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One of the reasons India appealed to me was because of the colorful culture. India, a nation of 1.2 billion people in 28 different states and 7 union territories, is unlike anywhere else in the world. It's largely a peaceful place, where people are bound together by their different traditions, beliefs, languages, religions and customs – not by their national identity. Largely confined to their villages, natives have historically depended on their families and community for support and often lack a sense of civic duty.
After living here, however, I'm beginning to wonder if India's biggest strength is also it's biggest weakness. While I'm certainly not an economist nor an expert on India, I think this lack of national identity may present economic challenges for the country. For every economic report and newspaper article that speaks of India's emerging economy, there are easily 20 more that talk about electrical grid failures, train delays, environmental issues and public health problems (not to mention a long history of patriarchy and oppression of women).
Before India can emerge as a true powerhouse in this world, it needs to fix the problems within their own borders – infrastructure, bureaucracy, corruption, oppression – as one country, not 35 different states and territories.
Further complicating matters is urbanization. As people flock to the cities in search of a better life, they're less likely to interact with, depend upon and trust their neighbors, thereby breaking those strong social bonds. Which leads me to wonder: If that is what kept India 'together' for so long, what happens if those bonds cease to exist?
Until this journey, I really didn't understand – and to be perfectly honest, didn't really care – what it meant to be an American. It certainly wasn't something I earned, and I definitely took it for granted. Living in India, however, has taught me that, despite our shortcomings, being an American is something to be proud of, something to cherish and something to fight for. For as much as we talk about the individual liberties in our society, we often don't recognize that those ideals are held together by one, nationalistic view. In other words, E pluribus unum.
Much like the founding fathers of America, Indians are searching for a better life. But for India to succeed, it needs to not only move forward in improving health, education and infrastructure, but it also needs to come together as a society and tackle these problems as a whole. Because if she doesn't, India will not be defined by her individual success, rather, she will be known for its public failures.

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Do you have statistics to back up this claim? I know many honest people jailbreak for Cydia but I'm sure many others do it to pirate software. You just can't ignore it. I get skeptical when people say the most users jailbreak just to use Cydia.
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Do you even KNOW what jailbreaking is? Jailbreaking is NOTHING BUT adding Cydia app store to your phone, period. When you jailbreak your phone, CYDIA is installed. Then form there, you can access illegal sources that MIGHT contribute to piracy. If you install this source, Cydia WARNS you its illegal and does not recommend it and warns you its could have treats in it.
SSH your phone is a way into the file system. This can be down with apps SOLD through the official Apple App store. Once your device s jailbroken, then this official apps will allow you in the file system.
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Connie Kirk, age 34, of Malvern passed away Saturday, April 6, 2013 at her home.
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L. G. Bennett, age 85 of the New DeRoche Community near Bismarck passed away Sunday, April 21, 2013
Bobby Rogers, age 73, of Malvern, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Saturday, April 20, 2013.
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Helen Ross, age 92 of Malvern, Arkansas, died Sunday, April 14, 2013, in the HSC Medical Center. Mrs. Ross was born on July 11, 1920 in Emmitt, Arkansas.
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James Snyder has been missing from the vlogosphere for awhile, but he's back with part one of his farewell trilogy. He's got Halloween hijinks at If/Then and rehearsal footage for his 54 Below show on Dec 1.
November 28, 2014Get a first look at Sting's Broadway-bound musical The Last Ship, which docks at the Neil Simon Theatre beginning on September 29.
June 30, 2014Alysha Umphress takes us to Broadway Prom Night with all her crazy friends from On the Town.
November 4, 2014The Lion King Character Study series kicks off with Patrick R. Brown. Watch how he describes Scar's evil actions, and how his costume and makeup design work to make Scar sharp and unlovable.
November 8, 2012Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Alessandro Nivola and more on bringing the popular play The Elephant Man back to Broadway.
October 21, 2014Learn how to do the rip-roaring Newsies paper dance on Broadway Balances America.
November 2, 2014Broadway.com watch Courtney Reed turn into a Disney princess for her role in the hit Broadway adaptation of Aladdin.
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With the addition of Variable Settings for lasweapons, I find myself worried about the effectiveness of Bolt weapons.
Let's look at the overcharged M36 Lasgun: 1d10+5 Pen 2, single shot, 15 rounds before a reload, with Unreliable.
Compare to the Boltgun: 1d10+5 Pen 4, S/3/-, 24 rounds, with Tearing.
The default weapon of the Guard is now capable of being very close to the Boltgun… which is four steps rarer and supposed to be a devastating weapon. Considering that similar settings on the Triplex can give Proven 5 and Felling 4 (at only one rarity level lower than the Boltgun) I'm starting to feel like it just isn't that intimidating anymore. Some kind of damage boost, upped Pen, or maybe giving it a Felling or Proven score sounds more appropriate for these relics.
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The goals of the university are to increase engagement between recruiters and the Delta State campus, community and extended family, implement and maximize functionality of a recruitment system, increase awareness of Delta State University, and improve relationships with students, parents and counselors.
Christopher Gaines, director of Recruiting at Delta State University, said the management office of enrollment is energized and excited about the university's new leadership.
He said they are committed to engaging their faculty, staff, students and alumni in new and meaningful ways and the university is striving to boost enrollment by targeting serious applicants, who are truly interested in the university.
They are marketing in areas such as North Mississippi, Jackson, and Memphis.
"We're trying to get our name out there," said Gaines. "Any given year, our recruiters might put in at least 10,000 miles on the road."
According to Gaines many students apply because they are forced by their parents or because their peers apply.
They usually receive 8,000 inquires or submissions each year but most of them are not truly serious about attending the university.
"We send them birthday cards and other literature about the university, but we have found that this process takes away from students who apply and pay the $30 application fee.
"We're using any and every avenue to recruit students," said Gaines.
The university recently hired five new recruiters d to hit the road next week, visiting schools, and covering the entire state.
Gaines said recruiters recently attended a college fair in Oxford, where they targeted Lafayette and Oxford High School.
"Retention is everybody at the university's responsibility. It is a complete team effort," said Gaines.
To aid in recruitment, the Dedicated Statesmen, which are former faculty and alumni, have teamed up with the university to render their services by going out to various high schools and encouraging students to attend Delta State University.
"Any means of help is crucial to us," said Gaines.


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Attorney General's Opinion Letter 213-2001
Summary conclusion
Review and approval pursuant to Section 116.332, RSMo, of the sufficiency as to form of an initiative petition relating to technology parks.
