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We Blog the World, an online culture and travel magazine that focuses on off-the-beaten path cultural events and unique adventure and high-end travel experiences for discerning travelers, re-launched its new travel site today.
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"Coverage of international events and festivals from a global perspective is fragmented and limited," said Blodgett. "We provide comprehensive and in-depth coverage of unique global cultural events, as well as other things important to a successful travel experience."
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We Blog the World explores the human side of travel, from storytelling, human interest stories and unique experiences that shape the world today. Inspirational and life-changing stories will be told in the LIFE section through feature stories and a Q&A format.
"The site incorporates a community of independent voices from around the world who discover remarkable people and experiences and then share their unique perspective with readers," said Blodgett.
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For foodies and wine lovers, We Blog the World will continue to run fun and creative stories about food and wine, including events and festivals. Content will come in the form of restaurant reviews, farm-to-table experiences, interviews with chefs, unique recipes and food photography.
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The new We Blog the World will expand its global coverage of hotels, lodging, and resorts and has added a new section dedicated to retreats and spas. Independent voices will bring a human side to travel accommodation which may include an inside peak at the people who own the hotel or resort or those who make it tick.
The Fashion section has been merged with the new Style section, which will not only include creative and interesting fashion from different cultures around the world, but also style, which includes great design of products, places and things.
The Women section will feature women who are leading projects and building products and services for positive social change.
"It's no secret that women are doing remarkable things and working in important initiatives across the world and so we want to highlight them – the untold unknown stories and some of the known ones," added Blodgett. "As a woman entrepreneur and founder, I think it's important to support other women who are spearheading projects and trying to get groundbreaking projects off the ground."
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The Stone Temple Pilots have fired singer Scott Weiland (WY'-land).
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The Associated Press was attempting to reach Weiland for comment.
The band's 1992 debut, "Core," has sold more than 8 million units in the United States. Their hits include "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song" and "Plush," which won a Grammy in 1993 for best hard rock performance with vocal.
Weiland was also in the supergroup Velvet Revolver with Slash and other musicians. The 45-year-old has dealt with drug addiction, run-ins with the law and two failed marriages. He released his memoir, "Not Dead & Not for Sale," in 2011.
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We asked random people on the street a few questions about traffic safety. Their responses weren't scripted, but they all said the same thing in the end - Our goal should be Zero Fatalities.
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Within each state, various organizations contribute to the success of the Zero Fatalities program, including state departments, organizations and private businesses.
This extensive public education program is designed to convince adults, teens, children, community, business and political leaders why Zero Fatalities is the only number of deaths our nation should strive to achieve.
Drivers are adopting this philosophy through powerful TV and radio commercials, community events, web content, and local media stories. The Zero Fatalities program has been presented to and received endorsements from politicians, planning organizations, law enforcement officials, drivers ed instructors, high school counselors and students, private businesses, city administration, and other community leaders. We would like your support as well.
The intent is to alter the public's current perception that traffic fatalities are an inevitable reality that must be accepted. Instead, by making minor changes to our driving behaviors, our roads will become safer for drivers and passengers. We can prevent the deaths of thousands of people.
Traffic fatalities are preventable - not inevitable, yet they are the leading cause of death for children, for teens, and for everyone between 3 and 33 years old. How many crashes can be prevented each year if everyone in the car is properly restrained, or not drunk, or drowsy, or speeding?
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SCHILLER PARK, IL -- Life Fitness is making some changes, which include the search for a new president. John Stransky left so suddenly from the role of president last month that Brunswick Corp., the parent company of Life Fitness, did not have time to find a replacement. However, prior to Stransky's departure, the company had moved two Life Fitness vice presidents into new roles.
Tim McCarthy has been named vice president for the Americas, responsible for performance in the United States, Canada and Latin America. Frank van de Ven will assume McCarthy's former role as vice president of the international business. Van de Ven previously served as the vice president of sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
McCarthy has a long history with Life Fitness, having joined the company in 1991. He has held sales and management positions of increasing responsibility in the athletic, consumer, education, government, hospitality and commercial dealer segments of the business.
Life Fitness has not commented on why Stransky left or where he went. Until a replacement is found, Peter Hamilton is assuming responsibility as president. Hamilton had been president of Life Fitness from 2005 to 2006 when he left to become president of Brunswick's Boat Group. Later, he was promoted to Brunswick senior vice president and chief financial officer.
The company is being tight-lipped about possible replacements, saying only that the company will consider a number of internal and external candidates.
Stransky left two weeks before Brunswick was set to release its first quarter 2010 earnings.
Fourth quarter 2009 sales for Life Fitness were $146.4 million, down 15 percent from fourth quarter 2008 — and fourth quarter 2008 revenue already was down by 20 percent from fourth quarter 2007. In third quarter 2009, sales decreased by 22 percent, second quarter 2009 sales were down 33 percent and first quarter 2009 sales decreased by 21 percent, all compared to the same quarter in the prior year.
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Brunswick Corp., which is a publicly traded company whose biggest division is its Marine Division, has experienced declines in its overall revenue during the past year. For 2009, Brunswick reported a decrease in net sales of almost 50 percent — $2.8 billion in 2009 compared to $4.7 billion in 2008. Much of the decline was due to slower boat sales caused by the economy, the company says.
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Lance Armstrong delusions fading fast
Eighty million yellow wristbands worn as symbols of hope now represent duplicity.
Seven yellow jerseys worn as mantles of a champion now represent fraud.
Who is Lance Armstrong? Tour de France winner, cancer survivor, heroic conqueror of mountains and adversity. But we always had suspicions, and finally we know the truth: Armstrong is a con man.
People who still think otherwise are deluding themselves the same way Armstrong deluded them.
There's a saying among athletes that only dopes get caught for doping. And only dopes believe stories that are too good to be true. Armstrong doped and duped with equal precision.
"We were good actors," Armstrong teammate Tyler Hamilton said. "We had two faces."
Nike terminated Armstrong's contract Wednesday, citing "insurmountable evidence" that Armstrong "misled" his sponsor for a decade. When Nike disowns one of its stars, particularly one whose Livestrong brand adorns 98 different products, you know he is poison. Nike stood by Tiger Woods when he was revealed to be a serial adulterer and Kobe Bryant when he was charged with sexual assault (charges later dropped). Nike re-signed Michael Vick after he served prison time for animal cruelty.
But Nike wants nothing more to do with a defiant cheater who often played the cancer card when deflecting criticism, evading questions and belittling doubters. He used to say any insinuation that he put toxins in his body again after undergoing cancer treatment was insensitive to what he and other patients went through.
Livestrong? Armstrong was living a lie.
In the Hall of Shame, Armstrong's hubris ranks as more rancid than that of Barry Bonds, a mean, paranoid jerk. Armstrong can be a jerk, too, albeit a charismatic one. But the Armstrong myth was not just fostered by dishonesty but by the deep emotions of his fans. Bonds produced disgust. Armstrong broke hearts.
Minutes before Nike blacklisted Armstrong, he announced his resignation as chairman of the cancer awareness foundation he created in 1997 and built into a powerful charitable force. He said he didn't want Livestrong to suffer "negative effects from the controversy surrounding my cycling career."
Armstrong, 41, was stripped of his seven Tour titles and banned from competition for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency after an investigation proved he was user, leader and enforcer of systematic, sophisticated doping practices on his U.S. Postal Service team, USADA said.
Armstrong decided not to challenge the findings or cross-examine his accusers in an arbitration hearing. USADA released a dossier last week with nearly 1,000 pages of sworn testimony from 26 witnesses, lab reports, emails and financial records.
The report pieced together the fragments that have eroded Armstrong's granite reputation through the years. Armstrong used performance enhancers EPO, human growth hormone, steroids and oxygen-boosting blood transfusions. He pressured teammates to do the same or find another job. He stored drugs in his refrigerators in Nice, France, and Girona, Spain. He eluded testers by planting lookouts at team hotels, sneaking masking agent IVs into his room, being unclear about his whereabouts, hiding syringes and covering up a positive result. He made $1 million in payments to a creepy, nefarious physician known in cycling as "Dr. Blood."
