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Compensation for Florida Polytechnic Head Still Being Worked Out
Published: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 9:41 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 9:41 p.m.
LAKELAND | The details of compensation for the Jacksonville lawyer who's agreed to serve as interim chief operating officer of Florida Polytechnic had yet to be worked out Wednesday, but her total package will be more than $200,000.
Ava Parker, 49, who will leave the State University System Board of Governors to accept the two-year position, won't officially start until Dec. 1. But on Wednesday, she already was on the telephone participating in a meeting held between university leaders and the accreditation association.
Florida Poly Chairman Rob Gidel said even though Parker has accepted the job, her formal agreement is not complete. There are different amounts involved if she works as a consultant versus an employee, he said.
Gidel said that because her total compensation exceeds $200,000 part of it will be paid by Poly and part by the college's fundraising foundation.
The former heads of the University of South Florida Polytechnic received more than $200,000 as well.
Marshall Goodman, the last chancellor of the campus, drew about $262,000. And David Touchton, who served as interim head of the polytechnic at the end of its days, received $250,000.
Former state Sen. J.D. Alexander of Lake Wales, the Republican who pushed the law through to create the new college, gave an upbeat response when asked to weigh in on Parker's selection.
"Great leader for Florida Poly," Alexander said in a written response. "She led the BOG's approval and believes in the need for a STEM-focused university in Florida. Her experience will provide the foundation for her exemplary leadership. Congratulations to the board of trustees and the people of Florida."
Parker was serving as chair of the Board of Governors when it voted to allow the university to separate from USF if certain benchmarks were followed. That was Nov. 9, 2011.
She will be charged with helping to shape the institution's mission and vision, overseeing the ongoing development of the new campus, hiring key staff, and ensuring that the college stays on track to academic accreditation as it recruits its first students.
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5 Superheroes Rendered Ridiculous by Gritty Reboots
The Character:
Spider-Man is the witty, likable goofball that nerds everywhere can relate to. He's clumsy and has been dealt a few rough hands in his life, but he still fights the good fight with a smile on his perpetually young face.
The Plan:
"Let's fast forward to when Spider-Man is 60-years-old, so we can watch him fight crime as an old man after he's already retired from being a superhero. We'll set it in a bleak, ruined, twisted version of New York. It'll sort of be like Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, except it will also be exactly like that."
The Problem:
Here's what happens in a typical Spider-Man comic: Goofy-yet-lovable Peter Parker dresses in bright red tights, fights similarly ridiculous-looking villains and suffers from a genetic condition that forces him to make retarded quips and jokes every five seconds.
Now, here's what happens in Reign: Peter Parker wakes up, vomits, cries, hallucinates and gets fired from his job as a florist. No more humor, no more trademark witty mid-battle banter. Why? Because he's old and miserable. Why is he miserable? Because he killed Mary Jane with his radioactive semen.
Now, there's nothing wrong with dark and gritty superhero stories, we love The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. But when you take the humor and heart away from Spider-Man and stick him in a terrifyingly grim future that finds him heartbroken, you take away everything that attracted Spider-Man readers in the first place. And, sure, guilt has been a hallmark in the Spider-Man comics forever, but when you have a comic where Parker accidentally fucks Mary Jane to death, you've officially crossed the line. At some point, you're straight up torturing Peter Parker. No one wants to watch a bitter, depressed old Spider-Man humorlessly fight bad guys in a perpetual state of mourning. If Spider-Man fans wanted to read The Punisher, then they would read The Punisher.
Still not convinced that Reign is the worst and weirdest thing to happen to Spider-Man? A little girl gets needlessly and viciously murdered by the police and, at one point, Spider-Man is carried to a cemetery by the robotic arms of the now-deceased Dr. Octopus (while the corpse is still fucking attached).
How about now?
#1. Robbie Baldwin goes from Zany Teen-Wonder to Psychotic Masochist (Civil War, Again)
The Character:
Speedball was a corny, forgettable young superhero who ran with the New Warriors and looked like an idiot. He was invented in the 80s (it was a weird time for all of us). Kids liked him.
The Plan:
"Does Speedball have any fans? Let's piss them way the hell off."
The Problem:
Speedball (Robbie Baldwin) was never the most captivating character--he was a science nerd who was in an extra-dimensional accident that gave him the semi-useful ability to run around real fast and bounce off of things--but he gained some fans with his youthful arrogance as he bounced from comic series to comic series. He was like a fluffier Spider-man, appealing to a young generation of comics readers. Then, the Civil War epic-Marvel-Comics-Holy-Shit-Event happened, and everything changed. While starring in a reality series about superheroes, the cocky Speedball rushed into battle against enemies he didn't quite understand, just so he could impress the fans at home. One thing led to another and, long story short, one of the villains blew up an entire school's worth of children. Speedball was the only one left alive and, as you'd expect, he felt a bit of guilt.
Instead of channeling his guilt into rigorous training, like Batman, or witty one-liners, like Spider-Man, Speedball decided to build a new suit and become Penance.
What's special about Baldwin's new suit is the fact that there are hundreds of tiny, sharp spikes built inside the costume, so they're constantly stabbing Baldwin whenever he moves, or breathes or exists or whatever. This works out OK, though. Apparently, a weird side of effect of "accidentally blowing up a shitload of kids" is that it shifts your superpowers; Penance can only use his powers when he's in horrible, horrible agony--so everybody wins, except Baldwin, who incidentally loses... constantly.
Yeah, look at that. That's the same guy from before. That's Speedball. He used to run around and shoot "energy bubbles" at bad guys. A wacky, cornball superhero who, let's face it, existed solely to sell comic books to little kids, was transformed overnight into a pointy, screaming lunatic who is constantly bleeding from hundreds of holes all over his body. Also, is this the best lesson to teach kids? When Spider-Man felt guilty, he decided to man up and knock off the selfishness with that whole "great power/great responsibility" thing. What's Penance's lesson? "Don't worry, kids. If you make a mistake, it's nothing that can't be easily remedied by a simple dose of ritualistic bleeding. Follow your dreams!"
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3 Oct 2012 12:14 PM #1
Dataview repaint issue
I have encountered a situation after upgrading to the 2.1.0b3 with a List component in my application.
See the before and after screenshots attached.
I have a Map panel which is 'bound' to the same store as the Locations list
When I click the refresh button in the top toolbar when viewing the map screen, markers on the map change position (if new data is available). Likewise the Locations list rows update and re-sorts. When switching back to the Locations lists from the Map panel, I end up with the horrible looking rows as per the attached 'after' image.