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August 29, 2001
Honorable Matt Blunt
Missouri Secretary of State
James C. Kirkpatrick State Information Center
600 West Main Street
Jefferson City, MO 65101
Dear Secretary Blunt:
This opinion letter is in response to your request for our review under Section 116.332, RSMo, of the sufficiency as to form of an initiative petition relating to technology parks.
We approve the petition as to form. However, since the Secretary of State has been given final approval or rejection authority under Section 116.332, our approval of the form of the petition does not preclude you from rejecting the petition.
Inasmuch as our review is simply for the purpose of determining sufficiency as to form, the fact that we do not reject the petition is not to be construed as a determination that the petition is sufficient as to substance. Likewise, since our review is mandated by statute, no action we take with respect to such review should be construed as an endorsement of the petition or as the expression of any view respecting the adequacy or inadequacy of the petition generally or of the objectives of its proponents.
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Updated: January 21, 2013 2:18PM
Here's a look at What's Going On in the Southland including in Mokena, Chicago and Beecher.
Steel retirees to meet
The Republic Steel Retirees will meet on Thursday at Steve's Lounge, 13200 S. Baltimore Ave., Chicago. Social hour begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m.
The cost is $15 for members and $18 for guests.
Information: Cass Wapinski, (773) 307-5675 or Dan Gordon, (773) 721-9631.
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Nature center to host yoga program
The Forest Preserve District of Will County will offer its Candlelight Yoga program ages 15 and older at 7 p.m. Friday at Plum Creek Nature Center, 27064 S. Dutton Road, Beecher.
Participants will learn how yoga builds strength, increases flexibility and improves balance, organizers said.
Participants should wear loose-fitting clothing and bring a mat or a beach towel. The program involves kneeling on the floor for short periods of time.
The cost is $12 per person, and registration is required.
Information: (708) 946-2216.
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Library to host Christmas carolers
Mokena Public Library, 11327 W. 195th St., will host the Canterbury Carollers from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday.
The Victorian-style ensemble will perform traditional carols written before 1870. Registration is required.
Information: (708) 479-9663 or at www.mokena.lib.il.us.
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The discovery of an Asian citrus psyllid in the heart of California's citrus producing area has the industry on edge awaiting a quarantine announcement.
"(The state) is being prudent in evaluating the best way to handle this," said Bob Blakely, director of industry relations for California Citrus Mutual, Exeter.
As of Nov. 29, harvest continued unrestricted, said Gavin Iacono, Tulare County deputy agricultural commissioner, standards and quarantine.
"Right now, it's the status quo until they actually decide what it is they're going to do and how big the quarantine area is."
Mandarins are currently being picked, and the Tulare County navel harvest is about 25% complete, Blakely said.
The California Department of Agriculture was reviewing the situation and was expected to announce quarantine boundaries and fruit movement requirements as early as the first week of December, said Steve Lyle, public affairs director.
The quarantine talk was triggered after the trapping of a citrus psyllid near a Strathmore citrus grove in October, marking the second psyllid find in a year. A trap 4 miles away caught one in February.
Meanwhile, a trap about 10 miles away, near a Terra Bella citrus grove, secured a psyllid in November.
Not only do psyllids feed on citrus trees, sucking the sap and weakening them, but they can carry citrus greening, a bacterial disease also called huanglongbing or HLB.
Although harmless to humans and animals, the citrus greening bacteria can stunt and even kill citrus trees.
The disease has caused more than $1.3 billion in losses to the Florida citrus industry, according to a University of Florida study.
It also has been found in Texas, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina.
Citrus greening was found in March in a residential tree in the Hacienda Heights area of Los Angeles County.
How much of an impact the quarantine will have on grower-packers and the ongoing citrus harvest in Tulare County will depend on the boundaries, Blakely said.
"It keeps changing," Iacono said about possible boundaries. "Originally, it was the whole county, then a 20-mile radius. Now they're talking about a couple of different scenarios."
Tulare County Ag Commissioner Marilyn Kinoshita and her staff met with about 700 growers, packers, haulers and processors, Nov. 28, to discuss what they knew about the quarantine.
Under the proposal, growers within the quarantine zone could move fruit to packinghouses within the regulated area without additional restrictions, Iacono said.


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As California enters the third year of an historic drought, with reservoirs at all-time lows and thousands of acres lying fallow, scientists and policymakers are looking for ways to increase water conservation and efficiency across the state. New UC research demonstrates the possibilities and challenges of irrigating crops with recycled wastewater (pages 59, 68, 75) and employing technology to reduce water use in surface-irrigated fields (page 82). Shown is Trinitas Cellars, which has irrigated its 12-acre vineyard in Napa County with recycled water for over seven years. The color purple on the irrigation tubing is used universally to signify recycled or reclaimed water. Photo by Will Suckow


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Teens arrested after Midlothian standoff
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There was an overnight standoff with burglars at this ABC Wireless Store at 3328 147th Street in Midlothian, IL seen on Wednesday February 13, 2013. | Matt Marton~Sun-Times Media
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Two Robbins teenagers, ages 14 and 17, are expected to be charged with burglary after they broke into a Midlothian cell phone store Tuesday night and engaged police in a lengthy standoff before surrendering, police said.
They were arrested inside the store about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, after police waited five hours for them to surrender, Deputy Police Chief Steve Zamiar said.
Police were alerted at 9:15 p.m. to a burglary in progress at ABC Wireless, 3328 W. 147th St., and saw one of the teens climbing into the closed store through a broken window. As officers approached the store, they observed that one of the burglars had a gun, Zamiar said.
He said the South Suburban Emergency Response Team was called in, set up a perimeter around the store, and numerous attempts were made to try to contact the two inside the store by phone, but the teens refused to speak to officers.
Police also used a bullhorn and called the teens' parents after being able to identify the boys, Zamiar said.
"We knew (the two) were scared, and if we rushed in, there was a greater chance that something bad would happen," he said.
Finally, the emergency response team entered the store, and the teens offered no resistance, he said.