It's Not About the Bike was the title of his autobiography, or should we call it a work of fiction? He described the struggle, determination and tenacity that enabled him to come back from life-threatening testicular cancer and win the most grueling event in sports a record seven consecutive times. It wasn't about the bike; it was about Lance and his journey, a beacon for those reading the book during chemotherapy sessions or while lying in a hospital bed.
Turns out it wasn't about the bike, or the purity of Armstrong's will. It was about breaking the rules and relying on synthetic substances to beat everybody else.
The most damning revelations come from 11 of Armstrong's teammates. He has depicted Floyd Landis and Hamilton as ax-grinders, but he cannot discredit the poignant confession and apology of George Hincapie, his trusted lieutenant through every mile.
When Dave Zabriskie succumbed and took his first injection, he went home and cried. He had pursued cycling as a healthy alternative to a troubled upbringing by his drug-addicted father and pledged never to take drugs. Other riders endured similar soul-searching but made the same choice as Armstrong.
The deceptions went drip, drip, drip like blood into veins, until they were absorbed and accepted as a necessary evil.
Of three common defenses of Armstrong the first asserts all pro riders were doping and a doped Armstrong was still the best on an "even playing field." You could use the same rationalization to cheat on an exam or loot during a riot, but unethical behavior is still unethical. And Armstrong had more means (including funds from the postal service) than many teams to acquire drugs and hire doctors.
The second excuse, Armstrong's refrain that he never tested positive, is bogus. He did at least once, and lied about a saddle sore that never existed. Positive tests aren't necessary to prove doping. Bonds, Hincapie and Marion Jones are among those who never tested positive, either.
Third, Armstrong has helped raise $500 million through his foundation. He visits patients. He lobbies legislators. Give him a pass.
Armstrong is not a villain, and he has done more good for people than harm. But remember that Bernie Madoff gave millions to charity. A Ponzi schemer depends on suspension of disbelief by investors. Armstrong was not robbing people's life savings. But he did spin a phony narrative. He adamantly denied that he used drugs. He bullied or sued whistle-blowers.
He raised many millions on the pretense that made him famous — overcoming cancer and applying his will to survive to the Tour. Except that those inspirational alpine climbs — a French cyclist once described his shock at seeing Armstrong speed past him as if he was descending rather than ascending — were fueled by a will to cheat.
A truly courageous Armstrong could have confessed, used his high profile to pull cycling from its overdosed depths and waged a global campaign against doping.
Instead, he punched his reeling sport in the gut. Instead, we observe the fall of another American hero. Wasn't it last autumn that the Joe Paterno legend began to rot?
Perhaps Armstrong will persist in his denials, as the pitiful Pete Rose did, and end up a Las Vegas casino greeter. He's banned from his goal of winning Hawaii's Ironman Triathlon. Anheuser Busch no longer wants him for commercials. His brand is as useless as a flat tire.
The long con is over. Americans are always eager to forgive a repentant sinner. He should do what he chose not to do as an athlete: come clean.


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The great instructor of the spiritual life, Bishop Theophan the Recluse of Vysha, says that prayer is "the receptacle or field of all spiritual life, spiritual life itself in motion or action" (An Outline of Christian Moral Teaching, pp. 405-06). Another definition which he gives concerning prayer is that "prayer is the breath of the soul"(Ibid). If prayer is the breathing of the soul of every individual Christian, then public prayer, or divine service, is the breathing of the soul of the whole society of Christians, i.e., the Church. If the Christian prays carelessly and poorly, spiritual life dies in him. If he completely ceases to pray, then he is in danger of spiritual death. In exactly the same way, only that church is alive in which spiritual life exists, in which public prayer is conducted in the proper way, in which the divine service is performed properly and in order. The church in which the divine service is celebrated carelessly, in which the ritual is given secondary importance, in which the ritual is performed only for "form's sake," such a church dies spiritually.
Such are the fundamental considerations according to which the practical study of liturgics among sciences concerning the divine service should be granted the most important and honored place in the theological schools. Unfortunately, it has not always been thus everywhere and I is not. In some schools liturgics was taught as a dry, abstract science, as something divorced from "the breath of life" - the divine services. As a result, those who are finishing theological schools, when ordained to holy orders, have not been able to properly celebrate the divine services. A great deal of attention was given to the historical process in the development of our divine services. Great importance was given to the opinions of various scholars concerning the origin of one or another aspect of Octoechos, or some liturgical action. Much was spoken about the symbolism of various religious rites. However, the service itself, its exposition, order, and content have been left without due attention.
Meanwhile, what richness is contained in our divine services! Only who delves deeply into them, studying them according to the original sources, our wonderful service books, sees this. Our divine services present a genuine "school of piety," and a real theological school, instructing us in all our theological sciences through live, colorful images and highly inspired, prayerful expressions.
Thus, the annual cycle of divine services sets forth for us completely, with people and main events, all of biblical history, Old Testament as well as New Testament, and also the history of the Church, general as well as particular, i.e., the history of the Russian Church. Before us pass the majestic Old Testament images of the patriarchal forefathers, the great leaders of the chosen people of God, Moses and Joshua, the Judges of the Kings of Israel, the stern prophets, the zealots of Jehovah and condemners of the apostasy of the Hebrew people from the true God. The wonderful foreshadowings and prophecies about the coming Messiah are revealed, and then a complete series of feasts all the New Testament history from the Nativity of John the Baptist until the Ascension of the Lord. Here is contained the history of the Church in people and events, a general history as well as the Russian Church history in particular.
And how many great dogmatic truths are unfolded for us with our verses and canons in lofty poetical images! Particularly the so-called Triadica (Trinitarian hymns), in a fresh and graphic way inform us about the great truth of the "Trinity in Unity" - the Three-in-One Divine Being. The Theotokia, among which the "Dogmatic Theotokia," especially, expound for us concerning the great mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God from the unwedded and most pure Virgin Mary, concerning the perpetually-confessed dogma of the Church regarding the ever-virginity of the unwedded Theotokos. For one who can read and investigate thoroughly, this is a full course of dogmatic theology revealing to us all the dogmatic teaching of the Church: about God, one in essence and three in Persons; about God as the Creator of the world and mankind; about the provider and Savior of man; about the Son of God as Redeemer; about the Holy Spirit as sanctifier, about the Church as the storehouse of the Grace of the Holy Spirit. Each of the Seven Mysteries is given full expression in a separate service, where the significance and meaning is revealed fully and in detail. And finally, we have the last destiny of the world and man - the second coming of Christ, the Last Judgment, the eternal suffering of sinners and the eternal blessedness of the righteous.
What plentiful material our divine service books give us in the area of moral theology - the teaching concerning Christian morality! In this area we find inexhaustible examples from the lives of the God-pleasing saints. And above all, we find the teaching on prayer in the innumerable images of the most diversified prayers for all occasions of life, answering all the varied needs of the human being. We have a full picture of the war continually waged in man 5 soul between virtue and sin; the lofty examples of virtues; the censure of sin; the graphic examples of virtuous and depraved life gathered from Sacred Scripture, the history of the Church, and the lives of saints. In this sphere especially rich material is provided by the Lenten Triodion with its incomparable and exalted penitential Canon of St. Andrew of Crete, and also by the penitential and tender verses of the Octoechos.
However, not only the above-mentioned theological sciences find their expression, in one way or another, in our Orthodox divine services, but all the others also receive their content from them. During the course of the centuries our divine services have built up an harmonious system, rich in content, through the efforts of many great hymnographers, people of prayer, and ascetics, holy fathers of the Church. To set in order all this rich material, a special arrangement was composed according to the days and months of the year, with exact indications as to how and when, and on which days, and in which service, and in what order this material is to be used. This is the Typicon, or Ustav.
