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Is wasei-eigo or wasei-kango looked down upon by Japanese language purists (as opposed to English or Chinese purists!) as informal, inauthentic, incorrect or the like?
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I think most people don't even know whether a word is wasei-eigo. Just to give you a sense, there are plenty of people who think
I'm sure there are "purists" who somehow look down on wasei-eigo, but you can find extremists for everything. It's certainly no where common.
I heard some teachers argue that the use of wasei-eigo is detrimental to learning English, but that's not "looking down" IMO.
I agree with Enno Shioji that wasei-eigo is looked down upon by some people just as anything is looked down upon by someone. I just want to add that in some cases, the standard way to express some notion is by using wasei-eigo, and avoiding wasei-eigo is impossible.
For example, baseball terminology in Japanese is full of wasei-eigo: フォアボール (base on balls), デッドボール (hit by pitch), タッチアウト (tag out), ランニングホームラン (inside-the-park home run), and so on. If someone tries to avoid wasei-eigo and replaces, say, ランニングホームラン with "インサイドパークホームラン" or "インサイドザパークホームラン," the word would mean nothing to most Japanese speakers.
I think they look down on loanwords which replace the local words which were in normal usage. I don't think think they'd have anything against words like パン or バス (the vehicle one). Rather it's words like バス (the bathtub. 風呂) or マイカー (自分の車. 我が車? 我車?). It makes you want to exclaim "Why the heck are you using such fancy words when there is already a word to describe that? You want to look ナウい huh?"
If one is too exposed to such words to the extent it causes repugnance, it leads to extremism, rejecting even loanwords with no viable replacements, where they will create the replacement using local words. Thus, 「外来語」言い換え提案 (Gairaigo Iikae Teian) was born. Ooohhh, I'm so gonna get flak from them for labeling them extremists!
I look down on non-Japanese native people learning Japanese who think that, whenever they don't know how to say something in Japanese, they can transcribe the English word in katakana and will work. Sometimes it may work, but they should not rely on that.


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As per the title, is there a verb for 'to make heroic'? Something like 'heroicised'?
EDIT: For example, talking about how an author elevated a character to heroic status.
As per the title, is there a verb for 'to make heroic'? Something like 'heroicised'?
EDIT: For example, talking about how an author elevated a character to heroic status.
Lionize (US spelling):
I've never heard "heroize" (given in other answers) used in the wild.
The word is heroize, or alternatively spelled, heroise. The act is called heroization.
It means both, to:
The Oxford English Dictionary has entries for heroify and heroize, both with the meaning 'to make a hero of'.
I'm wondering what you mean by "to make heroic." From the pages of Wordnik:
So, what does "to make heroic" mean? That expression could mean, to cause or impel someone to act in a more heroic manner, although I think it usually means to regard or deem as a hero.
As for the latter interpretation, as others have said, you could use the word heroize, but, depending on your context, there might be better ways to say it – such as, "He was heralded as a hero." Without much additional context to draw from, it's hard to know if heroize would be your best option. When talking about an athlete, for example, instead of saying:
it might be better to say:
As for the former interpretation, that I wouldn't call that heroization; that sounds more like some kind of crisis training.
I would favour lionise over heroise (adjust -ise to -ize if appropriate to the orthography in use), it's both more common and in my opinion more euphonious.
I'd also suggest considering mythologise, which is wider in meaning, but often appropriate.
you may use - "glorify" as a single word to mean "to make a hero"
From the book "lies my history teacher told me" by Lloewen: He coins the term "heroification".
I think this might be what you're looking for... see this too: heroification
I watch a lot of cookery programmes on television, and at the moment I notice hero used as a verb in Masterchef Australia: 'this dish heroes the cheese' - in other words, the dish makes cheese the dominant element in the dish.
So here is my humble addition: hero as a verb.
Heroic is defined as the adjective (description) of a hero, so ' the actions were heroic during the disaster'. From dictionary.com:
Related forms he·ro·i·cal·ly, adverb
he·ro·i·cal·ness, he·ro·ic·ness, he·ro·ic·i·ty [heer-oh-is-i-tee]
non·he·ro·ic, adjective
non·he·ro·i·cal, adjective
non·he·ro·i·cal·ly, adverb
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More than 80 million Americans suffer from venous disease, including varicose and spider veins. Venous disease is a progressive disease that is not curable. Join Vascular and Interventional Radiologist Joseph Gerding, MD, of Spectrum Medical Group and SMHC's Vascular Center, to learn how treatment can stop the progression of venous disease and its complications. Modern treatments are performed in an office with local anesthesia, and most individuals are able to return to work the next day
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The man accused of robbing American Bank and Trust on June 20th of last year was arraigned in court this morning.
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Cohron says because of Harston's criminal history, he may be looking at a lot of jail time.
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Recently a guy came and crashed my front door in the parking lot at it left with a small but easily noticeable dent. Is there a way to remove the dent in a easy and really cheap way?
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Suction is the answer. You can buy a suction grip in a hardware store, but if the dent is shallow enough (ie pushed in rather than really dented) a toilet plunger might do it.
