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Madam President, excellencies, honourable ministers, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen,
This is the sixth time I have addressed the Health Assembly in my capacity as Director-General. I still get nervous. But I do have some important messages to convey.
In public health, decades sometimes acquire labels. The 1970s were a decade of hope, culminating in the Health for All movement under Dr Mahler's leadership.That hope was quickly followed by an oil crisis, a debt crisis, an economic recession, and the imposition of structural adjustment programmes, which forced governments to cut budgets for social services, including health.
The 1980s became known as the "lost decade for development". After a long span of steady progress, large parts of the developing world slid back into deeper poverty. Health services, starved of funds, began to crumble.
That damage was inherited by the next decade. With few exceptions, progress in public health was slow during the 1990s, with health viewed as an expenditure rather than an investment.
The first decade of the 21st century has also acquired a label. Many describe it as the "golden age for health development". And rightly so.
For the first time, health moved to the top of the development agenda, thanks to the work of Dr Brundtland, including the report she commissioned on macroeconomics and health.
At the start of the decade, the Millennium Development Goals showed how much the perception of health had changed, from a drain on resources to a driver of socioeconomic progress.
In that golden decade, governments, in both donor and recipient countries, made the health agenda a top priority. Money for health development more than tripled. Substantial results followed, with a particularly strong impact on deaths from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and childhood illness.
The Millennium Development Goals unleashed the best in human ingenuity and creativity, leaving a legacy of innovations. The list is long. It includes new vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics, new ways of stimulating R&D for diseases of the poor, and new ways of financing health development, like GAVI, the Global Fund, and UNITAID.
The decade is over, and some observers will tell you that the golden age for health development has also come to an end.
Bitter observers say what many suspect may be true. A financial crisis derailed the best chance ever to alleviate poverty and give this lopsided world greater fairness and balance.
I strongly disagree. I believe the best days for health are ahead of us, not behind us.
It is true that money is tight and the future of the world economy looks uncertain. Health officials, development partners, and WHO are watching money closely. Money is important, but many other factors drive progress in public health.
During my recent visits to countries, I have seen inspiring examples of success. Striking achievements within countries make me optimistic.
The unprecedented momentum for better health that marked the start of this century continues, though on a different footing, sometimes on an even surer footing.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Time and time again, we see the importance of national ownership and leadership. India would never have been able to dramatically change the prospects for polio eradication without full government ownership of the programme.
The government of India deserves our congratulations for this monumental achievement.
Ghana's commitment to guinea worm eradication shrunk the map to its last outpost, in South Sudan. During the first quarter of 2012, cases of this disease dropped 67% compared with last year, and now number just over 100.
I visited Namibia in April. That country's minister of health, an expert in vector control, is leading a group of eight neighbouring African countries in a joint effort to eliminate malaria within the next few years. WHO has produced a complete set of technical manuals, for testing, treating, and tracking, to guide them on their way.
These countries are ambitious. They are determined. Their eyes are wide open to the challenge, but the chances of success are good.
Last month, I also visited Oman, where I learned about the outcome of an EU/WHO initiative to build the country's capacity to respond to outbreaks and natural disasters. This is a splendid example of a whole-of-government approach, with more than 30 government sectors and departments working together to build resilience.
In its fight to wrap a deadly product in a plain package, Australia leads resistance to the tobacco industry's latest onslaught of aggressive tactics.
During negotiations on pandemic influenza preparedness, Indonesia, joined by many others, pushed for a fairer and more equitable system that shares responsibilities and access to benefits, on an equal footing. The result is a pioneering framework that extends traditional cooperation in the health-related public sectors to include annual contributions and firm commitments from private industry, in the name of health.
Given my commitment to women, I am grateful to the Nordic countries and Canada for their unwavering promotion of women's empowerment, gender equity, and human rights, and for leading by example.
Several recent studies have advised the international community to look to BRICS countries, namely Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China, and South Africa, as a way to maintain the momentum for better health.
These countries have become the biggest suppliers of essential medicines, in affordable generic form, to the great benefit of the developing world. BRICS countries also offer an alternative model for health development, including technology transfer, based more on equal partnerships than on the traditional donor-recipient model.
Some of these countries need support in upgrading quality standards and improving regulatory control. WHO is providing this support. Last year, after extensive technical collaboration, WHO prequalified China's State Food and Drug Administration.
Once individual vaccines are prequalified by WHO, the country's capacity to produce a large number of vaccines at very low prices will revolutionize vaccine supplies and their prices.
I am further encouraged by the high place health is given in many regional political and economic unions, and by international organs.
Last November, I addressed members of the UN Security Council. I drew their attention to the threat posed by emerging and epidemic-prone diseases, and reassured them.
WHO uses a sophisticated electronic surveillance system to gather disease intelligence in real time. We are rarely taken by surprise.
WHO can mount an international response within 24 hours. This is because of WHO's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, but also the capacity of our country offices to get visas, move supplies through customs, and coordinate every step with the ministry of health.
No other agency can do this.
You will be reviewing progress in building the capacities needed to implement the International Health Regulations.
Ladies and gentlemen,
We see WHO leadership at work, often bringing outsized results for small but smart investments.
Africa's new meningitis vaccine, developed in a project coordinated by WHO and PATH, is being rolled out, promising to end seasonal epidemics in Africa's meningitis belt. The payback will be enormous. A single case of meningitis can cost a household the equivalent of three to four months of income. Mounting an emergency immunization campaign to control an epidemic can absorb as much as 5% of a country's entire health budget.
WHO leadership brought the neglected tropical diseases from obscurity into the limelight. These Cinderella diseases, long ignored and underappreciated, are a rags-to-riches story.
In January, a pharmaceutical company pledged to step up its contribution of preventive treatments for schistosomiasis10-fold, reaching 100 million treatments per year by 2016.
WHO administers the distribution of the majority of drugs donated to control the neglected tropical diseases. With the January commitment, WHO is now in a position to protect all school-age children in Africa at risk of schistosomiasis.
We can blanket this part of the world with medicines that rid every schoolchild of worms and eggs, parasites that interfere with their learning, impair cognitive development, and compromise their nutritional status.
This is a gift to their health, but also to the education and nutrition sectors.
Last year, WHO recommended a ban on inaccurate and costly commercial blood tests for diagnosing active tuberculosis. Last week, the country with the largest use of these tests, especially by private practitioners, announced legislation banning the tests nationwide.
More than a million of these misleading blood tests are carried out each year, often at great danger and great cost to patients, who may have to pay up to $30 per test.
Think of what we are saving.
Following publication of the 2010 World Health Report on health system financing, more than 60 countries have approached WHO seeking technical support for their plans to move towards universal coverage.
What we are seeing goes against the historical pattern, where social services shrink when money gets tight. I think this drive to expand coverage is a powerful signal. Despite deepening financial austerity, the will to do the right thing, the fair thing, for people's health prevails.
All of these examples, all of my personal experiences over the past five years, bring me to one overarching conclusion. Universal health coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer.
Universal coverage is relevant to every person on this planet. It is a powerful equalizer that abolishes distinctions between the rich and the poor, the privileged and the marginalized, the young and the old, ethnic groups, and women and men.
Universal health coverage is the best way to cement the gains made during the previous decade. It is the ultimate expression of fairness. This is the anchor for the work of WHO as we move forward.
Ladies and gentlemen,
These examples give me, personally, great cause for optimism during what many regard as an especially dismal time. They also provide guidance on strategies and approaches that help maintain the momentum for health.
I can suggest three general lines of advice.
First, get back to the basics, like primary health care, access to essential medicines, and universal coverage.
Shift to thrift. Develop a thirst for efficiency and an intolerance of waste.
When a government commits itself to universal coverage, it takes a hard look at waste and inefficiency. It shifts to thrift.
At the international level, this means making good use of initiatives like the International Health Partnership Plus and Harmonization for Health in Africa.
This means streamlining and integrating health programmes, as is being done with plans to ensure that every baby is born HIV-free.
This means putting countries in the driver's seat, giving them full ownership of what is being done for the health of their people. This is how a government earns the trust and confidence of its citizens, the voters.
This means using WHO country offices as a resource for policy dialogue and coordination, and for ensuring that aid for health development moves the country towards self-reliance.
Good aid is channeled in ways that strengthen existing infrastructures and capacities. Good aid aims to eliminate the need for aid.
Second, as public expectations rise, costs soar, and budgets shrink, we must look to innovation as never before. And I mean the right kind of innovation.
Innovation does the most good when it responds to societal concerns and needs, and not just to the prospects of making a profit.
These days, the true genius of innovation resides in simplicity.
This is not rocket science. This is frugal, strategic innovation that sets out to develop a game-changing intervention, and makes ease of use and affordable price explicit objectives.
We are seeing a new wave of innovation that, I believe, the commissioners on Social Determinants of Health would welcome. It looks not just at the causes of preventable deaths, but at the real reasons behind these causes.
Obstructed labour is a major killer of young women and adolescent girls. The real reasons are these: poverty and health systems that are impoverished by lack of medicines, equipment, skilled staff, and transportation.
The Odon device, developed by WHO and now undergoing clinical trials, offers a low-cost simplified way to deliver babies, and protect mothers, when labour is prolonged.
It promises to transfer life-saving capacity to rural health posts, which almost never have the facilities and staff to perform a C-section.
