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Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Friday, June 28, 2013, at Williams and Lord Funeral Home in Ruleville with Rev. Steve Holtz officiating. Graveside service will follow at 11 a.m. at Lehrton Cemetery in Ruleville.
He was born in Calhoun County on February 21, 1921, to the late Thomas Jefferson and Nan Cole Meredith and resided in the Minter City area most of his life. He was a retired farmer and World War II Navy veteran of six years.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn Meredith; son, Sandy Meredith; and grandson, Rex Kelly.
He is survived by three daughters, Jane Stephens of Visalia, Calif., Jeanette Kelly of Minter City and Madelene Meredith of Minter City; brother, James Meredith of Rome, Ga.; five grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchilden.
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Dec 2, 2009 11:47 AM, By Jessaca Gutierrez
From the ground up, the tenants of the David Braley Cardiac, Vascular, and Stroke Research Institute help envision the facility's complex and sophisticated AV systems design.
The newly erected David Braley Cardiac, Vascular, and Stroke Research Institute (DBCVSRI) in Hamilton, Ontario, has only recently been occupied. Its tenants played a role in its design, because after all, it was built to their exact specifications.
The facility houses two important people in the world of cardiac research: Drs. Salim Yusuf and Jeffrey Weitz. Bringing these two research doctors together under one roof integrates two of Hamilton Health Sciences' strongest research programs, allowing the doctors to expand their programs and bring together their 400 research personnel. Establishing this synergy makes the research more competitive at the international level, and it also meant the facility's AV had to leave no question that these colleagues were at the forefront of their field.
When Canadian systems integration firm Duocom learned that Hamilton Health Sciences, which has six hospitals and a cancer center in the area, would be breaking ground on the building, the company jumped at the opportunity to present its AV design ideas to the research facility's board, which included Yusuf and Weitz. The company's proposal, which Senior Systems Integration Consultant Omar Prashad put together and presented, won it the project and the ability implement a design before the building's foundation was even poured.
"The earlier in, the better we are. I guess the complaint you hear from everybody in our industry over and over again is, 'To get the building done, they call AV and then expect it to be done next week,'" Prashad says. "It's usually a treat to be in early enough to get our infrastructure in and we can go through design revisions, which I went through a lot of with them. This is what they said to me in the first meeting: 'The facility needs to be world-class. It needs to be able to send signals anywhere. It needs to be able to bring people together.'"
Those specifications left a lot of leeway in the initial design plans, and that extra time meant the seven-figure budgeted design would go through roughly eight months of proposals and revisions that came after meeting with users and Yusuf.
"Dr. Yusuf has colleagues around the world that are in a similar position to himvery highly regarded cardiac researchers," Prashad says. "His thing was, 'How do I collaborate with these people in a facility that's going to garner me respect that meets my standard of researchhe didn't want just a projector on a tableand allow me to collaborate, and collaborate with people worldwide and different people within the building?'"
To that end, and after months of revisions, Duocom came to its present systems design for the building, whose occupants were in the final stages of moving in at press time.
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Stewart Smith, a local professional photographer with a stunning portfolio of Lakeland images, will join us on the above dates to support, guide and help you get the best from your camera.
Stewart will use his knowledge of the local area to select the best locations from a variety of landscapes, which could include beach, sea, sand dunes, fells, woodland, mountains and rivers. You will also have some free time so that you can practice what you have learnt.
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I finally watched the season finale of The Franchise on YouTube and I adored this moment.
(Apologies for the mega-blurry screenshot. You can see it here at minute 4:25.)
I didn't adore the fact that D-Ro blew out his wrist. It was Freddy Sanchez's expression when he threw his helmet that I adored. I mean, is that priceless or what? I've always thought it would be terribly awkward to be in the dugout when someone goes off like that, but Freddy honestly just looks scared for his life. Burrell's raised-eyebrow expression is kind of hilarious too. It makes me miss Sanchez even more than before.
Anyhow. As they reminded us about one million times in the last three minutes of the show, it's a wrap on it now, so I am giving you all my thoughts from the season of the show. Are you ready? No? Well, here you go, anyway:
*A person is not a "story"! The incessant talk of Ryan Vogelsong as a "story" drove me i-n-s-a-n-e.
*Barry Zito seems so sad. The way they wrapped up his story was not inspiring or anything. Isn't depressing TV is bad TV? I mean, you can watch the evening news and see that no one goes by that. Just my humble opinion on the subject.
*Brian Wilson in obnoxious. But then, what else is new?
*Freddy Sanchez is utterly adorable. Matt Cain and Pablo Sandoval, too. And Jeremy is exactly the kind of father I would have imagined him to be.
*Bruce Bochy cracks me up. To no end.
*Those meetings with Sabes and Boch and Neukom seriously need someone to enliven them. A stand-up comedian would work. Or a girl with a blog with a long name and fourteen inch hair (I measured!). That would be me. In case you didn't realize that.
Overall, I did enjoy the show. But all that said, I don't think it was the best they could have done. I think way too much of it was clips from games and Brian Murphy narrating the season. If they had taken full advantage of the reality TV format and delved into the clubhouse and on-the-road stuff more, instead of the families and the games, I think it could have been way better.
Remember Life of Brian in his hotel room, way back when? That rocked. What about on the airplane? Eating out on the road? That's the stuff I want to see. More than, eh, Ryan and Nicole Vogelsong talking with a- granted, it was pretty, but still- weird backdrop of the city.
It is also worth noting that my thoughts become that much more disjointed on off-days, so I should probably go now. Doesn't it feel like ages since we've played LA? And who else watched The Franchise and what were your thoughts?
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The United States has fixed Colombia's coca production figures and falsely
claims Peru is the world's number one coca producer, website Narcoleaks
reported Wednesday.
Narcoleaks, joined by a group of Italian journalists and researchers,
claims that data on drug seizures show that 80% of seized cocaine, when
the country of origin was known, came from Colombia and less than 10% came
from Peru, therefore Colombia still holds the spot of top producer.
U.S. authorities also state that official statistics show Colombian
cocaine production to be 290 metric tons, however according to Narcoleaks,
351.8 metric tons, or 121.3% of official production, of Colombian cocaine
has been seized in operations carried out in different countries.
