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Hello all, The flyer for the Blue Ridge qualifier on March 12 in Lakeside, AZ is attached. Unfortunately the size of the flyer for the February 12 Blue Ridge qualifier exceeded the file size limitation for uploading it. For more information on either the February or March qualifiers please contact either Jon Martis firstname.lastname@example.com (480) 560-8471 or David Butterfield email@example.com (928) 205-7264 Thank you for your interest. MAL


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During a gaming session last night I encountered some difficulty with the picture from my Sega Saturn. After investigating the following morning, I found that one of the SCART switches I'd thought was perfectly fine was actually degrading the quality of my picture significantly. The switch is pictured here, it's a passive manual one:-
It's often sold as "SCART Switch Manual Push Button 5 Way", "Nedis Silver Scart Switch Box 5 Way", "5 Way Scart Selector SLX Gold" or similar, and is available from dozens of places and is even recommended by some specialist videogame retailers on E-bay. While it works better than a lot of SCART switches, the push buttons simply do not isolate the sockets correctly. Plugging in additional SCART cables can physically degrade the pictures brightness and add noise, a shame.
I've ordered two different kinds of replacement switches that I intend to review, hopefully at least one of these will prove satisfactory, else I'll be manually swapping SCART cables from now on.

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Dear Colleagues,
"A Step Closer."
The College Wide Diversity Committee is excited about the ongoing communication that this newsletter will provide. It is our intent to publish/send this communication out each month. The members of our committee, even while being called upon by many service requests continue to communicate their dedication to the cause of expanding diversity initiatives at the college. For this I am grateful. Black History and Women's History months are times when a full range of campus programming occurs to celebrate the contributions of both African Americans in February, and Women in March. In the coming issues we will be including programs and celebrations created by other members of the college community. We urge Administrators Faculty and Staff, to visit our programs and learn, teach and grow.
Don't forget to contact me at extension 2605, to schedule a Diversity Workshop for your class.
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It's been a while that I wrote a blog post about Azure Storage :). Earlier this month, Azure Storage Team released a new version of Storage Service and included a lot of awesome goodness! In this blog post, I will try to summarize those. So let's start! New Storage Service REST API Version / … [Read more...]
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The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians | Editorial
Editorial: Channelling a reckless Donald Trump, Israeli ministers appear to have adopted a dangerous mindset: to destroy the national aspirations of the Palestinians by military force It is inexcusable for soldiers of a military, especially those under democratic civilian control, to shoot and kill protesters, almost all of whom were unarmed, and who pose no credible threat. Yet at the boundary between Gaza and Israel today Israeli soldiers blockading Gaza, Israel imprisoned 2 million people behind barbed wire and military towers. Israel treated the violence as a jailer might a…Read More


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The Halifax co-production market will include panel discussions with Sergei Bespalov, Kearie Peak, Anne Marie La Traverse and Fraser Robinson.
The Halifax co-production market, Strategic Partners (Sept. 16-19), announced that panel discussions will include Sergei Bespalov of Sunrise Films (Whistle Blower, Flutter); Electric Entertainment's Kearie Peak (Flyboys, The Long Kiss Goodnight); Anne Marie La Traverse (Flashpoint, Hunt for Justice: The Louise Arbour Story) and Universal Network's Fraser Robinson (Haven, Shattered).
Its annual Academy Luncheon series, A Conversation With…Martin Katz spotlights Katz whose credits include Hotel Rwanda and Spectacle: Elvis Costello. He will be interviewed by Montreal vanguard filmmaker, Jacob Tierney (d. The Trotsky), whose third feature, Good Neighbours, premiered at TIFF.
"Next to Toronto and Vancouver, Halifax is the third largest English-speaking film production hotspot in Canada – and we're thrilled to welcome delegates from across the globe to our beautiful backyard," said Jan Miller, director of Strategic Partners in a release. "Our goal each year at Strategic Partners is to offer programming that is engaging, informative and productive. This year, we're presenting a stellar offering of panels, keynotes and special guests."
As previously reported, the opening keynote "The Future is Unwritten" will be on Friday, September 17, with producer Damon D'Oliveira in a conversation with groundbreaking indie producer, Christine Vachon, whose acclaimed films include Far From Heaven, Boys Don't Cry, One Hour Photo and I Shot Andy Warhol. This kicks off the first full day of one-on-one meetings, a component unique to SP, where close to 1000 prescheduled business meetings provide delegates with unparalleled access to prospective international partners.
Spearheading the first of three panels on Friday will be veteran industry financier, Peter Graham of 120db films, who will moderate "Herding Equity Fat Cats: How to Source and Coordinate Financial Capital for Indie Production." Speaking to the challenges of raising capital and corralling public funding will be panellists Georg Hoess - Bavaria International; Kevin Forrester – Myriad Pictures; Sergei Bespalov – Sunrise Films; Kearie Peak - Electric Entertainment and Sandra Desrosiers Karr – Telefilm Canada.
On Saturday, September 18, Canadian entrepreneur and esteemed industry veteran Laszlo Barna, President of Entertainment One Television, presents his keynote address titled "An International Success Story: Canadian Television."
Following Barna's delivery on the topic of television cop-pros will be "Co- For It! Strategies, Complexities and Co-Pro Conundrums." Temple Street Productions Vice President of Drama, Tecca Crosby and her panel candidly explore the challenges that broadcasters and producers face in co-venturing or co-producing with international partners. She will be joined by Anne Marie La Traverse - Pink Sky Entertainment; Fraser Robinson – Universal Networks International; Tasja Abel – ZDF Enterprises and Trish Williams – CTV.
"Opportunity Knocks: Your Right to Digital Rights" is the final panel that will take place on Sunday, September 19, moderated by Janet Brown of Cinetic Rights Management. This conversation will consider the conditions and demands of digital rights from a platform, marketing and rights perspective. Brown will be joined by panellists Naveen Prasad – Alliance Films; Ryan Barlow – Vuguru; Zachary Soreff – Sawyer Studios; and Daniel Page - Rogers Communications and Chris Harris – Canwest Broadcasting.


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Annual Breast Cancer Event Returns for 5th Year to Tucson Rodeo
Chicks n Chaps™ Takes Guests Behind the Chutes to Buck Off Cancer
TUCSON, AZ –Dec. 13, 2017 – Tucson Chapter of Chicks n Chaps™ Women's Rodeo Clinic's 5th annual event will be held February 18, 2018 as part of the 93rd Annual Fiesta de los Vaqueros Tucson Rodeo. The event benefits the Arizona Oncology Foundation, which provides services and support to patients and their families in the local community dealing with breast and other cancers.
During the first four years, more than 500 participants have helped raise nearly $20,000 to help support grassroots research and services and support that directly benefits our Tucson neighbors. Two years ago, the Arizona Oncology Foundation was named the event beneficiary. Since then, funds raised have provided:
- 2,885 wigs and head coverings
- 555 breast prosthetics, specialty bras and camisoles
- Helped 34 women attend the Look Good Feel Better hair and skin care sessions hosted at both resource centers
"This support makes a huge difference," says Becky O'Hara, development director for the foundation. "Karin, a breast cancer survivor says this about the support she received:
'What I got from my doctors is a physical healing, what I got from using the resources at the Arizona Oncology Foundation Resource Center is a whole body healing; physically, emotionally and spiritually'.
"Arizona Oncology Foundation is deeply grateful for this FUNdraiser and the whole Chicks n Chaps committee that believes with us that 'Together is Always Better'. Thank you so very much!"
The one-of-a-kind event provides guest with a behind-the-chutes look at the sport of rodeo, with notable rodeo athletes, roping demonstrations, and detailed information about the seven events in a professional rodeo. A champagne breakfast, silent auction and a dedicated "Chick Pit" where attendees watch and relax during the rodeo in the VIP Vaquero Club all create a truly unforgettable rodeo experience. This year, a fashion show featuring breast cancer survivors has been added to the activities.
"We've really seen this event grow, beginning with 12 women in a living room talking about how to bring this event to our rodeo, to now seeing such tremendous support from our participants and our sponsors," says Mary Davis, event chair. "We're hoping to fill the Vaquero this year!"
Chicks n Chaps™ events are held at local rodeos in nearly a dozen states. Originally founded in Montana, clinics have raised over $2 million for local community programs. Chicks n Chaps™ teaches thousands of participants about the sport of rodeo and allows them to get up close and personal with the contestants behind the chutes, all while raising money and providing support for breast cancer fighters and survivors. If you are interested in participating in the 2018 Tucson Chicks n Chaps event, or would like to learn more about how you can become a sponsor, visit us at http://chicksnchapsaz.org, or email us at email@example.com.
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Each year across the United States, Chicks N Chaps™ events are held at local rodeos across the west. Last year, the organization donated more than $500,000 to community programs. All of the money raised in a host community remains in that community. These events bring together thousands of women from all different walks, many of whom have never seen a horse, a cowboy or felt the rush of watching someone ride a two thousand pound animal, to learn about rodeo. Chicks N Chaps™ teaches women how to rope, ride, and have a great country time, all while raising money for breast cancer fighters and survivors. This is the Tucson Chapter's first year sponsoring an event.


