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On Friday, 10th January 2014, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa conducted the enthronement of His Eminence Metropolitan of Memphis, in the beautiful Cathedal of the Theotokos in Heliopolis in Cairo.
Participating in the ceremony of enthronement of His Eminence were His Eminence Gabriel Metropolitan of Leontopolis Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria, His Grace Niphon, Bishop of Babylonia Hegumen of the Holy Monastery of St George in Old Cairo, the Exarch of the Church of Russia Fr. Viktor Kulaga, Clergy of the Throne as well as Clergy from Sinai and Greece. Also present were His Excellency the Ambassador of Greece to Cairo, Mr. Ch. Lazaris, the Honorable Consuls General of Greece and Cyprus, Messrs. I Hatzantonakis and F. Fotiou, the Vice Chairman of the Hellenic Community of Cairo Mr. K. Flevotomas, the Chairman of the Arabic Speaking Community of Cairo Mr. R. Hosni, the Chairman of the Cypriot Brotherhood Mr. A. Mavromatis, the Chairman of the Greek Orthodox Club of Arabic Speakers of Heliopolis Mr. Z. Seraphim, the Chairlady of the Philanthropic Society St Mary of Egypt and Lady of the Patriarchate Mrs. S. Kyriazis who, together with her husband Mr. K. Kyriazis funded the entire renovation of the Cathedral of the Metropolis, many faithful from the community as well as visitors from Greece.
During his emotional address, His Beatitude said the following:
Your Eminence Nikodimos, Metropolitan of Memphis and dear brother in the Lord,
The great thinker and Theologian of the Church St Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, whose memory we commemorate today, designated as a united foundation of the Church the emptying of the Son of God and through it the taking up and renewal of mankind.
All who voluntarily accept the Gospel and have aligned their lives with its messages of salvation, become members through faith of the great, and in itself incomprehensible, mystery of the Church of Christ. It is in Church that the true knowledge of God is built and what it is outside of the possibility of human cognitive is revealed; in this manner the rational members of the Church are heartened.
Illuminated by the grace of the All Holy Spirit, but also unswervingly aligning with the theological view of the Church as a structure, the Church of Alexandria calls on you today to minister the holy service of gathering and building into the body of the Church the faithful of the historic Metropolis of Memphis.
My dear Nikodimos,
In July 2003 you came to the ancient Patriarchate of Alexandria and served under me in sacrifice and love to our African brothers and sisters in Bulawayo, in the Mission of the Holy Metropolis of Zimbabwe. And when the love and providence of the Almighty God wished it, you came to Cairo in 2005, and since then you have served with faith and distinction as Patriarchal Vicar in the capital city of the Land of the Nile.
For eight whole years you have expended yourself night and day with self-sacrifice and witness for the Second Throne patriarchate of the Orthodox Church. Whatever I assigned to you, you handled it with uncompromising obedience, methodical meticulousness and unwavering commitment ot duty.
As a companion on my spiritual journey to promote the historical witness, to show the contemporary position and to forge the future prospects of the Most Holy Apostolic Throne of St Mark, you comply strictly with ecclesiastical principles. That is why as Bishop of the once brilliant Holy Diocese of Nitria you actively made the due contribution to the body of the Church of justice, discretion, meekness, boldness and honesty.
These your virtues were ascertained by the Holy Synod, following my proposal, which rewarded you for your ecclesiastical ethos and your tireless efforts with your unanimous election as Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Memphis, on the basis of the unceasing preservation on the spiritual torch-race of the ages of the light of the preaching of the truth.
Your Eminence,
You are admittedly worthy of also bringing to a successful conclusion this holy mission which the Church of Alexandria has entrusted you with. You are capable of implementing in this field too, through your words and works, what St Nektarios Bishop of Pentapolis taught: Pursue love. Ask God daily for love. Together with love come the entire multitude of goods and virtues. Love that you may also be loved by others. Give your whole heart to God so that you may always remain in love."He who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him" (1 John 4:16).
In your good fight to serve the historic Metropolitan District of Memphis, you will have at your side your Patriarch next to whom you expended yourself for so many years. You will also have at your side our Hierarchs and our Clergy, the Greek and Arabic-speaking communities of Cairo, with which you have worked harmoniously for so long.
So, be strong and Godspeed and be an Archpriest, remaining always simple in your manner, multifaceted in governance, wise in your words…… Amen!
In his reply, His Eminence said:
"Where there is the mystery of a shout, there is the peace of God" the holy martyr and God-bearer Ignatios, Bishop of Antioch calls out in prayer and theologizes in faith. As the holiness of the moment reflects on my humble face and the unspeakable blessing of God mysteriously shakes my entire being, I feel that truly "all is granted by the Holy Spirit", meaning that divine Grace which heals all the weak and fills what is missing". It grants it all in wisdom, heals in love and replenishes all in goodness.
It is this, Your Beatitude Father and Master, respected Hierarchs, Honourable Priesthood, Deacons in Christ, most honourable leaders, chosen people of God – it is this, I say, that every member of the clergy, particularly during the offering of the bloodless sacrifice, during the breaking of the holy Body of Christ for the feeding of this people, which is the centre of our life and our responsibility, is obvious and a blessing to feel. Allow me though please at this holy moment of my official elevation to the throne of the church of Memphis, to testify to this emotion as a personal experience. Bringing to mind the blessed moment which I think is humanly understandable, the journey of my humble self within the Church, from that awesome moment of my monastic enrolment, up until today, as it becomes mixed with the wholehearted acceptance which St Basil the Great places on the lips of the priest during the Anaphora "we have done nothing good upon the earth", I can do nothing other than confess in the stillness of God and much humility by grace, to preach the mercy and not hide the benevolence.
Promoter of this joy is You, Your Beatitude Father and Master, Pope and Patriarch of the Great City of Alexandria, Libya, Pentapolis, Ethiopia, the entire land of Egypt and All Africa, above all Shepherd and Teacher, compassionate and merciful educator in Christ, and therefore after the Triune God and Saints Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain and Nektarios of Pentapolis, I address to You this word of gratitude and from the bottom of my heart to my last breath I will be grateful to You. From the first moment of our communion in Christ, my calling and reception as a member of the clergy of the Alexandrian Throne, you welcomed me into your paternal embrace, when at the time you were the Prelate of the Missionary Metropolis of Zimbabwe. Later as head of the Alexandrian Church you trusted me, you educated me with grandeur, you infused in me the zeal of God, you cultivated the dry earth of my heart with a missionary conviction, with your words which were always seasoned with salt, and particularly with the example of your life on the Dark Continent which is a field of thorns and weeds. You taught me that the clergy of Africa, whether a deacon, priest or Bishop, if he genuinely wants to preach the Cross and Resurrection of Christ in an environment which ranges from indifferent to often hostile, he needs to have as the pinnacle of his ecclesiastic service, the Lord's words: "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me"; and "whoever would be great among you must be your servant and whoever would be first among you must be your slave". With great love I address these words to the clergy of my historic district, and on them I promise with love and humility to walk on, by the Grace of God, as its Prelate.