The group also looked at data pertaining to cocaine processing labs. It
states that Colombian police uncovered one such lab in the department of
Meta in Colombia's Eastern Plains on October 14 with the capacity to
produce 500kg to 800kg per day. This is equivalent to 182 to 292 metric
tons per year.
The higher figure surpasses the aforementioned official statics of
Colombian cocaine production. If the official statistics are correct this
would mean that Colombia has only one cocaine processing lab. In Colombia
200 to 300 cocaine processing labs are found and destroyed each year.
According to Narcoleaks "someone's maths is wrong."
The research group posed five questions to U.S. President Barack Obama and
other top U.S. government officials regarding the statistical anomalies
and Plan Colombia.
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The Importance of Critical Mass and the Consequences of Scarcity for Television MarketsBerg, Christian Edelvold (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis "As a matter of size" demonstrates that size does indeed matter. Television markets have common characteristics across small and large markets, but the implications of these characteristics are varied due to the difference in size of economy and population. The influence of variable size is a consequence of the economic conditions of scarcity (limited resources) and thus the relative critical mass of the media market. Thus, the influence of size is an expression of the television market's inability to operate on normal market terms for provisioning particular types of services. Larger markets (measured by economy and population) have a higher potential of securing such content commercially. But all markets suffer from challenges in securing provisioning of original domestic content. Market intervention and public subsidy play an important role when it comes to securing domestic production. Political intervention can to some extent counteract the effects of the common characteristics, by changing market conditions through political regulation or subsidisation. The thesis shows that the European television markets mainly operate under conditions of oligopoly, usually in the form of different types of duopolies. The effect of size on market concentration is not as unambiguous as estimated in the literature, as the scope and extent of market intervention influence this quite intensely. Moreover, the study shows that television markets are dominated by relatively few, usually local, media companies and the multinational companies in most markets currently do not pose a real danger - but there are signs of a development which requires further research. Public service companies remain relatively strong in the markets studied, and continue to play an important role as a counterweight to national and international commercial competitors. Different markets require different policies that take into account the conditions in that specific market, in order to achieve a certain desirable merited effect. The thesis supports the view that a "one size fits all" policy across several markets when it comes to media regulation, risks not yielding the warranted results. Markets with different conditions, exposed to the same type of regulation, might have overall positive effects, but could also easily have a very negative impact if the conditions in a particular market do not fit with the intent of the policy. It is therefore far from certain that a "one size fits all" regulation will have the intended uniform effect on the affected market across several markets. This is especially true for markets that are challenged by having both a small population and a small economy. In a sense it is a paradox that the interest at European level in fair competition and equal opportunity for success can lead to different conditions of competition in a domestic market, as players may be subject to various conditions (in a way it can also be regarded as a consequence of domestic policy interventions), where the domestic players can face a strong international player, and as a result of the internal market and the Audiovisual Media Services directive, can achieve a competitive advantage, for example in relation to choosing the most lenient advertising rules. The analytical work of the thesis can substantiate claims that size has a significant effect and that there are concrete policy implications depending on size of economy and population, due to scarcity of resources in the individual market. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8629 Files in this item: 1
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Security sector reform in Sierra LeoneAlbrecht, Peter Alexander (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The thesis argues that security sector reform (SSR) has failed according to its own ambition of establishing a 'centrally governed state'. A primary reason for this failure is found in the concept of authority that state-building projects and much of the academic work that underpins it. Since the late 1990s, internationally supported efforts to make and consolidate peace in Sierra Leone have been synonymous with SSR. Support was given by the United Kingdom (UK) in particular to contain and ultimately overhaul the armed forces, which staged two coups in 1992 and 1997. Support was also provided to the central government to institute national security coordination and intelligence organizations, and to reestablish the Sierra Leone Police (SLP). The collapsed, but internationally recognized state was to be rebuilt, and security was seen as not only a prerequisite for this process to begin, but its very foundation. The first question of the thesis revolves around why the western universalist state concept came to guide SSR in Sierra Leone, and why it was considered of such fundamental importance to stability internationally. The second question revolves around how to conceptualize authority when actors such as paramount and lesser chiefs that may neither be categorized as state nor non-state are the primary makers of order in rural areas of the country. Speaking of the weakness or failure of a state is a way of describing what it is not, namely a centrally governed set of institutions that is able to make order within the territorial space that defines it. A focus on the state as an analytical concept does not, however, tell us much about how order is then made, and by whom it is made in Sierra Leone. The thesis rethinks what authority is in a way that does not privilege 'the state' as an analytical category, a tendency that has dominated much policy and academic thinking. The thesis' empirical basis of doing so is data relating to international policy-making processes, interviews among the key actors of Sierra Leone's SSR process, and ethnographic fieldwork in Peyima, a small diamond mining town in Kamara Chiefdom, Kono District. In a view of authority tied to 'the state' lies the conceptualization of a political entity, a bordered power container, which stands above, is detached from, and at the same time encompasses, controls and regulates society. In UK support of Sierra Leone's statebuilding efforts, the practices of traditional leaders and their productive effects in the justice and security field, and enforcing order, were acknowledged. However, failure to respond adequately to their central role in governing Sierra Leone's countryside came in two ways, both of which are related to concepts of the western universalist state that continue to guide SSR. The first failure was embedded in misrecognizing the resilience and productivity of local actors and institutions, and their authority to appropriate, interpret, translate and above all shape the elements of what was offered through SSR. The second failure came in not recognizing the hybrid nature of all actors in the justice and security field, based on the fact that they draw authority to act within the field from numerous sources across physical and symbolic space, in local and national domains. Hybridity is integral to state formation in Sierra Leone. It is foundational, and is historically grounded in the colonial era, articulating an infinite mixture of various forms of authority (from state legislation to status of autochthony and secret society membership). Inevitably, this order was reproduced by SSR, even if the aim of the international actors who supported this process of change had been to eradicate it. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8549 Files in this item: 1