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Christ appears to his disciples. (1-14) His discourse with Peter. (15-19) Christ's declaration concerning John. (20-24) The conclusion. (25)
Verses 1-14 Christ makes himself known to his people, usually in his ordinances; but sometimes by his Spirit he visits them when employed in their business. It is good for the disciples of Christ to be together in common conversation, and common business. The hour for their entering upon action was not come. They would help to maintain themselves, and not be burdensome to any. Christ's time of making himself known to his people, is when they are most at a loss. He knows the temporal wants of his people, and has promised them not only grace sufficient, but food convenient. Divine Providence extends itself to things most minute, and those are happy who acknowledge God in all their ways. Those who are humble, diligent, and patient, though their labours may be crossed, shall be crowned; they sometimes live to see their affairs take a happy turn, after many struggles. And there is nothing lost by observing Christ's orders; it is casting the net on the right side of the ship. Jesus manifests himself to his people by doing that for them which none else can do, and things which they looked not for. He would take care that those who left all for him, should not want any good thing. And latter favours are to bring to mind former favours, that eaten bread may not be forgotten. He whom Jesus loved was the first that said, It is the Lord. John had cleaved most closely to his Master in his sufferings, and knew him soonest. Peter was the most zealous, and reached Christ the first. How variously God dispenses his gifts, and what difference there may be between some believers and others in the way of their honouring Christ, yet they all may be accepted of him! Others continue in the ship, drag the net, and bring the fish to shore, and such persons ought not to be blamed as worldly; for they, in their places, are as truly serving Christ as the others. The Lord Jesus had provision ready for them. We need not be curious in inquiring whence this came; but we may be comforted at Christ's care for his disciples. Although there were so many, and such great fishes, yet they lost none, nor damaged their net. The net of the gospel has enclosed multitudes, yet it is as strong as ever to bring souls to God.
Verses 15-19 Our Lord addressed Peter by his original name, as if he had forfeited that of Peter through his denying him. He now answered, Thou knowest that I love thee; but without professing to love Jesus more than others. We must not be surprised to have our sincerity called into question, when we ourselves have done that which makes it doubtful. Every remembrance of past sins, even pardoned sins, renews the sorrow of a true penitent. Conscious of integrity, Peter solemnly appealed to Christ, as knowing all things, even the secrets of his heart. It is well when our falls and mistakes make us more humble and watchful. The sincerity of our love to God must be brought to the test; and it behoves us to inquire with earnest, preserving prayer to the heart-searching God, to examine and prove us, whether we are able to stand this test. No one can be qualified to feed the sheep and lambs of Christ, who does not love the good Shepherd more than any earthly advantage or object. It is the great concern of every good man, whatever death he dies, to glorify God in it; for what is our chief end but this, to die to the Lord, at the word of the Lord?
Verses 20-24 Sufferings, pains, and death, will appear formidable even to the experienced Christian; but in the hope to glorify God, to leave a sinful world, and to be present with his Lord, he becomes ready to obey the Redeemer's call, and to follow Him through death to glory. It is the will of Christ that his disciples should mind their own duty, and not be curious about future events, either as to themselves or others. Many things we are apt to be anxious about, which are nothing to us. Other people's affairs are nothing to us, to intermeddle in; we must quietly work, and mind our own business. Many curious questions are put about the counsels of God, and the state of the unseen world, as to which we may say, What is this to us? And if we attend to the duty of following Christ, we shall find neither heart nor time to meddle with that which does not belong to us. How little are any unwritten traditions to be relied upon! Let the Scripture be its own interpreter, and explain itself; as it is, in a great measure, its own evidence, and proves itself, for it is light. See the easy setting right such mistakes by the word of Christ. Scripture language is the safest channel for Scripture truth; the words which the Holy Ghost teaches, 1Co. 2:13 . Those who cannot agree in the same terms of art, and the application of them, may yet agree in the same Scripture terms, and to love one another.
Verse 25 Only a small part of the actions of Jesus had been written. But let us bless God for all that is in the Scriptures, and be thankful that there is so much in so small a space. Enough is recorded to direct our faith, and regulate our practice; more would have been unnecessary. Much of what is written is overlooked, much forgotten, and much made the matter of doubtful disputes. We may, however, look forward to the joy we shall receive in heaven, from a more complete knowledge of all Jesus did and said, as well as of the conduct of his providence and grace in his dealings with each of us. May this be our happiness. These are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name, ch. 20:31 .
John 21:1-23 . SUPPLEMENTARY PARTICULARS.
(That this chapter was added by another hand has been asserted, against clear evidence to the contrary, by some late critics, chiefly because the Evangelist had concluded his part of the work with John 20:30 John 20:31 . But neither in the Epistles of the New Testament, nor in other good authors, is it unusual to insert supplementary matter, and so have more than one conclusion).
1, 2. Jesus showed himself again--manifested himself again.
and on this wise he manifested himself--This way of speaking shows that after His resurrection He appeared to them but occasionally, unexpectedly, and in a way quite unearthly, though yet really and corporeally.
3-6. Peter saith unto them, I go a
that night . . . caught nothing--as at the first miraculous draught strike them the more by contrast. The same principle is seen in operation throughout much of Christ's ministry, and is indeed a great law of God's spiritual procedure with His people.
4. Jesus stood--(Compare John 20:19 John 20:26 ).
but the disciples knew not it was Jesus--Perhaps there had been some considerable interval since the last manifestation, and having agreed to betake themselves to their secular employment, they would be unprepared to expect Him.
5. Children--This term would not necessarily identify Him, being not unusual from any superior; but when they did recognize Him, they would feel it sweetly like Himself.
have ye any meat?--provisions, supplies, meaning fish.
They answered . . . No--This was in His wonted style, making them tell their case, and so the better prepare them for what was coming.
6. he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship--no doubt, by this very specific direction, intending to reveal to them His knowledge of the deep and power over it.
7-11. that disciple whom Jesus loved, said, It is the Lord--again having the advantage of his brother in quickness of recognition all his own.
he was naked--his vest only on, worn next the body.
cast himself into the sea--the shallow part, not more than a hundred yards from the water's edge ( John 21:8 ), not meaning therefore to swim, but to get sooner to Jesus than in the full boat which they could hardly draw to shore.
8. the other disciples came in a little ship--by ship.
9. they saw--"see."
a fire of coals, and fish laid thereon, and bread--By comparing this with 1 Kings 19:6 , and similar passages, the unseen agency by which Jesus made this provision will appear evident.
10. Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish ye have now caught--Observe the double supply thus provided--His and theirs. The meaning of this will perhaps appear presently.
