns as a senior. Montgomery, a four-star recruit by both Rivals and Scout.com, is listed as the 27th-best wide receiver prospect in the nation by Scout.com.
Stanford also signed Patrick Skov, a fullback-linebacker from The Lawrenceville (N.J.) School, the younger brother of current Cardinal linebacker Shayne Skov. Patrick is rated the fifth-best fullback prospect in the nation by Scout.com.
In related news, Shaw announced the promotions of Derek Mason to associate head coach and co-defensive coordinator and Pep Hamilton to offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
In addition, Shaw named Jason Tarver, who has served on the coaching staff of the San Francisco 49ers for the past 10 seasons, as co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach.
Mason will continue to work with the defensive backs, in addition to his new duties as associate head coach/co-defensive coordinator.
Tarver joined the 49ers in 2001 and served as the team's offensive quality control coach for three seasons (2001-03). He was promoted to assistant running backs/offensive assistant coach in 2004 and for the last six seasons, has served as San Francisco's outside linebacker coach.
Under Tarve''s guidance in 2009, the 49ers outside linebackers recorded 15 takeaways, 17.5 sacks and nine forced fumbles, setting the edge for a run defense that ranked sixth-best in the NFL.
A Northern California native, Tarver played football at West Valley Junior College in Saratoga in 1994-95 before injuries cut short his career.


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Tom Wood, writer of Nashville history over at NashvillePost.com sent me the following article from the September 29, 1878 issue of the Colored Councilman.
J.C. Napier, the councilman elect from the fourth ward, is considered by the colored people to be one of the most creditable representatives of their race, and this great popularity was exhibited yesterday, in his defeat of Mr. Chas. H. Saunders, one of the most popular young men in the city. Councilman Napier is about twenty-four years of age, a bright mulatto, and is a graduate of the law department of Howard University, Washington D.C. He left last night for Washington City where he will be united in marriage at the Congregational church in that city, next Wednesday, to Nettie, the only daughter of Hon. John M. Langston, colored, the United States Minister to the Replic of Hayti. Nashville has not had a colored man in her city council since the days of Alden rule.


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How efficiently do Intel and AMD's latest architectures handle virtualization on Ubuntu?
Subject: Processors | April 3, 2012 - 12:43 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: virtualization, ubuntu 12.04, Sandy Bridge E, Intel, FX 8150, Core i7 3960X, bulldozer, amd
Phoronix is taking the latest Ubuntu release and testing the performance on AMD's FX 8150 against Intel's Core-i7 3960X to see their relative performance in a virtual environment. Both machines had issues, Xen had critical issues which prevented it from running on the Bulldozer and ASUS motherboard system, while the Sandy Bridge chip had issues with Virtualbox. The testing was not so much a comparison of the performance difference between the two chips as it is a test of efficiency of these processors running tasks when virtualized. As both chips averaged 90%+ of base performance when virtualized you can see that both architectures have come a long way in this particular usage.
Also, keep your eyes out for a CPU review from Josh which should be arriving soon.
"With the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" being a Long-Term Support (LTS) release that will be quickly making its way into many enterprise environments, here's a look at the virtualization performance of this popular Linux distribution. In particular, being looked at is the Linux virtualization performance of KVM, Xen, and Oracle VirtualBox compared to bare metal when using Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme and AMD Bulldozer hardware."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- Xeon E5 2600: Interview with Intel IT's Ajay Chandramouly @ TechSpot
- Intel To Launch Ivy Bridge Desktop Processors This Week @ TechARP
- Mobile CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Intel Ivy Bridge Overclocking with the Core i7 3770K and Core i5 3570K CPUs @ Tweaktown
- AMD A8-3870 FM1 CPU @ Rbmods
See what happens when you harness three GPUs to a Bulldozer and try to get them to pull it along
Subject: Processors | November 9, 2011 - 04:05 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, bulldozer, sli, FX 8150, GTX580
In a good mood? If so, do not read this [H]ard|OCP article on Bulldozer's gaming performance when coupled with two and three GTX580s. By using an SLI setup you can see just how powerful a CPU is as it tries to keep up with the GPUs and as you might expect the Bulldozer is not up to the task. In most tests [H] saw a 70% performance difference between the FX 8150 and the Core-i5 2500K, with both processors clocked at 4.8GHz. In a very few tests the results were a little closer but this is bad news for AMD, especially when you consider it is the more expensive of the two chips.