This doesn't happen when viewing the list and doing a refresh, it updates and re-sorts and displays as expected.
Is this something to do with the list view no longer being in the viewport as an active item when viewing the Map and not handling the updates\store sort properly in the DOM structure?
In case it's relevant, here is the code for the Locations list:
Ext.define('PinpointersTouch.view.UnitList', { extend: 'Ext.dataview.List', xtype: 'unitslist', config: { emptyText: 'There are no vehicles in your tracking list.', loadingText: false, itemTpl: new Ext.XTemplate( '
', '<tpl for=".">', '
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', '
', '	', ' {UnitName}	', '
', '
', '
{Location}
', '{Subtitle}', '
Last Reported at: {EventDTDisplay}
', '
', '</tpl>', '
'), store: 'CurrentGrid', items: [{ xtype: 'toolbar', docked: 'bottom', ui: 'light', items: [{ xtype: 'label', html: 'Show:', style: 'color:white;' },{ xtype: 'selectfield', store: 'TrackingListWithShowAll', displayField: 'UnitName', valueField: 'UntID', itemId: 'selectVehicle' }] }] } });
4 Oct 2012 12:03 PM #2
I have just upgraded to the 2.1.0.RC1 and I am still seeing the same behaviour.
I am wondering if for now I should prevent the list component responding to the store load event if the list is not currently 'active' and when it becomes activated refresh the list?
4 Oct 2012 12:25 PM #3
That's the main issue that made me rollback to 2.0.3, I do confirm this issue. You should create a bug.
4 Oct 2012 9:39 PM #4
Can anyone from Sencha please comment?
I have tested this on desktop Safari and Chrome, mobile Safari on iOS6 and the Android stock browser (gingerbread) all with the same results.
5 Oct 2012 8:54 AM #5
Your issue seems related to a recent bug fix in RC1. From the release notes:
"[TOUCH-3486] Fixed an issue where itemHeights would be incorrect if the list was refreshed or updated while the list was hidden"
5 Oct 2012 10:08 AM #6
Hmm ok, so seems this hasn't been fixed, unless its the way in which I have my tab panel setup or something up with my List definition.


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A term that describes a student's progress in learning any disciple. Shu or "obedience" indicates the initial stage when the student follows forms strictly. "Ha" or "detachment" indicates the stage when the student begins to experiment and consult other masters. Ri or "separation" indicates full ...
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This time, Crosby wins OT thriller
WATERBURY — Crosby-Wilby II showcased Tuesday night everything its predecessor had 17 days prior — minus one overtime, but with a sold-out Palace and an overwhelming dose of role reversal.
This time, the Bulldogs fell behind. They rallied. They made the play to send the game to overtime. They took advantage of a late turnover. And Tyshon Rogers became the hero, scoring on a drive with 4.5 seconds left in the extra period to give Crosby a nothing short of unbelievable 88-87 victory.
"They did the same thing to us when we played the first time, and they came back to win in double-overtime," Crosby's Aseim King, one of the night's many stars, said of the uncanny similarities between the hands-down games of the year. "We knew we had to do the same thing to them."
There were more turning points in this game than intersections in Manhattan. To make some sort of order of the whole mess, let's start from the end and work backward.
Wilby (13-2) had an inbounds pass from midcourt with 9.7 seconds left in overtime and an 87-86 lead. Crosby coach Nick Augelli gave pretty simple instructions to his team as they prepared to defend Ryan Spears' inbounds pass.
"I just wanted to deny the ball, and if they got it in, we would have had to send them to the foul line," Augelli said.
Sure enough, the Crosby defense caused confusion among the Wildcats as Spears' pass sailed out of bounds untouched. Now, with the shoe on the other foot, the Bulldogs' strategy stayed pretty predictable.
"Obviously, you know who's getting the ball, Tyshon, so the plan was to get him the ball, send him to the basket and hopefully they would converge a few guys on him so he could dump it off for a layup," Augelli said.
Rogers, who scored a game-high 30 points with seven steals and six rebounds, took the inbounds pass in the backcourt and almost immediately darted toward the left side of the lane.
"Coach told us to get the ball in my hands, and if I didn't have a clear path, to call a timeout," Rogers said. "I got the ball and saw a clear path, but there were two guys in the middle so I had to power it up fast."
The Wilby defenders didn't collapse on Rogers as Augelli expected or as Wilby coach Alan Piccolo wanted, leaving the 6-foot-2 junior enough space to put up an off-balance shot.
"We knew what they were going to do at the end," Piccolo said. "None of my guys stepped in. There has to be some sort of (defensive) call there."
"I thought I shot it too hard," Rogers said, "but it was perfect."
The shot glanced off the backboard and fell through to give the Bulldogs (15-1) an 88-87 advantage with 4.5 seconds left. Wilby got the ball downcourt, but Spears, who scored 16 points in his first night as a starter, never had enough control of the ball to hoist a potential game-winner.
"It was mine last time; it was Tyshon's this time," said Wilby's Walter Wright, the first game's hero. "I applaud him for that shot. It was a tough shot."
The insanity of the last 9.7 seconds perfectly matched the overwhelming sense of deja vu that built throughout the game.
Wilby established a 26-16 lead at the end of the first quarter after closing the period on an 11-3 run, helped by a pair of pretty layups by Wright, who posted a double-double with 16 points and 10 assists.
Crosby's deficit reached as much as 12 before a 24-7 run —15 from Rogers — gave the Bulldogs a 41-37 lead just before the break.
Wilby rallied in the third, using a 20-6 run to take a 61-52 lead. The Wildcats led until there was only 1:07 remaining in regulation, when Stephon Dunbar's steal resulted in a Rogers layup to give Crosby a 75-74 lead.
Facing a 76-74 deficit with 25 seconds to play, Stanley Foote tipped home a missed shot by Denzel Mitchell to tie the game with 21.8 ticks remaining.
After a Crosby turnover, the Wildcats had the ball with 4 seconds left and a chance to win in regulation. Wright drove the lane, but saw his shot swatted away by Devin Stallings as time expired.
"Once I saw the ball leave (Wright's hands)," Stallings said, "the only thing I could do was swat it when I got close to it."
"That was a good block by him," Wright said. "I thought I had a clear lane to the basket and he came out of nowhere."
It was just one of many great plays on a night that probably forced a couple thousand spectators to pinch themselves.