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SICK Islamic State jihadis fed a desperate mother a meal of meat and rice,
then told her: "You've just eaten your son."
A British dad who went to Iraq to fight IS, last night revealed the horrific
story of the distraught woman who went to the fanatics' HQ after her son was
taken prisoner.
Yasir Abdulla, 36, was so sickened by the jihadis' cruelty that he left his
wife and kids at home in Yorkshire to spend six months fighting on the front
line in his Kurdish homeland — and is vowing to return to "finish the job".
The dad of four said: "I hate IS because of what happened to an old Kurdish
woman from a nearby tribe.
"Her son was captured by IS fighters and taken as a prisoner to Mosul.
"She was determined to find her son and went to IS headquarters and asked to
see him.
"The IS men told her to sit down because she had travelled a long way and said
she should have some food before they took her to meet her son.
"They brought her cups of tea and fed her a meal of cooked meat, rice and
soup. She thought they were kind.
"But they had killed him and chopped him up and after she finished the meal
and asked to see her son they laughed and said, 'You've just eaten him'."
John's dad in Kuwait
Yasir added: "All the tribes are united against IS. They burn people alive,
they chop off people's heads, there is no limit to their depravity. They are
not Muslims, they have hijacked Islam. All they do is hate."
Security guard Yasir left Kurdistan in 2000 to move to Britain, and now lives
happily with his wife and children in Keighley, West Yorks.
But when IS fighters rampaged across Iraq last year and came within six miles
of his home village, he decided to act.
He bought a £100 set of combat fatigues online, then travelled to Kurdistan
where he bought an assault rifle and headed for the war zone.
Yasir joined hundreds of other volunteer fighters to patrol a ten-mile front
Each day the Kurdish forces are attacked by IS jihadis holed up 400 yards away
across a deadly no-man's land.
And each day the tribal fighters, aided by government Peshmerga troops and US
military advisers, see off the Islamists' attacks.
Yasir said: "There is a red line on the map and you can't step over it because
that is where US air strikes might fall. We have to just defend at the
"We want to attack IS and drive them out forever but we can't unless the
Peshmerga and the Americans say we can."
Yasir saw comrades including his cousin killed in a night-time assault by IS,
but said: "You know it might happen. Everyone who is willing to fight to
defend their homeland knows they might die one day."
In the most detailed account ever given by a Brit fighting IS, Yasir revealed
how jihadists terrorise locals by phoning them and threatening to kidnap and
bury them alive unless they surrender.
He also revealed how IS fanatics slaughter prisoners in a barbaric "human
Yasir said: "They dig a trench, put dry tree branches and leaves in there, set
it alight and then throw prisoners on so they burn alive."
He added: "IS are very good at making people scared. If they make one person
scared then that person will make another person scared and soon everyone is
scared of IS.
"But the Kurds are not scared of them. Someone has to stand and fight. We have
got thousands of people in many villages and towns behind us. If we fall
then all of those places fall, and that can't happen."
Yasir, who returned to Keighley last week, is confident the Kurds are winning
the battle. And he is vowing to go back to Iraq to help them finally defeat
the IS murderers.
He said: "The Peshmerga can't wait to take the fight to IS. We know we can
"I would say to America and our government, let us cross the red line. Let us
finish the job. We can do it."
Dakota's I.S. spoof storm
DAKOTA Johnson has been slammed for starring in a comedy sketch that showed
her joining Islamic State.
The Fifty Shades Of Grey actress appeared in a US TV spoof of an advert in
which a dad drives his daughter to join the US army.
She hops on a truck flying the Islamic flag and ISIS men yell: "Death to
America!" Dakota, 25, comforts her dad: "It's only ISIS."
One viewer tweeted: "Jokes about ISIS are not funny. No respect."
Another said: "Isis skit poor taste."


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When I attended my very first college football game several years ago, I was so excited. I only knew the basic gist of the game back then, but nothing too in depth. The Seminoles were playing the Hurricanes and naturally, I was rooting for the Seminoles. I knew which end zone to look to for touchdowns and I knew when to cheer. After the game began, the excitement of watching it rapidly wore off. I felt like I had been waiting forever, but neither of the teams had scored. I then began to find my entertainment elsewhere. Die-hard fans were chanting loudly with there faces painted. People were waving their paraphernalia wildly and were just having the time of their life. It became more interesting "people watching" than actually watching the game.
Shortly after I found my next subject to observe, the crowd went wild. People were standing, screaming and cheering all around me, and you could hear the Seminole's war chant resounding throughout the stadium. It took me a split second to realize that I had missed the first touchdown of the game. It was disappointing because that's what I'd been waiting to see and now I could only celebrate based on something that I'd heard about.
I think that's how it is with Christians. With God, it is a waiting game. In His time He does things in our lives that make all the difference in the world. The only catch is that we wait on Him. We always start off strong, excited, and on fire for the Lord, but then we get distracted. We take our eye off the prize, watching and judging those around us. Always checking out what we're missing outside of our Christian walk. In a moment of weakness, or simply when we let our guard down, we miss it. We miss that special word designed just for us during a service. We miss the solution to the problem that we've been praying about. We miss the opportunity to provide service to someone. Then, we wonder why God didn't show up. Well, he did show up. We're often too busy with the wrong things to receive Him. Unfortunately, there is no instant replay. We've just missed out on our blessing until the next opportunity.
We get so caught up in rituals and rules of religion, or with everyone else's drama that we often miss that intimate connection with God. You don't want to have to just hear about how great God is through other people's testimony. Keep your eye on the prize. Even when you fall short, get right back up and refocus on Him so that He can do great things in your life.
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I have been using the Nourish Purifying Cleanser for the past few weeks now, I'm unsure where I got this from as it has been sitting my draws for a while now, but I think I got it from a bloggers event. I am always trying and testing out new skincare products, as I have not yet found that perfect skincare routine which meets my skin's needs.
I was unsure about the product at first as it is a creamy grey colour, which is a little odd, as most skincare is a light white colour so I did think it was a little unusual. The bottle is a squirty top so you have to press this down for the lotion to come out, the pump isn't the best so it does tend to go in different directions. I have noticed now that the cleanser does come in a slightly different bottle, so this might come with a better functioning pump.
I have been applying this cleanser with a cotton wool pad, and have been using around three each time. I tend to use before bed and then follow this up with a toner water to make sure everything has been removed. I have found the cleanser does tend to remove everything easily and is still gentle on my skin. The product has toner properties from the Rose absoutle and the Damask rose, which helps tighten pores and gives your skin a youthful glow. I have noticed with this my skin tone has improved greatly as I have really noticeable pores and red patches, but this has really helped with the appearance of this.
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1. I'd like to have more than half a dozen people visit my site.
2. To go back to hosting myself and being able to install all the trackers, plugins and themes that I'd like.
3. To be quoted on something particularly funny I say and have it go viral. I'll, uh, have to try to remember to write something funny. I'll also have to hope that I meant whatever it is to be funny and to not have it be dumbassery.
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He holds a PhD in law from Melbourne University and is the author of Collins on Defamation (Oxford University Press, 2014), a leading text on the law of defamation in England and Wales, and all three editions of The Law of Defamation and the Internet (Oxford University Press, 2001, 2005, 2010), the standard international text on the application of principles of defamation law to online publications.
Dr Collins is also a door tenant at One Brick Court chambers in London. One Brick Court is a leading set of media and information law barristers.
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The libraries also have collections of high demand items which NYIT faculty place "On Reserve". Students with a valid NYIT ID can check out reserve materials for a maximum of 3 hours.
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Last night on The O'Reilly Factor, Glenn Beck responded to O'Reilly's stupid idea for a two percent "temporary" national sales tax by proposing an even more asinine idea. Beck suggested a two percent Value Added Tax (VAT) instead, apparently feeling a need to one-up O'Reilly's ridiculous and naïve idea. After taping the show, they probably left the studio to go play chicken with each other in fast cars on some quiet suburban street full of children.
Clearly, anyone who is not watching the turnip truck drive away while picking gravel out of their posterior can see the flawed logic on display here.
In O'Reilly's case, the notion that any national sales tax would be temporary, or held at 2% for that matter, is simply ludicrous and is an insult to the intelligence of anyone who has observed politics for more than a month. Furthermore, the very notion of adding a tax like that with the expectation that it will generate any real revenue demonstrates a lack of understanding of how the tax system influences behavior, particularly in a recession.
Glenn Beck's proposal is equally stupid but has the added feature of making the taxation far more insidious and dangerous. Value Added Taxes, like the corporate income tax so beloved by statists and the myrmidons with whom they play simplistic and dishonest class warfare games, add the far more dangerous reality that the taxes simply get hidden in the prices of products and services, allowing the levitation government to covertly connect yet another tick to the neck of productive America. At least O'Reilly's idea involves a tax that we can see, though the notion of any tax being "temporary" ranks right up there with the ludicrous idea that ObamaCare will help with the deficit and the economy.
I propose a simpler idea, one that may be too clear for smart guys like O'Reilly and Beck. Let's stop the spending. At a time when so many Americans are struggling to pay their mortgages or keep their old cars running long enough to get back in the black with their personal finances, a proposal to raise taxes on any Americans is patently absurd. Bill and Glenn, like so many American politicians, sit up on their ivory pedestals without any memory of what it is like to be a regular middle class American.
Furthermore, we need to reduce subsidies to those who were getting a free ride before the recession hit. How much money could we save by canceling the euphemistically named Earned Income Tax Credit and any other tax credit programs that simply transfer money from the productive to the non-productive?
I submit that any increases in taxes right now would only hurt the economy and the Americans who fund our system, and are the equivalent of treating a hangover by imbibing a little "hair of the dog". Additionally, I humbly submit that since we have so many people hurting who were not societal parasites before this recession, we can longer afford the luxury of continuing to subsidize the lifestyles of people who were living off of us before the economy tanked. For a deeper discussion of which groups get a free ride and which groups are societal parasites in America, check out a piece that I wrote for my other blog titled On Taxes and Socialism.
Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly could really stand to read Milton Freidman's Free to Choose. They would learn a lot.