The anvil of missionary service polishes the hearts of those who labour in the Lord. Here, nothing is given; nothing is obvious; nothing is found, if you will allow the expression, on automatic pilot, which perhaps occurs in other churches. Every new day which our holy God allows to dawn is a new opportunity for effort, both in the spiritual as well as in the material. Each clergy or lay colleague who is active in the missions, as well as every baptized Orthodox Christian who lives and works on this land, which are God-walked and have given birth to saints, needs to take of that which floods your heart and which is reflected on your cheerful and grace-filled face in order to take courage. Out of love for man generally, as created in the image of God, and to all Christians, working in his likeness. May this be the message from my paternal heart to the flock of my ecclesiastical district. It is a message of reconciliation, tolerance towards diversity, patience with all.
I turn in gratitude to my mother Vasiliki and commemorate the soul of my late father George, filled with emotion. Their Eminences the holy Hierarchs Metropolitan Nicholas of Ermopolis, Niphon Bishop of Babylonia, especially to His Eminence Gabriel Metropolitan of Leontopolis and I greet and embrace the venerable Hierarchy of the Throne who honoured me with their vote. My brother clergy and bosom and genuine friends Archimandrite Nikoloas Liolios and Archimandrite Ignatios Saxambanis, who came from afar to witness my joy, the honourable leaders, the ambassadorial and consular authorities of Greece and Cyprus, the community leaders both Greek and Arabic speaking, and all the members of the community who have come to this joy, I embrace you all with my gratitude.
In conclusion, calling on the grace of Holy God I ask for the prayers of you all for a pastoral ministry well-pleasing to the Lord for the building of His Holy Body.
His Eminence was also addressed by Metropolitan Gabriel of Leontopolis, on behalf of the Holy Synod of the Throne and His Excellency the Ambassador of Greece to Cairo, Mr. Ch. Lazaris. A festive gathering followed the enthronement service, during which the appointment was announced of the Very Reverend Archimandrite Dimitrios Mansour from Syria as Parish Priest of the Holy Church of the Archangels Michael and Gabriel of the Arabic-Speaking Greek Orthodox Community of Cairo.


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Lunch Box: Make-Ahead Jicama Salad with Seared Steak, Pomegranate and Cilantro
As you can may be able to guess from my previous lunch box columns, I have two prerequisites for bringing salad to work: First, the salad can't require that I pack a separate, tiny dressing container that will almost certainly spill everywhere and make my phone smell like balsamic vinegar. Second, no wilty lettuce allowed. In fact, the less lettuce, the better.
Another win-win for a make-ahead salad is killing two recipes with one marinade. A simple citrus-soy dressing doubles as both the marinade for the salad and the marinade for the steak. Pomegeranate seeds and cilantro give a pop of flavor, freshness and color, and balance out the fattiness of the steak and the starchiness of the jicama.
Jicama, like kale or carrots, is one of those vegetables that seems physically incapable of not being crunchy. Marinate it overnight and it'll soak up flavor without deteriorating. If you're new to jicama, and couldn't pick it out of a vegetable lineup, it's the one that looks like a giant, ugly turnip. It's a little bit sweet and a little bit starchy, and I think, best eaten raw.
About the Author: Suzanne Lehrer is a writer and recipe developer in New York and a recipe editor for Cooking Channel. When not curating her budding hot sauce collection, she puts her French Culinary Institute education to good use in kitchens all around town. Find her on twitter @the_suzchef
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The Other 26: Week TwoPosted by jstevrtc on November 27th, 2010
Kevin Doyle is an RTC contributor. For an introduction to this series, please click here.
We are getting into the thick of the things as teams are now well into their non-conference slate. While many small-conference schools take their lumps at the hands of larger-conference opponents as often happens at this time of year, other are emerging as legitimate contenders within the world of the "Other 26." At this point in most seasons the Maui Invitational controls much of the discussion within college basketball circles, and this year has been no different. The tournament encompasses some of the nation's best teams, and for about a week the focal point of college basketball is the Lahaina Civic Center. Suited more for an AAU championship game than a premiere college basketball venue, the Civic Center witnessed one of the most dominating performances in the history of the Invitational. Averaging 30 points, missing only two of 28 free throws, and guiding the young Huskies to the title is the mark of a champion, and Kemba Walker did all of those. Walker's first heroics of the Invitational came against Wichita State, who so nearly thwarted Connecticut's chances at winning the Invitational on the first day. In the process, however, the Shockers garnered my full admiration in how they competed with some of the top teams in America. In the end, Kemba Walker and Connecticut prevailed, but Wichita State was heard and will continue to make noise throughout the year.
What team impressed the most?
Following a tough season-opening loss to Georgetown by three points, Old Dominion has run off four straight victories. Their wins were hardly against cupcake opponents either as two came against Clemson and Xavier (it should be known that both the Tigers and Musketeers have both fallen only to Old Dominion). It is a grave task for any opponent to combat the Monarchs' attack as no one ODU player is far and away the most significant contributor. Frank Hassell is the team's leader from a statistical perspective as he averages nearly a double-double and is an extremely efficient offensive player, shooting better than 60% from the field. Blaine Taylor, ODU's coach, is the mastermind behind this balanced attack. Check out these numbers: six players are averaging between 5.5 and 8.8 shots a game, and seven players average between 4.2 and 12.6 points a game. While not a flashy team by any means, Old Dominion plays a true team game — a truce recipe for success come March.


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Research on sexuality and space emphasizes geographic and institutional forms that are stable, established, and fixed. By narrowing their analytic gaze on such places, which include gayborhoods and bars, scholars use observations about changing public opinions, residential integration, and the closure of nighttime venues to conclude that queer urban and institutional life is in decline. We use queer pop‐up events to challenge these dominant arguments about urban sexualities and to advocate instead a "temporary turn" that analyzes the relationship between ephemerality and placemaking.


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CANADA said it has extended its review of a $15.1 billion bid by China's CNOOC for Canadian energy producer Nexen by a month to December 10.
Ottawa is conducting the review to determine whether a takeover by the Chinese state-owned enterprise would bring a 'net benefit' to Canada.
CNOOC launched China's richest foreign takeover bid in July when it agreed to buy Nexen, whose global portfolios include oil sands and shale gas.
"The review period for CNOOC Limited's proposed acquisition of Nexen under the Investment Canada Act has been extended to December 10, 2012," Christian Paradis, Canada's industry minister, said in a statement.
The extension will give Canada more time to articulate broad guidelines on foreign takeovers of Canadian companies.
The government wants to issue the framework at the same time it makes its ruling on the CNOOC proposal.
Under Canadian law, all major foreign takeover proposals are subject to approval of the federal government, which must certify that the deals benefit the country.
Canada blocked Malaysian state oil firm Petronas' C$5.17 billion bid for gas producer Progress Energy Resources on October 20 but rather than completely ruling the acquisition out, Paradis offered Petronas 30 days to make new representations to the government.