"Probably 2004 was the last time I saw this gym like this," Augelli said. "You couldn't have written the script for this one any better."
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I'll be making a website with a membership type of option for the website, and I'll be most likely using Authorize.Net to make the transactions, however, I need to know what kind of encryption I can use to store credit card numbers in a MySQL database?
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Why even store it in a MySQL database when you can be using Authorize.Net's Customer Information Manager API and taking PCI compliance and security issues right out of your hands completely and letting them do all of the heaving lifting for you? CIM let's you create customer payment profiles by storing the customer's credit card information on their end and then charging against that profile at a future date whenever you need to simply by referring to the payment profile ID at the time of the transaction.
The key regulation you must follow is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and of specific interest here is section 3.4 -
Protect Stored Cardholder Data
Render PAN unreadable anywhere it is stored (including on portable digital media, backup media, and in logs) by using any of the following approaches:
The rest of section 3 is also worth reading in depth!
It probably (see note below) satisfies the requirements if you use a well-known symmetric cipher (such as AES or blowfish/twofish) on the sensitive data using a key stored someplace not accessible from the database. Since the result is non-printable, you can either hex or base64 encode the result for storage.
Obviously any system that does automatic encryption and decryption is going to be inherently less secure than a manual system, as the keys will have to be stored right there on the server for the thing to work. But the more you can separate them, the better.
Better yet, many gateway providers allow for mechanisms where you do not have to store the customer's card on your server, including Authorize.net's CIM and Paypal's Reference Transactions just to name a couple of examples.
Note: This does not constitute legal or security advice and should not be interpreted as such. You should always hire a local security professional if you have questions or concerns.


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$Z$ is the set of non-negative integers including $0$. Show that $Z \times Z \times Z$ is countable by constructing the actual bijection $f: Z\times Z\times Z \to \mathbb{N}$ ($\mathbb{N}$ is the set of all natural numbers). There is no need to prove that it is a bijection.
After searching for clues on how to solve this, I found $(x+y-1)(x+y-z)/z+y$ but that is only two dimensional and does not include $0$. Any help on how to solve this?


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An extremely obese person who enjoys rolling around in marshmallow fluff while in her undies and a neon bra and making cake while booty dancing to ghettoass music. Weighs approximatley 975 pounds, comopletely adorable, and is a lesbian on occassion.
theres brittan! everybody drop your pants!
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An amazing and loving individual. Cares too much about finding that one special love interest. Has a big heart. Picky. Has more guy friends than girlfriends. Short. Skinny. Lover not a fighter.
Brittan loves to love.
by Mmmmyummy February 03, 2010
The most beautiful girl to ever live this planet. She has been fighting for so long becoming weaker and weaker but somehow still manages to stay strong.
Brittan is so strong.
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An amazing person. Hates the thought of somebody not liking her. Insecure.
"Dude leave Brittan alone"
by Dancemaniac5 October 26, 2012
Term for a UCLA male student who is a freak and a creep; A Brittan is a totally perverted guy who pretends to be innocent and interested in you (if you're a female) but just wants to get in your pants. Brittans usually hail from Santa Cruz. They typically have a plethora of female "friends" and only one male friend. Out of this selection of female friends, they try to find one that will be willing to quote:"get freaky on the pool table." Whereas most guys would not want to come off as racist or prejudice towards others when first getting to know a girl, a Brittan will certainly do so, thinking he is somehow flattering his new "conquest". A typical FIRST date includes: College football game, In N' Out afterwards, head to the t.v. lounge, where Brittan shamelessly tries to make out with you no matter how many times you tell him to back off. If a Brittan doesn't get what he wants, he immediately deletes you from his radar and somehow doesn't know you anymore. Stay away from these freaky creepers!
A Nice Day Really Exits With a Brittan .
by Josephine Bruin December 11, 2007
A crazy bitch that happens to be fucking amazing, and is the best friend of a kickass girl named kristin who also is fucking amazing. They are both cupcake whores.
Brittan invited Kristin to smoke a joint with her on the 50 yard line of the football field, who gladly accepted, as long as brittan brought cupcakes.
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an adjective used to describe a girl whose breasts are so small that they resemble mosquito bites. (Hence the similarity to the word bitten).
The term brittan can also refer to a person who has many STDs, (they are bitten by the diseases).
The term brittan can also refer to a person who has many STDs, (they are bitten by the diseases).
I slept with this brittan girl last night, and damnnn my hands felt empty!!
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The Waldron College Advising Center is staffed by a full-time Advising Coordinator, a full-time academic advisor and graduate students trained to assist in advising. The Advising Center serves as primary advisor for the following majors: Pre-Communication Sciences and Disorders, Pre-Nursing, and Pre-Social Work. The Advising Center serves as secondary advisor for the following majors: Communication Sciences and Disorders, Nursing, and Social Work. When you enter upper division Nursing, Communication Sciences and Disorders, or Social Work, you will be assigned a faculty advisor within that department. If you do not know who your advisor is, please check your web audit and your advisor is listed there.
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This is a reminder that completing all degree requirements is the responsibility of the student. Students need to use their Advising Manual, along with the University Catalog and Student Handbook. A few general requirements are listed below:
- Students may repeat up to three courses, and withdraw from five courses, while at RU.
- Always double check your list of classes approved for the Core Curriculum – if you take a course not on the approved list, you will not be able to use it for a requirement.
- Students may take courses during the summer at RU or at another school for transferring back to RU (for transfer classes, check with the Registrar's Office first so you know how the class will transfer back to RU).
- New freshmen and new transfer students must have at least a 1.00 GPA at the end of the first semester to avoid suspension.
- At least 45 credits (and 50% of major requirements) must be completed at Radford University.
- To graduate with Latin Honors, the student must graduate with at least a 3.5 overall GPA and complete at least 60 credits at RU (if less than 60 hours, "with distinction" is given).


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photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, noted for his use of the Leica rangefinder camera to capture what he called "the decisive moment"
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The report looks at the policy of bombing residential buildings in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge. This policy was one of the horrifying hallmarks of the fighting in Gaza in the summer of 2014, leading to the death of hundreds of people – more than a quarter of the operation's Palestinian casualties. The report examines the recurrent stories of many Palestinian families who lost everything in a split second and analyzes Israel's contention that it followed IHL provisions. While Hamas openly declared its intent to harm Israeli civilians, Israeli officials kept saying, both during and after the war, that the military had obeyed the law and done everything in its power to avoid harming civilians. The report indicates that these claims are entirely baseless.