Even though we all laughed at him, a friend used the As-Seen-On-TV Suction cup dent puller and it actually popped the dent in his quarter panel. It is not perfect, but it did it to his satisfaction. You could also take the inside door panel off to be able to push it from the other side as well.


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6 Diet Fads For People Who Will Try Anything Except Exercise
In a landscape littered with unscientific and downright stupid weight loss products, it takes something extra stupid to get our attention. Fortunately, weight loss is a big business, and some of the products on the market today seem purely intended to find out how far they can go before we call bullshit. After all, surely nobody is really out there buying ...
#6. Weight Loss Sunglasses
One of the nicest gifts our ancestors left us is our sense of disgust. Not the look-at-that-tramp-Betty White-who-does-she-think-she-is kind of disgust -- though most of us have that in spades -- but our gut-churning sense of revulsion at the sight of spoiled food. Not just the smell, but the color of food is huge when it comes to our appetites. It keeps us from getting sick.
And according to some color theorists, blue is the most unappetizing color, partially because it's rarely found in food in nature, but also because blue food makes us think we're eating either mold or the droppings of a semi-retarded, well-dressed ghosts:
So, if blue ruins our appetites, it only make sense that turning all our food into blue ghost poop would help us lose weight. Thus the Diet Sunglasses were birthed.
The makers of Diet Sunglasses stuck blue lenses where cool mirrored ones should be because blue food looks gross, and who wants to eat stuff that looks gross?
Even if it means looking like a flamboyant aviator as you eat.
The really crazy thing is it might actually work ... just accidentally. There's no scientific data saying that blue is the least appetizing color ...
And about one thousand blue M&Ms that call bullshit.
But there is data that suggests it's the most relaxing color, and scientists think you're more likely to eat well if you're relaxed. That makes sense when you look at this testimony from a user. While her appetite wasn't exactly squelched, seeing the world in blue did relax her, and a relaxed belly is a less ravenous belly.
So basically, you could get the same effect by just playing Enya music while you eat. Or, you know, change your diet and try to exercise.
#5. Diet Dinnerware
On second though, exercise is hard. And let's face it, you're never going to be able to hear the soothing sounds of Enya over the loud and unsettling sounds you make when you're feeding. Maybe what you need is just some means of eating in a more controlled and civilized manner. Maybe you should try to get yourself a fork with traffic lights or talking plate that watches what you eat for you.
Ha, we bet you thought we were kidding about the traffic lights! Meet Diet Dinnerware:
The way the product works is pretty simple: Every 40 to 60 seconds the red light on the shaft turns green, indicating it's OK to have a mouthful. Then the light turns red again, leaving you to masticate like a farm animal while waiting patiently for the green light. Repeat until plate is empty / dinner is cold / you throw the fork out of the window.
Another fun feature of the product is its "stealth" restaurant mode, where the blinking signal comes from an external object on the table instead of the fork (because that would be just embarrassing). Said foreign object would be the blue fish thingy you see in the picture. Which you place on the table. Where it will flash red and green. STEALTHY.
It makes every meal as relaxing as gridlock traffic!
Another product called the Smart Plate, will talk to you once the dietitians have given up. Fortunately for fans of The Biggest Loser and intensely sad meals, the plate is programmed to insult the person eating off of it.
See, the Smart Plate is equipped with a weight sensor, which is connected to small speakers that will berate you with pre-recorded phrases such as "Where's your willpower?" and "Stop right there! What about excess weight?" whenever the pre-programmed weight limit is reached.
While dieting tends to be all about self esteem issues, the Smart Plate is designed to take whatever little crumbs of self-worth you have left, and make you beg for them because they know you like crumbs. But who are we to argue with the man who invented the musical condom?
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If you've ever been a little girl or a guy with earrings, you've probably experienced the rite of passage of going to the local mall to get your ears pierced. And when you did, you probably remember that thing that they used to stick pretty little studs into your ears. It kind of looked like a cross between a stapler and a nail gun and was less painful than a quick immunization shot.
And if that was your ear piercing experience, you're probably thinking that "ear stapling" for weight loss isn't the craziest thing in the world. The Chinese have been using acupuncture for a kajillion years, right? Isn't this the same thing?
If jamming needles into your back is healthy, stapling your earlobes HAS to be?
In a word, no. Not at all. Because even though ear stapling is loosely based on auricular acupuncture (which isn't an actual science, by the way), we're pretty sure practicing acupuncturists don't leave needles in their patients ears for weeks at a time.
Pierced earlobes, though nasty if infected, are soft tissue and tend to heal even if the guy doing the piercing is picking his nose and eating a hot dog during the procedure. Staples, however, need to be placed at the exact right spot so that they hit the correct acu-points. Said points are located in the hard cartilage of the ear.
Piercings in the area will hurt like a bastard and heal much more slowly. Plenty of people have also had to deal with permanently disfiguring infections thanks to the stapling process. Oh, and the holes caused by the procedure are also very likely going to be there forever.
So, potential pain, infection, scarring and the fact that you have goddamn staples in your ears? All risks totally worth taking for a diet procedure that has absolutely no scientific studies whatsoever to back up its effectiveness. But it beats switching to salad and going for a jog every now and then, right?