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We explain how Abenomics is the "icing on the cake" of corporate governance improvement over the last decade.
A concentrated, stock-picking approach is the best way to serve a long-term investor's goal of capital appreciation
The internet revolution is coming to the financial sector, addressing inefficiencies in current system and business models. In China's case we are witnessing a combination of financial liberalisation with an internet revolution in the financial sector.
Even though the current term premium on US Treasuries seems too low, it is unlikely to rise significantly unless offshore bond yields start to rise.
For investors outside China, whether they have holdings in Chinese shares or not, coming to a coherent investment view on the country has become imperative as it exerts an ever-increasing influence on global markets.
As has long been our view, disappointing economic data should not worry investors in Japanese risk assets very much at all.
While RMB weakness will likely persist for a few months, we don't expect the currency to devalue more than 10% versus USD and we maintain our confidence that the currency will be included into the IMF SDR basket in a year from now.
We will be watching to see how companies respond this year to the Corporate Governance Code, specifically the twin issues of selling cross-shareholdings and improving capital efficiency.
India is a key market to watch in the coming years. Our expert on India, Andrew Holland, CEO of Nikko AM's joint venture there, discusses with Simon Down of our UK fixed income team the forecast for reforms in the country, with some surprising conclusions.
What lies ahead for iron ore prices, particularly with the Chinese economy slowing and undergoing a transition away from a materials-intensive economy to a consumption-driven economy?


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Are you passionate about cloth nappies? Would you like a chance to earn some money, but still be able to work around the needs of your family? To find out more, click here.
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My name is Debbie, I live in Milton Keynes, and am mum to Daniel (born in 2003). My cloth nappy story starts when I was pregnant and my husband suggested that we should use washable nappies. I was initially sceptical (as I remembered folding terry squares for my younger brother, and having nappies soaking in a bucket!), but I agreed to give it a go.
Once Daniel was born, I started using the nappies and was soon converted. I was surprised by how easy they were to use. I originally thought you had to be a supermum to use them, but that simply wasn't true. When Daniel was 9 months old, I started working as a real nappy advisor for Lollipop, and had a chance to try out a whole range of new nappy systems and to offer advice to other parents who wanted to use them on their own babies.
Until 2010, I continued to work for Lollipop, building up a network of contacts with health visitors, midwives and local organisations. I have established good relationships with local councils including Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire County, Central Bedfordshire, Bedford Borough and Luton, and have helped them to promote cloth nappies, set up incentive schemes and provided them with some nappy trial packs. I was the Lollipop County Leader for Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire for the last 2 years of my time with Lollipop with the opportunity to develop my own team.
However, in 2010 I felt that the time had come to 'go it alone' and set up my own company, Brilliant Nappies, offering the same great advice and customer service that was expected with Lollipop, but also offering more independence and flexibility to add different products to my range.
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Facebook appears to be abusing its corporate power to silence and censor Christians and Christian thought. In the case of Elizabeth Johnston, she was suspended TWICE for doing nothing more than quoting and explaining the Biblical view of homosexuality.
The Christian Post reports that Johnston, a conservative who runs the popular "Activist Mommy" Facebook page, first had her popular page suspended after she quoted the Book of Leviticus, which declares homosexuality (like all sin) "detestable" and an "abomination."
Facebook not only froze her page for three days, they removed the comment in question. Johnston says Facebook notified her that this action was taken because her comment "doesn't follow the Facebook Community Standards."
Moreover, not that it should matter, according to Johnston, she did not even publish a post about homosexuality. All of this occurred in the comment thread below an unrelated video:
"Someone had commented underneath one of my videos and were commenting under the thread and said something about how Old Testament law prohibits the eating of pork — one of the homosexuals' favorite arguments to make. I responded with just scriptural commentary and that is considered 'hate speech' by Facebook," Johnston explained. "It was just very intellectual and it was just a commentary on what the Bible says. There was no name calling or anything like that."
Facebook's three-day suspension ended February 12. The second suspension — which lasted 7 days! — happened almost immediately after, when Johnston published a post to explain to her followers why her page had been frozen. She included a screenshot of the deleted Facebook comment and accused the social media site of censoring Christian speech. Johnson told the Christian Post:
"That ticked them off and they didn't like that at all. It was going viral. Just within a few hours, they had banned me again and they were going to make it more painful."
And by "more painful," she means the threat of having her page permanently deleted, or if you like, memory-holed.
This behavior by Facebook is of course outrageous.
The Christian Post has screenshots of the Johnston posts in question, and neither is anything close to inflammatory. In fact, her explanation on the biblical view of homosexuality could be described as scholarly.
But even if it wasn't, even if Johnston was a flaming bigot — so what?
You have a right in this country to be a flaming bigot.
Yes, I know, Facebook is a private corporation that can set whatever arbitrary rules they wish, that can censor us however they like, that has the right itself to be bigoted against Christians… But there is something called corporate responsibility.
There is also something called a monopoly.
Facebook has become the Ma Bell of the 21st Century, the only online communication device through which we connect and talk to one another, to our families, to our friends, to the world. For Zuckerberg to sucker us into his portal, and then to wait until it's a monopoly to threaten those who wish to express their Christian faith… That might be legal, but it is also immoral and unAmerican.
Secondly, the arbitrary nature of the rationale behind this is also troubling.
Not just on Facebook, but anywhere, without being persecuted by the Left, you can lay out the biblical view of every sin imaginable: adultery, fornication, murder, saying the Lord's name in vain, stealing, lying… No one cares. But if you dare speak the biblical truth about the sin of homosexuality, you're suddenly smeared as a bigot, a hater, a "phobe" — you are shunned, silenced, and censored.
Yes, I am well aware that some use the Bible as a sword, as a tool of bigotry to single out and denigrate homosexuals. That is despicable behavior. God loves everyone, including those who are sexually attracted to their own gender. What God hates is sin, all sin, and giving into homosexual desire is a sin, just as giving in to adulterous desire is a sin, just as giving in to greed is a sin, just as lying is a sin.
Nothing that Elizabeth Johnston published (on defense, by the way) colors outside those lines.
Facebook's track record of censoring conservatives grows more troubling by the day: Left-wing "fact-checkers" with the power to defeat what they deem Fake News, the outright blocking of conservative articles, censoring those opposed to allowing men in women's locker rooms, removing conservative news from its influential trending news page.
On the issue of free speech, I am a full-blown extremist. Until you are promoting, excusing, or advocating for violence, people should be allowed to say whatever they wish. The best thing about free speech is how it smokes out bigots. Let them talk. I want to know who they are.
Nevertheless, Elizabeth Johnston is no bigot. She's merely a devout Christian expressing her faith.
Keep the following Big Picture in mind, though…
Overall, there is something much larger and more sinister going on here; a conscious plot hatched by the Left to turn mainstream Christian beliefs into de facto bigotry. What follows is the kind of persecution we see almost daily in the national media, the censorship we're seeing at Facebook, and a tyrannical State forcing us into the slavery of violating our own conscience.
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Don't think it, don't say it and most importantly, don't see it
Look, does anyone think that The Bye Bye Man was actually going to be good? We're in January and this month has never been kind to horror movies in the past. Looking back at last year, we got The Forest, and in other years we got Texas Chainsaw 3D and Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, in which each one was terrible. The Bye Bye Man is no different and fits right in with those January horror movies.
In the 1960s, there was a man that turned mad killing 6 people in which he blames the Bye Bye Man for his actions. Fast forward to the present day, and we got 3 college students that move into their new off-campus house.
Elliot (Douglas Smith), his girlfriend, Sasha (Cressida Bonas) and his buddy, John (Lucien Laviscount) get along great and seem like really good friends. That soon changes when Elliot finds an old night table and in the drawer is a carved name, "The Bye Bye Man." By saying this name out loud, the college students start having visions, and the relationship between them starts bringing doubts.
From the start, The Bye Bye Man is in serious trouble. Trying to be a serious story, the poorly written dialogue doesn't help overcome the movies' many flaws. Unintentionally funny lines unexpectantly come out of each characters mouths making serious and supposedly frightening scenes, less impactful. Cressida Bonas delivers a wooden performance, while Douglas Smith delivers the total opposite. The actors can mask their mediocre dialogue and together it makes the perfect storm. No one in the movie is able to make the audience believe that they are indeed being terrorized by an entity.
One can still overlook mediocre performances and dialogue if the movie has something interesting to say. Except that, The Bye Bye Man has nothing important to say. Nothing that director Stacy Title (The Last Supper, Let The Devil Wear Black) brings to the table is new. Seances, urban legends, and distorted realities have been done better in similar movies such as Candyman.
The plot goes nowhere interesting, and when it is ultimately time to end the film, they take the predictable, easy way out. The movie does have an enormous amount of "cop-outs." It kills characters for no other reason than having nothing more useful to say or do.
Even with all of that, The Bye Bye Man cannot answer simple questions. Why do they keep showing us a train? Where does this Bye Bye Man come from? Why does he have a terrible CGI dog? These questions are never answered but always keep coming up in the movie.
The only reason all of this could possibly be left unanswered is that the studios want to make a sequel. I shivered when the last scene of the movie left a possibility for a sequel to made. It was possibly the only moment in the whole movie that genuinely scared me.
Setting the bar extremely low for horror movies this year, The Bye Bye Man is a lazy, stupid and pointless movie that has nothing good to say. At the beginning of the film, one character asked his girlfriend if she wanted to watch a shitty movie. It's kind of sad that I would later realize that that line was actually a warning for what's to come. If you are looking for a good urban legend horror movie, maybe stay home and rent Candyman or The Babadook. You can thank me later.