"We are taking the new AMD FX-8150 and giving it the power of Dual and Triple-SLI GeForce GTX 580 video cards. We are going to take the new CPU up to large NV Surround resolutions and see how performance stacks up when it comes to high-end gaming scenarios."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- NVIDIA's Tegra 3 Launched: Architecture Revealed @ AnandTech
- HTC adopts Nvidia Tegra 3 processors @ DigiTimes
- NVIDIA's Tegra 3 (Kal-El) Quad-Core Mobile Superchip Detailed @ Tweaktown
- AMD FX-4100 Quad Core 3.6GHz Bulldozer Processor Review @ Legit Reviews
- AMD vs Intel: Bulldozer vs Sandy Bridge @ HCW
- AMD Bulldozer Cache Aliasing Issue Fix @ Phoronix
- Open64 Compiler Tuning On AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 @ Phoronix
- AMD FX 8150 Revisited @ Madshrimps
Bulldozer, get out of the way! This review is supposed to be about the ASUS Crosshair V Formula
Subject: Motherboards | October 27, 2011 - 06:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: asus, Crosshair V Formula, FX 8150, 990fx, am3+
As sometimes happens when one sets out to write a review, at some point it turns out you aren't reviewing what you had originally intended to. Such happened at Legit Reviews when they tested the ASUS Crosshair V Formula AM3+ board with an FX-8150 as well as an X6 1100T. The motherboard is very interesting; just hard to make out through the wreckage of a big yellow machine lying in front of it. If you can manage to make out the motherboard through the Phenom-enal holes punched in the 'dozer you can see three PCIe 2.0 x16 (dual x16 or x16, x8, x8), a PCIe 2.0 x16 in x4, a PCIe 2.0 x1 slot and even a legacy PCI slot. There are also four USB 3.0 ports and an equal number of USB 2.0 ports (one can be made into an ROG port) and a slew of others including a clear CMOS button for your cat or child to play with.
"This particular article, we went a little bit of a different route. We compared the ASUS Crosshair V Formula with the latest AMD FX-8150 'Bulldozer' processor, to itself with an AMD Phenom II X6 1100T. We wanted to see if there was much of a difference in performance between the two core architectures on the AMD 990FX chipset. The article inadvertently felt more like a shoot out between the two processors, when the focus was meant to be on the ASUS Crosshair V Formula. The performance between the two systems was entirely too similar for my tastes. The AMD FX-8150 didn't run the circles around the Phenom II X6 1100T that I had hoped it would..."
Here are some more Motherboard articles from around the web:
- MSI 990FXA-GD80 AM3+ Motherboard @ Benchmark Reviews
- Foxconn A75M FM1 Motherboard Review @ Madshrimps
- Zotac A75-ITX WiFi Motherboard Review @ TechwareLabs
- ASUS E35M1-M Pro Review - Anyone For Fusion? @ AnandTech
- BIOS Option Of The Week - MPS Control Version For OS @ TechARP
- Mini-ITX Face-Off: Asrock Z68M-ITX-HT vs. Asrock A75M-ITX @ Techspot
- Zotac Z68 ITX WiFi Supreme @ Bjorn3D
- Zotac Z68-ITX WiFi: Mini-ITX Mainboard That Can Overclock LGA1155 Processors @ X-bit Labs
- MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) – One of the First Mainboards with PCI Express 3.0 Support @ X-bit Labs
- Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 @ OC3D
- Gigabyte Z68XP-UD5 Motherboard Review @ OCIA
- Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 Z68 Motherboard Review @ eTeknix
- Zotac Z68ITX-B-E WiFi Supreme Motherboard Review @Hi Tech Legion
- ASRock Z68 Extreme7 Gen3 Intel Motherboard @ TechwareLabs
Bulldozing through Linux benchmarks
Subject: General Tech | October 26, 2011 - 12:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, bulldozer, FX 8150, linux
With the lacklustre performance we saw from AMD's new Bulldozer CPUs on Windows except in seriously multi-threaded applications; it is with a hopeful heart that Phoronix tests the performance of the FX-8150 under Ubuntu 11.04. There are a lot of benchmarks to go through, from general performance to specific AMD-centric tests to those focusing specifically on multi-threaded performance and even a look at the bundled watercooler. Read through the benchmarks they've run themselves as well as user submitted test and then realize that this is only the first of a series of articles they are working on ... so for now they hold judgment on AMD's newest product.