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Check out page 32 and you'll see Wayne Poe's '54 Merc in all its glory. He's always liked this year Mercury, and here's proof—his first '54 back in Clevelandin 1958.
"I was 17 years old and this was my first car. It was lowered all the way around and had the standard dual exhausts and moon discs. It was a 256ci V-8 with three on the tree. I swapped it out for a 312 Police Interceptor and it went like stink but started blowing up the stock Ford three-speed. After replacing a number of trannies, I got an aluminum adaptor and put in a Cad LaSalle box. After that it was a great car."
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Shawn Zotynia of Charleston, Maine, built this '53 Ford Custom Sedan in his garage, saving it from the crusher. The rebuild lasted from October 2001 until 2012. He made as many parts as he could, buying very few. The engine is the original '53 Ford Flathead, which after a rebuild and the addition of a blower now makes 275 hp. It was painted by Shawn in the same garage where the car was built. He and his wife, Linda, did the upholstery and headliner. Their first effort, the white tuck 'n' roll with green piping took a month to complete. Summer 2012 saw the car ready to hit the shows, making all the effort worthwhile.
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Michael Mortenson and his wife wanted to buy her dad his dream car, a '50 Mercury, but just couldn't afford it. Therefore, Michael decided that maybe he could build one instead. He had never built a car before but, in his words, was "stupid enough to try it". It was built from 2006 to 2009, starting with a rusty '50 Merc found in Devils Lake, North Dakota. He stripped it down and did the work in secret for three years. "My father-in-law once got within 50 feet of the car, and I had to spin him around real fast," he told us. "He didn't have a clue my wife and I were building it in our garage. Once we were finished with the car, we had a secret party for him, and surprised him with the car. Cool huh? It was one of the greatest days of my life, and it was only the second time my wife has seen her dad cry. Since finishing the car, her dad and I have shown the car twice, and feel really good about the car and what it has done for my wife's family."
The Merc now has a Nova subframe and C-notched rear to accommodate the Nova rearend, a 355/350 combo, and airbags all around. A '54 Chevy grille with extra teeth sits at the front of the House of Kolor Brandywine–coated body, with ghost flames, covering the many mods, which include shaving, nosing, decking, and chopping the top, as well as a reverse-opening hood. Apparently Steve Hauge, the Merc's owner, is a subscriber to R&C, so seeing his car in print should surprise him one more time! Nice work, Michael!
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In my opinion one of the biggest productivity killers today is social media. How can I promote responsible social media usage within an organization? Experiences and thoughts welcome!
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Generally blocking social media makes people just go the route of using proxies and other methods to beat the system. A better way to do it is to encourage the use of social media, but also encourage balance, and specify that social media be used only for a certain amount of time/for a certain purpose.
It is a bit difficult to find that balance, especially depending on your office atmosphere, but it can be done with careful moulding of everyone's mindset ;).
P.S. I'm not going to go into long details of how's and why's, because I expect that it would be up to you to choose "how" you go about doing that.
One way would be to block access to social media sites during working hours, if your network has that functionality.


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awsome, i thoght we'd have to wait until mix for stuff like this cant wait to watch it, scott is always great, also cool to see charles in frame
Nah, just right.
It looks like the layout system still only supports render transformations and not layout transforms. Is this correct?
It's been the subject of much pain for me in the past. If it weren't for David Anson's implementation, I'd be sunk a hundred times over.
I burned myself while taking something out of the oven. Not sure what it was (which is probably related to why I burned myself -> drinking ethanol infused liquids and cooking....)
okay okay. I dont care about nasty fonts anymore. Expression Blend 3 is off the chain! I can actually mova and resize the toolbar and other panes! Code IN the designer ! but wait, there's more.
We've got SaveFileDialog, NavigationServices, etc.
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I'm enjoying my first play-through of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. I'm playing as a Rogue, and am getting pretty obsessive about my critical chance and critical damage (using gear, lorestones, and sustained effects).
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This answer is really good, and I really like to give more than the meager +1 that I can.
Since it's not my question, I can't give +15 by accepting and even if I'll ask the OP to accept it instead of my answer, I don't think it's enough.
So my question is: is it acceptable to start a +50 bounty and then reward that answer as soon as possible? Will it indeed make people understand it's a good answer?
Opinions are welcome!
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Hello All,
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Will. I'm a 25 year old air traffic controller in the US Navy, looking to transition into a new career. Ever since I was young, I've enjoyed anything and everything related to video games. I've always wanted to be the one creating them, and the thought of something I helped create giving people an outlet to relax and have fun has always been my motivation. For me, the programming aspect of video games has always intrigued and amazed me.
When I was 12, I learned basic programming simply by reading any and every tutorial I could find on the internet. And I just adored it. I would sit on my computer days on end and just write little programs that would be boring to anyone else using them. Like, text-based RPGs where a scenario would occur and you'd have to pick 1 out of 4 choices. Then when I found out about RPG Maker 2000, I was so excited to download it and try it out and make my very own "video game".