The industry minister initially had issued a two-week extension before declaring that the transaction would not benefit Canada - raising doubts over CNOOC's bid for Nexen - but offering the additional 30 days.
The proposed acquisition of Nexen has raised concerns within Canada about allowing a Chinese state-owned enterprise to control domestic resource assets.
On the other hand, Canada may have to try to build bridges with Asian markets that would welcome its energy supplies as the United States, long the largest market for Canadian energy exports, increases its own oil output from unconventional sources. Also, this year the United States rejected an initial application on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, Reuters reported on Wednesday that Canada was likely to extend its review of the CNOOC bid for Nexen beyond the November10 deadline.


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Hello, would you like to play tennis at Robert Burnaby Park tennis courts 6pm any day convenient.
I'll be in Palm Springs/Desert from Feb 12-19. I'll be staying at the Hyatt hotels in both places. 4.0 player here (used to be 4.5, but haven't played in a while.)
anyway, i'm looking forward to getting back into shape. if you're around and interested in hitting, let me know.
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A tree trimmer was apparently crushed to death by heavy palm fronds that fell on him while he worked, authorities told The Los Angeles Times.
Emergency personnel responding to a call on Saturday about a trapped tree trimmer in Hollywood found the body of an unidentified man buried in palm fronds about 30 feet above the ground, according to the Times.
"Palm fronds like this have been known to weigh as much as half a ton," Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey told the newspaper. "In these scenarios, the tree trimmer can be crushed, asphyxiated or have their neck broken."
Humphrey added that the cause of death has not yet been determined.
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Not much has gone right for the Mesa Solar Sox as they currently sit at 6-16 which is good for dead last in the AFL East. Wanted to bring you up to speed on how the Cubs prospects are doing, it's been a rough go of it.
I'm actually happy with what Szczur has done with the Solar Sox so far. He's not driving the ball much, but he is getting on base at a .353 clip, and is stealing bases, something a good lead off hitter does.
What a weird season for Baez, his average was way down and so was his OBP. His power numbers were through the roof however, as he blasted four home runs and drove in 16 during his injury shortened AFL season. Not thrilled with the OBP, but it's hard not to be impressed with his production.
It's been a tough AFL season for Silva, but I expected that as he is not playing every day and is finding it hard to find a groove. Silva is not making enough contact, but that's why these players are here, to learn and develop.
Watkins was a late addition to the AFL roster, he was summoned after Javier Baez was injured. Watkins is showing outstanding plate discipline early, something he has done all year, and what a year it was for the Cubs minor league player of the year. It's nice to see the patience, I know the organization is loving that too.
Really like the innings Rhee has been able to throw down in Arizona, the results, not so much. Command has been spotty for Rhee, and it shows with the 6 walks and 22 hits in just under 17 innings.
Struck has been able to wiggle off the hook many times already during the AFL season. Command has gotten him in trouble as he as walked 8 guys in just 12 innings. However, his ERA hasn't really taken a hit as it sits at a respectable 3.75 for the season.
Zych has been really good down in Arizona, he has given up more hits than innings pitched but he doesn't walk guys. Zych has only walked one guy in 10 innings of work, and sports a sparkling 2.70 ERA on the season.
Rhoderick has been very good for the Solar Sox, his 4.82 ERA might suggest otherwise, but he's been dominant at times. In just over nine innings of work Rhoderick has stuck out 14 and only walked two, he's only given up seven hits. The long ball has hurt him as he has given up two home runs which have accounted for the majority of the runs he has given up.
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Ontario the only province where chiefs can't revoke suspended officers' pay
Suspended police officers in Ontario collect millions of dollars each year, and in the only province where police chiefs have no power to revoke their pay, there's a push for change.
Even if convicted of a criminal offence, police officers in the province can continue to receive their salary.
That doesn't sit well with David Stern, whose son was beaten up by Const. Jason Nevill in Barrie. Nevill was convicted last month of assault causing bodily harm, obstruction of justice and fabricating evidence.
He has been suspended since March 2011, when the charges were laid, and will still be paid at least until his sentencing in October or when he is fired following a police disciplinary hearing.
"It's ridiculous," said Stern, whose then 25-year-old son can be seen on mall security video being assaulted by Nevill. "As a citizen, of course once they're convicted, that's it. End of story. You're no longer innocent."
But under Ontario's Police Services Act, the only circumstance in which a police officer doesn't get paid while suspended is if he or she is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment.
If an officer is convicted of a crime but doesn't have to serve time behind bars, they remain suspended with pay until they can be fired through the police disciplinary procedure. The same process applies to officers internally charged with misconduct.
If the officer appeals their termination, it can be delayed for months, even years.
Province-wide suspensions costly
The Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police found in a survey they conducted in 2008 that 52 officers in the province were on suspension at that time. Their annual salaries and benefits would have added up to about $4.8 million.
The survey received data from the provincial police and larger forces such as those in York Region, Waterloo Region, Ottawa and London, but not all of the police services responded.
Numbers for Toronto police were not included in the survey, but currently six of their members are suspended, said Mark Pugash, the director of corporate communications.
Ontario is the only province in which suspended police officers must be paid. Under other provinces' police legislation, police chiefs have the discretion to suspend an officer with or without pay.
In some provinces a suspended officer gets their full pay for the first 30 days of the suspension, then whether they continue to be paid after that is up to the chief.
North Bay Police Chief Paul Cook, the president of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, has two officers out of his force of 94 on suspension as they face domestic violence charges.
"I hear about that weekly from my community and because of the processes that are in place I would expect that I'll be hearing about that for upwards of the next three years or more," he said.
"We're paying these individuals to show up either at a police building or a courthouse, sign in and in many cases that's all they have to do," Cook said, referring to the check-in procedure for officers on suspension.
"That's it for their 80-some thousand dollars. In this day and age how do we justify that within our communities?"
Ontario police chiefs seek change
Police chiefs in Ontario are asking the province to give them the same discretion as their counterparts in the rest of the country.
They have been calling on the government since 2007 to amend the act, but there doesn't appear to be much movement to open up the act just to change one part.
Instead, working groups of police, police services board members and municipal and union representatives from across the province, as part of the Future of Policing Advisory Committee, are looking at the whole act, with an eye to proposing cost-saving changes to some of Ontario's core policing duties.
Policing costs in Canada have risen from $7.3 billion in 2001 to $12.9 billion in 2011, according to Statistics Canada.
The working groups are looking at aspects such as whether lower level officers should be nabbing speeders instead of a constable earning nearly $100,000 a year, and what other duties could be performed by someone other than a police officer.
The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services wouldn't comment on the police chiefs' proposal to end mandatory paid suspensions, except to say through a spokesman that they are awaiting the advisory committee's recommendations.
Various interested groups have had brief, off-line discussions about suspensions without pay, said Dave McFadden, president of the Police Association of Ontario.
He wants to make sure that if there are any changes, police officers are still protected from such harsh consequences when someone "with an axe to grind" lays a complaint.