If approved, the Odon device will be the first simple new tool for assisted delivery since forceps and vacuum extractor were introduced centuries ago.
As we promote primary health care and universal coverage, we must not let a deteriorating economic outlook compromise the quality of clinical care.
Primary health care is not cheap, and it must not be a B-team version of what people get when they pay for private care.
We must never forget the importance of high-quality clinical care. Here, too, frugal innovation helps.
Just a few years ago, WHO estimated that surgical errors were killing around one million people worldwide each year. To address this problem, WHO adapted a simple checklist used by pilots in the airline industry, one of the safest industries in the world.
The WHO Safe Surgery Checklist was introduced in 2008 and has since been widely applied, significantly reducing surgical errors.
Studies suggest that, if fully implemented, nearly half of those one million deaths would be averted.
Building on this success, WHO has developed a Safe Childbirth Checklist to address the huge burden of preventable maternal and newborn deaths, especially in low-income settings.
What good does it do to offer free maternal care and have a high proportion of babies delivered in health facilities if the quality of care is substandard or even dangerous?
A pilot study of the checklist, conducted in India and published last week, demonstrated a 150% increase in adherence to accepted clinical practices for maternal and perinatal care in an institutional setting.
No additional resource investments were made. Just a paper checklist, like pilots use.
A large randomized controlled trial is under way to quantify the impact on reducing morbidity and mortality, but results will take some years. In the meantime, WHO will soon release the checklist as part of a call for collaborative research.
There is another good reason to promote frugal innovation.
Unlike other areas of technology development, like computers and mobile phones, advances in medical products nearly always come with greater complexity and a much higher price. The complexity increases the price further, as highly skilled staff are needed.
At some point we come up against a brick wall, where delivering care for NCDs, especially cancer, or care for people with mental disorders, especially elderly people with dementia, becomes unaffordable, even in the world's wealthiest countries.
To counter this trend, WHO has launched an initiative to develop appropriate assistive devices for the developing world's rapidly ageing populations. These are things like mobile phones adapted for the visually impaired and robust low-cost hearing aids.
Affordability is important, but so are simplicity and ease of use, as this relieves some of the pressure on specialized care and further reduces costs.
Imagine the impact on well-being and quality of life. In developing countries, WHO estimates that nearly 40% of people older than 65 years have a disabling hearing impairment.
My final advice is brief.
Use research. Use science. Shape the research agenda and seize every opportunity opened by new findings.
WHO does this most conspicuously when it revises policy and technical guidance for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
As just one example, evidence indicates that the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV is entirely feasible, and this is now our operational goal.
This is part of efficiency. Science makes the breakthroughs. Public health operationalizes them and leaps ahead.
Ladies and gentlemen,
The past year has seen some good news for health and we are right to be encouraged. But there are at least two danger zones, and they are big ones.
Our traditional financial donors are under intense domestic pressure to demonstrate that official development assistance is being wisely invested.
Taxpayers and parliamentarians want to see quick, tangible, and measurable results that demonstrate payback for the money.
This can be dangerous, especially for a disease like HIV/AIDS.
In a sense, we are in the best position ever to get ahead of this devastating epidemic and put its heavy burden behind us. Evidence continues to mount that antiretroviral therapy not only saves lives but is also a powerful preventive tool, reducing sexual transmission of HIV by as much as 96%.
Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that the established goal of universal access to antiretroviral therapy will be met. We have good reason to believe that the UN target of having 15 million people on treatment by 2015 will not be met.
In these difficult financial times, I see an extremely dangerous tendency to measure how much health can be bought for a given amount of money.
Saving a life with a vaccine is unquestionably far cheaper and more immediate than keeping someone with AIDS alive. It is also less demanding on health services.
In my view, human life cannot be valued, or devalued, or discounted in this way.
These medicines are a lifeline for a lifetime. The only ethically acceptable exit strategy is to stop new infections in the first place.
We have that opportunity, opened even wider by evidence of the effectiveness of male and female condoms, harm reduction, behaviour change, and male circumcision.
The critical question is this: will we seize this opportunity or let it slip away?
The second danger zone should be obvious to anyone who pays attention to WHO's monitoring of global health trends.
This monitoring tells us where we are making progress, but also which health threats cast the biggest shadow over that progress.
And this is the biggest one, the longest black shadow: the relentless rise of chronic noncommunicable diseases.
Last week's World Health Statistics report created a stir, and rightly so.
WHO data show that rates of obesity nearly doubled in every region of the world from 1980 to 2008. Worldwide, one in three adults has raised blood pressure. One in 10 adults has diabetes.
These are the diseases that tax health systems to the breaking point. These are the diseases that break the bank.
These are the diseases that can cancel out the gains of modernization and development. These are the diseases that can set back poverty alleviation, pushing millions of people below the poverty line each year.
Last year's political declaration on NCDs assigned a number of responsibilities to WHO. You have before you a report on the multiple steps WHO has taken to meet these expectations.
I can assure you: we are giving these diseases, and our role in their prevention and control, the utmost priority.
Ladies and gentlemen,
I have a final comment as we think together about WHO reform.
I see the role of WHO as that of a global health guardian, a protector and defender of health, including the right to health. WHO is a custodian of technical expertise, but also of values, like social justice and equity, including gender equity.
We must never forget our value system. Never forget the people. Public health is trained in compassion and driven by passion. This will always be our strength, our true comparative advantage.
Persuading others to share this value system is another way to maintain the momentum for better health.
This happened most recently with human African trypanosomiasis. Late-stage sleeping sickness is invariably fatal.
Drugs are donated for treatment, but what good do they do if cases are detected too late?
Understanding this, the company donating the drugs also gives WHO the funds needed to support active screening: that is, to pay for the facilities, equipment, logistics, staff, and their training.
Industry commitment continues because my staff took the company's CEO and senior executives on a field trip to Africa last month.
These executives saw the people, the illness, the lumbar punctures under the mango trees, the cases detected, and the medicines given.
Seeing the people, being eye-to-eye with their misery, has great power to motivate the right kind of public-private partnership. Results build trust, and with trust, commitment escalates.
Let me conclude by thanking Member States for so carefully and diligently shepherding change as this Organization undergoes the most extensive reforms in its history.
We all know that this is not an easy process. But it must be done and it must be done right.
I would also like to thank Regional Directors and staff for their good work, dedication, commitment to the Organization, and support for its reform.
I thank as well the Permanent Missions here in Geneva and their ambassadors for investing so much time in supporting the work of this Organization.
I personally believe that WHO does great good in this world. By improving the Organization's operational effectiveness and strategically positioning its work, we can do more.
The world expects this, and needs this, from WHO.
We will not let the people down.
Thank you.


text: Arthur: I think you are refering to the SSE2 instructions available in (pretty much) all x86 CPUs theses days. There are also the ACML math libraries for Opterons which are optimized for BLAS routines. You may here these refered to as the 'vectorized' libraries. Go to developer.amd.com for links to the libraries and various presentations. In particular you might be interested in some of Tim Wilken's presentations there. doug ======= Message: 6 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:03:41 -0600 From: "Arthur H. Edwards" <edwardsa at plk.af.mil> Subject: [Beowulf] Vector processing on AMD 64 To: beowulf at beowulf.org Cc: "Arthur H. Edwards" <edwardsa at plk.af.mil> Message-ID: <200405131903.i4DJ3gla004603 at knockout.kirtland.af.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii AMD has advertised that their 64 bit architectures have vector registers. This was initially very exciting because eigensolvers are not easily paralllized for medium-sized problems, but vectorize very well. I say this based on experience with the CRAY-YMP where we saw speed-ups ofrr 100 when we used a verctorized eigensolver. The Y-MP had, I think 128 vector registers, which could easily account for the 100 speed up. Does anyone know 1. How many vector registers each of the AMD 64 bit CPU's has 2. Is there a source for the old CRAY vector library? Art Edwards -- Art Edwards Senior Research Physicist Air Force Research Laboratory Electronics Foundations Branch KAFB, New Mexico (505) 853-6042 (v) (505) 846-2290 (f) -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ .

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The discussion of white ink always ranks among the most passionate conversations in which garment screen printers engage. Maybe it's because no one is ever completely happy with the white inks they use. Or maybe misunderstandings about the proper uses of the various white inks are to blame. Add to those possibilities the notions that few garment printers base their ink decisions on logic and that the ink companies themselves are not always as clear as they could be on the proper use of their white inks. Perhaps printers' obsession with white inks is rooted in their willingness to try new white inks more than any other new products—and, as a result, spend a disproportionately large amount of their ink budgets on white ink.
I talk about white inks to people almost every day. The one thing that I have learned is we inevitably reach a stopping point in the conversation because two printers can never totally agree on the subject. I told several people in the industry that I was going to write an article about white plastisol. They all looked at me like I was crazy. The overwhelming sentiment was that there was no way to make everyone happy with an article on the subject. I actually knew that before I offered to write this article, and I accept that not everyone will be happy. In fact, before I even start, I estimate that 25% of you will think this is a great article, 50% will find it informative, and the other 25% will decide that I don't know anything about white ink!
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LOS ANGELES, July 16 – After a whirlwind weekend, the negotiations that produced a landmark $660 million settlement between the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 500 alleged victims of clergy abuse are heading toward a conclusion.