"Two weeks ago AMD introduced the Bulldozer FX-Series CPUs to much excitement, although many were letdown by the initial results, and it was months after showing the first Linux benchmarks of an AMD Dual-Interlagos pre-production system. In the days that followed I delivered some initial AMD FX-4100 Linux benchmarks when securing remote access to a low-end Bulldozer system running Ubuntu 11.04 (and there were also some Linux benchmarks from independent Phoronix readers), but then last week a Bulldozer kit arrived from AMD. The centerpiece of this kit is an eight-core AMD FX-8150 CPU, which is now being used to conduct a plethora of AMD Bulldozer benchmarks on Linux."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD FX-4100 Bulldozer On Linux @ Phoronix
- Multi-Core Scaling Performance Of AMD's Bulldozer @ Phoronix
- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Intel Core i7-2700K Sandy Bridge 3.5 GHz CPU Review @ Legit Reviews
- Intel Core i7 Processors for LGA1156, LGA1155 and LGA1366 @ iXBT Labs
AMD Bulldozer FX Processor Benchmarks Leaked
Subject: Processors | October 3, 2011 - 12:29 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: sandy bridge, Intel, i7 2600k, FX 8150, FX, cpu, bulldozer, amd
Intel has held the performance lead for several processor generations now, and while AMD is still technically in the game for home theater PC and budget builds, many enthusiasts have moved to Intel for gaming and high performance computers. Many of those people have also held hope that the chip manufacturer would eventually come back strong and maintain some level of competition in the industry. As we move closer to AMD's Bulldozer launch (which seems to have been confirmed for October 12th), enthusiasts and reviewers alike are clamoring to answer a long awaited question: "will Bulldozer give Intel a run for its money?"
According to website Donanim Haber, enthusiasts' high hopes may finally be realized. The site has posted several benchmarks results that indicate Bulldozer is not only cheaper than Sandy Bridge, but performs on par with Intel's top end Sandy Bridge chips. In many tests, the AMD FX 8150 CPU's eight core performance matches the multi-threaded (8 threads, 4 cores) performance of Intel's high end Core i7 2600k processor.
In the benchmarks that the site performed, the AMD FX 8150 was tested against the Intel Core i7 980X for 1080p gaming and the Core i7 2500k and 2600k for multi-threaded performance. In the graph shown above, the AMD Bulldozer CPU was roughly on par with the i7 980X, trading wins in some games and providing a similar level of performance in others. The AMD processor won in the Metro 2033 and Lost Planet benchmarks, but was slightly slower in Civilization V and F1 2010. In AVP and Batman (among others), the two competing processors saw equal results.
They also ran several benchmarks using highly multi-threaded programs to take advantage of the many-core designs of the AMD and Intel processors, including WinRar 4, Handbrake, 7zip, and wPrime 32M. The eight core AMD FX 8150 Bulldozer processor was tested against both an Intel Core i5 2500k and a Core i7 2600k. The AMD CPU came out ahead in 7zip, wPrime 32M, and Bibble 5.0. It was slower than the Core i7 2600k in the WinRar 4 tests and slower than both the 2500k and 2600k in the ABBYY OCR10 benchmarks. In the other tests, the AMD processor kept pace with or was only slightly behind the top end Intel 2600k CPU.
From the leaked benchmarks (which you can read here), AMD's new Bulldozer CPUs have made an admirable showing. Should these benchmarks hold true, Intel will have some serious competition on its hands, something that the company has not had to deal with in a long time. Whether Bulldozer will result in price cuts or ramped up production on the Intel side remains to be seen; however, the results are not going to be easy for Intel to ignore.
Stay tuned to PC Perspective for more Bulldozer news in the coming weeks.


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Austrian Bernd Wiesberger celebrated his birthday weekend in style with a commanding four stroke victory in the ALLIANZ Golf Open du Grand Toulouse, his second Challenge Tour success of the season.
Wiesberger, who turned 25 on Friday, won his second ALLIANZ sponsored event in France with a final round of 68 and a nine under par total of 275, to climb to fifth place on the Challenge Tour Rankings and seal his card for The 2011 European Tour.
As with his win in Lyon in July, the event was promoted by the same company, Halloween, prompting Wiesberger to comment that "the promoter must be my lucky superstition".
The strong winds of the previous two days were replaced by persistent heavy rain at Golf de Toulouse-Seilh in the Midi Pyreness but Wiesberger didn't put a foot wrong as he kept home favourite Charles-Edouard Russo at bay, the Frenchman claiming second with a closing 71.
Scot Lloyd Saltman and Swede Joel Sjöholm shared third place four under par 280 after rounds of 69 and 68 respectively but in reality Wiesberger never looked likely to be caught over the last nine holes.