11. Peter went up--into the boat; went aboard.
and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three; and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken--The manifest reference here to the former miraculous draught ( Luke 5:1-11 ) furnishes the key to this scene. There the draught was symbolical of the success of their future ministry: While "Peter and all that were with him were astonished at the draught of the fishes which they had taken, Jesus said unto him, Fear not, from henceforth thou shalt catch men." Nay, when first called, in the act of "casting their net into the sea, for they were fishers," the same symbolic reference was made to their secular occupation: "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men" ( Matthew 4:18 Matthew 4:19 ). Here, then, if but the same symbolic reference be kept in view, the design of the whole scene will, we think, be clear. The multitude and the size of the fishes they caught symbolically foreshadowed the vast success of their now fast approaching ministry, and this only as a beginning of successive draughts, through the agency of a Christian ministry, till, "as the waters cover the sea, the earth should be full of the knowledge of the Lord." And whereas, at the first miraculous draught, the net "was breaking" through the weight of what it contained--expressive of the difficulty with which, after they had 'caught men,' they would be able to retain, or keep them from escaping back into the world--while here, "for all they were so many, yet was not the net broken," are we not reminded of such sayings as these ( John 10:28 ): "I give unto My sheep eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of My hand" [LUTHARDT]? But it is not through the agency of a Christian ministry that all true disciples are gathered. Jesus Himself, by unseen methods, gathers some, who afterwards are recognized by the constituted fishers of men, and mingle with the fruit of their labors. And are not these symbolized by that portion of our Galilean repast which the fishers found, in some unseen way, made ready to their hand?
12-14. none . . . durst ask him, Who art thou, knowing it was the Lord--implying that they would have liked Him just to say, "It is I"; but having such convincing evidence they were afraid of being "upbraided for their unbelief and hardness of heart" if they ventured to put the question.
13. Jesus . . . taketh bread--the bread.
and giveth them, and the fish
14. This is the third time that Jesus showed himself--was manifested.
to his disciples--His assembled disciples; for if we reckon His appearances to individual disciples, they were more.
15-17. when they had dined, Jesus saith--Silence appears to have reigned during the meal; unbroken on His part, that by their mute observation of Him they might have their assurance of His identity the more confirmed; and on theirs, from reverential shrinking to speak till He did.
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?--referring lovingly to those sad words of Peter, shortly before denying his Lord, "Though all men shall be offended because of Thee, yet will I never be offended" ( Matthew 26:33 ), and intending by this allusion to bring the whole scene vividly before his mind and put him to shame.
Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee--He adds not, "more than these," but prefixes a touching appeal to the Saviour's own omniscience for the truth of his protestation, which makes it a totally different kind of speech from his former.
He saith unto him, Feed my lambs--It is surely wrong to view this term as a mere diminutive of affection, and as meaning the same thing as "the sheep" [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. It is much more according to usage to understand by the "lambs," young and tender disciples, whether in age or Christian standing ( Isaiah 40:11 , 1 John 2:12 1 John 2:13 ), and by the "sheep" the more mature. Shall we say (with many) that Peter was here reinstated in office? Not exactly, since he was not actually excluded from it. But after such conduct as his, the deep wound which the honor of Christ had received, the stain brought on his office, the damage done to his high standing among his brethren, and even his own comfort, in prospect of the great work before him, required some such renewal of his call and re-establishment of his position as this.
16. He saith to him . . . the second time . . . lovest thou me, &c.--In this repetition of the question, though the wound was meant to be reopened, the words "more than these" are not repeated; for Christ is a tender as well as skilful Physician, and Peter's silence on that point was confession enough of his sin and folly. On Peter's repeating his protestation in the same words, our Lord rises higher in the manifestation of His restoring grace.
my sheep--It has been observed that the word here is studiously changed, from one signifying simply to feed, to one signifying to tend as a shepherd, denoting the abiding exercise of that vocation, and in its highest functions.
17. He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said the third time, &c.--This was the Physician's deepest incision into the wound, while yet smarting under the two former probings. Not till now would Peter discern the object of this succession of thrusts. The third time reveals it all, bringing up such a rush of dreadful recollections before his view, of his "thrice denying that he knew Him," that he feels it to the quick. It was fitting that he should; it was meant that he should. But this accomplished, the painful dialogue concludes with a delightful "Feed My sheep"; as if He should say, "Now, Simon, the last speck of the cloud which overhung thee since that night of nights is dispelled: Henceforth thou art to Me and to My work as if no such scene had ever happened."
18, 19. When thou wast young--embracing the whole period of life to the verge of old age.
thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest--wast thine own master.
when . . . old thou shalt stretch forth thine hands--to be bound for execution, though not necessarily meaning on a cross. There is no reason, however, to doubt the very early tradition that Peter's death was by crucifixion.
19. This spake he, signifying by what death he should glorify God--not, therefore, a mere prediction of the manner of his death, but of the honor to be conferred upon him by dying for his Master. And, indeed, beyond doubt, this prediction was intended to follow up his triple restoration:--"Yes, Simon, thou shall not only feed My lambs, and feed My sheep, but after a long career of such service, shalt be counted worthy to die for the name of the Lord Jesus."
And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me--By thus connecting the utterance of this prediction with the invitation to follow Him, the Evangelist would indicate the deeper sense in which the call was understood, not merely to go along with Him at that moment, but to come after Him, "taking up his cross."
20, 21. Peter, turning about--showing that he followed immediately as directed.
seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on Jesus' breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?--The Evangelist makes these allusions to the peculiar familiarity to which he had been admitted on the most memorable of all occasions, perhaps lovingly to account for Peter's somewhat forward question about him to Jesus; which is the rather probable, as it was at Peter's suggestion that he put the question about the traitor which he here recalls ( John 13:24 John 13:25 ).
21. Peter . . . saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?--What of this man? or, How shall it fare with him?
22, 23. Jesus saith to him, If I will that he tarry fill I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me--From the fact that John alone of the Twelve survived the destruction of Jerusalem, and so witnessed the commencement of that series of events which belongs to "the last days," many good interpreters think that this is a virtual prediction of fact, and not a mere supposition. But this is very doubtful, and it seems more natural to consider our Lord as intending to give no positive indication of John's fate at all, but to signify that this was a matter which belonged to the Master of both, who would disclose or conceal it as He thought proper, and that Peter's part was to mind his own affairs. Accordingly, in "follow thou Me," the word "thou" is emphatic. Observe the absolute disposal of human life which Christ claims: "If I will that he tarry till I come," &c.
23. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die--into which they the more easily fell from the prevalent expectation that Christ's second coming was then near at hand.
yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die--The Evangelist is jealous for His Master's honor, which his death might be thought to compromise if such a misunderstanding should not be corrected.
John 21:24, 25 John 25 . FINAL CLOSE OF THIS GOSPEL.
24. This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things--thus identifying the author of this book with all that it says of this disciple.
we know that his testimony is true--(Compare John 19:35 ).
25. And there are many other things which Jesus did--(Compare John 20:30 John 20:31 ).
if . . . written every one, I suppose--an expression used to show that what follows is not to be pressed too far.
even the world itself would not hold the books, &c.--not a mere hyperbolical expression, unlike the sublime simplicity of this writer, but intended to let his reader know that, even now that he had done, he felt his materials so far from being exhausted, that he was still running over, and could multiply "Gospels" to almost any extent within the strict limits of what "Jesus did." But in the limitation of these matchless histories, in point of number, there is as much of that divine wisdom which has presided over and pervades the living oracles, as in their variety and fulness.


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Mmm, at the risk of reigniting last millenium's hot topic. . . when did that happen? When TV's started automatically upconverting 1080i to 1080p at high refresh rates?
I've still been hanging on to the idea that 720p and 1080i are roughly equal with exceptions for particular suitability for some content types (like, fast moving stuff like sports is better on 720p). With "true" native 1080p still a very clear "cut above".
1080i has over a million more pixels than 720p. It's just that only half the pixels in 1080i are actually on the screen at one time, but the delay is so small that the human eye cannot perceive it. I hate the fact that most sports are in 720p, I don't care about any tiny bit of so-called motion blur if the picture is going to look like crap in terms of HD quality. I can notice the lower resolution and it looks like crap to me. You can also really tell the difference on tv shows when there are close-ups on faces and such. As far as I'm concerned, anything below 1080i/p is not really HD in my book(yes I know technically it is, but whatever).


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Iranian Student With $750 Turns Billionaire — Made by Islamic Art
April 1, 2010 by TMO
By William Green, Bloomberg
March 30 (Bloomberg) — Nasser David Khalili stands in an exhibition hall in St. Petersburg's Winter Palace, gazing at an 18th-century painted enamel of flowers that's one of 25,000 works of art he owns. "I'd have paid anything for it," he says, appraising this miniature by Frenchman Philippe Parpette. "There's no way I'd have let anybody else buy it."
Khalili, 64, an Iranian-born billionaire who lives in London, has come to Russia to unveil his fifth art collection: On this overcast December afternoon, 320 of his 1,200 enamel treasures will go on display at the State Hermitage Museum, home to the collection of Catherine the Great, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its May issue.
Having flown in on a chartered plane, Khalili is relishing a private preview, peering through tinted eyeglasses at such possessions as a gilded clock with matching candelabras that once adorned the home of U.S. railroad tycoon William Vanderbilt. Khalili, who says he has a photographic memory, recalls paying $16,500 for these three pieces 34 years ago. He estimates that they'd now cost $600,000.
In all, Khalili says the enamels he has lent the museum are insured for more than 100 million pounds ($150 million). Even so, they are a trifle compared with the obsession that's consumed him for four decades: his 20,000 pieces of Islamic art. "His collection is certainly the best in private hands," says Edward Gibbs, Sotheby's London-based head of Middle Eastern art. "He is the man who has everything. He's come to define the market."
Khalili is revealing his latest collection just as the $43 billion global art market is showing signs of reviving — with an Alberto Giacometti sculpture selling for a record 65 million pounds in February to a buyer later identified by dealers as London-based billionaire Lily Safra. In the Islamic art world, prices for the best pieces have been buoyed by a new generation of Middle Eastern buyers, including museums in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
"There's fierce competition for anything unique, rare, beautiful or important," Gibbs says, noting that an Islamic textile Sotheby's estimated would fetch $250,000 to $350,000 in a March 2009 auction went to Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art for $3.4 million.
The limited supply in this niche within the art market has made Khalili's collection all the more precious, says Claire Penhallurick, an Islamic art consultant for Bonhams auction house. She says it's impossible to guess what his entire collection is worth.
"How could you value something that's unique and irreplaceable?" Penhallurick says. "If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't assemble his collection now."
When an exhibition of 471 of Khalili's Islamic pieces opened at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in October, they alone were insured for almost 600 million pounds.
The story behind how Khalili built his fortune has long been shrouded in secrets. As a property developer, he shunned publicity and didn't slap his name on buildings or the company that is his main investment vehicle. He has also operated under the radar when buying art.
"During the collecting, I don't say anything," Khalili says. "When it's done, then I speak."
His elusiveness has fueled much speculation, often revolving around how he financed his collecting. Khalili, who left Iran in 1967 with $750, says he's since spent $650 million on art. London's Sunday Times, which estimated his fortune at 5.8 billion pounds in 2007, gave up guessing his worth the following year and removed him from its annual rich list.
Khalili, whose works are held in a family trust, says he used subterfuge to amass his Islamic collection, pretending for several years to be an art dealer so he could acquire pieces at wholesale prices. While his stealth has often obscured the scale of his buying, the magazine ARTnews says Khalili is one of Britain's top collectors, along with Safra and private museum owner Charles Saatchi.
The Iranian says he's aware of whispers within the art trade that he grew rich buying Islamic works for Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. Sitting in his office in London's Mayfair neighborhood, where the treasures on display include an 8th- century bronze camel and a 7,000-year-old stone sculpture, Khalili beats his chest with his hand when asked about the rumors.
"I didn't buy anything for anybody. Nobody, right?" he says. "I bought for myself. This is all bulls—, all right?"
The questions surrounding Khalili stem in part from his emergence in the 1980s as a trailblazer in Islamic collecting.
"There was this sudden transformation," says William Robinson, director of Islamic art at Christie's International. "In the late 1980s he was the No. 1 buyer." Robinson and others thought he was buying as the exclusive agent for a powerful client. "It was assumed that the Sultan of Brunei was behind it," Robinson says. "I really don't know."
Brunei's Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't respond to requests for comment.
Britain's press also fueled speculation about the source of Khalili's riches. "He spends on a scale no art collector has done before," London's Independent wrote in 1994. "Yet no one knows where his money comes from. … (Khalili) vehemently denies the suggestion that he has been secretly investing the sultan's money rather than his own."