Attorneys from both sides, as well as Cardinal Roger Mahony, are expected in court Monday to enter a formal settlement agreement with Judge Haley Fromholtz. The deal marks the end of more than five years of negotiations and is by far the largest payout by any diocese since the clergy abuse scandal emerged in Boston in 2002.
Mahony, leader of the nation's largest archdiocese, apologized Sunday to the hundreds of clergy sex abuse victims who will receive a share of the settlement.
"There really is no way to go back and give them that innocence that was taken from them. The one thing I wish I could give the victims … I cannot," he said.
"Once again, I apologize to anyone who has been offended, who has been abused. It should not have happened and should not ever happen again."
Mahony said he has met with dozens of victims of clergy abuse in the past 14 months and those meetings helped him understand the importance of a quick resolution to what he called a "terrible sin and crime."
The cardinal said the settlement will not have an impact on the archdiocese's core ministry, but said the church will have to sell buildings, use some of its invested funds, and borrow money. He said the archdiocese will not sell any parish properties or parish schools.
"We gather today because this long journey has now come to an end and a new chapter of that journey is beginning," Mahony told reporters.
The settlement also calls for the release of priests' confidential personnel files after review by a judge.
"I think for those of us who have been involved in this for more than five years, it's a huge relief," said Michael Hennigan, archdiocese attorney. "But it's a disappointment, too, that we didn't get it done much earlier than this."
Parishioners reacted with a mix of disappointment and relief.
Vivian Viscarra, 50, who attends Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels three times a month, said the victims deserve the payout even though it could hurt the church's ability to deliver important services. The amount would average a little more than $1.3 million per plaintiff, although individual payouts will vary according to the severity and duration of the abuse.
"I am disappointed," Viscarra said. "And it's making me reevaluate my views of whether people in the ministry should be married. People do have needs."
The deal settles all 508 cases that remained against the archdiocese, which also paid $60 million in December to settle 45 cases that weren't covered by sexual abuse insurance.
The archdiocese will pay $250 million, insurance carriers will pay a combined $227 million and several religious orders will chip in $60 million. The remaining $123 million will come from litigation with religious orders that chose not to participate in the deal, with the archdiocese guaranteeing resolution of those 80 to 100 cases within five years, Hennigan said. The archdiocese is released from liability in those claims, said Tod Tamberg, church spokesman.
Plaintiffs' attorneys can expect to receive up to 40 percent of the settlement money – or $264 million – for their work.
The settlements push the total amount paid out by the U.S. church since 1950 to more than $2 billion, with about a quarter of that coming from the Los Angeles archdiocese. A judge must sign off on the agreement.
Previously, the Los Angeles archdiocese, its insurers and various Roman Catholic orders had paid more than $114 million to settle 86 claims. Several religious orders in California have also reached multimillion-dollar settlements in recent months, including the Carmelites, the Franciscans and the Jesuits.
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Buchtel (Austrian-style Fruit-Filled Sweet Rolls) Recipe
How to make the best meal of the week even better.
- Yield:makes 8 buchtel
- Active time: 25 minutes
- Total time:3 hours 30 minutes
- 2 packages active dry yeast
- 4 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 1/2 cup warm water
- 1/2 cup milk
- 4 tablespoons melted butter, plus more for greasing pan
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 3 to cups all-purpose flour, plus up to 1 cup more
- 1/2 cup fruit preserves of your choice
- 1 egg, beaten (for glaze)
Combine yeast, 2 tablespoons sugar and water in a bowl and stir to combine. Set aside and wait for yeast to begin to bubble. Once yeast has been activated combine yeast mixture with milk, butter, and beaten egg and mix well.
Whisk together 3 cups and remaining sugar. Pour yeast mixture over flour and mix with a wooden spoon until dough forms. Continue to knead with your hands, adding remaining flour as needed until dough comes together and no longer sticks to your hands. Continue to knead another 10 minutes. Cover dough with a clean kitchen towel and leave to rise in a warm place until doubled in size, about 2 hours.
Once dough has doubled in size punch it down and turn it out onto a floured surface. Pat into a large rectangle and divide into 8 equal pieces. Press each piece into a 3- by 5-inch rectangle. Place 1 tablespoon of fruit preserves in the center then gather the dough around the preserve pinching the ends of the dough together to seal. Repeat with remaining dough and preserves.
Adjust oven rack to center position and preheat oven to 350°F. Place filled buchtel into a buttered 9- by 5-inch loaf pan in two rows of four and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes (the buchtel will be pushing against each other). Brush buchtel with beaten egg, then bake buchtel until deep brown and cooked through, about 1 hour. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack. Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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text: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de) said: > Can anyone point me towards information how I can snapshot the entire > system state to hard drive, and have an option to restore it at boot > time? There's the classic "suspend to disk" stuff that laptops do (which linux works with, at least with my ancient Pentium 90 IBM thinkpad it does). Though I think since the suspending is done in hardware, that Linux doesn't even know about it. I know AOpen (www.aopen.com) has a motherboard that advertises this functionality in hardware. Whether it'll work with Linux, I don't know. For non-hardware assisted suspend stuff, check out swsusp: http://falcon.sch.bme.hu/~seasons/linux/swsusp.html http://www.suse.de/~garloff/TravelMate/swsusp.html Quoted from the swsusp.desc: Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM. You may suspend your machine by either pressing Sysrq-d or with 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time> (patch for sysvinit needed). It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next booting the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended. If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume' kernel option. .adam -- [ Adam Lazur <alazur at plogic dot com> ] [ Paralogic Inc. - www.plogic.com - www.xtreme-machines.com ]


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Connecting the Dots of the Raeburn families and related surnames from Ireland to North America.
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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun...Who's to Blame?
From Randy At Genea-Musings:
Hey geneaphiles - it's Saturday Night, time for more Genealogy Fun for all Genea-Musing readers.
Your mission, should you decide to accept it (and we need more of you to do this, otherwise it may end...), is to:
1) Read Brenda Joyce Jerome's post Who or What Do You Blame? on the Western Kentucky Genealogy blog. She asks these questions:
* Can you identify person or event that started you on this search for family information?
* Did you pick up researching where a relative had left off?
* Did your interest stem from your child's school project on genealogy?
* If you have been researching many years, it may be hard to pinpoint one reason for this journey.
2) Write your responses on your own blog, in a comment to this blog post, or in a note or comment on Facebook.
Hmmm, Well It really all started with my now 29 year old - Eric's 10th grade class project regarding a family history assignment. We started to gather Spencer & Raeburn information. The Spencer family history was pretty well documented already, but it did need some tweaking. We received some Raeburn family info from my Aunt Barbara-Dad's sister. This really got me curious, suddenly there were names I had never heard of. She gave me a visual of many family members. This was awesome, I had been so much younger than the rest of the family I didn't know them.....but it was put away after the class assignment....until.....
My sister was pretty much the sole care giver of our mother as they lived together. When Mom's health started to decline- Kim needed a outlet, online where she could quietly do something or communicate quietly. So then two of us were IM-ing... a lot. I had to be doing something 'productive' so I started in on the genealogy and realized I really was very intrigued with it and haven't been able to put it down since. I have learned a lot of Do's and Don't s, & How Tos. I have met a lot of people online, some of whom I have met in person and maintained a friendship with which I hold dearly.
All in all a pretty enriching hobby huh? ; )
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- Kathy Sterzer FarrellSunday, October 17, 2010
It all started with a top ten list. I had a new computer. In 1995 computers aren't what they are today. Every week I would go through the old Sunday newspaper magazine "Parade" and check out their top ten websites of the week. Most did not interest me but one Sunday the LDS familysearch site made their list. I typed in my paternal German grandfather's name. Some of the info was correct but part of it was so wrong. It didn't completely jibe with what little information my father and aunts and uncles had related to me as I was growing up. Next, I dug out a list my maternal grandmother had made years ago about her ancestry. I didn't get a hit on a name until a 2nd great-grandfather. I had no idea if the information was right, wrong, or the figment of someone's imagination, but I was completely hooked. I had to find out the truth about these faceless people. It's been a wild ride over the past 14 years, but I've found a lot of new friends and relatives along the way. I still have plenty of brick walls, but hopefully, these, too, will tumble down. My mom's ancestors have been in America since the early 1600's so I got a fantastic education on American history along the way.ReplyDelete
Crazy stuff isn't it...coming from the girl-me who couldn't stand boring ol' American History in High School! Now it all fascinates me! And I have a long way to go.ReplyDelete
Happy blogversary my friend. God bless you!ReplyDelete


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A coed looks to God in prayer. Deeper Life Week will begin on
Conservation Convo. Topic
Chosen By Sigurd Olson
Homecoming queen candidates (L - r.) Roberta Yaxley, Thelma
Fredrickson, Mary Lou Wick, Janice Hallblade, Joanne Heckman, Linda
Wride, Mable Moen, and Kathleen Johnson.
Deeper Life Week Scheduled October 17- 21
Rev. G. Beenken, Faculty Members
To Share Speaking Duties on Program
I am glad that Deeper Life
Week comes early in the school
year at Bethel. This gives all of
us an opprotunity to ponder ser-iously
the experiential aspect of
our faith. Most of the people at
Bethel have come from evangel-ical
churches in which creedal
orthodoxy has been unquestion-ed.