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Patricia J. Goodwin, 71, of Omaha, formerly of Nebraska City, died May 15, 2013 at the Montclair Nursing Center in Omaha. She was born on Dec. 4, 1941 at St. Mary's Hospital in Nebraska City to Floyd and Helen L. (Secord) Clark, Jr.
After high school, she then attended Bellevue College where she learned key punch operation/computer programming.
Patricia was a member of the Omaha North Corps Salvation Army. She worked for 20 years for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as a Key Punch Operator and later a Computer Programmer.
Patricia is survived by her children Michael A. Nist and wife Jennifer of Omaha, Carolyn A. Warner of Omaha, Donna M. Baxter of Omaha, Gary D. Baxter, Jr. of Denton, Texas, Joel R. Baxter of Denton, Texas and Timothy Nist of Omaha; 12 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren; siblings Shirley McCain of Omaha, Flora Henry of Philadelphia, Penn., Ralph Clark of Omaha, Floyd Clark of Omaha, Bonnie Naffzinger of Las Vegas, Nev., and Gary Clark of Lincoln; other family and friends.
She was preceded by three children, Roy L. Nist, Brady S. Nist and Donald E. Baxter and one grandson Zachary Nist.
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, May 24, at Gude Mortuary in Nebraska City with Lt. Pam Kasten officiating. Burial will follow the services at Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City. A Memorial Gathering will be held Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 6 p.m. at the Salvation Army, 2424 Pratt St., in Omaha.
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With are cooking with Chef Angie! Today we are making a delicious dessert your Valentine will love! They are also having a Valentines dinner. For more information call or visit the cafe.
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Individual Chocolate Lava Cakes
Center 1/2 bar (2 oz.) bittersweet chocolate baking bar
1/4 cup heavy cream
Cake: Nonstick cooking spray
1 bar (4 oz.) bittersweet chocolate baking bar
8 Tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick)
2 whole eggs
2 egg yolks
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup flour
Fresh berries and whipped cream for garnish
To make centers, melt chocolate and cream in double boiler. Whisk gently to blend. Refrigerate about 2 hours or until firm. Form into 6 balls. Refrigerate until needed. To make cake, heat oven to 400 degrees. Spray six 4 ounce ramekins or custard cups with cooking spray. Melt chocolate and butter in double boiler; whisk gently to blend. With an electric mixer, whisk eggs, yolks, sugar, and vanilla on high speed about 5 minutes or until thick and pale yellow. Fold melted chocolate mixture and flour into egg mixture just until combined. Spoon cake batter into ramekins. Place a chocolate ball in the middle of each ramekin. Bake about 15 minutes or until cake is firm to the touch. Let it sit out of the oven for about 5 minutes. Run a small, sharp knife around inside of each ramekin; place a plate on top. Invert and remove ramekin carefully. Garnish with raspberries and a dollop of whipped cream. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY FROM ANGELA'S CAFE


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This was originally going to be something I put together just for my own use but as others expressed interest in the idea I decided to release it. Final Burn Consoles is a build of Final Burn Legends that contains only drivers for the home console systems currently supported by FBA; the Sega Genesis, the Neo Geo AES console, and the Capcom CPS Changer. FBC is optimised to provide as authentic a recreation as possible of playing games on these systems. Please see the FAQs below for more information.
Sega Genesis Features:
- Genesis driver based on PicoDrive.
- Restored all Genesis games that were removed in FBL1.4 and many more
from the HazeMD set have been added.
- Super Bubble Bobble added and working.
Neo Geo features:
- Runs in console mode only giving access to AES-specific features in
many games (vs. mode, training mode, options etc.).
- Japan AES bios or Universe bios are also selectable.
- Select button mapped to Xbox Back. (Pauses game)
- ROMset consists only of games that were officially released as AES
cartridges and, where possible, AES cartridge ROMs are used.
CPS Changer features:
- Supports both available CPS Changer ROMsets (sfzch, wofch). For the
other 10 released games CPS1 sets in freeplay mode have been used until
genuine CPS Changer dumps become available.
- Pause button mapped to Xbox Back in Street Fighter Zero.
Question: What's the point of this? Can't I just do the same thing by playing with settings in FBL?
Answer: Yes. But this is for people that like the idea of having a separate emulator for the home console variants of these systems.
Question: How is the Genesis driver better than NeoGenesis?
Answer: It isn't. Although it probably runs some pirate cartridges that Neogenesis doesn't and I'm told the scanline filter is better.
Question: Why don't my FBL ROMs work?
Answer: Because FBC uses console ROM dumps where possible. These can be built from a full FBL set. Check the DATs provided in the tools\ folder.
Question: Why are some Neo Geo games missing?
Answer: Because not all Neo Geo MVS arcade games were released as AES home console cartridges.
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If i remember correctly, i read that given a presheaf P:C^op -> Set it is possible to describe it as a limit of representable presheaves. Could someone give a description of the construction together with a proof?
You mean "colimit of representable presheaves", not limit. Any limits that C has are preserved by the Yoneda embedding. So if C is, say, a complete poset like • → •, so that it is small and has all limits, you won't be able to produce any non-representable presheaves by taking limits of representable ones.
The way to write any presheaf as a colimit of representables is, like all things Yoneda-related, somewhat tautological, and should be worked out for oneself; but anyways it's explained to some extent at this nlab page. Rather than write out formulas, I usually think of the example of simplicial sets: every simplicial set X can be formed as a colimit of its simplices, i.e., a diagram of representables which is indexed on the "category of simplices of X", whose objects are pairs (n, x) where n is in the indexing category and x is an object of Xn. The same works in any presheaf category.
This follows from the Yoneda lemma - probably my favourite way of thinking about this fact is via coends in the way described here by Todd Trimble, which I think makes it quite clear what is going on.
By the way, that desciption by Todd Trimble has meanwhile been prepared at nLab:co-Yoneda lemma (this is what the question above is about) and nLab:Day convolution (for the more general statement).
I think you mean any presheaf is colimit of representable presheaf. It follows from Yoneda Lemma. It is well known that category of presheaves is complete and cocomplete. So you can take limits and colimits.
This property has some geometric intuition. Because we can take any presheaf as as a space(this view point was first proposed by Gabriel and developed by Grothendieck and revised in full generality by Kontsevich-Rosenberg). So this statement means that any "space" can be glued (in some sense)from affine space(affine space is defined as representable presheaf).
