When Japanese women think men are cute

By Ken Y-N ( April 7, 2013 at 23:51) ? Filed under Uncategorised

goo Ranking took a look at cute actions and habits of men that tug at women?s heartstrings.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of February 2013 1,122 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.1% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 16.6% in their twenties, 26.5% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.6% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. This question was for the women only.

Ranking reslut

Q: What habits, actions of men makes you feel ?Aww, that?s cute? and tug on your heartstrings? (Sample size=674, female)

Rank	?	Score
1	Him enjoying eating food	100
2	Him looking so happy and smiling as he comes to meet me	70.8
3	Him looking over his shoulder and waving when he leaves	61.4
4	His innocent face as he sleeps	59.1
5	His lonely looks as he leaves	52.6
6	His eyes lighting up as he talks about his hobbies	45.8
7=	His grin when he looks at small animals	44.2
7=	His dependent hugs he gives me	44.2
9	Him joyfully telling me about the evaluation he got at work	41.6
10	Him sulking when I talk with other guys	34.7
11	His morning hair	32,1
12	Him getting lonely when I don?t email, call	29.9
13	Him soon going red at embarrassing things	29.5
14	Him rubbing his eyes and mumbling when he wakes up	25.6
15	Him being shy and telling guys to stop it when they tease him	25.0
16	Him drunk and sleepy	24.7
17	Him casually sending me email when he buys, eats something	23.1
18	Him loving hamburgers, curry, other children?s menu items and always ordering them	18.2
19	Him saying ?I?m hungry!?	17.9
20	Him talking in his sleep	16.9
21	Him using cute smiley marks in email	14.9
22	Him repeatedly telling jokes to try to get people to laugh	14.0
23	Him always flinching when trying to use eye drops	11.7
24	Him putting T-shirts on back-to-front	10.7
25	Him disliking scary stories	9.7

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Bitcoin And The End Of Money

A commentator on Bloomberg, Princeton student Evan Soltas, writes that Bitcoin is an "existential threat to the modern liberal state," a line that can be read in two ways. One reading of his op-ed suggests we are all in danger and that the inability to tax and track bitcoins will result in a thriving black market and reduced fiscal control that will be disastrous for all of us. Taken another way - and given Soltas' biases, I suspect he's focusing a bit more on the "liberal" part of the title versus the "modern" part - it suggests that the modern nation cannot afford to fritter money away on the welfare of its people because it will no longer be able to tax the rich unfairly, leading to a fiscal nirvana for men and women of a certain breed. Either way, it's a goofy way to look at will remain, for the time being, a blip on the economic radar.

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Strapback Saturdays: THE NATIONAL SKATEBOARD CO. ?Union? Cap

Posted by Woody, April 6th, 2013 05:04 am under Strapback

That old time feel. With all the new technical advancements in the world of streetwear and fashion several brands have gone with the new and while completely forgetting the classic stylings that laid the foundation. Luckily not all companies have forgotten the way things were done and this latest drop from THE NATIONAL SKATEBOARD CO. is a perfect example. This strapback cap features a Black chino crown with a round patch on the front panel featuring the brands name while the back panel features a Brown leather strap closure. Available now at?http://www.scenepreston.com/.

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Could playing 'boys' games help girls in science and math?

Apr. 4, 2013 ? A new review finds that many men still have better spatial ability than women ? this may be explained by individual differences in gender-role identification.

The observation that males appear to be superior to females in some fields of academic study has prompted a wealth of research hoping to shed light on whether this is attributable to nature or nurture. Although there is no difference in general intelligence between the sexes, studies over the past 35 years have consistently found that overall men do much better in tests of spatial ability than women. This difference may have something to do with why there are still fewer women in tertiary education studying science, technology, engineering and math -- all subjects where it helps to have good spatial ability.

More in-depth assessment, however, reveals that this might be an over-simplification of the facts. A new review, published in Springer's journal Sex Roles, sheds light on one of the factors contributing to these gender differences in spatial ability, that of gender-roles. Although children are born either male or female, individuals differ in their degree of masculine and feminine identification and endorsement of masculine and feminine gender roles. The review was carried out by David Reilly and David Neumann from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.

Reilly and Neumann note that studies in their review reported finding larger within-gender variations in spatial ability than between-gender. This then led them to look more specifically at the data on variables within males and females which might be able to explain this.