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Friday, November 16, 2012
Today's Top Stories
Top Stories from the
past week
Nov. 15
Board of appeals hears opposition to
quarryPart 2
Main Street Lincoln presents Christmas
parade and holiday fun in historic downtown Lincoln
ALMH gives food baskets for Thanksgiving
Great Logan County voter turnout, with
Hurlbut precinct leading state at 81.09 percent
Lincoln Jaycees host annual Senior Feast
Lincoln College flies by Blackhawk 92-63
By Justin Tierney
Hartem rallies for 'Meet the Stags' night
Hartem rallies for 'Meet the Stags' night
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Women's Thankoffering Sunday at Immanuel
Join Open Arms Christian Fellowship for a
Thanksgiving feast Sunday
Improving quality health care in rural
communitiesNov. 15 is
National Rural Health Day in Illinois
This day in history
Nov. 14
Zoning board of appeals hears
opposition to quarry
Part 1
Mount Pulaski observes Veterans Day with
traditional VFW Post 777 dinner & speaker
Healthy Communities
Partnership hosts 2nd annual USO dance
Middletown 4-H'ers raise money for 2013
trip to New York City
Girl Scouts and Marines host Toys for Tots
drive Saturday
ZLS Student of the Month
Flu facts
Logan County FSA news bulletin
State signs agreement for Purple Heart
Nov. 13
Announcement: Monday evening hearing on a request
to rezone property near the old rock quarry west of Lincoln will
continue Tuesday evening.
Veterans Day celebrated in Lincoln
Veterans Day celebrated in
Lincoln -- photos
Veterans Day celebrated in
Lincoln -- photos
Italian dinner -- photos
Mount Pulaski Alzheimer's
Support Group to feature speaker
2 Lincoln Christian student-athletes
named to all-American women's volleyball team
the American Cancer Society for the Great American Smokeout on
Thursday and be a quitter
Tobacco Atlas estimates 1 billion people will die worldwide
during 21st century if they don't quit smoking
the American Cancer Society for the Great American Smokeout on
Thursday and be a quitter
Fact sheet on tobacco use
Corn and
soybean prices following short-crop pattern
This day in history
Nov. 12
Veterans Day celebrated in Lincoln
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Mount Pulaski volleyball finishes
2nd in state
Lady Toppers' 'state' celebration
Front to back: Images
from the competition
Album 1
Surviving Vietnam: A vet
tells his story of the war and the aftermath
Land rezoning request for quarry
becomes battle
Part 2
1st time out:
LCHS speech team success at Normal West
4-H'er Todd Irwin competes in
National 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl
Pulaski Alzheimer's Support Group to feature speaker
Woman's Club tea and guest
speaker Wednesday
McTeacher's Nights scheduled
during National Education Week, Nov. 12-16
away! Illini sink 13 3s in season-opening 75-55 win over Colgate
By Jeff Mayfield
Attorney general issues
resource guide for veterans, service members on employment
rights, consumer protections
Illinois State Police Zone 3 & FBI conduct investigation at Hammel
Woods Forest Preserve
Illinois names 8 health care plans for
Medicaid and Medicare clients
Project will provide
coordinated care for 'dual eligibles'Goal is to improve health care outcomes and control costs
Illinois agriculture invests
in nutrient research and water quality
Nov. 10
country: Emden
elementary students and veterans in assembly hit the mark
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Lady Toppers win state semifinal
over Pirates
Land rezoning request for quarry
becomes battle
Part 1
Unseasonably warm temps offer
one more weekend to finish outdoor chores
Major winter
storm in western and Rocky Mountain states this weekend, to push
cold through Midwest into East Coast next week
U of I news:
IPT Bull Sale info available on
'Little Wonders: Plants on Your Thanksgiving Plate' at Sugar Grove
Nature Center
New service hours for Social Security offices
This day in history
Nov. 9
Norovirus confirmed as CEL
City Briefs:
Council votes to sell surplus real estate; a new
agreement for city engineer; Conzo offers year-end financial report
City of
Lincoln dedicates new fire truck
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City Briefs:
Council votes to sell surplus real estate; a new
agreement for city engineer; Conzo offers year-end financial report
City of
Lincoln dedicates new fire truck
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Album 3
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Humane Society
celebrates a dream come true and honors volunteers
San Jose United
Methodist Women kick off the holiday season with a turkey dinner and bazaar
A warmer winter in store for Allen Chapel
Elkhart Historical Society
announces December events
Former star Farmer joins Railers as assistant coach
By Justin Tierney
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March 6, 2011 by @notalemming
USA Today publsihes story that sheds a light of truth what most have called a conspiracy theory since the late 1990s'. Chemtrails are real! But will the rest of the main stream media pick up on this or will they continue to try and debunk the truth with propaganda like that seen on CBS's CSI […]
February 10, 2011 by @notalemming
How long will we be polluted and blocked from the sun? It's enough!!! by Zen Gardner OK, they want photos. So, let's send them photos! The following article from an Atlanta CBS affiliate (I know..) ran a piece and is claiming to want to know more. So, let's give it to them. Here's the story […]
February 4, 2011 by @notalemming
Obama is Greening America Here are the links below since Drudge page will update from the Feb 4th 2011morning edition and lose what is the formating shown in the image above. ENERGY CRUNCH: NM declares state of emergency over natural gas shortage... TX residents asked to limit use... Outage in AZ... San Diego shortage... Usage […]
January 22, 2011 by @notalemming
Former FBI Chief, Ted L. Gunderson, makes a statement regarding the chemtrail "death dumps", otherwise know as air crap, on January 12, 2011. Ted says the following: "The death dumps, otherwise known as chemical trails, are being dropped and sprayed throughout the United States and England, Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Europe. I have personally seen […]
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Record producer Talmy / SAT 11-12-11 / Musical great grave unmarked 150 years / Player of evil Blofeld / All-Star Dark of 1950s Giants / Relatives of arroyos / North Platte feeder
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Constructor: Barry C. Silk
Relative difficulty: Medium
THEME: none
Word of the Day: ANTA (26D: Broadway acronym) —
The American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) is a non-profit theatre producer and training organization that was established in 1935 to be the official United States national theatre that would be an alternative to the for-profit Broadway houses of the day. // The ANTA, which by law was to be self-sustaining, sponsored touring companies of numerous shows to foreign counties in the post-World War II in the 1940s and 1950s, owned the ANTA Theatre on Broadway, played an important role in the establishment of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in Lincoln Center, was the main membership organization for regional theatre in the U.S. before ultimately having a greatly diminished role in the 1980s. Today as an entity its main focus is the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. (wikipedia)
I've been constructing for a few hours, so I don't really know which way is up, and I'm not sure what to say about this (fine) puzzle. It's kind of blurring together with the puzzle I'm working on. I even had ANTA in my grid, before getting rid of it (it's pretty bad fill ... though I've got something at least as bad still in my grid at the moment, and it doesn't look like it's going anywhere, so I can't judge too harshly—it's legitimate, and when there's not a lot of other clunkers, sometimes that's good enough). I know that my solving experience was really uneven, timewise. That is, I was lightning-fast in some patches, and turtle-slow in others. The whole bottom of the puzzle was something close to a cakewalk, but it took me a while to work my way down there, as (with some patchy exceptions) I crapped out in the NW and NE and the center to begin the experience.
Started the puzzle with OJO, which let me get the MAJESTY part of HER MAJESTY (6D: Lead-in to some royal names). Names in the NE were tough to crack, but I got LOIS LANE right away (16A: One whose crush was caped), which allowed me to deduce FLYWEIGHT with little effort (11D: Boxing class). Got the eastern ends of the long middle answers, but couldn't crack either (remembering that Barry is from the D.C. area *might* have helped me with CAPITAL BELTWAY (39A: 495), but also might not have). Finally got to HAY / IAN / APRON and then just shredded the bottom of the puzzle from there. Felt like a Tuesday puzzle there for a bit. Worked my way back up and finally pieced together the NE and ended up in the NW, where I'd begun. Last letter in was the "G" in ALEGRE / AGNES (a tough proper noun crossing) (15A: Pôrto ___, Brazil + 4D: Georgia's ___ Scott College).
Interesting to see LARAMIE as a river (41D: North Platte feeder) and JABBAR as a non-Kareem Abdul (32D: Al-___ (one of the names of God in Islam). Love the clue on CUPHOLDER (30D: Place for some car fluid). Had no idea Ray LIOTTA was ever on "ER" (20D: 2005 Emmy winner for "ER"). Nice trivia on the J.S. BACH (1A: Musical great whose grave went unmarked for nearly 150 years), though I feel somehow like the initials should have been signified in the clue somehow. I know Max VON SYDOW (18A: Player of the evil Blofeld in "Never Say Never Again") only from some 80s art house movie ... "My Life as a Dog?" ... no ... "Pelle the Conqueror?" Yes! Never heard of IRA Berkow (24A: Pulitzer-winning sports reporter Berkow), but IRA is a man's name in three letters, so no problem. More of a problem was SHEL Talmy (51A: Record producer Talmy). Yee-ikes. Wow he arranged and produced some pretty great songs, such as ...
Another mystery name—ALVIN Dark (great name!) (7D: All-Star Dark of the 1950s Giants). I didn't realize the Nazi-hunting group in "Inglourious Basterds" was the O.S.S. (10D: "Inglourious Basterds" org.) I think I was too distracted by the suspense and massive bloodshed to notice details. I learned about WADIS from crosswords, but wanted other less exotic words there at first like DALES and GLENS (which aren't really cousins of arroyos at all). Wish I'd gotten a chance to appreciate the clue on "DUKE OF EARL" (28D: The "me"in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit). I had OF EARL before I knew what was happening, and just glanced at the clue, noticed "hit," confirmed what I assumed had to be the case.
The younger, still-living ASSAD is in the news a lot now, and not for his benevolence (45D: Name of father-and-son world leaders). Lastly, this ADANA place (50D: Turkish city or province), I'm seeing it more and more in puzzles. Or maybe I'm seeing it the same amount and I'm just noticing it more and more. At any rate, it's a city of over 1.5 million people in south Turkey, just inland from the Mediterranean, and is a major commercial and agricultural center, so it seems eminently crossworthy and is hereby officially filed in my memory banks.
Good day.
Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld


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Enjoy good food and bathing in our spa area at Orbaden Conference & Spa.
This package or activity is sold online only in Swedish. Please contact the facility or STF Customer Service by telephone or e-mail to enquire whether it is possible to accept your booking in another way.
When booking this offer you stay at "Enånger/Larsbogård, STF Hostel".
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Linux vs. Windows security
An expert describes what makes Linux more secure than Windows.
Linux is capable of running IPv6, IPSec and making use of smartcards and similar security controls. These will indeed protect user identity and the integrity of some transactions and system communications. These controls alone, however, do not explain security differences between platforms.
Platform security depends on the:
- the robustness of the basic operating system
- the operating system configuration (especially its default state)
- the applications running on it
Thus far, compared to Windows, Linux has been more secure because its base operating system is robust and secure, most distributions are highly configurable and capable of being hardened (see tools like Bastille Linux) and their default configurations are usually secure.
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It was horrible flood in #Vadodara for 9th & 10th September 2014. Situation on 11th is under control. Look at the pictures visual understanding.
24 hours after Ajwa gates were closed, Vadodara could witness its impact. Water level at Vishwamitri river which was steady at 34 ft in Vadodara during 11.00 am to 6.00 pm started decreasing only after 7.00 pm and was 33.9 post 7.00 pm.
It further came down to 33 ft at 12.00 in night and came further down to 31.6 ft at 7.00 am when bridges were reopened. At 10.00 am the level was 30.30 ft. Those on first floor could come down to take a stock of the situation of their furniture, vehicles etc on the ground.
Non-functioning Atladra sub-station, power failure in some areas, sanitation issue where flood water receding were some of the post-flood scenes on ground.
Additional sanitation staff, trucks, fogging machines, sweepers etc are moved to Vadodara from nearby Ahmedabad and Surat cities for massive cleaning task.
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Your support will enable us to maintain St Paul's as a place of prayer for our worshippers and visitors and the home church for the City and Diocese of Melbourne and Anglican Province of Victoria. We invite you to join us in ensuring that our beautiful Cathedral is well-resourced to meet the challenges of the future.
Our financial future has never been certain: we do not possess the significant historical endowments that some European foundations enjoy. Every year, we rely on your giving – the donations of our visitors and the sacrificial giving of our members – to safeguard our ministry.
In 2015, our members contributed $247,696 to our ministry costs of $887,851 through their weekly giving. Our Music Foundation provided a grant of $150,000 towards the $419,782 costs of our Music Program. Our visitors donated $153,273 towards the $364,614 costs of maintaining our building.
In addition, members and other philanthropic donors also raised in excess of $750,000 towards the costs of renewing our Cathedral Buildings to create the new ministry, education, hospitality and music facilities we enjoy. On behalf of the Chapter and members of St Paul's I should like to thank you for your generous gifts towards our ministry: Thank you very much indeed for your friendship and support!
The Very Revd Dr Andreas Loewe
Dean of Melbourne
Consider making a one-off significant gift this year towards our costs: ten gifts of $25,000 get us close to covering our deficit. Donations can be made by credit card, or cheque:
If you would prefer to make a tax-deductible donation to our Music Foundation, click here.


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Mumbai, July 25 (IANS) Expectations of healthy quarterly results, coupled with broadly positive global cues, lifted the key Indian equity indices — NSE Nifty and BSE Sensex — to touch their new record highs during the morning trade session on Tuesday.
According to market observers, factors such as hopes of a lending rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in its next policy review meet, along with inflows of foreign funds and consistent projection of healthy economic growth enhanced investors risk taking appetite.
The two key equity indices experienced the Gap-Up opening from their Monday's close.
The NSE Nifty breached the 10,000-points level during the day's early trade session at 9.15 a.m. just after the pre-open session which lasted for 15 minutes.
The wider Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) touched a high of 10,011.30 points.
Similarly, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) of the BSE touched a new high of 32,374.30 points during the early-morning trade session.
However, soon afterwards, profit booking dragged the indices lower.
At 10.35 a.m., the NSE Nifty inched-up to 9,966.85 points.
The BSE Sensex stood at 32,252.91 points — up 7.04 points, or 0.02 per cent.
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Warm air heating has not always been a very popular heating option amongst those of us who value the environment, but as home insulation and airtightness improve it could become a much more viable option.
1970s Technology
Warm air-ducted heating is a technology which was more prominent in the 1970s, but which has rather fallen in popularity in recent years. However, new building methods and materials could make warm air heating relevant again.
Quick Heating
The main selling point of warm air heating is just how quickly it warms a home. This is due to the fact that it warms the air inside the house rather than warming the house itself. However, this also means that the temperature falls as quickly as it rises. Modern insulation and airtightness designs mean that this is no longer such an issue as the heat remains in the home.
The better insulation and airtightness of today also mean that mechanical ventilation systems are becoming more the norm, directly lending itself to warm air heating. Mechanical ventilation alongside heat recovery is essentially a warm air heating system.
When to Use Warm Air Heating
Warm air systems are able to produce up to 30kW, but the higher the heat load the longer the system will require to keep the house warm. The perfect situation for a warm air heating system would be in a well-insulated and thermally efficient one or two storey house where mechanical ventilation is being used.
With the upcoming revision to the Building Regulations, it will be required that improved insulation and airtightness measures are taken when building new homes as we aim to create zero-carbon homes in 2016. As that time nears, the need for space heating will diminish and the need for ventilation will increase, inevitably creating something of a rebirth for warm air heating systems.
How to Measure Efficiency
When browsing the market, you will see that almost all gas and oil-fired boilers are attributed a SEDBUK (Season Efficiency of Domestic Boilers in the UK) rating, which used to be on a scale of A to G. Recently, however, the scale has been scrapped in favour of a percentage rating to compare the efficiency of boilers.
SEDBUK ratings are based on water temperatures, but warm air heating systems don't use any water so they cannot be fairly tested or rated. However, warm air boiler manufacturers also produce efficiency ratings in terms of percentage so that the two can be more easily compared. Make sure to remember that this could be misleading due to the fact that it is a measure of very different factors.
Find more information on the different Types of Warm Air Heating Systems and the Key Facts about Warm Air Heating.
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There will be summer soccer camps staring up in June in Flagler County.
About a dozen 3 and 4 year olds ran around the Indian Trails Sports Complex fields kicking soccer balls while wearing neon green shirts during week seven of the eight-week spring soccer program on Friday, May 4.
The kids spent the first 30 minutes playing games, like Sharks and Minnows, that incorporate basic soccer skills before concluding the hour-long session with some scrimmage.
Coach Nick Monsanto said the eight-week program began with the children getting to know each other and introducing elements of the sport. Each week, the kids became more comfortable playing, and he said he has seen improvements in skill level. The final session of the spring program will be Friday, May 18.
The Future Stars summer programs start up in June. For more information and to register, visit https://bit.ly/2rsAV5B.


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Can YOU draw worms?
The answer is YES with this helpful worm-drawing guide from Will Mabbitt on the Booktrust website. Draw with Will as he takes you through the five essential steps of worm illustration, including worm handling, worm viewpoint and worm mood.
You'll have your very own picture book in no time, even if you can ONLY draw worms.
Will's hilarious picture book, I Can Only Draw Worms, is published by Puffin Books, and you can buy your very own copy here …
… and to find out more about Will and what he is up to next, you can follow him on Twitter @gomabbitt!