It follows by the strong form of Yoneda lemma. If the base category $V$ is symmetric monoidal closed, complete and cocomplete, then any presheaf $F:A^{\ast}\to V$ has a left Kan extension along the Yoneda embedding. The coend formula for left Kan extensions then yields
$Fa\cong \int^{b}A(b, a)\otimes Fb$
Note that the theorem says that every presheaf is a colimit of representables in a canonical way, or that the wedge $w_{b}:A(b, a)\otimes Fb\to Fa$ is universal. Or that the Yoneda embedding is dense.


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I once heard a story about a Martial Art person who has broken his hand after breaking the Tiles.
The aim of story given below shows a Mind Power of Human Being.
Actually I did't remember the exact name of that great person but know little about the story which is a follows:
Once Martial Art athlete accepts a challenge to break (assumption) 50 Tiles at one time. Their friends and his masters tried to stop him to do like this. But that man did not step down from his determination. Even Doctors had advised him to not to do this. But he had refused all the advises.
Breaking the Tiles:
A day came and he had broken all those Tiles with one hand in first trial. He got injury in his hand. Every bone was broken. He was literally bleeding.
On the spot doctors had started their work so that they can help that man. And finally he got hospitalized. After looking at the bones/fractures reports, doctors had concluded that a hand of that person is now no more usable for life time. Recovery is not possible. And he got bed rest for around 6 months.
Mind Power:
During his hospitalization time, he started to think over it and used his mind power. He started to imagine that a small small people (like building construction labors) are coming and walking on his broken hand and going into his mouth. After entering in his body they go to the place where he got injury on his hand. A group of small people start to fix the injury by building the slabs (like slab in building construction).
He used to think like this way around six months. Now, when doctors came to see after six months they all got socked! They all were discussing that it's impossible to heal from injuries like a man had.
When doctors asked a man How did he recovered from injury then a man replied above but doctors were not believing the story told by man.
The moral is we have a mind which is so much powerful that we can recover from any injury like a man had.
I want to know the name of this man. I think somebody will be there who knows this man.


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Pool parties, picnics, and cookouts are all fun summer activities to look forward to. If your child has a fun event coming up, start a countdown. This lesson is two-fold — it'll work on her time-telling skills, and it'll help pass the time until the event.
For example, if she has a friend's birthday party coming up in four days, ask her how long that is in days, hours, and minutes. You can even start a countdown for each of these. Her excitement will grow as each countdown winds down to her special event!
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Is there an example of a variety over the complex numbers with no embedding into a smooth variety?
Yes, there are even toric varieties. In fact, there are complete toric varieties with trivial picard group (see e.g., Eickelberg "Picard groups of compact toric varieties..." 1993). We have the following simple observations:
1) Any variety which can be embedded into a smooth variety has an ample family of line bundles.
2) A proper variety with trivial picard group cannot have an ample family of line bundles.
A really neat well known example is as follows:
Choose a conic $C_1$ and a tangential line $C_2$ in $\mathbb{P}^2$ and asssociate to a point $P$ on $C_1$ the point of intersection $Q$ of $C_2$ and the tangent line to $C_1$ at $P$. This gives a birational isomorphism from $C_1$ to $C_2$. Identify the curves by this map to get the quotient variety $\phi:\mathbb{P}^2\rightarrow{X}$ with $C:=\phi(C_1)$. Now if there was an embedding of $X$ in a smooth scheme then, there would surely exist an effective line bundle on $X$, say $L$ whose pull back to $\mathbb{P}^2$ will obviously be effective. Let us see why this is a contradiction. Let $L'$ be the pullback of $L$ to $\mathbb{P}^2$. Note that the degrees of $L'|C_1$ and $L'|C_2$ both coincide with the degree of $L|C$ and are therefore equal. But $L'\cong\mathcal{O}(k)$ and therefore the degrees in question are $2k$ and $k$ respectively for $C_1$ and $C_2$. Therefore $k=0$ and $L'\cong\mathcal{O}$, which is non-effective! A contradiction!
In view of VA's comment, I give a complete proof here for constructing $X$ as a scheme.
In our special case it is a trivial pushout construction: Here I am thinking of $Y$ as $C_1\amalg{C_2}$, $Y'=C$ (the quotient by the birational isomorphism above), and $Z=\mathbb{P}^2$, but the argument is more general provided any finite set of closed points in $Z$ is contained in an affine open set. $X$ will denote the quotient.
Claim: Suppose $j:Y\rightarrow{Z}$ is a closed subscheme of a scheme $Z$, and $g:Y\rightarrow{Y'}$ is a finite surjective morphism which induces monomorphism on coordinate rings. Then there is a unique commutative diagram (which I don't know how to draw here, but one visualize it easily): $Y\xrightarrow{j}{Z}$, $Y\xrightarrow{g}Y'$, $Y'\rightarrow{X}$, $Z\xrightarrow{h}X$ where $X$ is a scheme, $h$ is finite and induces monomorphisms on coordinate rings and $Y'\rightarrow{X}$ is a closed immersion.
Proof: First assume that $Z$ is affine, in which case $Y,Y'$ are both affine too. Let $A,A/I,B$ be their respective coordinate rings. Then $B\subset{A/I}$ in a natural way. Let's use $j$ again to denote the natural map $A\rightarrow{A/I}$. Put $A'=j^{-1}(B)$ and $Spec(A')=X$. The claim is clear for $X$. Also if $Z$ is replaced by an open subset $U$ such that $g^{-1}g(U\cap{Y})=U\cap{Y}$, $X$ would be replaced by $U'=h(U)$ which is an open subset.
Now this guarantees the existence of $X$ once it has been shown that $Z$ can be covered by affine open subsets $U$ such that $g^{-1}g(U\cap{Y})=U\cap{Y}$. But this is obvious in our example. For our example it is also clear from the construction of $X$ that it is actually reduced and irreducible. QED.
I hope this is satisfactory.
See example 4.9 in Ravi Vakil's paper http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/files/asnjun18.pdf , and the references therein.


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A day before their commencement ceremony, Leavenworth High School seniors had the chance to put on their graduation gowns Friday for Senior Honors Night.
Senior Honors Night featured the presentation of numerous awards and scholarships to members of the graduating class.
Principal Tom Barry said Friday's ceremony was a celebration of excellence and scholarship.
"These students have exceeded my expectations in so many ways," he said.