The first, most ancient edition of the Typicon goes back to the 5th century of the Christian Era and belongs to the Monastery of St. Sava the Sanctified, near Jerusalem. The second edition has come down to us from the 9th century, from the Monastery of St. Theodore the Studite. The Typicon was composed in fulfillment of the commandment of the holy Apostle Paul, who indicated that in the Church everything should be done decently and in order (I Corinthians 14:40).
It would seem that having such a very rich inheritance, received from the first centuries of Christianity, it would behoove us to learn the Typicon, to investigate it, and to try to use it fully for our instruction and the salvation of our souls.
However, what do we observe in actuality in our times? For the significant majority of believers, this greatest of spiritual riches has become unapproachable, it seems to be hidden under a bushel; it remains completely unused.
The reason for this, of course, most importantly lies in the secularization of life, in the departure from the Church, which began long ago among our Russian society, from the middle of the 17th century, as a result of an imprudent rapprochement with the West and a flippant enthusiasm for anti-Christian, Western pseudo-culture. In society different secular interests and aspirations, as opposed to spiritual ones, began to dominate. Genuine, living faith began to weaken, and people became weary of true services conducted according to the actual Typicon. Services were shortened. As a result of this process, as can be observed in contemporary parishes, only the skeleton of the services remains. The unalterable parts remain, but the stichera often are shortened or left out. Such is the case also with Matins. The odes of the canons are shortened; not all of the eirmosi are sung, so also with the katavasia, and so on. This in spite of the fact that all the richness and depth of the services are to be found in the stichera and the canons. In them are reflected the festal events, in them are glorified the saints in whose memory the services are celebrated. With such abbreviations the worshippers do not receive any impressions from the event celebrated, inasmuch as, except for the troparion and the magnification, they do not hear anything related to the given feast. For this reason, all the above-mentioned richness of our divine services is lost and is not accessible to the faithful.
At the same time, those who support abbreviating the services give attention to providing that the unchangeable parts of the service be diversified, and they often resort to concert-like four part harmonizations. Because of this choir directors devote much time to the execution of complicated, concert pieces for the unalterable portions of the services which are repeated; for example: Bless the Lord, 0 my soul; Blessed is the man; Now lettest Thou Thy servant depart; Praise ye the name of the Lord; the Great Doxology. In actuality, with plain chant [harmonized simply] the time spent in concerts could be used to sing the stichera and in the reading of the canons. Of course, with the use of plain chant and the additional material the services would be somewhat longer. However, the worshippers would have the ability to grasp the meaning of the event celebrated and to receive spiritual edification. The services would not be monotonous (some say boring), as the case often is now, and because of which the worshippers lose interest, and our churches are empty during vigils. Quite the opposite, they will be beneficial and edifying because of their content. Such a service creates a spiritual mood, a spiritual uplift, and would fill the worshippers with the Grace-filled gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Theatrical concert singing came into fashion in Russia during the last two centuries, and it is a direct violation of the 75th Canon of the Sixth Ecumenical Council which states: "We desire those who attend church for the purpose of chanting neither to employ disorderly cries nor to force themselves to unnatural shrieks, nor to introduce anything that is not becoming and proper for the church; but, on the contrary, to offer up such psalmodies with much attentiveness and contriteness to God, Who sees all that is hidden from our sight. For the sons of Israel shall be reverent (Lev. 15:30), the sacred word has taught us."
Chant of Italian origin arrived in Russia together with immigrant Italians during and after the reign of Catherine II, and brought into our churches a spirit foreign to Holy Orthodoxy. Under the influence of a general enthusiasm for the West in all areas of life, it spread widely throughout Russia and established deep roots. Nevertheless, at the beginning of this century in Russia there were people who began to understand the problem involving church chant, and they began to return to the ancient, strict church melodies.
A great authority on the question of church chant, the New Hieromartyr Arsenius, Archbishop of Novgorod, at one time one of three candidates for patriarch at the All-Russian Council of 1~ 7, twice convoked in his diocese conferences for teachers of church chant - in 1911 and 1913 with the goal of returning the church choir to true chanting as it was in Russia during the course of 700 years from the time of the Baptism of Rus'. At the first of these conferences he made a speech, from which we cite some ideas.
"Beginning in the 17th century we directed our gaze toward the West, and then we began to change in every respect," said Vladyka Arsenius. "We have forgotten that church chant is a holy work. We have forgotten the wonderful Znamenny, Bulgarian, and Greek chants,... church singers imagine themselves to be artists ~.. For this reason they often choose for church hymns unsuitable melodies and they are ready to make the choir a stage.. we answer to God for this profaning of the divine services with our singing. The choir is not a stage for actors. In church everything should be sacred." The basic characteristic by which real church chant should be distinguished is dispassion.
Closely bound up with liturgics along with chant is church art or iconography. If chant is called upon to illustrate and to imprint strongly in our hearts liturgical material by means of such an important organ of our external senses as hearing, so iconography also acts by means of another organ of sense - sight. Iconography also, like chant, should be conducive to the education of the faithful in an Orthodox spirit, and iconography should respond to the needs of Orthodox aesthetics and lead, not to deception, but to healthy religious feeling.
Orthodox iconography is not realistic, but symbolic. It cannot and should not illustrate anything that is of this world, which lies in evil, disfigured by sin, carrying in itself the stamp of sin, and attracting to sin. Iconography should not remind one of anything worldly. On the contrary, it should attract one's thoughts and feelings away from all worldliness and carry us over into another, higher world, the spiritual world. Not only should Raphael's madonnas not be found in Orthodox churches, but also all art that cannot cut us off from everything earthy, art which, even though it might seem to be inspired and beautiful from the point of view of aesthetics, nevertheless portrays only worldly images encountered upon earth and bound up with the world. Iconography, as well as church chant, should completely separate us from the world. Without this it is not Orthodox and cannot instruct us in Orthodoxy.
Such is the criteria, such is the touchstone for evaluating the "Orthodoxy" of church chant and iconography. Here one cannot talk about such a thing as "personal tastes"; we cannot permit the criterion." whether it pleases one or not." Both chant and iconography should be, above all, in agreement with the spirit of Orthodox aesthetics, which demands a full denial of the world, with the Orthodox teaching about prayer, free from ecstatic prelest [deception]. For this reason, not for one minute can we forget that according to the word of the beloved disciple of Christ, the holy Apostle John the Theologian, "the whole world lieth in wickedness," and "[Whosoever loveth] the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Dispassion is the very criterion for the "Orthodoxy" of church chant and iconography.
And this question is very important! The divine services should cultivate in the faithful the spirit of Orthodoxy and not the prelest of the West. Unlawful Western chant and realistic art invading our churches obviously can only foster the spirit of Western, ecstatic, seducing prelest, destructive to souls but in no way in the spirit of genuine Orthodox piety.
In relation to the above, it is important to point out that all non-Orthodox who become interested in Orthodoxy, of whom we see more and more in our diaspora, instinctively draw closer to the Orthodox Church, love, appreciate, and highly esteem our ancient chants and our ancient iconography, which perfectly reflect all the exalted heavenly beauty of Orthodoxy. Many among them wince and wonder when they hear in our churches bravura Italian melodies which have nothing in common with Orthodoxy.
Thus, Liturgics should be the inspiring study of the living richness of the Church, which is to be found in our divine service books and, besides, should not be separate from external expression in church chant and iconography.
Such a mission we at Holy Trinity Seminary try to fulfill, according to our abilities and strength. Our seminarians learn the divine services in practice. They also study the history of the divine services. They participate in the church choir and they serve in the altar. In such a way those who try, have the possibility not only to become closely acquainted with the services and learn church chant, but also to immerse themselves in the life of the church year.
During the last few years we have organized seminars in church singing, which are held in the summer. Further, the Church-singing Commission of the Synod of Bishops holds annual conferences which are conducted precisely in that Church spirit and direction about which the New Hieromartyr Arsenius of Novgorod spoke and emphasized. Under his initiative and with his blessing there was printed The Church Choir Director's Companion in 1~3. By 1916 in Russia there were already three editions of this book. Holy Trinity Monastery printing press reprinted this valuable aid for choirs in 1959. Many of our parishes now use this Companion, both in the choir and during other services. This very handbook, The Church Choir Director's Companion, is the principal handbook and directive for our church-singing conferences. Such a guide in church-singing tradition we find in the majority of our parishes where graduates of Holy Trinity Seminary are priests.