"I really played well today and preferred the rain to the wind," said Wiesberger. "I shot the best weekend score and to really play steadily over the last few holes when the pressure was on made me very proud.
"Charles and Rob came at me early on but I birdied the third and then the fifth and sixth which were key and helped settle me down. It's unbelievable."
It was the fourth Austrian win on the Challenge Tour this year with Wiesberger matching the two wins by Martin Wiegele. Challenge Tour Number One Alvaro Velasco is the only other player to have won twice.
"It's great for Austrian golf and it will be good having more Austrian golfers on The European Tour next year. My goal was to get in the top ten of the Rankings and I have achieved that and now I have won twice I want to win a third as not many people achieve that. It would be nice to push for that third win."
Russo closed to within a couple of shots but a mistake midway through the back nine ended his chances. A birdie on the second gave Russo a boost but a mistake on the tenth, when he found water off the tee, set him back. Although he birdied the 11th to close within two, he needed to make up ground on the 14th and 15th but a par and bogey saw him slip further behind.
"I had a good start and putted well," said Russo. "My chance was on the 14th and 15th but to play them in one over was a big blow. The conditions were very difficult so I am pleased to hang on for second place and the game is getting closer so hopefully I can have another good week in Rome or Egypt to get into the top 20. It's a good confidence boost."


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Elementary school Fine Arts Day is Friday
Marion elementary students will have the chance to experience different music, art, and drama Friday during the school's annual Fine Arts Day.
Local guest musician Mark Wilcox, a violinmaker by hobby, will begin the day with a concert. He will then teach music classes the rest of the day.
Marion High School art, forensics, and band students will also display their talents for students. Parents and members of the public are welcome to attend the event as well.


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Only the cutest couple to ever walk the earth. Combination of Braxton and Sydnie, these two definitely have what all people crave. They're both incredible, and think the world of eachother. Be very jealous.
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As a proud Norwegian-American, I deny it. But it is a little hard, otherwise, to explain the story of Van Gogh's "Sunset at Montmajour." Van Gogh painted it in 1888, during his most productive period, but wasn't very happy with the painting and didn't sign it. Upon his death, it was inventoried by his brother Theo, and it was bought early in the 20th century by a Norwegian industrialist, Christian Mustad. Unfortunately, Mustad was told that the painting wasn't a genuine Van Gogh. So he put it in his attic. What–it wasn't good enough to hang in the living room?
It was recently discovered in the attic and has now conclusively been confirmed as Van Gogh's work. Here it is; I think it is pretty darn good. Click to enlarge:
In the art world, this is a big story–the first full-sized Van Gogh to be discovered since 1928. Who knows? Maybe there are a few more lurking in Norwegian attics.


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The new Forum team movie, That, is a big hit around the TransWorld offices; Editor Evan LeFebvre has cut back to three viewings a day. It's one of the first snowboard videos to break away from traditional production companies filming a variety of riders into the new direction of team videos-more like skateboarding. It's an adjustment that some riders have had to make, and we were wondering:
How was filming a team video different than filming with a production company like Defective or Mack Dawg?
Iikka Backstrom
Age: 21
Sponsors: Forum, Planet Earth, Electric, Adio, Drop, Active, Neff
Filming for the team movie was a li'l different 'cause you're competing against your teammates for positioning in the video. The team happens to be pretty strong, so it makes you try extra hard. I think it's just a li'l more stressing, but not in the bad way. I really liked it 'cause I got along with everybody on the team and I got to ride with the sickest shreds.
Joni Malmi
Age: 27
Sponsors: Forum, Special Blend, Oakley, Vestal, Circa, Active, Makia
I was pretty much out of the loop last winter 'cause my mom passed away in February after a long illness, but I think team videos are awesome, and our team is, in my opinion, one of the few that can pull a decent team video off.
I liked that the guys flew over to Sweden and Finland and really enjoyed being there-there was a good vibe between everyone. I don't think Stevie Bell and Jake Welch had ever been out of North America-that's how snowboarding is such an amazing job. Without having to travel to all these places, I probably wouldn't have gone to a fraction of 'em. It was also cool to ride with the newer guys and see that they're stoked to be on the team and to see the energy that they've got. The only drawback that I can think of is that you miss out on meeting and working with other dope people who aren't on the team.
Lauri Heiskari
Age: 22
Sponsors: Forum, Special Blend, Oakley, Nomis, Adio, Big Bear, Active
Well, it wasn't actually that different. The biggest difference was that I was only riding with my teammates instead of people from other companies. Instead of communicating with my main sponsor and the production company, I was just talking to Forum, so that saved a bit of a hassle.