Barry said he's impressed by the type of people the graduating seniors are in addition to their academic achievements.
More than 300 seniors are scheduled to graduate today at Leavenworth High School.
Barry asked them Friday to always remember they are pioneers at heart. The pioneer is the school mascot.
Seniors at Lansing High School are scheduled to graduate during a ceremony this morning. And seniors at Pleasant Ridge High School will graduate Sunday.
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I understand that unlocking the bootloader will wipe my Android phone, but have been looking around for why. Seems to be by design, but what is the reasoning for that design? Is it some security concern, some obscure technical reason, or just for lulz? I'm looking for something solid to chew on here, something more than because "that's how it is".
It's a security concern. The Android documentation doesn't provide a lot of elaboration, stating simply:
However, the privacy concern is relatively straightforward to extrapolate. Once the bootloader is unlocked, the device can be flashed with unsigned images. This means that it is relatively trivial to root the device, and there are actually multiple ways it can be done, such as:
Once root is obtained, all of the information on
Of course, there may be ways to root without wiping on some devices, but they rely on exploits rather than official methods like a bootloader unlock, meaning they are basically bugs.
Its a good question as to the motive in why they insist on this when getting manufacturers to make the handsets for carriers.
The reason, I think, why carriers enforce "locked bootloaders", is really simplistic, in the event of handsets being stolen, and a tech-savvy thief can unlock it, it wipes the personal data in place thus ensuring that contacts etc are removed.
And, in a what I would perceive, a twisted roundabout-way, the victim will not get billed for unsolicited texts/calls etc to their own contacts (i.e. billing for calls etc) made whilst the handset is stolen, that is, if it is still in original state, i.e. locked, that is, provided the relevant authorities have been informed.
So the desire for the thief to infiltrate and get at the handset to work with another carrier would force the thief to unlock the boot-loader.. I would be inclined to believe its for that reason, carriers are in fact, protecting themselves and covering their position in maintaining the contractual clauses with the customers...(this is only hearsay based on what I have read about carriers)
And yet carriers, still maintain their stance in selling handsets with locked boot-loaders despite uproar from the community, i.e. lack of openness, difficulties in modding etc and do try scare off using this tactic "Unlocking boot-loader voids the warranty".
Some carriers would even get the manufacturers to make the handsets impossible to unlock - for example, Orange's San Diego, which was released earlier on in 2012, circa February, Intel-based chip-set running Android - it took 8 months to get it rooted, and by then, the community declined..the detrimental side effect was that the price of that handset dramatically dropped a lot and lost its value due to zero openness and the developer community lost interest in modding for it!
All a boot-loader is - its a piece of code, and if received instructions via
With what I have written, hopefully makes sense.


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Is anyone else having trouble accessing old Shirt.woot derbies?
Here is the current link for the previous Derby: http://shirt.woot.com/shirt.woot.com/derby/archive/258/derby-258-beauty-within
For me, it leads to a 404.
So I went to the current derby and every link leads to the current derby page. How the heck am I supposed to look at old derbies like this?
Anyone else having trouble? Got any solutions?
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"Yikes, there's been a server error."
It's not just you. I think a response from one of the staff would be best here. Perhaps they know what's going on.
@capguncowboy: I was having this problem on Friday as well, I was just too busy to report it. I haven't tagged staff in a very long time, so I don't remember who would be appropriate in this situation...
@abramokids: the usual suspect is @shawnmiller
If he's not the right one, he'll probably call in the right person. Also, reporting the issue on the beta feedback link is helpful.
Maybe @agingdragqueen could be helpful as well.
@jsimsace: I appreciate your optimism.
Your URL repeats the site: shirt.woot.com
Try http://shirt.woot.com/derby/archive/258/beauty-within
Where are you getting the URL? If it's from our site, we need to fix it.
@thunderthighs: On the main shirt.woot site, the first line in the write-up says "2nd place in..." and then a hyperlink to the 404
On a related note, there doesn't appear to be a way to visit old derbies
@abramokids: Thanks. I'll put in a request to get that link fixed. (And yesterday's. Uhm, and tomorrow's)
You can visit old derbies by changing the derby number in the URL. For example:
@thunderthighs: cool beans! Thanks for the help :D
@agingdragqueen: Sorry if I summoned you out of a slumber. I thought you hung out over there. :) @thunderthighs: Thanks for cleaning up everybody's messes. Were you a janitor in a previous life? You seem to do that a lot. ;)
@jsimsace: Heh, no. Did work customer service for computers in the early days and do a fair bit of testing. You kinda learn to figure out things on your own that way. At least I try to figure out as much as I can before passing it on.
And yeah, if there's a booboo anywhere, I want to get it fixed. Everyone does. The moderators are just in a better position to hear about from you eagle-eyed wooters.


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The primary agency responsible for implementing agricultural policy is the Ministry of Agriculture, which provides research and extension assistance to farmers. Another supporting agency is the Saudi Arabian Agricultural Bank (SAAB), which disburses subsidies and grants interest-free loans. The Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization was established in 1972 to purchase and store wheat, construct flour mills and produce animal feed to support the nationwide growth of agriculture.
To encourage private investment in the agricultural sector, Saudi Arabia has allocated substantial financial resources for improving roads linking producing areas with consumer markets.
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One might naturally expect that the Jewish people would enter the land and then receive the Torah there. It seems logical to me that the Torah should come from a holy place characterized by the revelation of Hashem, in keeping with passages like "Ki mitziyon tetze Torah." The wilderness, in contrast, seems to represent a sort of exile, or at least an imperfect condition. So why was the Torah given in the desert rather than in Eretz Yisrael?
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Mechilta Drav Yishmael - Yisro - Parsha 5 says that it was not given in Eretz Yisroel in order that the non Jews would not to be able to say that they did not accept it since it was given in the Jewish land. Another reason was to avoid a dispute between the Shevatim.
Additionally, it was given in the desert (no-man's land) so that no people would be able to claim that they have no share in the Torah. (See English comments in the Stone Chumash; I can't give a more specific reference because I don't have the book on my lap ATM, sorry).
edit: Mekhilta De-Rabbi Ishmael (Exodus 19:2).
Spinoza in his Theological-Political Treatise argued that the legislation of Judaism was political legislation, necessary for the conduct of a state. According to Spinoza, the end of Jewish sovereignty made the law of Judaism irrelevant. The Torah was given before the people entered the land because Spinoza is wrong--the Jewish people are bound by the Torah even in exile.