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How the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark Came to Compete through their Knowledge Regimes from 1993 to 2007Møller Boje Rasmussen, Martin (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The present PhD-dissertation " "Is Competitiveness a Question of Being Alike? How United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark came to compete through their Knowledge Regimes from 1993 to 2007" studies the ideas which policy research organizations such as ministries of economics, economic councils and different types of think tanks – or what Campbell and Pedersen recently have defined as a nations knowledge regime – holds about the international competition of nations and what a nations competitiveness consists in, as well as whether and how these ideas co-varies with different national knowledge regimes particular form and organization. The primary argument and research result is, that even if the ideas, which policy research organizations in United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark in the period from 1993 to 2007 holds, in many ways are similar, they nonetheless exhibit nationally distinct features and differences. In short, the PhD-dissertation demonstrates, that not only does the organization of knowledge regimes vary. So do the ideas they produce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8972 Files in this item: 1
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Institutionelt arbejde i den kommunale digitaliseringsprocesFederspiel, Sofie Blinkenberg (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Denne afhandling beskæftiger sig med institutionaliseringen af digitalisering i den danske kommunaladministration. At digitalisere vil i den sammenhæng sige at bruge informationsteknologi (IT) til strategisk udvikling af arbejdsgange, og digitalisering er derfor tæt forbundet med at skabe en organisation, der både er omstillingsparat, refleksiv og nytænkende. Selvom institutionalisering af digitalisering således er synonym med en radikal forandring af den kommunale administration, mangler der viden om, hvordan arbejdet med at institutionalisere digitalisering påvirkes af organisationsmedlemmernes forhold til IT: et forhold, som litteraturen tidligere har indikeret, kan have afgørende betydning for digitalisering. Afhandlingen bidrager med ny viden på området. Til det formål trækker afhandlingen på det neo-institutionelle begreb institutionelt arbejde, som giver mulighed for at belyse aktørernes rolle i institutionaliseringsprocesser. Afhandlingen baserer sig på et casestudie af to typiske danske kommunaladministrationer, hvoraf den ene er et resultat af kommunesammenlægning i forbindelse med kommunalreformen i 2007. Det empiriske grundlag består af kvalitative data i form af interviews, dokumentanalyser og mødeobservationer. Den indledende dataanalyse, som er inspireret af grounded theory, pegede på tre centrale analysetemaer i relation til afhandlingens fokus. Disse temaer, som lægger op til tre forskellige håndteringer af data og cases, danner grundlag for afhandlingens tre artikler. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8993 Files in this item: 1
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A processual and embedded explorationStelling, Christiane (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This thesis addresses the need, development and management of trust in Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), an issue that thus far has received only very little attention. For this purpose, the dissertation contributes with four separate articles, of which the first two explore the main concepts – PPPs and trust – while the last two present the empirical exploration of trusting in PPPs by drawing on four in-depth case studies. The exploration of the PPP concept in the first article focuses on the definitory and classificatory practices across disciplinary and professional fields and contributes with an inductive map of the dominant patterns. The review of PPP publications argues that the main divergence lies in the focus on two differing dimensions. While a first group focuses on PPPs as a new way of distributing responsibilities across public and private partners a second group defines PPPs as a new means for joint decision-making and interactive collaboration between public and private partners. For the thesis it is especially the second dimension – the relational - that becomes relevant when trust moves centre-stage. In the second article, the dissertation addresses trust conceptualizations in an interorganizational setting. The article argues for a more processual approach to (re)embed trust in time and space. Following, the paper develops a processual framework for studying interorganizational trusting as ever evolving, always embedded and not least rooted in individual experiences of organizational members from various organizational levels. Finally, the article highlights the constitutive importance of contingency not only creating the need for trust but also its precondition. It is because we experience the future as open (contingent) that we are in need and able to form trust, i.e. suspend doubts and form positive expectations about another's future behaviour despite he/she has the possibility for alternative actions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8942 Files in this item: 1
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The Case of U.S. Chambers of CommerceCrawford, Brett (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Much of the organizational institutionalism literature suggests that the phenomenon of interests is a central construct, however, portrays interests in an overly deterministic, rational, and liberal way. In this thesis, I challenge those views and suggest that interests are a complex and interdependent socially constructed phenomenon. Accordingly, interests represent an actor's recognition, perceived importance, and participation in a number of figurations and social games. Illustrated through the institution of U.S. chambers of commerce, I explore how chambers of commerce have withstood a changing American culture to become both the world's largest business federation and public-private partnership. Moreover, even as the United States represents the most liberal of liberal market economies, chambers of commerce represent a context where capitalists have set aside market competition and unified their interests to become one of the largest and most influential institutions in the world. Following a brief introduction of interests and chambers of commerce, this thesis begins with the first paper, which is a critical review of the phenomenon of interests within the organizational institutionalism literature. Tracing the conceptual variety of both the origins and functions of interests in institutional studies, I illustrate how an overly deterministic and rational view of interests is problematic. The critical review continues with a discussion of my critiques of the extant literature followed by an introduction of a less rational and calculative approach to interests by coupling Bourdieu's (1998) conceptualization of interests with Elias's (1978) sociology emphasizing figurations and social games. The three subsequent empirical papers test this approach to interests on macro-, meso-, and micro-levels of the institution of chambers of commerce. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8452 Files in this item: 1
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A Neoinstitutional Analysis of the Emerging Organizational Field of Renewable Energy in ChinaHøyrup Christensen, Nis (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Today, China is the world leading investor in renewable energy. At the heart of this effort lies China's ability to shape markets through industrial policies. Through a neoinstitutional theoretical perspective this dissertation views China's efforts within renewable energy as the emergence of a new organizational field. Despite the importance of organizational fields as a key concept in the neoinstitutional literature, there is a lack of studies on exactly how they emerge. Throughout four articles this dissertation scrutinizes therefore the emergence of the field of renewable energy in China and the mechanisms driving this emergence. Firstly, the relation between state and market is examined, and it is argued that Chinese state interventions in markets, for instance through subsidies, are based in deeply rooted historic grounds. Thus, the article explains the general context in which the Party-state handles subsidized markets, like renewable energy. Secondly, the specific development of the idea of sustainable development, and how it evolves into an institutional logic of its own, is analysed. It is around this institutional logic that renewable energy emerges as a field. The key mechanism in play is the idea work of the Party state by which sustainable development is positioned in the Partystate discourse. Thirdly, subsidization of renewable energy in China is examined as an important feature of the increasing institutionalization of the organizational field. It is shown how negotiation between companies and Party-state is the vital mechanism by which subsidies are determined.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8627 Files in this item: 1