In some degree we can also observe that in the majority of the parishes of the Church Abroad church iconography is kept in the ancient Russian-Byzantine tradition, thanks to the fact that in our monastery we have an iconographer, Archimandrite Cyprian, around whom has gathered an iconographic school and tradition. Many of our churches have been painted by Archimandrite Cyprian and his students. They have also painted icons which have been printed and distributed not only among our faithful, but also in Russia in great quantities.
Here my desire has been to indicate what important work is carried on by our Seminary, by our Monastery, and by our Church Abroad!
Seminary Graduation 1995
Archbishop Laurus
From Orthodox Life No. 4, 1995
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he Clarion
Beate& Schaal Papeii
Vol. XXVI — No. 13
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. April 18, 1947
You men plagued with women
talkers will welcome the news re-ported
by the National Institute
for Human Relations. The Ameri-can
woman has actually cut her
rate from 175 words per minute to
160 per minute since the beginning
of the war. Women talkers are
still dangerous in my estimation.
It's not how much they talk, but
what they say!
* * *
If any of you fellows want a
cheap vacation this summer, I have
just the place for you. Gov. Dewey
of New York has just raised the
NeW York State allowance for peo-ple
in jail from 60c to $1 a day. If
that news doesn't make the New
York taxpayers happy, it should at
least cheer up the tramps!
* * *
Two bits of news regarding pro-tection
from atom bomb effects
have been released. The Navy has
disclosed that submarines stood up
very satisfactorily against the Bi-kini
atom bombs.
And here is something that
should console people concerned
with the ill-effects of atomic radi-ation.
Two University of Chicago
scientists have revealed that a
commercial dye, tolivdine blue, is
an effective antidote to "thinning"
of the blood and eventual hemor-age
that is caused by radio-active
Clop . . . clop . . . clop . . . the
methodical gait of the jailer, the
jangle of the keys, and clang of
the iron gate at the end of the
long corridor. Now the warden
opened the barred door and beck-oned
for me to join the procession
down the "last mile." Reluctantly,
I followed him into a brightly-lighted
room with no furniture
save a platform above which was
suspended the noose . . . reserved
for me. I was soon on the plat-form
and from behind me a hand
came to rest on my shoulder. I
shuddered and closed my eyes in
fearful expectancy. When 1 open-ed
my eyes, I was in the dark and
the hood had been slipped over my
head very silently. As I stretched
my neck in anticipation of the
hemp necklace, I saw a window
with no bars, and bright sunshine
falling across the ledge. I noticed
ceiling lights with shades, book
cases in tiers reaching the ceiling,
With nearly 1200 miles of con-cert
tour behind them, 28 tired
male chorus members returned to
school late Sunday night. The
tour, which took the men through
Iowa, South Dakota, and Minne-sota,
was of one week's duration
and was the annual spring concert
The trip was made in the school
bus driven on alternate days by
Paul Leafblad and Phil McClain.
Considering all things, the bus held
up remarkably well. Bad weather
and almost unbelievable road con-ditions
in Iowa and South Dakota
failed to disrupt the time-table, and
all concerts were held as announc-ed
Most of the men received an
intimate acquaintance with mud in
all its forms, even to the extent
of having to be extricated by trac-tor
from some farms.
The itinerary was as follows:
Worthington, Minn.; Sioux City,
Ia. ; Big Springs and Sun Prairie,
S. D.; Lake Sarah, Alexandria, St.
Cloud, Brainerd, and Milaca, Minn.
The Girls' Chorus is scheduled to
start its annual tour on April 25.
Also traveling"in the school bus,
they will tour Wisconsin, Michi-gan,
and Illinois.
and a huge pile of books in front
of me. Nor was I alone, for the
hand on my shoulder belonged to
the lovely blonde librarian who
now smiled and said, "Here's your
book you asked for." Soon my
thoughts were back to reality and
I wished that my dream were true
because, well, I knew that the tor-ture
of writing a research paper
was mine.
However, I bravely began writ-ing
on my topic, "The Receding
Effects of Psilosis" from the book
just handed me . . . "the disease
has plagued man from earliest
times and shows now signs of van-ishing
from the scene" . . . and
she has lovely hair, too . . . "pro-gress
has been made in combating
this disease in the past two years
through the efforts of scientists of
Einstein Laboratories" . . . wonder
what her telephone unmber is? .. .
"victims of the disease are usually
between the ages of 25 and 55 and
69. S. Plaia. Set
The time and place for this
year's J. S. Banquet was an-nounced
on Tuesday morning at
the Freshman class meeting. It
will be held in the Lowry Hotel
on May 16 at 7:00 P. M. Tick-ets
are to go on sale shortly. It
was also announced that the
speaker for the occasion would
be Ruth Eckert of the Educa-tio'
Department of the Univer-sity
of Minnesota.
"He Is Risen"
Is BWA Theme
"He is Risen" was the theme
of yesterday afternoon's BWA
meeting, presented under the di-rection
of that organization's ex-ecutive
In addition to the devotional
program, special music was plann-ed
by Joyce Johnson and Ruth
This was the last BWA meet-ing
before the formal spring ban-quet,
which is planned for the ear-ly
part of May.
unless preventive methods are us-ed
early in life, any later attempt
serves but as a check" . . . she
really smiled at me nicely . . .
"there is need for experts in this
field since so many of the doctors
have themselves succumbed to the
disease" . . . maybe she wouldn't
refuse me a date if I asked her.
Just then she returned with an-other
book and with a trace of a
sarcastic smirk on her face, hand-ed
me the volume and remarked,
"Did you ask for this bibliogra-phy?"
I answered in the affirma-tive
and laughingly answered, "All
I have to do is copy 20 references
and my research paper will be
completed." She smiled and re-turned
to her desk. As I watched
her, I thought that she looked very
familiar but I could not quite place
her in my memory. Hurriedly, I
copied the references, closed my
notebook, and started to leave the
room. As I sauntered by her desk
During fourth hour this morning
the entire student body gathered
in the college chapel for the sec-ond
NAS rally, the first being held
last year. This rally was sponsor-ed
by the Student Council under
the direction of the publicity com-mittee.
The program was led by Carl Ol-son,
who explained NAS or New
Athletic Stadium. The drive for
funds of $100,000 was begun last
year by the student body who
pledged $15,000 for a period of five
years. Plans this year are for a
goal of $25,000 through the stu-dent
body—their own pledges and
those of friends whom they con-tact.
Coach Paul Edwards presented
the ne( d of the stadium from the
view of other schools and the con-ference.
Bob Daley presented the
need in relation to the school and
the student body. The need of stu-dent
pledges was presented by Bob
Sandin, basketball captain and -
Student Council president. Harold
Christenson made a plea for stu-dents
to contact friends to pledge
toward the fund.
B.W.F. To Give
Annual Concert
The Bethel Women's Federation
Chorus, directed by Bonnevieve
Opel-, will present its annual spring
concert in the College Chapel next
Friday, April 25. Assisting artists
will be Evelyn Rieke, violinist and
Harry T. Opel, baritone.
The chorus is sponsored by a
group of women from Twin City
Baptist churches, who in other
ways work for Bethel's welfare.
Each spring the chorus makes a
tour which includes the area
around the Twin Cities.
The concert will begin at 8:15.
Tickets for the event cost 75c.
for another look, I suddenly, with
a great pain in my stomach, re-membered
that I had met her at
the semi-formal concert . . . and
that she was Miss Berthas room-mate.
Now my "goose is cooked," I
thought, and I quickly went out of
the building on my way to a Min-neapolis
library thinking of a new
topic, "The Vices of Plagiarism."