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Preview and Predictions for UFC 140
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1 Comment
Main Card
Light Heavyweight Championship: Jon Jones v. Lyota Machida
It wasn't the Jones v. Evans fight we were expecting, but this should be a very interesting one. Two very dynamic strikers. Jones is on a complete tear right now, he's basically unbeaten (I refuse to acknowledge the DQ against Hamill as a loss). He hasn't even been threatened up until this point in the octagon. He basically looks unstoppable. However, Machida is coming off the brutal Karate Kid style knockout of Randy Couture. If you haven't seen it, or need a reminder, here's the video (kick is at 7:33).
Prediction: Someone's getting knocked out. I wouldn't put it past Machida to pull off the victory, but I have to go with Jones. Jones wins by TKO round 3.
Heavyweight bout: Frank Mir v. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera "Big Nog"
Here we have two veteran heavyweights. Both are extremely skilled on the ground, so I think that's a tossup. They met once before at UFC 92 where Mir won by TKO. Both of them have recent losses, but they were all against seriously tough guys. Let's look at the list for Nogueira: Velasquez , Mir, Emelianenko. Then for Mir: Carwin, Lesnar. Both of those guys could easily knockout anyone in the HW division.
Prediction: History repeats itself. Mir by decision.
Light Heavyweight bout: Tito Ortiz v. Antonio Rogerio Noguiera "Little Nog"
A battle of two vets. Wins have been hard to come by for Tito. Besides the recent upset against Bader, his last win came against Ken Shamrock in 2006. What?! But if you look at his losses, 5/6 of the people he lost to were at one point LHW champion. Then you have "Little Nog" who is coming off of losses to Phil Davis and Ryan Bader.
Prediction: Tito victorious by decision. Count it. "Little Nog" is coming off of losses to two wrestlers, by decision, and Tito's strength is his wrestling.
Welterweight bout: Claude Patrick v. Brian Ebersole
A battle of two relative newcomers to the UFC. Patrick has mostly fought in Canada and has won his last two (and only) fights in the UFC. We were first introduced to Ebersole at UFC 127 where we became known as the guy with the "crazy cartwheel kick" or "the dude with the arrow shaved in his chest." He's fought mostly in Australia, but his last two (and only) fights in the UFC were wins.
Prediction: Ebersole by decision. This dude's a character.
Featherweight bout: Mark Hominick v. Chan Sung Jung
Hominick is coming off the loss to Aldo where he sustained that nasty hematoma. Seriously, he looked like something out of Frankenstein. There's no shame in losing a title fight to Aldo. He's a beast. Chan Sung Jung, "The Korean Zombie" was introduced to most of us at WEC 48 where he put on one of the best fights I've ever seen, along with Leonard Garcia. They put on a war for the ages. If you haven't seen it, please watch it. Now.
His most recent fight was a rematch of that fight, which Jung won via submission (twister). He apparently learned this technique by watching online videos. It's the first time a UFC fight has ever been stopped by this submission.
Hominick via decision. But I wouldn't be surprised if Jung pulled off a crazy submission.
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Barnes, Sarah and Gott, Merryn and Payne, Sheila and Parker, Chris and Seamark, David and Gariballa, Salah and Small, Neil A. (2006) Characteristics and views of family carers in older people with heart failure. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 12 (8). pp. 380-389. ISSN 1357-6321Full text not available from this repository.
Aims: To explore the characteristics and views of the family carers of older people with heart failure. Method: 213 family carers of heart failure patients >60 years were recruited from UK general practitioner (GP) practices. Carer strain, quality of life (QOL) and service satisfaction questionnaires were completed every 3 months for 2 years, as well as 16 interviews with patients and carers, and 9 focus groups with health care professionals. Results: 76% of carers were female, 70% were >60 years and 73% were spousal carers. Predictors of carer strain were symptoms of depression, age and patient NYHA. Predictors of lower QOL were: spousal carer; 2+ health conditions and symptoms of depression. Qualitative findings related to the change in circumstances, impact of responsibilities and health conditions of the family carers. Conclusion: Carers were mainly older women, often experiencing multiple health conditions. Addressing the practical and emotional support required presents a challenge for specialist palliative care in responding to calls for increased involvement in heart failure. A shared care model with liaison between specialist heart failure nurses, cardiologists, primary care teams and hospice services is advocated.
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Replica DCs on Azure – Transferring FSMO roles to the IaaS DCs
7:27 am in Azure, Cloud, DC, FSMO, hybrid cloud, IaaS, PowerShell, Replica DC, W2K12R2 by Wim Matthyssen
This blog post is part of the step-by-step to deploy replica domain controllers (DCs) on Microsoft Azure which can be found here: http://scug.be/wim/2015/09/28/deploying-replica-dcs-in-windows-azure/
After we successfully installed both IaaS virtual machines (VMs) as DCs and verified everything was running smoothly (time synchronization included) there is still one AD related action we can perform, namely transferring the Flexible Single Master Operation (FSMO) roles between the on premise DC and the ones running on Azure.
Like you probably all know, some of these FSMO roles (5 in total) are rarely used, such as the Schema and Domain naming Master roles, while others are highly used, such as the PDC emulator and Relative ID (RID) Master role. One thing to keep in mind is that each FSMO role only exists once in the domain and forest. When the entire domain is running on Microsoft Azure it's completely logical that all FSMO roles are ran on a single Azure IaaS DC or split over different Azure IaaS DCs. However, in most production environments a hybrid (combination of on premise and Microsoft Azure resources) cloud scenario is used. In this case you should see Azure as any other secondary site and the placement of the FSMO roles should be treated in that way. Therefore, always assess all pros and cons before moving certain or all FSMO roles to a DC running as an Azure IaaS VM. In either case, I will show you how you can transfer all or some of the FSMO roles to one of the DCs running on Azure. In my examples all these transfers are done by use of the GUI, but you can also use the command-line tool Ntdsutil.
To transfer the FSMO role(s), a user must be a member of the following group(s):
Transfer the Schema Master role (GUI)
1) Logon to one of the Azure IaaS DCs (AZGR-DC-01), open the Schmmgmt.dll library by opening Run and typing:
regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll
2) Press OK if the installation is succeeded
3) Also from the Run command open an MMC Console by typing mmc
4) On the Console menu, press Add/Remove Snap-in, select Active Directory Schema, click Add> and press OK
5) Right-click the Active Directory Schema icon and press Operation Master…
6) Click Change
7) Click Yes
8) Click OK
Transfer the Domain Naming Master role (GUI)
1) Logon to one of the Azure IaaS DCs (AZGR-DC-02), open Administrative Tools and click on Active Directory Domains and Trusts
2) Right-click the Active Directory Domains and Trusts icon and press Operation Masters…
3) Press the Change button
4) Press Yes to confirm the change
5) Press OK
Transfer the RID Master, PDC Emulator and Infrastructure Master role (GUI)
- The RID master role and the PDC emulator role should be owned by the same DC as a best practice
1) Logon to one of the DCs running on Azure (AZGR-DC-01 or AZGR-DC-02) trough RDP, open Run and type dsa.msc and press OK
2) When the Active Directory Users and Computers window is opened right click the domain and click Operations Masters…
3) In the Operations Masters window, each tab will show you who the current Operations master is for a specific FSMO (RID, PDC and Infrastructure). For example, the RID Operations master is shown in the screenshot below
4) To transfer the role just press Change…
5) Select Yes
6) Press OK
7) Like you can see the role is transferred to AZGR-DC-02
8) If you want to transfer another role for example to AZGR-DC-01, select Active Directory Users and Computers and select Change Domain Controller…
9) Select AZGR-DC-01 out of the list and press OK. This will switch the DC
10) Now repeat steps 2 till 6 to switch the Infrastructure role to AZGR-DC-01
Check the location of all FSMO roles (PowerShell)
1) Logon to one of the DCs running on Azure (AZGR-DC-01 or AZGR-DC-02) trough RDP and open PowerShell as an Administrator
2) Run following command (save as .ps1 or run directly)
## Get a list of FSMO Role Holders
Get-ADDomain | Select-Object InfrastructureMaster, RIDMaster, PDCEmulator
Get-ADForest | Select-Object DomainNamingMaster, SchemaMaster
Get-ADDomainController -Filter * |
Select-Object Name, Domain, Forest, OperationMasterRoles |
Where-Object {$_.OperationMasterRoles} |
Format-Table –AutoSize
That ends the this part of this series. Please continue through the rest of the series to complete the setup (if all are available). Till next time!
Wim Matthyssen (@wmatthyssen)


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Tired of eating a boring ceasar salad? Impress your guests with this tasty Indian dish. Check out this video for a tutorial on how to make Raita!
Make this easy Indian salad in just a few minutes. Raita is usually served with a spicy dish.
Step 1: Put yogurt in bowl
Spoon the yogurt into a large bowl. Then grate the peeled cucumber directly into the yogurt.
TIP: You can also add a cup of sour cream and a few cloves of garlic.
Step 2: Stir ingredients
Stir in the cumin, salt, and mint. Transfer the salad to the refrigerator until chilled.
Step 3: Garnish
Garnish with fresh mint and serve.
Did you know? Cumin is a key ingredient in Asian chili powders and curries. It is available in ground form or seeds