Flash forward more than a decade, and I'm no where near where I thought I was going to, or wanted to be. I have no secondary education. I took a semester at my state college for computer science after I graduated. But due to unforeseen circumstances, (and admittedly, some poor decisions) that was it. So, now, I'm an air traffic controller, and while it's a great job, and it's very fun (sort of like playing a video game), It's not what I want to spend my whole life doing.
Online school is preferably what I'm looking for, since I have a family, and I can't just be a full-time student that goes to class everyday.
I'm thinking about DeVry. The course sounds great and it seems like what I want, but when I look up reviews about it, I only get discouraged. "Employers wouldn't even blow their nose with that piece of paper." or similar statements. From what I've read on here, it seems as though the degree is just a pre-req for a job, and your motivation and willingness to set yourself apart from the competition is what really makes the difference. Well, I'd like to think that, but in all reality, is that true?
I don't want to waste any of my GI Bill money on a school that's not worth much. I know the road ahead is long and arduous, and I'm not afraid of that. I'm also not looking to do anything the easy way, and sacrifice enlightenment along the way.
Basically, I just want to know, is that online degree going to have a huge impact on my career options? (With the assumption that I'd give 100% no matter if I took online classes or physical classes.)
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You're 25, you say, and an air traffic controller. I don't think you're too old to get a degree. But I beg you not to spend your GI Bill money on a for-profit school.
Consider the reason for getting the degree -- if it's just "so I can have the piece of paper I need so I can get hired," that's a bad reason. And not only that, but a for-profit degree also isn't that good at serving your purpose.
However, if your goal instead is "to learn the skills I need so I can make a portfolio so I can get hired," that's a great reason. But a for-profit school? Have you been keeping up with domestic news? Because for-profit schools have been in the news a lot lately. For-profit schools spend the majority of their money on advertising, and on salespeople who focus heavily on veterans (to get their GI Bill money). Better to get your learning at a school that spends most of its money on teaching its students and getting them jobs.
To recap, then:
Good reason to go to school: to learn.
Bad reason to go to school: to get a degree.
Good place to spend my money: not-for-profit school.
Bad place to spend my money: for-profit school.
Just curious. I often look up new usernames. Are any of the below you?
Re: Introduction
Thank you for your reply, Tsloper. I've read a few threads on here, and I see that you're always well spoken and quite informative, so I trust I can heed what you say.
And you're right, for-profit schools just don't seem to best education there is, but for someone in my position, there doesn't appear to be much available to me. For me, it is all about the learning and getting as much knowledge out of school that I can. Unfortunately, certain circumstances mean I can't have my cake and eat it too. It's one of those things that sometimes I feel having a degree is better than not having one at all, because I have a family, with two sons, a 6 year old and a 6 month old. I feel as though my time is running out, the longer I wait, the harder it gets. I've been so picky, I don't just want to settle for less, I could have already gotten my degree from one of those for-profit diploma mills while I've been in the Navy.
But, your reasoning is logical. I shouldn't settle for some run of the mill school just so I can say I have a piece of paper, when it really doesn't mean anything. I will keep doing research and try to find a school that suits my needs but also offers quality education.
If you have any suggestions, please feel free to list them. I've looked on this site, but a lot of the schools listed are for-profit, lack the accreditation I'd prefer, and/or I'm just not capable of going to.
Edit: Oh, and no, I'm none of those people in that link.
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Welcome Will!
Hopefully we can be an alliance here...
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This is a literature request for (hopefully) an English version to a rigorous proof that a complex algebraic curve cannot abruptly end.
That is, if the algebraic curve enters a closed region it must also leave it.
This has a historic significance because Gauss's proof in his Phd thesis assumed this property holds. From looking around it seems that A Ostrowski rigorously proved the result around the 1920's. Is this correct? I am unable to find the title of the paper.
Is there also a proof that a real algebraic curve does not end abruptly?
I don't regard this property as obvious, but it doesn't seem to be well commented in the literature. Maybe, I'm wrong.
Thanks in advance.
Abruptly end: Given an irreducible polynomial $p$, we define $V(p)$ to be the complex algebraic curve associated to $p$. I say that $V(p)$ does not abruptly end at $(x,y)\in\mathbb{C}^2$ with $p(x,y)=0$ if there is a disc small enough so that the boundary contains exactly two points in $V(p)$.
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8 Actors Who Look Exactly The Same on Every Movie Poster
#4. Will Smith Maintains Eye Contact at All Costs
Actually, Will Smith and the millions of dollars every single one of his movies makes at the box office beg to differ. They also beg to peer INTO YOUR SOUL!
But unlike Zoolander, Smith has had a second look from the start: a goofy grin that seems to say, "Your daughter is safe with me, sir."
Or son, as the case may be.
#3. Jet Li Only Owns One Pair of Sunglasses
Sure Jet Li makes the same facial expression on every single movie poster. But that could be said about every single frame of every movie he's ever appeared in. The man isn't here to smile or crack wise.
Really, the only reason we include Li is because we feel sorry for him, and hope that between the lot of them, his co-stars can chip in and buy him a new pair of sunglasses.
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#2. Bruce Willis Hides Half His Face, or Tilts to the Right
Bruce Willis' look has been a work in progress. From 1988 to 1995 Bruce Wills was not allowed to show more than half of his face on the poster of any major motion picture.