By Rosenquist
"NAS" Rally Receives Good Support
Male Chorus Pledges Are Sought For New Stadium
Tours In Mud In This Morning's Sport Rally
The Masterpiece, or
Aug /fat le *kite lizal Telma
The Clarion
Published Twice a Month By
EDITORIAL POLICY: To maintain and promote the Christian
principles cf Bethel; to promote scholarship; to foster
more school spirit; to establish a better understanding
among the :Indents.
Editor Gordon Krantz
Ass't. Editor Charles Germany
News E. W. J. Avey, Ed.; Rosenquist, Germany,
M. Lindstedt, R. Dischinger, Kenward, Burgeson, Bavin.
Features A. Carlson, Ed.; Rosenquist, H. Anderson,
Bergman, A. Hansen, Raub, M. Lindstedt, D. Carlson,
Olson, Martinson,
Sports Ellison, Ed.; H. Peterson, Goodrich,
E. Johnson, Dahl, Lundberg.
Religious Editor Ruth Bridges
Circulations Manager Karl Rosenquist
Business Manager Bud Peterson
Faculty Advisor LaVone Berthel
Aid In Reaching Chapel Quotes
Page 2 THE CLARION
$100,000 Goal
For NAS Asked
We dare not assert that Bethel's
development is complete. Regard-less
of what we say about an ex-pansion
of the school's program,
it is evident that in some respects
we are in need of much improve-ment.
The inability of the present ath-letic
program to supply the de-mands
of our rapidly growing stu-dent
body is becoming more and
more noticeable. This year, the
lack is more in evidence than it
has ever been in the history of the
school. The revival of the South-ern
Minn. Junior College confer-ence
makes it even more impera-tive
for Bethel to obtain suitable
athletic equipment. Nor does any-one
need to be reminded that the
present provisions for spectators
approach the ridiculous.
Recognizing this condition, the
student council last year, inaugu-rated
a drive to collect $100,000 for
a field house. In a couple of
months about 200 students pledged
nearly $15,000. Encouraged by the
enthusiastic response the council
announced that it has hopes of ob-taining
an additional $25,000 this
year to make a total of around
$40,000 from Bethel students alone.
The goal is not unattainable.
Two hundred students could, by
pledging a dollar per month for
five years, auras a sum of $12,000.
If an additional 200 secured similar
pledges from one personal acquain-tance
away from school the goal
would be all but reached. If but
half of our some 500 students were
to back the drive 100 per cent, the
anticipated $40,000 would easily be
obtained. We must throw ourselves
into this campaign with all the
earnestness that youth can muster.
Depending upon the intensity of
our support, the day is not far dis-stant
that will find Bethel with a
field house of which it can be
He called them to repent, and
their answer was the nails; He
said, "Come unto me," and they
cast Him out.
—C. B. Akenson.
There they crucified Him, and I
was one of the "they," and there
you stood.
—C. B. Akenson.
The Lord is the same yesterday,
today, and forever; He cannot
change; we must change.
—Joyce Johnson.
The man who does his routine
job well is the man who will excel
in extra-curricular activity.
—0. E. Sandin.
The first step, if we are to make
amends with God, is to humble
—Joyce Johnson.
The forgiveness asked a n d
granted to others never went deep
enough to pour in the oil that
—Joyce Johnson.
The crown I should have worn,
He wore; the nails I should have
borne, He bore.
—C. B. Akenson.
I recommend that you stop play-ing
hide-and-seek with the Lord—
it is a losing game.
—Joyce Johnson.
Satan's greatest victory is sin
in the life and heart of the Chris-tian.
—Joyce Johnson.
Too -Baity4
It seems that one of our last
editorials stirred up quite a bit
of discussion. Well, perhaps we
should be happy; an editorial
that arouses no comment is a
The unfortunate part is that
a good many people at whom
we were not aiming were of-fended.
Largely, that was our
fault, in that we made the edi-torial
too inclusive and the lead
paragraph too strong.
The Clarion apologizes to all
you who, while innocent of the
editorial's charges, were offend-ed
by its phraseology.
Trials Found
In. School, Too
In a few months school will be
over and we will no longer be sur-rounded
entirely by Christians. Al-ready
there have been discussions
about the time when we will be
among worldly people and exposed
to the pitfalls of the world. It is
expected that all kinds of trials
and tests will arise.
The fact often overlooked is that
the most insidious trials are not
to be found in the world, but rath-er
we are having and have had
them right here.
There is a tendency to think
that, because all our companions
are Christians, our actions and
speech need not be controlled. The
attitude is that "they know I don't
mean it that way." So we indulge
in a bit of harmless gossip, paro-dy
and make jokes of Scripture,
and in other ways act in ways un-becoming
to a Christian.
If we wouldn't want non-Chris-tians
to watch us do some things,
we shouldn't want .Christians to
see us do them.
No, the test is not somewhere in
the future. It is right here.
There are still those who have
not paid up their Spire photos or
class dues. Pay up now.
1560 Como Avenue
Oh, these terrible morning
hours ! . . . after a week of being
kicked out of bed at 10:30 A. M.,
what a jolt it is to grope around at
7:00 trying to get ahold of that
infernal alarm clock. I could al-most
get used to that but then to
find that bacon and eggs are no
longer the bill of fare for break-fast
. . . why, it's enough to drive
any sane man to studying. That
brings up an awful reminder about
mid-quarters but I'll push that into
the background in favor of a few
notes about the trials and tribula-tions
of country life endured by the
Male Chorus on its tour . . . "tele-hone
booths" and all.
BARNYARD MEMOS : . . . Prof.
Bert Andetson made a claim to his
insurance company to cover ir-reparable
damages to his artistic
hands which became calloused
from carrying a kerosene lantern
in the wee hours of the morning
. . . Olof Lindstedt was so over-whelmed
by country life that he
signed a contract to return to Win-fred,
S. D., and form an orchestra
with a contemporary violinist with
whom he made such beautiful mu-sic
. . . another member is return-ing
to South Dakota to open a
bowling alley. How about it, Palm-quist?
. . . yours truly drove his
first tractor and I have a corner
of the church that I knocked off
as proof . . . and everyone gained
tbe (Carpet
By President Wingblade
I believe it is in Mexico that the
people will often say with a shrug
of the shoulders a word that means
"tomorrow." It is true that the
word might signify hope and in-spiration
but when it rather sug-gests
the putting off of a pressing
duty it becomes the symbol of an
unprogressive people.
"Procrastination is the thief of
Year after year it steals away
Till all are sped—
Then leaves to one brief moment
The vast import of an eternal
In student life this is often the
case. The daily work which could
have been done quite easily is put
off to the last, and the result may
become a feverish and futile at-tempt
to do the impossible.
Furthermore, a duty consciously
put off becomes a constant burden
and worry. And so keen business
men have put up the reminder:
"Do it now!"
Also when several tasks await
action and some are seemingly
more distasteful than others it is
well to tackle the most difficult
first. This done, the program is
well underway, and a sense of
peace and progress pervades the
Usually a matter is never quite
as hard or formidable as one may
imagine. If tackled squarely it
will soon surrender and, better
still, become a friend. The boy
who walked along a dark and lone-
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two pounds in mud on the bottom
of his shoes.
TOUR TIT-TATS: . . . Mr. Rentz
spent most of his time and money
in Sioux Falls at the Bishop Clinic
but it was worth it because he was
like a new man the rest of the
tour . . . if you see a garden grow-ing
behind the Dorm, you can al-most
be sure that it's Stan Starr
cultivating his carrot crop which
he claims is an aid to his "night
flying" . . . then there's Schwartz
who became so fascinated by sev-endaughters
that he chased the
bus 2 miles before he caught it
. . . speaking of runners, Kolsrud
brought his track gear along but
lost his shoes in the mud around
Lake Sarah . . . oh yes, Edna
Rehnstrom's brother is president
of the chorus or haven't you peo-ple
met Jim . .. Joel Lingensjo re-ceived
a special invitation for an
evening because the lady liked his
smile and beutiful voice. Have you
told Eva yet?