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP-32?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15395363#comment-15395363 ] ASF GitHub Bot commented on GEARPUMP-32: ---------------------------------------- Github user huafengw commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/incubator-gearpump/pull/67#discussion_r72413816 --- Diff: external/kafka/src/main/scala/org/apache/gearpump/streaming/kafka/lib/source/AbstractKafkaSource.scala --- @@ -92,6 +91,7 @@ abstract class AbstractKafkaSource( LOG.info("KafkaSource opened at start time {}", startTime) this.startTime = startTime --- End diff -- Is startTime still needed if change `maybeRecover()` to `maybeRecover(startTime)`? > Minimum clock of source Tasks maybe inaccurate > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: GEARPUMP-32 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP-32 > Project: Apache Gearpump > Issue Type: Bug > Components: streaming > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Reporter: Manu Zhang > Assignee: Manu Zhang > Fix For: 0.8.1 > > > Moved from [https://github.com/gearpump/gearpump/issues/1835] and reported by [Zhu Yueqian|https://github.com/yueqianzhu] > {quote} > Source tasks have not any upstreamClocks. So, startClock is the minimum of pending clocks when recover happen. > eg below: > source task1: timeStamp:15,not ACK, minClockValue maybe is 15(<= 15). > source task2: timeStamp:10,ACKed, minClockValue maybe is Long.MaxValue > when recover happen,startClock maybe is 15. where is the data between 10 to 15 at task2? > {quote} > More context on this issue: > In Gearpump, we maintain a global minimum clock tracked from a message's timestamp across all tasks. It means messages with timestamp before this clock have all been processed. An application will restart from this value on failure, and thus at-least-once message delivery could be guaranteed. > The global minimum clock is the lower bound of all the Tasks' minimum clocks. > For a task, the minimum clock is the lower of > # upstream minimum clock > # a. the minimum timestamp of unacked messages > b. Long.MaxValue if all messages have been acked. > > Note that 2.b allows the global minimum clock to progress and it is almost safe since the clock is also bounded by the upstream minimum clock. I said "almost safe" because a source task has no upstream but we assume the upstream minimum clock is Long.MaxValue. Thus, the scenario described by Zhu Yueqian could happen and breaks at-least-once guarantee. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)
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Rare and elusive, the WhiteRhino bar is designed for 1000-lb. lifts…and beyond! Yet, surprisingly the bar flexes and functions well starting at 200-lbs. to initiate total joint comfort. This bar represents the very pinnacle of RhinoFlex technology! With the addition of 15-inch loading sleeves, there's extra room to load this Rhino to the max! Center carbon fiber knurling makes sure it stays on your back during the heavy lifts. Tough composite loading sleeves and rack bumpers protect the bar for years of service. So, for the ultimate in RhinoFlex range and performance, the WhiteRhino™ will get you from 200-to-1000 fast!
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The current season of the Netflix show Narcos follows the rise of the Cali cartel as they take over the cocaine business in the wake of Pablo Escobar's death. But the show won't end with them, because the story of the drug trade continues.
As for who came after the Cali cartel? Well Narcos season 4 will look at how Mexico's Juarez Cartel (see video) came to dominate the global cocaine trade.