Then from 2002 to 2003 there was his short-lived attempt to become the go-to guy when you needed a soldier's head to loom over an aerial bombardment ...
But on the poster for Die Hard reject Hostage, he saw something he liked.
Not the borderline cartoon-ish De Niro impression, but the precise angle of his bald head, cocked slightly towards his left shoulder. He liked it so much that he cocked his head at the exact same angle on every single one of the posters for Hostage.
And then on the posters for his next two movies.
When the designers of his next two movie posters tried to shoot him standing up straight, he apparently had someone tilt the posters so he appeared to be listing to his left.
Again, we must be seeing some larger rule in play here that applies to other actors equally, right? We'll let Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich and Helen Mirren take that one.
#1. Tom Cruise Shows Only the Right Side of His Face
Look, we're not going to claim that Tom Cruise is the inspiration for Derek Zoolander. The guy is obviously capable of having an intelligent thought once in a while.
Sure Cruise was illiterate for most of his life, like Zoolander.
And sure, Ben Stiller does love making fun of Cruise.
But it's not like Cruise only has one look, or worse yet, one side of his face from which he can sell a movie poster.
Because that would just about seal it.
OK, Tom Cruise was totally the inspiration for Zoolander. Hell, he might be the inspiration for Two Face. Not only does he only have one look, he might not even have a left side to his face.
What a dork. Hey everyone. Let's laugh at Tom Cruise!
Wait. What's he doing? Oh no. Oh God. He's going for a 360. This is unprecedented in the history of movie poster appearances.
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First Boyfriend??
So hello again TDP! Haven't been around much but I come back for your wise knowledge. ;)
I have my first BF, and I wanted to know what things I should be aware of. He's a great guy and all but I'd still like to have a touch on the basics. :)
What sort of basics are you looking for? Like a description of his package(just teasing) or some tips for a first relationship?
Well, I'll say don't put too much pressure on this relationship. It is a rare occurrence when the first is your last, so don't worry about him being it. Instead, take it easy and remember that this is practice for when you do settle on a guy. Problems will come up(they usually do), so just keep your chin up and know there are other guys out there.
Don't rush. Don't go flitting off saying you love him(which, we all remember that age, you may feel like that eventually) and don't rush anything physical. Many people regret rushing into things and it tends to put undo pressure on a beginning relationship.
Relax and be confident! Don't change yourself. If he has interests you don't, don't be afraid to give them a shot, but that doesn't mean you need to change your life to become his perfect girl. Staying yourself is more important than any guy.
I think that covered the basics? Its been awhile since my first boyfriend, but I can't imagine the awkwardness has changed much.
Hahaha, just the BASICS! Thank you, it really does help me a lot to hear this because you're probably right, the awkwardness is still definitley the same :P
I'd agree with Kitty on everything she's said. XD Definitely, don't try and change yourself for a boy. Also, have fun! Don't think of it as an omg big serious relationship, more as something fun and enjoyable. Go on dates, like to the cinema or to a cafe. And lay down the law as far as the physical side goes; don't let anyone try and push you further than you want to go. Enjoy it for what it is, not for what it could be; and remember... YOU are dating this boy, not your friends. They can give you advice, but ultimately, it's none of their business what you do with him or don't do.
Definately set the boundaries. I regret not doing that and it had awful results, with me constantly feeling the pressure to do what they wanted. If you feel like you are doing something you don't or like you are doing it to make him happy, stop right there and don't go any further. He needs to respect your boundaries and any guy who doesn't deserves the boot.
I also will say beware the guy who is unwilling to accept your friends and family or seems to drive them off. While it isn't their relationship, no decent friendship should ever come into question because of him. If he pulls any "me or thems" or suggests your friends meddle too much, take a good look at why he is so nervous about having them around because it suggests there is something wrong with him. There is a big difference between concern over an unhealthy relationship and demanding someone gives people up. My ex did this to me and before I realized it, I had lost all of my friends. In fact, I'm still suffering from what he did in driving them off and "speaking for me" and don't think I'll ever be able to repair the majority of my friendships.
This ties into another point, don't ever be so engulfed in a relationship that you forget your friends. Designate time for him and time for you. Don't blow off your friends or spend every moment free with him. You will want the space and the chance to be with your friends. Trust me, the time spent with them won't be much once you leave high school and you will want to treasure those memories. While you'll make friends in college, its not exactly the same, so don't miss out on them when you have the chance. Boys come and go, your friends are going to be there for a long time if your relationships are strong.
This may seem like a lot, but if you continue to just be yourself and stick with your life, these will all come second nature. Relationships are supposed to be fun, so enjoy this innocence now. When you get older, most guys aren't as interested in that silly first moment that you held hands or laughing over your awkward first kisses. They tend to treat most girls as a game(or, their pants as one) until they find the right one, so its this rare time you should treasure where the priority isn't sex--its just liking one another.
Now for another question, it still relates on this but what do you get a first boyfriend of around two months for their birthday? Because I am COMPLETELY stumped...