Olsson blushing quite profusely as
the "bobby soxers" sighed when he
sang his solo in his own inimitable
way . . . Clarence Britton almost
writing his death warrant as far as
the chorus goes, when he asked
Prof. Stj. if he almost got caught
in the draft during World War I
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Greenman Makes All-Conference;
Chosen By Coaches In Austin Poll
Bethel tied for second place in the Southern Minnesota College
Basketball conference this past year instead of placing third as was
reported by the Clarion in the last issue, a recheck of the records shows.
The Clarion joins the student body in congratulating the team.
Kenny Greenman, Bethel guard
Baseball Starts and high point man of the team,
was elected to the all-conference
team chosen by the coaches of the
Southern Minnesota Conference
through questionaries sent out by
the Austin School paper. LeRoy
Sand-berg placed in the All-Confer-ence
third team. The players
chosen for the All-Conference first
team include:
gue teams. Greenman, Bethel Guard
Prospects Good
"The prospects for a baseball
team this season are fair, and we
should give plenty of competition
in the conference," states coach
Paul Edwards. A schedule has
been drawn up with the other lea-
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THE CLARION Page 3
Have You Heard? Recheck Shows Team In 2nd Place THAT, in his farewell address to
the Modern World class, Farmer
C. E. Carlson eloquently referred
to oats and barley and poured
scorn on the ignorance of city
THAT Mr. Norquist led a lively
opposition by introducing a much
needed anti-corn movement.
THAT Stanley Starr spent the
first half of an English test in con-templation
of one of the campus
trees to help "figure out what
timbre is."
THAT the perseverance of Old
Mother Hubbard was strongly
praised by Katherine Meyer in a
sermon to the communications
THAT botanists are excitedly
examining a bulletin board growth
that Mr. Johnson has officially de-scribed
as "botany test fungus."
THAT Enid Bruce elevated to
the classics a quotation from Prof.
Norstrom to the effect that a word
to the wise is superfluous.
THAT research into the Indus-trial
Revolution has revealed that
nobody knows when the wheel was
That Dr. Karl J. Karlson was
seen in the chemistry lab. prepar-ing
his tackle for a new season's
fishing, and that Tom Coleman
was spotted in the hall examining
an army recruiting pamphlet.
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I'm in a forlorn mood. It's spring
already. This is the season when
my fancy should be lightly turn-ing,
but somehow outside of my
"extra" extra curricular activities
my heart is depressed. Maybe
without too much research I can
trace down the cause for this de-pleted
Back on February 28th, 37 en-thusiastic
candidates reported to
track coach Bob Daley with the de-sire
and promise to give all their
athletic energy toward shaping up
a cinder team for Bethel. This
crew worked hard and gave up a
lot in order to make good their
promise. They limped around the
corridors of school from shin
sprains and tired, sore leg muscles.
Their left foot ached continuously
from those close, sharp corners in
the gym and their lungs grew raw
everytime they ventured outdoors
to stretch out their legs and tried
to develop a stride.
Everything seemed to work
against coach Bob in his plans and
Apt. Families
Acquire Cars
Spring has turned the thoughts
of the families in the apartments
toward automobiles. Ray Sand-berg
and Karl Rosenquist have
both acquired V-8 Fords and were
immediately sold car wax by Arth-ur
Sather. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson
and Mr. and Mrs. K. Greenman
have a joint partnership in a car
to take them back to California
this summer.
The bed doors have finally been
installed in the apartments, thus
covering up the unsightly unfolded
bed. One housewife was known to
jump out of bed in the morning,
forgetting about the newly install-ed
doors, and had a "head collu-sion"
with them.
Rumor has it there will be a
children's playroom provided in
the basement of the apartment
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ly road and suddenly beheld what
seemed to be a formidable figure
blocking the way with outstretch-ed
arms, but who courageously
marched forward to his relief that
the figure was only a friendly
guide post placed there to point
him on his way aright.
Duties promptly and faithfully
done leave no regret. In Ibsen's
"Peer Gynt" we have a character
portrayed who spends long .years
in drifting about the world. He fi-nally
comes back to the old home
in Norway — and there he has a
vision of his wasted life.
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dreams for a good track team. Just
when they thought that the gym
was theirs for -training there would
be another basketball game, anoth-er
volley-ball tournament, or anoth-er
session with basketball enthusi-asts
as to who had the better right
to the gym floor.
The trackmen's spirits were high
when they had the permission to
work out in the University field
house, but that faded out again.
Plans had to be changed to con-form
with a last-minute University
To top off all these grievances,
only about a quarter of the needed
equipment could be acquired.
Track shoes had to be bought in-dividually
by each man.
Candidates were warned at the
start that there would be more
work than glory in this sport, but
many didn't realize until they had
to report daily for back-breaking
and muscle pulling calisthenics.
They still visioned that array of
medals and trophies until they
Cold and raw weather has held
practice down, but when warmer
days come, the team will hold reg-ular
daily practice at Murray
At a baseball meeting, called by
Edwards last Monday afternoon,
several candidates signed for po-sitions.
Eight new baseball uniforms and
other equipment have been order-ed;
and a squad of 18 or 20 will
be carried.
J417 Schedule
April 17 ...... Northwestern (here)
April 25 Waldorf (there)
May 2 Bethany (there)
May 6 Northwestern (there)
May 10 Luther (here)
May 24 Waldorf (here)
May 30 Luther (there)
May 31 Bethany (there)
Two games with Concordia un-scheduled
as yet.
come to the day they wanted to
run an event against time and were
exhausted before they had covered
half the distance.
Those between meal snacks and
those late sessions with the books
and otherwise after eleven o'clock
hours were the sins of every track-man,
but time trials revealed who
had sinned the most.
Even though the original track
squad is now cut down to almost
half, there are still some who are
not giving up. It won't be until the
last jersey is worn completely out.
or the shot-put ball is rusted and
corroded or until the possibilities
of a one or two man track team
fades from our minds that Bethel
will cease to have some sort of a
remnant of a track team.
Come on members, a little more
spirit, a little more sweat, and a
little more sacrificing. The am-bition
and enthusiasm that is
shown this year will go a long way
toward the success of their track
seasons to come.
Bauer, Luther Guard
Prescher, Rochester Center
Coome, Worthington Forward
Grimley, Austin Forward
Track Team Set
For First Meet
The first track meet that the
Bethel track team will participate
in this year is to be held at Fair-mont,
Minn., with Bethel opposing
Shattuck, a military school; the
meet will take place on April 19.
Another meet scheduled at present
is to be held at Macalester on May
9th when a duel meet will be held.
Also a meet is scheduled at St.
Thomas and another at Macalester.
The team is reported to be in
very good shape at present, and
the outlook to the trophy case is
pleasant. We now have 3 milers,
5 half-milers, 3 fast hurdlers, 2
high jumpers, 3 on the shot put, 3
hurling the discuss and 3 pole-vaulting.
The team also claims a
number of fast sprinters on the
440 and the 220.
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April 19 At Shattuck
April 29 At St. Thomas
May 9 At Macalaster
May 20 At Macalaster
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Students Lead
Easter Service
In Candlelight
An Easter Candlelight service
was held in the Chapel on Thurs-day
evening, April 13, by the stu-dents
who remained on the campus
over the Easter vacation. The pro-gram
was centered around the last
week in the life of Christ and was
arranged on the theme of Christ
triumphant in Death and Resurec-tion.
Carl Olson directed the program
in which Lois Norberg and Ralph
Larson read prophecies and ful-fillments
from Scripture concern-ing
Christ, alternately with speci-al
Special music consisted of duets
by Everet and Roy Johnson and by
Kathryn Nelson and Phyllis Bord-well;
solos by Clarence Larson,
Kathryn Nelson, and Bill Wright;
a trio by June Edman, Evelyn
Stolhammer, and Grace Gustafson,
and a quartet composed of Phil
McLain, Willis Dahlmen, Byron
Skalman and Joe Lingensjo, with
Mary Fulton at the piano. The
Chapel Choir also sang.