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En kortlægning af styringsmæssig kontekst, strategisk tilgang, samt anvendte redskaber og teknologier for udvalgte danske statslige styrelserFroholdt, Morten (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Siden begyndelsen af 1980erne har den offentlige sektor i Danmark, og flere andre vestlige lande, været genstand for en moderniseringsproces. En moderniseringsproces, der har ført til nye måder at tænke og bedrive offentlig administration og ledelse på, herunder anvendelsen af organisatorisk strategi i en offentlig kontekst. Formen, sådanne organisatoriske strategier antager i en offentlig kontekst, er dog i høj grad et uudforsket område, hvilket er omdrejningspunktet for nærværende afhandling og følgende fundamentale forskningsspørgsmål: Hvordan tager strategi og strategisk ledelse form i en dansk offentlig kontekst? For at besvare ovenstående forskningsspørgsmål, er der udviklet et konceptuelt framework, som tillader en analyse og kortlægning af specifikke variable med relevans for den form, strategi og strategisk ledelse antager i en offentlig kontekst. De variable, der anvendes som analytisk linse i det konceptuelle framework, vedrører en organisations styringsmæssige kontekst, strategiske tilgang samt anvendte redskaber og teknologier. Analysen og kortlægningen af den styringsmæssige kontekst trækker på en række forskningsmæssige bidrag omkring eksisterende styringsparadigmer og deres karakter. Den strategiske tilgang er analyseret og kortlagt med udgangspunkt i Whittingtons (2001) strategiske perspektiver samt yderligere forskningsmæssige bidrag vedrørende de enkelte perspektiver.... URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8700 Files in this item: 1
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Four Cases from Danish Monetary HistoryRavn Sørensen, Anders (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this dissertation I examine the historical relationship between Danish national identity and monetary organization, defined as the Danish currency kronen and the Danish central bank Nationalbanken. The ambition of my analysis is twofold: firstly, I aim to understand the role of national identity in legitimating Danish monetary organization. Secondly, I analyze the importance of the Danish currency and Nationalbanken in the construction of national identity. As such, the dissertation focuses on the mutually configuring relationship between monetary legitimacy and national identity. Following ideas from organizational institutionalism, one of the basic assumptions in the dissertation is that all organizations, including central banks, must be aligned with, or at least not contradict, the values, norms and symbols of the surrounding national culture. To analyze this potential alignment historically in a Danish context, national identity is applied as an analytical concept that conditions the actions and decisions of organizations placed in a national setting. In the dissertation, national identity is understood as the continuous reproduction and interpretations of the cultural elements of the nation as well as individual identification with these elements. This definition of national identity allows for an analysis that involves more than how monetary organization become legitimate. Every attempt to align kronen and Nationalbanken with national identity constitutes, concurrently, a reproduction of national identity. Thus, while a central bank and national currency might require alignment with national identity to be perceived as legitimate, monetary organization also reproduces and bolsters national identity. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8975 Files in this item: 1
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Many advocates say victims are discouraged and disheartened by a system that still needs a lot of work. Currently, no system is in place for survivors to learn where they are in the process, besides checking in with the police detective who handled the initial complaint. Many rape advocates and leaders in sexual assault associations interviewed for this story consistently mentioned that the people they counseled had trouble following up and getting answers as to their case status.
"Many victims are still being told their case is suspended, pending the rape kit, and they never hear from a detective again," says Sharmili Majmudar, executive director of Rape Victim Advocates, a non-profit rape crisis center in Chicago. "Even very proactive victims call and call, and don't find out. If there was any way to have some sort of notification system of the status of the kit, it would be meaningful."
"A lot of detectives won't give you information if you don't have the rape kit," adds Neusa Gaytan, program director for Mujeres Latinas en Acción, an agency that offers a comprehensive array of social services, including sexual assault advocacy. "It's frustrating, because if the person didn't get arrested, the family could be in danger."
"I've had people call about rape kits," Ms. Hall says, "and I can't tell them anything. I don't know if [the person on the phone] is truly the victim or the suspect." If she's called to testify for a rape case, she can't release information to anyone in order to remain unbiased and credible in court. "Everything has to remain strictly confidential to the client, the detectives who are investigating the case on behalf of agencies," Ms. Hall says. As a result, "We can't even acknowledge we have the case."
Since rape kits only define the actual act, not consent, rape victim advocates consistently emphasize the criticality of having a police officer investigate a potential crime immediately after it's committed, not months later, after a rape kit is processed.
Both Ms. Gaytan and Ms. Majmudar confirm that the turnaround time for processing a rape has improved since the legislation. According to Ms. Majmudar, it now averages three to four months, compared with the pre-legislation time of six to nine months, which could stretch into a year. Ms. Warner notes that the typical turnaround time for a preliminary report in Chicago is two months – if there's evidence.
"There are expectations of survivors that it's like CSI," Ms. Warner says. "If the DNA is not there, it's not there. We can't get it somewhere else, which is why the rape kit is so important."
Still, Ms. Majmudar points out that New York City – with a population of 8.1 million compared to Chicago's 2.6 million in 2010 – processes rape kits in six weeks.
"Getting a conviction of a sexually violent crime is still near to impossible," says Yesenia Romo, director of YWCA Metropolitan Chicago's Sexual Violence and Support Services. "Even when victims are doing everything they're supposed to do – going to hospital, having a rape kit and reporting the crime – when it comes to the actual process of getting it processed, they become very frustrated and in some cases give up hope. We still need to build up the trust in the justice system so that victims feel confident they aren't just going through the motions by completing a rape kit."
Many advocates also have concerns about the Illinois police truly turning in every rape kit, which Ms. Smith counters. "We're confident all kits are being submitted," she says, "but we need to do spot checking."
In Illinois and the U.S., there's no shortage of Jane Does like the now 25-year-old woman Mr. Dinizulu mentioned. He's already represented "about five other rape cases," besides the two he is currently handling. The second is a federal class-action lawsuit against the city of Harvey, Illinois, for failing to process 200 rape kits, stalling police action on open investigations and eroding valuable biological evidence.