Cookies are nice for a present.
hahahhaah! Really?! I didn't actually think of baking him something....hmm, that's actually not too bad of an idea! :P
Wouldn't have a clue; I've been with my guy for nine years and I still never know what to get him for his birthday. XD I always end up having to ask.
Depends on his taste.
my guy likes video games and necklaces and chess.
Baking him something would be good too. Maybe make him a cupcake with one of those trick candles.
Never underestimate a good gag gift. =p
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I found recently that even an elderly educated woman was referring to her bosom in the plural, as her bosoms.
Please settle my discomfort finally, and clarify if this can be used as a plural word.
I thought it was just English deprived younger kids who used "Bosoms" in this manner. :-))


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Bad performance when scattering big size of data?
From: Storm Zhang (stormzhg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-10-04 15:48:55
Thanks a lot, Ralgh. As I said, I also tried to use SGE(also showing 1024
available for parallel tasks) which only assign 34-38 compute nodes which
only has 272-304 real cores for 500 procs running. The running time is
consistent with 100 procs and not a lot fluctuations due to the number of
machines' changing. So I guess it is not related to hyperthreading. Correct
me if I'm wrong.
BTW, how to bind the proc to the core? I tried --bind-to-core or
-bind-to-core but neither works. Is it for OpenMP, not for OpenMPI?
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Some of what you are seeing is the natural result of context
> switching....some thoughts regarding the results:
> 1. You didn't bind your procs to cores when running with #procs < #cores,
> so you're performance in those scenarios will also be less than max.
> 2. Once the number of procs exceeds the number of cores, you guarantee a
> lot of context switching, so performance will definitely take a hit.
> 3. Sometime in the not-too-distant-future, OMPI will (hopefully) become
> hyperthread aware. For now, we don't see them as separate processing units.
> So as far as OMPI is concerned, you only have 512 computing units to work
> with, not 1024.
> Bottom line is that you are running oversubscribed, so OMPI turns down your
> performance so that the machine doesn't hemorrhage as it context switches.
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Doug Reeder wrote:
> In my experience hyperthreading can't really deliver two cores worth of
> processing simultaneously for processes expecting sole use of a core. Since
> you really have 512 cores I'm not surprised that you see a performance hit
> when requesting > 512 compute units. We should really get input from a
> hyperthreading expert, preferably form intel.
> Doug Reeder
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Storm Zhang wrote:
> We have 64 compute nodes which are dual qual-core and hyperthreaded CPUs.
> So we have 1024 compute units shown in the ROCKS 5.3 system. I'm trying to
> scatter an array from the master node to the compute nodes using mpiCC and
> mpirun using C++.
> Here is my test:
> The array size is 18KB * Number of compute nodes and is scattered to the
> compute nodes 5000 times repeatly.
> The average running time(seconds):
> 100 nodes: 170,
> 400 nodes: 690,
> 500 nodes: 855,
> 600 nodes: 2550,
> 700 nodes: 2720,
> 800 nodes: 2900,
> There is a big jump of running time from 500 nodes to 600 nodes. Don't
> know what's the problem.
> Tried both in OMPI 1.3.2 and OMPI 1.4.2. Running time is a little faster
> for all the tests in 1.4.2 but the jump still exists.
> Tried using either Bcast function or simply Send/Recv which give very close
> results.
> Tried both in running it directly or using SGE and got the same results.
> The code and ompi_info are attached to this email. The direct running
> command is :
> /opt/openmpi/bin/mpirun --mca btl_tcp_if_include eth0 --machinefile
> ../machines -np 600 scatttest
> The ifconfig of head node for eth0 is:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:B9:56:8B:44
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::226:b9ff:fe56:8b44/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:1096060373 errors:0 dropped:2512622 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:513387679 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:832328807459 (775.1 GiB) TX bytes:250824621959 (233.5
> GiB)
> Interrupt:106 Memory:d6000000-d6012800
> A typical ifconfig of a compute node is:
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:9B:9A:15:AC
> inet addr:192.168.1.253 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::221:9bff:fe9a:15ac/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:362716422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:349967746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:139699954685 (130.1 GiB) TX bytes:338207741480 (314.9
> GiB)
> Interrupt:82 Memory:d6000000-d6012800
> Does anyone help me out of this? It bothers me a lot.
> Thank you very much.
> Linbao
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Worst brand of Pistachios. I always get duds in these and some of them taste funky. Might be a good deal but definitely a pass.
@wayne626: I must disagree... I wonder if the bags you got were simply old (been on the shelf too long).
I've been buying 3 lb bags of these at Sam's Club for a while now and might get two or three bad nuts per bag. Overall, they're awesome.
The ones I got at BJ's (different brand) however, all tasted very "off" with many being hard and nasty. I'm not sure if they were overripe or what. I'm sticking with Wonderful!
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@glabifrons: Interesting. I bought some unshelled pistachios at Sams Club a while back and they were so bad I haven't bought any there since. I didn't know this was the brand. Just saying that was my experience.
I tend to buy Wonderful Pistachios as the quality is very consistent with few bad or sealed nuts. After all the bad reviews on Nice brand, I won't even try them. I have tried other brands but they seem to have more sealed nuts and off tasting ones.