The researchers analyzed twelve studies which had looked specifically at one aspect of spatial ability, namely mental rotation, in high school pupils, college attendees and young adults. Collectively these studies showed a significant association between masculinity and mental rotation performance for both men and women. In other words, men and women with either a strong masculine or androgynous gender-identity fared better in mental rotation tasks.

The authors suggest that it is the considerable variation in the levels of typically masculine and feminine traits and behaviors, that children of the same sex develop, which account for the inter-gender variability. Masculine identification leads to cultivation of mathematical and scientific skills whereas feminine identification facilitates verbal and language abilities. These gender-roles are not mutually exclusive, with some children of both genders developing a healthy integration of both roles.

Development of spatial ability is refined through play and recreational activities, with traditionally masculine activities helping to promote development of spatial ability. Therefore improving girls' performance in subjects which require good spatial ability may involve the deliberate inclusion of what are commonly seen as stereotypically male activities into their daily lives, rather than encouraging sex-segregation of activities.

The authors conclude: "We have seen many changes in society's beliefs about gender equality in the intervening decades since Sharon Nash proposed her gender-role mediation hypothesis of intellectual development in 1979. However, for spatial ability at least, this association seems as relevant today as when the claim was first made."

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Dangerous Countries For Women To Travel - Business Insider

We've seen an alarming number of stories about sex attacks on female travelers in recent weeks, from a Swiss tourist who was gang-raped in India?to an American student who was raped in a van in Rio de Janeiro.

It doesn't mean that women shouldn't visit foreign places or that no parts of those countries are safe. But women traveling in these areas should do so with extreme caution and a knowledge of the culture.

We rounded up eight popular tourist destinations where women should be extra cautious, based on reports from Human Rights Watch, the State Department, and crime reports in the media.

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Expanding hallowed ground at West Point cemetery

WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP) ? The West Point Cemetery has taken in graduates of the Long Gray Line from the age of the cavalry charge to the dawn of drone strikes. Headstones etched with names like Custer and Westmoreland stand near plots with freshly turned earth.

And after almost two centuries, the 12-acre cemetery is close to full.

The U.S. Military Academy and its graduates are taking steps to make more room with new niches for cremated remains and an eventual expansion of the burial grounds. The work will update a resting place for more than 8,000 people ? the most hallowed ground at the nation's the most venerable military academy.

"I would challenge you to find more valor in a smaller amount of space," says cemetery administrator Kathleen Silvia, who notes that 16 Medal of Honor recipients lie here.

Marquee names here include Lt. Col. George Custer, U.S. commander in Vietnam Gen. William Westmoreland and ? buried just this winter ? Gulf War commander Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf. But it's the rows of graves of never-famous soldiers that give the cemetery its quiet dignity.

Walking among the headstones recently, Silvia ? who was among the first female West Point graduates in 1980 ? points out Revolutionary War-era dead and stoops down to tidy the marker for a recently deceased colonel she admired.

Though a military cemetery since 1817, not all the graves are uniform. A few older ones are extravagant. The headstone of celebrated Army football coach Earl "Red" Blaik is shaped like a football ready to be kicked off. Egbert Viele, a Civil War veteran, rests in a two-story pyramid guarded by two stone sphinxes. It is said that his fear of being entombed alive was so great that his mausoleum was rigged with a buzzer.

There is no record of it being used.

The grounds on a tree-sheltered promontory near New York's Hudson River are reserved for West Point graduates and cadets, soldiers who die while assigned to the academy, and immediate family members. While graves of famous alumni like Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur are elsewhere, some 140 to 200 people are laid to rest here each year.

Some are old soldiers whose feelings for West Point never faded away. Vietnam veteran and retired Lt. Col. Freed Lowrey, a 1967 graduate, says he will be buried here among the historic figures and his classmates who were killed in that war.

"I want to be among soldiers. I want to be among people of my own kind who have served and done so much for the nation and have sacrificed so much," Lowrey says. "I could be in Arlington, I could be in any national cemetery, but this is ? and I'm not a religious person ? I mean, West Point's almost my soul."

Mourners at Schwarzkopf's service in February were told how crucial the academy was to his life and values. On a recent chilly Friday, the cremated remains of Air Force Maj. Gen. William Strong and his wife, Virginia, were buried here amid rifle volleys and a plaintive playing of taps. Strong, Class of 1940, had a distinguished career in the Air Force. Still, he and his wife decided to be buried near his father and brothers at West Point.