Police officers, like all other citizens, are presumed innocent until proven guilty, said McFadden, and even if they've been convicted of a criminal offence, they should still get their pay while they are exercising their right to appeal.
But McFadden said he understands people's complaints.
"I get what the people are saying," he said. "I'm a taxpayer too. But having said that, there's a process in place."
Appeals in and out of court
Police officers can also appeal their dismissal, first to the Ontario Civilian Police Commission, then they can appeal that decision to Divisional Court.
In practice, the termination is put on hold while an officer appeals to the OCPC and they continue to be suspended with pay.
The Ontario Association of Police Services Boards proposes a narrow amendment to the act, that sees officers' pay stop once they are ordered dismissed, even if they appeal it.
Those are the more egregious cases that can drag on for years, said Fred Kaustinen, the executive director of the police services board association.
"They're taking advantage of a loophole in the system to fund appeals that often have little chance of success," he said.
"What we want to have is the right balance between protecting the public and protecting the rights of the individual police officer."
Halton Regional Police Chief Steve Tanner suggests chiefs be able to suspend officers without pay if they are charged with the most serious offences, including homicide, sexual assault and offences involving children.
"People get very upset. It's sort of an erosion of confidence," he said.
"You hear people commenting in communities from time to time, 'Well, how can that possibly happen? How can that person still be a member of the police service when they did this or that and now it's been three or four years and they're still getting paid."
That leaves police services often unable to afford hiring someone to perform the officer's duties while he or she is suspended, Tanner said.
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The Department of Defense (DoD) is designing a device that can virtually cure sepsis, an often fatal blood infection to which soldiers injured on the battlefield are prone.The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) is looking to integrate a number of technologies as part of the Dialysis-Like Therapeutics (DLT) program which, combined, would create a device that can remove 90 percent of sepsis-causing agents -- including pathogens, cytokines, toxins, and activated cells -- from a patient within 24 hours of infection, according to the agency.
The problem with sepsis -- which, when paired with shock, has a 50 percent mortality rate for its victims -- is that it often takes about 48 hours or more to identify and then treat the disease, according to the military. By this time it could be too late to save a patient, and even if a soldier survives, sepsis can prolong recovery time from combat wounds.
Like a dialysis machine, the device envisioned by DARPA will remove "dirty" blood from a patient's body, take out the harmful agents, and return the blood "clean" to the patient's body. "If successful, this technology could be used to treat sepsis faster and more effectively, saving lives, and reducing treatment costs," said Tim Broderick, DARPA program manager, in the press statement, adding that in 2009 alone, more than 1,500 active duty service members suffered from sepsis. "DLT may eliminate the need for expensive culture-based identification methods and extended hospital stays," he said.
Through DLT program research, which began in Fall 2011, DARPA has identified how it might limit the effects of sepsis and save more patients.
The DoD is now looking for ways to integrate component technologies already being developed in DLT -- including sensors, complex fluid architectures, separation technologies, and closed-loop controllers -- into a device that would work similarly to a dialysis machine.
Specifically, the technologies that will serve as the foundation for the device include sensing technologies such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy that can identify bacteria, viruses, toxins, and cytokines in the blood, and biocompatible/biomimetic architectures and advanced chemistries to provide high-flow fluid manipulations without the use of anticoagulants, according to DARPA.
Other components of the device will include a suite of technologies such as synthetic mannose binding lectins; acoustophoresis, or the separation of particles using high-intensity sound waves; dieletrophoresis, a force-based particle manipulation technique; and inertial separation. These methods will provide continuous removal of pathogens, toxins, activated cells, exosomes, and cytokines.
The device will also include a closed-loop therapy with system feedback to monitor and redirect the patient's condition based on probability and reduced order techniques. Once developed, the device's use could also be expanded and adapted to diagnose and treat other illnesses.
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Comedian Dies On Stage, Audience Thinks it's Part of The Performance
By R.J. Johnson - @rickerthewriter
April 13, 2019
British comedian Ian Cognito, a veteran of the stand-up scene, died on stage during a performance in Bicester, England on Thursday, it was reported.
Cognito, 60, was performing his stand-up set on stage when he sat down on a stool, breathing heavily. The audience at the Lonely Wolf Comedy Club, unaware that this was not part of his act, watched the comedian for at least five minutes, believing it was all part of the show, Compere Andrew Bird, the owner of the bar, told the BBC.
Bird told the outlet that Cognito wasn't feeling well before the set, but that the comedian decided to go on and perform anyway.
"He was like his old self, his voice was loud. I was thinking 'he's having such a good gig'," Bird said.
Cognito even joked about dying in front of the audience just moments before his death. So when he collapsed in front of the crowd, everyone in the crowd believed Cognito was joking.
Bird eventually went on stage to check on the comedian when it became clear the comedian was not performing. An off-duty police officer and two nurses who happened to be at the club began performing CPR on the comedian while an ambulance was called.
The comedian was pronounced dead at the scene.
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When news surfaced this morning that Broncos linebacker Von Miller is facing a six-game suspension for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, we noted that something out of the ordinary must have taken place: Usually, a first suspension under the league's substance-abuse policy is for four games, while a second suspension is for a full year. A six-game ban would represent an unusual middle ground.
Now we have some idea of the unusual circumstances that may have led to the NFL planning to give Miller more than the normal four-game ban for a first suspension. Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that when Miller went to give a urine sample to the drug tester, it was spilled. When Miller then came back later to give the drug tester another urine sample, that sample was found to be diluted.
It's possible, of course, for those things to happen innocently. Someone could drop a bottle of urine accidentally, and a player's urine could be diluted simply because he drank a lot of water. But the NFL makes clear that a positive drug test isn't the only way to violate the substance-abuse policy. Failing to produce a testable sample when asked to submit to a drug test can also be considered a violation.
That's something Miller should have known, because one of his teammates, D.J. Williams, was suspended six games last year under similar circumstances. The league said Williams twice provided a substance other than human urine for his drug tests, then was seen attempting to pour something from a bottle hidden in his waist band into his urine sample.
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First things first: lag is your worst enemy.
You will need to adapt your jousting strategy to account for lag, or just plain wait until it's as lagless as possible before you try to joust anything remotely difficult (commanders in front of the citadel in particular). Seriously. I updated my computer last weekend, and suddenly, jousting is FUN.
Problems lag causes:
- "Too close" to charge the guy who's clear across the screen.
- "Too far away" to melee the guy standing in front of you.
- You get charged/shield broken while the enemy is standing in front of you.
- The enemy runs away... and keeps running... and running... and running... and then BAM you're dismounted.
- You pressed the charge button. You think. Did you? Hmm... OH! Look, we're running into a tent wall.