Many of us would confess
in quiet moments, however, that
our experience does not always
measure up to our creed. It is
for such that Deeper Life Week
can be especially meaningful.
By the "deeper life" we sim-ply
refer to a deeper experience
with God than we have enjoyed
thus far which arises out of
concern for growth in personal
holiness and complete dedica-tion
to the Lord. Our academic
life need not be a barrier to
our devotional growth. Actually
it can be a stimulant. It is my
prayer that the Lord may be
pleased next week to guide all
of us—students, faculty and
staff—into a deeper walk with
the Saviour.
— President Lundquist
"As You Like It" is the theme
for Homecoming, Nov. 4 and 5
which will revolve around the
Shakespearian idea.
The weekend will begin with a
special chapel on Friday at 10
a.m., at which time Chris Weintz,
assistant professor of English, will
be the featured speaker. Nels
Stjernstrom, director of public re-lations
will be the leader and
Bruce Leafblad, student senate
president, will give the invocation
and welcome.
Friday evening at 7:30 there will
be the coronation of the queen and
the freshman sweetheart. At this
time President Carl H. Lundquist
will give an invocation and wel-come
and Coach Owen Halleen will
introduce the football team.
Candidates for homecoming
queen are seniors : Thelma Fred-rickson,
a music major from Seat-tle,
Wash.; Janice Hallblade, a
Rockford, Ill. English education
major; Joanne Heckman, a Chris-tian
education major from St. Paul
Bethel's annual observance of
Deeper Life Week, scheduled for
Oct. 17-21, will feature the Rev.
Gilbert Beenken of Oliver Presby-terian
church in Minneapolis, as
speaker. The purpose of this week,
according to Gordon Johnson, as-sociate
professor of homiletics in
the seminary, is to put a special
emphasis on spiritual life and a
closer walk with Christ.
The Rev. Mr. Beenken will be
the main speaker for the evening
sessions on every night but Thurs-day.
On Thursday night, there will
be group discussions in various
places on the campus. During the
day, the sessions will be held at
the regular chapel hour. Five of
the faculty members will give their
personal testimonies on these days.
Those participating will he Gerald
Healy, instructor in English and
physical education; Howard Dins-more,
associate professor of chem-istry;
Julius Whitinger, assistant
professor of music; Harold Lid-bom,
business manager; Elvin
Malcolm, superintendent, buildings
Minn.; and Kathleen Johnson, from
Arco, Minn., also an English edu-cation
The junior candidates are Mabel
Moen, a Canadian student whose
major field is Christian education;
Mary Lou Wick, a speech major
from Isanti, Minn. and Linda
Wride, a Yucaipa, California Eng-lish
and history major.
Carol Groff, Minneapolis, Minn.;
Betty Guida, Tyler, Minn.; and
Barbara Peel, St. Cloud, Minn. are
the candidates for freshman sweet-heart.
Joyce Wessman, junior, is chair-man
of the coronation committee,
Ken Baird, senior, will be master
of ceremonies for the coronation
and William McKinney will be
Following the coronation "Tam-ing
of the Shrew" with added mu-sic
will be presented for the queen
and her court, as well as the en-tire
audience. Dirctor of the pro-duction
is Gerry Laidlow, senior.
Ronn Veenker, seminary middle-and
grounds. Robert Mounce, as-sistant
professor of Biblical Lit-erature
and Greek will be the lead-er
and coordinator. He will also
summarize the presentations and
relate them to each individual life.
Faculty members will present
the musical selections for the mor-ning
sessions. Evening sessions
will include prayer, scripture, and
special musical selections by stu-dents.
Various pastors from the area
will be in the library each day for
counselling after chapel. Appoint-ments
should be arranged for coun-selling.
Dr. Johnson is in charge of the
Deeper Life Week program. Com-mittee
members for this week are
Russell Johnson, Lillian Ryberg,
Quentin Smith, Eugene Sprinkel of
the college faculty, and members
of religious council who are Con-rad
Lundberg, chairman; Walter
Buer, LeRoyce Hohn, Darrel John-son,
Bud Malmsten, Gail Westoby,
Dick Wiens.
man, is musical director. Faculty
advisors are Robert Bergland, as-sistant
professor of music, and
Robert Curtis, professor of speech.
Others working on the production
are Martin Penner, house man-ager;
Robert Kelshaw, lighting;
Mary Lou Wick, costumes; and
Ann Friberg, make-up.
Alumni activities will prevail on
Saturday morning with the main
activity, a parent-alumni luncheon
and business meeting at 10:45 a.m.
The parade will assemble at
12:30 in the fairgrounds and will
begin at 1 p.m.
Two o'clock is kick-off time for
the game against General Beadle.
Paul Evan, assistant football
coach, will act as master of cere-monies
for the half-time activities.
Liz Stoop and Lee Bajuneimi are
in charge of the parade, campus
decoration, and half-time activities.
A dormitory open house is sched-uled
for 4 p.m. at Bodien and Ed-gren
(continued, p. 3)
Seminary Trip
Set Oct. 21-24
Seminary students will take their
annual trip to the Baptist General
conference headquarters in Chi-cago
Oct. 21-24.
The purpose of the trip is to en-able
the students to become better
acquainted with the work of the
Conference at headquarters.
Plans are being completed to
place all of the senior seminarians
in Chicago churches on Sunday,
Oct. 23.
Sigurd F. Olson, biologist, lec-turer,
and author, will speak at
convocation Thursday, Oct. 27, on
the importance of preservation of
the wilderness.
A former professor of biology
and dean of Ely junior college, Mr.
Olson is now adviser to the secre-tary
on national parks, monuments
and historic sites, and the assist-ant
secretary of the interior. He
wrote "The Singing Wilderness"
and "Listening Point" and has also
been a free lance writer for maga-zines
for 30 years.
Mr. Olson received the honorary
Sigurd F. Olson
The student body this year is
composed of men and women from
various states, churches, and even
foreign countries.
There are 376 students from
Baptist General Conference church-es,
126 from other Baptist church-es,
and 121 from 21 other denomi-nations.
The student body also represents
27 different states and 3 foreign
countries. Minnesota has the larg-est
representation with 277, 70 of
which are from Minneapolis and
63 from St. Paul. The number
from foreign countries is 22, with
Canada claiming 20;; Venezuela,
one; and Sweden, one.
Of the 642 students, 65 men and
10 women are married. Thirty of
the married students are seniors.
Doctor of Humane Letters degree
from Hamline university and has
earned degrees from the University
of Wisconsin and University of
He served as president of the
National Parks association in 1954
and is a member of the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science, Ecological Society of
America, Wilderness Society coun-cil
executive committee, and the
International Union for the Pro-tection
of Nature. He is ecologist
for the Isaac Walton League of
In his Bethel convocation pre-sentation,
Olson plans to talk about
the values of America's diminish-ing
wilderness, and to suggest
ways of preserving what remains.
Dr. Fagerstrom
Liason Officer
For Fellowships
Faculty members are now select-ing
nominees for the Danforth
Graduate and Woodrow Wilson
fellowships through Bethel liaison
officer, Dalphy Fagerstrom, assoc-iate
professor of history. The dead-lines
are respectively Dec. 1, 1960,
and Oct. 31, 1960.
The Danforth Graduate fellow-ship
is available to three men, less
than 30 years of age, who are
aware of the place for moral and
religious values in teaching and
counseling. Grants range from a
maximum of $1,500 for single men
to $2,000 for married men. The fel-lowship
can be used at any ac-credited
university in the United
States and renewals are available.
Eligible for nomination for the
Woodrow Wilson fellowships are
seniors and graduates who by the
fall of 1961 will have accumulated
less than a year's graduate credit.
The nominees must be planning on
a career in college teaching, main-ly
in the humanities and social
sciences. Elected persons receive a
$1,500 stipend for living expenses
plus full tuition and family allow-ances.
Both men and women are
the CLARION
Volume XXXVII—No. 3 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Thursday, October 13, 1960
Queen Candidates Selected,
Homecoming Plans Progressing
the CLARION
Editor Lois Bradshaw
Asst. Editor Sharon Dickau
News Editor Marie Hokuf
Feature Ed.____Sharon Bergstrom
Business Mgr._ Richard Kreider
Adviser Lewis Barrett
What Is Nik Dag Leading To,
A Woman In The White House?
by Pat Triarchal
Chairman of SFPOAPS*
Friends, either you don't com-prehend
the danger about you or
you do not wish to recognize the
caliber of disaster indicated by the
presence of an unconventional
flaunting of tradition in your com-munity.
Laugh as you like, but Nikolenas
Dag in its advanced stages is an
enemy within—first, a turnabout
date affair, then a matriarchial
Why, in four years, if something
isn't done, we could see the catas-trophe
of females in major stu-dent
government leadership posi-tions.
More important, we might
have an all male cheerleading
squad. One or two is fine, but
something is wrong with an all
male squad. (This doesn't say
much for the '20s).
Let us act now, before we find
ourselves listening to the announce-ment
that "tonight Jane Brown
proposed to Mel Cowznowski." A repealed. And I don't want to look
few of you may already have heard at a fellow male and speculate as
rumors that such a practice is al to whether or not he is the most
ready in evidence. stylish first man our country has
Right here at home, someday, ever known. Does he have a crew-big,
husky, masculine all-American cut? Are his suits too Ivy? Are
men may be seen striding from his shirts by Gant of New Haven?
