i can’t do ANY of this. i know — i just tried. (doc says i should be released from the hospital in a couple of months….)
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…the world yo-yo championships make me so happy. (^_^)
we’re moving! (really fast, too.)
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…but the japanese really got that altruism thing down (d*mn them, they made me cry):
“Pensioners come forth for Fukushima”
“As the Japanese government and TEPCO struggle to bring the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control, a group of pensioners has decided to put their lives at risk to save younger people from radiation….
“‘My acquaintances and I talked very intensively about the accident and about how we could help contain the disaster,’ explained 72-year-old Yasuteru Yamada who came up with the idea.
“‘A functioning cooling system is indispensable,’ he pointed out. ‘But who is supposed to build it? Only people can do it. So why not us? Since we don’t have such a long future ahead?’
“Yamada is a former engineer who studied metallurgy. He set up ‘Qualified Veterans for Fukushima Nuclear Plant No. 1′ as a registered charity to convince the authorities of its seriousness….
“Yamada and his friends have now contacted 2,500 people in Tokyo and the surroundings. Some 450 people have already offered their help and 90 of them – all in their 60s – have agreed to work in the plant itself. He says they are ‘worried about what’s coming. But should we not do anything just because we are worried?’”
previously: japanese waaaaycism
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…guy who will do whatever it takes to stay alive?
three teenage guys from tokelau — lost at sea for 51 days with pretty much no food or water.
one of them had a mental breakdown aboard the boat. another one proposed to the third guy that they kill and eat the first one. that never happened (they got rescued).
can you tell which one is which in the photo?:
they’re all cousins, btw.
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…and their mothers don’t (really) know it…
“[C]hildren from the CA sample were significantly (p < 0.01) more likely to be at risk for overweight (15 vs. 8%) or overweight (42 vs. 7%) compared to children from the MX sample, using the CDC criteria. However, the prevalence of maternal overweight and obesity was similar in CA and MX with 38 and 34% classified as obese, respectively. Children from the CA sample were more likely to have a mother with a high school education or greater (16 vs. 2% p < 0.01) than children from MX. Approximately 42% of mothers in the CA sample had lived in the US less than 10 years and over half (56%) of the MX mothers reported that at least one of their family members currently lived in the US….
"With all but one of the mothers from the California sample underestimating their child’s weight, this study found a higher level of misperception than other studies of mothers of young children in the US. Other studies in the US have found that mothers’ misperception of their overweight children’s weight status ranged from 32% from an analysis of non-Hispanic white mothers in NHANES to 79% in a study of mothers attending either WIC or private clinics [27–31]. Studies focusing on Hispanic or Mexican–American mothers in the US have also found that maternal misperception of child weight status is prevalent [2, 3, 7, 17, 32]."
…and a lot of them want the kids to be fatter!:
“The results of this study showed that Mexican mothers residing both in the US and Mexico frequently underestimate their child’s size. Additionally, this study showed that approximately one-third of the Mexican immigrant mothers in the US and one-half of mothers in Mexico wanted their children to be bigger than they currently perceived them to be.“
yikes!
previously: mexicans think mexicans should be mexican
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