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From: @jeffpulver Sent: Mar 31, 2010 6:13p A Nikola Tesla quote about Social Media and Presence - http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/009170.html sent via web On Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffpulver/status/11392210215

"Life's like an hourglass glued to the table"

More on church community (and how to build it)

http://jeremypryor.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/driscolls-great-commission-magic-... Favorite quote in the comments: "I don???t want pesticide on my fruit of the spirit"

In Pursuit of Community: What Can We Do?, Pastors, Church Ministry Leadership

http://www.crosswalk.com/pastors/11573679/

The Chief Purpose of Universities: Academic Discourse and the Diversity of Ideas

http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=6259&pc=9 I need to read this book: "Bowen and Schwartz begin by reminding us that universities exist first and foremost 'to create, preserve, transmit, and find new applications of knowledge so as to enhance free choice throughout society.'"

What's a "university"?

http://outreach.msu.edu/capstonesymposium1995/prologue.html "Universities exist to generate, transmit, apply, and preserve knowledge." Are those qualifiers necessary? Sufficient?

What's a yellow cross mean on a WWI uniform?

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UPDATE: We found the answer -- in less than 15 minutes, thanks to friend and colleague Jess who apparently knew the magic keywords that I couldn't find. The remaining mystery is why Chuck, who grew up in Minneapolis, was tied to a division based out of Illinois... This is Ruth's great-uncle Chuck. Chuck didn't have any kids so when the old photo eventually ended up in our hands, we sold it off for the frame. Maybe a good idea, maybe a bad one. But what are you going to do with a big picture of someone who nobody really knows (or knew)? Anyway, from a geneology perspective the mystery is: what does the patch on his shoulder represent? It was a yellow cross on a black background, which seems rather unusual.