The only drawback was that when you start with a new film crew, things change from the ordinary routine. Like when you're used to being with a filmer in the normal filming spots and the new filmer lives somewhere else, you have to film in totally different areas than you're used to-but I stayed open-minded and everything worked out fine.


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Dierks Bentley Says Third Baby Was 'Kinda Planned, Kinda Unplanned'
Dierks Bentley, with decidedly shorter hair, spoke to a Jacksonville radio station during an appreciation event for the military and revealed how his wife Cassidy let him know that their third bundle of joy was on the way. The pregnancy, according to Bentley, was sort of a surprise, but not really.
The Bentleys don't yet know if they will welcome another girl or if they are about to have their first son, but they will learn the sex soon, according to the 'Come a Little Closer' singer.
Bentley revealed that he was working when he learned he was about to be a father again. He was in Phoenix, playing a gig, when his wife called him to tell him to sit down so she could share the good news that their third offspring was coming.
The country star, who is opening a bar in his Scottsdale hometown, was asked if he was surprised about the news of the expanding family. He said that the pregnancy was "kinda planned, kinda unplanned... it works out pretty good." It always does.
The third child in the Bentley brood will join Evelyn, 4, and Jordan, 2. Their baby brother or sister is due in the fall.


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The Harvard-Radcliffe rugby football club boasts of being "bad-ass" in its recruiting posters. Sometimes a fist will even find a chin, as it did in a recent Saturday afternoon contest against Columbia.
But last year's Division 2 national champions are breaking ground, not faces. Harvard recently created an NCAA Division 1 varsity women's rugby team for the 2013-14 academic year. That gives Harvard a total of 21 women's varsity teams — more intercollegiate opportunities for women than any other higher-learning institution in the country.
Harvard is the first Ivy League school and the largest in the nation to change its women's rugby program from club to varsity status. The process took 18 months.
"The big thing is that this is more than just about us," says Sarah MacVicar, a veteran player and the team president. "This is about rugby in the country, that's what is so exciting to me. Seeing rugby elevated to varsity status is something that we will see translated to other programs as well."
MacVicar knows the score, politically.
"A lot of schools are not in [Title IX] compliance, and it is a big issue and it is something I hope will change sooner rather than later,'' she said. "But the good thing is we are seeing progress being made."
By all accounts, Title IX had a wonderful 40th birthday. The London Summer Olympics were Title IX's crowning achievement. For the first time, Team USA had more women than men. The women also won more medals than the men (58-45, including 29 golds to the men's 17).
In 1971, the year before President Nixon signed the historic legislation to prevent discrimination based on gender in educational institutions, there were 310,000 female athletes in America's high schools and colleges. Now there are 3,373,000.
But one of the most powerful women in sports says we are in the midst of a "Title IX stall."
"It's good that people are celebrating, it's great — but what they are celebrating is progress, not equal opportunity," said Donna Lopiano, president of the consulting firm Sports Management Resources, and the former CEO of the Women's Sports Foundation.
Although Lopiano gives kudos to Harvard for adding women's rugby, she is critical of the Ivy League in general. None of the eight Ivy League schools is in compliance, she says.
She calls it part of a nationwide "conspiracy of institutions."
Females make up 57 percent of students yet receive only 43 percent of the opportunities in athletics, according to Lopiano.
The "Title IX stall" is hidden in the tall reeds, said Lopiano, a former softball great who is a member of the National Sports Hall of Fame.
"In six of the past eight years, more male college athletics participation has been added than female opportunities, despite the continued underrepresentation of females," said Lopiano.
Getting the other Ivies to adopt women's rugby has been a painfully slow process.
"While women have consistently demonstrated a desire to play and a proficiency to play, there's no interest in accommodating them," said Kerri Heffernan, Brown's women's rugby coach. "I was talking to an administrator that just couldn't wrap her head around contact sports. Generational people are saying, 'Eww, why would a woman want to play a contact sport?' "
"What's happening is, at these institutions, nobody is policing them, they are depending on nobody looking."
Myths and compliance
Lopiano is always looking. She started the battle for equality when she was 11 years old. She was the first draft pick as a Little League pitcher in Stamford, Conn., a female Whitey Ford in the late 1950s. While in line to get her uniform, an adult clutching a rule book told her, "Guess what? Girls aren't allowed to play."
She wept that day, but she has been fighting ever since, both in court and out, in Congress and in the Office of Civil Rights.