How to Joust NPCs and take Minimal Damage:
- Accessorize. This is a game, and this is one aspect of the game where the stats on your gear don't matter one bit. You can ride buck-naked and still put a beat-down from horseback, as long as you have a lance equipped. While I wouldn't recommend this for *real world* jousting, in WoW, it's perfectly acceptable to ride into combat wearing a pink dress, bunny ears, and dragging a little kid along behind you stumbling beneath the crushing weight of an over-packed backpack and 3-pennant flag. If you'd like to strike fear, don your old pumpkin hat from Hallow's End and make them think they're facing down the Headless Horseman. Wear what you want because a) it will make you feel better, and b) it *might* just demoralize your foes that you can beat them in a bikini, or at the least, it might distract them. Do it for giggles.
- Keybind your 3 main abilities: thrust, shield-breaker, and charge. You want these as comfortably close your movement keys as possible: I chose q, mouse button 3, and e respectively. I keybound them on my Bartender action bars, since it allows for stance and vehicle-bar-swapping support.
- Shields up, Captain! When you mount up, with lance equipped and properly accessorized, put your shields to a full 3-stack. This is not cheating: the Boneguard Commanders do it, and the Champions in the ring do it. It is simply smart play to keep your defenses up.
- Pick your prey. If you're a Valiant, you can go to either of the two Valiants' rings to pick a fight with an NPC (horde and alliance doesn't matter), and if you're a Champion, you have the whole Champion ring to choose from. Both ranks can pick a fight with the Boneguard Lieutenants and Commanders, if you wish to fight for justice rather than sport. For the commanders, I recommend pulling them up the stairs towards the citadel so that you don't aggro tons of things (especially those pesky gargoyle scouts!).
- Charge them! For ring fights, wait for you enemy to get in the center ring, and charge them from the sidelines. This is your heaviest damage-dealing attack, and you want to close with them before they charge you back.
- Wheel around with the mouse and movement keys while spamming your shield-breaker (this is why I bound the ability to a mouse-button). This is a maneuver most old-school hunters learned while working on their epic bow quest-line, and is a handy skill for most any player to know: jumping while moving one way, then spinning with the mouse in mid-air to turn and face your opponent again to that you can shoot a ranged ability at them. Since the charge effect gives you a speed boost, tightly circle them while trying to face them (strafe a bit if you have to) and try to stay behind them or to their side, and it should prevent them from getting a charge back at you while you wait for the speed boost to wear off.
- Stab them in melee. If you're feeling plucky, you might run away and wheel-about midair to throw another shield-breaker before they can react, and close back into melee before they can do the same to you. The more you do this, the less armor they have.
- Keep shields at full. Reapply your shields whenever you loose one, and also reapply them before the whole stack simply wears off after a minute's duration. If you loose multiple shield charges, getting them back up around the cooldown should be your top priority.
- When they run, charge after them. How nice of them to provide their backs to you. If your charge isn't up, use shield-breaker and close with them fast before they turn and charge you.
- Rinse, repeat step 6-9.
This strategy has served me well in the Champions' Ring (I've been able to take out all 4 without needing to heal between fights, if I'm careful), as well as in being able to solo the commanders at the citadel. Just don't get *too* cocky, or you'll end up dismounted amidst the dozens of foot soldiers and get squished... >.>
I have not dueled anyone yet, not since a very failed duel on the first day. I'm an odd druid who avoids duels like a plague. I'd like to know, though, if this tactic will work in duels, or if the unpredictability of a live opponent will make it far more difficult, requiring more reliance on remembering their charge cooldowns, and wheeling mid-air for quick breaks or charges.
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( narrator )Terrance farted onthe American President
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And now thethrilling conclusion of...
will not be seen tonight
so that we may bring youthis Queef Sisters special !
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( announcer )Canada Channel presents:The Queef Sisters.
Katherine and Katie Queef.
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It's a Queef Sisters Specialon Channel Canada.
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Now I'm just going tocheck for cysts.
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That's it,no Pap smear for you.
But, Doctor,what if I have cancer ?
You should'vethought of that
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They... they aren'tgonna show
part two of theTerrance and Phillip show ?
Doctor, my sisteris just being difficult.
Maybe you could just examinemy cervix instead ?
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I guess so, Katherine.
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You replaced our showwith this ?!
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The Terrance and Phillip special turns out to be a joke...that wasn't very funny.


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Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith are like those bad boys at the magazine I once worked for who nearly always included jokes about Uruguay and boogers in their copy that you knew were coming but that made you snigger anyway. (I'm talking about you, Dave Barry.) Squids Will Be Squids is a mad take on Aesop's Fables that even manages to make fun of poor old Aesop. It's kind of funny, though.
The art is wonderfully wacky, as it always is in Scieszka/Lane collaborations, and so is the text. Every double spread has a page of instructive parable in multi-sized fonts about creatures like elephants, ants, pigeons, termites, rabbits, duckbilled platypuses (Yes, that is the correct plural. I looked it up.), blowfish, echidnae, pieces of toast, Froot Loops–all the usual protagonists in a fable. There is a cogent moral to sum up each tale. An excellent and cautionary moral, if you are of the feathered persuasion, is: Whatever looks like a pigeon and acts like a pigeon usually makes good pigeon pie. (The particulars of that fable are too appalling to repeat.) Another really pithy reminder is: You should always tell the truth. But if your mom is out having the hair taken off her lip, you might want to forget a few of the details.
One moral involving a beefsnakstick and the aforementioned platypus has a conclusion especially relevant in our carcinogenic consumer culture: Just because you have a lot of stuff, don't think you're so special. Not your thing? How about: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Or: It takes one to know one? I thought there was a moment of undeniable truth in the fable about Skunk, Musk Ox and Cabbage: He who smelt it, dealt it. You can imagine how that story went.
There were a couple of chuckles in Squids Will Be Squids and maybe a hilarity-fest for a small boy who likes fart jokes. Or a grown boy who likes booger humor. Or anyone who just enjoys the very mildly outrageous and slightly goofy and is willing to enter the Scieszka/Lane crazyverse for a while. If you read this with some kids who think you are stuffy, hopelessly boring and humorless, they will get a marginally better opinion of you. Could be worth it.
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Crayton Gears Up To Make Sure "Everyone Eats"
COLUMBIA - Columbia resident Almeta Crayton geared up Thursday to make sure everyone eats again this Thanksgiving. Crayton began collecting donations Wednesday for her 15th annual Everyone Eats Thanksgiving food drive and feast.
The donations will be used to fill baskets with food for Thanksgiving dinners that Everyone Eats will donate to those in need. Crayton says nearly 700 families have signed up for baskets since she began the process a month and a half ago.
Crayton will collect donations at Moser's grocery store on Business Loop 70 in Columbia every day until the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. That is when she begins cooking for the hundreds that join her for Thanksgiving dinner each year.
"We want people to know: this is Boone County. We ain't going to let nobody go hungry and be by themselves. So they can come on down and enjoy themselves if they have no where to go," said Crayton. She said the invitation goes out to anyone, from the elderly, to the poor, to college students who can't return home to visit their families.
Crayton said in past years, people have joined her for dinner from as far away as Ashland and Boonville.
The Thanksgiving day feast will be at Stephens College and Crayton said a taxi service in Columbia will offer a ride to those who need one.