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load a form
i have an Ext.form.FormPanel that i want to fill with the load method but the json response doesnt has the same input field names of the form. Is there any way to map the name of the json response with the names of the form?
1 Oct 2010 5:42 PM #2
There is no such built-in functionality using the load method but you can always consume your service with a store and defining mappings on the fields. Then you will be able to load data into the form using the Ext.form.BasicForm.loadRecord() method. The BasicForm object is encapsulated by the FormPanel and you can retrive it using the Ext.form.FormPanel.getForm() method.
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An argument last night at this home here in Clarkson just behind me left one in jail, one injured, and one dead.
Kentucky state police say 84 year old Alva Gussler was living in the house on 48 Tara Lane with his son Micheal Gussler and his wife 59 Laura Ford.
The three had an argument that ended with shots being fired.
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Micheal Gussler was also shot. Both were taken to Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center where ford died upon arrival.
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Hendren says she would often tell stories about her grandchildren and family.
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Hendren says ford helped care for Gussler at their home.
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The opening week of the Tour de France had been a quiet one from Team Sky's Chris Froome, the heavy favorite at the start. But once the Tour hit its first mountain stage in the Pyrenees on Saturday, he brought down the hammer. Froome (pictured below) dominated that stage and, after another excellent ride Sunday, sits 1 minute 25 seconds ahead of Movistar's Alejandro Valverde atop the general classification. Immediately, there was talk that he could spend the rest of the Tour in the yellow jersey.
Except winning the first mountain stage rarely predicts who will pedal down the Champs-Elysées with a glass of Champagne.
In the last 10 years, only two men have worn the yellow jersey after the first mountain stage and in Paris: Lance Armstrong in 2005 and Froome's teammate last year, Bradley Wiggins. And over the last 20 Tours, the winner of the first mountain stage has only topped the final general classification on four occasions.
There is still a lot of painful racing to come. After Monday's rest day, a dozen stages remain, including the two stiffest tests of the race: the Mont Ventoux and the Alpe d'Huez.
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WEIRTON - Using a tight man-to-man defense that completely disrupted Weir High's offense, Oak Glen, behind a career high 22 points from senior Cody Howell, defeated the home standing Red Riders 43-29 Tuesday night.
Weir High was confused to the point of committing 19 turnovers and took only 35 shots and reached in double figures in just one quarter with 10 in the third.
Then, the Red Riders couldn't contain Howell, who seemed to score at will. The 6-foot-3 senior, who averaged about three points a game last year, pumped in 10 field goals - most of them layups. In addition, he led all rebounders with nine off the glass.
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BASELINE — Oak Glen's Cody Howell tries to drive baseline on Weir High's Andre Sims during Tuesday's game at the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse, won by the Golden Bears, 43-29. - Courtesy Newbrough Photo
"Cody has always been capable of that," said Golden Bear coach Dave Smith, who won his first game after being away from the basketball court for nine years. "If he can come out like he did tonight, inspired, each and every night, he's capable of doing that. He really is.
"I'm proud of our defensive effort tonight. I wasn't proud of the way we played last week against John Marshall, but we worked in practice on the pressure defense with ball side help and the kids came out tonight and did it. We have to get better offensively, but defensively we're where we want to be."
Despite the struggles with 11 first-half turnovers and only four field goals, the Red Riders trailed by just two points at the half, 16-14. And they didn't have a bad third period even though they were outscored 14-10.
But the Riders could only muster one fourth quarter field goal and were outscored 13-5.
"It's easy to look at the turnovers and say they were the difference in the game," said veteran Weir High coach Mike Granato. "I think you have to look at what caused the turnovers. The difference in the game was that they had great ball pressure.
"They're ball pressure forced us to start the offense out a little bit higher than we wanted to. We weren't able to get the ball to the cutters and weren't able to get the ball inside and totally disrupted us.
"I give Dave (Smith), his staff and his kids all the credit in the world. They took the game to us. I watched them play last Friday against John Marshall and I thought they were a completely different team tonight."
The Golden Bears lengthened their six-point third quarter lead to 14 points at 38-24 before Weir High senior, Dylan Cassiadoro, finally canned a jump shot.
Junior Andre Sims, who missed the first game still nursing a hand injury, made two free throws to cut the Oak Glen lead to 10 points. But on Oak Glen's next possession, Howell went down the lane for his final field goal of the game.
The Bears got a field goal from sophomore Tyler Click and a free throw from senior point guard Matt McLaughlin, who backed up Howell with seven points and eight rebounds, to finish the scoring. Weir High's only rebuttal was when Shane Davis made the front end of a one-and-one from the foul line.
The 6-3 Sims, who came off the bench to block four shots and grab five rebounds, shared high scoring honors for Weir High with Cassiadoro. Each had nine points.
Both teams play Friday, Oak Glen hosting East Liverpool and Weir High welcoming Brooke.
Oak Glen 43, Weir High 29
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OAK GLEN (1-1): Click 2 0-0 4, Kincaid 2 0-0 4, Howell 10 2-4 22, McLaughlin 1 4-10 7, McGraw 0 1-2 1, Woodruff 2 1-2 5. Totals: 17 8-18 43. Three-pointers: McLaughlin (1); Rebounds: 28 (Howell, 9); Turnovers: 12.