Hagstrom apartments to pound a Will they ever sing of "Wanting
typewriter or go to the nearest a guy just like the guy that . . ."
corner filling station to pump gas It is too much.
to earn pennies to put the wife Four score and seven years ago
through seminary. (This sort of our fore fathers, not our fore
thing would be practical for later mothers did whatever it was Mr.
settled life when the male would Lincoln said they did. (Better add
have to work while the wife has a (continued, p. 3)
child or two. It is doubtful, that
the strongest of environmental
pressures will change this tradi-tion.)
Depressing as it is, I must press
the effects of "Dagism" (pardon
me Mr. Hammarsjkold) on the na-tional
and international level.
As much as I love my mother, I
don't ever want to vote for a
"mother image." This assumes of
course that men's suffrage isn't
Bonn Discusses
Ideals of Ed.
by Marilyn Benson
Frank Bonn, instructor in poli-tical
science, has a personal philo-sophy
of education that would
seem to establish an ideal relation-ship
between the teacher and the
student. Accepting the student as
he is—without berating his lack of
ability or background—forms the
basis for his student-oriented philo-sophy
that is both realistic and
His objective is the formulation
of a thinking individual. And this
process involves challenging the
student to organize, evaluate, and
criticize. Too rarely does he see
this happen. "Three-fourths of the
time it doesn't"; says Mr. Bonn,
"however, the reward comes when
it does happen."
Mr. Bonn attended Duke uni-versity
for one year, and graduat-ed
from the University of Minne-sota.
After receiving his masters
degree, he taught at the University
for two years.
The all-encompassing aspect of
political science is one of the rea-sons
Mr. Bonn chose this field.
Social, economic, religious—these
are related to the political. Con-cerning
the coming election, Mr.
Bonn says, "I'm not an activist in
national politics."
Mr. Bonn has an avid interest in
two sports. An addict of the out-of-
doors, he spends his summers
in the canoe country. During the
winter he plays handball. At the
present he is the St. Paul Athletic
club champion in this sport.
"We Bear The Marks of Christ;
Are We Ready To Share The Pain?"
Albert Schweitzer has inspired
many to imitate his life of service
in Africa. A young medical officer
across the world in Laos accepted
the challenge of illness and disease.
Dr. Thomas Dooley, in 19'55, found-ed
MEDICO, an organization de-voted
to relief of the Laotian peo-ples.
In five years, this 'organiza-tion
man' has obtained, cajoled and
talked over $1,000,000 for his pro-ject.
Only five miles from Red
China in Upper Laos this 33 year
old medic distates 100 letters a
day, plans fund-raising operations,
alleviates pain and recovers from
a serious cancer operation. Though
under criticism from his match-less
egoism, this young dynamo
has accomplished more in five
years than most men dream of
doing in fifty.
Tom Dooley has written exten-sively
as well. The Night They
Burned the Mountain spells the
saga of Medico and Dooley's devo-tion.
It is a shame he has been
depicted as a saint. He is not. His
passionate faith in himself and
the future of mankind irritates
self-styled prophets of doom. Like
Ann Frank, Dooley works for the
peace while waiting. Perhaps only
a man like Dooley, with belliger-ent
faith in himself could do so
much for so many in so short a
Schweitzer speaks of "the fel-lowship
of those who bear the
mark of pain." Tom Dooley is but
one of many who have joined this
fellowship. We who enjoy the
Bethel campus bear few marks of
pain. Scholarship and piety, faith
and action, life and love are best
united in the fellowship of Christ.
We speak of Christian fellowship;
have we demonstrated the marks
of Christ?
If these work for faith in man-kind
and reverence for life, what
will we do for Christ? Motives may
well be questioned; what seems
like egotism will be indicted. Am-erican
culture scarcely prepares
one for the misery of the world.
Can our affluent society realis-tically
face their poverty? There
is much to be done to redeem the
world. We bear the marks of
Christ; are we ready to share the
Jim Elliot in his terse way pen-ned
the motto for those who share
such pain. It may mean 18 hours
of study for those devoted to the
life of the mind. For others it may
mean serious consideration of pov-erty,
obedience or even chastity.
For all it means the uniting of
heart and mind to do the will of
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Students Must Be Presented
With Graduate Work Information
The catalog claims that "of the 440 students who have graduated
from the senior college since its initial class of 1949, sixty-five per
cent are continuing their studies on the graduate or professional levels."
In maintaining the status quo or raising this percentage we question
whether sixty-five percent of the student body are aware of the re-quirements
for entrance into graduate or professional schools or that
a graduate record examination must be taken before one will be con-sidered
at many schools. Do students realize that many graduate schools
are interested in the type of courses one has had, such as American
government, economics, twentieth century history and sociology ? Gradu-ate
schools are inquisitive concerning the type of magazines and news-papers
one reads and yet those students remain who go for weeks
without reading a newspaper or a magazine.
To maintain our past record, we believe that it is vital for the fac-ulty
and administration to uphold our past standards and encourage
students to do post-graduate studies. Information concerning graduate
schools should be better publicized than posting it on bulletin boards—
it should be brought to the attention of students through a special
higher education convocation, and in classes, especially upper division
courses. All information should be accessable to the CLARION for pub-lication.
It is our desire that to continue this high educational standard, the
administration, faculty, and interested students will communicate their
knowledge in this area to promote undergraduates to consider the fur-thering
of their education through graduate study and that scholarship
information will be available to any student on this campus.
Letters to the Editor:
What Is Our Christian Reflection?
lationship between himself, the
school, and its student body ? If he
does it would seem that our inter-est
and consequently our support
would lead to the betterment of
Bethel's reputation.
Christianity should saturate poli-tics
(on this campus especially)
with a calm sureness rather than
blatancy. The intrusion every four
years of evidences of political sua-sion
into seemingly every facet of
life (public and private) is becom-ing
accepted and acceptable. This
should be distasteful to us, though
all of life should be integrated, one
part should not, and need not, be
infringed on by another. Specifi-cally,
when we go to church (mass,
chapel, synagogue) we should go
to worship God, not to be told
which lever to pull. We should go
to learn the ethics upon which to
base our discriminations, not to
hear the latest political joke. This
seems to be a logical ramification
of the principle of division of
church and state.
A voice in the wilderness,
James M. Carlson
Senate Initiates Program;
Welcomes Student Participation
by Bruce Leafblad
Student Senate President
The senate has not hesitated to begin working on major items of
business at this early date in the year. In its three official sessions the
senate has begun to work on improving the present systems of record-keeping;
it has decided to consider a special project for the year; it
has begun to evaluate the role of the students in relation to administra-tion
and faculty in the area of actual government. These are just a few
of the matters which are presently before the senate.
We, of the senate, are hopeful that you, the students whom we repre-sent,
will take an interest in your student government. Moreover, there
is a place in the senate for you; there is always room for more partici-pants
in the work of the senate. The most effective way that student
opinion can be reflected in the sessions of the senate is to receive such
from the members of the student body who have enough interest to
attend these sessions.
Presently there are opportunities for students to participate on
certain committees of the senate which as yet have not been completely
organized. In addition there will be places open in the near future for
students on faculty and administrative committees.
If you are truly interested in your student government and would
be willing to serve in some capacity in the senate or one of the other
groups mentioned, contact one of the senators and make your interest
Editor's Note: Opinions expressed in
letters to the editor are not necessarily
held by members of the editorial staff.
Dear Editor:
As this first month has flashed
by I have been aware of and in-volved
in situations which would
seem to require comment.
Christianity on the campus
should be reflected in every atti-tude
of the Christian's life. "Bethel
plays dirty ball!" "What, those
guys are Christian ?" These com-ments
do not rest easily on our
shoulders. Certainly, team sports
on the college level tend to develop
strong attitudes and firm char-acter,
but how can Bethel's team
show great love for their opponents
if they are backed by the essen-tially
negative attitude of a disin-terested
student body whose cheer
is not "press on regardless" but
"Hit 'em again! Hit 'em again!
Harder, harder!" What goes
through the mind of the line back-er,
or guard when he is not single-mindedly
intent on the game, is it
possible that he thinks of the re-the
CLARION Page 2
Freshman Sweetheart candidates Betty Guida, Carol Groff, and
Barbara Peel talk over the homecoming schedule.
-finer quality
lower prices-at
K. C. Cornelius Jewelry
324 Kresge Building
Conrad Lundberg
A.M. Worship 10:30
Eve. Worship 7:00
Bus Transportation
8:55 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Rev. Ellis Eklof
Interim Pastor
Wm. MacKinney
Youth Director
Editorial - News:
Senate Accepts Budgets;
Homecoming's Questioned
The proposed budget for the student senate councils, miscellaneous
fund and homecoming were approved at the senate workshop on Sept.
17, except the cultural council budget which was approved at the Sept.
26 meeting. The budget was approved as follows:
1. Athletic council $ 600 $ 20 (Increase over last year)
2. Cultural council $1,500 $430 (Increase over last year)
3. Religious council $1,000 $ 70 (Decrease)
4. Social council $1,300 $100 (Increase)
5. Senate Miscellaneous Fund $1,165 $ 75 (Decrease)
6. Homecoming $ 450 Same
The approved budget shows that the senate was wise in appor-tioning
more funds to the cultural council, due to the fact that it's able
chairman Milton Quiggle, a seminary senior, has eight well organized
events planned for the cultural program. These can be utilized by many
and at the most might cost a student $1. (Schubert Series tickets for
four concerts.)