The charge is led by a 22-year-old woman who says she was assaulted in May 2007, at age 17, by an acquaintance. It was only after the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the Sheriff's Office and the Illinois State Police conducted a raid in 2007 on the Harvey Police Department – after it failed to solve any of the nine homicides in 2005 – that the untested rape kits were discovered and the investigations of dozens of sexual assault crimes were reopened. "It seemed like they deliberately misplaced the rape kit so it wouldn't be found," Mr. Dinizulu says.
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In November, Penn State's Board of Trustees approved the final plans for renovations to Old Main. Primary work on the historic lobby will begin in January to stabilize the environment, add sprinkler coverage and replace the lighting. Subsequent work on offices around the outside of the building will begin in April. All construction and renovation should be complete by next fall.
When holiday travelers return after the winter break, the Old Main lobby and main staircase will be closed. Contractors will be erecting scaffolding to work on the ceiling. Staff and visitors will still be able to enter Old Main from the front doors that face College Avenue, but they will be directed around the edges of the lobby to the wing corridors through April. Access to the President's Office will be via the second-floor balcony only, accessed from the stairwells at either end of the second-floor hallways.
Old Main: Then and Now gallery
A gallery showing University Archives photographs of Penn State's Old Main through the 1930's and 1940's side by side with present day photographs of the same locations.
Final plans approved for Old Main renovations
Penn State's Board of Trustees Friday (Nov. 16) approved the final plans for renovations to Old Main's infrastructure and architecture. The plans, designed by Ann Beha Architects of Boston, include a strategy for a phased renovation of the lobby, conservation of the Land Grant Frescoes, plumbing upgrades and replacement of the perimeter heat system. The main lobby will be temperature and humidity controlled to preserve the frescoes.
Work ongoing to conserve fragile history in Old Main
A multi-year project has begun to repair a half-century of environmental damage and conserve the Land-Grant Frescoes that are a treasured piece of American art history in the lobby of Old Main. The frescoes are full of surprises, and many are coming to light as conservators pore over University archives, repair a half-century of environmental damage and return these works of art to their original condition. Thanks to a generous philanthropic gift from L. James Smauch '36 Sci, a multi-year project has begun to restore the Old Main lobby, conserve the frescoes and preserve this treasured piece of American art history. John Rita and Ted Holland from Harrisburg-based Albert Michaels Conservation have set up a mobile laboratory in Old Main and are working their way around the lobby, inspecting, cleaning, stabilizing and inpainting (the reinstatement of lost pigment) the frescoes.
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President's Office Open House scheduled for Sept. 28
The President's Office Open House will be held from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28, in Old Main on Penn State's University Park campus. Visitors can tour the President's Office, view the Land-Grant Frescoes and visit the Old Main Tower. Lion Ambassadors will serve as tour guides and entertainment will be provided by the Penn State School of Music. Light refreshments will be served. The event is open to faculty, staff, students and the public.
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Old Main Open House April 18, 2012
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Conservators begin work on Penn State's Land-Grant Frescoes
Preliminary work began March 12 on the restoration of the lobby of Old Main and the conservation and ultimate preservation of the historic Land-Grant Frescoes on Penn State's University Park campus. The frescoes project, funded by a $1.5 million gift from an anonymous donor, will be accompanied by the restoration of the entire Old Main lobby to reflect accurately its appearance in 1948 when the 1,300-square-foot frescoes were completed by Henry Varnum Poor. The works are the only frescoes at an American university created by an American artist, and the risk that this landmark might be damaged irreparably prompted a highly sophisticated initiative to preserve the frescoes for posterity.
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Clocks return to Old Main bell tower
After six months, the painted plywood disks atop the Old Main bell tower on Penn State's University Park campus are no more. The disks served their purpose -- sealing the holes left when the tower's clock faces were removed for renovation last July. The project originally was projected to be completed in October, but difficulty in securing the glass for the faces delayed the completion until now. For photos of work on the carillon system, visit http://live.psu.edu/flickrset/72157629059235345 and for photos of the clock face installation, visit http://live.psu.edu/flickrset/72157629072850645 online.
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Believers are to dedicate themselves to God. (1,2) To be humble, and faithfully to use their spiritual gifts, in their respective stations. (3-8) Exhortations to various duties. (9-16) And to peaceable conduct towards all men, with forbearance and benevolence. (17-21)
Verses 1-2 The apostle having closed the part of his epistle wherein he argues and proves various doctrines which are practically applied, here urges important duties from gospel principles. He entreated the Romans, as his brethren in Christ, by the mercies of God, to present their bodies as a living sacrifice to Him. This is a powerful appeal. We receive from the Lord every day the fruits of his mercy. Let us render ourselves; all we are, all we have, all we can do: and after all, what return is it for such very rich receivings? It is acceptable to God: a reasonable service, which we are able and ready to give a reason for, and which we understand. Conversion and sanctification are the renewing of the mind; a change, not of the substance, but of the qualities of the soul. The progress of sanctification, dying to sin more and more, and living to righteousness more and more, is the carrying on this renewing work, till it is perfected in glory. The great enemy to this renewal is, conformity to this world. Take heed of forming plans for happiness, as though it lay in the things of this world, which soon pass away. Do not fall in with the customs of those who walk in the lusts of the flesh, and mind earthly things. The work of the Holy Ghost first begins in the understanding, and is carried on to the will, affections, and conversation, till there is a change of the whole man into the likeness of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. Thus, to be godly, is to give up ourselves to God.
Verses 3-8 Pride is a sin in us by nature; we need to be cautioned and armed against it. All the saints make up one body in Christ, who is the Head of the body, and the common Centre of their unity. In the spiritual body, some are fitted for and called to one sort of work; others for another sort of work. We are to do all the good we can, one to another, and for the common benefit. If we duly thought about the powers we have, and how far we fail properly to improve them, it would humble us. But as we must not be proud of our talents, so we must take heed lest, under a pretence of humility and self-denial, we are slothful in laying out ourselves for the good of others. We must not say, I am nothing, therefore I will sit still, and do nothing; but, I am nothing in myself, and therefore I will lay out myself to the utmost, in the strength of the grace of Christ. Whatever our gifts or situations may be, let us try to employ ourselves humbly, diligently, cheerfully, and in simplicity; not seeking our own credit or profit, but the good of many, for this world and that which is to come.