To donate, visit Crayton at Moser's after noon any day before Wednesday, November 21. Crayton said she is happy to have volunteers help on Thanksgiving day as well.
"Lots of people bring their kids. It shows them everyone ain't always been blessed. Don't just say you've been blessed, bless somebody else. And you will find that it will make you feel much better," said Crayton.
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December 26, 2009
1965: Packers Prevail in Overtime Over Colts for Western Conference Title
The two best teams in the NFL's Western Conference, the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts, met in a tie-breaking playoff at Green Bay's Lambeau Field on December 26, 1965. The Colts, under third year Head Coach Don Shula, had gotten off to a 9-1-1 start before disaster struck in the 12th week against the Bears as star QB Johnny Unitas fractured his knee and was lost for the rest of the season. Backup Gary Cuozzo stepped in, but was also lost for the remainder of the year in the following game against the Packers with a separated shoulder.
Shula was down to his emergency quarterback, Tom Matte (pictured above). Matte had been a college quarterback at Ohio State under legendary Head Coach Woody Hayes, but that consisted of running the ball and passing only out of necessity. Matte had been converted into a halfback by the Colts, and was a good one, but had thrown only option passes in his four NFL seasons and was certainly underprepared – and lacked the arm strength – to put in significant action at quarterback. Baltimore made a desperation trade for 37-year-old veteran Ed Brown from the Steelers, who came in on obvious passing situations in the season finale; the Colts managed to defeat the Rams while throwing just seven passes (and completing three, all by Brown, including a TD) and end the regular season at 10-3-1.
Green Bay, under Head Coach Vince Lombardi, had won the first six games, lost three of the next five, and then won two (including the game against the Colts in which Cuozzo was injured). Going into the last game of the season, a win would give them the conference title, while a loss and a Colts win would put Baltimore over the top. Instead, they tied the 49ers at San Francisco, and with the Colts winning, found themselves even, also at 10-3-1.
Ed Brown would not be available for the playoff game, so it was all up to Matte, using a wristband that contained the plays that Shula listed for his use in a simplified offense (Matte's backup was CB Bob Boyd, another non-passing college QB at Oklahoma). Lombardi was determined to keep Matte boxed in by his defensive ends, and had the defensive backs play shallow since long passes were out of the question.
However, it was the Colts getting a huge break on the very first play from scrimmage. Green Bay QB Bart Starr passed ten yards to TE Bill Anderson, who was hit hard by Baltimore CB Lenny Lyles and fumbled. Colts LB Don Shinnick picked up the loose ball and ran 25 yards for a touchdown. Along the way, Starr attempted to tackle Shinnick but was hit by Colts safety Jim Welch and suffered bruised ribs. He would not return to the game.
Zeke Bratkowski (pictured at right) replaced Starr at quarterback, and while he was an accomplished backup, the Colts largely stifled the Green Bay offense during the first half. Their 5-1 defense proved highly effective against the tough Packer running game. The closest they came to scoring prior to their last possession of the half was a missed field goal attempt from 47 yards out by Don Chandler.
Meanwhile, the Colts scored again in the last three minutes of the second quarter on a drive that started on their own 25 yard line. Matte completed a crucial screen pass to HB Lenny Moore on third and eight for a first down at the Green Bay 39 and made it to the eight yard line before the Packers held fast. Lou Michaels kicked a 15-yard field goal. While Green Bay managed to get inside the Baltimore one yard line on their ensuing possession, the Colts stopped them short, with FB Jim Taylor fumbling on fourth down. Baltimore went in at halftime with a 10-0 lead.
The Colts, who had played conservatively out of necessity in the first half and had also avoided mistakes, made a big one in the third quarter. Punter Tom Gilburg bobbled a high snap and attempted to run; he was quickly brought down for a loss at the Colts 35 yard line. The Packers took full advantage as Bratkowski threw 33 yards to flanker Carroll Dale, and shortly thereafter HB Paul Hornung burst over on a one-yard touchdown run.
The Colts clung to their 10-7 lead, stopping two Green Bay drives with interceptions by Boyd and strong safety Jerry Logan. Finally, with time running down in the fourth quarter, Green Bay moved the ball downfield and set up for a 22-yard field goal attempt. The angle was not a favorable one, and after the kick sailed high above the left upright, Chandler shook his head in disgust. But the officials signaled that the field goal was good, and the game was tied with 1:58 remaining.
The contest proceeded to "sudden death" overtime. On their second possession, the Colts got the first scoring opportunity, but due to a bad snap the 47-yard field goal attempt by Michaels missed. Bratkowski then drove the Packers downfield, throwing back-to-back 18-yard passes to Anderson and Dale. At 13:39 into overtime, Chandler booted the game-winning 25-yard kick (no controversy this time), and Green Bay won the hard-fought contest, 13-10.
Tom Matte drew plaudits for accomplishing the most that could be expected in his play as the emergency quarterback – he completed 5 of 12 passes for 40 yards, and while he didn't throw any scoring passes, he also didn't give up any interceptions. The Colts ran the ball 47 times for 143 yards, with Matte leading the way with 17 carries for 57 yards; FB Jerry Hill also accumulated 57 yards on one less attempt. The five pass completions were made by two players: TE John Mackey, with three receptions for 25 yards, and Lenny Moore with two catches out of the backfield for 15 yards.
Playing in place of the injured Bart Starr, Zeke Bratkowski completed 22 of 39 passes for 248 yards with two picked off. TE Anderson led the receivers with 8 receptions for 78 yards. The Colts held the Packers to 112 yards on 39 carries, a 2.9-yard average for a team that had a 3.4 average during the regular season. Jim Taylor led the club with 60 yards on 23 carries.
The Packers defeated the defending champion Cleveland Browns the next week to win the NFL Championship. The Colts came up empty in the postseason for the second consecutive season, but considering the situation at quarterback, they could hardly be faulted for getting as far as they did. Their consolation was to beat up on Dallas in the Playoff Bowl, 35-3, with Matte tossing two touchdown passes to complete his stint as a quarterback (he played seven more seasons as a halfback).
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After reviewing Capers' overall coaching record a few days ago, I had become suddenly nervous about hiring him. He owns a weak, weak head coaching record and an OK D-Coordinator record. As I told Brother Steve yesterday, my preference would have been to wait for a younger guy and take a chance (Keith Butler or AZ's LB coach – apparently the Eagles Sean McDermott was not really an option after all as the Eagles wouldn't have let him interview, according to Tom Silverstein).
However, now that we have apparently hired Capers, I must say, I'm not super pumped up but I'm also not totally disappointed. My major reason for not totally hating this move is that he has experience and I believe it was perhaps a lack of experience that made Bob Sanders seemingly freeze during some games and not make necessary adjustments. Even though Capers failed as a head coach, he may just be one of those guys who is better not being THE guy. I could be wrong here because I have seen Capers have that dumbfounded, no-clue look on his face when things weren't going right. But something tells me that his experience may help us make adjustments on the fly – especially considering he has 3-4/4-3 and hybrid scheme experience. The one concern I had about my own preference for a younger coach like Keith Butler (and Sean McDermott before he was essentially deemed unavailable), was whether they would be able to recognize the variety of offensive plays coming at the defense and then be able to counter and adapt quick enough.