Lowrey, who returned to live in nearby Fishkill, now works for the West Point Association of Graduates, which has raised more than $1.5 million for a double-sided wall with niches for cremated remains. While a space beneath the cemetery's Old Cadet Chapel has enough room to handle additional cremated remains for about a decade, plots for outdoor interments of cremated remains are expected to be depleted in about two years.

Silvia expects the first sections of the wall, which will follow a circular walkway in the center of the cemetery, will be in place by that time.

Farther down the road is a plan to expand the burial ground to a patch of adjacent land, since that option could be depleted within five years. Silvia figures that would allow another decade of burials.

Silvia says the situation boils down to basic math. Academy graduating classes can now number around 1,000, much larger than generations ago. About two-dozen of the more than 90 graduates who have died in the decade-plus of conflict since the Sept. 11 attacks are interred here.

Silvia expects construction on the cremation niche wall to begin this spring. She also is enthused about plans for a smartphone app that will allow people to punch in the name of a person buried here and locate their grave.

"These are lifelong friends of ours, and it's a very special honor for me to provide the final salute," she says.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/expanding-hallowed-ground-west-point-cemetery-063655916.html

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Meat Loaf says he really is on his final tour

By Edward Baran

LONDON (Reuters) - After more than 35 years of touring, American rocker Meat Loaf is quitting the road.

Meat Loaf, whose 1977 "Bat Out Of Hell" remains one of the biggest selling albums, said his "Last At Bat" tour starting in Britain this week and heading through Europe, would be his last, after struggling with health problems in recent years.

While other ageing rockers like the Rolling Stones are returning to the lucrative tour circuit, Meat Loaf said he has had enough.

"This is really it ... I just don't want to travel anymore," the portly singer told Reuters TV in an interview before his tour through Britain, Germany and the Netherlands.

"I outweigh (Mick) Jagger by about 100 pounds (45 kgs) and that counts for something. He hasn't seen the wear and tear."

Meat Loaf, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, canceled a European Tour in 2007 after being diagnosed with a cyst on his vocal chords, saying he received some "vicious" reaction to this.

He then sparked further fears for his health in 2011 when he collapsed on stage. He later blamed the blackouts on past concussion injuries and his health issues on asthma.

Last year he underwent a knee replacement operation from which he is still recovering and is due to have an operation on his other knee shortly.

Meat Loaf said his health was "fine" but it was important to be able to perform to your best.

"When your name is on the marque, you either get the glory or you get the hits," said the rocker, dressed all in black, who has also appeared in a list of movies, including cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".

"Over the years, a lot of stones and a lot of arrows have been flying my way. You expect that."

In the "Last at Bat" tour, Meat Loaf will perform his greatest hits in the first half of the show such as "Dead Ringer for Love" and "I'd Lie For You".

In the second half he will perform, in order, the seven songs from his "Bat Out Of Hell" album which has sold around 45 million copies to date.

Meat Loaf did not rule out performing live again, such as in Las Vegas, particularly after releasing his 13th album, "Brave and Crazy", that is currently in the pipeline.

The rocker said he was working on this album with Jim Steinman, the reclusive producer and songwriter behind his biggest hits with whom he last worked on his 1993 album "Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell".

But Meat Loaf cautioned fans that if he cried while singing "Crying Out Loud", the closing song of "Bat Out Of Hell" while on tour, this was not due to sadness at quitting touring.

"Even in rehearsal when I go to sing it I start crying so it's not like when you see me in the show and I am crying it's like "oh I bet he...". I would do it in rehearsal, I can't help myself," he said.

(Reporting by Edward Baran, Editing by Belinda Goldsmith and Paul Casciato)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/meat-loaf-says-really-final-tour-110221472.html

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Meet David, as He Blogs His Way Through Alzheimer's

At the Potter?s House Church in Washington, D.C. (part of the former Church of the Saviour, founded by the late Gordon Cosby and his wife Mary), I worshipped with a physician named David Hilfiker. David and I were not particularly close. I was intimidated by his intellect. He once gave a sermon series parsing Rene Girard?s work on Biblical scapegoating, of which Daniel and I remember little other than David?s frequent allusions to ?mimetic desire,? which we observe oh so frequently in our children?s behavior. I was humbled by his willingness to do things that other people (including me) were not, in the name of advocating for nonviolence, poverty relief, and environmental stewardship. And David himself would agree that he is not the most emotionally accessible person?or at least, he wasn?t back then. Though we weren?t close, I admired David and have kept loose track of his writing and speaking career. His two books, Healing the Wounds and Not All of Us Are Saints still sit on my bookshelf.