Verses 9-16 The professed love of Christians to each other should be sincere, free from deceit, and unmeaning and deceitful compliments. Depending on Divine grace, they must detest and dread all evil, and love and delight in whatever is kind and useful. We must not only do that which is good, but we must cleave to it. All our duty towards one another is summed up in one word, love. This denotes the love of parents to their children; which is more tender and natural than any other; unforced, unconstrained. And love to God and man, with zeal for the gospel, will make the wise Christian diligent in all his wordly business, and in gaining superior skill. God must be served with the spirit, under the influences of the Holy Spirit. He is honoured by our hope and trust in him, especially when we rejoice in that hope. He is served, not only by working for him, but by sitting still quietly, when he calls us to suffer. Patience for God's sake, is true piety. Those that rejoice in hope, are likely to be patient in tribulation. We should not be cold in the duty of prayer, nor soon weary of it. Not only must there be kindness to friends and brethren, but Christians must not harbour anger against enemies. It is but mock love, which rests in words of kindness, while our brethren need real supplies, and it is in our power to furnish them. Be ready to entertain those who do good: as there is occasion, we must welcome strangers. Bless, and curse not. It means thorough good will; not, bless them when at prayer, and curse them at other times; but bless them always, and curse not at all. True Christian love will make us take part in the sorrows and joys of each other. Labour as much as you can to agree in the same spiritual truths; and when you come short of that, yet agree in affection. Look upon worldly pomp and dignity with holy contempt. Do not mind it; be not in love with it. Be reconciled to the place God in his providence puts you in, whatever it be. Nothing is below us, but sin. We shall never find in our hearts to condescend to others, while we indulge conceit of ourselves; therefore that must be mortified.
Verses 17-21 Since men became enemies to God, they have been very ready to be enemies one to another. And those that embrace religion, must expect to meet with enemies in a world whose smiles seldom agree with Christ's. Recompense to no man evil for evil. That is a brutish recompence, befitting only animals, which are not conscious of any being above them, or of any existence hereafter. And not only do, but study and take care to do, that which is amiable and creditable, and recommends religion to all with whom you converse. Study the things that make for peace; if it be possible, without offending God and wounding conscience. Avenge not yourselves. This is a hard lesson to corrupt nature, therefore a remedy against it is added. Give place unto wrath. When a man's passion is up, and the stream is strong, let it pass off; lest it be made to rage the more against us. The line of our duty is clearly marked out, and if our enemies are not melted by persevering kindness, we are not to seek vengeance; they will be consumed by the fiery wrath of that God to whom vengeance belongeth. The last verse suggests what is not easily understood by the world; that in all strife and contention, those that revenge are conquered, and those that forgive are conquerors. Be not overcome of evil. Learn to defeat ill designs against you, either to change them, or to preserve your own peace. He that has this rule over his spirit, is better than the mighty. God's children may be asked whether it is not more sweet unto them than all earthly good, that God so enables them by his Spirit, thus to feel and act.
Romans 12:1-21 . DUTIES OF BELIEVERS, GENERAL AND PARTICULAR.
The doctrinal teaching of this Epistle is now followed up by a series of exhortations to practical duty. And first, the all-comprehensive duty.
1. I beseech you therefore--in view of all that has been advanced in the foregoing part of this Epistle.
by the mercies of God--those mercies, whose free and unmerited nature, glorious Channel, and saving fruits have been opened up at such length.
that ye present--See on Romans 16:13 , where we have the same exhortation and the same word there rendered "yield" (as also in Romans 12:16 Romans 12:19 ).
your bodies--that is, "yourselves in the body," considered as the organ of the inner life. As it is through the body that all the evil that is in the unrenewed heart comes forth into palpable manifestation and action, so it is through the body that all the gracious principles and affections of believers reveal themselves in the outward life. Sanctification extends to the whole man ( 1 Thessalonians 5:23 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ).
a living sacrifice--in glorious contrast to the legal sacrifices, which, save as they were slain, were no sacrifices at all. The death of the one "Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world," has swept all dead victims from off the altar of God, to make room for the redeemed themselves as "living sacrifices" to Him who made "Him to be sin for us"; while every outgoing of their grateful hearts in praise, and every act prompted by the love of Christ, is itself a sacrifice to God of a sweet-smelling savor ( Hebrews 13:15 Hebrews 13:16 ).
holy--As the Levitical victims, when offered without blemish to God, were regarded as holy, so believers, "yielding themselves to God as those that are alive from the dead, and their members as instruments of righteousness unto God," are, in His estimation, not ritually but really "holy," and so
unto God--not as the Levitical offerings, merely as appointed symbols of spiritual ideas, but objects, intrinsically, of divine complacency, in their renewed character, and endeared relationship to Him through His Son Jesus Christ.
which is your reasonable--rather, "rational"
service--in contrast, not to the senselessness of idol-worship, but to the offering of irrational victims under the law. In this view the presentation of ourselves, as living monuments of redeeming mercy, is here called "our rational service"; and surely it is the most rational and exalted occupation of God's reasonable creatures. So 2 Peter 1:5 , "to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."