An Easter Sunrise Service was
led Easter morning in the Chapel
by Clarence Larson. Bill Stearns
provided special music and Pro-fessor
Maurice Lawson spoke, cen-tering
his message around the
theme If Christ Had Not Risen
From the Dead. The audience sang
He Lives to close the Service.
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Bethel Students
Meet For Prayer
At 6:30 on Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Friday the bell rings in the
girls' dorm telling those who are
there that it is time for prayer
meeting. On these evenings the
Bethel students meet in their sep-arate
groups for prayer.
During this time the group usu-ally
has scripture reading, Bible
study a n d prayer. Numerous
groups have taken a specific book
as the leader wishes. A number of
prayer requests are always on
hand for the group.
On Monday evening all unite in
a praise service in the College
Chapel. Those groups which have
had definite answers to their, pray-er
requests often tell of their ex-perience.
This praise service ends
with a short time of prayer.
The other united service of the
week is Missionary Prayer Meeting
on Thursday evening, at that time
those interested in China, South
America, Europe, the Islands, Af-rica,
India, or home missions unite
in prayer.
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He hears rustling leaves and a
voice speaks: "These are the
thoughts you did not think."
He sees falling dew drops:
"These are the tears you did not
He hears the wind soughing
through the trees: "These are the
songs you did not sing."
He sees broken straws : "These
are the deeds you did not do."
Do girls carry more in their
purses than boys do in their pock-ets?
A survey of just a few Bethel
students revealed some unusual
Bud Peterson; Keys, coin purse,
wallet, comb, missionary band en-velope
(empty), letter, Bible, hand-kerchief,
notes and tracts.
Marjorie Norstrom; Chewed bub-ble
gum, college receipt, history
mid-quarter marks, date book,
spire photo receipts, activity card,
YP membership card, glass case,
billfold, pencils, boby pins and
Bob Hagen; Sandwich, candy
bar, 2 handkerchiefs, glass case,
billfold, collar stay, pencil, pen,
Testament, and notes.
Marge Ostrum; Testament, bill-fold,
comb, lipstick, compact, pen
and handerchief.
Leland Miller; Comb, salesman's
calling card for the Woman's home
companion, pen, pencil, filing sys-tem,
billfold, handerchief.
Evelyn Stolhammer; Coin purse,
Testament, kleenex, Swedish Gos-pel
of John, compact, 2 colored
pencils, pen, comb; gum wrapper
(minus the gum), pencil and re-ceipt.
Bob Haring; Eraser, 53 cents
change, anacin tablets in an as-prin
box, key chain, nail clipper,
can opener, jack knife, comb, 2
handkerchiefs, billfold, 17 small in-dex
cards, 9 paper clips, throat
helps, box with peppermint candy,
3 dozen toothpicks, 15 large in-dex
cards, Testament, 9 tracts, 2
pens, pencil, notebook, school di-rectory.
Marian Nelson; Compact, lip-stick,
4 pencils, Testament, comb,
2 tokens, kleenex, pen, lead, gum,
erasers, 53 bobby pins and 3 pen-nies.
Russ Voight; Billfold, 2 pack-ages
gum, handkerchiefs, 3 pencil
comb, week's mail and Greek
Miss Sabel; Pencil, fountain
pen, Charga plate, 4 handkerchiefs,
check blanks, aspirin (to use when
students get unruly), clips, nail
file, vanity case, comb, 2 pencils,
dozen tracts, coin purse, with $3.02
change and 4 tokens, writing pad,
key chain with 10 keys, Testa-ment.
Mr. Edwards; Pencils, class
cards, 2 keys, 3 tokens, 80 cents
change, 2 handkerchiefs, "three
letters I forgot to mail," billfold.
Joyce Johnson; Middle Compart-ment-
150 tracts, Rodex notebook,
Subscription blanks for Sunday
Magazine & Christian Life &
Times, hairbrush (1920 model),
budget envelope, address notebook,
3 envelopes, 3 post cards and a
book of matches. Outside cora-partment—
rossin order book, Test-ament,
strongbox for money, nail
file, pen, pencils, perfume (Tabu),
and kleenex.
Shirley Daley; Mirror, check-book,
bankbook, 50 large index
cards, glasses and case, 3 letters
and a bill, pen, gloves, 4 kleenex,
K ieth LaGesse; Gum, tracts, bill-fold,
comb, glass case, Chinese
luck piece and an inhaler.
Taffy Bergman; Kleenex, 3 pen-nies
and a quarter, a screw, 3 bob-by
pins, pen without a point, eye
glasses, ruler, comb, lipstick, 3
eversharps, pen, lead (purse 7"x
Virginia Moody; Hanky, large
index cards, 4 buttons, 5 car tok-ens,
$1.03 change, lipstick, waste
paper, key, comb, pen, pencil, nail
file and compact.
104-taci 1.44 the
dear boss
the flowers that bloom in the
spring tra la la la la and all that
generally have to grub their way
up through several feet of glorious
spring mud
such is life the beautiful must
always fight through the sordid
who would think from looking at
this crummy office of yours that a
writer such as i could produce
such masterpieces here.
speaking of crummy boss look i
dont want it should seem like all
i think of is crumbs and other de-lights
of the palate but i aint been
fed too good lately where did my
crumb box go im tired of climbing
into the waste basket to lick cheer-io
wrappers its hard work and be-sides
the other day eric nearly
dumped me into the incinerator
i think i deserve a little consid-eration
around this joint after all
whose column makes this sloppy
rag worth reading anyway i ask
but thats you all over boss a
heart like a nether millstone no ap-preciation
of genius in you at all
some day ill eat ddt and then youll
be sorry
and boss will you kindly tell
them girls what play volley ball
not to scream so loud i cant sleep
afternoons anymore what with
them raising their melodious voic-es
in well modulated shrieks like
a ragged fingernail on a black-board
and tell bud johnson not to
snore no loud when he sleeps on
the table i nearly got blown away
when i was picking his teeth yes-terday
it grieves me that you should
have that spring cold boss why
dont you gargle with concentrated
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The locals in Sochi still use the old Soviet slang – dikari, which means, "the savages" – to describe the tourists who arrive from colder parts of Russia, rent an apartment near the Black Sea coast and spend a week letting the sun wash their pallor away. The word is a reflection of the privileged status (some would say snobbery) that once set the people of Sochi apart from the rest of the toiling masses of the Soviet Union. Their town was the closest thing in the USSR to Monte Carlo or Palm Beach. The markets were packed with exotic fruit. The summer lasted nine months of the year. And the locals knew they lived in the Soviet version of paradise.
To his incalculable luck, Yuri Kozyrev, TIME's contract photographer, was one of them. His grandparents owned an apartment in the center of Sochi, within view of the sea port's elegant spire, and he would visit them each year between May and October starting from the age of three.
His grandmother Vera was a curator at a local museum. His grandfather Boris repaired watches in a little workshop and, in his abundant leisure time, rode around on his motorbike and wrote books about history and philosophy. Their balcony looked out over pomegranate and persimmon trees, fruits as rare to the average Soviet as a coconut is to an Eskimo. They bloomed all summer long.
In the early 1990s, not long before he went to photograph the first war in Chechnya, Kozyrev stopped coming to Sochi. His grandparents had passed away just as the Soviet Union collapsed, and the family lost their apartment. So it was only in the last couple of years that he started returning to Sochi on assignment, photographing the preparations for the Winter Olympic Games, which the city will host from February 7 - 23.
What he found on his return was hard to recognize, a provincial town turned into a giant construction site, with hotels, stadiums and highways rising with fantastic speed. "It was all movement and light," he says. "All of it was new." On the Black Sea coast, the new Olympic village had been built right over marshlands, its stadiums resembling a convention of alien spaceships gathered from different galaxies.
Such spectacles in Kozyrev's pictures come through with all their luminescent power. But so does his nostalgia for the town that they replaced. In many of the frames, the remnants of the old creep into the present day, but usually in the form of kitsch, while the new overwhelms with its scale and insistence.