I also think at least a small part of this hire came down to MM/TT being somewhat afraid for their own jobs. If they take a chance on a young swashbuckler, and the guy/defense fails and the team stinks, chances are more than decent that MM/TT may not be asked to come back in 2010. However, by picking an experienced guy who probably has a quality overall NFL reputation, it is less risky and if the defense sucks, they can say things like "we just need a bit more time for the players to adapt to the scheme" and stuff like that.
(One thing I do like about Capers is the apparent fact that he didn't get along too well with Bill Belichick and that's why the Patriots had no problem with him leaving. Now, make no mistake, I greatly admire Belichick's football mind, but his personality strikes me as, well, jackass-like. He kind of seems like that old neighbor on your block when you were growing up who terrified neighborhood kids because he was such a jackass. In fact, this reminds me, there was once a sort-of-neighbor by our grade school who was so angry that my friend hit a foul ball into his yard when we were playing baseball, that he went into the garage, grabbed a gas can, plopped our hard ball on the driveway and set it on fire. I could see Belichick doing that in a few years).


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Tagged: Lauren Bacall
What Dreams May Come…
The end of days…
The realist in me understands that these are the end of days for the New York Yankees. It is merely a time formality for them to be mathematically eliminated. A recent 5-game skid has almost assured the Baseball Gods and those twin sisters at Yankee Stadium, Mystique and Aura, that there will be no October baseball in the Bronx. Realistically, I do not believe the Yankees have a chance to catch the Detroit Tigers or Kansas City Royals as either one of those teams should capture the second Wild Card behind the Los Angeles Angels.
What does this mean? Honestly, I think that Brian Cashman's tenure as GM has reached its conclusion. While I've enjoyed Cashman as GM, I recognize that it is time for change. Assistant GM Billy Eppler, a finalist for the San Diego Padres GM job that he lost to A.J. Preller, is a top candidate and my personal choice as a successor. I would prefer Eppler, who knows and understands the inner workings of the Yankees kingdom, as opposed to an outsider that would have a learning curve. Eppler is respected and he'll have the support of the Steinbrenners from Day 1 given his history with them.
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This Yankees team is old and I don't know what they can do in the short run to turn things around. In many ways, they should have been sellers at the trading deadline to bring an infusion of youth into the organization. The Yankees have talent at the lower levels of the minor leagues (man, am I looking forward to the day that OF Aaron Judge takes the field) but the higher level prospects have largely been a disappointment. While I am hopeful that 2B Rob Refsnyder gets a sniff of Yankee Stadium in September, it is P Manny Banuelos that I am most interested in. Once touted as the top pitching prospect in the organization, I still think Banuelos can deliver the goods now that he is healthy. Hopefully, he is able to make a statement in September to convince the team that he is ready for 2015.
What does it mean? The return of CC Sabathia leaves little to be excited about as he showed nothing to disprove he is aging fast prior to his injury. Hiroki Kuroda will finally head for the shores of Japan, whether it is to retire or to play one last season in the Japanese leagues. So, the Yankees will enter 2015 with plenty of questions in the rotation. Masahiro Tanaka should be the opening day starter, but he's still just an elbow blowout from Tommy John surgery. Shane Greene has proven he belongs so I am confident that he'll be part of the rotation. Michael Pineda is in the 'show me' stage of his career. It's time for him to stay healthy and produce. If he is capable of doing that, he'll be at the upper echelon of the starting rotation. If not, he'll go by the wayside, ala Carl Pavano. Ivan Nova, I have no clue.
What really makes this down season so bad is that next spring will be met by Alex Rodriguez. I really hope that the Yankees find a way to sever ties and ensure that A-Rod never wears pinstripes again.
Matt Slocum
"Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day, make a wish, and think of me. Make your life spectacular." – Jack
I know that this is a sports blog but I'd be remiss for not acknowledging the tremendous impact that Robin Williams had on me during the course of my life. From Mork and Mindy to the many movies that Robin starred in, he made a difference. His comic genius was unlike any other, and he took to any role and embraced it. For someone who brought so much joy and happiness into so many lives, it is unfortunate that he was unable to do so for himself. This has been a tough year with celebrity losses, with actress Lauren Bacall being the latest example, but Robin Williams is a star that will continue to shine brightly. I hope that he found what he was seeking in his fatal decision, but it's a given that he'll never be forgotten. Thanks Robin, we appreciate you, we love you, and hope that you're the life of the party at the divine afterlife.


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Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de El Salvador
The Centro de Discipulado Cristiano, Misión Menonita (Center for Christian Discipleship, Mennonite Mission) began in 1969 when more than 100,000 Salvadorans were expelled from Honduras during the war between El Salvador and Honduras. Among those were two or three families who had been active in the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita of Honduras (Honduran Mennonite Church). The group met in homes in the town of Metapán in northwest El Salvador for several years until a building was constructed in 1982 with some assistance from the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions (Mennonite Church). The church pew rapidly, numbering 110 baptized members in two congregations in 1986. Leadership was initially shared by a team of lay preachers, and that pattern continued after the ordination of Adelso Landaverde as pastor in May 1984. The congregation is active in regional Mennonite meetings and training seminars. In 2003 there were 10 congregations with 358 members.
Mennonite World Conference. "MWC - 2003 Caribbean, Central & South America Mennonite & Brethren in Christ Churches." Accessed 21 February 2006. <http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/carcsam.html>.
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Flickinger, Ron. "Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de El Salvador." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. Web. 4 Jul 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Iglesia_Evang%C3%A9lica_Menonita_de_El_Salvador&oldid=115202.
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Flickinger, Ron. (1987). Iglesia Evangélica Menonita de El Salvador. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 4 July 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Iglesia_Evang%C3%A9lica_Menonita_de_El_Salvador&oldid=115202.
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Advert from 1940. I think the artist knew a few things that the target audience of bonnet and bootee knitting housewives did not supect. That jester makes Liberace look butch.
On his blog, EFL luminary Jeremy Harmer interviews Professor Deborah Cameron . Some of her answers (and books, of course) made me think ...
''When the Washington Post telephoned me on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa, I felt at once that this was something that completely committed me. It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humour, the individual and the defence of free expression''
"Nothing optional - from homosexuality to adultery - is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishments) have a repressed desire to participate."
''The four most overrated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnics.'
Christopher Hitchens
"It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvellous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil - which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama."
Richard P. Feynman
''Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts. Also, it is probably due to our lack of small talk, a lack that extroverts often mistake for disdain. We tend to think before talking, whereas extroverts tend to think by talking, which is why their meetings never last less than six hours. "Introverts," writes a perceptive fellow named Thomas P. Crouser, "are driven to distraction by the semi-internal dialogue extroverts tend to conduct. Introverts don't outwardly complain, instead roll their eyes and silently curse the darkness." Just so.''