WEIR HIGH (0-2): Masters 1 0-0 2, Viakley 0 1-2 1, Davis 0 1-2 1, Cassiadoro 3 2-3 9, Groves 2 1-3 5, Smith 0 0-2 0, Sims 3 3-6 9, Curtis 1 0-0 2. Totals: 10 8-18 29. Three-pointers: Cassiadoro (1); Rebounds: 29 (Groves, 6); Turnovers: 19.


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Imagine you are a man on a date with a beautiful woman. She takes a seductively slow bite of her hot dog (because you're a man who appreciates both sexual innuendo and thrift), then leans across the table, spilling her ample cleavage like a glass of breast-colored water, and says, "Let's skip the ice cream and go back to your place."
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Your sad balls didn't just rob you of sex -- they robbed you of ice cream.
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Scrotum reduction surgery offers men the opportunity to tighten and raise their ball sacks, because the road to physical perfection is occasionally paved with hunks of ragged skin slashed from a droopy nutbag. The plastic surgeons who offer this service describe a variety of enticing justifications, including better-fitting underwear, unchafed thighs, and a certain je ne sais quoi of ball attractiveness.
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The procedure involves cutting away excess skin and repairing the muscle that connects the scrotum to the penis. Your testicles can be tucked and tightened in a simple two-hour outpatient surgery, although doctors warn that you will experience some discomfort for the next several days, possibly related to the fact that your genitals have just been dissected by a foreign national.
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Fortunately, guys can bypass all that hard work and uncertainty and just schedule an appointment to have a set of abs etched into their stomach, like an ice cube tray pressed into a Jell-O mold.
The Surgery:
Abdominal etching, also known as a "suction six-pack," is the precise extraction of lines of fat around the abdomen. However, it isn't a procedure for overweight men, merely devastatingly insecure ones. See, you can only undergo abdominal etching if you exercise regularly, but have 1 or 2 centimeters of "pinchable body fat" left to go. Rather than doing the amount of exercise required to slim down those 2 centimeters of belly fat, you can pay a plastic surgeon $5,000 to $7,000 to rip it out of your body with a vacuum. It's slightly less extreme than full-on liposuction and just a step or two above drawing hot dogs on your stomach with a magic marker.
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Just remember to draw them upside down. Otherwise, you'll just look silly.
For some reason, ab etching is generally not recommended for bodybuilders or athletes, presumably because those are two classes of people who traditionally depend on muscles to actually perform feats of strength, rather than simply look good covered in hickory body paint and a tie-dyed grape holder.
But that's just the abs -- how do we get the rest of our body ripped without all of the, you know, effort? Well, there's ...
#1. Pec and Calf Implants
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If you've never watched Predator and wished you could join in on the rampant and totally unironic flexing that populates the majority of that film, you are not being honest with yourself as a human being. If you've never watched Predator at all, get out.
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"And take Jingle All the Way with you!"
Building that kind of muscle mass takes a lot of work, though -- at his bodybuilding prime, Arnold Schwarzenegger was doing 710-pound deadlifts and 440-pound bench presses, which is the type of training typically reserved for battling mythical creatures. Most of us aren't going to lift that amount of weight in an entire month, much less 30 times in an afternoon. Mercifully, there's another option -- surgically inserting muscle-shaped objects into your chest and calves to give the appearance of strength without any of its actual benefits.
The Surgery:
Whether you call it pec implants or chest enhancement, a male boob job is still accomplished by carving up your chest meat and shoving in the traditional pair of silicone bags. The end result creates the impression of rock-hard pectoral muscles sculpted from countless hours at the gym.
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An impression that lasts until someone asks you to pick up a bag of dog food.
And if you get the pectoral implants, you'll have to get calf implants as well to complete the ensemble or else you'll just look like a fucking lunatic. You might also need the leg implants as a counterweight for your giant fake muscle titties to prevent yourself from falling over in social situations.
Calf Implants
From zero to Adonis in two easy surgeries.
The calf implants are accomplished in pretty much the same way -- the doctor slices the back of your legs open and crams in a wad of silicone to balloon your skin out in an appropriately attractive manner. Again, we hasten to point out that, beyond making you look like a bulbous Frankenstein assembled from a drunken alien's Daytona Beach body harvest, these vanity muscle implants will not bestow you with any actual strength. Should you be trapped in an emergency situation and your fellow survivors call on you to lift a boulder off of some trapped kindergarten teacher, you are only going to disappoint them all and embarrass yourself, and they will likely conspire to have the shortest straw find its way into your hand when it comes time to figure out who's going to get eaten.
But goddammit, you'll look like a Greek god right to the end. And isn't that what matters?
Related Reading: What's that? You need more ridiculously unnecessary cosmetic surgery? Replacing your eyebrows with tattoos might be just the crazy operation for you! Still a little short on insane medical procedures? Clicking here will teach you the wonders of bone stretching and fecal transplants! And if all this talk of surgery has you feeling self-conscious, maybe its time you invested in a knee lift.