During the first couple of trips, Kozyrev could not bring himself to visit his grandparents' old apartment building. "I was too afraid," he says. "I'd heard it was razed to make way for some Olympic construction and I couldn't bare to see it." In fact, the building still stood. Except the fruit trees were gone, and someone had decided to paint it pink.
Wherever he could find the remains of the old Sochi– its sanatoriums and its bazaars – Kozyrev sought them out, but they usually seemed anachronistic in the context of the Olympic boom, somehow out of place in their native environment. "The arrival of a new epoch will do that," he says with a laugh.
Only once during his visits did he come across an image of the town as he remembers it. Sitting by the shore, he found an older couple from Siberia getting a spa treatment, their legs submerged in plastic tubs of water so that little fish could nibble on their feet. Grinning as he stopped to talk to them, he had to keep himself from shouting, dikari!
Yuri Kozyrev is a contract photographer for TIME and was named the 2011 Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International competition.
Simon Shuster is TIME's Moscow correspondent. Follow him on Twitter @shustry.


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Chevron Corp's efforts to restart oil output in Brazil received a boost after a court overturned a ban on operations and the company agreed with prosecutors on a plan to improve safety and operating procedures after a November 2011 oil spill.
The ban was overturned by appeals-court judge Guilherme Dienthaeler of Brazil's Second Regional Federal Tribunal in Rio de Janeiro, court press officials told Reuters Friday. Details of the ruling are unlikely until next week, the officials said.
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Prosecutors won the injunction banning Chevron, the No. 2 U.S. oil company, and its drilling contractor Transocean Ltd. in July. The injunction sought to assure payment of $20 billion in damages for alleged spill-related environmental damages, in Brazil's largest ever environmental lawsuit.
As long as the ban held, Brazil's oil regulator, the ANP, said it would be unable to consider a petition to restart oil output in Frade, the field where the spill occurred. The ban stood even though Chevron accepted a July report criticizing its drilling plan and citations and fines of more than $16 million.
In a related development, Chevron and Transocean agreed to a plan to change offshore safety and operating procedures, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors told Reuters on Friday.
If a final agreement is reached after public consultations, the plan will be presented to the Federal judge hearing the lawsuit. That could help the companies by showing their willingness to improve Brazil's oil industry, the prosecutors' office in Rio de Janeiro said.
The agreement, known as a "change-of-conduct accord", was drafted at the companies' request with the same federal prosecutors who are handling two civil lawsuits against Chevron and Transocean, the prosecutors' office said.
The office declined to give details of the accord but said they would be presented at a public hearing on December 14 in Rio de Janeiro by federal prosecutor Gisele Porto.
Chevron's press office in San Ramon, California confirmed the overturn of the ban, but declined to comment further or comment on the change-of-conduct accord.
Transocean's press officer in Houston declined to comment. Both companies say they committed no crime and acted correctly during and after the spill.
Porto is lead prosecutor on the civil lawsuits against Chevron and Transocean, the world's largest offshore oil drilling rig operator, for the 3,600-barrel spill in the Frade field, northeast of Rio de Janeiro.
No one was hurt in the Frade accident. No oil reached shore and there was no discernable environmental damage, according to Brazil's petroleum regulator, the ANP.
The Frade field was producing 62,000 barrels of oil per day when it was shut in March to examine unexplained leaks in the area around the site of the November 2011 spill. Tests determined that the leaking oil was not from Chevron's reservoirs.
Frade is operated by Chevron, which also owns 52 percent of the field. Brazil's state-led Petrobras owns 30 percent, and Frade Jap��o, owned by Japanese trading houses Sojitz Corp <1605.T> and Inpex Corp <2768.T>, has an 18 percent stake. Neither Petrobras nor Frade Jap��o is the subject of spill-related prosecutions.
Chevron, Transocean and 17 of their employees and executives also face criminal charges that can carry financial penalties and jail terms of up to 31 years.
The spill was not as severe as other recent offshore accidents. More than 5 million barrels of oil were spilled in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in BP Plc's Macondo field in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people died in the accident and beaches and fishing grounds were polluted.
On November 15, BP agreed to pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties and plead guilty to criminal misconduct for the disaster.
While criticizing some of Chevron's actions and levying 35.1 million reais ($16.6 billion) in fines on the company, the ANP said in a July report that there was no negligence in the 2011 spill. The ANP said Transocean had no responsibility for the spill.
Both companies have said they will challenge the civil and criminal cases against them.
Chevron shares fell 0.1 percent in New York to $105.69.
(Reporting by Jeb Blount; editing by John Wallace and Andrew Hay)


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Dear All,
I have created a shell server which is in a fairly secure environment, I'm inviting you to test it (if you like), to do stuff and see if it seems reasonably secure and functional.
The idea is that people can't easily break out into other networks, but that they can still compile things etc.
Comments appreciated.
The server will be up, starting now, for a few hours (or even longer maybe), you can register an account and do most things as long as you don't take the piss.
Thanks very much.
To connect, ssh to
18.104.22.168, port 9022
Login as newuser, password newuser, and follow the instructions.
It's not a challenge, you aren't supposed to try and get root, but if you do, please don't break it for other people who are experimenting.


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The Wanted to Perform on 'Idol' Next Week
Brace yourself, ladies. The Wanted will be making a special appearance on 'American Idol' next week, the band confirmed on their official Twitter page.
"We are excited to announce we will be performing on American Idol on 5th of April!! #TheWantedOnIdol," the British boy band tweeted. Jay McGuiness followed the tweet with one of his own, writing, "I can safely say we wouldn't be there if it wasn't for our fans. #thankyoueveryone."
The pop stars, who are currently on the cover of Billboard magazine, will hit the 'Idol' stage on April 5, but there will be many other opportunities to see the boys on the small screen. The Wanted are taking America by storm, appearing on MTV's Spring Break the week of April 2, and performing on the 'Today' show on April 24, which is the same day that their self-titled EP drops.
The guys are also scheduled to appear on 'The View' on April 25 before performing at KIIS FM's annual Wango Tango festival on May 12. Over the summer, the five-piece will help ring in the 2012 Olympic Games with a performance at London's Hyde Park on July 26, the day before the opening ceremony. It looks like the guys have a lot to look forward to this year!


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Authorities across the Florida panhandle have joined in the search for a man suspected of kidnapping and beating a woman.
Have you seen this man?
According to the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Chipley, their office responded to a call in reference to a possible kidnapping and assault at approximately 12:56 p.m., February 6th. Officers arrived at a residence on Eloise Road and found the victim, who's name is being withheld at this time, severely beaten. Washington County EMS responded and transported the victim to the Northwest Florida Community Hospital in Chipley. The victim is listed in critical condition at this time.
Following interviews with the victim, investigators were able to piece together a timeline and identify a suspect, Christopher Cruz Walley, 25 year old white male, 5'11", 230 lbs, with brown hair and green eyes.
The victim had been in a vehicle with Walley the previous day, Wednesday, February 5th, when without warning, Walley stopped the vehicle and proceeded to attack the victim by physically assaulting her with his hands. Walley then struck the victim numerous times with an expandable police baton, known as an asp, until the victim lost consciousness. The victim regained consciousness and found she had been moved to the trunk of the vehicle. Walley continued to travel throughout the evening and into the next day, Thursday, February 6th, making several stops with the victim still trapped in the trunk. Walley came to a stop on Eloise Road and the victim was able to escape to a nearby residence where a neighbor reported the incident to law enforcement.
Officers with the Washington County Sheriff's Office have currently organized an extensive search for Walley with the assistance of FHP and the US Marshals. Walley is believed to be traveling in a 1998 Ford Expedition, white in color, with the tag number B905MA.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office is offering up to a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of Christopher Cruz Walley.
"We are actively employing all resources available to apprehend a suspect who violently attacked a resident of our community" states Sheriff Haddock. "We are all hands on deck until this case is resolved and we are asking the community to be vigilant in reporting anything that looks suspicious or that could be related to this case. Please contact the Washington County Sheriff's Office with this information immediately. As always, you can remain anonymous by reporting through 638-TIPS (8477)."