Khalili says he met the Sultan of Brunei around 1984, after the U.K.'s Foreign Office asked him to advise the monarch on creating an Islamic gallery at the Brunei Museum.
"He had about 10,000 pieces," Khalili says. "I chose about 1,000 pieces and said, 'Throw the rest away. They're junk.'"
As a favor, he says, he selected several items for the Sultan to buy at auction and the Khalili family trust sold him a dozen pieces from its Islamic collection, including Qurans, metalwork and textiles, for about 4 million pounds.
Khalili dismisses rumors that he sold art to the Sultan at inflated prices, pointing out that he later convinced him to donate 10 million pounds to the University of London for an Islamic gallery.
"If you rip somebody off, would they turn around and give you 10 million pounds to build a gallery?" he asks.
It's now obvious he was buying for himself, Khalili says, since his Islamic collection is cataloged in 19 books written by an army of scholars he has hired to document its provenance and authenticity.
Khalili, who has also built collections of Japanese Meiji art, Spanish metalwork and Swedish textiles since 1975, says the value of his artworks is irrelevant, because he will never sell them.
"All five collections are priceless: 2 billion pounds, 3 billion pounds, 4 billion pounds, it doesn't make any difference," he says. "These collections cannot be replaced."
His Islamic treasures include a 14th-century Iranian world history by Rashid al-Din Fadlallah, which he says cost him 12 million pounds in 1990. "It's one of the greatest illustrated manuscripts in the world," says Tim Stanley, senior curator for the Middle East at London's Victoria & Albert Museum.
Khalili, who holds both U.S. and U.K. passports, offered to lend his Islamic collection to the British nation in 1992 if the government provided a museum to house it. Khalili says he stipulated that the loan would become a gift after 15 years if the collection was exhibited to his satisfaction; if not, he could take it back.
Outsider in London
"The offer to the British government was a really terrible one," says Anna Somers Cocks, editor-in-chief of the London- based monthly Art Newspaper, because of this risk. After months with no response, Khalili abandoned the plan. Still lacking a permanent home, most of his artworks are stored in warehouses in London and Geneva.
Michael Franses, a U.K.-based retired dealer in rare carpets who's known Khalili since the 1970s, says this rebuff reflected Khalili's outsider status in his adopted country.
"The British establishment was very closed," Franses says. "I don't think people trusted him because he was Iranian and strange and different."
That setback is a distant memory as Khalili strides through the Hermitage, musing on how far he's come since leaving Iran. His artworks have been showcased by 40 museums, including the Victoria & Albert and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Khalili also prides himself on the honors he has won for his philanthropy. An observant Jew who says he avoids discussions of politics, Khalili co-founded the Maimonides Foundation in 1995 to foster dialogue between Jews and Muslims through sports, cultural events and education. He also endowed a research center for Middle Eastern culture at the University of Oxford.
In recognition of Khalili's interfaith work, Pope Benedict XVI anointed him last year as a Knight Commander of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Sylvester.
"I'm self-made. I've done it all on my own," says Khalili, whose 14-page resume is headlined: "Scholar, Benefactor and Collector."
Khalili sees no contradiction in being Jewish and owning an Islamic collection.
"I fell in love with it because it was the most beautiful and diverse art," he says.
In 2005, at the launch party for Khalili's book The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture, Iran's then- ambassador to London, Seyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli, hailed him as "an ambassador for the culture of Islam."
First Treasure
Khalili's journey to the top of the art world began in Iran on Dec. 18, 1945. The fourth of five children, he grew up in Tehran. His mother counseled divorced women. His father — like his father before him — visited homes to acquire artworks he could sell for a few dollars profit.
As a child, Khalili tagged along when his father traded art, once joining him at the home of a former education minister with a collection of pen boxes. The 12-year-old yeshiva student was enraptured by a lacquer pen box painted with 800 men and horses, each one different. Khalili recalls that when he rhapsodized about the box, the owner's eyes filled with tears.
"He turned round to my dad and said, 'I'm not selling this to you. I'm giving this to your son,'" Khalili says. He still has the pen box in his Islamic collection. "So the first piece I didn't buy; I was given," he says.
Art Mentor
After high school, Khalili did national service, training as an army medic. At 22, he left Iran for New York, where he worked at a Howard Johnson's restaurant while studying at Queens College, part of New York's public education system. One evening, as Khalili sipped cream to soothe an ulcer, the restaurant manager scolded him for taking it without permission. Khalili threw his waiter's jacket at his boss and decided he'd trade art to pay his school fees.
At an auction of Russian enamels months later, Khalili noticed the main bidder was Alan Hartman, whose family ran a Manhattan antiques store. Khalili borrowed several enamels from Hartman on consignment. He says he sold them that evening for a $26,000 profit to Iranian collectors he knew on Long Island, where many wealthy Iranians were settling. (Khalili's four siblings have since moved there.)
Hartman, now 80, says he wanted to help because Khalili was a Jewish immigrant struggling to build a new life. "We felt sorry for him," he says.
"Alan and I did a hell of a lot after that," Khalili says. "In two years, I was a millionaire."
Friends say it was typical of Khalili that he'd launched himself by charming a stranger into lending him art.
"He has a way of winning people over," says Sotheby's Gibbs.
Tactile Billionaire
In person, Khalili exudes warmth: Meeting someone for the first time, he's liable to introduce himself with a hug. He stands close to people, resting his hand on their arm, shoulder or back.
Before graduating from Queens in 1974 with a bachelor's degree in computer sciences, Khalili was already amassing his own collection.
"I used to buy a group of objects — let's say, 10 objects for $100,000 — keep 3 or 4 of the best aside and sell the rest for $250,000," he says. "I used my knowledge to create money to finance my dream."
In 1978, Khalili married Marion Easton, an Englishwoman he'd met while buying jewelry from her in a London antique store, and they settled in the U.K. capital. They have three sons: Daniel, 28, a jewelry designer, and twins Benjamin and Raphael, 25, who invest family money in startups such as PlayPit Games Ltd., an online entertainment company.
Decoy Shop
In addition to dealing art, Khalili says he began in the late 1970s to buy commercial properties in the U.K., France, Portugal and Spain.
"As he made money with property, he put it into art," says Franses, the retired carpet dealer. "He was only ever interested in the art."
Khalili approached him whenever he had cash to spare, buying such rarities as two 16th-century rugs that Franses says would now cost 2 million pounds each.
Khalili deployed misdirection to his advantage when he opened an Islamic art store in London in 1978. For three years, Khalili says he used the shop as a ruse to obtain dealers' prices.