In studying the proposed budget,
we can't keep from wondering a-bout
the preposterous budget of
the Homecoming committee and
the planned source of its funds;
although the committee plans to
receive the same amount from the
student senate as last year. The
price of Homecoming buttons has
been raised from 50 cents to $2
per button. The button will be
necessary for admittance to all of
the events. It is anticipated that
tickets will be sold to individual
The variety program of last year
cost $278.40; this year the pro-posed
budget estimates that it will
cost $877. which is over half the
amount that the cultural, social, or
religious councils spend over an
entire year. Of this money, $300.
will be spent for costume rental,
$300. for the staging and $220. for
orchestration. Is it necessary to
spend this large amount of money
to put on the "Taming of the
The total _proposed budget for
the weekend appears to come to
$1,629-to see the "Taming of the
Shrew", the coronation, a football
game, and attend a banquet. The
theme for the weekend, "As You
Like it;" we don't like it (the
higher prices and the ludicrous
spending of the student's money)
The Editorial staff
Yugoslav Chorus
At U., Oct. 20
The eighty-voice Branko Krs-manovich
chorus of Yugoslavia will
appear on the University Artists
Course - Masterpiece Series on
Thursday, Oct. 20, at 8:30 p.m. as
part of its tour of the United
States. The Northrop appearance
will be the only concert by the
group in the area.
One Belgrade newspaper has
termed the chorus "the greatest
contribution to the musical life of
our capital."
Tickets for the appearance by the
Yugoslav chorus are on sale now
at the University Artists Course
ticket office, 105 Northrop Mem-orial
auditorium, the downtown
ticket office in Minneapolis, and at
Field-Schlicks in St. Paul. Tickets
are priced at $1.50, $2.50, $3.00 and
Students To See
St. Olaf Organ
The Twin-City Student Organ
guild is now in progress and has
many activities planned for the
ensuing school year. The first ac-tivity
will be a trip to St. Olaf
college, Northfield, Minn. on Oct.
30 for the demonstration of a new
Anyone interested should con-tact
J. Robert Carlson, P.O. #670.
Transportation will be provided.
The other activities of the year
are as follows:
A tour of the Minneapolis audi-torium
organ in Nov.; a master
class with Gerald Bales, organist
at St. Mark's Cathedral, in Jan.;
a student recital in Feb.; and a
choir-directing clinic in March.
(continued from p. 2)
five score and make that nine.)
Do we want world peace to hinge
on the whims of a round little wo-man
(instead of a round little
man) ? No. Of course not.
Do we males want to be inter-viewed
if we have successful wives,
because behind every successful
woman is a good man ? No. Of
course not.
My point is that we should nip
this thing in the bud (I don't care
how old the tradition is, if we have
to, we'll nip it in the old bud, but
we'll nip it in the bud.)
Perhaps it is best put this way
-on the local personal real level,
in the living room, where you feel
it, right in front of the television
I know not what for my fellows,
but I don't want my sons to beg
the administrators, whoever these
ladies may be, for permission to
stay out until one o'clock on the
one night of the year, that they
ask the girls out, and the girls
can't say no.
I have said it. I hope you heard.
*Society for the Preservation of a
Patriarchal Society
Senate Notice
The student senate minutes
are posetd on the library bulle-tin
board for students to read.
"No student can claim he is not
informed of senate activities,"
said Thelma Fredrickson, cor-responding
secretary, "because
the minutes are available to all
interested students."
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(continued from p. 1)
George Beverly Shea, well known
Gospel singer, will sing at the
banquet which will begin at 7
p.m. in the fieldhouse auditorium.
Clarence Bass, associate profes-sor
of systematic theology in the
seminary, will speak on the topic
"Much Ado About Nothing."
Jenny Lou Peterson, junior, is
chairman of the banquet commit-tee.
Homecoming buttons will be on
sale in the student lounge next
week. The price is $2. Individual
tickets will be sold for those with-out
buttons. Tickets for the var-ariety
show are $1.50 and 75 cents
for children. Banquet tickets are
50 cents.
Co-chairmen for homecoming are
June McGillivray, senior, and
Laureen Leafblad, junior. Both
girls are from Waukegan, Ill.
Lois Ann Westerberg, a transfer
student from Waldorf college, is
business manager and Roberta
Yaxley, junior, is in charge of pub-licity.
An thology
Deadline Set
Students are now being given
the opportunity to contribute to the
fourth semestral anthology of out-standing
college poetry now being
compiled for publication early next
year by the American College
Poetry society.
Students interested in contribu-ting
to this project are to submit
their work to Alan C. Fox, Execu-tive
secretary, the American Col-lege
Poetry society, Box 24463, Los
Angeles, Calif. Contributions must
be the original work of the stu-dents.
Poems may not exceed 48
lines, and no individual may sub-mit
more than five poems. Al,
entries must be postmarked not
later than Dec. 9, 1960.
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Towing Brake Work
'ractusiv3 Fee
Broken Down
Editor's Note: In response to
student queries regarding the use
of money levied by the school in
the inclusive fee, the Clarion has
agreed to publish these financial
statistics. The inclusive fee a-mounts
to $36.50 per semester.
Directory .70
Clarion 4.00
Programs and speakers:
Chapel .50
Convocations 4.80
Special weeks 1.20
Forensics 1.'50
Micsellaneous 5.80
Music 2.00
Spire 7.00
Student Senate 10.00
Accident and Health
Health 15.00
Accident 4.50
Student Center 6.00
Education Dept.
To Host Alumni
Bethel alumni, teaching in Min-nesota,
will be honored at a recep-tion
to be held Thursday, Oct. 20,
during the Minnesota Education
association convention. This event,
sponsored by the education depart-ment
will be held in the faculty
lounge from 4 to 6 p.m.
Besides alumni, members of the
faculty, and students who are in
their fourth year in the teacher
education program, are invited to
Voter Registration
Closes Oct. 18
Voter registration in Minnesota
closes on Tuesday, Oct. 18.
Registrants must be 21 years old
on or before Nov. 8, have resided
in the state for 90 days and in the
district in which they intend to
register for 30 days.
Residents of St. Paul may regis-ter
in the basement of the court
house on Fourth and Wabasha
streets, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday and from
9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
People who are not registered
may not vote in the Nov. 8 general
CLARION To
Issue Literary
Magazine In Jan
The CLARION is planning to
publish a serious-minded literary
magazine in Jan.
The editor will welcome all con-tributions
of themes, articles, es-says,
and poems of a serious na-ture.
The subject of this material
may be religious or academic.
All contributions should be plac-ed
in box 350 in the post office or
submitted to Lois Bradshaw, edi-tor,
or Lewis S. Barrett, faculty
adviser, prior to Christmas vaca-tion.
Editing of the magazine, ex-pected
to be published by Jan. 15
will be done during the vacation
Service Opportunities
There are Christian service
opportunities available for stu-dents
to serve on Sundays in
Twin Cities' churches as Sunday
School teachers, story-time tell-ers,
and youth workers All stu-dents
interested should seek in-formation
in the Student Af-fairs
The Rev. Warren Magnuson, Figures given are for the entire
pastor of Central Baptist church year.
in St. Paul, will serve as master of Athletics $ 9.00
ceremonies for the event. Awards 1.00
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Coach Owen Halleen and Paul Evan, assistant coach, discuss strategy
with Ken Baird, captain, and Jim Nelson.
Members of the cross country track squad (1. - r.) front row, Tom
Guy, Howard Dinsmore, Denny Johnson, Don Allison; back row, Fred
Purcell, Dale Pierson, Dave McDill, Dale Hamline, and Larry Bradshaw.
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Royals Fall To
Mayville, 20-12
The Bethel Royals invaded May-ville
territory on Oct. 1. The Roy-als
outweighed by the Mayville
squad smashed their way to a half
time victory of 12-7. Bethel's
strength faded in the second half
and Mayville was able to pull into
the lead.
In the first quarter Bethel con-trolled
all but four of the plays.
Receiving a Mayville punt on our
41 yard line, the Royals smashed
their way in ten plays to paying
territory. The touchdown came on
a quarterback sneak for half a
yard by Ken Baird.
Continually outrushing their op-ponents,
the Royals started a drive
on their 37 to advance to the goal
line in nine plays. The final play,
a dive over tackle, Bill Holzworth,
netted 21 yards for a second Bethel
touchdown. The conversion attempt
was lost as the kick by Jim Nelson
went wide.
Mayville first got the ball roll-ing
late in the second quarter. Ad-vancing
in four straight passes
they settled on the eight yard line
and then reversed for the touch-down.
The conversion was made,
giving them seven points.
The major break for Mayville
came in the second half. The hard-hitting
Royal line began tiring as
they were continually faced by
fresh recruits drawn from a seem-ingly
inexhaustible roster. On the
sixth play in the third quarter,
Rosberg, halfback for Mayville,
capitalized on a fumbled reverse
at our 29 and advanced for a touch-down.