2. And be ye not conformed to this world--Compare Ephesians 2:2 , Galatians 1:4 , Greek.
but be ye transformed--or, "transfigured" (as in Matthew 17:2 ; and 2 Corinthians 3:18 , Greek).
by the renewing of your mind--not by a mere outward disconformity to the ungodly world, many of whose actions in themselves may be virtuous and praiseworthy; but by such an inward spiritual transformation as makes the whole life new--new in its motives and ends, even where the actions differ in nothing from those of the world--new, considered as a whole, and in such a sense as to be wholly unattainable save through the constraining power of the love of Christ.
that ye may prove--that is, experimentally. (On the word "experience" 1 Thessalonians 5:10 , where the sentiment is the same).
what is that--"the"
good and acceptable--"well-pleasing"
and perfect, will of God--We prefer this rendering (with CALVIN) to that which many able critics [THOLUCK, MEYER, DE WETTE, FRITZSCHE, PHILIPPI, ALFORD, HODGE] adopt--"that ye may prove," or "discern the will of God, [even] what is good, and acceptable, and perfect." God's will is "good," as it demands only what is essentially and unchangeably good ( Romans 7:10 ); it is "well pleasing," in contrast with all that is arbitrary, as demanding only what God has eternal complacency in (compare Micah 6:8 , with Jeremiah 9:24 ); and it is "perfect," as it required nothing else than the perfection of God's reasonable creature, who, in proportion as he attains to it, reflects God's own perfection. Such then is the great general duty of the redeemed--SELF-CONSECRATION, in our whole spirit and soul and body to Him who hath called us into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ. Next follow specific duties, chiefly social; beginning with Humility, the chiefest of all the graces--but here with special reference to spiritual gifts.
3. For I say--authoritatively
through the grace given unto me--as an apostle of Jesus Christ; thus exemplifying his own precept by modestly falling back on that office which both warranted and required such plainness towards all classes.
to every man that is among you, not to think, &c.--It is impossible to convey in good English the emphatic play, so to speak, which each word here has upon another: "not to be high-minded above what he ought to be minded, but so to be minded as to be sober-minded" [CALVIN, ALFORD]. This is merely a strong way of characterizing all undue self-elevation.
according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith--Faith is here viewed as the inlet to all the other graces, and so, as the receptive faculty of the renewed soul--that is, "as God hath given to each his particular capacity to take in the gifts and graces which He designs for the general good."
4, 5. For as we have many members, &c.--The same diversity and yet unity obtains in the body of Christ, whereof all believers are the several members, as in the natural body.
6-8. Having then gifts differing according to the grace given to us--Here, let it be observed, all the gifts of believers alike are viewed as communications of mere grace.
whether--we have the gift of
prophecy--that is, of inspired teaching (as in Acts 15:32 ). Anyone speaking with divine authority--whether with reference to the past, the present, or the future--was termed a prophet ( Exodus 7:1 ).
let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith--rather, "of our faith." Many Romish expositors and some Protestant (as CALVIN and BENGEL, and, though, hesitatingly, BEZA and HODGE), render this "the analogy of faith," understanding by it "the general tenor" or "rule of faith," divinely delivered to men for their guidance. But this is against the context, whose object is to show that, as all the gifts of believers are according to their respective capacity for them, they are not to be puffed up on account of them, but to use them purely for their proper ends.
7. Or ministry, let us wait on--"be occupied with."
our ministering--The word here used imports any kind of service, from the dispensing of the word of life ( Acts 6:4 ) to the administering of the temporal affairs of the Church ( Acts 6:1-3 ). The latter seems intended here, being distinguished from "prophesying," "teaching," and "exhorting."
or he that teacheth--Teachers are expressly distinguished from prophets, and put after them, as exercising a lower function ( Acts 13:1 , 1 Corinthians 12:28 1 Corinthians 12:29 ). Probably it consisted mainly in opening up the evangelical bearings of Old Testament Scripture; and it was in this department apparently that Apollos showed his power and eloquence ( Acts 18:24 ).
8. Or he that exhorteth--Since all preaching, whether by apostles, prophets, or teachers, was followed up by exhortation ( Acts 11:23 , 14:22 , 15:32 , &c.), many think that no specific class is here in view. But if liberty was given to others to exercise themselves occasionally in exhorting the brethren, generally, or small parties of the less instructed, the reference may be to them.
he that giveth--in the exercise of private benevolence probably, rather than in the discharge of diaconal duty.
with simplicity--so the word probably means. But as simplicity seems enjoined in the next clause but one of this same verse, perhaps the meaning here is, "with liberality," as the same word is rendered in 2 Corinthians 8:2 , 9:11 .
he that ruleth--whether in the Church or his own household. See 1 Timothy 3:4 1 Timothy 3:5 , where the same word is applied to both.
with diligence--with earnest purpose.
he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness--not only without grudging either trouble or pecuniary relief, but feeling it to be "more blessed to give than to receive," and to help than be helped.
9. Let love be without dissimulation--"Let your love be unfeigned" (as in 2 Corinthians 6:6 , 1 Peter 2:22 ; and see 1 John 3:18 ).
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good--What a lofty tone of moral principle and feeling is here inculcated! It is not, Abstain from the one, and do the other; nor, Turn away from the one, and draw to the other; but, Abhor the one, and cling, with deepest sympathy, to the other.
10. Be, &c.--better, "In brotherly love be affectionate one to another; in [giving, or showing] honor, outdoing each other." The word rendered "prefer" means rather "to go before," "take the lead," that is, "show an example." How opposite is this to the reigning morality of the heathen world! and though Christianity has so changed the spirit of society, that a certain beautiful disinterestedness and self-sacrifice shines in the character of not a few who are but partially, if at all under the transforming power of the Gospel, it is only those whom "the love of Christ constrains to live not unto themselves," who are capable of thoroughly acting in the spirit of this precept.
11. not slothful in business--The word rendered "business" means "zeal," "diligence," "purpose"; denoting the energy of action.
serving the Lord--that is, the Lord Jesus (see Ephesians 6:5-8 ). Another reading--"serving the time," or "the occasion"--which differs in form but very slightly from the received reading, has been adopted by good critics [LUTHER, OLSHAUSEN, FRITZSCHE, MEYER]. But as manuscript authority is decidedly against it, so is internal evidence; and comparatively few favor it. Nor is the sense which it yields a very Christian one.
12. Rejoicing, &c.--Here it is more lively to retain the order and the verbs of the original: "In hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, persevering." Each of these exercises helps the other. If our "hope" of glory is so assured that it is a rejoicing hope, we shall find the spirit of "endurance in tribulation" natural and easy; but since it is "prayer" which strengthens the faith that begets hope and lifts it up into an assured and joyful expectancy, and since our patience in tribulation is fed by this, it will be seen that all depends on our "perseverance in prayer."
13. given to hospitality--that is, the entertainment of strangers. In times of persecution, and before the general institution of houses of entertainment, the importance of this precept would be at once felt. In the East, where such houses are still rare, this duty is regarded as of the most sacred character [HODGE].