"I never sold anything there; I used that place as a decoy and bought unbelievable stuff," he says.
"His timing was impeccable," says Penhallurick. Islamic art was such a backwater that dedicated Islamic auctions didn't begin until the 1970s. Khalili — whose main rivals at the time included the Kuwaiti royal family and the David Collection, owned by a Danish foundation — says many pieces he acquired then would now cost 10 to 50 times more.
Beautiful and Overlooked
"Anything that is beautiful and was overlooked, I bought," says Khalili, who received a Ph.D. in Islamic lacquer at the University of London in 1988.
By the mid-1980s, Khalili says, his purchases were partly funded by venture capital investments that he declines to name. He says he made 30 times his money off shares he had bought in the late 1970s in a company developing technology to treat tumors. In 1987, he says he pocketed $15 million from the sale of a private company that made indigestion pills.
Khalili says he stopped trading art around 1980 and bankrolled his collecting primarily with profits from property. In a typical deal, he says, he paid 32.5 million pounds in 1992 for Cameron Toll, an Edinburgh shopping mall, selling it two years later for 55 million pounds as the market revived. Public records show Khalili has owned various private property companies.
Property Development
His main vehicle, Favermead Ltd., was incorporated in the U.K. in 1992 and sold 97 million pounds of property in 1995 alone, according to the company's financial statements.
"Business is the least of my pride," Khalili says. "Compared to collecting, it's a piece of cake."
Still, he currently owns a 60,000-square-foot (5,574- square-meter) business park in Exeter, England; a 32,000-square- foot building in Mayfair; and a site in central London where he plans to build a 320,000-square-foot, 13-story office tower when the real estate market recovers.
"If he starts building in the next 12 months, it'll be very good timing as there's very little available in the market," says Gerald Ronson, CEO of London-based developer Heron International, which also bid for the central London site.
Mayfair Mansion
One personal property venture proved more problematic.
In 1993, Khalili began combining two buildings in Kensington that once housed the Russian and Egyptian embassies into a 55,000-square-foot home. Khalili says he spent 90 million pounds on the house, including 45 million pounds on the refurbishment. He employed 400 craftsmen for 4 years, installing 3,200 square meters of marble, a Turkish bath and underground parking for 20 cars. Marion Khalili says she refused to move in, deeming the house too palatial.
In 2001, Khalili unloaded the property for 50 million pounds to Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone, who sold it to steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal for 57 million pounds in 2004, according to public records. Khalili now lives instead in a seven-story Edwardian mansion in Mayfair.
These days, Khalili says, his buying of Islamic art has slowed. With competition intensifying, he's turned his attention elsewhere. One afternoon in late February, he reveals that he's already begun his sixth collection. This time, Khalili says, he's acquired an existing trove of nearly 200 pieces, to which he'll add more treasures.
And the collection's theme?
"I'm not telling you," Khalili says with a smile. With that, he draws a veil on the next chapter in the improbable story of the Iranian yeshiva student who became the world's leading private collector of Islamic art.
–Editors: David Ellis, Jonathan Neumann


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and how it is day 5 of Fashion Week already….. its been nothing but pure madness these past 5 days in New York has been simply amazing. Running from show to shows, catching meetings in between, nonstop filming for the FAWN network, then straight to dinner meetings. I can happily say that my trip is coming to an end today, and i'll be on a flight back to LA tonight after a few more shows during the day! Usually during fashion week i'm way too busy to get outfit shots to blog about, but I was lucky enough this time around to have been shot by street photographers, between shows as I was walking to and from the Lincoln center. A big thank you you to Style & The City, Guerre of Marie Claire, Mr. Newton of Harper's Bazaar. I was also excited to see myself on the front page of Harper's Bazaar & Marie Claire the other morning! It was one of my favorite outfits I wore this past week. Wearing a Givenchy dress, no named tweed jacket, and celine purse. Hope you all have a lovely monday!! See you guys back in LA!Love,


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Just by looking at the pictures, I can't help but keep on smiling! I had so much fun with this fisheye camera! it's my favorite camera as of now :) TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!
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If we can't plead stupidity, what else is there? How do we live with ourselves? Is it all the stuff we buy that manages to numb our brains and consciences? When I see a headline like this one at Bloomberg today, World Needs Record Saudi Oil Supply as OPEC Convenes, there's just one thought that pops into my head: what the world needs is for us to stop doing this thing we're doing. Even apart from peak oil concerns, it's obvious we're going to run out at some point or another, and it doesn't matter whether that's tomorrow or at some other point in the future, though we do know it's not going to take another 100 years, or even 50. And nothing will ever take the place of oil; once those unique carbons are gone, that's it, we'll have to find a completely different way of running our societies, and if we're not smart enough to prepare for that beforehand, we'll be cats fighting in a sack and use the last scraps to kill off each other. And our legacy won't be the Greek thinkers and Picasso and Dostoyevsky and Walt Whitman and Maria Callas, since there won't be the means for our children anymore to share what makes man great between them. Our main legacy will instead be bloodshed, we will have gone the exact same path that any non-thinking or even primitive organism would have taken, who don't have opera or philosophy or poetry to their name.
California health officials Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates across the U.S. in seeking tighter controls as 'vaping' grows in popularity.
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The health-promoting perks of wine have attracted the spotlight recently, leaving beer in the shadows. But scientists are discovering new ways in which the latter could be a more healthful beverage than once thought. They're now reporting that a compound from hops could protect brain cells from damage, and potentially slow the development of disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 on Monday, October 14, 2013, at Our Lady of Victories with a Rosary from 7:00-8:00 p.m. immediately following the visitation. A second visitation will be from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, 2013, at Our Lady of Victories with a Mass of Christian Burial beginning at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 15, 2013, at Our Lady of Victories with Father Kent Bowlds officiating. Interment will be in North Cleveland Cemetery.
Cathy was the matriarch of her immediate as well as extended family. She was a devout Catholic and was a loving mother, grandmother, sister, and aunt.
She was born March 28, 1944, in Gunnison to Selso and Odelia Garcia. She graduated from Rosedale High School in 1964, and attended Draughon's Business College in Memphis, TN as well as Delta State University. On April 14, 1969, she married J. R. Welty. She was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rosedale. She retired from Cleveland Nursing and Rehab after 32 years of service as the business manager.