In the last two minutes of
the game, speedy Rosberg once
more dodged through the Bethel
line. He rolled out to pass, but
seeing that all the receivers were
covered, reversed his field and ran
21 yards for the final touchdown
giving Mayville a total of 20 points
to Bethel's 12.
Women's B.B.
To Start Soon
Plans for girls intercollegiate
basketball are now under way for
the 1960-61 season. Officials are in
the process of getting a coach, and
as soon as plans are cleared with
the athletic department the name
of the coach will be released, All
girls who are interested in playing
should watch the CLARION sports
page and the bulletin boards for
announcement of basketball prac-tice.
Gymn Schedule
The Gym schedule before in-tramurals
begin is as follows:
Monday—Men —to 10 p.m.
Tuesday—Women —to 10 p.m.
Thursday—Co-Rec —to 10 p.m.
The Gym is locked at 7 p.m.
on Wednesday and Friday and
5 p.m. on Saturday.
Just good food at
Shield's Cafe
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Ladies Hair Cutting
by Edwin
for appointment call
For the Finest in
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Eager to make this Conference
game their first victory, the Roy-als
boosted their offensive pres-sure
but were unable to march
the ball to paying territory. Bill
Holzworth's flying tackle stopped
Northland from penetrating until
the last minutes of the game. With
only seconds remaining and Beth-el's
second string on defense,
Northland scored on a double re-verse
for a final score of 14-0.
Rec. Night
Set for Girls
Girls interested in athletics of
any type will have many chances to
participate this year. Girl's recrea-tion
night is one of the activities
on the agenda. This will be held
every Tuesday during the year
from 7-8 p.m. unless there is an-other
activity scheduled for that
night. Coming events will be post-ed
on the bulletin boards.
Volleyball nights will be held
next on Oct. 25 and Nov. 15. They
will be from 7-8 p.m. in the field-house.
Later on in the year there will
be events in badminton, intramural
basketball, pingpong tournaments,
and softball in the spring.
Carol Peterson and Margaret
Johnston are the girls in charge of
the recreation program this year.
They are both members of the ath-letic
council. If any girls have any
special sports or activities they
would like to play, they should con-tact
either Miss Peterson or Miss
Northland Overpowers
Bethel Royals, 14-0
Cross Country
Team Forms
by Willie Winnit
The Royal cross country team
was defeated by one point with
a score of 28-27 in a meet against
Northwestern college of Minnea-polis.
The meet was held at Lake
of the Isles on Oct. 5.
The harriers showed well against
Macalester, a highly experienced
team in their first meet on Sept.
29. The score was 27-19.
Comprising the Royal harriers
are eight college men and one
seminarian. They are Dan Allison,
Larry Bradshaw, Howard Dins-more,
Tom Guy, Dale Hamlin,
Denny Johnson, Dave McDill, and
Fred Purcell.
The IVIacalester Scots were sur-prised
to see such a large turn
out. This feeling evidently came
from the fact that Bethel is one
of the smaller colleges in the twin
city area and the second of the
three schools to field a team.
Cross country is known in some
places as fall track, and it is ob-viously
related. All runners com-pete
in just one race which extends
on the average of three miles for
college cross country. Each run-ner
is given the number of points
as his place in the race, when the
race is over the scores of the first
five athletes from each team are
added for the team score. The
team with the low score wins the
Orders to
Take Out
Italian and American Food
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Northland overpowered the Roy-als
Saturday, in this season's sec-ond
Badger - Gopher conference
football game, with a score of
14-0. A firm Northland defense
thoroughly handcuffed the pass-ing
of quarterback Ken Baird.
Throughout the game Northland's
linemen rushed and harrassed him.
Jim Nelson, who managed to put
197 yards on the statistics chart
in the hard fought game against
Mayville, was continually blocked
by the rushing Northland defense.
The Royals defense line finally
yielded late in the third quarter.
The Northland attack swept the
ball to within inches of the goal
line. Bethel's final attempt to hold
the line against this onrushing
crew failed and Northland scored
the first points of the game.
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There is always a new reason to enjoy a day of golf and fun times with family and friends at Squirrel Run Golf Club. Golf is the ideal way to enjoy the outdoors and the company of others. Reserve your next tee time with Squirrel Run by contacting the Pro Shop: (337) 367-0863.


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On Sunday afternoon we witnessed one of the finest live theater performances we have ever seen; Mariette Hartley starring in "The Morini Strad" at the Colony Theatre. She received a prolonged standing ovation from a very emotional audience.
The Colony's financial difficulties have become public over the last month and they were fortunate to raise the money to produce this amazing play. But, even while struggling financially for a long time, the overall quality of their shows has not suffered.
In fact the Colony received an Ovation Award nomination for their entire series of plays last year. Many of us have donated money to help keep the theater alive, but much more than small individual donations are needed. It would be wonderful if one of the many large entertainment companies in Burbank would step forward and offer financial assistance. This wonderful theater should not be allowed to close.
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Taylor Swift Shares Backstage Footage From Historic Staples Center Shows
Taylor Swift played four sold-out shows at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last month, inviting five, high-profile guests to share the stage with her over the course of the week, among them pop stars Cher Lloyd, Jennifer Lopez, Sara Bareilles, Tegan and Sara and Ellie Goulding. Swift offered a seven-minute clip that takes fans behind-the-scenes and backstage during that history-making week of concerts.
You'll recall that Swift now shares the record for most sell outs at the famed venue and she celebrated that accolade with four incredible, intense shows that attested to both her star power and the love and dedication that her fans have for her.
The footage is comprised of Swift performing with her pals and then subsequent interviews with those singers discussing what it was like for them to grab a mic and sing alongside Swift.
Overall, there's lots of jumping up and down and plenty of energy. It'll make you feel like you were at the shows and part of the action.
Tegan and Sara said it best when they commented that Swift really knows how to lead her crowd.
There's even footage of Lopez giving a pep talk backstage with the cast and crew of the Red Tour before they get out there and do their thing. The diva thanks Swift for being so gracious and lovely, and for sharing this moment among their professional families. We also see the two superstars rehearsing their moves for their performance of 'Jenny From the Block' in black and white.
This featurette is certainly a way for fans to relive and share Swift's week in L.A. in the span of seven minutes!


text: Hi Tony, I'm in the same situation as your are: I'm running an openMosix cluster, but since it's more and more difficult to integrate new hardware with an old 2.4.26 kernel I think that I have to move to MOSIX2. I just got the latest version of MOSIX2 sent from Amnon Barak (I'm using the cluster for academic work), and started to play around with installations ... yet I had some kernel crash problems that I could not yet resolve on one of the machines. So I guess without the $1,000 per year support fee it'll also be difficult to run a MOSIX2 cluster ... Jürgen Le 30 sept. 08 à 11:14, Tony Travis a écrit : > Keith Hacke wrote: >> Dr Travis >> Below is a recent question you posted concerning usage of >> MOSIX2. I am also considering MOSIX2 for a test cluster of 64 >> nodes. I was not able to find any responses to your question and >> wondered if you received any communications on MOSIX2 or if you >> have more information on your decision. > > Hello, Keith. > > No, you are the only person to respond about MOSIX2 so far! > > I've got to admit that although I'm very happy with my experience > of openMosix I can't continue using it without the support of the > rest of the openMosix community. > > So far, I've been in touch with Amnon Barak (amnon at cs.huji.ac.il) > who put me in contact with his MOSIX2 developer Amnon Shiloh > u3557 at miso.sublimeip.com) of Shiloh Distributed Solutions Pty/Ltd.: > > http://www.mosix.com.au/ > > He confirmed that MOSIX2 is 'free' for academic use, but even so I > would have to pay them $1,000 per year to obtain 'updates' and run > the current version. I don't rule this out, but I'm not entirely > happy about it. > > Please let me know about other people you know who might be > interested in using MOSIX2. I've cc'ed this email to the Beowulf > list in case there are other people on the list using or interested > in trying out MOSIX2. > > Thanks for getting in touch, > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition > and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK > tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk > mailto:ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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I am an enthusiastic supporter of the "open source" culture/trend/society. I also believe that I have proven this over the years, by providing code – procedural designs and making them available for free to the public as many others do in this small computational design community. Most of the times, help has been successful, others less successful. A common factor though, to all of these cases is that I have never asked anything in return.
And that's simply because I DON'T WANT ANYTHING IN RETURN. Never asked, nor will ask for in the future. (Although I have made a little experiment, see below).
You have to understand that I also do this for ME, for my own entertainment, for FUN, for becoming better. YES, you are becoming better by solving other people design / coding issues. Surely it's not possible to encounter many different riddles, niggling situations and dead ends in your daily work routine. But, if you pick up from a collective pool of problems coming from other colleagues, professionals and students, certainly you have access to a wider range and a plethora of similar or dissimilar case scenarios. All these, are making me capable of seeing more, solving more and eventually enriching my design, problem-solving or mathematics, or complex geometry, or whatever you want to call it.
Have I asked for help? Yes! And I will definitely do it again.
Who's asking? From my experience roughly 70% of the questions originates from the academic context. The other 30% from the industry mainly disguised to look like dummy questions. I don't mind them at all, they are usually clearer, less blobby and more interesting to tackle.
Why am I mumbling about sharing? To be honest I am feeling quite frustrated lately. At first I didn't care about people's ungratefulness and lack of manners, but I guess as you are getting older your tolerance hasn't got the analogous effect, more like the opposite I would argue.