But in recent weeks, I have been corresponding regularly with David and also reading his latest, perhaps most important, writing project?a blog titled Watching the Lights Go Out, in which he chronicles his days as he learns to live with a diagnosis of Alzheimer?s disease.

When I posted about David?s blog on Facebook a couple of months ago, another friend who attended the Potter?s House Church back in the day responded by saying that she didn?t know what to say to the prospect of such a fine and influential mind deteriorating. While I share that sentiment, I?m also moved by David?s blog posts in which he says he is not suffering, that in fact, his diagnosis has made him more emotionally open to his family and others than he has ever been. His wife, Marja, notes in a Washington Post article about David?s diagnosis and daily life in its wake,

?If someone had given me three wishes in life, one would have been ?Just let David enjoy life more,??? Marja said. The disease, she added, has now given him that.

On his blog, David writes frequently of what some might call his ?denial? of his situation, or his ?apathy,? in that he?s not furiously seeking cures and therapies. (Many of the commenters to the Post article about David, however, are insistent that their chosen form of therapy or nutrition supplementation or drug will cure David?s Alzheimer?s. Another fine example of our cultural bias toward fixing things rather than coping with them gracefully, toward cure over and above care.)

What has drawn me to David?s blog posts, other than our shared history, is that the issues and concerns he raises about Alzheimer?s are so similar to those we discuss here about childhood genetic disorders, particularly what we mean by ?suffering? (David insists that the only true suffering of his diagnosis comes when he or others worry about his future; his present, despite some clear memory and cognition lapses, is not a painful one) and the importance of accepting and coping with things as they are, rather than fighting against them. For example, he tells a story about pouring a cup of soy milk, intending to heat it in the microwave, but catching himself putting the carton in the microwave instead. While friends insist that this is no big deal, that they do things like this all the time, David notes that he doesn?t do things like this all the time. Or at least, he didn?t.?Nevertheless, he asks:

So, is the present itself emotionally painful?? Actually, putting the soy milk into the microwave was funnier than it was painful.? Am I suffering as the lights go out?? Actually, very few others can tell that my lights are even going out.? And even for me, the dimmer switch hasn?t been moved very far.

No, I?m not suffering now.

I don?t think I?m trying to Pollyanna my way into denial by pretending everything?s okay.? It?s not okay.? I have Alzheimer disease and I know some of what?s coming.? After the frying pan in the freezer comes getting lost, which leads to wandering off who-knows-where, which means having to have someone monitor me, which can lead to paranoia and anger, which pushes me eventually into an institution in which I die.

The soy milk in the microwave could have pushed me into imagining the entire painful sequence.? But, this time at least, I was given the grace not to go there but to see the humor.? The future will almost certainly be painful; the present doesn?t have to be.

David is a skilled and experienced writer, but relatively new to this social media-driven blogosphere. Whether or not he feels an urgency to get his blog posts out to a wider audience, I feel an urgency on his behalf. I believe David?s writing his way through his illness?a real-life version of the bestselling novel Still Alice?is a tremendous gift, not only to those of us fortunate to know David, but to the wider world, and to our ongoing conversations about the meaning of illness and disability, and how we cope with them. Go take a look at his blog, and if you have time, read the autobiography published on his web site (the link is available via the blog). Consider leaving a comment to let David know if something he writes strikes a chord. He is mapping some uncharted territory, and I?d love him to have some more company on the journey.

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Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/ellenpainterdollar/2013/04/meet-david-as-he-blogs-his-way-through-alzheimers/

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Adafruit debuts Circuit Playground: a show teaching kids about electronics (video)

Programs have a certain magic power over littluns, sending them into a trance-like state and then having them beg for merchandise afterwards. The perpetual tinkerers over at Adafruit don't expect you to catch 'em all, though, and have debuted their own show called Circuit Playground -- an educational YouTube series teaching kids about electronics. In the first episode, we learn all about Amperes and are introduced to our hosts: a free-willed human and ADABOT, a charming puppet presenter (just don't tell them that). Following the letters of the alphabet, expect 25 more installments and, if the intro sequence is any indication, a bunch of component-based characters to keep the sprogs interested. If you need 3 minutes and 50 seconds of peace and quiet, or just want to brush up on the basics yourself, head past the break for the first episode. Next time on Circuit Playground: "B is for Battery."

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