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Maintenance therapy
Joint treatment plan
If not already performed, plan index colonoscopy once disease in remission to classify disease
Define schedule for surveillance
Consider 5-ASA as chemoprevention against cancer
Provide patient education
Provide contact details in case of disease flare
Remission induced by…
Further information
- More than 50% of patients relapse within 1 year of a flare
- Risk factors for relapse:
- poor compliance maintenance therapy (adherence to mesalazine a major factor with OR 5.5)
- frequent previous relapses
- extra-intestinal manifestations
- low fibre diet
- younger age
- basal plasmacytosis within rectal biopsy
- polymorphs in rectal mucosa
- stress or major stressful event
- being single
5-ASA or
index steroid course
Anti-TNF or vedolizumab
Repeat steroid course, or ciclosporin
5-ASA maintenance
Further information
Oral 5-ASA reduces relapse by ≈ 50% (95% CI 0.36-0.62) with NNT of 6
Similar magnitude but better response seen using topical 5-ASA for distal UC
Combined oral and topical therapy superior to either alone
See 5-ASA intervention section for further information
Avoid chronic steroid therapy
Further information
Following first course of steroids without other subsequent therapies, 50% have prolonged response, 25% remain steroid dependent and 25% undergo colectomy over the following year
Steroid use beyond 3 months deemed chronic / prolonged
Thiopurines required if steroid dependency. 50% will be in steroid-free remission at 6/12 months. Methotrexate can be considered if thiopurine intolerant / refractory.
Consider maintenance anti-T…
Further information
Maintenance anti-TNF indicated if relapse occurred despite optimal thiopurine therapy. Newer agents can also be considered, e.g. Vedolizumab.
Taper steroids and start th…
Further information
Steroids can be tapered over total of ≈ 8 weeks
Thiopurines indicated following IV steroids or ciclosporin , or with 2nd steroid course in any year. Usually introduced after 1 week - 1 month. Thiopurines reduce colectomy rates
Most experts stop ciclosporin after ≈3 months. One study suggests that oral ciclosporin after IV therapy is not required in patients "bridging" to azathioprine
Provide Septrin prophylaxis in patients receiving triple immune suppression and consider in those on dual immunosupression
See ciclosporin intervention section for further information
Optimise thiopurine therapy
Thiopurines have slow-onset of action and mainly used to maintain remission induced by another agent
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2. Sensing vs. Intuition (concrete information gathering vs. abstract information gathering)
3. Thinking vs. Feeling (logic-based decision making vs. empathy-based decision making)
4. Judging vs. Perception (preference for settling matters vs. preference for leaving options open)
At the end of this article you will have an opportunity to take a ten-minute test to determine your MBTI.
Idealists (NFs)
ENFJs are loyal helpers and idealistic leaders who see the big picture and are deeply committed to work they believe in. They provide creative and charismatic leadership and help others fulfill their potential. In their enthusiastic rush towards the next challenge, ENFJs sometimes make hasty decisions without gathering all the facts. They also have a tendency to be impatient with people who are inefficient or uncooperative, such as Wolverine who has the opposite mental function of Cyclops (Cyclops is an NF while Wolverine is an ST). Cyclops believes in Professor X's vision and wants to be a leader more than anything. He's dating Jean Grey because they both see the vision of Professor X. If he weren't a mutant leader, Cyclops would probably be a public relations specialist, marketing executive, management consultant, or CEO of a non-profit organization.
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Jean Grey, Beast
Insightful, organized, and decisive, INFJs want to understand other people's motivations. They are extremely creative, which may not be apparent to most people as they introvert their creativity. They are often perfectionists who are sensitive to criticism. INFJs have difficulty working in tension-filled environments, being direct, attending to details, and being spontaneous, but they have a clear vision about serving the common good. Jean Grey has the same dominant function as Professor X (intuition), which is why she is committed to his vision and why she is a good romantic match for Cyclops.
Effervescent, enthusiastic, and excited to work with the X-Men, Jubilee is the team's locker room personality with the we can do it! attitude. Her greatest strength is also her greatest weakness. She is a fountain of idealism, full of fireworks (literally and figuratively), yet those fireworks are not as powerful as she thinks they are. ENFPs have a broad range of interests and an ability to quickly learn things that interest them, but their overconfidence in their abilities can lead them into poor decision-making, like attacking a thirty-foot mutant-hunting robot with a couple of sparklers. However, they are good at adapting and improvising to a situation; those flares that were ineffective against the giant robot in a direct attack are quite effective when she uses them to push a water tower on top of a sentinel or blind an opponent. Jubilee has the same dominant function as Jean Grey and Professor X (Intuition), which is why they recruited her. Jubilee has good raw ideas, but like many ENFPs she lacks the discipline to follow through on the details. If Jubilee weren't one of the X-Men, she might be a musician, actor, communications consultant, or fine arts professor.
Is Bruce Banner angry all the time, but just really good at keeping a lid on it? Does anyone remember the Bruce Banner from the 80s T.V. show, the socially withdrawn and emotionally reserved drifter who said "leave me alone," yet helped a stranger in every episode at great risk to exposing his terrible secret? And why was Banner looking at gamma rays to begin with? To help society, to create change, to heal others. Idealistic, empathetic, perceptive, and quick to see possibilities, INFPs want an external life that is consistent with their inner one. They have the ability to work well alone and focus on one issue or idea in depth. They are highly adaptable and accepting until one of their values is threatened. Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. Whereas INFJs hide their creativity, INFPs hide their sensitivity. Underneath their calm and cool façade is a great but restrained intensity of feeling. INFPs are not good at criticizing others, but they are great at self-reproach, which is physically manifested in various renditions of the Hulk cartoon where Hulk has an obvious hatred of Bruce Banner. If he weren't so busy trying to find a cure for his raging alter-ego, Bruce Banner would probably be channeling his feelings into poetry or prose or anything dynamic and expressive that doesn't include leveling Brooklyn.
Conceptualizers (NTs)
Driven and ambitious, the ENTJ is the individual most likely to move up the corporate ladder faster than any other type. They are life's natural leaders - the CEO's of innovative corporations, creative problem solvers who examine issues objectively. They have high standards and a strong work ethic, but they have a tendency to step on peoples' toes either through a lack of diplomacy or outright intimidation. Magneto is an empathetic anti-hero, one possessed with the ennobling qualities of idealism and courage. To Magneto, mankind is the villain. Nazis killed his parents during the holocaust, and now mankind is executing genocide on his kind once again. In X-Men First Class, once Eric discover he's not alone, he quickly goes from apprentice to mutant leader after parting ways with Professor X over ideological differences. ENTJs want to be the kings of everything, which is why some of the most memorable super villains, such as The Joker, are also ENTJs.
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Professor X, Dr. Manhattan
Some might argue that Professor X is more of a feeler than a thinker, but why was he such good friends with Magneto? Why did they enjoy playing chess? Life's strategists and master minds, INTJs possess a confidence and commitment to their vision, which often involves directing their creativity towards improved systems or models. Although they're driven and self-directed, INTJs can be too preoccupied with achieving their ideas to deal with practical realities, diplomacy, or social niceties.
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Iron Man
Quick, ingenious, energetic, sociable, and outspoken, ENTPs are creative entrepreneurs and inventors who make things work better. They love creativity more than money, which is why Tony Stark was more focused on his suit than his company's falling stock prices in the 2008 movie Iron Man. ENTPs work well under pressure and have a talent for making lemonade out of life's lemons. Who else could design and develop an Iron Man suit in a cave out of a pile of scraps before his kidnappers, sure to kill him, caught on to what he was doing? ENTPs are resourceful problem solvers who seldom do the same thing the same way, but like all types they have their weaknesses. For one, they are not good at following through on details, which is why Tony Stark needs Pepper Potts to order an espresso, take out the trash, or remember his social security number. ENTPs can also be rash and impulsive. In the movie Iron Man 3, as brilliant as Tony Stark was, why did he go on national T.V. to tell his archenemy where he lived when he obviously wasn't prepared for the home decimation that followed?
Creative, logical, and independent, INTPs are society's puzzle solvers. Confident in their ideas and vision, they are willing to take risks, try new things, and overcome obstacles. Their biggest foe is the ENTJ because they both use logic against each other, but how that logic plays out is quite different. Joker plans what he has to do; Batman reacts. INTPs are highly motivated by principle. For Batman, it's about becoming more than just a man – it's about becoming a symbol through which he brings justice and "turns fear against those that prey on the fearful." INTPs often find fulfilling careers in software development, law, or academia. INTPs are all about justice and fairness. As part of his initiation ritual into the League of Shadows, Bruce Wayne must execute a man, yet he refuses to do so, at great risk to his membership status (and his life), unless the man is given a trial. Those who say Batman is an INTJ overlook the fact that the dominant function of an INTJ is intuition, but Batman had to go to Fox whenever he needed help coming up with innovative ideas. INTPs also have a weakness socializing, showing emotion, and talking about feelings. Batman is a loner, but in a different way than the Hulk. Whereas the Hulk loses himself because he is not understood, Batman would lose himself in his mansion because things weren't fair.
Traditionalists (SJs)
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Captain America
Practical, realistic, and decisive, ESTJs are good at organizing people to get things done in the most efficient way possible. They possess a clear work ethic and a belief in traditional structure. If they're not Captain America, they are managers in an accounting firm or at a military base where painting by the numbers is preferred. They are not particularly good at showing appreciation, and they can be impatient with people who think outside the box. In the 2012 Avengers movie, Captain America and Iron Man frequently trade barbs. Captain America regards Iron Man's playful taunts at Bruce Banner as irresponsible and distracting from the main task. Iron Man comes back with hey, what about this and what about that and why do you think Fury brought us in now? Captain America has no response other than, "We have orders. We should follow them." In other words, Iron Man says let's look at the big picture and Captain America says let's paint by the numbers.
Realistic, thorough, dependable, and determined, ISTJs are masters of information. They proceed based on logic and work towards a goal without distraction. They may work as accountants, stockbrokers, CIOs, or analysts for the CIA or FBI. ISTJs have a tendency to lose themselves in the details of a project or operation and can be quite inflexible in accepting another point of view. Rorschach from The Watchmen is a throwback to the old school detective. He detests people, he's judgmental based on his principles, he sniffs for details and clues, and he keeps a journal of his activities, always citing the date and time like Sergeant Friday. Yet, he is not particularly good at seeing the big picture. Rorschach would rather die clinging to his principles than accept the ends-justify-the-means greater good vision of Ozymandias.
Cooperative, nurturing, and helpful, ESFJs are life's traditional helpers. If she weren't former queen consort of Wakanda and a mutant with the power to change the weather, Storm would probably be a nurse, event planner, or school administrator. ESFJs are leaders of things that are known. Storm sculpts weather like a principal sculpts a school - all helping, all very tangible. She fights back in sensing ways, and what is a more quintessential way to express sensation than through weather? People of this type have a tendency to become drained by taking on others' emotional burdens, and they are not known for strategy. As an extrovert, she needs space. She goes to claustrophobia easily, as extroverts can't hide in their head like Introverts can.
Responsible, hard-working, and cooperative, ISFJs love helping people. When they make a promise, they keep it. In the 1978 movie Superman, Lex Luther's assistant agrees to remove the Kryptonite from around Superman's neck if, before saving the world, he first saves her mother in Hackensack, New Jersey. And what is the first thing he does when she removes the Kryptonite? He keeps his promise to a stranger before saving Lois Lane. There is something about the "S" (sensing) that makes people of this type have a binding aspect to them. But Kryptonite, in a way, is a metaphor for the ISFJ's weakness. How come Superman becomes wrapped up in the most obvious debacles? Why is it so easy to wrap Kryptonite around his neck? ISFJs are not the most intuitive or strategic of the types. They also tend to take on too much and neglect their own needs. If he weren't saving people with his strength, speed, or laser vision, Clark Kent would probably make a good doctor, counselor, farmer, or athletic trainer.
Experiencers (SPs)
Energetic and good-in-the-moment, these are the Action Jackson guys who make work fun and exciting. They are a natural fit in occupations such as firemen or policemen where they can be part of a team, take risks, and take action without being bothered with details or time management. ESTPs are not very future-oriented. If you want to bore an ESTP, talk to them about the future. They love sports, being in the moment, but theories and ideas bore the hell out of them. Their instinct for action, while useful, can at times make them seem like a bull in a china shop.
Calm and cool in a crisis, these are the Action Jackson guys with an investigative side, like Wolverine who spends a considerable amount of time trying to figure out his past in X2. ISTPs are good at working with their hands and with tools, so when they are not at work, they may be tinkering on a car or motorcycle. They don't like to talk much, and when they do talk their comments can be blunt and insensitive. Independent and restless, ISTPs can become easily bored. When it comes to their feelings, they are more likely to drink on it than deal with it. If Wolverine wasn't a mutant, he would likely be a race car driver, police officer, mechanic, or forester.
Gambit, Rogue
Fun, action-oriented, and impulsive in a good way, ESFPs are sensitive to people's needs and desire to help them in practical ways. They are willing to take calculated risks and try new approaches, especially for people and organizations they care about. ESFPs have great reactions to situations, but they have difficulty disciplining themselves or others.
ISFPs are probably the most unpredictable of the introverted types. Why did Professor X have such a hard time locating Nightcrawler? Was it because he liked teleporting? Or seeking out new experiences? Or both? ISFPs are also the most relaxed of all types. Friendly, sensitive, generous, and kind, they are practical and realistic helpers who like to help people in tangible ways, as long as it doesn't involve disciplining or criticizing others. If he wasn't hanging from church rafters, Nightcrawler might find career satisfaction as a designer, carpenter, dancer, painter, or chef. Nightcrawler's stint in the circus is consistent with the ISFP's artistic and aesthetic tendencies. He can be a loyal follower and team player, especially when the team takes time to get to know him and appreciate his personal values.
What is your MBTI?There are people of all types in all kinds of careers, but the MBTI has helped many people find more fulfilling careers. Polls consistently show that roughly 50% of working adults would rather be doing something else, something that makes them tick. But what is that something else? Perhaps they haven't figured it out. Perhaps this is you. But once we figure it out, we will be able to find a better career match – one that motivates us, energizes us, and fills us with a greater sense of purpose than a paycheck. And who knows, maybe even lets us save the world in our own small way.
There is a newer version of this article here:
I did not interview Stan Lee or anyone else in the comic book business. Aside from several MBTI books and an interview with an MBTI expert, the content of this article is based on the observation and intuition of two comic book fans and a guy with twenty years of experience using MBTI.


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Technical Paper
Study of In-Cylinder Combustion and Multi-Cylinder Light Duty Compression Ignition Engine Performance Using Different RON Fuels at Light Load Conditions
The effects of different Research Octane Number [RON] fuels on a multi-cylinder light-duty compression ignition [CI] engine were investigated at light load conditions. Experiments were conducted on a GM 1.9L 4-cylinder diesel engine at Argonne National Laboratory, using two different fuels, i.e., 75 RON and 93 RON. Emphasis was placed on 5 bar BMEP load, 2000 rev/min engine operation using two different RON fuels, and 2 bar BMEP load operating at 1500 rev/min using 75 RON gasoline fuel. The experiments reveal difficulty in controlling combustion at low load points using the higher RON fuel. In order to explain the experimental trends, simulations were carried out using the KIVA3V-Chemkin Computational Fluid Dynamics [CFD] Code. The numerical results were validated with the experimental results and provided insights about the engine combustion characteristics at different speeds and low load conditions using different fuels.