14. Bless--that is, Call down by prayer a blessing on.
them which persecute you, &c.--This is taken from the Sermon on the Mount ( Matthew 5:44 ), which, from the allusions made to it, seems to have been the storehouse of Christian morality among the churches.
15. Rejoice with them that rejoice; and weep--the "and" should probably be omitted.
with them that weep--What a beautiful spirit of sympathy with the joys and sorrows of others is here inculcated! But it is only one charming phase of the unselfish character which belongs to all living Christianity. What a world will ours be when this shall become its reigning spirit! Of the two, however, it is more easy to sympathize with another's sorrows than his joys, because in the one case he needs us; in the other not. But just for this reason the latter is the more disinterested, and so the nobler.
16. Be--"Being"
of the same mind one toward another--The feeling of the common bond which binds all Christians to each other, whatever diversity of station, cultivation, temperament, or gifts may obtain among them, is the thing here enjoined. This is next taken up in detail.
Mind not--"not minding"
high things--that is, Cherish not ambitious or aspiring purposes and desires. As this springs from selfish severance of our own interests and objects from those of our brethren, so it is quite incompatible with the spirit inculcated in the preceding clause.
but condescend--"condescending"
to men of low estate--or (as some render the words), "inclining unto the things that be lowly." But we prefer the former.
Be not wise in your own conceits--This is just the application of the caution against high-mindedness to the estimate we form of our own mental character.
17. Recompense--"Recompensing,"
things honest--"honorable"
in the sight of all men--The idea (which is from Proverbs 3:4 ) is the care which Christians should take so to demean themselves as to command the respect of all men.
18. If it be possible--that is, If others will let you.
as much as lieth in you--or, "dependeth on you."
live peaceably--or, "be at peace."
with all men--The impossibility of this in some cases is hinted at, to keep up the hearts of those who, having done their best unsuccessfully to live in peace, might be tempted to think the failure was necessarily owing to themselves. But how emphatically expressed is the injunction to let nothing on our part prevent it! Would that Christians were guiltless in this respect!
19-21. avenge not,
but rather give place unto wrath--This is usually taken to mean, "but give room or space for wrath to spend itself." But as the context shows that the injunction is to leave vengeance to God, "wrath" here seems to mean, not the offense, which we are tempted to avenge, but the avenging wrath of God (see 2 Chronicles 24:18 ), which we are enjoined to await, or give room for. (So the best interpreters).
20. if thine enemy hunger, &c.--This is taken from Proverbs 25:21 Proverbs 25:22 , which without doubt supplied the basis of those lofty precepts on that subject which form the culminating point of the Sermon on the Mount.
in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head--As the heaping of "coals of fire" is in the Old Testament the figurative expression of divine vengeance ( Psalms 140:10 , 11:6 , &c.), the true sense of these words seems to be, "That will be the most effectual vengeance--a vengeance under which he will be fain to bend" (So ALFORD, HODGE, &c.). Romans 12:21 confirms this.
21. Be not overcome of evil--for then you are the conquered party.
but overcome evil with good--and then the victory is yours; you have subdued your enemy in the noblest sense.
Note, (1) The redeeming mercy of God in Christ is, in the souls of believers, the living spring of all holy obedience ( Romans 12:1 ). (2) As redemption under the Gospel is not by irrational victims, as under the law, but "by the precious blood of Christ" ( 1 Peter 1:18 1 Peter 1:19 ), and, consequently, is not ritual but real, so the sacrifices which believers are now called to offer are all "living sacrifices"; and these--summed up in self-consecration to the service of God--are "holy and acceptable to God," making up together "our rational service" ( Romans 12:1 ). (3) In this light, what are we to think of the so-called "unbloody sacrifice of the mass, continually offered to God as a propitiation for the sins both of the living and the dead," which the adherents of Rome's corrupt faith have been taught for ages to believe is the highest and holiest act of Christian worship--in direct opposition to the sublimely simple teaching which the Christians of Rome first received ( Romans 12:1 )-- (4) Christians should not feel themselves at liberty to be conformed to the world, if only they avoid what is manifestly sinful; but rather, yielding themselves to the transforming power of the truth as it is in Jesus, they should strive to exhibit before the world an entire renovation of heart and life ( Romans 12:2 ). (5) What God would have men to be, in all its beauty and grandeur, is for the first time really apprehended, when "written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tables of stone, but on the fleshy tables of the heart," 2 Corinthians 3:3 ( Romans 12:2 ). (6) Self-sufficiency and lust of power are peculiarly unlovely in the vessels of mercy, whose respective graces and gifts are all a divine trust for the benefit of the common body and of mankind at large ( Romans 12:3 Romans 12:4 ). (7) As forgetfulness of this has been the source of innumerable and unspeakable evils in the Church of Christ, so the faithful exercise by every Christian of his own peculiar office and gifts, and the loving recognition of those of his brethren, as all of equal importance in their own place, would put a new face upon the visible Church, to the vast benefit and comfort of Christians themselves and to the admiration of the world around them ( Romans 12:6-8 ). (8) What would the world be, if it were filled with Christians having but one object in life, high above every other--to "serve the Lord"--and throwing into this service "alacrity" in the discharge of all duties, and abiding "warmth of spirit" ( Romans 12:11 )! (9) Oh, how far is even the living Church from exhibiting the whole character and spirit, so beautifully portrayed in the latter verses of this chapter ( Romans 12:12-21 )! What need of a fresh baptism of the Spirit in order to this! And how "fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners," will the Church become, when at length instinct with this Spirit! The Lord hasten it in its time!


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Jerry Henderson, 41, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Timothy Forrest, according to the Cook County State's Attorney's office. Henderson is to be sentenced Feb. 26.
Forrest, 41, agreed to buy guns and grenades from Henderson as part of an undercover operation, the state's attorney's office said Thursday.
Forrest was given a recording device to wear and $15,000 cash for the operation, the state's attorney's office said. The men agreed to meet in Dolton, and authorities saw Henderson enter Forrest's vehicle, the two have a conversation, and Henderson get out and drive away in his rented vehicle.
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