Michael Wyschogrod in his Body of Faith expands on this idea as follows:
Similarly, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:
Somewhat relatedly, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Abraham's Journey:
According to the Ari, the air of Eretz Yisrael was present with the people and moved with them -- wherever they went in the wilderness they had the air of Israel and of the beit hamikdash with them. So even though they were in the wilderness, it is like they were in Eretz Yisrael. So the torah could be said was given "in Israel", just not within its boundaries.
This can explain the gemoro in Shabbat 31b, which says that since they travelled because of Hashem's word, that was like the mishcan being built and taken down on the same spot. The gemoro there is discussing if one is chayiv on shabbos for pulling down a building, if you don't intend to build on the same spot. The gemoro brings a proof from the mishcan where the dinim of shabbos are learned from, where they pulled down the mishcan and didn't build it again on the same spot. On that the gemoro says, since they, the Jewish people, traveled because of Hashem's word, it is counted as though it was still built again on the same spot.
The meforshim have difficulty understanding this.Just because hashem was telling them where to go it should all be considered the same spot. The shvisas shabbos at the beginning of his sefer explains why it was considered the same spot. He brings an Ari that where ever they went in the desert they had the 'air' of erez yisroel with them and the 'air' of the bais hamikdosh. So the mishcan was always on the same spot of the bais hamikdosh. The gemoro in eiruvin 55b present daf yomi can also be explained with this theory, to explain why although they were living in tents in the desert, it is considered like living in a city 'bikviuss', since hashem was directing them. So the meaning of hashem directing them in the desert, is travelling with hashem, ie with the bais hamikdosh and erets yisroel therefore it was considered like living in a city in Israel.In other words although they were moving about in the desert they really were on the same spot all the time, this being no contradiction.
R Chaim Shmulevich adds that it's like a child with its mother. Even though the mother moves about, the child's place is with its mother. So even though they were in the desert it's like they were in Eretz Yisroel.
This also explains how they could make sacrifices in the desert and not in Israel. According to this explanation of the Ari it was given in the 'avira' the air of erez yisroel plus it also had the attributes of the desert mentioned in other posts. I must state the 'air' is not meant in a physical sense but a metaphoric one.


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I have read two possible definitions. A nonlinear field is
A field taking values on a manifold.
A field whose equation is nonlinear.
What do you understand by a nonlinear field or a nonlinear theory?
I have read two possible definitions. A nonlinear field is
What do you understand by a nonlinear field or a nonlinear theory?
A nonlinear field or a nonlinear theory is, well, a field or a theory that is not linear. There are two obstructions to something being linear: a equation is said to be linear if, whenever $\phi$ and $\psi$ are solutions to the equation and $a,b$ are constant scalars, so is $a\phi + b\psi$. So for the definition to make sense, you need (a) a way to ¨add two solutions¨ and (b) the statement that the ¨sum of two rescaled solutions is again a solution¨.
In other words, in the first case we cannot even meaningfully define superpositions; in the second case superpositions can be defined, but the principle of superposition for decomposing solutions can no longer be used.
The distinction drawn is mainly epistemological. For practical purposes there is little point in distinguishing between the two: the difference between the two cases is minute compared with their difference to linear theories.
You mean a "nonlinear sigma model", which is a field which takes value on a manifold. I guess some people call that a "nonlinear field". The more common usage is "A field whose equation is nonlinear".
First, what is a difference between linear and nonlinear physical processes? If a deviation of a system from an equilibrium is small, then the system is said to be linear. Formally, in this case, the system is described by a linear equation. A simple example of a linear system is a pendulum that performs small oscillations near the equilibrium (vertical) position.
Another definition of a linear system is that it is a system that "responds" linearly to an external perturbation. "Linear responce" means that the system reaction (signal) is proportional to the strength of perturbation. Usual examples are Hooke's law F= k*X and Ohm's law U= R*I, where k and R do not depend on X and I, respectively.
Now, if the deviation of a system from an equilibrium is large then the system (or a process) is nonlinear. For example, oscillation of a pendulum with large (> ~30 degrees) deviation is a nonlinear process. Alternative view, if the parameters of a system depend on the preturbation, then the system responce is nonlinear. In the examples above, if the elasticity coefficient k depends on X, or resistance R on I, then the system is nonlinear.
We can say that all processes in nature are nonlinear. However, if the deviation is small then the process can be considered (treated mathematically) as linear. This is just a reflection of a simple fact that any function $f(x)$ can be represented as a linear function if $x$ is small, $f(x) \approx f(0)+f'(0) x$.
"Field" is used when you describe an extended system, and deviation from equlibrium is different in different points of the system. Ususal examples are an oscillating string, electromagnetic field etc.
Finally, if you consider an extended system with large deviation from the equilibrium, you need to use nonlinear field theory.
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I am implementing inheritance of something called Contexts. Each Context holds a link to its parent context. If that Context is the root Context, its parent is null.
In order to walk up the inheritance tree and get the data from each Context, I want to do this (in pseudocode)
private Hashtable getDataAsMap() {
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6 Things You Didn't Know You Could Get Addicted To
Soy shakes, golden retrievers, squat thrusts. These aren't the makings of a week-long bender in Vegas, unless you happen to be Marquis de Sade. However, the human brain is a mysterious lump of meat, and under rare circumstances the mind can become hooked on all sorts of things that are usually completely innocent or even commendable.
Such as ...
#6. Books
Doesn't sound so bad ...
Many of us own collections that we're too ashamed to discuss in public, whether it's vintage porn, yarn or commemorative Burger King glasses. So when you hear there's such a thing as book addiction, you figure, hell, it'd be rad to be addicted to the Western literary canon. You'd be so quick with quips and quotes at dinner parties you could wear a damned monocle and nobody would dare call you on it.
The horrifying reality:
The most prominent modern bibiliomaniac was Stephen Carrie Blumberg. From 1974 to 1990, this bookish chap raided the archives of about 185 North American universities. When the FBI finally raided his Ottumwa, Iowa home, the feds discovered 28,000 stolen books and manuscripts he had been compulsively hoarding.
Bibliomaniacs like him don't necessarily read their books or even collect valuable ones. They just collect them out of a compulsive need to have a fuckload of books. So you could be a bibliomaniac while remaining completely illiterate, though you could build a kick-ass fort.
By the way, after Blumberg spent 4.5 years in prison for stealing all those books, he was rearrested in July 2003 for stealing, um, doorknobs. Figure that one out.