According to Lopiano, the biggest misconception about Title IX is that it cuts men's programs. Football and basketball are by far the biggest-budgeted sports. Most lose money — lots of money.
"The arms race in men's football and basketball has forced Division 1 FBS institutions into the position of spending 78 percent of men's operating budgets on football and basketball, 68 percent in FCS, and 55 percent in non-football Division institutions," she said.
"These are the richest athletic programs in the country. They can't cut women's sports because they are afraid of a lawsuit. They are not adding more women's sports to come into compliance with Title IX. So they drop men's non-revenue sports and blame it on Title IX."
Jeff Orleans, former commissioner of the Ivy League (1984-2009), served as a lawyer who helped craft the original Title IX legislation, and he agrees.
"You see it all the time," he said. "Schools that are playing big-time football are losing money, do eliminate sports and say it's because of Title IX. I think that's ingenuous at best and incorrect at worst."
Leo Kocher, president of the American Sports Council, said Title IX has "morphed into a strict body-count quota system. You're not saving money, all you're doing is telling boys to clean out their lockers because they're male. It's not about equal opportunities, it's about equal numbers. If a school is not proportional, they are subject to a lawsuit they pretty much can't win."
Compliance is legally met by satisfying just one aspect of a three-pronged test: proportionality, program expansion, and meeting the interests of the underrepresented sex.
Penn has the biggest gap in proportionality in the Ivy League, according to Equity in Athletics Data Analysis. It would have to add 259 females to achieve proportionality among its 1,050 total athletes.
But according to Penn's director of athletic communication Mike Mahoney, the school is "substantially compliant in two prongs."
Mahoney said, "We have added women's sports at a greater rate than men's sports in recent years, and we survey students as to any unmet interests and abilities. There has not been a push from our [rugby] club program to upgrade to varsity status.''
But in Lopiano's eyes, that is not being compliant.
" 'No one asked' is not a defense," she said. "Prongs 2 and 3 require that Penn regularly assess the interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex — both females attending Penn and among their recruiting pool — and if there is interest in females playing ice hockey or bowling, etc., to offer those sports."
"This is an issue of educational equity, and asking those in need to define their need is the great trap," says Heffernan. "Getting young women to counter coaches, to navigate the landscape of their university administrations and USA Rugby is tough.
"I also think young women are different. These are kids who grew up in well-organized sports programs; as such they are less likely to fight administrations who they often see as benevolent. They tend to see adults as having their best interest at heart, even when they're getting royally ripped off."
Lack of leaders
Leadership roles for women seem to be disappearing quicker than a rugby ball tossed into a scrum.
According to "Women in Intercollegiate Sport, a Longitudinal National Study, by Acosta/Carpenter," in 1972, 9 of 10 coaches for women's teams were female. In 2012, slightly less than 1 of 2 coaches for women's teams is female. But 97 of 100 coaches of men's teams are male.
But Kocher of the American Sports Council sees this as a non-issue.
"I think they should just hire the best coach available," he said.
Bryan Hamlin, acting coach for Harvard women's rugby, says he understands the dilemma.
"To be fair, there probably aren't enough women coaches,'' he said. "But in rugby, it has been a predominately male sport."
Only one of the eight Ivy League schools has a female athletic director. Nationally, the figure is almost 21 percent, according to the Acosta/Carpenter study.
"There is a good-old-boys club," said Janet Fink, an associate professor in Sport Management at the University of Massachusetts and an expert on gender equality. "When an athletic club's structure doesn't include any females in it, your AD is a male and associate AD are all male, then they are much more likely to have a higher percentage of male coaches."
Fink says sexism is rampant in sports. She says, for example, that the new Bikini Basketball Association "drives me nuts."
But Lopiano stays at an even keel. As an ex-athlete who has competed at championship levels in four sports, she never loses her cool.
"Two things that force institutions to do the right things are lawsuits and bad press — public embarrassment," she said with a smile.
At 66, she has no intentions of slowing down.
"It takes three generations to make real social change — that's 60 years, and we've only had 40," she said.Stan Grossfeld can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"bibliobibuli" – There are people who read too much, bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. (H.L. Mencken's "Notebook 71," 1956)
A word after a word after a word is power. (Margaret Atwood)
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind. (Joe Queenan)
Who what am I? My answer: I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I've gone which would not have happened if I had not come. Nor am I particularly exceptional in this matter; each 'I', every one of the now-six-hundred-million-plus of us, contains a similar multitude. I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you'll have to swallow a world. (Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie)
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