Cathy will be remembered for many wonderful things including her reverence for God and the power of the Cross, her work ethic with a desire to always give her very best on her job, her love and devotion to family, a keen sense of fashion and style, and her love for cooking.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Selso and Odelia Garcia; her husband, J.R. Welty; brothers, Blas, Jimmy, Frankie and Charles Garcia; and sister, Juanita Staples.
She leaves behind her daughter, Lisa Blaylock (Kenny) of Cleveland; grandchildren, Bayli, Megan and Alan Blaylock of Cleveland; sisters, Maria DeLahoussaye (John) of Merigold, Beatrice Dunaway of Apex, NC, Eva Garcia of Cleveland, Susan Gray (Mike) of Brandon, and Annie Garcia of Malvina; brothers, Thomas Garcia, Sammy Garcia, and Joe Garcia all of Cleveland, and Johnny Garcia (Julie) of Mesquite,TX; brother-in-law, David Staples of Malvina; and a host of nephews and nieces.
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The Mount Saint Mary College April Poetry Series continues on Tuesday, April 22, 2014, with an appearance and reading by poet Robert Kelly. Please join us; light refreshments will be served.
Robert Kelly was born in Brooklyn, studied at CCNY and Columbia, and has lived for many years in the Hudson Valley with his wife, the translator Charlotte Mandell. He teaches in the Written Arts Program at Bard College, and has taught at Yale, Tufts, Dickinson, CalTech, Cal Arts, Wagner, Buffalo and Naropa. He was closely associated with the Deep Image group in New York, later with poets of the Black Mountain lineage, and was an editor of the Chelsea Review, Trobar, and Matter, and advisory editor of Caterpillar and Conjunctions. He is the author of many books of poetry (most recently Lapis, Fire Exit, Uncertainties, The Hexagon), a few novels (The Book from the Sky most recently) and five collections of short fiction (The Logic of the World the latest), and the newly-published collection of plays, Oedipus After Colonus.
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He grew up in Steele, Mo., and joined the military along with three of his brothers. After completing his service to our country in World War II, he returned to Missouri, found Christ at a tent revival and met the love of his life, Betty Medlin. He asked for her hand in marriage two times, and Betty's father finally consented. Bob and Betty married on Jan. 13, 1948.
They then moved to Cleveland to attend Lee College and began building a life together that has been both an adventure and an example of two people totally devoted to God and each other.
After completion of his doctorate, he returned to Lee University and served as dean of the Education Department. He was instrumental in establishing Lee's first Student Teaching Program. Some of his richest moments were spent in teaching, preaching, administrating and sharing the Gospel in creative and practical ways, from Tennessee to Missouri to Alaska to Texas to Virginia to North Dakota, then on to Ohio and back to Tennessee.
His marriage of 65 years brought about three sons and four daughters: Regina Isom, Yaunna Higgins, Dennis Johnson and Rebble Johnson, all of Cleveland, Byron Johnson of Waco, Texas, Tanya Hall of Richmond, Va., and Jill Micco of Mount Juliet. God has blessed his family with 17 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. He has said for years, they never had to count sheep in order to fall asleep. He and Betty would simply start praying for each of their children and their spouses, then each grandchild and their spouses and then the great-grandchildren. It was suggested by the younger great-grandchildren that birth order be reversed every other day, thereby ensuring the youngest great-grandchildren would be prayed for, in the event exhaustion set in.
Favorite family memories include Johnson reunions where "testimony night" from each family was the highlight. After testimonies, Bob would lead the family in prayer time, which would sometimes last till the early morning hours. Although he was a man of remarkable gifts and numerous accomplishments, his humility reminded him that nothing could compare with the joy that awaited him in Heaven. Dr. Bob Johnson has now been reunited with his praying mother who led him to Christ, his dad, numerous siblings, including four brothers who he was instrumental in leading to the Lord. His Legacy continues in those he has inspired, instructed, and empowered to live a purposeful life worthy of the Lord!
A Celebration of the Life and Home Going of Bob Johnson will be held at 3:30 p.m., today, March 7, 2013, at the Lee University Chapel with Pastor Mitch Maloney and the Rev. Phil Higgins officiating.
Interment will be held at 10 a.m. Friday in Chattanooga National Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 1 to 3 this evening at the Lee University Chapel.
The family requests that memorials be made to Lee University School of Education, Attn. Central Gifts, 1120 N. Ocoee Street, Cleveland TN 37320-3450.
Grissom Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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This set of owl figurines is made of Italian pewter that is hand-antiqued to evoke the look of vintage heirlooms and hand-distressed by artisans working with centuries-old manufacturing traditions. Each figurine measure 1 inch in width by 2 inches in height. Wipe with a dry cloth. Vellum's pewter does not have to be polished to retain its natural luster.
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After more than twenty years of collective experience in the wholesale market, in 2007 Manuela Ayers, Angela Butler, and Jen Dolan decided to tackle home furnishings on their own terms, importing a variety of high-end materials from Italy and creating the Vellum collection. Crystal decanters, ceramic busts, porcelain dinnerware—Vellum offers a functional but eye-catching assortment of luxury goods. Every piece is designed and created in the trio's SoHo offices, giving classic forms a deliciously contemporary spin.


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I can understand Go On and Revolution getting the full season order, but the New Normal certainly doesn't deserve it imo.
I like the New Normal. It catches me off guard all the time, which is rare for a comedy in this day and age where you can usually see the punchline coming well before it arrives. Haven't watched Go On since the initial Pilot after the Olympics and thought that was horrible. Still recording them and might give it another shot.


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Kalorik Electric Corkscrew - Silver
Open your wines with ease when you use the Kalorik Electric Corkscrew (CKS36812). Able to open any wine bottle with ease, this corkscrew can also provide you and your guests entertainment when you watch it remove the cork. The soft blue lighting on the opener adds to the overall presentation, and keeps your kitchen or wine cellar lit up so you can see your way around at night. Stainless steel housing gives this wine opener a modern look and feel, and can add to the style or motif of any kitchen, wine cellar, or other room.
Complete with a recharging base that charges the corkscrew up to 8 hours, the unit can uncork up to 30 wine bottles in one full charge, giving you multiple uses without having to put the machine back onto the charging stand. Able to open bottles in just seven (7) seconds, your guests won't have to wait for a long time to be served fresh, robust wines from your personal collection. This battery-powered wine opener is perfect for the amateur and professional collector, and anyone who loves to have some wine now and then.
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