Not only that, people have become demanding. "Send me this file, I need it" , "do it working like this" ect.
I understand that maybe sometimes there are difficulties in the verbal or written communication, not native English speakers for example, but I believe there is one word that everybody knows of. That word is "please". It's not begging, it's not loosing face, it's simply asking someone politely.
This word, combined with another famous one, "thank you" can be pretty powerful when used in the same or in consecutive sentences. Trust me. I know.
I had a chat a few months back with two friends, fellow developers of a very successful free software, on whether we should license software or not. The answer was NO. Not only because we like to share stuff for free, but also because we are not exactly software developers, rather than a fusion between designers and programmers. They were though frustrated by the arrogance and rudeness of firms asking to use their software for commercial purposes, hence making money out of it, and then denying sharing the projects where this software was implemented, with the developers, that only wanted to put them together in a paper for a publication.
In a funny way, you are awesome while you give something, but when you ask the simplest thing in return, something worthless, the same people that you've helped turn their backs on you without second thoughts. How proper of them.
The little experiment mentioned earlier in this text, is a paypal donation button I added to my website about a year ago. " if you like our stuff and want to keep digital [sub]stance up and running please consider donating". Eleven donations so far, most of them by students, roughly 5 $ each. Compared to 600.000 unique views, 6000 downloads of Nudibranch on the food4rhino website, and a total of 25.000 downloads of the shared scripts and procedural concepts shared on box.net.
I would like to thank these few people, not for their money, as I said I am not expecting to make any money out of this. But because they felt they had to give something back. Although for me, a simple thank you is more than enough. But even this is hard to get.
The simplest and the academically appropriate method of saying "thank you", is referencing. Professors ask for it, journals ask for it, conferences as well, so why on earth you don't properly reference, people?? It costs nothing and it displays your integrity. It also indicates that you have actually conducted some research, that you are not a supreme human being, but you used something, cut it out on your own requirements and hopefully advanced this something to a greater level of importance.
I asked my students at exparch earlier this year to go out, research, study and use something that they found online but by properly referencing it. I know it's impossible to learn how to code in one month, but if you study something enough to understand it, you've made a small step towards this goal. I didn't even ask for something new, I just asked to understand the process and comprehend the reality that you have to reference anything you present.
It's not that professors can't keep up with new developments, new processes and research of others, which architecture students present as their own. That's impossible. The problem lies deeper, into the fact that architecture, design and their visual output is something ambiguous and difficult to enclose within copyright boundaries.
Code and procedural thought, is not however. That's why in my own naive opinion any kind of so wannabe called generative, algorithmic, parametric blah blah blah processes and its output SHOULD BE PROPERLY REFERENCED.
Please pardon my long introduction to this set of rules that I decided I am going to implement from now on, while sharing stuff online or helping on demand.
1. Help someone that asks politely.
2. ALWAYS help out someone that thanks in advance (quite a powerful set of words this one)
3. If you are helping out a student, ask for a cc to their professor tutor in the e-mail.
4. Never ask for people to reference your work even though you know that they've used your tools. Just blacklist them and do not help them again. Whether you can find them or not, that's another story.
5. Do not help someone that provides nothing as a starting point, at 90% of the cases they are just too lazy to do something on their own and expect from others to solve their problems. Only guide them with references.
6. ALWAYS help with something that you are interested into, or seems intriguing.
7. Do not spend more than 3 answers explaining the same thing. More than three is probably useless anyway, your work is done there.
8. Let people know about google and website embedded search options. (Saves a lot of time)
9. Don't give out stuff, give out the process. This is helpful for the other, to learn by replicating your thoughts!
10. Create a grading system, I found websites such Stack Overflow are quite successful on how they provide help for their users. I believe such grading systems make everyone's life much better.
FYI: Even though this text might seem kind of offensive, but no means it consists a declaration of me giving up on people's eagerness to learn, and I will always consider this my driving motto.
Written on a train towards London on Cinqo de Mayo.


text: CWT Assists with 712,000 Pounds of Cheese, Butter Exports April 10, 2013 09:14 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By News Release Email Source: Cooperatives Working Together Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted two requests for export assistance to sell 50,706 pounds (23 metric tons) of Cheddar cheese and 661,387 pounds (300 metric tons) of butter to customers in Asia and the Middle East. The product will be delivered June through October 2013. Year-to-date, CWT has assisted member cooperatives in selling 47.106 million pounds of cheese, 47.145 million pounds of butter, 44,092 pounds of anhydrous milk fat and 218,258 pounds of whole milk powder to 30 countries on six continents. These sales are the equivalent of 1.464 billion pounds of milk on a milkfat basis. That is equal to 90% of USDA's projected increase in milk marketings for all of 2013. Assisting CWT members through the Export Assistance program positively impacts producer milk prices in the short-term by helping to maintain inventories of cheese and butter at desirable levels. In the long-term, CWT's Export Assistance program helps member cooperatives gain and maintain market share, thus expanding the demand for U.S. dairy products and the farm milk that produces them. CWT will pay export bonuses to the bidders only when delivery of the product is verified by the submission of the required documentation. The Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) Export Assistance program is funded by voluntary contributions from dairy cooperatives and individual dairy farmers. The money raised by their investment is being used to strengthen and stabilize the dairy farmers' milk prices and margins. For more information about CWT, visit www.cwt.coop. Back to news


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To celebrate the redesign and official launch of the new Lightology.com, Lightology is giving away a Fanimation Fan, winner's choice, up to $500 in value!
The new Lightology.com offers bigger, better photos, interactive tools to help you find the perfect fixture, easier navigation and a place to leave reviews on your favorite products!
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police and managers of several local affordable housing developments are joining forces to fight what they say has been a recent surge in illegal drug activity.
Middlebury officials specifically identified John Graham Court as a neighborhood in which some residents — particularly young families — have been complaining about drug transactions.
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MIDDLEBURY — Train enthusiasts from throughout New England will chug into Middlebury this weekend to celebrate the rich history of one of Vermont's most prominent railroad systems.
The draw is the 25th annual convention of the Rutland Railroad Historical Society (RRHS), which takes place this Saturday and Sunday at the Middlebury Inn.
VERGENNES — Vergennes aldermen on Tuesday heard Vermont Gas Systems officials tout the potential benefits to city residents and businesses of a natural gas pipeline that the company hopes by 2015 to extend from Chittenden County to Addison County.
The preliminary path along Route 7 would allow Vermont Gas to serve the densely populated areas of Vergennes, said company President and CEO Don Gilbert.
MIDDLEBURY — Members of the Middlebury College solar decathlon team are kicking their project into high gear as they edge within the five-month mark of the 2011 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, which will be held in Washington, D.C., from Sept. 23 to Oct. 2.
MIDDLEBURY — Between September 2010 and the end of March, the Middlebury College campus fell victim to nearly $70,000 worth of damage to its dormitories, leaving administrators scratching their heads.
With another month and a half to go in the school year, the current price tag for repairing that damage sets the college on track for an increase in overall dormitory damage. This will be the third year in a row Middlebury College has seen a rise in that expense.
MIDDLEBURY — Compared to colleges and universities across the country, students headed to Middlebury College this fall are getting a break. This year will mark the second of the school's "CPI+1" initiative, which limits tuition hikes from year to year.
While tuition at Middlebury College is already high, the 2011-2012 school year will bring a rise of less than 2.5 percent over the current year's tuition, room and board cost, from $52,500 to $53,800.
MIDDLEBURY — A mother, an athlete, a role model and an inspiration, Middlebury's Liz Cronin recently was presented with a Bonnie and John McCardell Citizen's Award by Middlebury College for her outstanding service to the community as the founder and previous chairwoman of the Face Off Against Breast Cancer Hockey Tournament.
The tournament brings together women's hockey teams from around the state to have fun and raise money for the support of cancer patients and their families. The 12th annual tournament this past January raised close to $60,000.
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Veteran civil rights campaigner Paul Stephenson says the World Cup is a chance for Bristol to show it can welcome people of different races and faiths.
But he warned a failure to do that would be a "disaster" which would damage the city and its reputation "for generations".
In the 1960's, Mr Stephenson led a boycott of Bristol buses which led directly to the introduction of the Race Relations Act. He has previously called for the city to issue a direct apology for its role in the slave trade. He was given an OBE in the 2009 honours.
Speaking after the announcement of Bristol's inclusion in England's 2018 bid, Mr Stephenson welcomed it, saying: "The challenge is how far will Bristol come to terms with the cultural identity of the peoples who arrive here from continent of Africa, Latin america, and Eastern Europe
"How far are Bristolians going to enhance their reputation with these people who will be coming to the city expecting a warm welcome?"
"If Bristol fails [to show how multicultural it is], it will be a disaster for Bristol. But I believe that Bristol will meet the challenge and do its best to welcome all the peoples from around the world.
"They should come and identify with this beautiful city. Failure to do that will be a disaster for the people of Bristol for generations to come. This is the one of the great challenges that comes in a lifetime and Bristol now must meet it."
But Mr Stephenson agrees the World Cup would be a chance to show the city off. He said: "Bristol has so much going for it. People of all races, colours, creeds and religions can come together through sport and see their humanity as people, and respect that. We can move the city forward for generations to come."
Audio: Martin Jones interviews Paul Stephenson