Jonathan Rauch
''One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about human beings was their habit of continually stating and repeating the obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you seem to have fallen
down a thirty-foot well, are you alright? At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't know about.''
Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
''The human species, Dinah sometimes thinks, is stark staring mad. People have no sooner got themselves born than they start to imagine the gods want them to flatten their heads, or perforate their genitals, or arrange themselves into hierarchies based on the colour of their skins. The gods require them to avoid eating hoofs, or to walk backwards in certain sacred presences, or to hang up cats in clay pots and light fires underneath them. The gods like them to slaughter birds and make incisions in their own skulls. The gods have put the banana on this earth so that the human species can apprehend that fruit as a miraculous revelation of the Holy Trinity. It has to do with their singular ability to think and dream in symbols. This is what makes the species so vicious. It's also what makes them great poets.''
Barbara Trapido 'Frankie and Stankie'.
Sick of it, whatever it's called, sick of the names.
I dedicate every pore to what's here.
Τα μαύρα μάθκια τα γλυτζιά
γιασεμί μου
τα φρύδκια τα μεγάλα
αχ γιαβρί μου
εκάμαμε τζι αρνήθηκα
γιασεμί μου
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I would like to insert a key deriving function into EAX mode, in order to hamper brute-force attacks for a key-size restricted cipher (56 bits). The modification inserts an identical multi-block pattern $S$ behind the corresponding tweaks:
Original: $OMAC(T||...)$ where the 128-bit tweak $T$ is either
Modification: $OMAC(T||S||...)$
The state of the MAC behind $S$ is different for disjunct tweaks, because the MAC's state behind $S$ can be decrypted back to the original tweak, and identical states would yield identical tweaks.
Is this EAX extension weakening the (provable) security of EAX?


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Hakan Gürsu, the designer of the award winning work Award Winning D-eco Brick Decorative Ecological Bricks points out, DecoBrick is a decorative product in which used plastic cups are employed in an environmentally friendly way. DecoBrick has come to life as an answer to the question 'How can we use this plastic waste of cups and pet bottles in the most efficient way?'. This design uses 4 to 6 pieces of plastic waste that are placed in a simple plastic mold, which later form a 3D brick system. The system can be used at building walls, gardens and in many different areas..
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I'm currently uploading Dr Sumner's film of "Begging for Mercy Makes Me Angry!", which is more or less the halfway point of M2. (It's actually well past that, but it feels like a halfway point.) Do people want me to do Dr Sumner's films from scenarios like Rubicon and Tempus Irae next, or should I do M1? And a follow-up in either case: how does one go about making an SDL conversion of the old Rubicon map so the terminal pictures will work (or does someone have one already); and what emulator would you recommend for M1 on OS X Yosemite? (Aleph One doesn't read M1 films, sadly, so I have to emulate.)
Or should I do someone else's M2/M∞ films? I think I'll at least upload that Sidoh one of "Eat It, Vid Boi!", because hot damn. And it was a stand-alone release, so it wouldn't be messing up the continuity of someone else's film pack.
(Oh, and regarding my "KYT" film, there was some AR ammo I missed. Whoops. I'll get it next go-round.)
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A successful creative career over a decade long has culminated in Anthony Dortch's current mélange of multimedia art; a provocative exhibit that mirrors life while incorporating it.
Based in Washington, D.C., he grew up with artistic inclinations and found inspiration in the culture around him. "My mom would say that I've always been an artist, even as a little kid. I would get a children's book and she'd see that I drew all over it. I'd watch cartoons and try to mimic the way they looked. Then comic books, I'd try to mimic those characters. That's stayed in my artwork now."
Another early influence also continued to impact Dortch throughout his career. "I think when I really knew that I liked art and had ability was during high school. I had an amazing art teacher, Judy Campbell. I'm always curious if she didn't teach me these things, where I'd have ended up." Campbell's unique connection with her advanced placement art students challenged Dortch and encouraged him to be open to new possibilities. "I was not a painter, I did pen and ink. After two years in her class, I was not afraid of oils any more, or acrylics. Now, I always want to see how far I can take any idea."
His current endeavor exemplifies that need to amplify his art. The Privilege Series begins with photos of models, which are printed on canvas then painted. "Each time, I don't know how the picture will turn out. Even though I've planned it out, there is any element of it could turn out different." He hosts elaborate receptions that extend the pictorials beyond the walls, to include models in character which are carefully styled in Dortch-inspired fashion, hair, and make-up, "People don't know where the photo stops and the painting begins."
The Privilege Series illustrates his view of the struggle between the rich, vividly depicted as gilded yellow characters with ostentatious adornments, and the poor, who are chillingly nude except for their cobalt blue skin. "The poor have nothing, they can't even afford clothes. The rich have these ornate wild costumes. It is kind of tongue-in-cheek talking about what's going on in society, without pointing a finger."
But he has faced critics who find bias despite his intent to reflect our reality without remarking on it. "In San Diego, there was a man who said 'You're making fun of Republicans' and I said 'Then you didn't get my show'. It's not just black and white. There are themes of class, money, and race. It is this satire of society. And it's not only today, humans are creatures of habit and we are doomed to continually repeat ourselves. Like slavery, for example, we kind of always keep pushing it on some group of people."
"A lot of people have told me that seems like the series is a very harsh criticism of society. But go to the grocery store and see how people give money to the cashier. Watch how people do that-- they will throw their credit card or cash at the cashier. It's another form of putting yourself above someone else, even if you're both middle class. That's our society: it's what we're becoming. We're always making sure one person is above the other, even in little ways, in our lives."
Much like society, his art develops as ideas and realizations result from their prior incarnations. "Not seeing their face is something that evolved from the very simple idea that when you walk past a poor person begging for money-- do you see their face? I look away. I'm definitely not above my own theories. I don't want to notice the pain. That was something that was not in place at the beginning, but now you really don't know who they are. It's really continually evolved."
"The project has become its own thing. Having the people walk around was an afterthought. We told the models to act and the blue people were always kind of hunched over, very sad and depressed. They became my paintings. Video was captured to loop from opening night throughout the rest of the exhibit. It's really about the whole experience. It's about having this complete experience. If you don't get the images, you might get the models. If not the models, the video. One of these components is going to get you and you're going to leave my show feeling something."
That desire to affect with his unique imagery is driving Anthony Dortch to continue redefining the perimeters of the project and take it to new places, both literally and metaphorically. "I have three more shows, all Privileged Series. Each show, each opening, will never be the same. I will stay with this one for a while. Each time you're going to get something that wasn't there before and I just want to keep evolving and growing. It's already one hundred images, though I don't show all one hundred at one time. What will probably happen is that they will become very specific critiques on society-- soldiers, political characters, etc. Right now I just want people to understand this world I've created."
"I do hope to keep pushing it until I have so many images that it's a world on its own."
Learn more about Anthony Dortch at www.dortchdesigns.com.