Warning Signs:
Technology has obviously made books unnecessary, so the sight of even one book in a friend's home should be cause for concern. If the person has gone as far as to purchase an entire special shelf to hold all of his books, it's probably time for an intervention.
#5. Pets
Doesn't sound so bad ...
We know what you're thinking: If one puppy is adorable, think how much more adorable a dozen of them would be! Furthermore, chicks dig animal lovers and dudes love the movie Beastmaster, so where's the problem? Every day we come home will be like that scene in Ace Ventura!
The horrifying reality:
In one infamous 2005 case, animal control officers retrieved more than 300 sewage-scented pups from Barbara and Robert Woodley's Sanford, North Carolina home. The house's stench was so damn doggy that it brought the rescuing veterinarians to tears ... literally. Animal hoarding is often the result of crippling obsessive-compulsive disorder. The hoarder believes that he alone understands his pets, who apparently wish to live cramped and knee-deep in their own shit.
On a similar note, The New York Times recently posited that "crazy cat lady" syndrome stems from an infection by the Toxoplasma gondii parasite. According to this model, feline stool transmits the bug, which gives the infected owner an unhealthy case of cat-scratch fever. Before you laugh, know that 60 million Americans may be infected with toxoplasma and that some experts think it will turn all of us into zombies.
Warning Signs:
We're going to go out on a limb here, but we're thinking the presence of lots and lots of animals in a guy's living room may be an indication. Further, if you catch someone extolling the virtues of Eddie Murphy's 1998 opus Doctor Dolittle, that individual is either a potential animal hoarder or eight-years-old. On the other hand, if you catch someone extolling the virtues of Marc Singer's 1982 opus The Beastmaster, buy that man a drink!
He has a Master's degree ... in beasts
#4. Eating Right
Doesn't sound so bad ...
Hey reader, what'd you eat today? What's that? A sausage stromboli, some Skittles and a teacup full of Maker's Mark? And it's not even noon? For shame, you're not getting enough fiber to absorb that bourbon.
Wait, what did we eat? The internet writer's special, natch: a tub of Crisco and a tin of Skoal. So if they say there's such a thing as getting addicted to healthy food (or orthorexia) then we should all be so lucky. Right?
The horrifying reality:
You can die from it.
See, the orthorexia nervosa sufferer's fanatical desire to consume the correct foods comes with the problem that their idea of what "correct" means is entirely subjective and often nutritionally unsound. Eating 10 cans of pinto beans a day sounds healthier than eating ten Big Macs, but both diets leave out important nutrients and will reward you with DEFCON 5 flatulence. And at the end of the day, your body just needs fat. A diet with zero fat can kill you just as effectively as too much, though most of us are a very long way away from experiencing that for ourselves.
Warning Signs:
The doctor who discovered this disorder says "social isolation" resulting from the diet is one warning sign. So take Mr. Pinto Bean from our above example. Chances are he's disgusted with other people's "impure," non-bean diets, so he posts a personal on Craigslist entitled "LOOKING 4 GOYA-MINDED WOMAN."
And since no one shares the rectitude required to eat beans 24/7, Mr. Bean spends the rest of his life alone, weeping as he farts, farting as he weeps.


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I'm a bit confused by the information on the Marquette University website. It says that "Both the Clearblue monitor and the LH test kits are designed to help couples achieve pregnancy. However, when used appropriately and with the proper instructions they can also be used as an aid to avoiding pregnancy," but then it says that "The disadvantage of the monitor, if using it to avoid pregnancy, is that the 2-5 day warning period it provides is not long enough to avoid pregnancy." Shouldn't the 2-5 day warning period be enough? Isn't that about the same as when using cervical mucus to chart?
I think the reason is that sperm can last 3-5 days in fertile mucus. So, if you have intercourse on day 10 (for example) and have fertile mucus, but the monitor doesn't give you a warning of impending ovulation until day 11, and you ovulate on day 13, the sperm could still be viable.


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Monday, 10 December 2012
Five Sequin jackets for every budget.
Sequin jackets are a worthwhile investment whatever your budget and make an appearance every year from both high street and designer brands, and are not to be worn purely for the festive season nor purely over jeans and a t-shirt as they can work over a plain shift dress or cigarette pants just as easily and are perfect for Christmas or Boxing day if you are going out or entertaining at home, just take your apron off and slip one on as you leave the kitchen!
Asos was £65 now £48.50 in black, burgundy and silver. Oasis Fantasy Sequin Jacket £59.50. Crumpet Sequin Jacket from Stanwells was £240 now £168. Khardashian sequin jacket from Dorothy Perkins in gold and black was £50 now £30. Baukjen sequin jacket £149 in black and silver.
Is there a sequin jacket in your wardrobe just waiting to come out and play at Christmas? Do you prefer a classic blazer style or a more relaxed draped front jacket?
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Love the ASOS one! :)ReplyDelete
As I'm trying not to spend too much this year, I invested in a little sequin jacket/short cardi in H&M which allows me to sparkle without breaking the bank. You have some lovely choices picked out. I think I prefer the draped style as it's more versatile and works even if you're entertaining at home. HelenReplyDelete
I love sequins, and a sequin jacket/cardigan is definitely on my must-have list!ReplyDelete
I've never owned a sequin jacket and really never expected them to be so reasonably priced. I'm certainly going to check out some of your recommendations now :-) I think I prefer the structured style because even worn casually it can look really smart xReplyDelete
here's one for you, Mrs Fab. Guardian looking for fashion bloggers:ReplyDelete
I love the little jacket with the black skinnies and boots - that's definitely my kind of outfit! I wore sequins the other night but only in t-shirt form! xxReplyDelete
I've never owned anything with sequins. I'm ashamed to say that we don't even dress up for Christmas lunch. We lounge around and chat and eat in our most comfortable clothes (read: loose clothing with elastic bands!).ReplyDelete
I have a sequinned jacket. Quite a few years old now but I got it out and dusted it down the other day and it still looks lovely (in my eyes). I feel another sequin post coming on!ReplyDelete
Good ideas and nice taste!ReplyDelete
Oooh, love a bit of sparkle. Have been hunting high and low for a long sequinned tube skirt, but cannot find one ANYWHERE! You haven't seen one on your fashion travels, have you? xReplyDelete
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I love a sequin jacket! I have one and it's an easy way to glam up a simple outfit without additional accesories.ReplyDelete


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